Download or read book Dust Storms May Exist written by Ben Groner III and published by Madville Publishing. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dust Storms May Exist follows the trajectory of a 10,000-mile road trip, exploring the geography, music, and history of America while mapping its astonishments and disillusionments. Ben Groner III searches for a dead father, wrestles with belief and doubt, yearns for sensuality, and recalls the freedom and loneliness of traveling in South America. Bluegrass and cowboy songs seep across the pages as he moves through canyons, bayous, cornfields, museums, gas stations, dance halls, and memory’s refracting landscapes. These poems are a reckoning with what his country is and could be, a meditation on the palpability of absence, a discovery of the searing border between friendship and love, a realization that longing revolves at the core of all experience.
Download or read book Dust Storms May Exist written by Ed Teja and published by Float Street Press. This book was released on with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They come in fast and block out the sun. Dust storms pop up out of nowhere and are a danger for drivers on the open highways of the southwest. But when you can't see what is in front of you maybe, with a little help, a fresh pair of eyes, you see something new. Something that might not even be there other times, something that is only accessible when dust storms may exist! A compelling story of an encounter with other possibilities.
Download or read book Home Is the Road written by Diane Glancy and published by Broadleaf Books . This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[Glancy's] long-distance drives take on the monastic qualities of a spiritual pilgrimage rather than serving merely as a means to a destination." --The New York Times Book Review The land carries voices. The land remembers what happened upon it. In traveling the land, I become familiar with more than myself. Give me the journey of the road; it is my journey home. From the award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another. "My sense of place is in the moving," Glancy writes. For her the road is home--its own satisfying destination. But the road also makes demands on us: asking us to be willing to explore the incomprehensible parts of the landscapes we inhabit and pass through--as well as to, ultimately, let them blur as they go by. This, Glancy says, is home. Glancy teases out the lessons of the road that are never easy to define, grappling with her own: childhood's puzzle pieces of her Cherokee heritage and a fraught but still compelling vision of Christianity. As she clocks an inordinate amount of driving, as she experiments with literary forms, she looks to what the land has held for centuries, before the roads were ever there. This, ultimately, is a book about land, tradition, religion, questions and the puzzle pieces none of us can put together quite right. It's a book about peripheral vision, conflicting narratives, and a longing for travel.
Download or read book Unhomely Wests written by Stephen Tatum and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incorporating readings of key cultural texts from the environmental humanities, studies of globalization and economics, postmodernism, psychoanalytic criticism, and feminist theory, Stephen Tatum addresses the ongoing crises of displacement and loss of home in the modern urban West.
Download or read book Texas Blood written by Roger D. Hodge and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph.
Download or read book Farming Around the Country written by Brian J. Bender and published by NorlightsPress. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 12 consecutive months, author Brian Bender lived a nomadic life on small organic farms across the United States. Leaving behind a teaching career, he hopped from farm to farm through an organization called WOOF: World-Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms. Along with his spiritual journey, Bender embarked upon a spiritual quest in meditation centers around the country. The heart of this story lies with the unusual people, animals, and tasks on each farm. Bender entered this year of transformation a high school science teacher and came out educated in the ways of sustainable living and human happiness.
Download or read book Lost Children Archive written by Valeria Luiselli and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-02-12 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • “An epic road trip [that also] captures the unruly intimacies of marriage and parenthood ... This is a novel that daylights our common humanity, and challenges us to reconcile our differences.” —The Washington Post One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years In Valeria Luiselli’s fiercely imaginative follow-up to the American Book Award-winning Tell Me How It Ends, an artist couple set out with their two children on a road trip from New York to Arizona in the heat of summer. As the family travels west, the bonds between them begin to fray: a fracture is growing between the parents, one the children can almost feel beneath their feet. Through ephemera such as songs, maps and a Polaroid camera, the children try to make sense of both their family’s crisis and the larger one engulfing the news: the stories of thousands of kids trying to cross the southwestern border into the United States but getting detained—or lost in the desert along the way. A breath-taking feat of literary virtuosity, Lost Children Archive is timely, compassionate, subtly hilarious, and formally inventive—a powerful, urgent story about what it is to be human in an inhuman world.
Download or read book False River written by Paula Morris and published by Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited. This book was released on 2017-10-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riffing on truth, lies and secrets, this collection uses fiction to explore fact, and fact to explore fiction. Fictional characters muse upon the truth behind real people, non-fiction pieces contain short interludes of fiction, fiction is written to read like an essay, made-up elements slip into true accounts. These pieces range the world – from America, to Antwerp to Aotearoa – and talk about writers and writing, famous figures, family members, witch-burning in Denmark, cyclones and numerous pertinent and stimulating topics. All brilliantly written, each will leave you thinking and desperate to jump back in for more.
Download or read book Truth or Consequences written by Daniel Asa Rose and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Asa Rose was a successful novelist, memoirist, book critic, and columnist for the New York Times Magazine, Esquire, and others, when the top blew off his domestic life. His wife of sixteen years wanted out. Before he could slip into depression, doubt, and self-loathing, Dan’s lifelong friend Tony made an irresistible proposition: go back to the place where, forty years earlier, their college road trip had come to a crashing halt, T-boned by a woman in the decidedly oddball little town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Dan and Tony return to the scene of the crash in an effort to make sense of that fateful moment. He’s certain that if he can locate the woman in whose arms he almost died, he will find the self he lost and make peace with his life choices since. Dan moves into a single-wide trailer four blocks from the crash. Over the next eight months, inexplicable encounters make him fall in love with the New Mexico desert and the wiggy place that embraces him.
Download or read book Shifting into High Gear written by Kyle Bryant and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifting Into High Gear charts the course of Kyle Bryant's transformation as he journeys on a recumbent tricycle across the United States in the throes of Friedreich's ataxia, a life-shortening and disabling disease. Full of humor and reflection, it's a heroic journey of a man driven to reframe the language of disease through action and service. As you travel with Kyle during two cross-country bike rides through the American West, Texas, the Southern States, and finally to the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, the grueling rides become a compelling backdrop for a series of lessons and ruminations which embrace an alternative worldview and provide practical solutions to everyday problems. A thrilling adventure story, yes, Shifting Into High Gear is also ultimately about helping readers reinterpret the conditions of their lives and learning how positive thinking, purposeful connection, and deliberate actions can help anyone reach beyond their limits and live a bolder and bigger life no matter what the circumstance. Deeply passionate and compassionate, Kyle uses his amazing story to teach readers how to replace the handicapping language of "disability" with the agency to build a thriving and hopeful life. He bravely exposes the shadow-side of using disabling language and asks us to commit to a collective goal of understanding disease and its emotional impact and embrace the disabled population as equal individuals. In telling his story, Kyle's desire is that instead of viewing disease as a deficit, we would see it as another state of being—simply as a life which strikes out on a different path.
Download or read book An Impossible Abduction written by Ed Teja and published by Float Street Press. This book was released on 2021-11-01 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do you do when things go surreal? When things blow up on Matt Cramer, they can be messy. This time the mess might be blood. Whatever it is, right now that bloody mess is all over the walls. A newly minted private investigator, Matt returned to Silver City, New Mexico to open his office. This isn’t a good start. Josh, the office painter, is missing and that’s not a good sign. Nor is the ominous attitude of Officer Ravenwalk, or the fact that the local coffee shop is owned by witches, or that Matt somehow has found himself partnering with a shaman and the blood, if it is blood, is somehow tied to a woman’s disappearance—a disappearance that might involve aliens. Welcome to Silver City, New Mexico, where things are seldom truly wrong, but never quite right, either. Of course, that’s why he’s here.
Download or read book Next Time I ll Shoot Him written by Ed Teja and published by Float Street Press. This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are breeding grounds for possibilities… Almost anything and everyone has a chance to be good, bad, heroic, evil, mundane, and magical. And most things, and people, are hybrids. Consider the countless opportunities for people to develop unique, innovative solutions to their problems; consider the challenge of surviving in the chaos of a teeming city where survival is a challenge; consider the opportunities for complete failure; and consider the options available. The urban environment is not forgiving and you should count on survivors using whatever tools they have at hand. You even need to expect magic. Always expect magic, even if there might be a cruder, more expedient, more obvious way of doing things, because witches are people.
Download or read book 1001 Questions Answered about the Weather written by Frank H. Forrester and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1981 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What causes the aurora? What are the trade winds? Over 1,000 questions with comprehensive answers cover all types of weather phenomena. This enlightening, entertaining, and well-illustrated text for anyone curious about nature features numerous diagrams and full-page illustrations. Topics include the atmosphere, climatology, storms, historical weather studies, and weather lore.
Download or read book Dust in the Atmosphere of Mars and its Impact on Human Exploration written by Joel S. Levine and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major surprise of the Apollo Moon missions was the deleterious impact of lunar dust on the astronauts, their spacesuits and other equipment, and even inside the Command/Service Module during their return to Earth. Lunar dust permeated everything and impacted mechanical systems. The dust on the Moon’s surface was disturbed and became airborne by the routine actions of the astronauts as they walked and performed their exploration of the lunar surface. Over the last decade, as NASA’s plans for the human exploration of Mars have developed and matured, a major concern has been the possible negative impacts of Mars surface and atmospheric dust on human health and on the human surface systems and surface operations on the Red Planet. In this book, 41 Mars scientists, mission engineers and planners and medical researchers have reviewed our current understanding and identified the knowledge gaps in a wide range of areas, including the chemical, physical and electrical properties of Mars atmospheric dust; the evolution and occurrence of localized, regional and planetary-scale dust storms; the human health effects of Mars atmospheric dust, including inhalation of and potential toxicity of dust particles; and the impact of Mars atmospheric dust on surface systems and on surface operations, among others.
Download or read book Popular Science written by and published by . This book was released on 1890-06 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular Science gives our readers the information and tools to improve their technology and their world. The core belief that Popular Science and our readers share: The future is going to be better, and science and technology are the driving forces that will help make it better.
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