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Download or read book The Coffin Tree written by Wendy Law-Yone and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Coffin Tree written by Wendy Law-Yone and published by TriQuarterly Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Burmese woman's estrangement from her homeland brings her to the brink of insanity and back again. The Coffin Tree is the duel story of one woman's exile and consequent immigration to America, and America's rejection and consequent acceptance of her.

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Download or read book Our Father Who Art in a Tree written by Judy Pascoe and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2004-04 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a novel about grief, love, and the power of belief, the narrator, Simone, describes the various ways in which her mother, brothers, neighbors, and community come to terms with the death of her father.

Download or read book The Banyan Tree written by Christopher Nolan and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Minnie O'Brien reflects back on her long life in rural Ireland and her struggle to hand her farm over to her youngest son.

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Download or read book Every Root an Anchor written by R. Bruce Allison and published by Wisconsin Historical Society. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Every Root an Anchor, writer and arborist R. Bruce Allison celebrates Wisconsin's most significant, unusual, and historic trees. More than one hundred tales introduce us to trees across the state, some remarkable for their size or age, others for their intriguing histories. From magnificent elms to beloved pines to Frank Lloyd Wright's oaks, these trees are woven into our history, contributing to our sense of place. They are anchors for time-honored customs, manifestations of our ideals, and reminders of our lives' most significant events. For this updated edition, Allison revisits the trees' histories and tells us which of these unique landmarks are still standing. He sets forth an environmental message as well, reminding us to recognize our connectedness to trees and to manage our tree resources wisely. As early Wisconsin conservationist Increase Lapham said, "Tree histories increase our love of home and improve our hearts. They deserve to be told and remembered."

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Download or read book Trees Without Wind written by Rui Li and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfolding in the tense years of the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976), Trees Without Wind takes place in a remote Shanxi village in which a rare affliction has left the residents physically stunted. Director Liu, an older revolutionary and local commune head, becomes embroiled in a power struggle with Zhang Weiguo, a young ideologue who believes he is the model of a true revolutionary. Complicating matters is a woman named Nuanyu, who, like Zhang Weiguo and Director Liu, is an outsider untouched by the village's disease. "Wedded" to all of the male villagers, Nuanyu lives a polyandrous lifestyle based on necessity and at odds with the puritanical idealism of the Cultural Revolution. The deformed villagers, representing the manipulated masses of China, become pawns in the Party representatives' factional infighting. Director Liu and Zhang Weiguo's explosive tug-of-war is part of a larger battle among politics, self-interest, and passion gripping a world undone by ideological extremism. A collectively told narrative powered by distinctive subjectivities, Trees Without Wind is a milestone in the fictional treatment of a horrific event.