Leland Dirks
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Bite-sized fiction, served up with mouthwatering photography. This collection of more than forty tiny stories includes tantalizing tidbits of westerns, romance, and even science fiction. Heartbreak, wisdom, and joy are offered in equal measure, finding balance between sweet and sour. Brother Raven, the taciturn bird who walks with a hermit; a wolf who is more than he appears; a bickering alien couple who rekindle their romance; and a dog who answers...
2) Jimmy Mender and his miracle dog: and mostly true: 15 short stories from a border collie and his man
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Against the backdrop of the American Pacific coast, one man pursues a dream of what might have been, while another man runs away. Somewhere along the way, they lose their expectations and fears, learning instead to value what is. Their unlikely teacher is a Border Collie with a mission of her own. Add a few little miracles, and you've got the recipe for a perfect unrequited love story, finally put right in a most unexpected way. From the authors of...
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Leland moved from an inner-city neighborhood in Denver to five acres in the eastern part of Colorado's San Luis Valley more than a decade ago. He knew he was moving to a desert and expected only the omnipresent sage. It was a rainy summer when he began building his off-grid home, and as he worked on the roof, he noticed an astonishing thing: large swaths of brilliant color. The rabbitbrush was coming into its glorious yellow bloom, and the purple...
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Be grateful for what you have, they tell you. But they never teach you how. In Summer of 2014, Leland was challenged by a number of his friends to list positive things, three each day, for a week. He accepted the challenge, and then realized he liked doing it. He was addicted to gratitude. So he kept with it for another month or two. He still liked it. A friend suggested that he combine his photography with his gratitudes. Even after the book is published,...
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"Part memoir, part fable, and part fantasy, this is the story of a man who dies unexpectedly and makes his way to Paradise with the help of the canine friends who shared his life. What if you lived in the middle of a beautiful nowhere, with a dog who mysteriously appeared at your door? What if you were out hiking one winter day, you broke your leg, and you froze to death? And what if the angels who met you the day after had four feet instead of wings?...
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In the middle of a glorious nowhere, there is a valley - the North American continent's largest alpine valley - where a hermit and his canine friends live. Surrounded by mountains, when summer comes, another sort of magic visits the valley: wildflowers, including the common sunflower, Helianthus Annuus. This book is a collection of the hermit photographer's own favorite sunflower photos and a miscellany of quotations, poetry, short stories, and trivia...
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On December 7, 1941, at 7:48 am Hawaiian Time (13:18 EST), the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service began bombing the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, in the territory of Hawaii. The next day, the United States declared war on the Empire of Japan, but there was another war, undeclared, fought on the West Coast of the United states over the next four years. It was against people of Japanese ancestry, citizen and non-citizen alike. Without trial,...
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You're a dog: a Border Collie. You're dognapped and taken hundreds of miles away. What do you do when you escape and make your way home? You herd a few sheep, and mend a few lives. Follow Angelo as he takes the long road home through the beautiful landscapes of New Mexico and Colorado.
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