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Author: Diane Wolkstein
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Published: 1999
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKA king builds a glass mountain which any man who wants to marry his daughter must climb--but when Princess Raina tries to help one special suitor succeed, she falls through a deep crack and is trapped in an underground world. Full color.
Author: W. S. Kuniczak
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 184
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents retellings of traditional Polish tales including How the princess learned to laugh, Pan Twardowski, Where devils are helpless, and The sorcerer's apprentice.
Author: Jon T. Coleman
Publisher: Hill and Wang
Published: 2012-04-24
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 1429952954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the summer of 1823, a grizzly bear mauled Hugh Glass. The animal ripped the trapper up, carving huge hunks from his body. Glass's fellows rushed to his aid and slew the bear, but Glass's injuries mocked their first aid. The expedition leader arranged for his funeral: two men would stay behind to bury the corpse when it finally stopped gurgling; the rest would move on. Alone in Indian country, the caretakers quickly lost their nerve. They fled, taking Glass's gun, knife, and ammunition with them. But Glass wouldn't die. He began crawling toward Fort Kiowa, hundreds of miles to the east, and as his speed picked up, so did his ire. The bastards who took his gear and left him to rot were going to pay. Here Lies Hugh Glass springs from this legend. The acclaimed historian Jon T. Coleman delves into the accounts left by Glass's contemporaries and the mythologizers who used his story to advance their literary and filmmaking careers. A spectacle of grit in the face of overwhelming odds, Glass sold copy and tickets. But he did much more. Through him, the grievances and frustrations of hired hunters in the early American West and the natural world they traversed and explored bled into the narrative of the nation. A marginal player who nonetheless sheds light on the terrifying drama of life on the frontier, Glass endures as a consummate survivor and a complex example of American manhood. Here Lies Hugh Glass, a vivid, often humorous portrait of a young nation and its growing pains, is a Western history like no other.
Author: Donald Barthelme
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2014-03-06
Total Pages: 14
ISBN-13: 0718196260
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA glass mountain sits in the middle of a city and at the top sits a 'beautiful, enchanted symbol'. Seeking to disenchant it, the narrator must climb the mountain. Confronted by the jeers of acquaintances, the bodies of previous climbers and the claws of a guarding eagle he, slowly, begins to ascend. In true postmodernist form, subject and purpose collide as Donald Barthelme uses one-hundred fragmented statements to destabilise a symbol of his own - literature's conventional forms and practices. With a quest, a princess and an array of knights, Barthelme subverts that most traditional of genres, the fairy-tale; irony, absurdity, and playful self-reflexivity are the champions of this short story.
Author: Celeste Walters
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
Published: 2015-11-23
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 0702258067
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOssie is an outcast - he is the cat that walks alone. This is, until he crosses paths with Mrs Esther Ellis and he is caught up in a world of shadows and secrets - a world in which the legend of a freakish mountain tells a story that will become his own. A very powerful crossover novel for young adults and adults alike from the award-winning author of "The Killing of Mud-Eye"
Author: Julia Cooley Altrocchi
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2021-01-20
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1664153276
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAstronomers all over the world study the universe with powerful telescopes situated on cold mountain summits where skies are clear. What is it like to live in such a faraway community for extended periods of time? What are the consequences of romance, extra-marital love, unwanted pregnancy, attempted murder and a dangerous forest fire for such a group? Are the expected personal and social effects exaggerated or muted? What is the impact of a major external event, such as the onset of a world war? Noted poet and author Julia Cooley Altrocchi portrays what life was like in a pre-television era for such an isolated cluster of fewer than forty people — academic stargazers, their families and support staff — during the months immediately before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. It becomes clear that walls and houses on such an isolated mountain top are made of glass. Everybody knows everything. Secrets cannot be kept. Life's emotions and theatrics are intensified, more vivid, more vitally felt. The intriguing cast of characters is indeed living on a Glass Mountain in this dramatically gripping, linguistically captivating and thoroughly entertaining historical novel.
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Published: 2015-11
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781406360950
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJan Pienkowski brings eight of the best-loved Polish folk tales to life with vibrant and witty paper cut illustrations. Jan Pienkowski illustrates eight popular Polish folk tales using the traditional paper cut technique he learned as a child. Featuring classic stories such as "Pan Twardowski", "The Glass Mountain", "The Wawel Dragon" and "The Fern Flower". Jan Pienkowski breathes new life into the magical tales of his homeland. It is a brand-new title from one of the giants of children's illustration. The bold, witty illustrations will appeal to children. It is the perfect way to introduce children to classic Polish folk tales. It is a beautiful jacketed hardback gift book that families will enjoy again and again.
Author: Robert M. McClung
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Published: 1993-09-01
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ISBN-13: 9780606058810
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fictionalized biography of the legendary hero of the Old West, who as a fur trapper in 1823, survived an attack by a grizzly bear, and crawled 200 miles to the nearest fort to seek revenge on the two men who left him for dead.
Author: R M Koster
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001-06-05
Total Pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780393020076
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Glass Mountain renders the details and tension of a covert military operation with riveting immediacy, then turns the excitement higher through a rescue and escape Carlos improvises on the fly."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Sonja Dewing
Publisher: Sonja Dewing
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Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis adventure thriller made second place in the New Mexico Press Women Communication Contest! "This short story manages to balance the right amount of suspense with adventure." - Reader Leslie Kicklighter thought she had everything figured out but finds that there’s more to mountaineering when you’re a woman in a man’s world. Climbing the coldest mountain in North America, Leslie and the team of mountaineers will attempt to summit Mt. Denali. They’ll face minus forty degree temperatures, unpredictable weather, and dangerous glacier crevasses. Will they make it, or will they find their grave on the mountain? Prequel to Toy of the Gods, the Idol maker Series. If you enjoy strong female characters, you should read The Glass Mountain. Leslie climbed into the plane and sat next to David and Chen. David always had a smile on his face. Now he glanced around at the group as the plane took off from the runway. “Leslie, What is a mountain climber’s favorite drink?” Chen, Louie, and Steven all groaned. The rest must not have heard it yet. “Not sure,” Leslie replied. “Anything on the rocks.” It was Leslie’s turn to groan. Louie shook his head, “Leslie, don’t encourage him. They get worse.” “Hey,” David shrugged, “You come up with better ones then.” Leslie laughed and looked out over the view. On all sides were white peaks, but only one towered above the rest. The plane was already circling above the snowy plateau that was just big enough for take off and landing. She had never landed in a plane with skis on. The next couple of weeks would be full of firsts for her.
