Silence on the Plains

Silence on the Plains
Author: Ray Pairan Jr
Publisher: Raymond Pairan
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2019-05-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1097367975

This anthology of short stories written by Ray Pairan is dystopian, raw, and full of passionate humanity. Environmental destruction and unrestrained corporatism that leads to a world of pain and suffering are offset with tales that excite intellectually. Take the journey into the totally unexpected – travel into a not to distant future that each of us may already recognize. Ray Pairan has this truly unique and unusual ability to embed his readers directly into each story so they feel the pain, happiness, and horror in the numerious twists and turns of his dynamic imagination. Table of Contents Spaceship Earth Earth Dead Planet at the Edge of the Milky Way Fusing All Traces of a Mistake in Molten Rock A New Originator Wakes from Oblivion Our Crystal Clear Blue Sky Rebirth A Beautiful Day Awaits Your Presence Zalon Kingdom Recalls RAD War Justice Seemed Distant The Unbreakable Spirit Trip Back Home Observant Ancestors of Red Planet The Iovian Moon Base Moon Stuck Free the Sleeping Inhabitants from the Feeders Surviving after Capitulation The Short Reprieve The Alliance to Defeat Evil The Unquestioning Valley Dwellers The Empire and Its Outlands A Deteriorating Country Broadly Smiling The Brown Prairie Grass Awaits another Storm Our Survival Assured Talkers Offer Assurances Clear Blue Lights A Strand of Hope in the Future Elegant Power Night Attack Road from Destruction Passing upon the Rock Pleasure Blue Escape Waiting for the Last Tear Reality Creation Board Cheap Death Freedom’s Pulse A New Day in Autumn Freedom The Greedy Tyrants Playtime Crossing the Line Galactic CorpGov – Theft on Epsilon Five CorpGov Emphasizes Education The Magnificent Human Bone Grinder The Complacent Acceptors Tyranny Yawns at Daybreak Dirty Secrets Clog Everything I’m So Happy I Should Smile The Dangerous Blue Planet The Last Word of Freedom Leaving a Spark of Action One More Cry of Anguish from the Lost Citizens Production Camps Built Upon Tumor of Greed We Are All Walking Dead, Even Our Rulers Final Days of Humanity Staggering to the Six-By-Six Polluted Mega Corrupt Dying Planet Red Glow Economic and Environmental Struggle Ends Swiftly Once Beautiful Planet – Ecologically Dead

The Plains Of Silence

The Plains Of Silence
Author: Alice J de C Leake Askew
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9781020408939

The Plains of Silence is a gripping tale of survival and adventure in the Australian Outback. Two courageous travelers must navigate the harsh terrain and fend off dangerous wildlife as they make their way to safety. This book is a must-read for fans of classic adventure stories and wilderness survival tales. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Dakota

Dakota
Author: Kathleen Norris
Publisher: HMH
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2001-04-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 054752756X

“A deeply spiritual, deeply moving book” about life on the Great Plains, by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Cloister Walk (The New York Times Book Review). “With humor and lyrical grace,” Kathleen Norris meditates on a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth (San Francisco Chronicle). A combination of reporting and reflection, Dakota reminds us that wherever we go, we chart our own spiritual geography.

Song of the Plains

Song of the Plains
Author: Linda Joy Myers
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2017-06-20
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1631522175

Ever since she was a child, Linda Joy Myers felt the power of the past. As the third daughter in her family to be abandoned or estranged by a mother, she observed the consequences of that heritage on the women she loved as well as herself. But thanks to the stories told to her by her great-grandmother, Myers received a gift that proved crucial in her life: the idea that everyone is a walking storybook, and that we all have within us the key to a deeper understanding of life—the secret stories that make themselves known even without words. Song of the Plains is a weaving of family history that starts in the Oklahoma plains and spans over forty years as Myers combs through dusty archives, family stories, and genealogy online. She discovers the secrets that help to explain the fractures in her family, and the ways in which her mother and grandmother found a way not only to survive the great challenges of their eras, but to thrive despite mental illness and abuse. She discovers how decisions made long ago broke her family apart—and she makes it her life's work to change her family story from one of abuse and loss to one of finding and creating a new story of hope, forgiveness, healing, and love.

Consumers in the Country

Consumers in the Country
Author: Ronald R. Kline
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2000-04-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780801862489

From 1900 to 1960, the introduction and development of four so-called urbanizing technologies–the telephone, automobile, radio, and electric light and power–transformed the rural United States. But did these new technologies revolutionize rural life in the ways modernizers predicted? And how exactly–and with what levels of resistance and acceptance–did this change take place? In Consumers in the Country Ronald R. Kline, avoiding the trap of technological determinism, explores the changing relationships among the Country Life professionals, government agencies, sales people, and others who promoted these technologies and the farm families who largely succeeded in adapting them to rural culture.

Walking with Kathleen Norris

Walking with Kathleen Norris
Author: Robert Waldron
Publisher: Paulist Press
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2007
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0809144700

A fellow writer's response of his reading-journey through the work, both prose and poetry, of Kathleen Norris, author of the best selling The Cloister Walk. As in his other books, Walking with Thomas Merton and Walking with Henri Nouwen, Robert Waldron has devoted three seasons (spring, summer, fall) to reading the prose and poetry of Kathleen Norris. Norris is a major commentator on modern spirituality. This is the first full-length commentary on her work to be published. In order to get to know her, the author carefully read her work and responded to it in a daily journal. He chose the journal format because of its intimacy, allowing for spontaneity and quicksilver insights. The journal format also permits the reader a glimpse into the author's soul-scape and will inspire readers of this book to read Norris's work; especially her best selling book, The Cloister Walk. Waldron considers this to be one of the major spiritual autobiographies of the twentieth century, to be ranked with Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain.

Silence in the Snowy Fields

Silence in the Snowy Fields
Author: Robert Bly
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 61
Release: 1962-04-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0819571830

Striking and moving poems that are rooted deep in the earth The poems of Robert Bly are rooted deep in the earth. Snow and sunshine, barns and cornfields and cars on the empty nighttime roads, abandoned Minnesota lakes and the mood of America now—these are his materials. He sees and talks clearly: he uses no rhetoric nor mannered striving for effect, but instead the simple statement that in nine lines can embody a mood, reveal a profound truth, illuminate in an important way the inward and hidden life. This is a poet of the modern world, thoroughly aware of the complexities of the moment but equally mindful of the great stream of life—all life—of which mankind is only a part.

Shifting Plains

Shifting Plains
Author: Jean Johnson
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2009-11-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1101149124

Centuries before the time of the Sons of Destiny, a female shapeshifter became the leader of the people of the Shifting Plains… Tava Ell Var never really knew her mother, but she did know her tragic fate at the hands of a band of cruel shapeshifters—a history set down by Tava’s father as a warning about life on the Shifting Plains. But after her father is murdered, Tava encounters a Shifterai warband fighting to rid the Plains of the terrorizing bandits. Shifterai leader Kodan Sin Siin is sympathetic to Tava’s suffering, but he’s determined to bring the wary young woman to the Plains. Because he knows her secret: She, like he and his men, is a shapeshifter. Once she joins them, he knows that she will see for herself the true fate that awaits her on the Plains, and most of all, lose her fear of his people. And, in time, he knows she will find her place is in their fight—and by his side.