Author: Diana Stevan
Publisher: Peregrin Publishing
ISBN: 1896402178
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Author Diana Stevan's sequel to the award-winning Sunflowers Under Fire. Lukia's story continues in Lilacs in the Dust Bowl, an inspirational family saga about love and heartache during the Great Depression.
In 1929, when Lukia Mazurets, a widow and a Ukrainian peasant farmer, immigrates to Canada with her four children, she has no idea the stock market is about to crash and throw the world into a deep depression. Falling grain prices, the ravages of nature, and unexpected family conflicts threaten to smash her dreams of family unity in a strange land. And when love knocks on her door again, awakening desire she thought was long gone, Lukia has to choose between having a man in her life or the children she’s sacrificed everything for.
Diana Stevan is also the author of the novels, A Cry from The Deep and The Rubber Fence and the novelette The Blue Nightgown. A former family therapist, she is the mother of two daughters and lives with her husband Robert in West Vancouver and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia.
Author: Gina Caison
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 147806014X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 167
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In Erosion, Gina Caison traces how American authors and photographers have grappled with soil erosion as a material reality that shapes narratives of identity, belonging, and environment. Examining canonical American texts and photography, including John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, Octavia Butler’s Parable series, John Audubon’s Louisiana writings, and Dorothea Lange’s Migrant Mother, Caison shows how concerns over erosion reveal anxieties of disappearance that are based in the legacies of settler colonialism. Soil loss not only occupies a complex metaphorical place in the narrative of American identity; it becomes central to preserving the white settler colonial state through Indigenous dispossession and erasure. At the same time, Caison examines how Indigenous texts and art such as Lynn Riggs's play Green Grow the Lilacs, Karenne Wood’s poetry, and Monique Verdin's photography challenge colonial narratives of the continent by outlining the material stakes of soil loss for their own communities. From California to Oklahoma to North Carolina’s Outer Banks, Caison ultimately demonstrates that concerns over erosion reverberate into issues of climate change, land ownership, Indigenous sovereignty, race, and cultural and national identity.
Author: Donald Worster
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195174885
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Personal recollections recreate experiences of two Dust Bowl communities
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dogs
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Relates the adventures of Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and doy run away from the circus.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: 谷月社
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 217
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INDEX CHAPTER I A MYSTERIOUS DOG CHAPTER II WHERE THEY FOUND HIS MASTER CHAPTER III BEN CHAPTER IV HIS STORY CHAPTER V BEN GETS A PLACE CHAPTER VI A CIRCULATING LIBRARY CHAPTER VII NEW FRIENDS TROT IN CHAPTER VIII MISS CELIA'S MAN CHAPTER IX A HAPPY TEA CHAPTER X A HEAVY TROUBLE CHAPTER XI SUNDAY CHAPTER XII GOOD TIMES CHAPTER XIII SOMEBODY RUNS AWAY CHAPTER XIV SOMEBODY GETS LOST CHAPTER XV BEN'S RIDE CHAPTER XVI DETECTIVE THORNTON CHAPTER XVII BETTY'S BRAVERY CHAPTER XVIII BOWS AND ARROWS CHAPTER XIX SPEAKING PIECES CHAPTER XX BEN'S BIRTHDAY CHAPTER XXI CUPID'S LAST APPEARANCE CHAPTER XXII A BOY'S BARGAIN CHAPTER XXIII SOMEBODY COMES CHAPTER XXIV THE GREAT GATE IS OPENED
Author: Carla Stewart
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 0446568953
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
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It is the summer of 1958, and life in the small Texas community of Graham Camp should be simple and carefree. But not for twelve-year-old Sammie Tucker. Sammie has plenty of questions about her mother's "nerve" problems. About shock treatments. About whether her mother loves her. When her mother commits suicide and a not-so-favorite aunt arrives, Sammie has to choose who to trust with her deepest fears: Her best friend who has an opinion about everything, the mysterious kid from California whose own troubles plague him, or her round-faced neighbor with gentle advice and strong shoulders to cry on. Then there's the elderly widower who seems nice but has his own dark past. Trusting is one thing, but accepting the truth may be the hardest thing Sammie has ever done.
Author: Diana Stevan
Publisher: Diana Stevan
ISBN: 0994040105
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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A Romantic Mystery and Adventure of a Love So Powerful It Spans Several Lifetimes. “Catherine is all the things I look for in a heroine.”—Author, Margaret Conway “Has all the elements of a great escape novel.”—Author Peggy Morehouse Strack Catherine Fitzgerald, an underwater photographer, is about to go on a hunt for an old Spanish ship. Heading the dive team is a notorious salvager who’ll stop at nothing to get what he wants. As if that isn’t trouble enough, Catherine buys an old Claddagh ring and begins to have nightmares of a woman from another time. Who she is and why she’s haunting Catherine becomes as compelling as the hunt itself. While unraveling the mystery, Catherine questions her own struggle to find true love. Will it be her ex, a psychiatrist, who still loves her, or the handsome but unavailable marine archaeologist on the dive team? Or is she destined to be alone? Set in Provence, Manhattan, and Ireland, this time-slip novel exposes not only two women’s longings, but also the beauty of the deep, where buried treasures tempt salvagers to break the law.
Author: Carolyn Meyer
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780152058517
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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In 1921 in Dillon, Texas, 12-year-old Rose Lee Jefferson sees trouble threatening her black community when the whites decide to take the land there for a park and forcibly relocate the black families to an ugly stretch of territory outside the town. Includes a reader's guide.
Author: Louisa May Alcott
Publisher: BEYOND BOOKS HUB
ISBN:
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Ben and his trained dog, Sancho, run away from the circus and soon find a warm welcome in a kind community where spirited games are played. Theatricals and imaginative pageantry are all part of the fun.
Author: A. K. Henderson
Publisher: CCB Publishing
ISBN: 1926918711
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Lilacs in the Snow chronicles Caasi's passage from desolate childhood to impetuous adolescence to a shaken, yet solid adulthood, and is intertwined with the similarly volatile political, socio-economic, and racial climate of the mid-twentieth century. The story begins when an adult Caasi returns to Montréal and visits her estranged father. The encounter rekindles fragments of her childhood chaos, and she takes the reader on a gripping journey through the world of her collected memories, which are illuminated by flashes of sensitivity, poignancy, budding sensuality, resilience, humor, and abidi.
