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Nowhere Wild

Author : Joe Beernink
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781443422451

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A dark and riveting survival story set against a rugged northern landscape . . . Izzy is just thirteen when a flu pandemic turns the world upside down. After her sister is attacked by a roving gang of looters in what remains of their town, Izzy flees to the wilderness with a man who claims he will protect her. Sixteen-year-old Jake is stranded and alone in the unforgiving northern Manitoba backcountry. His mother and grandfather have died and his father has gone missing while searching for help. Desperate to find a way home, Jake begins a trek over some of the most forbidding landscape in the country. Both Jake and Izzy are forced to make decisions and take on responsibilities they could never have imagined. They must draw on every shred of resourcefulness and courage as they try to save themselves and, ultimately, each other. Praise for NOWHERE WILD “A gripping story of survival and self-discovery, Nowhere Wild is a contemporary adventure novel that reads like a classic.” —National Book Award Finalist Deb Caletti, author of Stay

Nowhere Home

Author : Joe Beernink
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 154705932X

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After surviving kidnapping and injuries in the Manitoba wild, seventeen-year-old Jake and fifteen-year-old Izzy finally return home to the town of Thompson. They're greeted as heroes by their friends and loved ones, but Jake and Izzy's hometown has changed and is now deeply divided. Mistrust is everywhere, and a group from one side of Thompson-including Parnell, the de facto leader, and Boyd, an angry teen-grow increasingly hostile to their neighbors. Despite Thompson's strife, Jake is on a mission to find his missing father. But in a world growing more dangerous, a native like Jake must search carefully to avoid being caught up in the tensions swirling around town. Meanwhile, Izzy uncovers a terrifying plot and must warn Jake before it's too late. Filled with gripping action, Joe Beernink's sequel to Nowhere Wild leads to a dramatic confrontation between two groups brutally divided by hatred and fear. In the end, only Izzy can keep Thompson from destroying itself altogether.

Out of Nowhere Into Nothing

Author : Caryl Pagel
Publisher : Fiction Collective 2
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781573661867

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Essays on the apparitional, the incomprehensible, and the paranormal in conversation with art, travel, and storytelling The ghosts—literal and figurative—that drive our deepest impulses, disturb our most precious memories, and haunt the passages of our daily lives are present in this collection of sublime meditations on the unbelievable, the coincidental, and the apparitional. Often containing reflections on the art of storytelling, Caryl Pagel’s essays blend memoir, research, and reflection, and are driven by a desire to observe connections between the visual and the invisible. The narrator of Pagel’s essays explores each enigma or encounter (a football coach’s faked death, the faces of women walking, historical accounts of hallucinations, a city’s public celebration gone wrong) as an intellectual detective ascending a labyrinthine tower of clues in pursuit of a solution to an unreachable problem: always curious, and with a sense of profound wonder. Out of Nowhere Into Nothing is a sprawling, highly associative consideration of the ways in which the observed material world recalls us to larger narrative and aesthetic truths. Interspersed with documentary-style photographs, Pagel’s first collection of prose is a radiant, obsessive investigation into the mysteries at the center of our seemingly mundane lives.

Going Nowhere Fast

Author : Kati Wilde
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399585258

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The brakes are off in this sizzling-hot new adult romance from the author of the Hellfire Riders MC Romance series... One promise. Two hearts. Three rules. Four weeks to break them all. When Aspen Phillips’ best friend invites her on a month-long road trip, she has serious mixed feelings. Sharing their tight quarters will be Bramwell Gage, overprotective brother and all-around jerk. Bram may be ridiculously sexy, but he’s made no effort to hide how he feels about Aspen—that she’s trash who’s no good for his sister. But Aspen is determined to get along with the uptight millionaire—and to keep her promise, concealing a secret about his sister that Bram can never know. But after a scorching kiss reveals that Bram’s feelings toward her run much hotter than she believed, Aspen's emotions swerve into a complete 180. Suddenly the girl who has nothing has everything—but only as long as the truth about his sister remains hidden. Because when all the secrets and promises unravel, she risks losing it all...

Into the Wild

Author : Jon Krakauer
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307476869

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • In April 1992 a young man from a well-to-do family hitchhiked to Alaska and walked alone into the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley. Four months later, his decomposed body was found by a moose hunter. This is the unforgettable story of how Christopher Johnson McCandless came to die. "It may be nonfiction, but Into the Wild is a mystery of the highest order." —Entertainment Weekly McCandess had given $25,000 in savings to charity, abandoned his car and most of his possessions, burned all the cash in his wallet, and invented a new life for himself. Not long after, he was dead. Into the Wild is the mesmerizing, heartbreaking tale of an enigmatic young man who goes missing in the wild and whose story captured the world’s attention. Immediately after graduating from college in 1991, McCandless had roamed through the West and Southwest on a vision quest like those made by his heroes Jack London and John Muir. In the Mojave Desert he abandoned his car, stripped it of its license plates, and burned all of his cash. He would give himself a new name, Alexander Supertramp, and, unencumbered by money and belongings, he would be free to wallow in the raw, unfiltered experiences that nature presented. Craving a blank spot on the map, McCandless simply threw the maps away. Leaving behind his desperate parents and sister, he vanished into the wild. Jon Krakauer constructs a clarifying prism through which he reassembles the disquieting facts of McCandless's short life. Admitting an interest that borders on obsession, he searches for the clues to the drives and desires that propelled McCandless. When McCandless's innocent mistakes turn out to be irreversible and fatal, he becomes the stuff of tabloid headlines and is dismissed for his naiveté, pretensions, and hubris. He is said to have had a death wish but wanting to die is a very different thing from being compelled to look over the edge. Krakauer brings McCandless's uncompromising pilgrimage out of the shadows, and the peril, adversity, and renunciation sought by this enigmatic young man are illuminated with a rare understanding—and not an ounce of sentimentality. Into the Wild is a tour de force. The power and luminosity of Jon Krakauer's stoytelling blaze through every page.

Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal

Author : Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 884 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119136948

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Origin of Cultivated Plants

Author : Alphonse de Candolle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Botany, Economic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN2647

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Nowhere Like This Place

Author : Marilyn Carr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771804351

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"Nowhere like This Place" is a coming-of-age memoir set against the backdrop of the weirdness of an enclave with more PhDs per capita than anywhere else on earth. It's steeped in thinly veiled sexism and the searing angst of an artsy child trapped in a terrarium full of white-bread nuclear scientists and their nuclear families.

Center Hill

Author : Maury M. Haraway
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781456765521

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The Henshaw family moved to the wild country of Desoto County, Mississippi with the departure of the Chickasaws in 1836. They farmed the rich land, hunted the rivers and streams, and struggled against slave robbers and outlaws. They were aided by their fast friend Push-pun-tubby, a member of the Chickasaw nation who remained behind after the migration of his people to Oklahoma. Hern fell in love with the beautiful daughter of a neieghboring family. They had a beautiful courtship before they were seperated by circumstances they failed to control--(from back jacket). Much of the action is fiction but the places are factual ( --from Author note).

Journal

Author : Asiatic Society (Kolkata, India)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 890 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Asia
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010194111

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