Author: Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In the tradition of "The Secret Life of Bees" and "The Country of the Pointed Firs," the story of a remarkable woman's struggle to preserve a unique and endangered place.
On Kingdom Mountain
Author: Howard Frank Mosher
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In the tradition of "The Secret Life of Bees" and "The Country of the Pointed Firs," the story of a remarkable woman's struggle to preserve a unique and endangered place.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618197231
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In the tradition of "The Secret Life of Bees" and "The Country of the Pointed Firs," the story of a remarkable woman's struggle to preserve a unique and endangered place.
Bhutan
Author: Francoise Pommaret
Publisher: Odyssey Books & Maps
ISBN: 9789622177024
Category : Bhutan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On the rooftop of the world, shoe-horned into the Grand Himalayas, Bhutanor Thunder Dragonis a fiercely independent kingdom. Isolated, charming, peaceful and religious, the Bhutanese are a pragmatic, sensitive people who take from the West what will benef
Publisher: Odyssey Books & Maps
ISBN: 9789622177024
Category : Bhutan
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
On the rooftop of the world, shoe-horned into the Grand Himalayas, Bhutanor Thunder Dragonis a fiercely independent kingdom. Isolated, charming, peaceful and religious, the Bhutanese are a pragmatic, sensitive people who take from the West what will benef
Lake on the Mountain: a Dan Sharp Mystery
Author: Jeffrey Round
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Dan Sharp, a gay missing persons investigator, accepts an invitation to a wedding on a yacht in Ontario's Prince Edward County. But the event doesn't go as planned. A member of the wedding party is swept overboard and Dan finds himself deep in troubled waters as he searches for possible killers not only in the present but also 20 years earlier.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Dan Sharp, a gay missing persons investigator, accepts an invitation to a wedding on a yacht in Ontario's Prince Edward County. But the event doesn't go as planned. A member of the wedding party is swept overboard and Dan finds himself deep in troubled waters as he searches for possible killers not only in the present but also 20 years earlier.
In the Kingdom of Gorillas
Author: Bill Weber
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743200071
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Chronicles the attempts of the authors to protect and study the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, discussing the foundation of the Mountain Gorilla Project as well as the ecological and political situation of Rwanda.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743200071
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
Chronicles the attempts of the authors to protect and study the mountain gorillas of Rwanda, discussing the foundation of the Mountain Gorilla Project as well as the ecological and political situation of Rwanda.
The Impossible Mountain
Author: David Soman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316427746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Anna and Finn look over the wall that surrounds their tiny village and discover a mountain, which the villagers warn cannot be climbed, but the siblings are determined to reach the top.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780316427746
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Anna and Finn look over the wall that surrounds their tiny village and discover a mountain, which the villagers warn cannot be climbed, but the siblings are determined to reach the top.
Shadow on the Mountain
Author: Margi Preus
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613123787
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
“Newbery Honor winner Preus . . . delivers a riveting story about teenage freedom fighters in WWII Norway” (Publishers Weekly). After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers, then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a spy, dodging the Gestapo along the way. During five years under the Nazi regime, Espen, his sister, and their parents live in fear of nighttime raids and arrests, and they begin to question the loyalties of the people around them. Espen gains—and loses—friends, falls in love, and makes one small mistake that threatens to catch up with him as he sets out to escape on skis over the mountains to Sweden . . . Award-winning author Margi Preus crafts a thrilling adventure based on the real-life experiences of Erling Storrusten, a Norwegian spy during World War II. Praise for Shadow on the Mountain “Engrossing. . . . This is at once a spy thriller, a coming-of-age story, and a chronicle of escalating bravery. Multidimensional characters fill this gripping tale that keeps readers riveted to the end.” —School Library Journal, starred review “A morally satisfying page turner.” —Kirkus Reviews
Publisher: Abrams
ISBN: 1613123787
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
“Newbery Honor winner Preus . . . delivers a riveting story about teenage freedom fighters in WWII Norway” (Publishers Weekly). After Nazi Germany invades and occupies Norway, fourteen-year-old Espen and his friends are swept up in the Norwegian resistance movement. Espen gets his start by delivering illegal newspapers, then graduates to the role of courier and finally becomes a spy, dodging the Gestapo along the way. During five years under the Nazi regime, Espen, his sister, and their parents live in fear of nighttime raids and arrests, and they begin to question the loyalties of the people around them. Espen gains—and loses—friends, falls in love, and makes one small mistake that threatens to catch up with him as he sets out to escape on skis over the mountains to Sweden . . . Award-winning author Margi Preus crafts a thrilling adventure based on the real-life experiences of Erling Storrusten, a Norwegian spy during World War II. Praise for Shadow on the Mountain “Engrossing. . . . This is at once a spy thriller, a coming-of-age story, and a chronicle of escalating bravery. Multidimensional characters fill this gripping tale that keeps readers riveted to the end.” —School Library Journal, starred review “A morally satisfying page turner.” —Kirkus Reviews
Snow Mountain Passage
Author: James D. Houston
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030742782X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve. The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four children—in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reed—proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and father—traveling with his family in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It comes in the fateful choice of a wrong route, which causes the group to arrive at the foot of the Sierra Nevada too late to cross into the promised land before the snows block the way. It comes in the sudden fight between Reed and a drover—a fight that exiles Reed from the others, sending him solo over the mountains ahead of the storms. We follow Reed during the next five months as he travels around northern California, trying desperately to find means and men to rescue his family. And through the amazingly imagined "Trail Notes" of Patty Reed, who recollects late in life her experiences as a child, we also follow the main group, progressively stranded and starving on the Nevada side of the Sierras. Snow Mountain Passage is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption. What happens—who dies, who survives, and why—is brilliantly, grippingly told.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 030742782X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Snow Mountain Passage is a powerful retelling of the most dramatic of our pioneer stories—the ordeal of the Donner Party, with its cast of young and old risking all, its imprisoning snows, its rumors of cannibalism. James Houston takes us inside this central American myth in a compelling new way that only a novelist can achieve. The people whose dreams, courage, terror, ingenuity, and fate we share are James Frazier Reed, one of the leaders of the Donner Party, and his wife and four children—in particular his eight-year-old daughter, Patty. From the moment we meet Reed—proud, headstrong, yet a devoted husband and father—traveling with his family in the "Palace Car," a huge, specially built covered wagon transporting the Reeds in grand style, the stage is set for trouble. And as they journey across the country, thrilling to new sights and new friends, coping with outbursts of conflict and constant danger, trouble comes. It comes in the fateful choice of a wrong route, which causes the group to arrive at the foot of the Sierra Nevada too late to cross into the promised land before the snows block the way. It comes in the sudden fight between Reed and a drover—a fight that exiles Reed from the others, sending him solo over the mountains ahead of the storms. We follow Reed during the next five months as he travels around northern California, trying desperately to find means and men to rescue his family. And through the amazingly imagined "Trail Notes" of Patty Reed, who recollects late in life her experiences as a child, we also follow the main group, progressively stranded and starving on the Nevada side of the Sierras. Snow Mountain Passage is an extraordinary tale of pride and redemption. What happens—who dies, who survives, and why—is brilliantly, grippingly told.
The Kingdom of Madison
Author: Manly Wade Wellman
Publisher: Land of the Sky Press
ISBN: 9781566641791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
New, revised edition. Foreword by Ralph Roberts. The fascinating history of a southern mountain fastness by one of North Carolina's greatest ever writers
Publisher: Land of the Sky Press
ISBN: 9781566641791
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
New, revised edition. Foreword by Ralph Roberts. The fascinating history of a southern mountain fastness by one of North Carolina's greatest ever writers
She'll Be Coming 'Round the Mountain
Author: Jonathan Emmett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416936521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416936521
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.
Snow in the Kingdom
Author: Ed Webster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The story of Ed Webster's 5 years on and off of Everest.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The story of Ed Webster's 5 years on and off of Everest.