Author: J. Donald Oakes
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Stump's on Fire and I'm Naked
Author: J. Donald Oakes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Stump's on Fire and I'm Naked
Author: J Donald Oakes
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401068677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Never before has such a powerful and touching book been written on one person's quest for emotional survival. Beginning in a hopeless environment of a sharecropper's grasp, the author takes you on a true to life journey that you will never forget. Sometimes humorous, always intriguing the book will command your attention beginning in the eyes of a five year old in the 1940's. At age five the author witnessed a strange procession of apparitions that would dramatically impact his life forever with a haunting mystery. This encounter held the key to emotional salvation but took many years to unravel.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781401068677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Never before has such a powerful and touching book been written on one person's quest for emotional survival. Beginning in a hopeless environment of a sharecropper's grasp, the author takes you on a true to life journey that you will never forget. Sometimes humorous, always intriguing the book will command your attention beginning in the eyes of a five year old in the 1940's. At age five the author witnessed a strange procession of apparitions that would dramatically impact his life forever with a haunting mystery. This encounter held the key to emotional salvation but took many years to unravel.
Only the Dead
Author: Vidar Sundstøl
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452943478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
A Norwegian tourist has been found murdered on the shore of Lake Superior—right where an Ojibwe man may have been killed more than one hundred years earlier. Four months later, the official investigation is supposedly over but still not resolved, and U.S. Forest Service officer Lance Hansen, drawn into the mystery by his grisly discovery of the body, is uncovering clues disturbingly close to home. His former father-in-law, Willy Dupree, may hold the key to the century-old murder of Swamper Caribou. And his own brother, Andy, might know more than he’s telling—more than he should know—about the recent homicide. The relationship between the brothers takes a dangerous turn as their annual deer hunt becomes a deadly game. Steeped in the rich history of Lake Superior’s rugged North Shore, this follow-up to the Riverton Prize–winning The Land of Dreams pursues two tales through a bleak and beautiful landscape haunted by the lives and dreams of its Scandinavian immigrants and Native Americans. Hansen finds himself equally haunted by the complex mysteries that continue to unravel around him.
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
ISBN: 1452943478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
A Norwegian tourist has been found murdered on the shore of Lake Superior—right where an Ojibwe man may have been killed more than one hundred years earlier. Four months later, the official investigation is supposedly over but still not resolved, and U.S. Forest Service officer Lance Hansen, drawn into the mystery by his grisly discovery of the body, is uncovering clues disturbingly close to home. His former father-in-law, Willy Dupree, may hold the key to the century-old murder of Swamper Caribou. And his own brother, Andy, might know more than he’s telling—more than he should know—about the recent homicide. The relationship between the brothers takes a dangerous turn as their annual deer hunt becomes a deadly game. Steeped in the rich history of Lake Superior’s rugged North Shore, this follow-up to the Riverton Prize–winning The Land of Dreams pursues two tales through a bleak and beautiful landscape haunted by the lives and dreams of its Scandinavian immigrants and Native Americans. Hansen finds himself equally haunted by the complex mysteries that continue to unravel around him.
The Stump's on Fire and I'm Naked
Author: Joseph Donald Oakes
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Never before has such a powerful and touching book been written on one person's quest for emotional survival. Beginning in a hopeless environment of a sharecropper's grasp, the author takes you on a true to life journey that you will never forget. Sometimes humorous, always intriguing the book will command your attention beginning in the eyes of a five year old in the 1940's. At age five the author witnessed a strange procession of apparitions that would dramatically impact his life forever with a haunting mystery. This encounter held the key to emotional salvation but took many years to unravel..
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Never before has such a powerful and touching book been written on one person's quest for emotional survival. Beginning in a hopeless environment of a sharecropper's grasp, the author takes you on a true to life journey that you will never forget. Sometimes humorous, always intriguing the book will command your attention beginning in the eyes of a five year old in the 1940's. At age five the author witnessed a strange procession of apparitions that would dramatically impact his life forever with a haunting mystery. This encounter held the key to emotional salvation but took many years to unravel..
Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers
Author: Pierre Guyotat
Publisher: Glitter
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This is the first English translation of French writer, Pierre Guyotat's legendary novel, which was recently included in "Le Monde"'s "100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century." A violent collision of brutal warfare and sexual ecstasy, Guyotat is said to have hallucinated the subject matter as a young soldier during the Algerian war, where the novel is set. Pierre Guyotat was born in France in 1940. His most recent book is "Progenitors" (Gallimard, 2000).
Publisher: Glitter
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 388
Book Description
This is the first English translation of French writer, Pierre Guyotat's legendary novel, which was recently included in "Le Monde"'s "100 Greatest Novels of the 20th Century." A violent collision of brutal warfare and sexual ecstasy, Guyotat is said to have hallucinated the subject matter as a young soldier during the Algerian war, where the novel is set. Pierre Guyotat was born in France in 1940. His most recent book is "Progenitors" (Gallimard, 2000).
The Road
Author: Cormac McCarthy
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0307386457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity
Publisher: Vintage Books
ISBN: 0307386457
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity
Knoxville 1863
Author: Dick Stanley
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557297079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Lovers of historical fiction will find much to ponder in the 1863 Confederate siege of Knoxville, Tennessee. President Lincoln considered Union victory there a key to winning the Civil War. The siege and its battle of Fort Sanders involved some of the warâs most famous personalities and units. They are brought to life from available histories, diaries and memoirs: Gen. James Longstreet (Gen. Leeâs âWarhorseâ) and his First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginiaâincluding Barksdaleâs Mississippi Brigade, and Parkerâs Boy Battery of the Sixth Virginia Artillery. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, whose Ninth Corps hopes rested with Lt. Samuel Benjaminâs Second U.S. Artillery, and the Seventy-Ninth New York Cameron Highlanders. At stake: Control of the Smoky Mountains railroad hub which produced rifles, ammunition, and clothing for the Confederate armies. Could the Union keep it when the ragged and starving Rebels outnumbered them ten to one?
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557297079
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 231
Book Description
Lovers of historical fiction will find much to ponder in the 1863 Confederate siege of Knoxville, Tennessee. President Lincoln considered Union victory there a key to winning the Civil War. The siege and its battle of Fort Sanders involved some of the warâs most famous personalities and units. They are brought to life from available histories, diaries and memoirs: Gen. James Longstreet (Gen. Leeâs âWarhorseâ) and his First Corps of the Army of Northern Virginiaâincluding Barksdaleâs Mississippi Brigade, and Parkerâs Boy Battery of the Sixth Virginia Artillery. Gen. Ambrose Burnside, whose Ninth Corps hopes rested with Lt. Samuel Benjaminâs Second U.S. Artillery, and the Seventy-Ninth New York Cameron Highlanders. At stake: Control of the Smoky Mountains railroad hub which produced rifles, ammunition, and clothing for the Confederate armies. Could the Union keep it when the ragged and starving Rebels outnumbered them ten to one?
Brother Jonathan
Author: John Neal
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
Brown Dog
Author: Jim Harrison
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802120113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
An anthology of all of the Brown Dog novellas includes a previously unpublished story and follows the down-on-his-luck Michigan Native American's misadventures with an overindulgent lifestyle, his two adopted children and an ersatz activist who steals his bearskin. 35,000 first printing.
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
ISBN: 0802120113
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
An anthology of all of the Brown Dog novellas includes a previously unpublished story and follows the down-on-his-luck Michigan Native American's misadventures with an overindulgent lifestyle, his two adopted children and an ersatz activist who steals his bearskin. 35,000 first printing.
The Big Burn
Author: Timothy Egan
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547416865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547416865
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.