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Author | : Kent Haruf |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2001-04-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375726934 |
National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
Author | : Kent Haruf |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2004-05-04 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1400043018 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The award-winning, bestselling author of Plainsong returns to the high-plains town of Holt, Colorado, with a novel that unveils the immemorial truths about human beings: their fragility and resilience, their selfishness and goodness, and their ability to find family in one another. • "Storytelling at its best.” —Entertainment Weekly The aging McPheron brothers are learning to live without Victoria Roubideaux, the single mother they took in and who has now left their ranch to start college. A lonely young boy stoically cares for his grandfather while a disabled couple tries to protect their a violent relative. As these lives unfold and intersect, Eventide reveals Kent Haruf as a novelist of masterful authority. “Stunning.... The dry, cold air of Colorado's high plains seems to intensify the light Kent Haruf shines on every character in his masterful novel.... A book of hope, hope as plain and hard-won as Haruf's keenly styled prose.” —O, The Oprah Magazine
Author | : Elizabeth M. Rees |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780380782161 |
Caitlin and Rebecca's world crumbles when they hear of the disaster at sea in which thier father is killed. With meager funds, the sisters leave New Bedford to begin a new life on the western frontier.
Author | : Thomas Helmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1850 |
Genre | : Gregorian chants |
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Author | : Ling Zhang |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2016-09-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107155983 |
This book explores the human-engineered flooding of China's Yellow River, and how it affected the state, environment, and inhabitants of the region.
Author | : John Henry Arnold |
Publisher | : London : Oxford University Press ; H. Milford |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Music |
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Author | : Wright Morris |
Publisher | : Bison Books |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
"This narrative, which on its surface is an account of three generations of women (and a few of their men) living on the plains of Nebraska ... only gets more strange and beautiful the more you look at it, like a photograph that slowly reveals its truth under very close inspection."--Introduction, p. [v].
Author | : Erin Bow |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2010-09-01 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545328764 |
A debut novel that's as sharp as a knife's point. Plain Kate lives in a world of superstitions and curses, where a song can heal a wound and a shadow can work deep magic. As the wood-carver's daughter, Kate held a carving knife before a spoon, and her wooden charms are so fine that some even call her "witch-blade" -- a dangerous nickname in a town where witches are hunted and burned in the square.
Author | : Karen Maezen Miller |
Publisher | : New World Library |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Gardening |
ISBN | : 1608682528 |
"Reflections on finding peace, beauty, and fulfillment in everyday life, illustrated by the author's experiences with tending her new home's venerable but neglected Japanese garden"--
Author | : Patricia MacLachlan |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1987-09-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0064402053 |
"Did Mama sing every day?" Caleb asks his sister Anna. "Every-single-day," she answers. "Papa sang, too." Their mother died the day after Caleb was born. Their house on the prairie is quiet now, and Papa doesn't sing anymore. Then Papa puts an ad in the paper, asking for a wife, and he receives a letter from one Sarah Elisabeth Wheaton, of Maine. Papa, Anna, and Caleb write back. Caleb asks if she sings. Sarah decides to come for a month. She writes Papa: I will come by train. I will wear a yellow bonnet. I am plain and tall, and Tell them I sing. Anna and Caleb wait and wonder. Will Sarah be nice? Will she like them? Will she stay?