Author: Maddy Lederman
Publisher: Electio Publishing
ISBN: 9781632134004
Category : Deserts
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Edna is a precocious trouble-maker wreaking havoc at her Beverly Hills school. Her therapist advocates medication, but her parents come up with an alternative cure: Edna will spend the summer in the desert with her grandparents. Their remote cabin is cut off from cell phone service, Internet, and television. Edna naturally finds this arrangement unacceptable. She's determined to rebel until she meets an older local boy and falls in love for the first time"--Back cover.
Edna in the Desert
Author: Maddy Lederman
Publisher: Electio Publishing
ISBN: 9781632134004
Category : Deserts
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Edna is a precocious trouble-maker wreaking havoc at her Beverly Hills school. Her therapist advocates medication, but her parents come up with an alternative cure: Edna will spend the summer in the desert with her grandparents. Their remote cabin is cut off from cell phone service, Internet, and television. Edna naturally finds this arrangement unacceptable. She's determined to rebel until she meets an older local boy and falls in love for the first time"--Back cover.
Publisher: Electio Publishing
ISBN: 9781632134004
Category : Deserts
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
"Edna is a precocious trouble-maker wreaking havoc at her Beverly Hills school. Her therapist advocates medication, but her parents come up with an alternative cure: Edna will spend the summer in the desert with her grandparents. Their remote cabin is cut off from cell phone service, Internet, and television. Edna naturally finds this arrangement unacceptable. She's determined to rebel until she meets an older local boy and falls in love for the first time"--Back cover.
The White Heart of Mojave
Author: Mrs. Edna Brush Perkins
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Death Valley (Calif. and Nev.)
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
My Nana's Remedies
Author: Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford
Publisher: Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Press
ISBN: 9781886679191
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 36
Book Description
A little girl tells how her grandmother makes special teas and warm drinks for her and her little brother when they are not feeling well.
Publisher: Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Press
ISBN: 9781886679191
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : es
Pages : 36
Book Description
A little girl tells how her grandmother makes special teas and warm drinks for her and her little brother when they are not feeling well.
Love Kills
Author: Edna Buchanan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416525831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The recently discovered remains of a controversial kidnapper and a groom with the habit of losing his brides puts reporter Britt Montero on a collision course with danger and her one-time rival in love, Lieutenant K.C. Riley.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416525831
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
The recently discovered remains of a controversial kidnapper and a groom with the habit of losing his brides puts reporter Britt Montero on a collision course with danger and her one-time rival in love, Lieutenant K.C. Riley.
The Valkyries
Author: Paulo Coelho
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061842869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A classic masterwork of spiritual tension and realization from Paulo Coelho, this powerful story of one man’s battle with self-doubt and fear is now available in a beautiful new package from HarperOne. An essential volume alongside Coelho’s other bestselling and influential books, such as The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, Brida, and The Winner Stands Alone, the searing and unforgettable narrative in The Valkyries asks the questions most central to all literature—and all of humanity’s quest for understanding. Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? And how can we learn to let go of the past and believe in the future?
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061842869
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
A classic masterwork of spiritual tension and realization from Paulo Coelho, this powerful story of one man’s battle with self-doubt and fear is now available in a beautiful new package from HarperOne. An essential volume alongside Coelho’s other bestselling and influential books, such as The Alchemist, The Pilgrimage, Brida, and The Winner Stands Alone, the searing and unforgettable narrative in The Valkyries asks the questions most central to all literature—and all of humanity’s quest for understanding. Why is it that we destroy the things we love most? And how can we learn to let go of the past and believe in the future?
Texas Adoption Activist Edna Gladney
Author: Sherrie McLeRoy
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626193512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Story of Edna Gladney and the making of BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST"--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781626193512
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Story of Edna Gladney and the making of BLOSSOMS IN THE DUST"--
Desert Lost
Author: Betty Webb
Publisher: Lena Jones
ISBN: 9781590588635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When P.I. Lena Jones discovers the body of a woman connected to an infamous Arizona polygamy cult, she goes on a hunt to find the dead woman's missing son, one of the many teenaged boys the cult rejects from its ranks to prevent competition for wives.
Publisher: Lena Jones
ISBN: 9781590588635
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
When P.I. Lena Jones discovers the body of a woman connected to an infamous Arizona polygamy cult, she goes on a hunt to find the dead woman's missing son, one of the many teenaged boys the cult rejects from its ranks to prevent competition for wives.
The Bean Trees
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061809691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
“The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.” — Los Angeles Times A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places. This edition includes a P.S. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061809691
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
“The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.” — Los Angeles Times A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a three-year-old Native American girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in seemingly empty places. This edition includes a P.S. section with additional insights from the author, background material, suggestions for further reading, and more.
A Woman of Firsts
Author: Edna Adan Ismail
Publisher: HQ
ISBN: 9780008305383
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
'The Muslim Mother Teresa' Huffington Post Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa.
Publisher: HQ
ISBN: 9780008305383
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
'The Muslim Mother Teresa' Huffington Post Imprisonment. Mutilation. Persecution. Edna Adan Ismail endured it all - for the women of Africa.
Desert Cabal
Author: Amy Irvine
Publisher: Torrey House Press
ISBN: 1937226964
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
"Amy Irvine implores us to trade in our solitude for solidarity, to recognize ourselves in each other and in the places we love, so that we might come together to save them." —PAM HOUSTON As Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated—offensive, even—between the covers of Abbey’s environmental classic. From Abbey’s quiet notion of solitude to Irvine’s roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous.
Publisher: Torrey House Press
ISBN: 1937226964
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 59
Book Description
"Amy Irvine implores us to trade in our solitude for solidarity, to recognize ourselves in each other and in the places we love, so that we might come together to save them." —PAM HOUSTON As Edward Abbey’s Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness turns fifty, its iconic author, who has inspired generations of rebel-rousing advocacy on behalf of the American West, is due for a tribute as well as a talking to. In Desert Cabal: A New Season in the Wilderness, Amy Irvine admires the man who influenced her life and work while challenging all that is dated—offensive, even—between the covers of Abbey’s environmental classic. From Abbey’s quiet notion of solitude to Irvine’s roaring cabal, the desert just got hotter, and its defenders more nuanced and numerous.