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Author: Terry Darlington
Publisher: Delta
Published: 2008-03-25
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 0440337569
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe hilarious and true story of two senior-citizens and their whippet dog who hatch, plan and carry out a “lunatic scheme” to sail from Stone in Staffordshire to Carcassonne in the South of France.
Author: Kent Nerburn
Publisher: New World Library
Published: 2010-09-07
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1577318862
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1996 Minnesota Book Award winner — A Native American book The heart of the Native American experience: In this 1996 Minnesota Book Award winner, Kent Nerburn draws the reader deep into the world of an Indian elder known only as Dan. It’s a world of Indian towns, white roadside cafes, and abandoned roads that swirl with the memories of the Ghost Dance and Sitting Bull. Readers meet vivid characters like Jumbo, a 400-pound mechanic, and Annie, an 80-year-old Lakota woman living in a log cabin. Threading through the book is the story of two men struggling to find a common voice. Neither Wolf nor Dog takes readers to the heart of the Native American experience. As the story unfolds, Dan speaks eloquently on the difference between land and property, the power of silence, and the selling of sacred ceremonies. This edition features a new introduction by the author, Kent Nerburn. “This is a sobering, humbling, cleansing, loving book, one that every American should read.” — Yoga Journal If you enjoyed Empire of the Summer Moon, Heart Berries, or You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me, you’ll love owning and reading Neither Wolf nor Dog by Kent Nerburn.
Author: John Graves
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-11-10
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0307773353
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.
Author: Ursula Hegi
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-01-25
Total Pages: 528
ISBN-13: 1439144761
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the acclaimed author of Floating in My Mother’s Palm and Children and Fire, a stunning story about ordinary people living in extraordinary times—“epic, daring, magnificent, the product of a defining and mesmerizing vision” (Los Angeles Times). Trudi Montag is a Zwerg—a dwarf—short, undesirable, different, the voice of anyone who has ever tried to fit in. Eventually she learns that being different is a secret that all humans share—from her mother who flees into madness, to her friend Georg whose parents pretend he’s a girl, to the Jews Trudi harbors in her cellar. Ursula Hegi brings us a timeless and unforgettable story in Trudi and a small town, weaving together a profound tapestry of emotional power, humanity, and truth.
Author: Bill Bryson
Publisher: VNR AG
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9780060161583
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"I come from Des Moines. Somebody had to." And, as soon as Bill Bryson was old enough, he left. Des Moines couldn't hold him, but it did lure him back. After ten years in England he returned to the land of his youth, and drove almost 14,000 miles in search of a mythical small town called Amalgam, the kind of smiling village where the movies from his youth were set. Instead he drove through a series of horrific burgs, which he renamed Smellville, Fartville, Coleslaw, Coma, and Doldrum. At best his search led him to Anywhere, USA, a lookalike strip of gas stations, motels and hamburger outlets populated by obese and slow-witted hicks with a partiality for synthetic fibres. He discovered a continent that was doubly lost: lost to itself because he found it blighted by greed, pollution, mobile homes and television; lost to him because he had become a foreigner in his own country.
Author: Anne Rivers Siddons
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-10-13
Total Pages: 482
ISBN-13: 0061755044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom New York Times bestselling author Anne Rivers Siddons comes a bittersweet and finely wrought story of friendship, family, and Charleston society. At twelve, Emily Parmenter knows alone all too well. Left mostly to herself after her beautiful young mother disappeared and her beloved older brother died, Emily is keenly aware of yearning and loss. Rather than be consumed by sadness, she has built a life around the faded plantation where her remote father and hunting-obsessed brothers raise the legendary Lowcountry Boykin hunting spaniels. It is a meager, narrow, masculine world, but to Emily it has magic: the storied deep-sea dolphins who come regularly to play in Sweetwater Creek; her extraordinary bond with the beautiful dogs she trains; her almost mystic communion with her own spaniel, Elvis; the dreaming old Lowcountry itself. Emily hides from the dreaded world here. It is enough. And then comes Lulu Foxworth, troubled daughter of a truly grand plantation, who has run away from her hectic Charleston debutante season to spend a healing summer with the quiet marshes and river, and the life-giving dogs. Where Emily's father sees their guest as an entrée to a society he thought forever out of reach, Emily is at once threatened and mystified. Lulu has a powerful enchantment of her own, and this, along with the dark, crippling secret she brings with her, will inevitably blow Emily's magical water world apart and let the real one in—but at a terrible price. Poignant and emotionally compelling, Sweetwater Creek draws you into the luminous landscape of the Lowcountry, with characters that will linger long after you've turned the last page.
Author: Adrian McKinty
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 308
ISBN-13: 9780743247009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA thriller that takes you to the heart of New York City's most bloody era. A writer whose dialogue is as hard and true as the streets.
Author: Jim Rearden
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Published: 2014-04-04
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 0882409301
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“I owe Alaska. It gave me everything I have.” Says Sidney Huntington, son of an Athapaskan mother and white trader/trapper father. Growing up on the Koyukuk River in Alaska’s harsh Interior, that “everything” spans 78 years of tragedies and adventures. When his mother died suddenly, 5-year-old Huntington protected and cared for his younger brother and sister during two weeks of isolation. Later, as a teenager, he plied the wilderness traplines with his father, nearly freezing to death several times. One spring, he watched an ice-filled breakup flood sweep his family’s cabin and belongings away. These and many other episodes are the compelling background for the story of a man who learned the lessons of a land and culture, lessons that enabled him to prosper as trapper, boat builder, and fisherman. This is more than one man's incredible tale of hardship and success in Alaska. It is also a tribute to the Athapaskan traditions and spiritual beliefs that enabled him and his ancestors to survive. His story, simply told, is a testament to the durability of Alaska's wild lands and to the strength of the people who inhabit them.
Author: Terry Darlington
Publisher: Delta
Published: 2009-04-28
Total Pages: 354
ISBN-13: 0440338514
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFollowing the triumph of thier trip through France to Carcassonne, these two pensioners (and thier whippet, Jim) now cast off in thier narrowboat down the Intracoastal Waterway of the USA - from VIrginia to the Gulf of Mexico.
Author: TERRY DARLINGTON
Publisher: Bantam
Published: 2008-05-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780999028346
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHaving survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you would expect pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington to retreat with their whippet to a corner in the nearest public house. But no, they looked to the New World and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, that runs from Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico... No-one has ever sailed an English narrowboat in the US before, for reasons that become clear during the 9-month voyage of the Phyllis May GÇô including 30-mile sea crossings, blasting heat, tornadoes, hurricanes, starving alligators, killer fish, insects from hell and the walking dead. But the real danger comes from the Good Ole Boys and Girls of the Deep South. Colonels and bums, captains and planters, heroes and drunks, gongoozlers, dancing dicks and beautiful spies GÇô they all want to meet the Brits on the painted boat and their thin dog and take them home and party them to death. On the narrowboat Phyllis May a thousand miles of the little-known South-East Seaboard unfold at six miles an hourGÇô the golden marshes of the Carolinas, the incomparable cities of Charleston and Savannah, and the lost arcadias of Georgia and Florida. Beautifully written, lovingly observed, and very very funny, Narrow Dog to Indian River takes you on a dangerous, surprising and always entertaining journey through a wonderland. Having survived their voyage to Carcassonne, you would expect pensioners Terry and Monica Darlington to retreat with their whippet to a corner in the nearest public house. But no, they looked to the New World and the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway, that runs from Virginia to the Gulf of Mexico... No-one has ever sailed an English narrowboat in the US before, for reasons that become clear during the 9-month voyage of the Phyllis May GÇô including 30-mile sea crossings, blasting heat, tornadoes, hurricanes, starving alligators, killer fish, insects from hell and the walking dead. But the real danger comes from the Good Ole Boys and Girls of the Deep South. Colonels and bums, captains and planters, heroes and drunks, gongoozlers, dancing dicks and beautiful spies GÇô they all want to meet the Brits on the painted boat and their thin dog and take them home and party them to death. On the narrowboat Phyllis May a thousand miles of the little-known South-East Seaboard unfold at six miles an hourGÇô the golden marshes of the Carolinas, the incomparable cities of Charleston and Savannah, and the lost arcadias of Georgia and Florida. Beautifully written, lovingly observed, and very very funny, Narrow Dog to Indian River takes you on a dangerous, surprising and always entertaining journey through a wonderland.
