Author: Robin Cody
Publisher: Ooligan Press
ISBN: 1932010041
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Change comes slowly to the small logging community of Calamus Grove.

Author: Robin Cody
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 9781570610837
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 326

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At the centre of this wonderful book is the great Columbia River-rich with history, myth, and riverfolk, as well as progress and its effects. Cody's canoe trip from the Columbia's Canadian headwaters to where it meets the Pacific Ocean, churns up a lively portrait of the river and the land through which it courses. The Los Angeles Times Book Review praised the hardcover edition with "Voyage is neither an environmental treatise nor a search for [Cody's] own soul. It's about the taming of a river and, from water level, what that taming has meant.....Cody is a clear writer with strong descriptive powers." The hardcover edition was awarded the 1996 PNBA Award.

Author: Martin Stewart
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101998318
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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"When 15-year-old Wulliam's father is possessed by a dark spirit, Wull must care for him and take on his family's mantle of Riverkeep, tending the Danek"--

Author: Gary Paulsen
Publisher: Ember
ISBN: 0307929612
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178

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The government sends Brian back to the Canadian wilderness in this beloved follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen! Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him. But a freak storm leaves Derek unconscious. Brian's only hope is to transport Derek a hundred miles down the river to a trading post. He's survived with only a hatchet before--now can Brian build a raft and navigate an unknown river? For the first time it's not only Brian's survival that's at stake. . . An IRA-CBC Children’s Choice A Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year “Vividly written, a book that will, as intended, please the readers who hoped that Paulsen, like Brian, would ‘do it again.’” —Kirkus Reviews Read all the Hatchet Adventures! Brian's Winter The River Brian's Return Brian's Hunt

Author: P. M. Terrell
Publisher: Drake Valley Press
ISBN: 9781935970286
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Based on the true story of the Donelson Party: The river journey was supposed to take four weeks. Instead, more than four months after they left, a ragtag group of settlers limped into Fort Nashborough with a chilling tale. Their river journey to the west had led them through Chickamauga Indian Territory at the height of the Chickamauga Indian War. They faced constant attacks, near starvation, frostbite, disease and deadly whirlpools. Some were captured... some were killed... and some lived to tell the tale... 2010 Winner, Best Drama Award

Author: Denis O'Regan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781999912802
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Tim Dry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780957392755
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 104

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Tim Dry's Ricochet is a novella-length blasphemical wedding of fevered edginess, violence, drug-fuelled nightmares, psychedelia, and madness, set in London and Paris, and written in the mould of a collision between Hunter S. Thompson and William Burroughs. Partly a stream of consciousness narrative and partly a morality tale for the end times, it's a signpost to the apocalypse of the nuclear imagination, the logical implosive endpoint of the Beatnik generation's experiment. Here lies the carcass of reality in all its rotting, putrid, and fully decomposed glory: it's what remains of the dreams of the Love Generation, laid bare for all to see.

Author: Mary Costello
Publisher: Canongate Books
ISBN: 1782116443
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 187

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'Exceptional' The Times 'Luminous . . . Unexpected' Guardian Shortlisted for Novel of the Year at the Irish Book Awards, the Dalkey Literary Awards and the Kerry Group Awards Luke O’Brien has left Dublin to live a quiet life on the bend of the River Sullane. Alone in his big house, he longs for a return to his family’s heyday and turns to books for solace. One morning a young woman arrives at his door, presenting Luke and his family with an almost impossible dilemma.

Author: Sue Grafton
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0593328620
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 417

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In this #1 New York Times bestseller in Sue Grafton's Alphabet series, private investigator Kinsey Millhone has her hands full when a job that should be easy money takes a turn for the worse. Reba Lafferty was a daughter of privilege, the only child of an adoring father. Nord Lafferty was already in his fifties when Reba was born, and he could deny her nothing. Over the years, he quietly settled her many scrapes with the law, but wasn't there for her when she was convicted of embezzlement and sent to the California Institution for Women. Now, at thirty-two, she's about to be paroled, having served twenty-two months of a four-year sentence. Her father wants to be sure Reba stays straight, stays home and away from the drugs, the booze, and the gamblers... It seems a straightforward assignment for Kinsey: babysit Reba until she settles in, make sure she follows all the niceties of her parole. Maybe a week’s work. Nothing untoward—the woman seems remorseful and friendly. And the money is good. But life is never that simple, and Reba is out of prison less than twenty-four hours when one of her old crowd comes circling round...

Author: Nick Tasler
Publisher: Beaver's Pond Press
ISBN: 9781592988204
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages :

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When change happens, one in three people will find inspiration where others find imprisonment. What is their secret? Grounded in the latest social science and enlivened by Nick Tasler's signature blend of wit, wisdom, and storytelling, ''Ricochet'' takes you on a fast-paced quest to unravel the mystery of highly adaptive people. You'll meet researchers who have spent their lives cracking this case, as well as people--people just like you--who have explored their way through the unexpected changes of life that ultimately reveal what we are capable of as leaders, creators, parents, and friends. Adaptation is a skill that is hard-wired in our DNA. To ignite our resilient superpowers we must learn to use three simple laws of successful adaptation--Find Freedom; Pursue Progress; Make Meaning. When we do that, we don't just survive change. We welcome change. We stop living in fear of the next challenge we have yet to face. Instead, we start savoring the crazy, exciting, messed-up adventure