River

RiverBy: Colin Fletcher Series: Vintage DeparturesAt age sixty seven, Colin Fletcher, the guru of backpacking in America, undertook a rigorous six month raft expedition down the full length of the Colorado River alone. He needed "something to pare the fat off my soul to make me grateful, again, for being alive." The 1,700 miles between the Colorado's source in Wyoming and its conclusion at Mexico's Gulf of California contain some of the most spectacular

and understanding it has never been more important

it is still an important life skill valued by parents

and grieving for her own dead father

Kaplan explores how gratitude can transform every aspect of life

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until a messenger from the Capital comes to claim her: at nine years old she’s been chosen to be an oracle for a rising dictator—a sinister

The night Tom’s schoolteacher comes to dinner and asks Tom’s mother to marry him

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She knew he had been struggling with paranoia