Down the River Unto the Sea

Down the River Unto the Sea
Author: Walter Mosley
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 147460868X

Winner of the RBA Prize for Crime Writing Joe King Oliver was one of the NYPD's finest investigators until, dispatched to arrest a well-heeled car thief, he is framed for assault, a charge that lands him in the notorious Rikers Island prison. A decade later, King is a private detective, running his agency with the help of his teenage daughter, Aja-Denise. When he receives a card in the mail from the woman who admits she was paid by someone in the NYPD to frame him all those years ago, King realises that he has no choice but to take his own case: figuring out who on the force wanted him disposed of - and why. At the same time, King must investigate the case of black radical journalist Leonard Compton, aka A Free Man, accused of killing two on-duty police officers who had been abusing their badges to traffic drugs and women into the city's poorest neighbourhoods. In pursuit of justice, our hero must beat dirty cops and even dirtier bankers. All the while, two lives hang in the balance: Compton's, and King's own.

Over in a River

Over in a River
Author: Marianne Berkes
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2013-09-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1584693320

Learning becomes fun for everyone in this book about the geography of north American rivers and about the animals that live in this habitat. The amazing artwork in this book will inspire kids in classrooms and at home to appreciate the world around us! The great rivers of North America are teeming with life and on the pages of Over in a River—from blue herons in the Hudson to salmon in the Columbia, and from dragonflies in the Rio Grande to mallards in the St. Lawrence. Children will "slither" like water snakes and "slide" like otters while singing to the tune of "Over in a Meadow." Read about the snake, beaver, frog, otter, dragonfly, and more that lives along the rivers! Kids love counting books, too! What a delightful way to learn about riparian habitats and geography at the same time! Backmatter Includes: Further information about rivers and the animals in this book! Music and song lyrics to "Over in the River" sung to the tune "Over in the Meadow"!

My Paddle to the Sea

My Paddle to the Sea
Author: John Lane
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2012-09-01
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0820339776

Like Huck Finn, Lane sees a river journey as a portal to change, but unlike Twain's character, Lane isn't escaping. He's getting intimate with the river that flows right past his home in the Spartanburg suburbs. Lane's three hundred mile float trip takes his down the Broad River and into Lake Marion before continuing down the Santee River.

Streams to the River, River to the Sea

Streams to the River, River to the Sea
Author: Scott O'Dell
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1986
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395404300

A young Indian woman, accompanied by her infant and her cruel husband, experiences joy and heartbreak when she joins the Lewis and Clark expedition seeking a way to the Pacific.

Goodbye to a River

Goodbye to a River
Author: John Graves
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010-11-10
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0307773353

In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

Down by the River

Down by the River
Author: Grace Hallworth
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781847800824

Down by the river, Down by the sea, Johnny break a bottle An' he say is me. I tell Ma, Ma tell Pa, Johnny get a licking, An' a ha! ha! ha! Here is a fun collection of Afro-Caribbean rhymes games and songs, collected by Trinidadian author Grace Hallworth, and brought to life by Caroline Binch's bright and life-like illustrations.

Paddle-to-the-Sea

Paddle-to-the-Sea
Author:
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 68
Release: 1941
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780395150825

A small canoe carved by an Indian boy makes a journey from Lake Superior all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.

hawrah

hawrah
Author: L.S.S. O'Malley
Publisher: Concept Publishing Company
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2016-09-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Excerpt from Howrah The deep channel alternates from left to right and vice cersa according to the windings of the river, except where deflected by the large tributaries which debouch into it at the southern limit of this district. Proceeding from Howrah Bridge, the deep channel runs on the Calcutta side in the Calcutta Reach past the Fort and Kidderpore to Garden Reach. At Rajganj, Opposite Hangman Point, it crosses over to the Howrah Side, and follows the Sankrail Reach as far as Melancholy (menikhali) Point. It then zigzags from left to right at each bend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Running Dry

Running Dry
Author: Jonathan Waterman
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2010
Genre: History
ISBN: 1426205058

An eye-witness account of the many demands on the Colorado, from irrigating 3.5 million acres of farmland to watering the lawns of Los Angeles.

Journey to the River Sea

Journey to the River Sea
Author: Eva Ibbotson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2001
Genre: Amazon River Region
ISBN: 9780439567633

Sent with her governess to live with the dreadful Carter family in exotic Brazil in 1910, Maia endures many hardships before fulfilling her dream of exploring the Amazon River.