Gathering the Bones
Author | : Dennis Etchison |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2003-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765301792 |
Offers an anthology of thirty-four horror tales from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.
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Author | : Dennis Etchison |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2003-08-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0765301792 |
Offers an anthology of thirty-four horror tales from the United States, Great Britain, and Australia.
Author | : Jesmyn Ward |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2012-04-12 |
Genre | : African American children |
ISBN | : 140882700X |
A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's father is growing concerned. He's a hard drinker, largely absent, and it isn't often he worries about the family. Esch and her three brothers are stocking up on food, but there isn't much to save. Lately, Esch can't keep down what food she gets; at fifteen, she has just realized that she's pregnant. Her brother Skeetah is sneaking scraps for his prized pit bull's new litter, dying one by one. Meanwhile, brothers Randall and Junior try to stake their claim in a family long on child's play and short on parenting. As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up to face another day.
Author | : Sarah Raughley |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 496 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1534453563 |
"An African tightrope walker who cannot die gets involved with a mysterious society that's convinced the world is ending and is drafted into the fight-to-the-death Tournament of Freaks, where she learns the terrible truth of who and what she really is"--
Author | : Jennifer Bryant |
Publisher | : Eerdmans Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0802852173 |
Artist Georgia O'Keeffe was interested in the shapes she saw around her, from her childhood on a Wisconsin farm to her adult life in New York City and New Mexico.
Author | : Valerie Nieman |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781946684981 |
2020 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award finalist Darrick MacBrehon, a government auditor, wakes among the dead. Bloodied and disoriented from a gaping head wound, the man who staggers out of the mine crack in Redbird, West Virginia, is much more powerful--and dangerous--than the one thrown in. An orphan with an unknown past, he must now figure out how to have a future. Hard-as-nails Lourana Taylor works as a sweepstakes operator and spends her time searching for any clues that might lead to Dreama, her missing daughter. Could this stranger's tale of a pit of bones be connected? With help from disgraced deputy Marco DeLucca and Zadie Person, a local journalist investigating an acid mine spill, Darrick and Lourana push against everyone who tries to block the truth. Along the way, the bonds of love and friendship are tested, and bodies pile up on both sides. In a town where the river flows orange and the founding--and controlling--family is rumored to "strip a man to the bones," the conspiracy that bleeds Redbird runs as deep as the coal veins that feed it.
Author | : Brenna Hassett |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2017-02-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1472922956 |
The city has killed most of your ancestors, and it's probably killing you, too - this book tells you why. Imagine you are a hunter-gatherer some 15,000 years ago. You've got a choice – carry on foraging, or plant a few seeds and move to one of those new-fangled settlements down the valley. What you won't know is that urban life is short and riddled with dozens of new diseases; your children will be shorter and sicklier than you are, they'll be plagued with gum disease, and stand a decent chance of a violent death at the point of a spear. Why would anyone choose this? This is one of the many intriguing questions tackled by Brenna Hassett in Built on Bones. Using research on skeletal remains from around the world, this book explores the history of humanity's experiment with the metropolis, and looks at why our ancestors chose city life, and why they have largely stuck to it. It explains the diseases, the deaths and the many other misadventures that we have unwittingly unleashed upon ourselves throughout the metropolitan past, and as the world becomes increasingly urbanised, what we can look forward to in the future. Telling the tale of shifts in human growth and health that have occurred as we transitioned from a mobile to a largely settled species. Built on Bones offers an accessible insight into a critical but relatively unheralded aspect of the human story: our recent evolution.
Author | : Ben Mikaelsen |
Publisher | : Scholastic Inc. |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2014-01-28 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0545633621 |
Lost and alone in the jungle, one boy will have to let go of his assumptions and anger, or be dragged down with them. Dylan Barstow has finally crossed the line. After getting caught on a late-night joyride in a stolen car, Dylan is shipped off to live with his ex-Marine uncle for the summer. But Uncle Todd has bigger plans for Dylan than push-ups and early-morning jogs. Deep in the steamy jungles of Papua New Guinea, there's a WWII fighter plane named SECOND ACE that's been lost for years, a plane that Dylan's own grandfather barely escaped from with his life. In all this time, no one has ever been able to track down SECOND ACE -- but now Dylan and his uncle are going to try.Lush and haunted, vital and deadly, these alien jungles half a world away could mean Dylan's salvation, or they could swallow him whole.
Author | : Gregory Orr |
Publisher | : Copper Canyon Press |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2012-12-11 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1619320630 |
Gregory Orr’s genius is the transformation of trauma into art. Whether writing about his responsibility for a brother’s death during a hunting accident, drug addiction, or being jailed during the Civil Rights struggle, lyricism erupts in the midst of desolation and violence. Orr’s spare, succinct poems distill myth from the domestic and display a richness of action and visual detail. This long-awaited collection is soulful work from a remarkable poet, whose poems have been described as "mystical, carnal, reflective, and wry." (San Francisco Review) "Love Poem" A black biplane crashes through the window of the luncheonette. The pilot climbs down, removing his leather hood. He hands me my grandmother’s jade ring. No, it is two robin’s eggs and a telephone number: yours. from "Gathering the Bones Together" A father and his four sons run down a slope toward a deer they just killed. the father and two sons carry rifles. They laugh, jostle, and chatter together. A gun goes off and the youngest brother falls to the ground. A boy with a rifle stands beside him, screaming… "Orr’s is an immaculate style of latent violence and inhibited tenderness, charged with a desperate intensity whose source is often obscure."--The New York Times Book Review Gregory Orr is the author of seven volumes of poetry and three books of criticism. He is the editor at Virginia Quarterly Review, teaches at the University of Virginia, and lives with his wife and daughters in Charlottesville. In 2002, along with his selected poems The Caged Owl, he will also publish a memoir and a book about poetry writing: Three Strange Angels: Trauma and Transformation in Lyric Poetry. Also Available by Gregory Orr: Orpheus & Eurydice: A Lyric Sequence
Author | : Bob Barner |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 31 |
Release | : 1996-09 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0811808270 |
A rendition of a traditional African American spiritual.
Author | : Gregory Orr |
Publisher | : HarperCollins Publishers |
Total Pages | : 86 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : |