Rowan

Featuring the work of numerous renowned knitwear designers, Rowan: 40 Yearscelebrates the magazine's legacy with a closetful of gorgeous garments. It offers agallery of covers, never-before-seen images, a brief history, and new photographs of about half the designs, which have been reknit using modern colors that prove how fashionable they still are. Every knitter will turn to this book for patterns and inspiration.

Rowan has been alone since his family died, and he wants to keep things this way. He’s not willing to care about someone else and have them ripped away from him. His heart wouldn’t survive it. Clay has been alone since his family died, but when he sees Rowan working at the bar where he’s hunting a Kudlak, he can’t stay away, doubly so after Rowan saves him from the Kudlak and tells him they’re mates. Hunting Kudlaks is Rowan’s destiny, but he stepped back from it a long time ago. Hunting Kudlaks is Clay’s mission, and he won’t let anyone or anything take him away from it. Rowan is hurt and stubborn, while Clay has been adrift for a long time. They both need someone to love and care for, but will they be able to admit it? Or will one of them stubbornly cling to their loneliness and lose the greatest love they can ever have?

A cultural history of a reddish, much-loved shrub, sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Rowan is the first in-depth natural and cultural history of this much-loved plant sometimes called mountain ash or dogberry. Through myth, medicine, literature, land art, and contemporary rewilding, Oliver Southall uncovers the many meanings of this singular reddish, fruit shrub: a potent symbol of nostalgia on the one hand and of environmental activism on the other. Taking the reader on an eclectic journey across history, Rowan charts our changing relationships with nature and landscape, raising urgent questions about how we value and relate to the non-human world.

The book has a lot of historical content along with some poetry and humor. The main part is falily history including some of the sescenants of James Gram born in Scotland in 1670 along with documentation on the descendants

Rowan hopes that the deep emptiness inside him might possibly heal—if he just finds the retired K9 Hershey, named after an old trainer buddy. Nothing can hold Rowan back from locating his old K9 friend. What he didn’t expect was his old friend had found a new friend, with puppies of her own. Brandi had just lost her grandmother, her home, and her best four-legged friend, Lacey, in a horrible forest fire that swept through town. Everyone said to not give up on Lacey, as dogs often disappeared only to reappear later. That one thought calls her to spend every spare moment she has at the site, calling for Lacey. When she realizes someone else has the same idea, she’s happy to join forces. When things get ugly, she’s glad to have someone at her side because she hadn’t seen what ugly could really look like … until now.

Rowan Williams has served as Archbishop of Canterbury through one of the most turbulent periods in the history of global Anglicanism. He has also faced numerous challenges within the Church of England. How has he coped with the huge issues of a divided church and a rapidly changing world? What has he done as archbishop when parts of the church are campaigning for an inclusive church with gay-partnered clergy and women bishops, while others are determined to resist these developments? How has he related to other Christian traditions and those of other faiths? What has he said about the Iraq war, the financial crash, Sharia Law? In this fascinating assessment, Andrew Goddard surveys Archbishop Rowan's time in office. Goddard draws on Williams' speeches and writings, as well as interviews and comments from those who have worked with him. This book shows the pressures faced by an academic scholar who only took on this demanding role because he believed it to be God's call. What sort of leader has he been, and what sort of legacy does he leave for his successor, Justin Welby?