Download or read book The River Singing Stone written by Myrna Peña- Reyes and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Singing Stone written by Thomas Lowe Fleischner and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating personal narrative and natural history, Singing Stone is ideal for curious visitors to the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument as well as students of environmental studies.
Download or read book The Singing Stones written by Phyllis A. Whitney and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Edgar Award–winning “queen of the American gothics”: A troubled girl in a remote mountain home grapples with a terrifying secret (The New York Times). New York clinical psychologist Lynn McLeod has never backed away from a child in need. But a plea for her services in Blue Ridge country tries Lynn’s compassion. Ten-year-old Jilly is no random traumatized girl. She’s the daughter of Lynn’s unfaithful ex-husband, Stephen. Despite the turbulent emotions it stirs in her, Lynn can’t say no. Perhaps this is her last chance to heal her own wounds . . . From the outside, the Ashe’s cliffside home is an architectural dream. Inside it’s something closer to a nightmare, filled with suspicion, menace, and psychic visions. With an absentee mother off in pursuit of her career and a dispirited father, Jilly can only confide in Lynn, whom she trusts with her most shocking secrets—including those involving murder. With premonitions of another death to come, only Lynn can save Jilly—and the man she once loved—from a mystery that’s about to destroy them all. From the New York Times–bestselling “master of suspense” (Mary Higgins Clark) comes a chilling brew of family secrets and paranormal fears that’s “rock-solid, reliable Whitney” (Kirkus Reviews). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.
Download or read book A Blackbird Sings written by Fiona Robyn and published by . This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book you can dip into and be nourished by again and again. It will surprise you, shock you, move you and delight you. It'll remind you of the important sparkling details in your own life, and inspire you to pay more attention to what's around you. 'A Blackbird Sings' is an anthology of small stones, a mindful writing form, edited by Kaspalita and Fiona Robyn. It also contains an introductory essay about what makes a good small stone, an essay about quality and unconditional love, and a seven day course if you want to have a go at writing small stones yourself. HYDRANGEA Four shavings of sky perfect blue held in place by a tiny French knot Claire Zoghb
Download or read book The Singing Sands written by Josephine Tey and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about “the stones that walk” and “the singing sand,” which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse’s meaning and the identity of the deceased. Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves, despite his doctor’s orders. But what begins as a leisurely pastime eventually turns into a full-blown investigation that leads Grant to discover not only the key to the poem but the truth about a most diabolical murder.
Download or read book The Singing Stone written by Rena McKay and published by Five Star (ME). This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forgetting her mother's warnings against men who greet you in Hawaii, Jennifer Bentley meets Jordan Kane, who gives her a beautiful lei and a burning kiss.
Download or read book Singing Rivers And Speaking Stones written by Rao and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 2002 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an anthology of prose and poetry meant for use as a textbook for General English classes at the intermediate and undergraduate levels. The exercises are innovative and perceptive in nature and open out new ways of looking at prose and poetry texts. The selections are made with the student in mind and enable the student to learn how to appreciate creativity and writing skills.
Download or read book A River Divided the Story Biography of Chief Coppa Hembo 1812 1898 written by Jill (Redcorn) Kearney and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coppa Hembo was a fascinating historical figure. Born of a Maidu father and Washoe mother he would rise to become the primary Huuk (Chief ) for nearly 50 years over the Hill Nisenan band of the Southern Maidu, with authority over the Maidu and Washoe people living on the Divide between the forks of the Natoman (American) River. As a young man he had been attacked by a grizzly bear which he managed to kill, permanently disfigured by the mauling he was given the name Coppa Hembo (Grizzly Bear Killer). He would lead his people in battles against slave raiders but managed to keep his people out of both the First and Second Indian Wars of El Dorado County continuing to live in peace with the horde of invading miners. Coppa Hembo's leadership included arranging for his people to be vaccinated against small pox in 1852. His reputation for wisdom and impartiality found him serving as both a judge and keeper of the peace for both Indians and non-Indians. A staunch proponent of education he arranged to help the local school system during conflicts arising from the American Civil War. He would guide his people into full integration into the American society thus saving them from being rounded up and herded onto reservations. His is not a story of tragedy but instead one of triumph for a true American Hero.
Download or read book Fire Making Storytelling and Ceremony written by Mark Warren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second volume of the Secrets of the Forest series, Mark Warren addresses a wide range of what an outdoorsperson needs to know about fire such as: how to create it from scratch using three different methods (hand drill, bow drill, and fire-saw). which species of trees and dried winter weeds make good candidates for a fire kit. where to find tinder that can combust. how to construct a fail-proof pyre by mixing fast-burning fuel with dense hardwood. how to sustain a fire for the long term, including how to safely store a smoldering fire that can survive for several days. The second half of the book is dedicated to storytelling and ceremony. Its main purpose is how to design stories that augment whatever lessons a teacher has in mind. Such stories can familiarize students with the fine points of archery, canoeing, tracking, stalking, and other crafts or skills. Borrowing from Native American traditions, Warren introduces dozens of ways for young outdoorspeople to build self-esteem and a deep connection with the forest. This volume contains more than 100 original activities.
Download or read book The Bohol We Love written by Marjorie Evasco and published by Anvil Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 469 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “These essays are not about Chocolate Hills and the tarsiers and the fancy beach clubs and other tourist magnets in Bohol. They are about seemingly mundane things that define a place and bind its people together—childhood games, songs, religious rituals, cultural practices, superstitions and myths, magical creatures. Here you will read about triumphs that united people in pride, disasters that drew them even closer; larger-than-life heroes and everyday heroes; changes that tested their mettle and inspired new ways of seeing as well as values that have endured; cracks in the pavements that mirrored cracks in relationships. Braiding storytelling with fictional devices, the writers merge reportage with self-reflection; weave patterns out of chaos and happenstances; and create a tapestry of memories that restores the past, turning the Bohol they love into the Bohol we love as well.” — Susan Lara
Download or read book Desert Wetlands written by Lucian Niemeyer and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 150 color photos and accompanying text document wetland sites in the American Southwest and Mexico.
Download or read book The Voice of the River written by Melanie Rae Thon and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The search for a missing boy and his dog illuminiates the inner lives of a multitude of individuals with charged needs and desires; a confession of faith, and a love song to the world.
Download or read book Encounter written by Joseph W. Ulmer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2012-11-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a cold winter day in 1839 as Dark Cloud, a wife of the great Cheyenne hunter Antelope-Dances-in Fire, works to flesh a deer hide before certain snowfall. It is only a few hours later when Dark Cloud gives birth to Snow, her overdue son. As her baby grows into a Cheyenne boy and word spreads that white people are coming, the Cheyenne and Arapaho prepare to meet the Kiowa and Comanche to make peace. But as a spotted sickness lurks in the shadows, the tribes must weather the winter with thin hides and little fat. Their troubles have just begun. In Ohio, a few years later, George Custer attends school, graduates, and begins teaching school. At the same time, as Dark Clouds belly swells again and the Native American warriors grow angrier with every unjust raid, Snow has grown into a strong and brave warrior named Bear of the Cheyenne. In this captivating historical novel, two parallel lives intertwine during an intense conflict between culturesone focused on the future and the other clinging to a remembered yesterday. Obviously written from the heart, this is a story that had to be written Terry Wilson, PhD, dean emeritus of Native American Studies, UCBerkeley
Download or read book A Sleepwalk on the Severn written by Alice Oswald and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An early work from the acclaimed poet of Memorial and Falling Awake, appearing for the first time in the United States. A Sleepwalk on the Severn is a reflective, book-length poem in several registers, using dramatic dialogue. Ghostly, meditative, and characterized by Alice Oswald’s signature sensitivity to nature, the poem chronicles a night on the Severn Estuary as the moonrise travels through its five stages: new moon, half moon, full moon, no moon, and moon reborn.
Download or read book The Singing Stone written by Gary Venn and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It looks ordinary enough - just a smooth, red stone that Miles finds buried in gravel by the river. Until the singing starts. And then the stone begins to glow . . . Miles is impatient to explore his new surroundings after his parents buy a motor camp on the Coromandel Peninsula. But the unsettling discovery of the stone propels Miles into danger. He tries talking to his new friend Oliver about it, who naturally doubts him. Then he mentions it to Melinda, the girl he meets at the camp - at least she appears to believe him - but it's possible Melinda isn't quite what she seems. Slowly, Miles starts to understand for himself what the stone is capable of. How it changes everything it touches. And how someone is looking for it, calling to it. Wanting it back."--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Refuge of Whirling Light written by Mary Beath and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2007-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One bright winter afternoon along an empty New Mexico road, Mary Beath discovered these inexplicable words painted on a peeling wooden sign: Refuge of Whirling Light. That moment could stand for what she offers the reader: the pleasures and insights of the unexpected, the sensations of freedom and belonging that have always drawn her to wander the land alone. "Beath's intensely visual story poems are utterly transporting, taking you out to longed-after landscapes and, at the exact same time, into the terrain of our hearts and souls. In the tradition of other keen-eyed, gutsy women who have bound themselves to the Southwest, Beath expresses for all of us--men and women--our desires for love and liberation, and how the land, every day, if we watch closely, offers us metaphors for both."--Susan J. Douglas, author of Where the Girls Are and The Mommy Myth "Powered by a rigorously disciplined and analytical mind, these poems are never content to dwell in mere description but press on into far more complex interrogations of the world's nature, ecology, and systems of knowledge."--Craig Watson, author of True News and Free Will "Although written about familiar places--Chaco Canyon, Abiquiu, the Four Corners--these poems chart a unique geography. This is the terrain of wind, singing frogs, storms, and changing light, of risk and silence and sexual desire, of that which is both wild and holy. I love the 'unbounded, gutsy weather' of these poems."--Anne Batterson, author of The Black Swan
Download or read book Performing the Community written by Cora Govers and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2006 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Economic liberalization, modern mass media, and new religious and political movements have touched even the most remote areas in Mexico, and the Northern Highlands of the state of Puebla are no exception. When this coincides with recent infrastructures such as roads and electricity and new income sources from cash crop production and urban migration, the nature of rural communities rapidly changes. This study shows how the people of the Totonac mountain village of Nanacatln deal with their increasingly pluriform and differentiated local world. By performing stories, rituals, and exchanges they have countered centrifugal cultural and social forces. Rather than leading to the demise of the community, modernization and globalization thus seem to have reinforced the sense of local belonging. How is this possible? This anthropological analysis points at the simultaneous efforts of new and old cultural brokers--ritual specialists and healers as well as young migrants--who recreate the community by linking the outside world to local customs. Their initiatives are taken up by women, crucial for community building through elaborate food exchanges, and men, whose involvement is central to public ritual life. Their combined efforts create a living community and link the village past to its rural- urban present and future, as a place of belonging in times of change. Cora Govers is a senior staff member at the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
