Author: Mary Johnston
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3732697436
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 662
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: The Long Roll by Mary Johnston
The Long Roll
Author: Mary Johnston
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442919396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442919396
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Books for All Kinds of Readers. ReadHowYouWant offers the widest selection of on-demand, accessible format editions on the market today. Our 7 different sizes of EasyRead are optimized by increasing the font size and spacing between the words and the letters. We partner with leading publishers around the globe. Our goal is to have accessible editions simultaneously released with publishers' new books so that all readers can have access to the books they want to read.
The Eternal Frontier
Author: Tim Flannery
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802191096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World). Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America’s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best—both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that “will forever change your perspective on the North American continent” (The New York Review of Books).
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 0802191096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World). Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago to the present day (Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Guns, Germs, and Steel). Flannery describes the development of North America’s deciduous forests and other flora, and tracks the migrations of various animals to and from Europe, Asia, and South America, showing how plant and animal species have either adapted or become extinct. The story spans the massive changes wrought by the ice ages and the coming of the Native Americans. It continues right up to the present, covering the deforestation of the Northeast, the decimation of the buffalo, and other consequences of frontier settlement and the industrial development of the United States. This is science writing at its very best—both an engrossing narrative and a scholarly trove of information that “will forever change your perspective on the North American continent” (The New York Review of Books).
Fields of Battle
Author: John Keegan
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307828581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people. • "[A] magisterial narrative history, enriched by an authorial voice."--The Washington Post Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307828581
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people. • "[A] magisterial narrative history, enriched by an authorial voice."--The Washington Post Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil.
Author: J. Graham
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595336957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Dakota Territory, 1878. A harsh, yet beautiful land that holds out the promise of hope for settlers strong enough to survive...Jacob Cooper can hardly believe his good fortune. At last his dreams of staking a government claim and building a home of his own are about to come true. And best of all, his childhood sweetheart is now his lovely bride; traveling with him by covered wagon to the distant prairies. Leah Cooper wants only to be a good frontier wife; a perfect helpmate to the man she's loved for so long. But her privileged upbringing and overbearing parents have done little to prepare her for the hard work of everyday life on the claim. Discovering that she and Jacob are about to have a child of their own, Leah prays for the strength she desperately desires. Yet just as life seems to improve, a devastating tragedy on one winter's night sends Leah spiraling into darkness and Jacob searching for answers. When the storm passes, will Leah's heart survive the truth? And will Jacob lay down his pride to reconcile with his Savior...and his wife, before it's too late?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595336957
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
Dakota Territory, 1878. A harsh, yet beautiful land that holds out the promise of hope for settlers strong enough to survive...Jacob Cooper can hardly believe his good fortune. At last his dreams of staking a government claim and building a home of his own are about to come true. And best of all, his childhood sweetheart is now his lovely bride; traveling with him by covered wagon to the distant prairies. Leah Cooper wants only to be a good frontier wife; a perfect helpmate to the man she's loved for so long. But her privileged upbringing and overbearing parents have done little to prepare her for the hard work of everyday life on the claim. Discovering that she and Jacob are about to have a child of their own, Leah prays for the strength she desperately desires. Yet just as life seems to improve, a devastating tragedy on one winter's night sends Leah spiraling into darkness and Jacob searching for answers. When the storm passes, will Leah's heart survive the truth? And will Jacob lay down his pride to reconcile with his Savior...and his wife, before it's too late?
Atomic Farmgirl
Author: Teri Hein
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618302413
Category : Ionizing radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
From Flag Day parades to Cold War duck-and-cover drills, "Atomic Farmgirl" chronicles a peculiar coming of age for a young girl and her community, whose way of life--and livelihood--are gradually threatened by the dispersions of nuclear waste. Includes a new Foreword and Epilogue by the author.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618302413
Category : Ionizing radiation
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
From Flag Day parades to Cold War duck-and-cover drills, "Atomic Farmgirl" chronicles a peculiar coming of age for a young girl and her community, whose way of life--and livelihood--are gradually threatened by the dispersions of nuclear waste. Includes a new Foreword and Epilogue by the author.
The Long Roll (Volume 1 of 2) (EasyRead Comfort Edition)
Author: Mary Johnston
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442919388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1442919388
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Biting the Dust
Author: Dirk Johnson
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276246
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
To the fan, the rodeo cowboy is the distinctly American embodiment of the romantic Old West. But to the young men who live the profession, the realities are modest pay, continuous travel, and the constant threat of injury. While he was the Denver bureau chief of the New York Times, Dirk Johnson spent a year on the professional rodeo circuit with cowboys, watching them try to hang on to bucking horses and Brahma bulls?and to wives and livelihoods that seemed only one fall away from disappearing. Biting the Dust covers the circuit?s biggest events in Denver, the capital of the New West, to small towns on the Great Plains like McCook, Nebraska, where rodeo continues to thrive even as the population shrinks. Johnson takes the reader beyond sentimental visions of the rodeo cowboy and the American West and provides an unforgettable and authentic story of the rodeo today.
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803276246
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
To the fan, the rodeo cowboy is the distinctly American embodiment of the romantic Old West. But to the young men who live the profession, the realities are modest pay, continuous travel, and the constant threat of injury. While he was the Denver bureau chief of the New York Times, Dirk Johnson spent a year on the professional rodeo circuit with cowboys, watching them try to hang on to bucking horses and Brahma bulls?and to wives and livelihoods that seemed only one fall away from disappearing. Biting the Dust covers the circuit?s biggest events in Denver, the capital of the New West, to small towns on the Great Plains like McCook, Nebraska, where rodeo continues to thrive even as the population shrinks. Johnson takes the reader beyond sentimental visions of the rodeo cowboy and the American West and provides an unforgettable and authentic story of the rodeo today.
Rock N Roll Gold Rush
Author: Maury Dean
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875862276
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
An appreciation of Rock-n-Roll, song by song, from its roots and its inspriations to its divergent recent trends. A work of rough genius; DeanOCOs attempt to make connections though time and across genres is laudable."
Publisher: Algora Publishing
ISBN: 0875862276
Category : Rock music
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
An appreciation of Rock-n-Roll, song by song, from its roots and its inspriations to its divergent recent trends. A work of rough genius; DeanOCOs attempt to make connections though time and across genres is laudable."
The Boys of '61, Or, Four Years of Fighting
Author: Charles Carleton Coffin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
A Walk in the Park
Author: Grace Casselman
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1894917197
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
When fourteen-year-old Terra Morrison and her family move from Ottawa to Calgary and Terra starts a new school, she has to cope with finding new friends, drugs, bullying, boys, and meeting her birth mother for the first time.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1894917197
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
When fourteen-year-old Terra Morrison and her family move from Ottawa to Calgary and Terra starts a new school, she has to cope with finding new friends, drugs, bullying, boys, and meeting her birth mother for the first time.