River Of No Reprieve

Author : Jeffrey Tayler
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780544277298

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River of No Reprieve by Jeffrey Tayler Pdf

The author of In Putin’s Footsteps chronicles a deadly trek through the icy Russian region known for gulags and isolation. In a custom-built boat, Jeffrey Tayler travels some 2,400 miles down the Lena River from near Lake Baikal to high above the Arctic Circle, recreating a journey first made by Cossack forces more than three hundred years ago. He is searching for primeval beauty and a respite from the corruption, violence, and self-destructive urges that typify modern Russian culture, but instead he finds the roots of that culture—in Cossack villages unchanged for centuries, in Soviet outposts full of listless drunks, in stark ruins of the gulag, and in grand forests hundreds of miles from the nearest hamlet. That’s how far Tayler is from help when he realizes that his guide, Vadim, a burly Soviet army veteran embittered by his experiences in Afghanistan, detests all humanity, including Tayler. Yet he needs Vadim’s superb skills if he is to survive a voyage that quickly turns hellish. They must navigate roiling whitewater in howling storms, eschewing life jackets because, as Vadim explains, the frigid water would kill them before they could swim to shore. Though Tayler has trekked by camel through the Sahara and canoed down the Congo during the revolt against Mobutu, he has never felt so threatened as he does now. Praise for River of No Reprieve “This is a fiercely evocative account of an astonishing journey, wrenched out of near-disaster.” —Colin Thubron, author of In Siberia and The Lost Heart of Asia “Nonfiction adventure at its best. A page-turner from cover to cover.” —Adventure Journey “Reads like a Dantean tour of purgatory, providing a gloomily beautiful glimpse of nature—and humanity—at its bleakest edges.” —Men’s Journal

Author : Robert Burgin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 837 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9798216091059

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Going Places by Robert Burgin Pdf

Successfully navigate the rich world of travel narratives and identify fiction and nonfiction read-alikes with this detailed and expertly constructed guide. Just as savvy travelers make use of guidebooks to help navigate the hundreds of countries around the globe, smart librarians need a guidebook that makes sense of the world of travel narratives. Going Places: A Reader's Guide to Travel Narratives meets that demand, helping librarians assist patrons in finding the nonfiction books that most interest them. It will also serve to help users better understand the genre and their own reading interests. The book examines the subgenres of the travel narrative genre in its seven chapters, categorizing and describing approximately 600 titles according to genres and broad reading interests, and identifying hundreds of other fiction and nonfiction titles as read-alikes and related reads by shared key topics. The author has also identified award-winning titles and spotlighted further resources on travel lit, making this work an ideal guide for readers' advisors as well a book general readers will enjoy browsing.

Author : Bill Gifford
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0151012180

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Ledyard by Bill Gifford Pdf

Author : Neal Wyatt
Publisher : American Library Association
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2007-05-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0838909361

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The Readers' Advisory Guide to Nonfiction by Neal Wyatt Pdf

Navigating what at she calls the " extravagantly rich world of nonfiction," renowned readers' advisor (RA) Wyatt builds readers' advisory bridges from fiction to compelling and increasingly popular nonfiction to encompass the library's entire collection. She focuses on eight popular categories: history, true crime, true adventure, science, memoir, food/cooking, travel, and sports. Within each, she explains the scope, popularity, style, major authors and works, and the subject's position in readers' advisory interviews. Wyatt addresses who is reading nonfiction and why, while providing RAs with the tools and language to incorporate nonfiction into discussions that point readers to what to read next. In easy-to-follow steps, Wyatt Explains the hows and whys of offering fiction and nonfiction suggestions together Illustrates ways to get up to speed fast in nonfiction Shows how to lead readers to a variety of books using her "read-around" and "reading map" strategies Provides tools to build nonfiction subject guides for the collection This hands-on guide includes nonfiction bibliography, key authors, benchmark books with annotations, and core collections. It is destined to become the nonfiction 'bible' for readers' advisory and collection development, helping librarians, library workers, and patrons select great reading from the entire library collection!

Author : Elizabeth Cook-Lynn
Publisher : Living Justice Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781937141134

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From the River's Edge by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn Pdf

Orignally published: New York: Arcade Pub., 1991.

Author : Dan Lee
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781476691909

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Three Rivers by Dan Lee Pdf

Kentucky is richly blessed with rivers. This book tells the stories of three of the most beautiful and historic: the Rolling Fork, the Nolin, and the Rough. Each is an unpredictable force of nature flowing through a land that varies from wide, sunny meadows to dark, rock-bound hollows. Chapters describe the people who lived in the river valleys, including pioneers, frontier preachers, a future president, cave explorers, Confederate and Union soldiers, desperate killers, hardscrabble farmers, and inspired visionaries. Sometimes they were wasteful and violent and vain; at other times they were inventive and graceful and kind. Their descendants realized that survival had come to mean something new: living in harmony with the land and the rivers.

Author : D. Lambert
Publisher : 4 Horsemen Publications, Inc.
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781644504031

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Celebrant by D. Lambert Pdf

The line between enemy and ally blurs... Tohmas Galanth has arrived in the north, outnumbered on every front. To survive his commitments to his besieged uncle, he must defeat the hoards, but DoomDragon is no easy foe and his battles are fought in steady retreat. To end the decade-long war, Tohmas must survive assassinations, betrayals, spies, and the crumbling morale of his trapped men. His staunchest allies will become his greatest threats as the winter looms.

Author : Congjie Liang,Dongping Yang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004156364

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The China Environment Yearbook, Volume 1 (2005) by Congjie Liang,Dongping Yang Pdf

"This yearbook from the publishing wing of CASS features voices of experts and witnesses from the People's Republic of China describing and commenting upon the environment and protection measures in the PRC in 2005. This work can also serve as a primary source for analysis of the political climate for NGOs and public intellectual and policy discourse China"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSD:31822030092514

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Nancy Pearl
Publisher : Sasquatch Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781570617010

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Book Lust to Go by Nancy Pearl Pdf

Adventure is just a book away as best-selling author Nancy Pearl returns with recommended reading for more than 120 destinations around the globe. Book Lust To Go connects the best fiction and nonfiction to particular destinations, whether your bags are packed or your armchair is calling. With stops from Texas to Timbuktu, Nancy Pearl's reading recommendations will send you on your way.

Author : Jesmyn Ward
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781982104511

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Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward Pdf

OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • Instant New York Times Bestseller • Named one of the best books of 2023 by The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, Time, The New Yorker, and more. “Nothing short of epic, magical, and intensely moving.” —Vogue • “A novel of triumph.” —The Washington Post • “Harrowing, immersive, and other-worldly.” —People From “one of America’s finest living writers” (San Francisco Chronicle) and “heir apparent to Toni Morrison” (LitHub)—comes a haunting masterpiece about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War that’s destined to become a classic. Let Us Descend describes a journey from the rice fields of the Carolinas to the slave markets of New Orleans and into the fearsome heart of a Louisiana sugar plantation. A journey that is as beautifully rendered as it is heart wrenching, the novel is “[t]he literary equivalent of an open wound from which poetry pours” (NPR). Annis, sold south by the white enslaver who fathered her, is the reader’s guide. As she struggles through the miles-long march, Annis turns inward, seeking comfort from memories of her mother and stories of her African warrior grandmother. Throughout, she opens herself to a world beyond this world, one teeming with spirits: of earth and water, of myth and history; spirits who nurture and give, and those who manipulate and take. While Annis leads readers through the descent, hers is ultimately a story of rebirth and reclamation. From one of the most singularly brilliant and beloved writers of her generation, this “[s]earing and lyrical…raw, transcendent, and ultimately hopeful” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution) novel inscribes Black American grief and joy into the very land—the rich but unforgiving forests, swamps, and rivers of the American South. Let Us Descend is Jesmyn Ward’s most magnificent novel yet.

Author : Gregory L. Ulmer,Barbara Jo Revelle,John Craig Freeman,William L Tilson
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789004534643

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Miami Virtue by Gregory L. Ulmer,Barbara Jo Revelle,John Craig Freeman,William L Tilson Pdf

The Florida Research Ensemble is an interdisciplinary collaborative arts and research group experimenting with choragraphy, which applies modernist arts practices and poststructural theory to the design of image as category. Image categories function for networked digital media the way Aristotle's word categories functioned for literacy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Russia
ISBN : IND:30000107228268

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Russian Life by Anonim Pdf

Author : Gregory J. Wallance
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781250280060

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Into Siberia by Gregory J. Wallance Pdf

"In Wallance’s bracing narrative, Kennan emerges as a cheerful, deeply decent companion, an uncompromising observer whose greatest strength was his ability to change his mind. He’s a welcome change from the callous imperialists who people most Victorian travelogues, and his humanity allows Into Siberia to delve into horror without succumbing to despair." — The New York Times Book Review In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance’s Into Siberia is a thrilling work of history about one man’s harrowing journey and the light it shone on some of history’s most heinous human rights abuses. In the late nineteenth century, close diplomatic relations existed between the United States and Russia. All that changed when George Kennan went to Siberia in 1885 to investigate the exile system and his eyes were opened to the brutality Russia was wielding to suppress dissent. Over ten months Kennan traveled eight thousand miles, mostly in horse-drawn carriages, sleighs or on horseback. He endured suffocating sandstorms in the summer and blizzards in the winter. His interviews with convicts and political exiles revealed how Russia ran on the fuel of inflicted pain and fear. Prisoners in the mines were chained day and night to their wheelbarrows as punishment. Babies in exile parties froze to death in their mothers’ arms. Kennan came to call the exiles’ experience in Siberia a “perfect hell of misery.” After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day.

Author : James Han Mattson
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063079939

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Reprieve by James Han Mattson Pdf

"Like Whitehead’s The Intuitionist, Alyssa Cole’s When No One Is Watching or Zakiya Dalila Harris’ The Other Black Girl, Reprieve straddles genres in the best possible way. . . . Sure to spark conversation and debate at book clubs across the land." –LOS ANGELES TIMES “An eventual American classic that is unrelenting in its beauty and incisive cultural critique.” – KIESE LAYMON Recommended by New York Times • Los Angeles Times • NPR • Today • Esquire • O Quarterly • Boston Globe • Chicago Tribune • Harper’s Bazaar • Shondaland • Thrillist • The Millions • Crimereads • XTRA • Tor • Literary Hub • and more! A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room—a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment. On April 27, 1997, four contestants make it to the final cell of the Quigley House, a full-contact haunted escape room in Lincoln, Nebraska, made famous for its monstrosities, booby-traps, and ghoulishly costumed actors. If the group can endure these horrors without shouting the safe word, “reprieve,” they’ll win a substantial cash prize—a startling feat accomplished only by one other group in the house’s long history. But before they can complete the challenge, a man breaks into the cell and kills one of the contestants. Those who were present on that fateful night lend their points of view: Kendra Brown, a teenager who’s been uprooted from her childhood home after the sudden loss of her father; Leonard Grandton, a desperate and impressionable hotel manager caught in a series of toxic entanglements; and Jaidee Charoensuk, a gay international student who came to the United States in a besotted search for his former English teacher. As each character’s journey unfurls and overlaps, deceit and misunderstandings fueled by obsession and prejudice are revealed, forcing all to reckon with the ways in which their beliefs and actions contributed to a horrifying catastrophe. An astonishingly soulful exploration of complicity and masquerade, Reprieve combines the psychological tension of classic horror with searing social criticism to present an unsettling portrait of this tangled American life.