Books with author MK Reed

In 1968 the residents of Lovell, Wyoming began the work of saving the Pryor Mountain Mustang, a breed of horse with a genetic link dating back to the sixteenth-century Spanish conquistadores’ horses. In this moving case study, Christine Reed shows how, through a grassroots campaign, these residents championed the creation of the first federal public wild horse range. Crucial to this provocative analysis of local-federal cooperation is the relationship that grew between the Lovell advocates, the Bureau of Land Management, and the National Park Service. Long before there were federal laws passed to protect wild horse herds across the western states, the Pryor Mountain Mustang was preserved through the cooperative efforts of local residents and federal officials.Saving the Pryor Mountain Mustang explores the unique and ongoing relationship between locals and the federal government, highlighting the Lovell citizens’ philosophy of cooperation instead of the typical mistrust that exists between wild horse advocates and federal agencies. The book provides a rich analysis of how a determined group of people saved an endangered wild horse herd. The book will have wide appeal to wild horse activists, scholars of local and federal governance, and western history enthusiasts.

After years of being a helpless witness to his father’s physical and emotional abuse towards his family, seventeen-year-old Miles Boswell has just about reached his breaking point. He dreams of the day where he can leave everything behind and begin a new life on his own...that is, until he discovers that he has the ability to control people’s minds. And suddenly, the odds are overwhelmingly in his favor. At first, Miles can’t believe his luck. Elements of his life that had previously been unavoidable nuisances -- his father’s rude, drunken comments, his brother’s bratty outbursts -- were now situations that could be manipulated at the ease of a focused command. But what begins as the answer to all of his problems soon causes him to question his every thought when he captures the attention of August Sylvan, who seems to be the girl of his dreams. She shares his aversion to alcohol and drugs, has fantastic taste in music, and most shocking of all -- she wants to go out with him. As someone who has limited experience with girls, Miles can’t help but wonder -- where do his powers end, and where does reality begin? He has no way of telling if August is truly interested in him, or if she’s simply reacting to his attraction towards her. At the same time, he finds himself at constant odds with his morals and his potentially warped sense of justice. At what point may it be considered acceptable to subjugate the minds of others? Is there ever an appropriate time for such an action?

The Book of Clever Beasts by M. Reed. Worldwide literature classic, among top 100 literary novels of all time. A must read for everybody.In the 1980s, Italo Calvino (the most-translated contemporary Italian writer at the time of his death) said in his essay "Why Read the Classics?" that "a classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say", without any doubt this book can be considered a Classic This book is also a Bestseller because as Steinberg defined: "a bestseller as a book for which demand, within a short time of that book's initial publication, vastly exceeds what is then considered to be big sales".