Author: Kevin Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781777598846
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Great Grain Elevator Incident
Author: Kevin Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781777598846
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781777598846
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Grain Elevators
Author: Christine Hanlon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772761597
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Rising above the landscape, the grain elevator heralds a time when wheat was king across the West. At their zenith, 5,758 of these prairie giants defined the economy and skyline of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. While many still stand, every year their numbers dwindle. Sometimes these towering signposts are all that is left of a town or hamlet once built around them. In this stunning photo collection, award-winning photographer Chris Attrell captures the haunting presence of those that remain to stand guard over an ever-changing agrarian lifestyle.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772761597
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
Rising above the landscape, the grain elevator heralds a time when wheat was king across the West. At their zenith, 5,758 of these prairie giants defined the economy and skyline of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. While many still stand, every year their numbers dwindle. Sometimes these towering signposts are all that is left of a town or hamlet once built around them. In this stunning photo collection, award-winning photographer Chris Attrell captures the haunting presence of those that remain to stand guard over an ever-changing agrarian lifestyle.
Snowbound!
Author: Kevin Miller
Publisher: Millstone Press
ISBN: 9781777598853
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A record snowfall gives best friends Matt, Chad, Dean, and Andrew the idea of building the most epic snow maze ever, so great they can even charge admission. Meanwhile, a hapless criminal named Dewey Biggs finds himself stranded in the tiny prairie town of Milligan Creek where the boys live. Struggling with amnesia following a car accident, he's unable to remember where he buried an important item just prior to the collision, and if he doesn't find it, there's no telling what his boss will do to him. With the boys hunting for the perfect snow maze location and Dewey searching for his treasure, it's only a matter of time before the two forces collide, right in time for Valentine's Day! Up the Creek!, book 1 in the Milligan Creek Series, has sold over 40,000 copies and spent over 17 weeks at the top of Amazon.com's Canadian Literature best-seller list.
Publisher: Millstone Press
ISBN: 9781777598853
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
A record snowfall gives best friends Matt, Chad, Dean, and Andrew the idea of building the most epic snow maze ever, so great they can even charge admission. Meanwhile, a hapless criminal named Dewey Biggs finds himself stranded in the tiny prairie town of Milligan Creek where the boys live. Struggling with amnesia following a car accident, he's unable to remember where he buried an important item just prior to the collision, and if he doesn't find it, there's no telling what his boss will do to him. With the boys hunting for the perfect snow maze location and Dewey searching for his treasure, it's only a matter of time before the two forces collide, right in time for Valentine's Day! Up the Creek!, book 1 in the Milligan Creek Series, has sold over 40,000 copies and spent over 17 weeks at the top of Amazon.com's Canadian Literature best-seller list.
Up the Creek!
Author: Kevin Miller
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781777598815
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Four best friends, one raging creek--what could possibly go wrong? When four friends set out on a canoe trip down Milligan Creek during spring runoff season, little do they realize their voyage through small town Saskatchewan is about to turn into one of the wildest experiences of their lives--if they survive!Facing raging rapids, frigid "icebergs," spinning whirlpools, roaring culverts, and their own recklessness, soon the boys find themselves in uncharted waters with no clue how they're going to get home.With night falling fast and no one to rely on but each other, the boys must figure out how to work together or risk falling victim to the merciless powers of nature--and their parents' wrath! The first book in the Milligan Creek Series, Up the Creek has sold over 30,000 copies and has spent 17 weeks at the top of Amazon.com's Canadian literature best-seller list.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781777598815
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Four best friends, one raging creek--what could possibly go wrong? When four friends set out on a canoe trip down Milligan Creek during spring runoff season, little do they realize their voyage through small town Saskatchewan is about to turn into one of the wildest experiences of their lives--if they survive!Facing raging rapids, frigid "icebergs," spinning whirlpools, roaring culverts, and their own recklessness, soon the boys find themselves in uncharted waters with no clue how they're going to get home.With night falling fast and no one to rely on but each other, the boys must figure out how to work together or risk falling victim to the merciless powers of nature--and their parents' wrath! The first book in the Milligan Creek Series, Up the Creek has sold over 30,000 copies and has spent 17 weeks at the top of Amazon.com's Canadian literature best-seller list.
Universal Harvester
Author: John Darnielle
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374714029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller "A moving, beautifully etched picture of America’s lost and profoundly lonely." —Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature “Brilliant . . . Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent; it’s nearly impossible to stop reading . . . [Universal Harvester is] beyond worthwhile; it’s a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction.” —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times “Grows in menace as the pages stack up . . . [But] more sensitive than one would expect from a more traditional tale of dread.” —Joe Hill, New York Times Book Review Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. So begins Universal Harvester, the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It’s a small town in the center of the state—the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It’s good enough for Jeremy: it’s a job, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a car wreck. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets—an old movie, starring Boris Karloff, one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store—she has an odd complaint: “There’s something on it,” she says, but doesn’t elaborate. Two days later, a different customer returns a different tape, a new release, and says it’s not defective, exactly, but altered: “There’s another movie on this tape.” Jeremy doesn’t want to be curious, but he brings the movies home to take a look. And, indeed, in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent, dark, and deeply disquieting. There are no identifiable faces, no dialogue or explanation—the first video has just the faint sound of someone breathing— but there are some recognizable landmarks. These have been shot just outside of town. In Universal Harvester, the once placid Iowa fields and farmhouses now sinister and imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. The novel will take Jeremy and those around him deeper into this landscape than they have ever expected to go. They will become part of a story that unfolds years into the past and years into the future, part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain. “This chilling literary thriller follows a video store clerk as he deciphers a macabre mystery through clues scattered among the tapes his customers rent. A page-tuning homage to In Cold Blood and The Ring.” —O: The Oprah Magazine “[Universal Harvester is] so wonderfully strange, almost Lynchian in its juxtaposition of the banal and the creepy, that my urge to know what the hell was going on caused me to go full throttle . . . [But] Darnielle hides so much beautiful commentary in the book’s quieter moments that you would be remiss not to slow down.” —Abram Scharf, MTV News “Universal Harvester is a novel about noticing hidden things, particularly the hurt and desperation that people bear under their exterior of polite reserve . . . Mr. Darnielle possesses the clairvoyant’s gift for looking beneath the surface.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “[Universal Harvester is] constantly unnerving, wrapped in a depressed dread that haunts every passage. But it all pays off with surprising emotionality.” —Kevin Nguyen, GQ.com
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 0374714029
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
New York Times Bestseller "A moving, beautifully etched picture of America’s lost and profoundly lonely." —Kazuo Ishiguro, author of The Remains of the Day and winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature “Brilliant . . . Darnielle is a master at building suspense, and his writing is propulsive and urgent; it’s nearly impossible to stop reading . . . [Universal Harvester is] beyond worthwhile; it’s a major work by an author who is quickly becoming one of the brightest stars in American fiction.” —Michael Schaub, Los Angeles Times “Grows in menace as the pages stack up . . . [But] more sensitive than one would expect from a more traditional tale of dread.” —Joe Hill, New York Times Book Review Life in a small town takes a dark turn when mysterious footage begins appearing on VHS cassettes at the local Video Hut. So begins Universal Harvester, the haunting and masterfully unsettling new novel from John Darnielle, author of the New York Times Bestseller and National Book Award Nominee Wolf in White Van Jeremy works at the Video Hut in Nevada, Iowa. It’s a small town in the center of the state—the first a in Nevada pronounced ay. This is the late 1990s, and even if the Hollywood Video in Ames poses an existential threat to Video Hut, there are still regular customers, a rush in the late afternoon. It’s good enough for Jeremy: it’s a job, quiet and predictable, and it gets him out of the house, where he lives with his dad and where they both try to avoid missing Mom, who died six years ago in a car wreck. But when a local schoolteacher comes in to return her copy of Targets—an old movie, starring Boris Karloff, one Jeremy himself had ordered for the store—she has an odd complaint: “There’s something on it,” she says, but doesn’t elaborate. Two days later, a different customer returns a different tape, a new release, and says it’s not defective, exactly, but altered: “There’s another movie on this tape.” Jeremy doesn’t want to be curious, but he brings the movies home to take a look. And, indeed, in the middle of each movie, the screen blinks dark for a moment and the movie is replaced by a few minutes of jagged, poorly lit home video. The scenes are odd and sometimes violent, dark, and deeply disquieting. There are no identifiable faces, no dialogue or explanation—the first video has just the faint sound of someone breathing— but there are some recognizable landmarks. These have been shot just outside of town. In Universal Harvester, the once placid Iowa fields and farmhouses now sinister and imbued with loss and instability and profound foreboding. The novel will take Jeremy and those around him deeper into this landscape than they have ever expected to go. They will become part of a story that unfolds years into the past and years into the future, part of an impossible search for something someone once lost that they would do anything to regain. “This chilling literary thriller follows a video store clerk as he deciphers a macabre mystery through clues scattered among the tapes his customers rent. A page-tuning homage to In Cold Blood and The Ring.” —O: The Oprah Magazine “[Universal Harvester is] so wonderfully strange, almost Lynchian in its juxtaposition of the banal and the creepy, that my urge to know what the hell was going on caused me to go full throttle . . . [But] Darnielle hides so much beautiful commentary in the book’s quieter moments that you would be remiss not to slow down.” —Abram Scharf, MTV News “Universal Harvester is a novel about noticing hidden things, particularly the hurt and desperation that people bear under their exterior of polite reserve . . . Mr. Darnielle possesses the clairvoyant’s gift for looking beneath the surface.” —Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal “[Universal Harvester is] constantly unnerving, wrapped in a depressed dread that haunts every passage. But it all pays off with surprising emotionality.” —Kevin Nguyen, GQ.com
Forgotten Saskatchewan
Author: Chris Attrell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772761382
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From one of Saskatchewan's great photographers comes Forgotten Saskatchewan. These stunning images offer a window into our past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. Forgotten Saskatchewan is a photographic journey. Come along for the ride. You'll be glad you did.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781772761382
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From one of Saskatchewan's great photographers comes Forgotten Saskatchewan. These stunning images offer a window into our past, showing life as it was then, and stirring in us the emotions of wonder and curiosity about those who have gone before us and the lives they lived. Forgotten Saskatchewan is a photographic journey. Come along for the ride. You'll be glad you did.
The American Grain Elevator
Author: Linda Laird
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984759118
Category : Grain elevators
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780984759118
Category : Grain elevators
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Flicker of Old Dreams
Author: Susan Henderson
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062686712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The dead come to me vulnerable, sharing their stories and secrets. . . . Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small western town once supported by its grain industry. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father’s mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider. Yet, to Mary, there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling each body to capture the essence of a subject’s life. Though some townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that Petroleum is crumbling away—a process that began twenty years ago when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The granary closed for good, the train no longer stopped in town, and Robert Golden, the victim’s younger brother, was widely blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill mother. After Mary—reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely—strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum. Set in America’s Great Plains, The Flicker of Old Dreams explores themes of resilience, redemption, and loyalty in prose as lyrical as it is powerful.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062686712
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
The dead come to me vulnerable, sharing their stories and secrets. . . . Mary Crampton has spent all of her thirty years in Petroleum, a small western town once supported by its grain industry. Living at home, she works as the embalmer in her father’s mortuary: an unlikely job that has long marked her as an outsider. Yet, to Mary, there is a satisfying art to positioning and styling each body to capture the essence of a subject’s life. Though some townsfolk pretend that the community is thriving, the truth is that Petroleum is crumbling away—a process that began twenty years ago when an accident in the grain elevator killed a beloved high school athlete. The granary closed for good, the train no longer stopped in town, and Robert Golden, the victim’s younger brother, was widely blamed for the tragedy and shipped off to live elsewhere. Now, out of the blue, Robert has returned to care for his terminally ill mother. After Mary—reserved, introspective, and deeply lonely—strikes up an unlikely friendship with him, shocking the locals, she finally begins to consider what might happen if she dared to leave Petroleum. Set in America’s Great Plains, The Flicker of Old Dreams explores themes of resilience, redemption, and loyalty in prose as lyrical as it is powerful.
Dust
Author: Arthur Slade
Publisher: Arthur Slade
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The children were disappearing. And the worst thing about it? No one noticed A rainmaker brings rain to a drought-stricken town. The stranger amazes the townspeople with magic mirrors and bewitches the children with his beautiful butterfly. First, one child vanishes. Then another. And another. Only one young man sees through the lies and decides to act. You'll love this dark, mysterious young adult novel. Winner of the Governor General's Award. Get it now.
Publisher: Arthur Slade
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The children were disappearing. And the worst thing about it? No one noticed A rainmaker brings rain to a drought-stricken town. The stranger amazes the townspeople with magic mirrors and bewitches the children with his beautiful butterfly. First, one child vanishes. Then another. And another. Only one young man sees through the lies and decides to act. You'll love this dark, mysterious young adult novel. Winner of the Governor General's Award. Get it now.
Randolph the Yellow Snowman
Author: Kevin Miller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
"It was a snowman, all right. With a corn-cob pipe, a button nose, and two eyes made out of coal. It had twigs for arms, a stovepipe hat, and a red-and-white scarf wrapped around its neck-or whatever you call the place where the big snowball meets the snowman's head. Yes, it was a snowman. There was just one problem . . ." When a mysterious yellow snowman appears in the small prairie town of Milligan Creek, Saskatchewan, it turns the entire community upside down--until a young boy named Terry dares to do the unthinkable!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
"It was a snowman, all right. With a corn-cob pipe, a button nose, and two eyes made out of coal. It had twigs for arms, a stovepipe hat, and a red-and-white scarf wrapped around its neck-or whatever you call the place where the big snowball meets the snowman's head. Yes, it was a snowman. There was just one problem . . ." When a mysterious yellow snowman appears in the small prairie town of Milligan Creek, Saskatchewan, it turns the entire community upside down--until a young boy named Terry dares to do the unthinkable!