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Author: Rod Beemer
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Published: 1998-07
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780966549805
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA small brass rocking horse filled with the magic of Christmas moves from story to story, as seven authors tell tales of lives altered by the renewing hope of the Christmas spirit.
Author: Jean Starobinski
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780231140904
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book examines some figures of seduction as they have appeared over the course of opera's history." --introd.
Author: Margaret Rogerson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 1481497588
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA skilled painter must stand up to the ancient power of the faerie courts--even as she falls in love with a faerie prince--in this gorgeous debut novel. 6 x 9.
Author: Osha Gray Davidson
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Published: 2009
Total Pages: 102
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJune grass at sunset, Indian grass at sunrise, hawk moths and monarch butterflies nectaring on purple fringed orchids and rough blazing star, little bluestem and saw-tooth sunflowers and butterfly milkweed in hill prairies and sand prairies, and blue skies and one bright rainbow arching over them all. Bill Witt has been photographing Iowa's wild places for more than thirty years, and the result is this collection of splendid images that reveal the glorious beauty and diversity of the state's prairie remnants. Witt gives us close-ups of pasque flower shoots covered with ice in spring, coneflowers dancing in a summer breeze, and prairie dropseed in its autumn colors as well as such prairie companions as sandhill cranes, northern harriers, and bison. His panoramic visions of prairie landscapes in all seasons focus on the personal pleasure and spiritual sustenance that connecting with prairies, even small and neglected ones, can bring us. Osha Davidson's essay compares today's prairie remnants with yesterday's expanses and calls for us to restore balance to this damaged landscape. Altogether, Enchanted by Prairie celebrates today's prairie landscape and encourages us, in Davidson's words, to restore its "beauty and scents and textures and sounds."
Author: Melissa Wiley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-08-28
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 1442440589
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this “delightful mash-up of Little House on the Prairie and The Spiderwick Chronicles” (SLJ), experience life on the prairie—with one fantastical twist! Louisa Brody’s life on the Colorado prairie is not at all what she expected. Her dear Pa, accused of thievery, is locked thirty miles away in jail. She’s living with the awful Smirches, her closest neighbors and the very family that accused her Pa of the horrendous crime. And now she’s discovered one very cantankerous—and magical—secret beneath the hazel grove. With her life flipped upside-down, it’s up to Louisa, her sassy friend Jessamine, and that cranky secret to save Pa from a guilty verdict. Ten bold illustrations from Erwin Madrid accompany seasoned storyteller Melissa Wiley’s vibrant and enchanting tale of life on the prairie—with one magical twist.
Author: William Barillas
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2006-02-15
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0821442015
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe midwestern pastoral is a literary tradition of place and rural experience that celebrates an attachment to land that is mystical as well as practical, based on historical and scientific knowledge as well as personal experience. It is exemplified in the poetry, fiction, and essays of writers who express an informed love of the nature and regional landscapes of the Midwest. Drawing on recent studies in cultural geography, environmental history, and mythology, as well as literary criticism, The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland relates Midwestern pastoral writers to their local geographies and explains their approaches. William Barillas treats five important Midwestern pastoralists—Willa Cather, Aldo Leopold, Theodore Roethke, James Wright, and Jim Harrison—in separate chapters. He also discusses Jane Smiley, U.S. Poet Laureate Ted Kooser, Paul Gruchow, and others. For these writers, the aim of writing is not merely intellectual and aesthetic, but democratic and ecological. In depicting and promoting commitment to local communities, human and natural, they express their love for, their understanding of, and their sense of place in the American Midwest. Students and serious readers, as well as scholars in the growing field of literature and the environment, will appreciate this study of writers who counter alienation and materialism in modern society.
Author: Jean-Francois Chabas
Publisher: Lion Forge
Published: 2018-05
Total Pages: 28
ISBN-13: 9781941302545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRaised by a fisherman from the depths of the sea, an ornate chest soon attracts the attention of the greedy King, always searching for more treasure. But the King has a problem: nothing and nobody can open the chest. A thousand keys, a thousand tools, and a thousand swords were tried. He calls his most talented subjects to open it: the Locksmith, then the Strong Man, the Magician, and even the Alchemist--they all try their skills, and none can do it! Only the Lynx, whose magical eyes allow her to see through anything, can finally satisfy the King's curiosity. The story, like the chest, contains a beautiful and mysterious core for the intrepid reader to open, about how the treasures we crave may not be what we truly desire.
Author: Baynard Rush Hall
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 498
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Yi Dianxingdong
Publisher: Funstory
Published: 2019-10-28
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 1646779959
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe birth of Zhu Youyu was a conspiracy, a chess piece used by others. The birth of Zhang Siyan was a death, and his grandmother was an obstacle that had to be removed. So, Zhu Youjin became the Emperor who disguised herself as a man, and Zhang Siyan became the Queen who disguised herself as a woman. The two people who had lived in hypocrisy since they were young probed her step by step. They fell in love with each other little by little and relied on each other for their happiness and misfortune, so how could they change their lives and become the one and only empress in the annals of history?
Author: Transcribed and edited by R.B. Wynn-Williams
Publisher: Shands track publishing
Published: 2013-12-02
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13: 0473266725
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith his Provincial Council responsibilities over Henry Wynn Williams, lawyer, politician, family man took the opportunity to celebrate their twentieth wedding anniversary, on the 24th March 1881, with a grand tour which took in the world (without his wife!). With the prospect of time on his hands he wrote a journal of the experience and reminiscences from the past: the nineteenth century equivalent of a blog. Funny, insightful and interesting.
