If Only That Tree Could Talk ...
If Only That Tree Could Talk ...

Author: Kevin A. Rodrigue

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2020-08-20

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1480892432

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Have you ever driven down a country road and noticed a majestic old tree? Have you ever wondered what stories that tree could tell about the things it has seen? If Only That Tree Could Talk addresses that very question, presenting the history of Louisiana from the perspective of a plantation live oak. When Rodney is in a car accident, a massive tree rescues him. Of course, at first, he can’t believe the live oak is talking to him, but soon, that tree begins to share its many stories. Although fictionalized, the tree’s stories are based on actual historical pictures, letters, and speeches, featuring real people who had tremendous impacts on the Pelican State. As a history teacher and native Louisianan, author Kevin Rodrigue uses the wisdom of an ancient tree to share the things that fascinate him about the culture of his surroundings. He hopes to not only entertain but also inspire readers to look into their own pasts and embrace the things that make them unique.

If Only the Trees Could Talk
If Only the Trees Could Talk

Author: Kristy-Lee Jones

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2014-07-23

Total Pages: 63

ISBN-13: 1499005520

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How do you remember something so great, without forgetting those little moments? From the moment 22 year old Kristy-Lee Jones booked her historic adventure of Trekking Kokoda in Paupa New Guinea, she had decided she wanted to do exactly that. For eight days of the trek Kristy-Lee put pen to paper and documented the events of each day, the moments that made her laugh, cry, challenge and push her to mental and physical strengths she never knew she had. She captures the moments between her two uncles Jim and Andrew, and also Andrews friend Tim and the groups Trek guide, Tony. From the very first page Kristy-Lee makes it clear that no words or photos could describe the Kokoda experience, the tranquillity and vibrant colours of the jungle. This Raw and honest narrate however attempts to give insight to those wanting or about to trek Kokoda whilst acts as a memoir for her family and friends to share. As you follow her experiences from each day you are exposed to this young girls personal life and perspectives encapsulated through both her words and photos whilst at the same time being invigorated to start tackling your bucket list of things to do.

If Trees Could Talk
If Trees Could Talk

Author: Samuel Williams

Publisher: Partridge Publishing Singapore

Published: 2024-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781543781755

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Samuel Williams has brought the worlds of nature and unavoidable human advancement into clear and entertaining focus in this heartwarming story. In it, he rhetorically poses the question to his readers, what stories would this tree share with its listeners if it could speak to them? With years and years of wisdom and experience, what unspoken and little-known bits of information would trees share? The tree in this story realizes it is about to be removed from the spot where it has stood since it was a mere seedling. Its removal is necessary in order for "progress" to take place. But the memories and stories the tree shares right before it is cut down will absolutely warm your heart to its melting point.

I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood
I Can't Talk About the Trees Without the Blood

Author: Tiana Clark

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2018-11-06

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0822986167

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For poet Tiana Clark, trees will never be just trees. They will also and always be a row of gallows from which Black bodies once swung. This is an image that she cannot escape, but one that she has learned to lean into as she delves into personal and public histories, explicating memories and muses around race, elegy, family, and faith by making and breaking forms as well as probing mythology, literary history, her own ancestry, and, yes, even Rihanna. I Can’t Talk About the Trees without the Blood, because Tiana cannot engage with the physical and psychic landscape of the South without seeing the braided trauma of the broken past—she will always see blood on the leaves.

If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In)
If Beale Street Could Talk (Movie Tie-In)

Author: James Baldwin

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2018-10-30

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0525566120

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A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime—"a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless" (The New York Times Book Review). "One of the best books Baldwin has ever written—perhaps the best of all." —The Philadelphia Inquirer Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions—affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche.

If Nights Could Talk
If Nights Could Talk

Author: Marsha Recknagel

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2010-04-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1429979631

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If Nights Could Talk is a rich gothic story of a Southern family, a tale of wealth and emotional need that spans generations. Marsha Recknagel's memoir begins with the surprise appearance of her 16-year-old nephew, Jamie, who arrives on her doorstep and into her ordered, childless life. Fleeing a chaotic home run by Marsha's unstable younger brother and his wife, Jamie is an ominous creature-and the center of an ongoing family tug-of-war. For Marsha, to open the door is to risk opening herself up to the pain of the past. Reluctantly she takes him in. Thus begins the painful, terrifying, and extraordinary process of unraveling the damage inflicted by her family on one of its own.

The Overstory: A Novel
The Overstory: A Novel

Author: Richard Powers

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-04-03

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0393635538

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction Winner of the William Dean Howells Medal Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Over One Year on the New York Times Bestseller List A New York Times Notable Book and a Washington Post, Time, Oprah Magazine, Newsweek, Chicago Tribune, and Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year "The best novel ever written about trees, and really just one of the best novels, period." —Ann Patchett The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of—and paean to—the natural world. From the roots to the crown and back to the seeds, Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. There is a world alongside ours—vast, slow, interconnected, resourceful, magnificently inventive, and almost invisible to us. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn up into its unfolding catastrophe.

The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate

Author: Peter Wohlleben

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2017-08-24

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0008218447

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Sunday Times Bestseller‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?

The Natural World in Poetry
The Natural World in Poetry

Author: Dane Ann Smith-Johnsen

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2013-02

Total Pages: 167

ISBN-13: 1466981512

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The Natural World in Poetry is an assortment of nature poems that includes preservation issues, humor, fantasy, love, spirituality, and much more. Whether you enjoy escaping through fantasy or taking issue with plant and animal conservation, there is something enjoyable for you in The Natural World in Poetry. Take your imagination on a delightful journey to fantasy. Enjoy the award-winning poem "Running with the Wild," about a young woman's nostalgic fulfillment as she rides bareback on a wild Appaloosa stallion. Or imagine the dreamy love found in "The Field Where Wheat Grew Gold." Nature lovers, children, parents, conservationists, creationists, and scientists alike will enjoy stretching their imaginations by reading the many lighthearted and thought-provoking poems found in The Natural World in Poetry.

ROMANCE PARALYSIS: POETRY EXPLORING LIFE IN DIFFERENT MODES
ROMANCE PARALYSIS: POETRY EXPLORING LIFE IN DIFFERENT MODES

Author: Aaron Joy

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2018-12-20

Total Pages: 105

ISBN-13: 0359172423

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The final poetry collection of Aaron Joy brings together previously unpublished poems spanning over two decades of writing. They touch on many aspects of his life, along with demonstrating his growth as a writer via exploring different styles and influences. In this book are poems of relationships, family, history, spirituality, loneliness, with influence from such directions as Jim Morrison, Jack Kerouac, jazz music, work as a historian and Sri Chinmoy.