The Old Woman And The River

Author : Ismail Fahad Ismail
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623710934

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The Old Woman and the River by Ismail Fahad Ismail Pdf

After the ceasefire in 1988, the devastation to the landscape of Iraq wrought by the longest war of the twentieth century—the Iran-Iraq War—becomes visible. Eight years of fighting have turned nature upside down, with vast wastelands being left behind. In southeastern Iraq, along the shores of the Shatt al-Arab River, the groves of date palm trees have withered. No longer bearing fruit, their leaves have turned a bright yellow. There, Iraqi forces had blocked the entry points of the river’s tributaries and streams, preventing water from flowing to the trees and vegetation. Yet, surveying this destruction from the sky, a strip of land bursting with green can be seen. Beginning from the Shatt al-Arab River and reaching to the fringes of the western desert, several kilometers wide, it appears as a lush oasis of some kind. The secret of this fertility, sustaining villages and remaining soldiers, is unclear. But it is said that one old woman is responsible for this lifeline.

Author : Evangelist Mary F. Simmons
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781449056100

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The Old Woman and the River by Evangelist Mary F. Simmons Pdf

Author : Charles E. Sloan,Donald R. Kernodle,Ronald Huntsinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Hydrology
ISBN : UCR:31210024317404

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Hydrologic Reconnaissance of the Unalakleet River Basin, Alaska, 1982-83 by Charles E. Sloan,Donald R. Kernodle,Ronald Huntsinger Pdf

Author : Velma Wallis
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780060723521

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Two Old Women by Velma Wallis Pdf

Based on an Athabascan Indian legend passed along for many generations from mothers to daughters of the upper Yukon River Valley in Alaska, this is the suspenseful, shocking, ultimately inspirational tale of two old women abandoned by their tribe during a brutal winter famine. Though these women have been known to complain more than contribute, they now must either survive on their own or die trying. In simple but vivid detail, Velma Wallis depicts a landscape and way of life that are at once merciless and starkly beautiful. In her old women, she has created two heroines of steely determination whose story of betrayal, friendship, community and forgiveness "speaks straight to the heart with clarity, sweetness and wisdom" (Ursula K. Le Guin).

Author : Martha Stinson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798885279307

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River Woman by Martha Stinson Pdf

River Woman By: Martha Stinson Southern West Virginia in the early 1940’s is seen through the eyes of thirteen-year-old Rebecca Lynn Carver in River Woman. She tells the stories, and sometimes secrets, of the families who live on the mountain and in the small town of Glade Springs along the New River in Fayette County. Triumph for some, tragedy for others, everyone has a tale.

Author : Arlene Mosel
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993-02-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780140547535

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The Funny Little Woman by Arlene Mosel Pdf

In this Caldecott Medal-winning tale set in Old Japan, a lively little woman who loves to laugh pursues her runaway dumpling—and must outwit the wicked three-eyed oni when she lands in their clutches. “The pictures are in perfect harmony with the humorous mood of the story. . . . It’s all done with a commendable amount of taste, imagination, and style.”—School Library Journal (starred review) “A beautifully convincing tale.”—The New York Times Book Review “Using elements of traditional Japanese art, the illustrator has made marvelously imaginative pictures.”—The Horn Book “Lent’s pictures are a lively blend of finely detailed, delicate drawings and rip-roaring good humor.”—The Boston Globe “A good read-aloud with lots of suspense.”—Learning Awards: ALA Notable Children’s Book Child Study Association Book of the Year The Horn Book Fanfare

Author : Donna Hemans
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780743410403

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River Woman by Donna Hemans Pdf

Set in Jamaica and New York, this acclaimed first novel explores the ties that bind mother to child and weaves a mesmerizing tale of promises broken and dreams deferred.

Author : Hallie Ephron
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062117625

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There Was an Old Woman by Hallie Ephron Pdf

There Was An Old Woman by Hallie Ephron is a compelling novel of psychological suspense in which a young woman becomes entangled in a terrifying web of deception and madness involving an elderly neighbor. When Evie Ferrante learns that her mother has been hospitalized, she finds her mother’s house in chaos. Sorting through her mother’s belongings, Evie discovers objects that don’t quite belong there, and begins to raise questions. Evie renews a friendship with Mina, an elderly neighbor who might know more about her mother’s recent activities, but Mina is having her own set of problems: Her nephew Brian is trying to persuade her to move to a senior care community. As Evie investigates her mother’s actions, a darker story of deception and madness involving Mina emerges. In There Was an Old Woman, award-winning mystery author Hallie Ephron delivers another work of domestic noir with truly unforgettable characters that will keep you riveted.

Author : Thomas Wolfe
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1911 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547753988

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Look Homeward, Angel & Of Time and the River by Thomas Wolfe Pdf

"Look Homeward, Angel" is an American coming-of-age story. The novel is considered to be autobiographical and the character of Eugene Gant is generally believed to be a depiction of Thomas Wolfe himself. Set in the fictional town and state of Altamont, Catawba, it covers the span of time from Eugene's birth to the age of 19. "Of Time and the River" is the continuation of the story of Eugene Gant, detailing his early and mid-twenties. During that time Eugene attends Harvard University, moves to New York City, teaches English at a university there, and travels overseas with his friend Francis Starwick.

Author : Karen Jettmar
Publisher : Menasha Ridge Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-28
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780897329576

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Alaska River Guide by Karen Jettmar Pdf

The rich tapestry of Alaska is threaded together by 365,000 miles of waterways, from cascading mountain streams to meandering valley rivers, from the meltwaters of glaciers to broad rivers that empty into the sea. This guide profiles a wide variety of rivers from all over Alaska, concentrating on trips for intermediate boaters, and including a few major expeditions for the experienced river-runner. A section on gear outlines what to take into the backcountry.

Author : Jennifer S. H. Brown
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781496204486

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Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River by Jennifer S. H. Brown Pdf

In Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River Jennifer S. H. Brown presents the dozens of stories and memories that A. Irving Hallowell recorded from Adam (Samuel) Bigmouth, son of Ochiipwamoshiish (Northern Barred Owl), at Little Grand Rapids in the summers of 1938 and 1940. The stories range widely across the lives of four generations of Anishinaabeg along the Berens River in Manitoba and northwestern Ontario. In an open and wide-ranging conversation, Hallowell discovered that Bigmouth was a vivid storyteller as he talked about the eight decades of his own life and the lives of his father, various relatives, and other persons of the past. Bigmouth related stories about his youth, his intermittent work for the Hudson’s Bay Company, the traditional curing of patients, ancestral memories, encounters with sorcerers, and contests with cannibalistic windigos. The stories also tell of vision-fasting experiences, often fraught gender relations, and hunting and love magic—all in a region not frequented by Indian agents and little visited by missionaries and schoolteachers. With an introduction and rich annotations by Brown, a renowned authority on the Upper Berens Anishinaabeg and Hallowell’s ethnography, Ojibwe Stories from the Upper Berens River is an outstanding primary source for both First Nations history and the oral literature of Canada’s Ojibwe peoples.

Author : United States. Department of the Interior. Alaska Planning Group
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Regional planning
ISBN : UOM:39015004613264

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Proposed Unalakleet National Wild River, Alaska by United States. Department of the Interior. Alaska Planning Group Pdf

Author : Darcy Williamson
Publisher : Caxton Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1997-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0870045318

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River Tales of Idaho by Darcy Williamson Pdf

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press A compilation of historical accounts of the men and women, white and native, that have made history on the shores of, and often in spite of, the untamed waters of Idaho's mighty rivers.

Author : Yoko Hasegawa
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-01-08
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781107032774

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Japanese by Yoko Hasegawa Pdf

A succinct overview of the Japanese language, looking at grammar, vocabulary, meaning and sound structure, as well as sociolinguistics and history.

Author : Louis Owens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0806132825

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Dark River by Louis Owens Pdf

30 in American Indian Literature and Critical Studies Series Jacob Nashoba's journey has taken him from his Choctaw homeland in Mississippi to Vietnam and finally to a small reservation in the mountains of eastern Arizona. A tribal ranger, he lives among people far different from any he has known. Balanced precariously between isolation and community, he is drawn to both the fastness of a remote river canyon and the Apaches who have come to be the only family he has. Nashoba's world is peopled by, among others, a bright young man who sells vision quests to romantic tourists, a determined elder whose power makes her a force to be reckoned with on the reservation, a resident anthropologist more "native" than the natives, a corrupt tribal chairman, a former Hollywood extra who shouts at reservation women the scraps of Italian he learned from other "Indian" actors, and the ranger's estranged wife. Confusion and violence follow their encounter with a right-wing militia group training secretly on tribal land. The contrast between these Rambo types and the various Native American characters typifies the sardonic humor running throughout this novel of contemporary Indian identity. Louis Owens, who is of Choctaw-Cherokee-Irish descent, is Professor of English at the University of New Mexico. He is the author of several books, including Other Destinies: Understanding the American Indian Novel and the novels The Sharpest Sight and Bone Game, all published by the University of Oklahoma Press.