Download or read book Down from the Mountain written by Elizabeth Fixmer and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fourteen year-old Eva tries to be a good disciple of Righteous Path, a polygamy cult in Colorado, but her forays into the "heathen world" cause her to question all she knows. Eva wants to be a good disciple of Righteous Path. She grew up knowing that she's among the chosen few to be saved from Armageddon. Lately, though, being saved feels awfully treacherous. Ever since they moved to the compound in Colorado, their food supplies have dwindled while their leader, Ezekiel, has stockpiled weapons. The only money comes from the jewelry Eva makes and sells in town—a purpose she'll serve until she becomes one of Ezekiel's wives. But a college student named Trevor and the other "heathens" she meets on her trips beyond the compound are far different from what she's been led to believe. Now Eva doesn't know which is more dangerous—the outside world or Reverend Ezekiel's plans.
Download or read book When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain written by Nghi Vo and published by Tordotcom. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Locus and Ignyte finalist, Crawford Award winner, and bestselling author Nghi Vo comes the second installment in a Hugo Award-winning series "A stunning gem of a novella that explores the complexity and layers of storytelling and celebrates the wonder of queer love. I could read about Chih recording tales forever."—Samantha Shannon, New York Times bestselling author of The Priory of the Orange Tree "Dangerous, subtle, unexpected and familiar, angry and ferocious and hopeful. . . . The Empress of Salt and Fortune is a remarkable accomplishment of storytelling."—NPR The cleric Chih finds themself and their companions at the mercy of a band of fierce tigers who ache with hunger. To stay alive until the mammoths can save them, Chih must unwind the intricate, layered story of the tiger and her scholar lover—a woman of courage, intelligence, and beauty—and discover how truth can survive becoming history. Nghi Vo returns to the empire of Ahn and The Singing Hills Cycle in When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain, a mesmerizing, lush standalone follow-up to The Empress of Salt and Fortune. The Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle The Empress of Salt and Fortune When the Tiger Came Down the Mountain Into the Riverlands The novellas of The Singing Hills Cycle are linked by the cleric Chih, but may be read in any order, with each story serving as an entry point. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Go Down the Mountain written by Meredith Battle and published by Mascot Books. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Bee Livingston is a nervy, teenage beauty whose beloved father's sudden death in a snake charming accident has left her alone with her abusive mother. Her one salvation is Miles, the big-city photographer who promises escape and a life full of the adventure she craves. But when Bee is caught in a dangerous cat-and-mouse game with a government man who takes her family's land and won't stop until he claims her too, it may be Torch, the boy she grew up with on the mountain, who becomes the man she needs. Based on the true story of the hundreds of families who were forced from their Blue Ridge Mountain homes to make way for Shenandoah National Park in the 1930s, Go Down the Mountain is a tale of dispossession, coming of age, and love."
Download or read book Come Down the Mountain written by Vian Smith and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Down from the Mountain written by Bryce Andrews and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Andrews' wonderful Down from the Mountain is deeply informed by personal experience and made all the stronger by his compassion and measured thoughts... Welcome and impressive work." --Barry Lopez Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Competition's Mountain Environment & Natural History Award The story of a grizzly bear named Millie: her life, death, and cubs, and what they reveal about the changing character of the American West The grizzly is one of North America's few remaining large predators. Their range is diminished, but they're spreading across the West again. Descending into valleys where once they were king, bears find the landscape they'd known for eons utterly changed by the new most dominant animal: humans. As the grizzlies approach, the people of the region are wary, at best, of their return. In searing detail, award-winning writer, Montana rancher, and conservationist Bryce Andrews tells us about one such grizzly. Millie is a typical mother: strong, cunning, fiercely protective of her cubs. But raising those cubs--a challenging task in the best of times--becomes ever harder as the mountains change, the climate warms and people crowd the valleys. There are obvious dangers, like poachers, and subtle ones as well, like the corn field that draws her out of the foothills and sets her on a path toward trouble and ruin. That trouble is where Bryce's story intersects with Millie's. It is the heart of Down from the Mountain, a singular drama evoking a much larger one: an entangled, bloody collision between two species in the modern-day West, where the shrinking wilds force man and bear into ever closer proximity.
Download or read book Down Down the Mountain written by Ellis Credle and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The adventures of two children as they travel to town to sell the turnips they grew.
Download or read book She ll Be Coming Round the Mountain written by Jonathan Emmett and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-04-10 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.
Download or read book Pushed Off the Mountain Sold Down the River written by Samuel Western and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political, economic history of Wyoming.
Download or read book Hateship Friendship Courtship Loveship Marriage written by Alice Munro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From Nobel Prize–winning author Alice Munro come nine short stories with “the intimacy of a family photo album and the organic feel of real life” (The New York Times) “In Munro’s hands, as in Chekhov’s, a short story is more than big enough to hold the world—and to astonish us, again and again.”—Chicago Tribune FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD • A TIME BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY In the nine breathtaking stories that make up this collection, Alice Munro creates narratives that loop and swerve like memory, conjuring up characters as thorny and contradictory as people we know ourselves. The fate of a strong-minded housekeeper with a “frizz of reddish hair,” just entering the dangerous country of old-maidhood, is unintentionally (and deliciously) reversed by a teenaged girl’s practical joke. A college student visiting her aunt for the first time and recognizing the family furniture stumbles on a long-hidden secret and its meaning in her own life. An inveterate philanderer finds the tables turned when he puts his wife into an old-age home. A young cancer patient stunned by good news discovers a perfect bridge to her suddenly regained future. A woman recollecting an afternoon’s wild lovemaking with a stranger realizes how the memory of that encounter has both changed for her and sustained her through a lifetime. Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage is Munro at her best—tirelessly observant, serenely free of illusion, deeply and gloriously humane.
Download or read book My Side of the Mountain written by Jean Craighead George and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2001-05-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Should appeal to all rugged individualists who dream of escape to the forest."—The New York Times Book Review Sam Gribley is terribly unhappy living in New York City with his family, so he runs away to the Catskill Mountains to live in the woods—all by himself. With only a penknife, a ball of cord, forty dollars, and some flint and steel, he intends to survive on his own. Sam learns about courage, danger, and independence during his year in the wilderness, a year that changes his life forever. “An extraordinary book . . . It will be read year after year.” —The Horn Book
Download or read book The Mountain King written by Rick Hautala and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 2001-06 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark Newman had heard tales of the demon that resided on the rocky slopes of the mountain, but he didn't believe them. The day his friend disappeared in a sudden, blinding snowstorm, Mark believed when he saw something he knew couldn't be real--something that would kill again and again. Includes three bonus short stories.
Download or read book Sailing Down the Mountain written by Ben Harrison and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-26 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben and Helen Harrison set aside their comfortable life in San Francisco to go to Costa Rica and build a 38-foot sailboat. They had never built a boat before. Then, they had to get it down to mountainside to the water. And from there sail to Key West where they now live. It was a dauntless task and a challenge that put their marriage, their sanity, and their very lives on the line. A real-life adventure that will make you feel like you've got a berth on La Dulce Mujer Pintada, the Sweet Painted Lady.
Download or read book Down From the Mountain written by Voyle Glover and published by Voyle Glover. This book was released on 2024-04-06 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men Bred for the Old West By the time he was 18, Kyle Elliot was fighting Comanche raiders, the most fierce warriors who’d ever ridden across the broad plains of Texas. He’d ridden with Captain John Coffee Hays, in the Texas Rangers and learned to fight in ways most men never understood. Being A Marshal is a Tough Job Elliot is headed to a small, sleepy little town, hoping to serve as marshal, hoping he can avoid the problems he had in his last marshal’s job, which involved having to kill several men, and getting in the middle of a range war. Now, he’d accepted a lawman’s job in a peaceful town. It seemed to be perfect. But, Kyle Elliot would quickly learn that he’d need all the skills he’d learned as a Texas Ranger with Captain Jack to survive. The only thing that kept him from leaving was a woman. Kyle Elliot was in love. But, staying meant death, probably his, and for certain, some men who'd regret the day they met Kyle Elliot. The local bartender, who knew Elliot's reputation and had once seen him in action, tried to talk him out of taking the job of marshal. He told Elliot, "These folks, they ain't never seen a man like you, before. Latham, he's got some rough boys over at his place, but, except for maybe a couple of them, they ain't seen the likes of you before, either. Nobody in this town ever saw the likes of you, except maybe old man Haggar. He rode with a pretty hard crowd in his day. Some say he was close to Hardin. Latham, he'll hire whatever and whoever he needs to kill you. I say kill, because I know your kind don't run and don't back down. That means there will be some dead men stacking up here, soon. You'll win, at first. But eventually, he'll get you." Readers like this author's books This is a western fiction novel of the highest caliber, an action packed adventure from Brevia Books by Voyle Glover. One reader said of the author: “...reminds me of Louis L’Amour’s books. He was my favorite when it came to westerns.” Muskrat Other comments by readers “I recommend this book to any reader of westerners, well paced and exciting! Now i'm looking forward to another book by Glover.” "One thing I don't do with a Voyle Glover book is bother with a sample. It would just be a waste of time. I'm a big fan of traditional westerns and his are among the best I ever read....To me a great book is one that engages me from the first page. I have to like or hate the characters, become fully engaged in their story and wish for more when its over." "Mr. Glover does a great job of creating interesting characters and unfolding them a little at a time. I will definitely be buying more from this author." The Law interrupted a budding writing career Voyle Glover is the author of several western novels. He wrote his first western just out of the U.S. Navy and saw it published in Far West, a California publication. He shared the cover of that magazine with Louis L'Amour, the Dean of western fiction. Glover's writing got interrupted by law school and a hard-paced career as a trial attorney litigating federal civil rights cases for many years. Glover lived for 16 years in Arizona and has roamed the state, ridden many old trails, and camped and explored much of that state. When he creates a landscape scene in his books, he’s bringing to life a scene that he’s gazed upon at one time. If you like classic Old West tales, you’ll enjoy this one.
Download or read book Come written by Carolann C. McGrath and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve men from different religions and walks of life receive a plain white envelope that contains just one word: COME. Each must respond immediately to the request and give up their way of life. They are a Wall Street broker, a British lord, a homeless person, a poor taxi driver from India, an oil tycoon from South America, a doctor, an archeologist, an engineer, a rock star, a prince from Saudi Arabia, a jeweler from Israel, and a priest from Italy. Their beliefs are in several different gods. There is a Buddhist, one who believes in Allah, some who believe in the one God, and an agnostic, who believes in nothing. Each of these men do not know where they are going. They just go because they are called. They are taken to a monastery where their journey begins. When they arrive at the monastery, they find that they have been called to search for some of the rarest artifacts known to man. Each is given a task that they must complete within one month. They are sent to different parts of the world in search of these artifacts. Among some of the places they will travel to are Brazil, Turkey, India, Egypt, and China. Each man or team of men searches the world over to bring the artifacts back to the monastery. When they find the artifact and touch it, they are forever changed. They cannot believe what they have found. Many will be brought to tears. All will find inner peace. They have been called at a time of complete turmoil in the world, and what they find will bring about peace. This is a story that may make you cry, may make the unbeliever believe. Hopefully, it will bring joy and inner peace to those who read it. Please join with me on the journey of these twelve very special men.
Download or read book Till He Come written by Charles Hadden Spurgeon and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-04 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An indepth series of sermons and teachings on the holy sacrament of communion. Spurgeon, in his brilliance, uses a variety of scriptures that all relate to the eucharist to teach us about the importance of this Biblical practice and why we need to be observing it in either formal church settings or within small groups of fellow believers.
Download or read book The Forgotten Books of Eden written by Rutherford Hayes Platt and published by Book Tree. This book was released on 2006-08-30 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the 1927 edition published by Alpha House, New York.
Download or read book Do Glaciers Listen written by Julie Cruikshank and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2007-10 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on these contrasting views of glaciers between Aboriginal peoples and European visitors in northern Canada and Alaska, Julie Cruikshank demonstrates how local knowledge is produced, rather than discovered, through colonial encounters, and how it often conjoins social and biophysical processes.
