Download or read book Before the White House Portals written by John James Piatt and published by . This book was released on 1862* with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Nests at Washington and Other Poems written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nests at Washington and Other Poems written by John James Piatt and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nest written by Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A warm, funny and acutely perceptive debut novel about four adult siblings and the fate of the shared inheritance that has shaped their choices and their lives. Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old waitress as his passenger. The ensuing accident has endangered the Plumbs' joint trust fund, “The Nest,” which they are months away from finally receiving. Meant by their deceased father to be a modest mid-life supplement, the Plumb siblings have watched The Nest’s value soar along with the stock market and have been counting on the money to solve a number of self-inflicted problems. Melody, a wife and mother in an upscale suburb, has an unwieldy mortgage and looming college tuition for her twin teenage daughters. Jack, an antiques dealer, has secretly borrowed against the beach cottage he shares with his husband, Walker, to keep his store open. And Bea, a once-promising short-story writer, just can’t seem to finish her overdue novel. Can Leo rescue his siblings and, by extension, the people they love? Or will everyone need to reimagine the futures they’ve envisioned? Brought together as never before, Leo, Melody, Jack, and Beatrice must grapple with old resentments, present-day truths, and the significant emotional and financial toll of the accident, as well as finally acknowledge the choices they have made in their own lives. This is a story about the power of family, the possibilities of friendship, the ways we depend upon one another and the ways we let one another down. In this tender, entertaining, and deftly written debut, Cynthia D'Aprix Sweeney brings a remarkable cast of characters to life to illuminate what money does to relationships, what happens to our ambitions over the course of time, and the fraught yet unbreakable ties we share with those we love.
Download or read book The Nests at Washington and Other Poems written by John James Piatt and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1864 edition. Excerpt: ... A DISENCHANTMENT. And thou wast but a breathing May Embodied by delicious dreams, And drifted o'er my wandering way On fancy's swift and shining streams. Thine eyes were only violets, Thy lips but buds of crimson bloom, Thy hair, coiled sunshine--vain regrets! Thy soul, a brief perfume. And when the time of mists and chills Fell where the sweet wild roses grew, And took them from the shadowy hills, It took my lovely vision too; And when I came again to find The charm which used to fill the air, A sorrow struck me mute and blind--Thou wast not anywhere! Yet something met me in thy place, Something, they said, with looks like thine, With tresses full of golden grace And lips flush'd red with beauty's wine; A DISENCHANTMENT. With voice of silvery swells and falls And dreamy eyes still sweetly blue--But, then, the reptile's nature crawls Beneath the rainbow's hue. Woman, all things below, above, Look pale and drear and glimmering now, For I have loved thee with a love Whose passionate deeps such things as thou May never sound. And, with a moan, The chill'd tide of that love has rolled Above my heart, and made it stone, And oh, so cold, so cold! I saw thee by a magic lamp Whose warm and gorgeous blaze is gone, And o'er me shivers, gray and damp, The dimness of the real's dawn. Oh, I am like to one who stands Where late a vision smiled in air, And murmurs, with outstretching hands, "Where is my Angel--where?" A CHAIN FROM VENICE. She stretches dimpled arms of snow; A glad smile lights her baby eyes: My little beauty, would you know The story of your shining prize? It is a poet's golden thought Of you, that glitters like your hair, Of rich Venetian sunlight wrought Far in the South's enchanted air. Ah, if you stay from Heaven to learn The years...
Download or read book The Nests at Washington written by John James Piatt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-01-20 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Nests at Washington: And Other Poems In dreamy mood I wander'd At Sabbath sunset there, While the Wide city's murmur Hummed vaguely everywhere. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Trap nesting Wasps and Bees Life Histories Nests and Associates written by Karl V. Krombein and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birds of Washington written by William Leon Dawson and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1042 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Nest That Wren Built written by Randi Sonenshine and published by Candlewick. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nature lovers and poetry fans alike will be drawn to this lyrical picture book depicting how Carolina wrens build a nest for their young. This is the bark, snippets of twine, spidery rootlets, and needles of pine that shape the nest that Wren built. In the rhyming style of “The House That Jack Built,” this poem about the care and specificity that Carolina wrens put into building a nest is at once tender and true to life. Papa and Mama Wren gather treasures of the forest, from soft moss for a lining to snakeskin for warding off predators. Randi Sonenshine’s lilting stanzas, woven with accurate and unexpected details about Carolina wrens, and Anne Hunter’s gentle, inviting illustrations reveal the mysterious lives of these birds and impart an appreciation for the wonder of the life cycles around us. Back matter includes a glossary and additional interesting facts about wrens.
Download or read book Rare Encounters with Ordinary Birds written by Lyanda Lynn Haupt and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2004-06-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naturalist Lyanda Lynn Haupt, an ornithology teacher and researcher, examines the amazing talents and personalities of the most common of birds. Some birdwatchers will hop the red-eye to Costa Rica if a rare species is reported to be in residence. She makes the argument for sticking close to home. She muses on the tarnished reputation of the starling, the sexed-up antics of male woodpeckers, and the mysterious behavior and startling population explosion of crows in her hometown. Through the eye and voice of this talented writer, birds provide a fascinating point of contact with the natural world at large.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Washington Bald Eagle Symposium written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defusing Armageddon Inside NEST America s Secret Nuclear Bomb Squad written by Jeffrey T. Richelson and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-02-02 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in-depth examination of NEST: America's super-secret government agency operating to prevent nuclear terrorist attacks. Jeffrey T. Richelson reveals the history of the Nuclear Emergency Support Team, from the events leading to its creation in 1974 to today. Defusing Armageddon provides a behind-the-scenes look at NEST's personnel, operations, and detection and disablement equipment--employed in response to attempts at nuclear extortion, lost and stolen nuclear material, crashed nuclear-powered Soviet satellites, and al Qaeda's quest for nuclear weapons. Richelson traces the Cosmos satellite that crashed into the Canadian wilderness; nuclear threats to Los Angeles, New York, and other cities; and the surveillance of Muslim sites in the United States after 9/11. Relying on recently declassified documents and interviews with former NEST personnel, Richelson's extensive research reveals how NEST operated during the Cold War, how the agency has evolved, and its current efforts to reduce the chance of a nuclear device decimating an American city.
Download or read book The Rending and the Nest written by Kaethe Schwehn and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2018-02-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chilling yet redemptive post-apocalyptic debut that examines community, motherhood, faith, and the importance of telling one's own story. When 95 percent of the earth's population disappears for no apparent reason, Mira does what she can to create some semblance of a life: She cobbles together a haphazard community named Zion, scavenges the Piles for supplies they might need, and avoids loving anyone she can't afford to lose. She has everything under control. Almost. Four years after the Rending, Mira's best friend, Lana, announces her pregnancy, the first since everything changed and a new source of hope for Mira. But when Lana gives birth to an inanimate object--and other women of Zion follow suit--the thin veil of normalcy Mira has thrown over her new life begins to fray. As the Zionites wrestle with the presence of these Babies, a confident outsider named Michael appears, proselytizing about the world beyond Zion. He lures Lana away and when she doesn't return, Mira must decide how much she's willing to let go in order to save her friend, her home, and her own fraught pregnancy. Like California by Edan Lepucki and Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel, The Rending and the Nest uses a fantastical, post-apocalyptic landscape to ask decidedly human questions: How well do we know the people we love? What sustains us in the midst of suffering? How do we forgive the brokenness we find within others--and within ourselves?
Download or read book Birds Nests Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia written by Kasem Jandam and published by . This book was released on 2021-03 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Southeast Asia is renowned for birds' nests and the bird's nest trade. A bird's nest is often referred to as "White Gold" or "the Caviar of the East." In Birds' Nests: Business and Ethnicity in Southeast Asia, Kasem Jandam explores the history of using birds' nests and outlines key aspects of the business: consumption and its impact on ecology and the environment, market innovations, and the legal system related to public, private, community, and nonexclusive economic nesting resources. This book also discusses the trade and relationships among ethnic groups and the influence of Hong Kong's bird's nest market on the bird's nest business in Thailand and Southeast Asia.
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Download or read book Some Adaptations of Marsh nesting Blackbirds written by Gordon H. Orians and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1980-04-21 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variety of social systems among the New World blackbirds (Family Icteridae) and the structural simplicity of their foraging environment provide excellent opportunities for testing theorics about the adaptive significance of their behavior. Here Gordon Orians presents the results of his many years of research on how blackbirds utilize their marsh environments during the breeding season. These results stem from information he gathered on three species during ten breeding seasons in the Pacific Northwest, on Red-winged blackbirds during two breeding seasons in Costa Rica, and on three species during one breeding season in Argentina. The author uses models derived from Darwin's theory of natural selection to predict the behavior and morphology of individuals as well as the statistical properties of their populations. First he tests models that predict habitat selection, foraging behavior, territoriality, and mate selection. Then he considers some population patterns, especially range of use of environmental resources and overlap among species, that may result from those individual attributes. Professor Orianns concludes with an overview of the structure of bird communities in marshes of the world and the relation of these patterns to overall source availability in these simple but productive habitats.
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