Author: M. Sindy Felin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442417366
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 213
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M. Sindy Felin’s National Book Award finalist is in paperback for the first time. Karina has plenty to worry about on the last day of seventh grade: finding three Ds and a C on her report card again, getting laughed at by everyone again, being sent to the principal—again. But she’s too busy dodging the fists of her stepfather and looking out for her sisters to deal with school. This is the story of a young girl coming of age amidst the violent waters that run just beneath the surface of suburbia—a story that has the courage to ask: How far will you go to protect the ones you love?
Author: Ron Rozelle
Publisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 9780875653082
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Ron Rozelle's new novel, Touching Winter, is a four-part evocation of memory and place and the yearning for home. Each part of the novel begins with a meditation on one aspect of the protagonist's life as he watches the unpredictable weather of East Texas. When Will was a young boy, he and his grandfather enjoyed being out in the spectacular East Texas storms. These sessions taught Will many things about life--ranching, weather, character; how to be a man--and bound Will to the family land and to his grandfather. Only at the ranch does Will feel like the person he was, or would like to be, before wrong decisions turned his life down an entirely different path. A powerful, early romance turned disastrous, but the relationship haunts him. To compensate for lost love, Will carved a niche for himself in the competitive concrete industry, inventing a technique to make mixing trucks more efficient and becoming wealthier than he could have dreamed. His marriage to a Houston socialite is thin and brittle, unsatisfying for his wife, Lauren, and for himself. Their daughter Aimee lives in California, as far away from her family as possible. As Will ages, he turns to the ranch as a place of clarity in times of crisis, eventually moving back there entirely. He exchanges the public life he and Lauren led in Houston for the simplicity of walks along the rustic fence, lunch at the town's only diner with old friends, and long evenings on the porch watching the stars. Along the way, a fierce, red-breasted hawk comes to represent the spiritual for Will, and he is forced to face the consequences of earlier decisions.
Author: Reuben Post Halleck
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Category : Central nervous system
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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2000, Gift of the South Carolina State Hospital.
Author: Joe Simpson
Publisher: Direct Authors
ISBN: 0957519303
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 346
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The 25th Anniversary ebook, now with more than 50 images. 'Touching the Void' is the tale of two mountaineer’s harrowing ordeal in the Peruvian Andes. In the summer of 1985, two young, headstrong mountaineers set off to conquer an unclimbed route. They had triumphantly reached the summit, when a horrific accident mid-descent forced one friend to leave another for dead. Ambition, morality, fear and camaraderie are explored in this electronic edition of the mountaineering classic, with never before seen colour photographs taken during the trip itself.
Author: Edgar Syers
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Category : Winter sports
Languages : en
Pages : 464
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Languages : en
Pages : 232
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Author: Francis Bacon
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Languages : en
Pages : 612
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Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 666
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Author: Linnean Society (London)
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Languages : en
Pages : 580
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Category : Botany
Languages : en
Pages : 546
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