Knee-deep in Shavings

Knee-deep in Shavings
Author: Norman Carlisle Blanchard
Publisher: TouchWood Editions
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1999
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780920663639

From 1905 to 1069, the Blanchard Boat Company of Seattle was renowned and respected for its well-built vessels, large and small, sail and power. Hundreds of graceful Blanchard boats still ply the sounds and inlets of Washington, Alaska and British Columbia today. Norman C Blanchard is the son of Norman J Blanchard, founder of the firm, and his stories of beautiful boats and dedicated boaters go back to the turn of the century. The Blanchards worked with all the outstanding naval architects and designers of their day, including Ed Monk, Ben Seaborn, Ted Geary and Bill Garden, and built boats for unassuming fishermen and high profile yacht racers alike. Stephen Wilen has done all classic-boat enthusiasts a favor by collecting Norm Blanchard's fond reminiscences of a life devoted to splendid wooden boats.

Frontiers of Heaven

Frontiers of Heaven
Author: Stanley Stewart
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006-02-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1461748909

Winner of the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award For the Chinese, the Great Wall of China has defined much more than a physical barrier. Over the centuries it has represented a psychological frontier - within it lies the Celestial Kingdom, the compass of all civilization. Beyond lies a barbaric world of chaos and exile. In Frontiers of Heaven, author Stanley Stewart recounts his wanderings halfway across Asia. The journey takes him from Shanghai to the banks of the Indus, and along the way he encounters the modern Chinese for whom these regions beyond the Wall still hold the same morbid fascination. Today, the great western province of Xinjiang is still a land of exile, the destination of soldiers, reluctant settlers, political prisoners, and disgraced officials. Whether describing the lost cities of Central Asia, a Buddhist monastery in the shadow of Tibet, or a love affair in Xi'an, Stewart tells his story with charm and affection.

Thomas Hardy: Collected Works

Thomas Hardy: Collected Works
Author: Thomas Hardy
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 7347
Release: 2022-05-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

This unique and meticulously edited collection of Thomas Hardy's greatest works includes:_x000D_ Novels:_x000D_ Under the Greenwood Tree_x000D_ Far from the Madding Crowd_x000D_ The Return of the Native_x000D_ The Mayor of Casterbridge_x000D_ The Woodlanders_x000D_ Tess of the d'Urbervilles_x000D_ Jude the Obscure_x000D_ A Pair of Blue Eyes_x000D_ The Trumpet-Major_x000D_ Two on a Tower_x000D_ The Romantic Adventures of a Milkmaid_x000D_ The Well-Beloved_x000D_ Desperate Remedies_x000D_ The Hand of Ethelberta_x000D_ A Laodicean_x000D_ Short Stories:_x000D_ Wessex Tales_x000D_ An Imaginative Woman_x000D_ The Three Strangers_x000D_ The Withered Arm_x000D_ Fellow-Townsmen_x000D_ Interlopers at the Knap_x000D_ The Distracted Preacher_x000D_ Life's Little Ironies_x000D_ The Son's Veto_x000D_ For Conscience' Sake_x000D_ A Tragedy of Two Ambitions_x000D_ On the Western Circuit_x000D_ To Please His Wife_x000D_ The Melancholy Hussar of the German Legion_x000D_ A Tradition of Eighteen Hundred and Four_x000D_ The Fiddler of the Reels_x000D_ A Few Crusted Characters_x000D_ Tony Kytes, the Arch-deceiver_x000D_ The History of the Hardcomes_x000D_ The Superstitious Man's Story_x000D_ Andrey Satchel and the Parson and Clerk_x000D_ Old Andrey's Experience as a Musician_x000D_ Absent-Mindedness in a Parish Choir_x000D_ The Winters and the Palmleys_x000D_ Incident in Mr. Crookhill's Life_x000D_ Netty Sargent's Copyhold_x000D_ A Group of Noble Dames_x000D_ The First Countess of Wessex_x000D_ Barbara of the House of Grebe_x000D_ The Marchioness of Stonehenge_x000D_ Lady Mottisfont_x000D_ The Lady Icenway_x000D_ Squire Petrick's Lady_x000D_ Anna, Lady Baxby_x000D_ The Lady Penelope_x000D_ The Duchess of Hamptonshire_x000D_ The Honourable Laura_x000D_ A Changed Man and Other Tales_x000D_ Other Stories_x000D_ Drama:_x000D_ The Dynasts_x000D_ Poetry Collections:_x000D_ Wessex Poems and Other Verses_x000D_ Poems of the Past and the Present_x000D_ Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses_x000D_ Satires of Circumstance_x000D_ Moments of Vision_x000D_ Late Lyrics and Earlier_x000D_ Other Works:_x000D_ The Dorsetshire Labourer_x000D_ The Rev. William Barnes, B.D._x000D_ The Science of Fiction_x000D_ The Profitable Reading of Fiction_x000D_ Candour in English Fiction and more

The Book of Nature

The Book of Nature
Author: Barbara Mahany
Publisher: Augsburg Fortress Publishers
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2023-03-21
Genre:
ISBN: 1506473512

Before the sacred Scriptures were ever written, there was a much earlier text: The Book of Nature. Barbara Mahany invites us to discover an ancient theology that focuses on the text of God first revealed through creation--nature in all its kaleidoscopic turnings.

Knee-Deep in Wonder

Knee-Deep in Wonder
Author: April Reynolds
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2014-03-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1466866497

A dazzling first novel about four generations of fear and longing in the deep South "Who're your people, girl?" It's the song of the South, the big question, persistent and unforgiving. Helene Strickland, daughter of Lafayette County, Arkansas, and lately of the Northeast, doesn't have an answer. Instead, she has memories riddled with half-truths, stories heard in fits and starts, a family history from a family that doesn't know its own past. In the steamy August of 1976, Helene returns home for her aunt's funeral determined to learn the truth, but her probing yields more questions than answers: Why did her grandmother, Liberty, a cotton picker turned saloon owner, have no name until she was fourteen? Why does Queen Ester, Helene's mother, dress like a child, talk to no one, and refuse to see her own daughter? And who was Chess, a man with a terror of water, a man like a honey trap who drew the women and then destroyed them? In a mesmerizing narrative, April Reynolds seamlessly weaves past and present, intricate flashbacks and interlaced stories to produce an epic novel of one family maimed by the deepest wounds of history. Rich with legend, poetry, and historic events, Knee-Deep in Wonder captures the complex humanity of black Southern life.

Arctic Daughter

Arctic Daughter
Author: Jean Aspen
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2015-03-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1941821588

Setting off in an overloaded canoe, they journeyed down the Yukon River and walked upstream into the remote Brooks Range to build a cabin and live off the land. She was twenty-two, daughter of a famous woman adventurer. He was her childhood sweetheart. Four years later, they emerged from the Alaskan wilds. Now in her sixties, Jean Aspen updates her spellbinding tale of adventure in a harsh and beautiful land for a new generation. ARCTIC DAUGHTER is at once an extraordinary journey of self-discovery and a lyrical odyssey. A READER'S DIGEST book selection, this remarkable tale of survival and courage measures the value of dreams against the unforgiving realities of the natural world. First published in 1988 by Bergamot Books, Minneapolis, MN.

The Bobbin Girls

The Bobbin Girls
Author: Freda Lightfoot
Publisher: Canelo
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2020-06-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1800320620

She must decide if her childhood sweetheart is worth the struggle... Alena Townsen is in love with Rob and wants to spend the rest of her life with him. But he is the only son of James Hollinthwaite, a wealthy landowner who has his own ideas about Rob’s future, and he forces the two to part. With no other option, Rob and Alena run away together and plan to start a new life. Their dreams are shattered when they are discovered, and Rob is sent away by his father. Alena starts work at the local bobbin mill but life is hard and lonely for her, and her love for Rob is tested with the arrival of the mill’s new foreman. Torn between two men, Alena must decide where her heart truly lies. A charming romantic saga packed full of love and conflicting loyalties, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn and Annie Clarke.

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems (Illustrated)

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories, Fairy Tales and Poems (Illustrated)
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 3923
Release: 2017-05-29
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 8075832752

This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Table of Contents: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Series: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm New Chronicles of Rebecca The Flag-Raising Penelope Hamilton Series: Penelope's English Experiences Penelope's Experiences in Scotland Penelope's Irish Experiences Penelope's Postscripts The Homespun Trilogy: Rose o' the River The Old Peabody Pew Susanna and Sue Other Novels: A Summer in a Cañon: A California Story Polly Oliver's Problem: A Story for Girls The Birds' Christmas Carol The Romance of a Christmas Card Timothy's Quest Marm Lisa Mother Carey's Chickens The Diary of a Goose Girl A Cathedral Courtship The Story of Waitstill Baxter The Story of Patsy Short Stories: The Village Watch-Tower Tom O' the Blueb'ry Plains The Nooning Tree The Fore-Room Rug A Village Stradivarius The Eventful Trip of the Midnight Cry Ladies-in-Waiting Miss Thomasina Tucker The Turning-Point Huldah the Prophetess Two on a Tour Philippa's Nervous Prostration Anthologies: The Arabian Nights: Their Best Known Tales The Fairy Ring Tales of Wonder Every Child Should Know The Talking Beasts: A Book of Fable Wisdom The Story Hour: A Book for the Home and the Kindergarten Golden Numbers: A Book of Verse for Youth The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children Pinafore Palace Other Works: The Girl and the Kingdom: Learning to Teach The Republic of Childhood: Froebel's Gifts Children's Rights: A Book of Nursery Logic Bluebeard: A Musical Fantasy The Girl Scouts: A Training School for Womanhood Kate Douglas Wiggin (1856-1923) was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She devoted her adult life to the welfare of children in an era when children were commonly thought of as cheap labor.

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories

KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN – Ultimate Collection: 21 Novels & 130+ Short Stories
Author: Kate Douglas Wiggin
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 3931
Release: 2024-01-13
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

Kate Douglas Wiggin's 'Ultimate Collection' comprises 21 novels and over 130 short stories, showcasing her exceptional talent in storytelling and character development. Wiggin's works often revolve around themes of kindness, compassion, and the triumph of the human spirit, making her a beloved author in the literary world. Her writing style is marked by its warmth, wit, and insightful observations of human nature, captivating readers with its charm and authenticity. Set in various settings, Wiggin's stories offer a glimpse into different time periods and social classes, providing a rich tapestry of life experiences for readers to immerse themselves in. This comprehensive collection is a treasure trove for fans of classic literature and those interested in exploring the works of a gifted storyteller. Kate Douglas Wiggin's enduring legacy continues to inspire and delight readers of all ages, making this collection a must-have for any book lover seeking timeless tales of humanity and grace.