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Book The Secrets of Hidden Creek

Download or read book The Secrets of Hidden Creek written by Wylly Folk St. John and published by Graymalkin Media. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After three days at Grandma and Grandpa’s summer cabin, we knew it was going to be a long, boring summer. Then Jenny got her bright idea: Ghost Hunting at Wormwood! I don’t know about Chuck, but I felt prickles on the back of my neck. The place across the lake looked like something an author named Edgar Allen Poe wrote about in Grandma’s book with the horrible pictures of the ruined castles with bats, and people decaying and dribbling down the sides of their coffins. But Jenny thought it would be fun to poke around and see if the ghost stories Grandma told us were really true. None of us were prepared for the strange noises and suspicious characters we were going to meet. This summer vacation turned out to be plain scary! But if it hadn’t been we would never have found the lost treasure (not one but two treasures) or have helped Sheriff Jenkins solve a real life robbery and murder case!

Book Hidden Valley Road

Download or read book Hidden Valley Road written by Robert Kolker and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • ONE OF GQ's TOP 50 BOOKS OF LITERARY JOURNALISM IN THE 21st CENTURY • The heartrending story of a midcentury American family with twelve children, six of them diagnosed with schizophrenia, that became science's great hope in the quest to understand the disease. "Reads like a medical detective journey and sheds light on a topic so many of us face: mental illness." —Oprah Winfrey Don and Mimi Galvin seemed to be living the American dream. After World War II, Don's work with the Air Force brought them to Colorado, where their twelve children perfectly spanned the baby boom: the oldest born in 1945, the youngest in 1965. In those years, there was an established script for a family like the Galvins--aspiration, hard work, upward mobility, domestic harmony--and they worked hard to play their parts. But behind the scenes was a different story: psychological breakdown, sudden shocking violence, hidden abuse. By the mid-1970s, six of the ten Galvin boys, one after another, were diagnosed as schizophrenic. How could all this happen to one family? What took place inside the house on Hidden Valley Road was so extraordinary that the Galvins became one of the first families to be studied by the National Institute of Mental Health. Their story offers a shadow history of the science of schizophrenia, from the era of institutionalization, lobotomy, and the schizophrenogenic mother to the search for genetic markers for the disease, always amid profound disagreements about the nature of the illness itself. And unbeknownst to the Galvins, samples of their DNA informed decades of genetic research that continues today, offering paths to treatment, prediction, and even eradication of the disease for future generations. With clarity and compassion, bestselling and award-winning author Robert Kolker uncovers one family's unforgettable legacy of suffering, love, and hope.

Book Daylighting Chedoke

Download or read book Daylighting Chedoke written by John Terpstra and published by James Street North Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chedoke Creek is one of six creeks that weave their way through Hamilton, but it is the most hidden, lost to culverts and concrete. Its waters are seen only in a couple of waterfalls as it flows over the edge of the Niagara Escarpment and in a short canal where it runs alongside Highway 403. In elegant, seamless prose award-winning author John Terpstra traces Chedoke Creek back to its source, searching through historical archives and city documents, and even walking up the great storm drains that collect the water that spills from the escarpment. He weaves the history of the creek with the lyrical observations of nature and humankind's connections to nature that he is celebrated for, while also examining the reality of our contaminated waterways. Daylighting Chedoke is a meditation on how urbanization and industrialization has literally buried our natural environment and what it would be like to free our creeks and perhaps, while doing so, free our society."--

Book Hidden Creek

    Book Details:
  • Author : Katharine Newlin Burt
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-12-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 202 pages

Download or read book Hidden Creek written by Katharine Newlin Burt and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hidden Creek is a book by Katharine Newlin Burt. Contents: Part One: The Good Old World Sheila's Legacy, Sylvester Hudson Comes For His Picture, The Finest City In The World, Moonshine, Intercession, The Bawling-Out, Dish-Washing, Artists, A Singeing Of Wings, The Beacon Light, In The Public Eye, Hudson's Queen, Sylvester Celebrates, The Light Of Dawn, Flames Part Two: The Stars The Hill, Adventure, Journey's End, Beasts, Neighbor Neighbor, A History And A Letter, Sanctuary, Desertion, Work And A Song, Winter, The Pack, The Good Old World Again, Loneliness, Sheila And The Stars

Book Hidden Creek

Download or read book Hidden Creek written by Katharine Newlin Burt and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1947
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hidden Waters of New York City

Download or read book Hidden Waters of New York City written by Sergey Kadinsky and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the forgotten waterways hidden throughout the five boroughs Beneath the asphalt streets of Manhattan, creeks and streams once flowed freely. The remnants of these once-pristine waterways are all over the Big Apple, hidden in plain sight. Hidden Waters of New York City offers a glimpse at the big city’s forgotten past and ever-changing present, including: Minetta Brook, which ran through today's Greenwich Village Collect Pond in the Financial District, the city's first water source Newtown Creek, separating Brooklyn and Queens Bronx River, still a hotspot for urban canoeing and hiking Filled with eye-opening historical anecdotes and walking tours of all five boroughs, this is a side of New York City you’ve never seen.

Book Washington s Secret War  The Hidden History of Valley Forge

Download or read book Washington s Secret War The Hidden History of Valley Forge written by Thomas Fleming and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A superb retelling of the story of Valley Forge and its aftermath, demonstrating that reality is far more compelling than myth." - Gordon S. Wood The defining moments of the American Revolution did not occur on the battlefield or at the diplomatic table, writes New York Times bestselling author Thomas Fleming, but at Valley Forge. Fleming transports us to December 1777. While the British army lives in luxury in conquered Philadelphia, Washington's troops huddle in the barracks of Valley Forge, fending off starvation and disease even as threats of mutiny swirl through the regiments. Though his army stands on the edge of collapse, George Washington must wage a secondary war, this one against the slander of his reputation as a general and patriot. Washington strategizes not only against the British army but against General Horatio Gates, the victor in the Battle of Saratoga, who has attracted a coterie of ambitious generals devising ways to humiliate and embarrass Washington into resignation. Using diaries and letters, Fleming creates an unforgettable portrait of an embattled Washington. Far from the long-suffering stoic of historical myth, Washington responds to attacks from Gates and his allies with the skill of a master politician. He parries the thrusts of his covert enemies, and, as necessary, strikes back with ferocity and guile. While many histories portray Washington as a man who has transcended politics, Fleming's Washington is exceedingly complex, a man whose political maneuvering allowed him to retain his command even as he simultaneously struggled to prevent the Continental Army from dissolving into mutiny at Valley Forge. Written with his customary flair and eye for human detail and drama, Thomas Fleming's gripping narrative develops with the authority of a major historian and the skills of a master storyteller. Washington's Secret War is not only a revisionist view of the American ordeal at Valley Forge - it calls for a new assessment of the man too often simplified into an American legend. This is narrative history at its best and most vital.

Book Geological Survey Circular

Download or read book Geological Survey Circular written by and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

Download or read book Annual Report written by British Columbia. Department of Mines and Petroleum Resources and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeological Research in the Lesser Slave Lake Region

Download or read book Archaeological Research in the Lesser Slave Lake Region written by Raymond Joseph LeBlanc and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines evidence gathered from 81 sites in the region, and includes information on occupation from late Holocene times, as well as ancient trade networks, cultural influences from north and south, and the Cree living in the region at the time of European contact.

Book Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board

Download or read book Sixth Report of the United States Geographic Board written by United States Geographic Board and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mineral Resources of Alaska

Download or read book Mineral Resources of Alaska written by Philip Sidney Smith and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fishery Bulletin

Download or read book Fishery Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Canadian Mining Journal

Download or read book Canadian Mining Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Green Fuse

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Harte
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 2023-11-10
  • ISBN : 0520331095
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book The Green Fuse written by John Harte and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A widely respected ecological scientist and activist draws on the poet's image and his own environmental research to demonstrate the many interconnections among the world's ecosystems. John Harte takes us from Alaskan salmon runs and the Florida everglades to South Pacific coral reefs and the bleak Tibetan plateau. The result is that rare book that bridges the cultures of science and art. Lyrical, vivid portraits of natural wonders and the threats to them are combined with precise scientific accounts of natural processes and their disturbances. The Green Fuse will show nonscientists the fascination of ecological detective work and renew scientists' love for the beauty of the world under their microscopes. Harte's stories illuminate, without sermonizing, the damage to natural systems brought about by technological hubris and calculated political ruthlessness. "The green fuse" symbolizes the basic unity behind natural diversity. But a fuse may also be the weak link in an overloaded system or the slow burning wick on an ecological bomb. As The Green Fuse reminds us, the energies that created human liberation from nature can also be those that lead to the human destruction of nature. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.