River of Gods
River of Gods

Author: Ian McDonald

Publisher: Prometheus Books

Published: 2009-09-18

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 1591028116

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As Mother India approaches her centenary, nine people are going about their business — a gangster, a cop, his wife, a politician, a stand-up comic, a set designer, a journalist, a scientist, and a dropout. And so is Aj — the waif, the mind-reader, the prophet — when she one day finds a man who wants to stay hidden. In the next few weeks, they will all be swept together to decide the fate of the nation. River of Gods teems with the life of a country choked with peoples and cultures — one and a half billion people, twelve semi-independent nations, nine million gods. Ian McDonald has written the great Indian novel of the new millennium, in which a war is fought, a love betrayed, a message from a different world decoded, as the great river Ganges flows on.

A River in Darkness
A River in Darkness

Author: Masaji Ishikawa

Publisher: Amazon Crossing

Published: 2018-06

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781542047197

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Previously published in Japan in 2000. Translated from Japanese by Risa Kobayashi and Martin Brown. First published in English by AmazonCrossing in 2017.

Escape to the River Sea
Escape to the River Sea

Author: Emma Carroll

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Published: 2022-06-09

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 1529062713

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Beautiful and full of adventure, Escape to the River Sea is Emma Carroll's compelling novel inspired by Eva Ibbotson's bestselling, classic masterpiece, Journey to the River Sea. 'A joyously animal-packed adventure.' – Hilary McKay, Costa Award-winning author of The Skylark's War In 1946, Rosa Sweetman, a young Kindertransport girl, is longing for her family to claim her. The war in Europe is over and she is the only child left at Westwood, a rambling country estate in the north of England, where she'd taken refuge seven years earlier. The arrival of a friend of the family, Yara Fielding, starts an adventure that will take Rosa deep into the lush beauty of the Amazon rainforest in search of jaguars, ancient giant sloths and somewhere to belong. What she finds is Yara’s lively, welcoming family on the banks of the river and, together, they face a danger greater than she could ever have imagined. Featuring places and characters known and loved by fans of Journey to the River Sea (including, among others, Maia, Finn, Miss Minton and Clovis) this spectacular story tells of the next generation and the growing threats to the Amazon rainforest that continue to this day.

Angels Along the River
Angels Along the River

Author: E. M. Lahr

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2011-08

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1456764160

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Reading a book can change your life. When Eleanor Lahr read "Follow the River", a novel about the true experience of Mary Draper Ingles, who was captured in 1755 by Shawnee Indians and carried 500 miles from her home, she felt inexplicably compelled to retrace Mary's escape route. With little previous experince, but with plucky courage, she planned and trained extensively, then set off on her 51st birthday. Before e-mail, cell phones, Facebook, and Twitter, occaisionally alone, usually with strangers, she hiked 43 days along the Ohio, Kanawha, and New Rivers--publisher.

Freedom River
Freedom River

Author: Doreen Rappaport

Publisher: StarWalk Kids Media

Published: 2014-06-30

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 1630831301

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Describes an incident in the life of John Parker, an ex-slave who became a successful businessman in Ripley, Ohio, and who repeatedly risked his life to help other slaves escape to freedom.

Gravel Bed Rivers 6
Gravel Bed Rivers 6

Author: H. Habersack

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2011-09-22

Total Pages: 837

ISBN-13: 0080553591

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Based on the interdisciplinary approaches between earth science, engineering, physical geography, ecology and management, this text focuses on the theoretical questions, case-studies, challenges, and constraints taken from river restoration. It is illustrated with reports of new ground-breaking research covering spatial and temporal scales of physical processes in river catchments, coupling catchment and fluvial processes, grain dynamics and fluvial forms and on geo-ecology and restoration in mountain gravel-bed river environments. Each chapter includes discussions and comments providing experience and feedback from the fundamental research. This book covers scales of analysis for gravel-bed rivers, physics and modeling of processes at local and point scales, sediment delivery and storage, eco-geography and eco-hydraulics, and channel management and restoration.* Major topics in the field are presented by recognized scientific leaders* Chapters cover theories, practices, and methodologies in river management and restoration* Interdisciplinary approach includes case-studies on new, ground-breaking research

River's Escape
River's Escape

Author: Leanne Davis

Publisher:

Published: 2015-03-02

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781941522233

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Kailynn Hayes doesn't believe she'll ever escape the small ranching community she was born and raised in called River's End. She has nothing and nowhere else to go, with a sickly father to care for, and two brothers who would as soon do anything than work. She sees her life continuing on as the housekeeper for the Rydell River Ranch and as a waitress in River's End. Trapped by no money and family responsibilities, she doesn't believe she can escape it all to pursue her dreams. Until one expected event changes everything, and suddenly she has the ability to go after a new life, far away from River's End. But it will come at the cost of a relationship that she never intended to start, and therefore, she believes she will never give up her dreams for. Ian Rydell has helped Jack all these years care for the ranch, their younger brothers and Jack's two sons. He is the brother no one ever knows what he is thinking, or next going to do, especially the woman he has quietly loved for years. But now, he's ready to implement the plans and dreams that not a soul knows he harbors, especially the woman he intends to do them for. Kailynn starts to realize that maybe there is more in River's End for her, than she ever noticed or dared to dream about. But how can she turn her back on this new life she has found, and all to go back to the place she had been so desperate to escape?

Escape Into the Night
Escape Into the Night

Author: Lois Walfrid Johnson

Publisher: Moody Publishers

Published: 2013-01-23

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0802486517

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One choice will change Libby’s life forever. Libby Norstad’s life has changed to anything but ordinary. In 1857, when she comes to live on the Christina, her father’s steamboat, Libby’s curiosity ensnares her in a mystery. What is the closely held secret of Caleb, the cabin boy who seems determined to make her life miserable? And how can Jordan, a fugitive slave, possibly reach safety and freedom? The night is dark. As three men race to the riverfront, bloodhounds follow their tracks. Through her journey to compassion, will Libby become a freedom seeker? From the golden age of steamboats, the rush of immigrants to new lands, and the dangers of the Underground Railroad come true-to-life stories of courage, integrity, and suspense in the Freedom Seekers series.

State of the Union
State of the Union

Author: Walt Branam

Publisher: Abbott Press

Published: 2019-12-10

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 1458222624

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Thomas Wolfe, Assistant Director of the FBI, has learned a secret organization of billionaires intends to detonate an atomic bomb during the president’s State of the Union Address and take over the United States. They’re called the Order, and they have infiltrated the government and the media as part of a plan that has been in the making for years. Tom is told to drop the case. He is then suspended and arrested but promptly escapes. He is branded a conspiracy nut and national fugitive, so he can no longer depend on using traditional methods for his investigation. He needs outside help, and this includes his brother John, who was placed in a maximum-security prison after trying to expose the Order. John might hold the key to stopping the Order, so Tom has to find a way to free his brother by breaking into a secure Homeland Security facility. Tom now travels a bizarre path where old friends become mortal enemies. The clock is ticking, especially as the Order hires assassins to kill Tom and his allies. The president must be saved, and with him, America, but how far is Tom willing to go to stop a nuclear blast?