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1890. The lawless New Mexico Territory is overrun by criminals who steal money and land without consequence, and everyone carries a gun.
In Montaña Roja, robberies threaten Fred Harvey’s newest Harvey House restaurant. Disguised as a Harvey hostess, undercover Pinkerton agent Clare ventures west, risking exposure at every turn as she searches for answers the law won’t pursue—relying only on her instincts and her derringer to survive.
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#inmygarden
I was weeding yesterday and the worst news is the death of six of the seven geranium magnificums and two of the four red rocket barberrys, among other losses. But the good news is that much of the garden survived the record low temperatures with no insulating snowpack of this
#thiswritinglife
Because what the gatekeepers are recommending people read is also part of #thiswritinglife… Yesterday NPR ran a piece on recommended nonfiction reads for the summer. The list included A bio of Gisèle Pelicot, the woman in France whose husband drugged her and then let all his friends rape her a
“You know Iʼm still kind of sorry about the sewage,” said Perry. “I hadnʼt really thought it through.”
McKibben calls this a fable, but I donʼt know. What if people like Vern in states like Vermont all over the nation became accidental, nonviolent secessionists? What if they inspired their states’ equivalents of town halls to talk about and even vote on leaving the nation to be their own