River
Author: Esther Kinsky
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781945492174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn a series of solitary walks around London, a woman recalls the rivers she's encountered in prose reminiscent of Sebald.
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Author: Esther Kinsky
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 9781945492174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn a series of solitary walks around London, a woman recalls the rivers she's encountered in prose reminiscent of Sebald.
Author: Christa Sadler
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 208
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Brown
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2011-03-10
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1582438749
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Continues where Brown’s first memoir, The Los Angeles Diaries, left off. It’s molten stuff, the story of his efforts to control his river of rage.” —Los Angeles Times Award–winning author James Brown gained a cult following after chronicling his turbulent childhood and spiraling drug addiction in The Los Angeles Diaries. This River picks up where Brown left off in his first memoir, describing his tenuous relationship with sobriety, telling of agonizing relapses, and tracking his attempts to become a better father. This is the heartbreaking and at times uplifting tale of Brown’s battles, peeking into his former life as an addict and detailing his subsequent ascent to sobriety and fight for redemption. “A beautifully crafted and intensely moving book. Without artifice or pretension—without false moves of any sort—James Brown goes after the biggest literary game: death, love, children, degeneration, hopelessness, hope. I read this book straight through, in one spellbound sitting, and I will read it again in a week or two. It is so good.” —Tim O’Brien, National Book Award winning–author of The Things They Carried “Beautifully written, this is clear–eyed truth–telling by a man coming to terms with the best and worst in himself and others.” —Booklist “This River pulls no punches—art shouldn’t and Brown doesn’t. The good, the bad, the ugly are all there in a lucid, uncluttered, muscular prose studded with honesty, willpower, and courage. Brown’s is a story of a man who, against overwhelming odds, not only came back from the abyss, but triumphed.” —Duff Brenna, author of AWP Best Novel The Book of Mamie
Author: Monika Vaicenavičiene
Publisher: Enchanted Lion Books
Published: 2020-02-12
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781592702794
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA river is a thread, embroidering our world. This non-fiction picture book brings attention to the rivers that stitch and thread our world together.
Author: Magnus Weightman
Publisher: Clavis
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781605375199
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoin this delightful river journey through forests, farms, waterfalls, and harbors.
Author: Emmy Pérez
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: 2016-10-04
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13: 0816534519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEmmy Pérez’s poetry collection With the River on Our Face flows through the Southwest and the Texas borderlands to the river’s mouth in the Rio Grande Valley/El Valle. The poems celebrate the land, communities, and ecology of the borderlands through lyric and narrative utterances, auditory and visual texture, chant, and litany that merge and diverge like the iconic river in this long-awaited collection. Pérez reveals the strengths and nuances of a universe where no word is “foreign.” Her fast-moving, evocative words illuminate the prayers, gasps, touches, and gritos born of everyday discoveries and events. Multiple forms of reference enrich the poems in the form of mantra: ecologist’s field notes, geopolitical and ecofeminist observations, wildlife catalogs, trivia, and vigil chants. “What is it to love / within viewing distance of night / vision goggles and guns?” is a question central to many of these poems. The collection creates a poetic confluence of the personal, political, and global forces affecting border lives. Whether alluding to El Valle as a place where toxins now cross borders more easily than people or wildlife, or to increased militarization, immigrant seizures, and twenty-first-century wall-building, Pérez’s voice is intimate and urgent. She laments, “We cannot tattoo roses / On the wall / Can’t tattoo Gloria Anzaldúa’s roses / On the wall”; yet, she also reaffirms Anzaldúa’s notions of hope through resilience and conocimiento. With the River on Our Face drips deep like water, turning into amistad—an inquisition into human relationships with planet and self.
Author: Noah Davis
Publisher: MSU Press
Published: 2020-08-01
Total Pages: 97
ISBN-13: 1628954094
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a stunning and visceral debut, Noah Davis ushers in a new era of poems from the Alleghenyregion of Appalachia. In chronicling the river valley’s human and more-than-human worlds through acts of modern myth making, Davis expands the scope of contemporary American poetry. This soulful meditation on a neglected region of America reveals a legacy of lingering violence to land and animal alike. In striking stories and scenes, Davis portrays the spiritual cost of deep poverty, the necessity to ask for forgiveness, and the joy in praising the beauty still found in the steep hollows. These poems will cling to you like water on the soles of your boots.
Author: Peter Heller
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0525521879
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fiery tour de force... I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." -Alison Borden, The Denver Post From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival.
Author: Greg Schwipps
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012-02-23
Total Pages: 341
ISBN-13: 0253002362
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the rolling hills of southern Indiana, an elderly couple copes with the fear that their river bottom farm-- the only home they've ever known-- will be taken from them through an act of eminent domain so the river flowing through their land may be dammed to form a reservoir. Their son sinks deeper into troubles of his own, struggling to determine his place in a new romantic relationship and the duty he owes to his family's legacy.
Author: Vanina Starkoff
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
Published: 2017-04-01
Total Pages: 19
ISBN-13: 1554989787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBoats of all shapes and sizes travel on the river, through the seasons, toward the sea. Who will you meet on the river? This vibrant picture book from Brazil depicts the joy of the journey, showing in simple yet detailed illustrations the people you might meet along the way, the sights you might see and the food you might eat. Readers will delight in identifying recurring details when rereading. Reminiscent of the highly acclaimed Jimmy the Greatest!, which received six starred reviews, Along the River is a celebration of community bonds and shared experiences. With strong social studies curriculum connections, Along the River introduces young children to an alternate form of transportation, as well as to some of the customs and culture of Brazil. Correlates to the Common Core State Standards in English Language Arts: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.K.6 With prompting and support, name the author and illustrator of a story and define the role of each in telling the story.