Dry Stories

Author : Kate Baggott
Publisher : Morning Rain Publishing
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781928133179

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Dry Stories by Kate Baggott Pdf

When I called you each morning, while it was late night to you, my body thought it was night too. Our energy levels and rhythms were the same. I could feel it over the phone, across time zones and oceans. I felt like I was still at home combing nits out of your hair and helping your brother and your cousin edge you toward a new life, a better way of life without booze. Then, one more day passed and I got enough sunshine and enough fresh air for my body to adjust. I was back in this place, I had a new rhythm of family life and work and the ways of this adopted country. “How can I do this?” I thought. “How can I fit this responsibility in too?” Disguised as letters to a friend in need, “Dry Stories” delves into the psyche of the main character, revealing her passions, her fears, her needs, and her desires. Separated from her home country while living abroad with her husband and children, she struggles to conform to foreign traditions, accept local customs, and maintain her identity. This literary compilation of short stories can be read as stand-alone pieces, or sequentially in a compelling novella. Each story is a letter written to a friend recovering from alcoholism and resonates with the truth of what it is to be human in a naturally disconnected world.

Author : Ken Lamberton
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-15
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780816529216

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Dry River by Ken Lamberton Pdf

Poet and writer Alison Deming once noted, ÒIn the desert, one finds the way by tracing the aftermath of water . . . Ó Here, Ken Lamberton finds his way through a lifetime of exploring southern ArizonaÕs Santa Cruz River. This riverÑdry, still, and silent one moment, a thundering torrent of mud the nextÑserves as a reflection of the desert around it: a hint of water on parched sand, a path to redemption across a thirsty landscape. With his latest book, Lamberton takes us on a trek across the land of three nationsÑthe United States, Mexico, and the Tohono OÕodham NationÑas he hikes the riverÕs path from its source and introduces us to people who draw identity from the riverÑdedicated professionals, hardworking locals, and the authorÕs own family. These people each have their own stories of the river and its effect on their lives, and their narratives add immeasurable richness and depth to LambertonÕs own astute observations and picturesque descriptions. Unlike books that detail only the Santa CruzÕs decline, Dry River offers a more balanced, at times even optimistic, view of the river that ignites hope for reclamation and offers a call to action rather than indulging in despair and resignation. At once a fascinating cultural history lesson and an important reminder that learning from the past can help us fix what we have damaged, Dry River is both a story about the amazing complexity of this troubled desert waterway and a celebration of one manÕs lifelong journey with the people and places touched by it.

Author : Natalia Ginzburg
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811228794

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The Dry Heart by Natalia Ginzburg Pdf

Finally back in print, a frighteningly lucid feminist horror story about marriage The Dry Heart begins and ends with the matter-of-fact pronouncement: “I shot him between the eyes.” As the tale—a plunge into the chilly waters of loneliness, desperation, and bitterness—proceeds, the narrator's murder of her flighty husband takes on a certain logical inevitability. Stripped of any preciousness or sentimentality, Natalia Ginzburg's writing here is white-hot, tempered by rage. She transforms the unhappy tale of an ordinary dull marriage into a rich psychological thriller that seems to beg the question: why don't more wives kill their husbands?

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459823129

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High and Dry by Eric Walters Pdf

★ “Walters has woven a touching story about the connection humans have with other living beings on Earth. Recommended for wide purchase.”—School Library Journal, starred review Dylan lives on a remote island in the Pacific Northwest with his parents, but when they have to go to the mainland, his grandfather weathers a storm to come spend time with him. Grandpa’s brought Dylan a number of gifts, and one comes in handy the next day while they are exploring the coast. In fact, this gift leads the duo to a dangerous discovery: a young orca got stuck on the rocks during the storm. Racing against the sun and the heat, Dylan and Grandpa need to work together to figure out how to save the calf while his pod circles nearby.

Author : Pete Fromm
Publisher : Lyons Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1998-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1558217355

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Dry Rain by Pete Fromm Pdf

A memorable collection of stories about family, love, fealty, commitment, and heroism, all set against the backdrop of the everyday people of the American West, ""Dry Rain" is a work of art" ("Men's Journal").

Author : Eric Walters
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781459823662

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On the Rocks by Eric Walters Pdf

An inspiring story about the ups and downs of family. Fourteen-year-old Dylan is sent to live with his estranged grandfather, Angus. Basically strangers, the two avoid each other as best they can. One day Dylan discovers a young orca stranded high up on the rocky beach. Dylan runs to tell his grandfather. There’s nothing that can be done, says Angus. The sun is coming up, and soon the orca will die of exposure. But Dylan knows he has to try to save the whale. He collects towels to cover the delicate skin of the orca and begins transporting buckets of water from the ocean below to keep it hydrated. It’s grueling work, and it will be hours before the tide comes back in and the water is high enough for the orca to swim free. Angus is moved by his grandson’s determination and helps as best he can. They both desperately hope that soon the orca will be able to join its family, who have been calling out to it just offshore.

Author : Neal Shusterman,Jarrod Shusterman
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781481481977

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Dry by Neal Shusterman,Jarrod Shusterman Pdf

“The authors do not hold back.” —Booklist (starred review) “The palpable desperation that pervades the plot…feels true, giving it a chilling air of inevitability.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review) “The Shustermans challenge readers.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “No one does doom like Neal Shusterman.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) When the California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, one teen is forced to make life and death decisions for her family in this harrowing story of survival from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman. The drought—or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it—has been going on for a while now. Everyone’s lives have become an endless list of don’ts: don’t water the lawn, don’t fill up your pool, don’t take long showers. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly, Alyssa’s quiet suburban street spirals into a warzone of desperation; neighbors and families turned against each other on the hunt for water. And when her parents don’t return and her life—and the life of her brother—is threatened, Alyssa has to make impossible choices if she’s going to survive.

Author : Margaret Somerville
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135098780

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Water in a Dry Land by Margaret Somerville Pdf

Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human induced climate change, the desperate plight of the system of waterways has become an international phenomenon, a symbol of the unsustainable ways we relate to water globally. The Murray-Darling Basin extends west of the Great Dividing Range that separates the densely populated east coast of Australia from the sparsely populated inland. Aboriginal peoples continue to inhabit the waterways of the great artesian basin and pass on their cultural stories and practices of water, albeit in changing forms. A key question informing the book is: What can we learn about water from the oldest continuing culture inhabiting the world’s driest continent? In the process of responding to this question a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers formed to work together in a contact zone of cultural difference within an emergent arts-based ethnography. Photo essays of the artworks and their landscapes offer a visual accompaniment to the text on the Routledge Innovative Ethnography Series website, http://www.innovativeethnographies.net/. This book is perfect for courses in environmental sociology, environmental anthropology, and qualitative methods.

Author : Jane Harper
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250105615

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The Dry by Jane Harper Pdf

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM IFC FILMS STARRING ERIC BANA INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “A breathless page-turner, driven by the many revelations Ms. Harper dreams up...You’ll love [her] sleight of hand...A secret on every page.” —The New York Times “One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read... Every word is near perfect.” —David Baldacci A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke’s steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the crime. But now more than one person knows they didn’t tell the truth back then, and Luke is dead. Amid the worst drought in a century, Falk and the local detective question what really happened to Luke. As Falk reluctantly investigates to see if there’s more to Luke’s death than there seems to be, long-buried mysteries resurface, as do the lies that have haunted them. And Falk will find that small towns have always hidden big secrets.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Limited
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0711207879

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Anancy and Mr. Dry-Bone by Anonim Pdf

Rich Mr Dry-Bone lives in a big house on top of a hill. Poor Anancy lives in a small house at the foot of the hill. They both want to marry Miss Louise, but she will only marry the man who can make her laugh. This book is based on characters from Jamaican and African folk tales.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803267541

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Drinking Dry Clouds by Anonim Pdf

Wyoming cowboys, ranchers, waitresses and bartenders along with Japanese-Americans interned at Heart Mountain tell their life stories during and after World War II.

Author : Ehsan Masood,Daniel Schaffer
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0674022246

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Dry by Ehsan Masood,Daniel Schaffer Pdf

Water is in the air we breathe and beneath the ground we walk on. The very substance of life, it makes up as much as 60 percent of the human body. And yet, for one billion people there is such a thing as life without water. These are the people we meet in Dry--those who live in the dry lands of Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and the Americas, eking out an existence at once remarkable and mundane between craggy mountains, near oases, or close to well-springs surrounded by cracked earth or shifting sands. From the ingenuity of the highland people of Chile's Atacama desert who use giant nets to capture water from clouds of fog, to the ancient wisdom that protects the grazing lands of Kenya's Masai, this beautifully illustrated book tells the diverse stories about people in very hot, very cold, or very high places, who spend their lives collecting, chasing, piping, and trapping the water that life requires--all the while taking great care that no form of life, plant or animal, benefits at the expense of another. In a world of finite resources, where the struggle for shrinking sources of water intensifies daily, these stories--collected over three years by photographers, writers, and scientists from four continents--are a source of hope and wonder. This book contains a wealth of information and images designed to further awareness of the vast array of life that is carried on precariously yet proudly on the earth's dryest lands.

Author : John Burbidge
Publisher : Hphr
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : House painters
ISBN : 0984021000

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Watching Paint Dry by John Burbidge Pdf

John Burbidge has aimed his brush, roller, and spray gun at everything from ritzy mansions to trashy trailers. He's gone underground to paint sewage-treatment plants and risked death to paint factory ceilings. He has no doubt inhaled enough noxious dust and paint fumes to shorten his life. But he's not dead yet. And the captivating characters he has encountered along the way have more than offset the toils of painting for a living. Ex-cons, addicts, drifting college grads, even a guy with a hole in his head-that's your typical paint crew, bonded only by the fact that they're caught in a job society thinks is for simpletons. In Watching Paint Dry, John Burbidge scrapes beneath the surface of painting's reputation for monotony while intimately portraying the men and women who craft the backdrop to our civilization. "Informative, funny, and sometimes heartbreaking . . . this is a book you will want to recommend to everyone you know." --Sharon Barrett, Chicago Sun-Times book critic for 28 years

Author : Louisa May Alcott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : Children
ISBN : HARVARD:HN36WL

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Spinning-wheel Stories by Louisa May Alcott Pdf

Collects twelve stories told by snow-bound members of an extended family gathered in their old homestead for the Christmas holidays.

Author : Frederick Arnold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590033284

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The strangest journey of my life, and other stories, by F. Pigot by Frederick Arnold Pdf