Author: Carolyn Jane Dale
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781734135206
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
A novel in the environmental literature genre, Second Rising combines a mystery, a love story, and a fight against injustice. The narrator, Lauren, is a young chef who buys a restaurant in the town of Quicksilver in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest. She soon becomes entangled in the community's fight to preserve their farmlands and way of life, which includes roaming the forests of nearby Mount Baker. A technology mogul has bought vast swathes of land for a project he keeps secret while wresting control of the local government and promising residents new jobs and prosperity. Aligned with international agribusiness, he closes the forests and threatens the local organic farmer who supplies Lauren's restaurant; even the local wild salmon run is endangered. As the community divides into bitter struggle, some choose active resistance, including a bombing and the suspicious death of the mogul's security chief; but Lauren finds strength through her deepening connection to the land. Help arrives in mysterious ways: The town's legendary White Deer appears in the forest, Tibetan monks arrive to make a mandala and spread its blessings, and local Kulshan Indians arrange for Lauren to journey to the Southwest and bring back blue corn with an ancient heritage. Lauren is falling more in love with Grant, a geologist who works for the tech mogul but must make an ethical break when he discovers his employer's true motives. The community is also pulling together, and while a reclusive shape-shifter is at work, and a gemologist nurtures seeds from old amber, more practical residents gather to organize a new city based on innovative ideas and approaches. Inspired by the question, How shall we live, if we truly believe the earth is alive? the characters are buoyed by energy that flows when they act as part of the earth's living systems.Through struggles and crises, the townspeople prevail in the optimistic conclusion. The novel, 436 pages, evokes motifs of European, Asian, and Native American mythologies and vividly describes the land, mountain, and rivers as characters themselves.
Venus Rising
Author: Raymond A. Keller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882658312
Category : Extraterrestrial anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882658312
Category : Extraterrestrial anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dragon Slayer: Rising
Author: Carey Green
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511645683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Dragons are rising... and behind the beasts is a sinister group, led by the will of their ancestors, waiting for centuries, until the time to rise. The four Dragon Lords lurk in shadow and mystery, guiding events to bring about their rise to power and the domination of the known world. Their power grows with each passing day. The terror of their vicious beasts fills every land with fear and darkness. But behind the scenes, carefully hidden, an unlikely group of brave souls rises as well. Their aim: to destroy the Dragon Lords and their fearsome beasts before every land is subjected to their evil. Led by a young man haunted by a childhood encounter with a great red dragon, each of them is destined to discover that danger not only rises from the Dragon Masters, but also from their own sordid pasts. They know the danger. But they also know what will happen to their families and the land they love if the evil of the Dragon Lords is not stopped. FROM THE AUTHOR: These books come from stories I told to my older three kids when they were small. Bedtime, road trips, and many other times I remember hearing kids ask, "Dad, can you tell us a Hon story?" I did... and they finally convinced me to put them into book form, although these stories are much more than they heard in our bedtime tales. I'm a retired pastor, turned author and internet entrepreneur. I love my Lord, my family, and my life. I'd love to get to know you, too. You can find out more at www.DragonSlayerBook.com - or contact me at [email protected].
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781511645683
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Dragons are rising... and behind the beasts is a sinister group, led by the will of their ancestors, waiting for centuries, until the time to rise. The four Dragon Lords lurk in shadow and mystery, guiding events to bring about their rise to power and the domination of the known world. Their power grows with each passing day. The terror of their vicious beasts fills every land with fear and darkness. But behind the scenes, carefully hidden, an unlikely group of brave souls rises as well. Their aim: to destroy the Dragon Lords and their fearsome beasts before every land is subjected to their evil. Led by a young man haunted by a childhood encounter with a great red dragon, each of them is destined to discover that danger not only rises from the Dragon Masters, but also from their own sordid pasts. They know the danger. But they also know what will happen to their families and the land they love if the evil of the Dragon Lords is not stopped. FROM THE AUTHOR: These books come from stories I told to my older three kids when they were small. Bedtime, road trips, and many other times I remember hearing kids ask, "Dad, can you tell us a Hon story?" I did... and they finally convinced me to put them into book form, although these stories are much more than they heard in our bedtime tales. I'm a retired pastor, turned author and internet entrepreneur. I love my Lord, my family, and my life. I'd love to get to know you, too. You can find out more at www.DragonSlayerBook.com - or contact me at [email protected].
Second Rising
Author: Catherine M.A. Wiebe
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459711963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Preparing food for someone we love is the most intimate act of all. Not only taken into the mouth and transformed into that person's flesh, it also lingers in memory. Catherine Wiebe's fictional memoir of birthing and memory, offers surprising perspectives on life.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1459711963
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
Preparing food for someone we love is the most intimate act of all. Not only taken into the mouth and transformed into that person's flesh, it also lingers in memory. Catherine Wiebe's fictional memoir of birthing and memory, offers surprising perspectives on life.
Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural experiment stations
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Jessie's Island
Author: Sheryl McFarlane
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459804724
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
With a long list of activities and events to attend, cousin Thomas paints a picture of city life that makes Jessie’s world seem a little dull in comparison. When her mother suggests they invite Thomas to visit their island, Jessie wonders glumly what she could possibly write in her letter that would sound as exciting as zoos, planetariums or video arcades. But as Jessie looks out over her island home, she sees a world of endless variety, from killer whales in the strait and bald eagles soaring overhead to anemones in tide pools and tiny hermit crabs on the shore. She thinks of countless days spent exploring, fishing, swimming and canoeing.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1459804724
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
With a long list of activities and events to attend, cousin Thomas paints a picture of city life that makes Jessie’s world seem a little dull in comparison. When her mother suggests they invite Thomas to visit their island, Jessie wonders glumly what she could possibly write in her letter that would sound as exciting as zoos, planetariums or video arcades. But as Jessie looks out over her island home, she sees a world of endless variety, from killer whales in the strait and bald eagles soaring overhead to anemones in tide pools and tiny hermit crabs on the shore. She thinks of countless days spent exploring, fishing, swimming and canoeing.
Mystical Poems of Rūmī
Author: Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sufi poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sufi poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Patents
Languages : en
Pages : 1352
Book Description
Annual Report of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Author: United States. National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Includes the Committee's Reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 672
Book Description
Includes the Committee's Reports no. 1-1058, reprinted in v. 1-37.
Farmers' Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
The Intonational Phonology of Swabian and Upper Saxon
Author: Frank Kügler
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110932210
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The study employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to propose an intonational grammar of Swabian and Upper Saxon German, respectively. The analysis is guided by the assumption that each dialect exhibits a specific distinct intonation. The phonological analysis is comparative in nature: the implementation of accents are compared between the dialects in terms of tonal alignment and excursion. In fact, the phonetic data present evidence for the phonological analysis in that the individual tonal categories differ significantly from each other. In addition, a functional analysis of the intonation contours provides further evidence for the phonological analysis. Based on the assumption that nuclear contours convey intonational meaning, these meanings are analysed and compared. A certain meaning can be attributed to intonation contours that differ phonologically between the two dialects. However, the general shape of contours and its association with meaning has been proved to be identical in the two dialects and compared to a similar analysis of intonational meaning of British English. This comprehensive study of dialect intonation contributes to improve our understanding of intonational phonology.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110932210
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
The study employs an autosegmental-metrical model of intonation to propose an intonational grammar of Swabian and Upper Saxon German, respectively. The analysis is guided by the assumption that each dialect exhibits a specific distinct intonation. The phonological analysis is comparative in nature: the implementation of accents are compared between the dialects in terms of tonal alignment and excursion. In fact, the phonetic data present evidence for the phonological analysis in that the individual tonal categories differ significantly from each other. In addition, a functional analysis of the intonation contours provides further evidence for the phonological analysis. Based on the assumption that nuclear contours convey intonational meaning, these meanings are analysed and compared. A certain meaning can be attributed to intonation contours that differ phonologically between the two dialects. However, the general shape of contours and its association with meaning has been proved to be identical in the two dialects and compared to a similar analysis of intonational meaning of British English. This comprehensive study of dialect intonation contributes to improve our understanding of intonational phonology.