Author: Jean Stafford
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292751361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1947.
The Mountain Lion
Author: Jean Stafford
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292751361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1947.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292751361
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Coming of age in pre-World War II California and Colorado brings tragedy to Molly and Ralph Fawcett in Jean Stafford's classic semi-autobiographical novel, first published in 1947.
The Path of the Puma
Author: Jim Williams
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938340727
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An Expert's View of the Big Cat's Fight to Find Its Wild
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938340727
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
An Expert's View of the Big Cat's Fight to Find Its Wild
Author: William Wayne Dicksion
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595364713
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A Stone Age people lived in caves beside a river that flows into a mysterious "Valley of Mist," They worshipped fire. Priests ruled, and they sacrificed anyone who defied them to the Fire God. When girls reach womanhood, they are required to go to the temple and submit to the priests nightly until they conceive. The priests tell them that they are being impregnated by God and, if they fail to conceive, they will be thrown into the pit of Fire. Lela and Ador have just reached womanhood. Lela loves Zen and Ador loves Jok. They do not want to submit to the priests. Zen and Jok do not want to share the women they love. They all have been charged with defying the priests and they fear for their lives. They try to escape by floating on a raft into the dreaded Valley of Mist. Soldiers pursue them until they float into the valley. No one has ever entered that valley and returned to tell what lies in its fog-shrouded depths. As the raft floats into the valley, fog closes around them. They have entered a primeval jungle. They see giant reptiles, lions, and saber-toothed tigers. Foul-smelling steam rises from stagnant pools. Shudders of fear run through them. The river has carried them into this terrible place. Perhaps, if they can survive long enough, it will carry them out, but what horrors lie beyond?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595364713
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
A Stone Age people lived in caves beside a river that flows into a mysterious "Valley of Mist," They worshipped fire. Priests ruled, and they sacrificed anyone who defied them to the Fire God. When girls reach womanhood, they are required to go to the temple and submit to the priests nightly until they conceive. The priests tell them that they are being impregnated by God and, if they fail to conceive, they will be thrown into the pit of Fire. Lela and Ador have just reached womanhood. Lela loves Zen and Ador loves Jok. They do not want to submit to the priests. Zen and Jok do not want to share the women they love. They all have been charged with defying the priests and they fear for their lives. They try to escape by floating on a raft into the dreaded Valley of Mist. Soldiers pursue them until they float into the valley. No one has ever entered that valley and returned to tell what lies in its fog-shrouded depths. As the raft floats into the valley, fog closes around them. They have entered a primeval jungle. They see giant reptiles, lions, and saber-toothed tigers. Foul-smelling steam rises from stagnant pools. Shudders of fear run through them. The river has carried them into this terrible place. Perhaps, if they can survive long enough, it will carry them out, but what horrors lie beyond?
Through Cougar's Eyes
Author: David Raber
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312269180
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Cougar the mountain lion, rescued as an eight-week old cub by the author, has garnered media attention as the official poster model for IAMS pet food. Raber relates how he and Cougar act as a team, and in helping each other, they share their weaknesses and become strong. 8-page color photo insert.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312269180
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Cougar the mountain lion, rescued as an eight-week old cub by the author, has garnered media attention as the official poster model for IAMS pet food. Raber relates how he and Cougar act as a team, and in helping each other, they share their weaknesses and become strong. 8-page color photo insert.
Puma
Author: Ted L. Gragg
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9780979457210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9780979457210
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 271
Book Description
A Button in the Fabric of Time
Author: William Wayne Dicksion
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595486746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Fiction /Sci-Fi After thousands of years of atomic warfare, the Antons on planet Ergo had mutated so badly that they were no longer recognizable as human. They escape to planet Duos in Galaxy 3 and establish a new civilization. However, they want to restore their bodies, so they search the universe and find what they are looking for on planet Earth. The Antons place a time-travel device in the hands of Gus Wilder, an American engineer of the twenty-first century, hoping he will serve as their emissary in dealing with earthlings of the thirty-first century. They influence Gus to travel a thousand years into the future where he finds an advanced society who have, by overcoming every human frailty and providing for every need, created a paradise on earth. These people of the thirty-first century live long into the future and strive for immortality. Gus meets and falls in love with Jan-3, an incredibly beautiful woman of the thirty-first century. The Antons tell him why he was chosen and, if he fails, they will destroy planet Earth. Together Gus and Jan-3 set out to save humanity. Can they fulfill their destiny?
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595486746
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Fiction /Sci-Fi After thousands of years of atomic warfare, the Antons on planet Ergo had mutated so badly that they were no longer recognizable as human. They escape to planet Duos in Galaxy 3 and establish a new civilization. However, they want to restore their bodies, so they search the universe and find what they are looking for on planet Earth. The Antons place a time-travel device in the hands of Gus Wilder, an American engineer of the twenty-first century, hoping he will serve as their emissary in dealing with earthlings of the thirty-first century. They influence Gus to travel a thousand years into the future where he finds an advanced society who have, by overcoming every human frailty and providing for every need, created a paradise on earth. These people of the thirty-first century live long into the future and strive for immortality. Gus meets and falls in love with Jan-3, an incredibly beautiful woman of the thirty-first century. The Antons tell him why he was chosen and, if he fails, they will destroy planet Earth. Together Gus and Jan-3 set out to save humanity. Can they fulfill their destiny?
Yellow Eyes
Author: Rutherford George Montgomery
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870044175
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Far back in the wildest of the mountain country hides Yellow Eyes, the great mountain lion. Beautiful and cruel, like all big cats, Yellow Eyes and his mate, are tawny shadows lurking in the forest. In Rutherford Montgomery's stories animals are animals, not beasts playing the parts of human beings.
Publisher: Caxton Press
ISBN: 9780870044175
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Far back in the wildest of the mountain country hides Yellow Eyes, the great mountain lion. Beautiful and cruel, like all big cats, Yellow Eyes and his mate, are tawny shadows lurking in the forest. In Rutherford Montgomery's stories animals are animals, not beasts playing the parts of human beings.
Sagebrush
Author: William Wayne Dicksion
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595486258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The story of a boy who survives an Indian attack of his family's covered wagon and then endures alone in the vast and hostile land of the West.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595486258
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The story of a boy who survives an Indian attack of his family's covered wagon and then endures alone in the vast and hostile land of the West.
Prevention and Control of Wildlife Damage
Author: Scott E. Hygnstrom
Publisher: DIANE Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1437936881
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
A comprehensive reference on vertebrate species that can cause economic damage or become nuisance pests. Reviews all vertebrate species that come into conflict with human interests in North America. Includes agricultural, commercial, industrial, and residential pest problems and recommends solutions; emphasizes prevention; outlines and explains all currently registered and recommended control methods and materials. Contains dozens of chapters written by various authors. Figures.
Publisher: DIANE Publishing Inc.
ISBN: 1437936881
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 503
Book Description
A comprehensive reference on vertebrate species that can cause economic damage or become nuisance pests. Reviews all vertebrate species that come into conflict with human interests in North America. Includes agricultural, commercial, industrial, and residential pest problems and recommends solutions; emphasizes prevention; outlines and explains all currently registered and recommended control methods and materials. Contains dozens of chapters written by various authors. Figures.
Random Family
Author: Adrian Nicole LeBlanc
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439124892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. “Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…The standard-bearer of embedded reportage.” —Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc’s reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story—an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves. Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439124892
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Selected as One of the Best Books of the 21st Century by The New York Times Set amid the havoc of the War on Drugs, this New York Times bestseller is an "astonishingly intimate" (New York magazine) chronicle of one family’s triumphs and trials in the South Bronx of the 1990s. “Unmatched in depth and power and grace. A profound, achingly beautiful work of narrative nonfiction…The standard-bearer of embedded reportage.” —Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted In her classic bestseller, journalist Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the world of one family with roots in the Bronx, New York. In 1989, LeBlanc approached Jessica, a young mother whose encounter with the carceral state is about to forever change the direction of her life. This meeting redirected LeBlanc’s reporting, taking her past the perennial stories of crime and violence into the community of women and children who bear the brunt of the insidious violence of poverty. Her book bears witness to the teetering highs and devastating lows in the daily lives of Jessica, her family, and her expanding circle of friends. Set at the height of the War on Drugs, Random Family is a love story—an ode to the families that form us and the families we create for ourselves. Charting the tumultuous struggle of hope against deprivation over three generations, LeBlanc slips behind the statistics and comes back with a riveting, haunting, and distinctly American true story.