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Author: Thomas Henry Carter, PhD.
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2014-02-20
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 1304797724
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGoshen Sunset: Poems From The Mountaintop - olume II consists of selected poems that describes the mountain environment of Goshen, West Virginia. The poems describe the natural wonders of Goshen and the emotions that the author experienced while walking its wood trails.
Author: Thomas H. Carter
Publisher: Lulu.com
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Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1387685686
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Mitchell
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2014-02-27
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1847653839
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVivid, enjoyable and comprehensible, the poet and pre-eminent translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible for the first time. Gilgamesh is a born leader, but in an attempt to control his growing arrogance, the Gods create Enkidu, a wild man, his equal in strength and courage. Enkidu is trapped by a temple prostitute, civilised through sexual experience and brought to Gilgamesh. They become best friends and battle evil together. After Enkidu's death the distraught Gilgamesh sets out on a journey to find Utnapishtim, the survivor of the Great Flood, made immortal by the Gods to ask him the secret of life and death. Gilgamesh is the first and remains one of the most important works of world literature. Written in ancient Mesopotamia in the second millennium B.C., it predates the Iliad by roughly 1,000 years. Gilgamesh is extraordinarily modern in its emotional power but also provides an insight into the values of an ancient culture and civilisation.
Author: Virna Sheard
Publisher: Toronto, Dent
Published: 1913
Total Pages: 132
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Wilimena Hannah Eliot Emerson
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Published: 1905
Total Pages: 414
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ann Pancake
Publisher: Catapult
Published: 2007-09-10
Total Pages: 271
ISBN-13: 1582439915
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA West Virginia family struggles amid the booms and busts of the Appalachian coal industry in this “powerful, sure-footed, and haunting” novel with echoes of John Steinbeck (New York Times Book Review). Set in present day West Virginia, this debut novel tells the story of a coal mining family—a couple and their four children—living through the latest mining boom and dealing with the mountaintop removal and strip mining that is ruining what is left of their hometown. As the mine turns the mountains “to slag and wastewater,” workers struggle with layoffs and children find adventure in the blasted moonscape craters. Strange as This Weather Has Been follows several members of the family, with a particular focus on fifteen–year–old Bant and her mother, Lace. Working at a motel, Bant becomes involved with a young miner while her mother contemplates joining the fight against the mining companies. As domestic conflicts escalate at home, the children are pushed more and more frequently outside among junk from the floods and felled trees in the hollows—the only nature they have ever known. But Bant has other memories and is as curious and strong–willed as her mother, and ultimately comes to discover the very real threat of destruction that looms as much in the landscape as it does at home.
Author: Jessica Cory
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781946684905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMountains Piled upon Mountains features nearly fifty writers from across Appalachia sharing their place-based fiction, literary nonfiction, and poetry. Moving beyond the tradition of transcendental nature writing, much of the work collected here engages current issues facing the region and the planet (such as hydraulic fracturing, water contamination, mountaintop removal, and deforestation), and provides readers with insights on the human-nature relationship in an era of rapid environmental change. This book includes a mix of new and recent creative work by established and emerging authors. The contributors write about experiences from northern Georgia to upstate New York, invite parallels between a watershed in West Virginia and one in North Carolina, and often emphasize connections between Appalachia and more distant locations. In the pages of Mountains Piled upon Mountains are celebration, mourning, confusion, loneliness, admiration, and other emotions and experiences rooted in place but transcending Appalachia's boundaries.
Author: John Piper
Publisher: Crossway
Published: 2006-09-13
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 143351902X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the last few years, 9/11, a tsunami, Hurricane Katrina, and many other tragedies have shown us that the vision of God in today's churches in relation to evil and suffering is often frivolous. Against the overwhelming weight and seriousness of the Bible, many Christians are choosing to become more shallow, more entertainment-oriented, and therefore irrelevant in the face of massive suffering. In Suffering and the Sovereignty of God, contributors John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, Steve Saint, Carl Ellis, David Powlison, Dustin Shramek, and Mark Talbot explore the many categories of God's sovereignty as evidenced in his Word. They urge readers to look to Christ, even in suffering, to find the greatest confidence, deepest comfort, and sweetest fellowship they have ever known.
Author: John Milton
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Published: 1889
Total Pages: 106
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Sylvia Plath
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2013-01-16
Total Pages: 393
ISBN-13: 030783039X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe electrifying diaries that are essential reading for anyone moved and fascinated by the life and work of one of America's most acclaimed poets. Sylvia Plath began keeping a diary as a young child. By the time she was at Smith College, when this book begins, she had settled into a nearly daily routine with her journal, which was also a sourcebook for her writing. Plath once called her journal her “Sargasso,” her repository of imagination, “a litany of dreams, directives, and imperatives,” and in fact these pages contain the germs of most of her work. Plath’s ambitions as a writer were urgent and ultimately all-consuming, requiring of her a heat, a fantastic chaos, even a violence that burned straight through her. The intensity of this struggle is rendered in her journal with an unsparing clarity, revealing both the frequent desperation of her situation and the bravery with which she faced down her demons.
