Author: Jack Todd
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416550488
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 482
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From an award-winning author whose ancestors lived the adventures in this novel comes a spectacular new epic about the American West.Part history, part romance, and part action-adventure novel,Sun Going Downfollows the fortunes of Ebenezer Paint and his descendants -- rough and tough individuals who are caught up in Civil War river battles, epic cattle drives through drought and blizzards, the horrors of Wounded Knee, the desperation of the dust bowl, and the prosperity of the roaring 1920s. The page-turning plot is peopled by a vibrant, unforgettable cast of characters: a grizzled Mississippi steamboat merchant, two horse-thieving brothers, five Annie Oakley-like sisters who can outride any cowboy, a half-Sioux bride who demands her new family claim her heritage, and a courageous daughter who defies her father and braves the West alone. Throughout their lives, the Paint family must battle both internal and external elements, and learn to live with spirit and wit.Letters and diaries from the author's own family archives form the basis for all the events and characters inSun Going Down, infusing the novel with richly detailed authenticity and deep emotional power. It is intimate in its portraits of the unforgettable characters who settled our country, sweeping in its geographical reach from Vicksburg up through Montana and the Dakotas, and epic as it spans four generations from the Civil War to the Great Depression.Masterfully written,Sun Going Downholds the reader fast through tears, laughter, terror, and joy until the very last heart-gripping page is turned.
Author: Alan Huck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912339464
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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In Alan Huck?s image-text book, '?I walk toward the sun which is always going down?', an unnamed narrator wanders a city in the American Southwest, where their observations and encounters become catalysts for rumination on a wide range of subjects. Shifting between photographs of the city?s peripheries and an interior monologue written in first-person, fragmentary prose, this hybrid essay draws on the ambulatory works of writers such as W.G. Sebald and Annie Dillard, both of whom are incorporated into the network of literary and cultural references interwoven throughout the book?s text. Part metafiction about the working process of a photographer and part cross-disciplinary exploration of one?s relationship to a particular place, the author utilizes the essential indeterminacy of both photography and written language to craft an exercise in attention that moves seamlessly between the two mediums.
Author: Gail Gibbons
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152827823
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Describes the characteristics of the sun and the ways in which it regulates life on earth.
Author: William Gay
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743242920
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 326
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Reviewers loved Gay's two novels and hailed him as "the big new name to include in the storied annals of Southern Literature" ("Esquire.") The 13 new stories are driven by the grizzled, everyday folks that Gay is famous for bringing to life.
Author: Simone St. James
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0440000181
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 336
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AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Something hasn’t been right at the roadside Sun Down Motel for a very long time, and Carly Kirk is about to find out why in this chilling new novel from the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of The Broken Girls. Upstate New York, 1982. Viv Delaney wants to move to New York City, and to help pay for it she takes a job as the night clerk at the Sun Down Motel in Fell, New York. But something isnʼt right at the motel, something haunting and scary. Upstate New York, 2017. Carly Kirk has never been able to let go of the story of her aunt Viv, who mysteriously disappeared from the Sun Down before she was born. She decides to move to Fell and visit the motel, where she quickly learns that nothing has changed since 1982. And she soon finds herself ensnared in the same mysteries that claimed her aunt.
Author: David Sandum
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985581527
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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2016 First Horizon Award Winner 2016 The da Vinci Eye Award Finalist 2016 Eric Hoffer Micro Press Award Winner 2016 Southwest Book Design & Production President's Choice Award Visually stunning, psychologically hard-hitting, and emotionally mesmerizing. David Sandum appeared to have it all: a beautiful young family and a promising career ahead as a business consultant. But his life started veering off course, and upon returning to his native Scandinavia, he fell into an inexplicable, deep depression. I'll Run Till the Sun Goes Down is a searingly honest account of David's struggle to overcome his crippling mental illness. After years of hopeless despair, bleak hospitalizations, and shattered dreams, he is finally saved by his art. The paintbrush becomes his lifeline. Richly illustrated with the work of the artists who have inspired him as well as samples of his own drawings and paintings, this memoir offers both a compelling read and a visual story of David's courageous battle with depression.
Author: Jacqui Bailey
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781404805675
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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What makes the sun rise and set? Our planet is spinning in a universe of sun, moon, and stars. See how a day unfolds in one family's backyard in this story of Earth and sun.
Author: Solonge L. Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578531526
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
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What happens when the sun starts to rise? A world of amazing creatures awaken right before our eyes. From singing honey bees to hungry bull sharks, our land and sea friends are ready for you to join in on this fun filled adventure. Never before seen images of hand crafted, bright and vibrant illustrations will captivate your attention from start to finish. Learning doesn't stop at the end of the story. Also included is a series of engaging questions to help recap the story along with definitions and sight words, all of which makes this children's book an all-around treasure.
Author: Emilia Ilieva
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789966362315
Category : Short stories, African (English)
Languages : en
Pages : 199
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Author: Graham Bound
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781906308629
Category : Afghan War, 2001-
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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The most emotionally gripping book to come out of Afghanistan, this is a unique collection of heart-breaking tributes to the dead of that war by those who loved them the most. Often sharing their loved ones' final letters, emails and phone calls home, the widows, parents and friends of 20 of the more than 450 dead tell their stories - from childhood to untimely death. At The Going Down Of The Sun is a fitting tribute to a group of men and women who will live on in the hearts and memories of their family and the nation.
