Bøker av Rachel King

When best friends Alex and Rowan are abducted out of their small hometown in rural Nebraska, they find themselves up north in Alaska, where they are introduced to their captors, the Agency. In order to ensure safe travel home, they must complete a mission. Mission objective: capture a monster. Now, Alex and Rowan have a choice to make, one that could change their lives for good. Risk everything, including themselves, to get home? Or refuse, and remain in the clutch of their kidnappers forever?

It's 1967 in Kalapuya, a town on the Central Oregon Coast, and Jackson Ryder decides to build a second story onto his motel. His wife, Marilyn Ryder, doesn't want to take on more debt for an expansion. Their ongoing dispute prompts Marilyn to leave Jackson and stay with her friend Leah Tolman, a bakery owner and advocate for the Beach Bill, the legislation that will make all Oregon beaches public land. While Marilyn becomes an activist, her adolescent son Tim befriends an elderly lighthouse keeper Elliot Yager, who wants the public to stay off his beach. A novel about the pleasures and limits of solitude for five distinct and deeply human characters, centered around the passing of the Oregon Beach Bill-and published in time for the fifty-fifth anniversary of the historic legislation.

Rachel King wrote the poems in City Walks upon returning to her hometown of Portland, Oregon, after over a dozen years of living away. Their "precise details wired to lively music and memorable images" (Mark Wagenaar) investigate a known place, witness gentrification, acknowledge death, and insist on the possibility of beauty and joy despite it all: "I have rarely been happier than walking miles / around my city, learning its history, / while watching people play out their needs" ("City Walks"). Full of devotion and intensity, these poems "call us to love a little more humbly, a little less selfishly" (Charity Gingerich).

Spanning centuries and continents, a beautifully illustrated history of humanity's enduring enthrallment with a seemingly banal substance: petrified tree sap, or amber. Amber: From Antiquity to Eternity is a history of human engagement with amber across three millennia. The book vividly describes our conceptions, stories, and political and scholarly disputes about amber, as well as issues of national and personal identity, religion, art, literature, music, and science. Rachel King rewrites amber's history for the twenty-first century, tackling thorny ethical and moral questions regarding humanity's relationship with amber in the past, as well our connection with it today. With the Earth facing unprecedented challenges, amber--the natural time capsule, and preserver of key information about the planet's evolutional history--promises to offer invaluable insights into what comes next.

This book explores how objects, landscapes, and architecture were at the heart of how people imagined outlaws and disorder in colonial southern Africa.

Weaving third-person narrative with fist-hand accounts, this text presents the stories of ten MVFR members. Each is a tale of grief, soul searching and of the challenge to choose forgiveness instead of revenge.

Those who support capital punishment often claim that they do so because it provides justice and closure for the victims' families. Attorney Rachel King reminds us that there are other families and other victims who must be considered in the debate over the death penalty.