Author: Eddie S. Lusk, Jr.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537325354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
An Inspirational tale about a young girl named Althea who grew up in the mountains in a small hidden village called Piorre. Althea just celebrated her birthday and is very excited that she is finally old enough to travel around the world with her father (Wendell). Althea and Wendell love each other very much and have a very strong father daughter bond. Wendell is a prospector and is on an adventurous quest to find The Richest Land On Earth. Their journey takes them to many beautiful and unusual places. Along the way, they encounter many interesting characters that help them on their journey. They will experience both triumph and heartbreak, ultimately discovering something much more precious than wealth and riches.
The Richest Land on Earth
Author: Eddie S. Lusk, Jr.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537325354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
An Inspirational tale about a young girl named Althea who grew up in the mountains in a small hidden village called Piorre. Althea just celebrated her birthday and is very excited that she is finally old enough to travel around the world with her father (Wendell). Althea and Wendell love each other very much and have a very strong father daughter bond. Wendell is a prospector and is on an adventurous quest to find The Richest Land On Earth. Their journey takes them to many beautiful and unusual places. Along the way, they encounter many interesting characters that help them on their journey. They will experience both triumph and heartbreak, ultimately discovering something much more precious than wealth and riches.
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781537325354
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
An Inspirational tale about a young girl named Althea who grew up in the mountains in a small hidden village called Piorre. Althea just celebrated her birthday and is very excited that she is finally old enough to travel around the world with her father (Wendell). Althea and Wendell love each other very much and have a very strong father daughter bond. Wendell is a prospector and is on an adventurous quest to find The Richest Land On Earth. Their journey takes them to many beautiful and unusual places. Along the way, they encounter many interesting characters that help them on their journey. They will experience both triumph and heartbreak, ultimately discovering something much more precious than wealth and riches.
Heartland
Author: Sarah Smarsh
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501133101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
*Finalist for the National Book Award* *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly* An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country and “a deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight”.* Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side, and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the heartland. During Sarah’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, she enjoyed the freedom of a country childhood, but observed the painful challenges of the poverty around her; untreated medical conditions for lack of insurance or consistent care, unsafe job conditions, abusive relationships, and limited resources and information that would provide for the upward mobility that is the American Dream. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves with clarity and precision but without judgement, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country. Beautifully written, in a distinctive voice, Heartland combines personal narrative with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, challenging the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. “Heartland is one of a growing number of important works—including Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Amy Goldstein’s Janesville—that together merit their own section in nonfiction aisles across the country: America’s postindustrial decline...Smarsh shows how the false promise of the ‘American dream’ was used to subjugate the poor. It’s a powerful mantra” *(The New York Times Book Review).
Publisher: Scribner
ISBN: 1501133101
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
*Finalist for the National Book Award* *Finalist for the Kirkus Prize* *Instant New York Times Bestseller* *Named a Best Book of the Year by NPR, New York Post, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness, Bustle, and Publishers Weekly* An essential read for our times: an eye-opening memoir of working-class poverty in America that will deepen our understanding of the ways in which class shapes our country and “a deeply humane memoir that crackles with clarifying insight”.* Sarah Smarsh was born a fifth generation Kansas wheat farmer on her paternal side, and the product of generations of teen mothers on her maternal side. Through her experiences growing up on a farm thirty miles west of Wichita, we are given a unique and essential look into the lives of poor and working class Americans living in the heartland. During Sarah’s turbulent childhood in Kansas in the 1980s and 1990s, she enjoyed the freedom of a country childhood, but observed the painful challenges of the poverty around her; untreated medical conditions for lack of insurance or consistent care, unsafe job conditions, abusive relationships, and limited resources and information that would provide for the upward mobility that is the American Dream. By telling the story of her life and the lives of the people she loves with clarity and precision but without judgement, Smarsh challenges us to look more closely at the class divide in our country. Beautifully written, in a distinctive voice, Heartland combines personal narrative with powerful analysis and cultural commentary, challenging the myths about people thought to be less because they earn less. “Heartland is one of a growing number of important works—including Matthew Desmond’s Evicted and Amy Goldstein’s Janesville—that together merit their own section in nonfiction aisles across the country: America’s postindustrial decline...Smarsh shows how the false promise of the ‘American dream’ was used to subjugate the poor. It’s a powerful mantra” *(The New York Times Book Review).
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1006
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
Book Description
The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)
The Good Ship Earth
Author: Herbert Quick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Compton's Pictured Encyclopedia
Author: Guy Stanton Ford
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 564
Book Description
The Pacific Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : West (U.S.)
Languages : en
Pages : 950
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Texas. Department of Agriculture
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
Bob Taylor's Magazine
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 658
Book Description
The Best and Worst Country in the World
Author: Stephen Adams
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813920382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has elicited dramatically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Drayton exalted the land as "earth's onely paradise," while John Smith, in his reports to England, summarized the area around Jamestown as "a miserie, a ruine, a death, a hell." Drawing upon both familiar history and lesser-known material from deep geological time through the end of the seventeenth century, Stephen Adams focuses on both the physical changes to the land over time and the changes in the way people viewed Virginia. The Best and Worst Country in the World reaches well beyond previous accounts of early American views of the land with the inclusion of fascinating and important pre-1700 sources, Native American perceptions, and prehuman geography and geology. A blend of history, literature, geology, geography, and natural history, enriched by illustrations ranging from a dinosaur footprint to John Smith's famous "Map of Virginia," Adams's work offers an ecocritical exploration of the varied preconceptions that have shaped and colored the human relationship with "the best and worst country in the world"--the early Virginia landscape.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813920382
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has elicited dramatically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Drayton exalted the land as "earth's onely paradise," while John Smith, in his reports to England, summarized the area around Jamestown as "a miserie, a ruine, a death, a hell." Drawing upon both familiar history and lesser-known material from deep geological time through the end of the seventeenth century, Stephen Adams focuses on both the physical changes to the land over time and the changes in the way people viewed Virginia. The Best and Worst Country in the World reaches well beyond previous accounts of early American views of the land with the inclusion of fascinating and important pre-1700 sources, Native American perceptions, and prehuman geography and geology. A blend of history, literature, geology, geography, and natural history, enriched by illustrations ranging from a dinosaur footprint to John Smith's famous "Map of Virginia," Adams's work offers an ecocritical exploration of the varied preconceptions that have shaped and colored the human relationship with "the best and worst country in the world"--the early Virginia landscape.