Download or read book Tree Tall and the Horse Race written by Shirlee Evans and published by Shirlee Evans. This book was released on 1986 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tree Tall, an Indian boy living on an Oregon reservation in the mid-nineteenth century, wins a horse of his own in a race but finds his victory marred by misunderstanding and prejudice. Sequel to "Tree Tall and the Whiteskins."
Download or read book Winds of Promise written by Shirlee Evans and published by Shirlee Evans. This book was released on 1990 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shirlee Evans' story of Sol, a retired dairy farmer who has given up on life since his wife died. When his son Vic moves back, conflict develops between father and son. Sol pretends to be slipping into senility to aggravate Vic who treats him like a child, incapable of handling his own affairs.A mystery develops around Vic's father-in-law. As Sol tries to work through the family conflict that ensues, he becomes ready to let go of his deceit and self-imposed isolation.
Download or read book A Life in Her Hands written by Shirlee Evans and published by Shirlee Evans. This book was released on 1987 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When she discovers that she is pregnant, fifteen-year-old Gail is torn by indecision about whether to keep the baby as she would like or give it up for adoption.
Download or read book A Life Apart written by Shirlee Evans and published by Shirlee Evans. This book was released on 1990 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gail's marriage is shaken when the daughter she gave up for adoption fifteen years ago reenters her life.
Download or read book Tree Tall to the Rescue written by Shirlee Evans and published by Shirlee Evans. This book was released on 1987 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this third "Tree Tall" novel, an Indian boy in nineteenth-century Oregon who has become a Christian, discovers that the power of God in his life is stronger than the power of traditional spirits.
Download or read book Crazy soul God written by Li Donghao and published by Sellene Chardou. This book was released on with total page 4129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can know from that guy's burly figure that the collision just now didn't do him any harm at all. The man is in his thirties, and his pimples are dark. The scarlet Lama clothes and the criss-crossing scars on his bald head make him look extra scary. He looked around and found that when no one was with Xuanfei, there was an incredible expression on his face. This is a deserted grassland, and he really can't understand why a seven-or eight-year-old child will appear here.
Download or read book Reading Mennonite Writing written by Robert Zacharias and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mennonite literature has long been viewed as an expression of community identity. However, scholars in Mennonite literary studies have urged a reconsideration of the field’s past and a reconceptualization of its future. This is exactly what Reading Mennonite Writing does. Drawing on the transnational turn in literary studies, Robert Zacharias positions Mennonite literature in North America as “a mode of circulation and reading” rather than an expression of a distinct community. He tests this reframing with a series of methodological experiments that open new avenues of critical engagement with the field’s unique configuration of faith-based intercultural difference. These include cross-sectional readings in nonnarrative literary history; archival readings of transatlantic life writing; Canadian rewritings of Mexican film’s deployment of Mennonite theology as fantasy; an examination of the fetishistic structure of ethnicity as a “thing” that has enabled Mennonite identity to function in a post-identity age; and, finally, a tentative reinvestment in ideals of Mennonite community via the surprising routes of queerness and speculative fiction. In so doing, Zacharias reads Mennonite writing in North America as a useful case study in the shifting position of minor literatures in the wake of the transnational turn. Theoretically sophisticated, this study of minor transnationalism will appeal to specialists in Mennonite literature and to scholars working in the broader field of transnational literary studies.
Download or read book The Greatest Show on Earth written by Richard Dawkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008, a Gallup poll showed that 44 percent of Americans believed God had created man in his present form within the last 10,000 years. In a Pew Forum poll in the same year, 42 percent believed that all life on earth has existed in its present form since the beginning of time. In 1859 Charles Darwin's masterpiece, On the Origin of Species, shook society to its core. Darwin was only too aware of the storm his theory of evolution would provoke. But he surely would have raised an incredulous eyebrow at the controversy still raging a century and a half later. Evolution is accepted as scientific fact by all reputable scientists and indeed theologians, yet millions of people continue to question its veracity. Now the author of the iconic work The God Delusion takes them to task. The Greatest Show on Earth is a stunning counterattack on advocates of "Intelligent Design," explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist "argument." Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence: from living examples of natural selection to clues in the fossil record; from natural clocks that mark the vast epochs wherein evolution ran its course to the intricacies of developing embryos; from plate tectonics to molecular genetics. Combining these elements and many more, he makes the airtight case that "we find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming and flourishing tree of life and it is no accident, but the direct consequence of evolution by non-random selection." The Greatest Show on Earth comes at a critical time: systematic opposition to the fact of evolution is menacing as never before. In American schools, and in schools around the world, insidious attempts are made to undermine the status of science in the classroom. Dawkins wields a devastating argument against this ignorance, but his unjaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master's vision of life, in all its splendor.
Download or read book Native Americans in Fiction written by Vicki Anderson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 1994 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Students interested in the social life and customs of Native Americans clamor for works of fiction to further understand these multifaceted cultures. The over 750 titles (representing more than 125 tribes) found here emphasize the daily lives of Native Americans, the hardships they endured and their contributions to society. Arranged by tribe, entries provide author, publisher, date, grade designation and a brief annotation of the book. The works are primarily from 1965 through 1993, though many earlier classics are included.
Download or read book Hidden History of Horse Racing in Kentucky written by Foster Ockerman and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A behind-the-scenes history of the Bluegrass State’s iconic sport. Horse racing and the Commonwealth of Kentucky are synonymous. The equine industry in the state dates as far back as the eighteenth century, and some of that history remains untold. The Seventeenth Earl of Derby made the trip from England to Louisville for the famed Kentucky Derby. Many famous African American jockeys grew up in the area but fled to Europe during the Jim Crow era. Gambling on races is a popular pastime, but betting in the early days caused significant changes in the sport. Hidden History of Horse Racing in Kentucky details the rich and the lesser-known history at the tracks in the Bluegrass State.
Download or read book Delayed Departure written by Tall Paul and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-05-10 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1918 and the Great War is over. Wil Drury is returning to Wyoming to marry his love, Carla, and start a family. Unfortunately, Wils brother, Tall, is never coming home again. As Wil grapples with his grief and eventually becomes a father, he has no idea that very soon his young son will die and another boy will begin a journey that will transform his life once again. When little Jesse Jamess mother succumbs to illness, he escapes his misery on an orphan train heading west. After he departs the train in Cheyenne, he is plucked off the side of the road by the sheriff. In his possession is a knife with Wils name on itthe same knife that Wil gave Tall before they went off to war. When Wil realizes that Jesse is Talls son, he takes him in as his own. As Jesses coming-of-age journey leads him into the army, he is eventually captured by the Japanese during World War II. But when Jesse decides to exact revenge on an enemy commander, he unwittingly places the United States on the edge of an international crisis. In this historical tale inspired by true events, a young orphan is led down a compelling path through war to his destiny where he discovers the power of a promise.
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Download or read book Dictionaire Oeconomique Or The Family Dictionary written by Noel Chomel and published by London : Printed for D. Midwinter. This book was released on 1725 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Racing for America written by James C. Nicholson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On October 20, 1923, at New York's Belmont Park, Kentucky Derby champion Zev toed the starting line alongside Papyrus, winner of England's greatest horse race, the Epsom Derby. The $100,000 purse for the novel intercontinental showdown was the largest in the history of America's oldest sport and writers across the country were calling it the "Race of the Century." A victory for the American colt in this blockbuster event would change how the nation viewed horse racing forever. In this book, James C. Nicholson exposes the central role of politics, money, and ballyhoo in the Jazz Age resurgence of the sport of kings. Though the Zev-Papyrus face-off was one of the most hyped sporting events of the early twentieth century, Nicholson reveals that it soon faded from American popular memory when it became known that Zev's owner, oil tycoon Harry F. Sinclair, was involved in an infamous scandal to defraud the United States of millions of barrels of publicly owned oil. As a result, Zev became an apt mascot for a nation struggling to reconcile its traditional values with the modern complexities of the Roaring Twenties, and his tainted legacy ultimately proved to be incompatible with tenets of national mythology that celebrate America as a place where hard work and fair play lead to prosperity.
Download or read book Annual Report of the California Horse Racing Board for the Period July 1 to June 30 written by California Horse Racing Board and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
