Author: Ed Young
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811843430
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ed Young's spare prose, as lovely as a rice-paper painting, describes in measured detail the beautiful and mystical land that the author so clearly loves. The unique format and gorgeous paper-collage illustrations, highlighted with Chinese characters, combine to convey the many facets of China to form a poetic picture of the lands grace, depth, and majesty.
Beyond the Great Mountains
Author: Ed Young
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811843430
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ed Young's spare prose, as lovely as a rice-paper painting, describes in measured detail the beautiful and mystical land that the author so clearly loves. The unique format and gorgeous paper-collage illustrations, highlighted with Chinese characters, combine to convey the many facets of China to form a poetic picture of the lands grace, depth, and majesty.
Publisher: Chronicle Books
ISBN: 9780811843430
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Ed Young's spare prose, as lovely as a rice-paper painting, describes in measured detail the beautiful and mystical land that the author so clearly loves. The unique format and gorgeous paper-collage illustrations, highlighted with Chinese characters, combine to convey the many facets of China to form a poetic picture of the lands grace, depth, and majesty.
Mountains Beyond Mountains
Author: Tracy Kidder
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812980557
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts, and provokes.”—The New York Times (Best Books of the Year) In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease. Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes people’s minds through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” WINNER OF THE LETTRE ULYSSES AWARD FOR THE ART OF REPORTAGE This deluxe paperback edition includes a new Epilogue by the author
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812980557
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “[A] masterpiece . . . an astonishing book that will leave you questioning your own life and political views.”—USA Today “If any one person can be given credit for transforming the medical establishment’s thinking about health care for the destitute, it is Paul Farmer. . . . [Mountains Beyond Mountains] inspires, discomforts, and provokes.”—The New York Times (Best Books of the Year) In medical school, Paul Farmer found his life’s calling: to cure infectious diseases and to bring the lifesaving tools of modern medicine to those who need them most. Tracy Kidder’s magnificent account shows how one person can make a difference in solving global health problems through a clear-eyed understanding of the interaction of politics, wealth, social systems, and disease. Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba, and Russia as Farmer changes people’s minds through his dedication to the philosophy that “the only real nation is humanity.” WINNER OF THE LETTRE ULYSSES AWARD FOR THE ART OF REPORTAGE This deluxe paperback edition includes a new Epilogue by the author
Grass Beyond the Mountains
Author: Richmond Pearson Hobson
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Presents a colourful view of cattle ranching in central B.C.
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Presents a colourful view of cattle ranching in central B.C.
Home Is Beyond the Mountains
Author: Celia Barker Lottridge
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554981905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Publisher: Groundwood Books Ltd
ISBN: 1554981905
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Finalist for the IODE Violet Downey Book Award Samira is only nine years old when the Turkish army invades northwestern Persia in 1918, and she and her parents, brother and baby sister are driven from their tiny village. Taking only what they can carry, they flee into the mountains, but the journey is so difficult that only Samira and her older brother, Benyamin, survive. When Samira finally arrives in a refugee camp, it is her friendship with another orphan, Anna, that pulls her out of her sadness. And when the two girls are given a toddler named Elias to care for, they form a new kind of family. Over the years the children are shunted from one refugee camp to another, from Persia to Iraq and back again, and finally end up in an orphanage, where it seems that they will live out their childhood. Then a new orphanage director arrives -- Susan Shedd, a woman whose authority and energy Samira has never seen before. And Samira’s respect turns to amazement when Miss Shedd decides that she will take the three hundred children back to their home villages to make new lives for themselves. It will be a journey of three hundred miles, through the mountains, and it will be made on foot.
Looking Beyond the Mountains
Author: Steven Hammond
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893239715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"Labeled female at birth, Steven Hammond lived for 25 years as a female--a boy imprisoned in the trappings of a girl"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781893239715
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
"Labeled female at birth, Steven Hammond lived for 25 years as a female--a boy imprisoned in the trappings of a girl"--P. [4] of cover.
At the Mountain's Base
Author: Traci Sorell
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525555129
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots. At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war. With an author's note that pays homage to the true history of Native American U.S. service members like WWII pilot Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat, this is a story that reveals the roots that ground us, the dreams that help us soar, and the people and traditions that hold us up.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0525555129
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 18
Book Description
A family, separated by duty and distance, waits for a loved one to return home in this lyrical picture book celebrating the bonds of a Cherokee family and the bravery of history-making women pilots. At the mountain's base sits a cabin under an old hickory tree. And in that cabin lives a family -- loving, weaving, cooking, and singing. The strength in their song sustains them through trials on the ground and in the sky, as they wait for their loved one, a pilot, to return from war. With an author's note that pays homage to the true history of Native American U.S. service members like WWII pilot Ola Mildred "Millie" Rexroat, this is a story that reveals the roots that ground us, the dreams that help us soar, and the people and traditions that hold us up.
Beyond the Mountains
Author: Khoua Thao
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578875743
Category : Hmong Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The journey of a Hmong family escaping war-torn Laos to Thailand refugee camps. Eventually the family was accepted to come to the United States of America.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578875743
Category : Hmong Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The journey of a Hmong family escaping war-torn Laos to Thailand refugee camps. Eventually the family was accepted to come to the United States of America.
Beyond the Mountains of the Damned
Author: Matthew McAllester
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814756611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A journalist examines the war in Kosovo.PW Best Book of the Year - Nonfiction, 2002
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814756611
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 247
Book Description
A journalist examines the war in Kosovo.PW Best Book of the Year - Nonfiction, 2002
Beyond the Mountains of Madness
Author: Janyce Engan
Publisher: Chaosium
ISBN: 9781568821382
Category : Call of Cthulhu (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher: Chaosium
ISBN: 9781568821382
Category : Call of Cthulhu (Game)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Beyond the Mississippi
Author: Albert Deane Richardson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 664
Book Description