Run Me A River

Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813189437

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Run Me a River by Janice Holt Giles Pdf

The rich history of river life in Kentucky permeates Janice Holt Giles's novel Run Me a River. Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky's reluctant entry into the Civil War, the novel tells the story of a five-day adventure on the Green River. Aboard the Rambler, a ramshackle steamboat, Captain Bohannon Cartwright and his crew journey 184 miles and pick up two extra passengers along the way. The boatmenrescue "Sir Henry" Cole, a former Shakespearean actor, and his granddaughter Phoebe from their skiff when it overruns in a squall. As romance blossoms between Phoebe and Captain Bo, a conflict escalates between Confederate and Union forces fighting for control of the river. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.

Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780813157054

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Run Me a River by Janice Holt Giles Pdf

The rich history of river life in Kentucky permeates Janice Holt Giles's novel Run Me a River. Set in 1861, at the beginning of Kentucky's reluctant entry into the Civil War, the novel tells the story of a five-day adventure on the Green River. Aboard the Rambler, a ramshackle steamboat, Captain Bohannon Cartwright and his crew journey 184 miles and pick up two extra passengers along the way. The boatmenrescue "Sir Henry" Cole, a former Shakespearean actor, and his granddaughter Phoebe from their skiff when it overruns in a squall. As romance blossoms between Phoebe and Captain Bo, a conflict escalates between Confederate and Union forces fighting for control of the river. Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979), author of nineteen books, lived and wrote near Knifley, Kentucky, for thirty-four years. Her biography is told in Janice Holt Giles: A Writer's Life.

Author : . Nasdijj
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780547904825

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The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams by . Nasdijj Pdf

THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS transports readers to the majestic landscapes and hard Native American lives of the desert Southwest and into the embrace of a way of looking at the world that seems almost like revelation. Born to a storytelling Native mother and a roughneck, song-singing cowboy father, Nasdijj has lived on the jagged-edged margins of American society, yet hardship and isolation have only brought him greater clarity--and a gift for language that is nothing short of breathtaking. Nasdijj tells of his adopted son, Tommy Nothing Fancy, of the young boy's struggle with fetal alcohol syndrome, and of their last fishing trip together. It is a heartbreaking story, written with great power and a diamondlike poetry. But whether Nasdijj is telling us about his son, about the chaotic, alternately harrowing and comical life he led with his own parents, or about the vitality and beauty of Native American culture, his voice is always one of searching honesty, wry humor, and a nearly cosmic compassion. While Nasdijj struggles with his impossible status as someone of two separate cultures, he also remains a contradiction in a larger sense: he cares for those who often shun him, he teaches hope though he often has none for himself, and he comes home to the land he then must leave. THE BLOOD RUNS LIKE A RIVER THROUGH MY DREAMS is the memoir of a man who has survived a hard life with grace, who has taken the past experience of pain and transformed it into a determination to care for the most vulnerable among us, and who has found an almost unspeakable beauty where others would find only sadness. This is a book that will touch your soul.

Author : Janice Holt Giles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:8232680

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Run Me a River by Janice Holt Giles Pdf

Author : Joan Didion
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307787750

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Run River by Joan Didion Pdf

The iconic writer's electrifying first novel is a story of marriage, murder and betrayal that only she could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense—from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean. Everett McClellan and his wife, Lily, are the great-grandchildren of pioneers, and what happens to them is a tragic epilogue to the pioneer experience—a haunting portrait of a marriage whose wrong turns and betrayals are at once absolutely idiosyncratic and a razor-sharp commentary on the history of California.

Author : Wes Ferguson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781623491277

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Running the River by Wes Ferguson Pdf

Growing up near the Sabine, journalist Wes Ferguson, like most East Texans, steered clear of its murky, debris-filled waters, where alligators lived in the backwater sloughs and an occasional body was pulled from some out-of-the-way crossing. The Sabine held a reputation as a haunt for a handful of hunters and loggers, more than a few water moccasins, swarms of mosquitoes, and the occasional black bear lumbering through swamp oak and cypress knees. But when Ferguson set out to do a series of newspaper stories on the upper portion of the river, he and photographer Jacob Croft Botter were entranced by the river’s subtle beauty and the solitude they found there. They came to admire the self-described “river rats” who hunted, fished, and swapped stories along the muddy water—plain folk who love the Sabine as much as Hill Country vacationers love the clear waters of the Guadalupe. Determined to travel the rest of the river, Ferguson and Botter loaded their gear and launched into the stretch of river that charts the line between the states and ends at the Gulf of Mexico. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

Author : Norman MacLean
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2017-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780226472232

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A River Runs through It and Other Stories by Norman MacLean Pdf

The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, “as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway” (Chicago Tribune). When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, “it has trees in it.” Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great American tales of the twentieth century, and Maclean as one of the most beloved writers of our time. The finely distilled product of a long life of often surprising rapture—for fly-fishing, for the woods, for the interlocked beauty of life and art—A River Runs Through It has established itself as a classic of the American West filled with beautiful prose and understated emotional insights. Based on Maclean’s own experiences as a young man, the book’s two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in Maclean’s own words, “a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.” “Maclean’s book—acerbic, laconic, deadpan—rings out of a rich American tradition that includes Mark Twain, Kin Hubbard, Richard Bissell, Jean Shepherd, and Nelson Algren.” —New York Times Book Review Includes a new foreword by Robert Redford, director of the Academy Award–winning film adaptation

Author : Frances Fuller Victor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Americana
ISBN : UCBK:C099408465

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The River of the West by Frances Fuller Victor Pdf

Joe Meek was one of the West's irresistible characters. He was dashing, devil-may-care, cheeky, irreverent, and more fun than a playful grizzly cub. Initially, he covers his early life adventuring in the Rocky Mountains, California, and the Southwest. His firsthand account of fur-traders is priceless, as are his descriptions of the country, mountains, and the life of a mountain man. Then, Joe Meek's life as pioneer, sheriff, U.S. Marshall, and legislator is told in his own engaging voice. The turbulent years in the Northwest include the story of trappers, traders, missionaries, women, pioneers, and Native Americans that finally came together and created a state--Oregon.

Author : Deirdre Black
Publisher : Darby Creek ™
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781467730655

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River Run by Deirdre Black Pdf

All Freya can remember is her sister, the basement, and the Man Upstairs. She has no memory of the world outside or of being warm or of not feeling hungry. And now her sister is gone. An unlikely ally shows her how to break out of the basement, but on the frozen banks of the Mississippi, Freya quickly discovers things worse than the Man Upstairs. Freya is lucky to find Finn. He has a canoe, some supplies, and a vague idea about a place down south called Norlins. If they can dodge the slavers and avoid starving to death, the two of them might just have a shot at survival.

Author : Patti Callahan Henry
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101118337

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Where the River Runs by Patti Callahan Henry Pdf

New York Times bestselling author Patti Callahan Henry delivers an engaging novel about a South Carolina woman who goes back home to face the past—and discovers herself. Meridy Dresden was once a free-spirited, fun-loving girl. All that changed when the boy she loved was killed in a tragic fire. Since then, she alone has carried the burden of a terrible secret. Now, years later, married to a wonderful man and mother of a teenage son, she is shocked to learn that a childhood friend is being blamed for that long-ago fire. Fearful but determined, Meridy returns to the South Carolina Lowcountry and summons the courage to make a decision that may destroy her well-ordered life, her family’s reputation, her contented marriage, and everything she’s worked so hard to protect…including her heart. “Brilliant. Powerful. Magical. Do not miss this book.”—New York Times bestselling author Haywood Smith

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1144 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11354498

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Senate documents by Anonim Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433089902435

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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: Henry IV, pt. 1-2 by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015082499362

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King Henry IV, part 1. King Henry IV, part 2 by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : William Shakespeare
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HN63ME

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Henry IV. by William Shakespeare Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2072 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCD:31175012426949

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The Publishers Weekly by Anonim Pdf