Download or read book Big River s Daughter written by Bobbi Miller and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Raised by her pirate father on a Mississippi keeler, River is a half-feral river rat and proud of it. When her powerful father disappears in the great earthquake of 1811, she is on the run from buccaneers, including Jean Lafitte, who hope to claim her father's territory and his buried treasure. But the ruthless rivals do not count on getting a run for their money from a plucky slip of a girl determined to find her place in the new order. Filled with down-home humor, raucous hijinks, and one-of-a-kind characters, this historical novel captures the Mississippi River at a time when its denizens were as untamed as its waters.
Download or read book Big River s Daughter written by Bobbi Miller and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When River Fillian's powerful father, a pirate on a Mississippi keeler, disappears after a horrific earthquake in 1811, she must challenge the infamous rivals who hope to claim his territory and find her own place in the new order. Includes historical notes.
Download or read book Daughter of the River written by Ying Hong and published by Grove Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From her upbringing in the slums of Chongqing to her sexual and intellectual awakening to her search to unravel the mystery of her birth, a coming-of-age portrait by a renowned poet and novelist details her turbulent life against the backdrop of Communist China.
Download or read book The Koryak written by Waldemar Jochelson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 886 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the 18th century, researchers and scientists have traveled the peninsula of Kamchatka in the Russian Far East. Many of them were of German origin and had been commissioned by the Russian government to perform specific tasks. Their exhaustive descriptions and detailed reports are still considered some of the most valuable documents on the ethnography of the indigenous peoples of that part of the world. These works inform us about living conditions and particular ways of natural resource use at various times, and provide us with valuable background information for current assessment. As the first profound anthropological descriptions of that region, the publications of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition, undertaken in the first years of the 20th century, marked the beginning of a new era of research in Russia. They represented a shift of the already existing transnational research networks toward North America. Jochelson’s work The Koryak was an important milestone for Russian and North American anthropology that provides to this day a unique contribution to thoroughly understanding the cultures of the North Pacific rim.
Download or read book Firekeeper s Daughter written by Angeline Boulley and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PRINTZ MEDAL WINNER! A MORRIS AWARD WINNER! AN AMERICAN INDIAN YOUTH LITERATURE AWARD YA HONOR BOOK! A REESE WITHERSPOON x HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB YA PICK An Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller Soon to be adapted at Netflix for TV with President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama's production company, Higher Ground. “One of this year's most buzzed about young adult novels.” —Good Morning America A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time Selection Amazon's Best YA Book of 2021 So Far (June 2021) A 2021 Kids' Indie Next List Selection An Entertainment Weekly Most Anticipated Books of 2021 Selection A PopSugar Best March 2021 YA Book Selection With four starred reviews, Angeline Boulley's debut novel, Firekeeper's Daughter, is a groundbreaking YA thriller about a Native teen who must root out the corruption in her community, perfect for readers of Angie Thomas and Tommy Orange. Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother Levi’s hockey team. Yet even as Daunis falls for Jamie, she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. Everything comes to light when Daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into an FBI investigation of a lethal new drug. Reluctantly, Daunis agrees to go undercover, drawing on her knowledge of chemistry and Ojibwe traditional medicine to track down the source. But the search for truth is more complicated than Daunis imagined, exposing secrets and old scars. At the same time, she grows concerned with an investigation that seems more focused on punishing the offenders than protecting the victims. Now, as the deceptions—and deaths—keep growing, Daunis must learn what it means to be a strong Anishinaabe kwe (Ojibwe woman) and how far she’ll go for her community, even if it tears apart the only world she’s ever known.
Download or read book Crossing the River written by Carol Smith and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful exploration of grief and resilience following the death of the author's son that combines memoir, reportage, and lessons in how to heal Everyone deals with grief in their own way. Helen Macdonald found solace in training a wild goshawk. Cheryl Strayed found strength in hiking the Pacific Crest Trail. For Carol Smith, a Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist struggling with the sudden death of her seven-year-old son, Christopher, the way to cross the river of sorrow was through work. In Crossing the River, Smith recounts how she faced down her crippling loss through reporting a series of profiles of people coping with their own intense challenges, whether a life-altering accident, injury, or diagnosis. These were stories of survival and transformation, of people facing devastating situations that changed them in unexpected ways. Smith deftly mixes the stories of these individuals and their families with her own account of how they helped her heal. General John Shalikashvili, once the most powerful member of the American military, taught Carol how to face fear with discipline and endurance. Seth, a young boy with a rare and incurable illness, shed light on the totality of her son's experiences, and in turn helps readers see that the value of a life is not measured in days. Crossing the River is a beautiful and profoundly moving book, an unforgettable journey through grief toward hope, and a valuable, illuminating read for anyone coping with loss.
Download or read book What Is a River written by Monika Vaicenavičiene and published by Enchanted Lion Books. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A river is a thread, embroidering our world. This non-fiction picture book brings attention to the rivers that stitch and thread our world together.
Download or read book The River s Daughter written by Vella Munn and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1993 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Water has no cause to love the pale skins, the ones who killed her husband and indirectly caused her to miscarry their son. And Barr Connor has no love for the Rogue Indians, who enslaved him as a boy. But when fate throws them together in the Oregon frontier, Dark Water and Barr cannot ignore their growing feelings of passion.
Download or read book River Cross My Heart written by Breena Clarke and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed bestseller -- a selection of Oprah's Book Club -- that brings vividly to life the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC, circa 1925, and a community reeling from a young girl's tragic death. When five-year-old Clara Bynum drowns in the Potomac River under a seemingly haunted rock outcropping known locally as the Three Sisters, the community must reconcile themselves to the bitter tragedy. Clarke powerful charts the fallout from Clara's death on the people she has left behind: her parents, Alice and Willie Bynum, torn between the old world of their rural North Carolina home and the new world of the city; the friends and relatives of the Bynum family in the Georgetown neighborhood they now call home; and, most especially, Clara's sister, ten-year-old Johnnie Mae, who is thrust into adolescence and must come to terms with the terrible and confused emotions stirred by her sister's death. This highly accomplished debut novel reverberates with ideas, impassioned lyricism, and poignant historical detail as it captures an essential and moving portrait of the Washington, DC community.
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Download or read book Family Ye s Older Daughter written by Qi MuGongZi and published by Funstory. This book was released on 2020-05-12 with total page 701 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ye Qimu, the president of an international group, had been struggling for so many years, but suddenly found out that he was terminally ill, or had been pitied by the heavens. He had actually traveled to a little girl from a rundown village in the Empire of Donghua, and in ancient times, his parents and siblings had been working all day and were all thin and yellow? She went alone up the mountain to look for food! Grandmother will squeeze it? She designed a branch family! The Zhuang family's aunt was a nice person, yet she sent him an egg? With a wave of his hand, he formed a gang and became rich! Who said that the sons and daughters of the peasants were the lowest? However, she was a bookseller, and business was a windfall. She had a handsome genius behind her, and he was determined to support her! Furthermore, the Ye Clan's daughter was full of admiration for him. She bore the heavy responsibility and was like a lotus blooming every step of the way. There would always be something wonderful about her! Join Collection
Download or read book Big River Poetry Review Volume 1 written by John Lambremont and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review is no slender paperback; Big River Poetry Review Volume 1 is a blockbuster 9 x 12 coffee table book with 185 pages of poems. "A magnificent read," says Joan Colby. THIS IS AS GOOD AS IT GETS. Including poems by Pam Uschuk, Phillip Fried, Joan Colby, William Doreski, Sheila E. Murphy, Peycho Kanev, Sybill Pittman Estess, Larry Thomas, Robert Lietz, Martin Willitts, Jr., and many other outstanding poets, this is the first print issue of Big River Poetry Review, an on-line and print journal of fine original contemporary poetry compiled, edited, and published in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, see bigriverpoetry.com. In this issue, we are printing all the poems we published on-line between the Review's inception in late May 2012 and the end of December 2012.
Download or read book A Woman s Experiences in the Great War written by Louise Mack and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'In my mind's eye, I could follow those peasants, fleeing, fleeing, ever fleeing from one village to another, from one town to another, hunted and followed by the cruel menace of War.' When the German Army invaded Belgium in 1914, Louise Mack set off to cover the war as a reporter for The Daily Mail. She soon found herself deeply embedded in the conflict and forced to make her way through Northern Europe and find a way back to safety. Along the way, she recorded the true stories of adversity faced by the civilian populations of Europe and in so doing became the world's first female war correspondent. Written with excruciating vividness and genuine emotion, Mack's account provides a unique perspective on the conflict that engulfed Europe.
Download or read book The Greater Awyu Languages of West Papua written by Lourens de Vries and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-08-24 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive and authoritative description of the Greater Awyu family of Papuan languages. The book brings together many decades of research on Greater Awyu languages, including 10 years of field work by the author. The book presents a description of major patterns found in languages of the family: phonology, morphology, syntax and discourse. In addition, major aspects of the anthropological linguistics of Greater Awyu languages are described: counting systems, language names, kinship, linguistic ideologies, lexical substitution registers, avoidance and taboo. The linguistic patterns of Greater Awyu languages are systematically placed in the genetic, typological, areal and historical contexts of New Guinea. The long dialect continuums within the family, by reflecting different diachronic stages, offer a window on the origin of switch reference, clause chaining, topic markers, postpositions and double-headed relative clauses. The book is relevant for readers interested in the typological, historical and cultural linguistics of New Guinea but also for anthropologists and historians because the history and cultural practices of Greater Awyu speakers are a key part of the story of this language family.
Download or read book Faces of Love written by Bertha Adjei Adiwna and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-09-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contrary to the custom of the kingdom, the throne had passed Prince Ziggah Mandi, the first son of the king, to his junior brother. This did not go well with the senior prince but he could not do anything about it because he had a deformity which disqualified him. As a vengeance he secretly planned to annihilate all heirs to the throne of Armadah Kingdom. However while he thought he had totally annihilated all heirs to the throne except he and his children, the son of the king he murdered was growing up in a different country under a foreign name. The desire of the hidden prince was to avenge his father's death and take his throne, but he got himself entangled in a love affair that landed him and the princess of his heart in prison. The beautiful kingdom of Armadah was fast deteriorating under the ineffective reign of Prince Ziggah's son, but there seemed to be nobody to the rescue.
Download or read book Blood of Two Streams written by Francis Mading Deng and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book—part memoir, part political statement—examines the influence of the author’s maternal and paternal ancestry on his life. Delving into the rich history of Francis Mading Deng’s heritage, Blood of Two Streams acts as a bridge to cross-cultural understanding and multidisciplinary connection between the personal, the communal, and the universal.
Download or read book Diary of a Stage Mother s Daughter written by Melissa Francis and published by Hachette Books. This book was released on 2012-11-06 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Glass Castle meets The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother in this dazzlingly honest and provocative family memoir by former child actress and current Fox Business Network anchor Melissa Francis. When Melissa Francis was eight years old, she won the role of lifetime: playing Cassandra Cooper Ingalls, the little girl who was adopted with her brother (played by young Jason Bateman) by the Ingalls family on the world's most famous primetime soap opera, Little House on the Prairie. Despite her age, she was already a veteran actress, living a charmed life, moving from one Hollywood set to the next. But behind the scenes, her success was fueled by the pride, pressure, and sometimes grinding cruelty of her stage mother, as fame and a mother's ambition pushed her older sister deeper into the shadows. Diary of a Stage Mother's Daughter is a fascinating account of life as a child star in the 1980's, and also a startling tale of a family under the care of a highly neurotic, dangerously competitive "tiger mother." But perhaps most importantly, now that Melissa has two sons of her own, it's a meditation on motherhood, and the value of pushing your children: how hard should you push a child to succeed, and at what point does your help turn into harm?
