Download or read book In the Shadow of the White Oak written by Rosanne L Higgins and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-11-07 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maude Travers checked to make sure no one was looking before she laid hands on the great white oak, the oldest tree in the city of Buffalo, New York. It's a witness tree, after all, having stood young and strong when the Seneca people hunted this land in the eighteenth century. One hundred years later, it was incorporated into Frederick Law Olmsted's vision for the most innovative system of parks and parkways in the United States. Maude was keen to know what the tree might manifest to her. Visions appeared in rapid succession, revealing people and events through three centuries of stewardship. The first left her with a palpable sense of fear; the second profound joy; and the final, a grief so overwhelming the pain lingered with her, long after the vision had faded.Who were these people, and how were their stories intertwined? Using her powerful gifts as a psychic medium, Maude sets out to unravel the mystery, only to be sidetracked by some devastating news. Soulmates past and present are threatened as Maude slowly grasps that her gifts alone are insufficient to reach into the past and correct the course of history. Widening her circle of gifted seers to send healing across time, she prays their collective efforts will be enough.
Download or read book The Whiteoak Brothers written by Mazo de la Roche and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1953, in The Whiteoak Brothers, the Jalna household is electric with secrecy and excited expectation. It is now 1923, and while young love blossoms between Pheasant and Piers, Aunt Augusta’s friend, Dilly Warkworth, arrives at Jalna and tries to snare the heart of Renny. Eden, meets a persuasive mining broker whose new venture promises miracles. One by one, Eden persuades the other Whiteoaks to part with their savings - even old Adeline. This is book 6 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Jalna.
Download or read book Whiteoak Harvest written by Mazo de la Roche and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1936, Whiteoak Harvest chronicles the 1930s saga of Renny Whiteoak and his wife, Alayne. Finch Whiteoak and wife, Sarah, return from their honeymoon to upset the Jalna household with Eden Whiteoak's love child. Meanwhile Wakefield Whiteoak is engaged to Pauline Lebraux but is tormented by religious doubts. This is book 11 of 16 in The Whiteoak Chronicles. It is followed by Wakefield's Course.
Download or read book Oak Seed Dispersal written by Michael A. Steele and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive examination of oak forest evolutionary ecology. Seed dispersal is a critical stage in the life cycle of most flowering plants. The process can have far-reaching effects on a species' biology, especially numerous aspects of its ecology and evolution. This is particularly the case for the oaks, in which the dispersal of the acorn is tied to numerous tree characteristics, as well as the behavior and ecology of the animals that feed on and move these seeds to their final destination. Forest structure, composition, and genetics often follow directly from the dispersal process—while also influencing it in turn. In Oak Seed Dispersal, Michael A. Steele draws on three decades of field research across the globe (e.g., the United States, Mexico, Central America, Europe, and China) to describe the interactions between oaks and their seed consumers. Rodents, birds, and insects, he writes, collectively influence the survival, movement, and germination of acorns, as well as the establishment of seedlings, often indicating a coevolutionary bond between oaks and their seed consumers. This bond can only be understood by unraveling the complex interactions that occur in the context of factors such as partial seed consumption due to acorn chemistry, scatterhoarding, predation of the seed consumers by other organisms, and the limiting effects of masting on insect, rodent, and jay damage. Offering new insights on how animal-mediated dispersal drives ecological and evolutionary processes in forest ecosystems, Oak Seed Dispersal also includes an overview of threatened oak forests across the globe and explains how a lack of acorn dispersal contributes to many important conservation challenges. Highly illustrated, the book includes photographs of key dispersal organisms and tactics, as well as a foreword by Stephen B. Vander Wall, a leading authority on food hoarding and animal-mediated seed dispersal, and beautiful artwork by Tad C. Theimer, also an accomplished ecologist.
Download or read book Whiteoak Heritage written by Mazo de la Roche and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Whiteoak Heritage" (Whiteoaks of Jalna) by Mazo de la Roche. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Oak King written by Courtway Jones and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the building of Camelot to the tempering of Arthur's allies Gawaine, King Ban, and Lancelot, this tale of love, loyalty, and war reveals a fascinating world where battles are won by faith as well as force, and peace is as elusive as the mist of time itself. First in a planned trilogy. A lively extension of Arthurian lore. . . .--Publishers Weekly.
Download or read book Silvical Characteristics of Oregon White Oak written by Roy R. Silen and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oak Forest Ecosystems written by William J. McShea and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2003-06-04 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oak Forest Ecosystems focuses on the relationship between an oak forest's acorn yield and species of wildlife that depend on it. It begins by treating factors such as oak distribution, forest fires, tree diseases and pests, dynamics of acorn production, and acorn dispersal by birds and mammals. Special consideration is given to the phenomenon of masting—whereby oaks in a given area will produce huge crops of acorns at irregular intervals—a key component for wildlife researchers and managers in understanding patterns of scarcity and abundance in the creatures that feed on this crop. Relationships between oaks and animals such as mice, squirrels, turkeys, deer, and bear are discussed, as are the differences between eastern, southern Appalachian, southwestern, and California oak forests. Contributors: Marc D. Abrams, Pennsylvania State University • Patrick H. Brose, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • John P. Buonaccorsi, University of Massachusetts • Daniel Dey, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • Joseph S. Elkinton, University of Massachusetts • George A. Feldhamer, Southern Illinois University • Peter F. Folliott, University of Arizona • Lee E. Frelich, University of Minnesota • Cathryn H. Greenberg, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • William M. Healy, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • Roy L. Kirkpatrick, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University • Johannes M. H. Knops, University of Nebraska • Walter D. Koenig, University of California • Nelson W. Lafon, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries • Andrew M. Liebhold, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • William J. McShea, National Zoological Park Conservation and Research Center • William H. McWilliams, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • Gary W. Norman, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries • Steven W. Oak, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • Renee A. O'Brien, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • Richard S. Ostfeld, Institute of Ecosystem Studies • Bernard R. Parresol, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service • Peter J. Perkins, University of New Hampshire • Gordon C. Reese, Colorado State University • Peter B. Reich, University of Minnesota • Peter D. Smallwood, University of Richmond • Christopher C. Smith, Kansas State University • Richard B. Standiford, University of California–Berkeley • Martin A. Stapanian, Ohio Cooperative Wildlife Unit • Michael A. Steele, Wilkes University • David Steffen, Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries • David H. Van Lear, Clemson University • Michael R. Vaughan, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University • Karen L. Waddell, U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service
Download or read book Forest Leaves written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The White Oak and Its Neighbors written by Sarah Sprague Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1800 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silent Blue Tears written by Ron Bateman and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is based on actual investigations I handled as a homicide detective. Follow the gripping life of a close knit, unstoppable squad of four detectives and their sergeant. Learn of the rarely told, unconventional methods of solving a murder. See how I delves into the dark side of the job that few cops dare to discuss. Watch how the job entangles a detective in unforeseen love and ignites his urge to revenge the deaths of his victims. This mystery is full of plot twists, sex, cop humor, drama and horrific violence. Drawing from memorable life experiences, I bring the reader intimately into investigations directly from the eyes of a cop who has witnessed the horrors of death.
Download or read book Cheyenne Moon written by Cathy Keeton and published by Cathy Keeton. This book was released on 2012-05-19 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Find a time with no distractions, sit in your favorite chair and dive into a world of long ago, a different place and time. Abby is a young teacher living with her widowed father on the American frontier in the 1860's. She is kidnapped by the very renegade that brutally murdered her mother. Shadow Spirit a Cheyenne brave rescues Abbey from a perilous situation and certain death; He is like no other man she has ever met, tall and muscular with bronzed shin and dazzling green eyes. His mother is a beautiful Irish redhead and his father is the noble Chief of their people. The undeniable attraction mounts between them, spinning their lives out of control. With a love known by few, Shadow Spirit and Abby are forced to make choices affecting future and past generations.
Download or read book Snakedoctor written by Maurice Manning and published by Copper Canyon Press. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From church barn to apple orchard, from snow-covered pasture to secret moonshine cabin, Manning’s Snakedoctor reinvigorates the Kentucky pastoral through poems that find light in shadow, good in evil, love in a father’s stinging blow. Maurice Manning returns to the Kentucky countryside in his eighth collection, Snakedoctor. Existing between haunting memory and pastoral dreamscape, this quiet collection showcases Manning’s storytelling at its finest. Simple, four-beat lines hold epiphanies—“the barn is just an empty church”— and announce visits from seven-foot strangers named Mr. True. Here, God is reimagined as a “serious banjo player” who calls the world to sing. And sing Manning does. Through rhyme, blues, and haiku, Snakedoctor trains our ears to hear music in the mundane, to find beauty all around us: in the annotated margins of a well-read book, the flight of a father’s shadow puppet, the yellow centers of daisies. Punctuated by rain’s pitter-patter on a tin wash tub, and the “ring of lonely” in a farmer’s voice as he calls his cattle home, Snakedoctor is a collection that will leave you wanting to dog-ear its pages. From childhood to fatherhood, church barn to apple orchard, moonshine to moonbeam, we leave these poems understanding Manning’s wish: “I wanted to make a prayer and I did, / in half-sleep after the dream.”
Download or read book Arnold and Me written by Barbara Outland Baker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arnold Schwarzenegger's first love relives their six-year journey during his explosive first years in America. While she watches Arnold surpass his dreams, Barbara learns to transform hers -- from desiring what cannot be to cherishing what is so. As a woman who spends her adult life trying to get out from under Arnold's shadow, Barbara Baker learns about the shifting direction of life's journey. She hopes for normalcy during and after living with her stratospherically successful Austrian Oak bodybuilder. Barbara finds life anything but normal, however. Within Arnold and Me, she strips down this conjoined twosome as they launch their adult lives into polar opposite journeys. After their breakup, Arnold transcends the role of Hercules to become the Governator. He marries once and produces four children; to the contrary, the English Professor says "I do" four times, yet bears no offspring. Along with vintage photos and firsthand dialogue, the book's resolution forces their singular lives to merge at a satisfying junction. Despite their divergent paths, both Arnold and Barbara demonstrate that achieving one's dream demands a relentlessly flexible spirit. Barbara has skillfully rounded Arnold's corners by offering heartfelt nuances about this man who marked her for life. The author's enlightened voice also resonates with those who face relationship challenges over personal identity and fulfillment. She not only lifts herself into higher consciousness, but also the willing reader. Her journey has allowed her to find life's richness through accepting not only Arnold's daunting shadow, but also her own. This woman sings with energy, incrementally illuminating the rich lives of two ex-lovers within a beautifully developed, fast-paced story. Her readers continue to travel in their minds, breathing in the life of Arnold and Barbara long after the last word has been read.
Download or read book In the Shadow of Time written by Kevin Ansbro and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Silvics of Forest Trees of the United States written by United States. Forest Service. Division of Timber Management and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Agriculture Handbook written by and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set includes revised editions of some issues.
