Author: Mandy L Cantrell
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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"I heard some things about you.... I just wondered if the rumors were true." "Like what?" "Don't you know? I mean, don't you know what's going around?" "Yeah, I know. Who told you?" "I don't want to say- I promised. But... is it true?" I held my breath, surprised at my own boldness. Trace said nothing at first. But I could hear him breathing. Had I made a mistake in asking him? I sat there holding the phone in anticipation, sharing the open line between us. I looked out my bedroom window, past the pink curtains, beyond the safety of all I knew, and stared into the darkness. Finally, Trace spoke. "Yeah. It's true." "It is?" "Yeah. Does that scare you? "No." "Really? Well, it could.... If you knew everything, you might really be afraid." It's 1988 and school is back in session at Fairview High. That means freshly waxed floors, the sound of lockers slamming and bells ringing through the halls. For one student, the challenge of a new school and new friends will be just the beginning of what she faces her freshman year when she meets Trace Erring, an older boy with a dark secret. Pursued by Trace, almost immediately, she is captivated by his mystery as well as his persistence. In her search to learn more about Trace, she soon finds herself drawn into a strange new world, seeking help from an unlikely source.
Author: Forrest Gander
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
ISBN: 0811223728
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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A Mexican road novel of love, hate, drugs, and the Mexican Revolution. The Trace is a masterful, poetic novel about a journey through Mexico taken by a couple recovering from a world shattered. Driving through the Chihuahua Desert, they retrace the route of nineteenth-century American writer Ambrose Bierce (who disappeared during the Mexican Revolution) and try to piece together their lives after a devastating incident involving their adolescent son. With tenderness and precision, Gander explores the intimacies of their relationship as they travel through Mexican towns, through picturesque canyons and desertcapes, on a journey through the the heart of the Mexican landscape. Taking a shortcut through the brutally hot desert home, their car overheats miles from nowhere, the novel spinning out of control, with devastating consequences. . . . Poet Forrest Gander’s first novel As a Friend was acclaimed as “profound and relentlessly beautiful (Rikki Ducornet). With The Trace, Gander has accomplished another brilliant work, containing unforgettable poetic descriptions of Mexico and a story both violent and tender.
Author: Lauret Savoy
Publisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1619028255
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 241
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With a New Preface by the Author Through personal journeys and historical inquiry, this PEN Literary Award finalist explores how America’s still unfolding history and ideas of “race” have marked its people and the land. Sand and stone are Earth’s fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life–defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost. A provocative and powerful mosaic that ranges across a continent and across time, from twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.–Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past. In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons. Gifted with this manifold vision, and graced by a scientific and lyrical diligence, she delves through fragmented histories—natural, personal, cultural—to find shadowy outlines of other stories of place in America. "Every landscape is an accumulation," reads one epigraph. "Life must be lived amidst that which was made before." Courageously and masterfully, Lauret Savoy does so in this beautiful book: she lives there, making sense of this land and its troubled past, reconciling what it means to inhabit terrains of memory—and to be one.
Author: Jeffrey Marion
Publisher: Stackpole Books
ISBN: 0811760510
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 128
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The essential guide for enjoying the outdoors without harming the environment.
Author: F. Paul Pacult
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119599938
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Learn about one of the most impactful distilleries in American history in this comprehensive tale Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon tells the fascinating tale of the Buffalo Trace Distillery, from the time of the earliest explorations of Kentucky to the present day. Author and award-winning spirits expert F. Paul Pacult takes readers on a journey through history that covers the American Revolutionary War, U.S Civil War, two World Wars, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon covers the pedigree and provenance of the Buffalo Trace Distillery: The larger-than-life personalities that over a century and a half made Buffalo Trace Distillery what it is today Detailed accounts on how many of the distillery’s award-winning and world-famous brands were created The impact of world events, including multiple depressions, weather-related events, and major conflicts, on the distillery Belonging on the shelf of anyone with an interest in American spirits and history, Buffalo, Barrels, & Bourbon is a compelling must-read.
Author: David Bowles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780999762240
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Texas Ranger, Will Smith moved with his family to Texas during the early days of the Republic. Family strife is caused by Comanche Indians who kill Will's brother James and abduct his nine-year-old nephew Fayette. Will pursues the Indians alone in hopes of rescuing the boy.
Author: Yves Jeanneret
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119720281
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 284
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The collection and treatment of traces which reveal who we are and what we do naturally piques our interest when it pertains to others, and anxiety when it concerns ourselves. Do we truly know what a trace is? And if knowledge is power, how vulnerable are we in the public sphere? The demonstrability of a trace hides the complexity of the process that allows it to be produced, interpreted and used. This book proposes a reasoned approach to the analysis of the 'trace' as an object and as a sign. By following such an approach, the reader will understand how the media participates in the creation and deployment of traces, and the issues raised by what can be traced on social media. The Trace Factory offers a historical perspective, returning to the founding theories of collecting and producing traces linked to knowledge and power in society. Observing technology and information through the prism of these theories, a large number of devices and their uses are evaluated. This book offers itself as a tool of thought and work for researchers, professionals and social actors of all kinds who are confronted with the existence, treatment and interpretation of the traces of society and culture.
Author: Clay Mathematics Institute. Summer School
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN: 9780821838440
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 708
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Langlands program proposes fundamental relations that tie arithmetic information from number theory and algebraic geometry with analytic information from harmonic analysis and group representations. This title intends to provide an entry point into this exciting and challenging field.
Author: Alan A. Boulton
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1461253128
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 584
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Many of the trace amines-more correctly called biogenic amines have been known for decades, but because of their tiny concentra tions (0. 01-100 ng/g) in brain, it was only after the development of sophisticated analytical techniques (such as mass spectrometry) that they could be identified and quantitated in nervous tissue. There are now more than 20 of them and most are related to the catecholamines and 5-hydroxytryptamine both structurally and metabolically. Their pharmacological and physiological properties make them prime candidates for a transmitter or neuromodulator role and many of them elicit profound behavioral syndromes after injection--one of them, phenylethylamine, has even been referred to as nature's amphetamine. In the clinical sphere several have been shown to be involved in: Parkinsonism, schizophrenia, depression, agoraphobia, aggression, hyperkinesis, migraine, hypertensive crises, hypertyrosinemia, he patic encephalopathy, epilepsy, and cystic fibrosis. Thus the research reported here on these intriguing "new" substances will be of great interest to psychiatrists, neurologists, biochemists, pharmacologists, physiologists, psychologists, behaviorists and indeed to all those working in the neurosciences and related fields today. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This book is based on the proceedings of Trace Amines and the Neurosciences, a meeting held at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, July 19-21, 1983. This meeting was organized as a Satellite Meeting of the Ninth Meeting of the International Society for Neurochemistry, held in Vancouver, July 10-15, 1983. International organizers of the satellite meeting were Drs. A.A. Boulton (Saskatoon), W.G. Dewhurst (Edmonton), G.B. Baker (Edmonton), and M. Sandler (London)
Author: Wilhelm Launhardt
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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