Like a Single River

Like a Single River
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Publisher : iUniverse
Total Pages : 267
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ISBN-10 : 9780595315444
ISBN-13 : 0595315445
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis Like a Single River by : Sid Gardner

A charismatic Mexican woman, Maria Chavez, is leading one million Mexicans on a non-violent march from Mexico to the California border to try to reclaim Mexican land grants that are now part of California. Sam Leonard is the journalist covering the story of Chavez and the governor of California.

One River

One River
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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Total Pages : 544
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ISBN-10 : 9781439126837
ISBN-13 : 1439126836
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis One River by : Wade Davis

The story of two generations of scientific explorers in South America—Richard Evans Schultes and his protégé Wade Davis—an epic tale of adventure and a compelling work of natural history. In 1941, Professor Richard Evan Schultes took a leave from Harvard and disappeared into the Amazon, where he spent the next twelve years mapping uncharted rivers and living among dozens of Indian tribes. In the 1970s, he sent two prize students, Tim Plowman and Wade Davis, to follow in his footsteps and unveil the botanical secrets of coca, the notorious source of cocaine, a sacred plant known to the Inca as the Divine Leaf of Immortality. A stunning account of adventure and discovery, betrayal and destruction, One River is a story of two generations of explorers drawn together by the transcendent knowledge of Indian peoples, the visionary realms of the shaman, and the extraordinary plants that sustain all life in a forest that once stood immense and inviolable.

One Long River of Song

One Long River of Song
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Publisher : Hachette UK
Total Pages : 272
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ISBN-10 : 9780316492874
ISBN-13 : 0316492876
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis One Long River of Song by : Brian Doyle

From a "born storyteller" (Seattle Times), this playful and moving bestselling book of essays invites us into the miraculous and transcendent moments of everyday life. When Brian Doyle passed away at the age of sixty after a bout with brain cancer, he left behind a cult-like following of devoted readers who regard his writing as one of the best-kept secrets of the twenty-first century. Doyle writes with a delightful sense of wonder about the sanctity of everyday things, and about love and connection in all their forms: spiritual love, brotherly love, romantic love, and even the love of a nine-foot sturgeon. At a moment when the world can sometimes feel darker than ever, Doyle's writing, which constantly evokes the humor and even bliss that life affords, is a balm. His essays manage to find, again and again, exquisite beauty in the quotidian, whether it's the awe of a child the first time she hears a river, or a husband's whiskers that a grieving widow misses seeing in her sink every morning. Through Doyle's eyes, nothing is dull. David James Duncan sums up Doyle's sensibilities best in his introduction to the collection: "Brian Doyle lived the pleasure of bearing daily witness to quiet glories hidden in people, places and creatures of little or no size, renown, or commercial value, and he brought inimitably playful or soaring or aching or heartfelt language to his tellings." A life's work, One Long River of Song invites readers to experience joy and wonder in ordinary moments that become, under Doyle's rapturous and exuberant gaze, extraordinary.

Peace Like a River

Peace Like a River
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Publisher : Atlantic Monthly Press
Total Pages : 338
Release :
ISBN-10 : 087113795X
ISBN-13 : 9780871137951
Rating : 4/5 (5X Downloads)

Synopsis Peace Like a River by : Leif Enger

Davy kills two men and leaves home. His father packs up the family in a search for Davy.

The Argentine Republic

The Argentine Republic
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 590
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:$B709631
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Synopsis The Argentine Republic by : Ricardo Napp

Those Across the River

Those Across the River
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Publisher : Berkley
Total Pages : 354
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780593198056
ISBN-13 : 0593198050
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Those Across the River by : Christopher Buehlman

A man must confront a terrifying evil in this captivating horror novel that's "as much F. Scott Fitzgerald as Dean Koontz."* Haunted by memories of the Great War, failed academic Frank Nichols and his wife have arrived in the sleepy Georgia town of Whitbrow, where Frank hopes to write a history of his family's old estate--the Savoyard Plantation--and the horrors that occurred there. At first their new life seems to be everything they wanted. But under the facade of summer socials and small-town charm, there is an unspoken dread that the townsfolk have lived with for generations. A presence that demands sacrifice. It comes from the shadowy woods across the river, where the ruins of the Savoyard Plantation still stand. Where a long-smoldering debt of blood has never been forgotten. Where it has been waiting for Frank Nichols....

Thinking Like a River

Thinking Like a River
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Publisher : transcript Verlag
Total Pages : 295
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9783839467374
ISBN-13 : 3839467373
Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis Thinking Like a River by : Franz Krause

The Kemi River is the major watercourse in the Finnish province of Lapland and the »stream of life« for the inhabitants of its banks. Franz Krause examines fishing, transport and hydropower on the Kemi River and analyses the profoundly rhythmic patterns in the river dwellers' activities and the river's dynamics. The course of the seasons and weekly and daily rhythms of discharge, temperature, work and other patterns make the river dwellers' world an ever-transforming phenomenon. The flows of life and the frictions of everyday encounters continually remake the river and its inhabitants, negotiating national strategies, economic power, people's ingenuity, and the currents of the Kemi River.

To the River

To the River
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Publisher : Canons
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1786891581
ISBN-13 : 9781786891587
Rating : 4/5 (81 Downloads)

Synopsis To the River by : Olivia Laing

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked. Woolf's river from source to sea. The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape and how ghosts never quite leave the place they love.

The Spectator

The Spectator
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1064
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ISBN-10 : CORNELL:31924057525457
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis The Spectator by :

A weekly review of politics, literature, theology, and art.

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda

The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
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Publisher : Macmillan
Total Pages : 1045
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780374529604
ISBN-13 : 0374529604
Rating : 4/5 (04 Downloads)

Synopsis The Poetry of Pablo Neruda by : Pablo Neruda

A compilation of the works of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda.