Author: Richard Foster Greenwood
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Languages : en
Pages : 188
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William Greenwood (1778-1842) married Sarah Utley and, as Mormon converts, immigrated from England to Warsaw, Hancock County, Illinois. Their children moved to Salt Lake City in 1852, and settled in Cedar City, Utah, moving later to Beaver, Utah. Descendants lived in Utah, Idaho and elsewhere.
Author: Michael Christie
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 0771024460
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 485
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WINNER OF THE ARTHUR ELLIS AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE A CBC BOOKS "BEST CANADIAN FICTION" TITLE OF THE YEAR NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the award-winning author of If I Fall, If I Die comes a propulsive, multigenerational family story, in which the unexpected legacies of a remote island off the coast of British Columbia will link the fates of five people over a hundred years. Cloud Atlas meets The Overstory in this ingenious nested-ring epic set against the devastation of the natural world. They come for the trees. It's 2038 and Jacinda (Jake) Greenwood is a storyteller and a liar, an overqualified tour guide babysitting ultra-rich-eco-tourists in one of the world's last remaining forests. It's 2008 and Liam Greenwood is a carpenter, sprawled on his back after a workplace fall and facing the possibility of his own death. It's 1974 and Willow Greenwood is just out of jail for one of her environmental protests: attempts at atonement for the sins of her father's once vast and rapacious timber empire. It's 1934 and Everett Greenwood is a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant, only to find himself tangled up in the web of a crime, secrets, and betrayal that will cling to his family for decades. And throughout, there are trees: a steady, silent pulse thrumming beneath Christie's effortless sentences, working as a guiding metaphor for withering, weathering, and survival. Transporting, beautifully written, and brilliantly structured like the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood reveals the knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family's origin story. It is a magnificent novel of greed, sacrifice, love, and the ties that bind--and the hopeful, impossible task of growing toward the light.
Author: American Genealogical Research Institute
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Languages : en
Pages : 81
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Author: Erastus Alderman
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Languages : en
Pages : 16
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Author: Thomas Hardy
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Languages : en
Pages : 376
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Author: Donna Loyless Hayes
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 38
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Author: Michael Christie
Publisher: Scribe Publications
ISBN: 1925693430
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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‘The truth is that all family lines, from the highest to the lowest, originate somewhere, on some particular day. Even the grandest trees must’ve once been seeds spun helpless on the wind, and then just meek saplings nosing up from the soil.’ 2034. On a remote island off the Pacific coast of British Columbia stands the Greenwood Arboreal Cathedral, one of the world’s last forests. Wealthy tourists flock from all corners of the dust-choked globe to see the spectacle and remember what once was. But even as they breathe in the fresh air and pose for photographs amidst the greenery, ranger Jake knows that the forest is dying, though her bosses won’t admit it. 1908. Two passenger locomotives meet head-on. The only survivors are two young boys, who take refuge in a trapper’s cabin in a forest on the edge of town. In fourteen years, one of them, now a recluse, will find an abandoned baby in that same forest — another child of Greenwood — setting off a series of events that will change the course of his life, and the lives of those around him. Structured like the rings of a tree, this remarkable novel moves from the future to the present to the past, and back again, to tell the story of one family and their enduring connection to the place that brought them together.
Author: Michael Christie
Publisher: Hogarth
ISBN: 0804140812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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A heartfelt and wondrous debut about family, fear, and skateboarding, that Karen Russell calls "A bruiser of a tale . . . a death-defying coming-of-age story." Will has never been outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never gotten to know anyone other than his mother, a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who panics at the thought of opening the front door. Their world is rich and fun- loving—full of art, science experiments, and music—and all confined to their small house. But Will’s thirst for adventure can’t be contained. Clad in a protective helmet and unsure of how to talk to other kids, he finally ventures outside. At his new school he meets Jonah, an artsy loner who introduces Will to the high-flying freedoms of skateboarding. Together, they search for a missing local boy, help a bedraggled vagabond, and evade a dangerous bootlegger. The adventure is more than Will ever expected, pulling him far from the confines of his closed-off world and into the throes of early adulthood, and all the risks that everyday life offers. In buoyant, kinetic prose, Michael Christie has written an emotionally resonant and keenly observed novel about mothers and sons, fears and uncertainties, and the lengths we’ll go for those we love.
Author: Isaac John Greenwood
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Category : Greenwood family
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Nathaniel Greenwood (1631-1684) immigrated from England to Boston, Massachusetts during or before 1654, and married Mary Allen in 1655/1656. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Illinois and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada. The last third of the book gives detailed history of ancestry, relatives and other genealogical records to about 1066 A.D. in England.
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Publisher: Poplar
ISBN: 0785826734
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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A beautiful gift and keepsake album to record the genealogy and family history.
