JUVENILE · FICTION
Tammy Jones
Also known as: Tammy Jones Harding
Author Tammy Jones is a native of Raymond, Washington. She lived, played, graduated high school and raised a family during the 35 years she spent in the tight-knit coastal logging town of roughly 2,500 people. Her graduating class had 44 members, many of whom she still considers as her close friends. In 1998, she bumped into Tom Jones. He was an ambitious outdoorsman who from early on had his sights set on Alaska. In 2008, following 10 years of refusing to have any part in this dream, Tammy finally gave in to the idea of buying remote property in the Last Frontier. This is where the story of ALASKA BOUND was unknowingly created. This roller coaster of a journey is now described in great detail within the pages of her new book. In 2004, the couple moved to northeast Oregon where they spent the next two years toughing it out as full-time loggers. It was in 2007 when the couple bought this second property and built their home. These were the comfy accommodations that she reluctantly left behind to go to Alaska with Tom in 2009.....and also the home to which she returned when she decided to write a book about the out-of-this-world adventure of which Tom had dreamed of for so many years.
a mouth, two ears, and two hands. With my eyes I see myself, my shadow, my dog, and my city.
— from My Five Senses
Most acclaimed
Measuring Time
Twin brothers growing up in the tiny Nigerian village of Keti, where their lives are dominated by their controlling father, Mamo and LaMamo are separated when LaMamo escapes to pursue his dream of becoming a soldier, but when religious zealots incite the people to violence, he returns home to battle the enemy and to be reunited with his brother, now a renowned historian.
Heat
2006
Started to worry about just how hot our world is going to get, and whether you can do anything about it? As the effect of climate change grows by the day, so does the amount of hot air and bluster spouted by politicians and businessmen on what we should do about it. What with the excuses, the lies, the fudged figures, the PR greenwashing and the downright misinformation on the power of everything from wind turbines to carbon trading, when it comes to saving the world, most people don't know what they're talking about.Luckily, George Monbiot – scourge of big business, riler of governments, arch-enemy of climate change deniers everywhere – does. Packed with killer facts and inspiring ideas, shot through with passion and underlined by brilliant investigative journalism, with a copy of Heat you really can protect the planet.'I defy you to read this book and not feel motivated to change' The Times