The River And The Rock

Author : Kekla Magoon
Publisher : Aladdin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2010-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416978038

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The Rock and the River by Kekla Magoon Pdf

Winner of the ALA Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe New Talent Award, The Rock and the River was described in a Booklist starred review as a “taut, eloquent first novel [that] will make readers feel what it was like to be young, black, and militant.” The Time: 1968 The Place: Chicago For thirteen-year-old Sam it’s not easy being the son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. Especially when his older (and best friend), Stick, begins to drift away from him for no apparent reason. And then it happens: Sam finds something that changes everything forever. Sam has always had faith in his father, but when he finds literature about the Black Panthers under Stick’s bed, he’s not sure who to believe: his father or his best friend. Suddenly, nothing feels certain anymore. Sam wants to believe that his father is right: You can effect change without using violence. But as time goes on, Sam grows weary of standing by and watching as his friends and family suffer at the hands of racism in their own community. Sam beings to explore the Panthers with Stick, but soon he’s involved in something far more serious—and more dangerous—than he could have ever predicted. Sam is faced with a difficult decision. Will he follow his father or his brother? His mind or his heart? The rock or the river?

Author : Dave Richard Palmer
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015027762296

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The River and the Rock by Dave Richard Palmer Pdf

Author : Adrian Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-20
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780753554081

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Monsters of River and Rock by Adrian Smith Pdf

Come to the riverbank with Adrian Smith and cast a line on the wild side. 'Beautifully written account' Dave Simpson, The Guardian 'Writes beautifully' The Sun Welcome to the world of Adrian Smith, playing his Jackson guitar onstage to millions - while behind the scenes he explores far-flung rivers, seas and lakes, waterways and weirs, in a fearless quest for fishing nirvana. Hooked on the angling adrenaline rush since first catching perch from East London canals on outings with his father, Adrian grew up to be in one of Rock's most iconic bands. On tour, his gear went with him. The fish got bigger. The adventures more extreme. In Monsters of River and Rock you'll hear about his first sturgeon: a whopping 100-pounder from the roaring rapids of Canada's Fraser River that nearly wiped him out mid-Maiden tour. Then there's the close shave with a shark off the Virgin Islands whilst wading waist-deep for bonefish. Not to mention an enviable list of specimen coarse fish from the UK.

Author : Kekla Magoon
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781250128904

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Light It Up by Kekla Magoon Pdf

Told in a series of vignettes from multiple viewpoints, Kekla Magoon's Light It Up is a powerful, layered story about injustice and strength—as well as an incredible follow-up to the highly acclaimed novel How It Went Down. A girl walks home from school. She's tall for her age. She's wearing her winter coat. Her headphones are in. She's hurrying. She never makes it home. In the aftermath, while law enforcement tries to justify the response, one fact remains: a police officer has shot and killed an unarmed thirteen-year-old girl. The community is thrown into upheaval, leading to unrest, a growing movement to protest the senseless taking of black lives, and the arrival of white supremacist counter demonstrators.

Author : Maya Rochat
Publisher : Spbh Editions
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1999814401

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Maya Rochat: A Rock Is a River by Maya Rochat Pdf

A Rock is a River, a new book by Swiss artist Maya Rochat, binds the alchemy of photography with the physicality of painting. Rochat creates organic patterns, chromatic alterations and visual ruptures that generate a slow, ongoing process of images mutating, reflecting a world in permanent flux. In the long tradition of artists' books as artworks in their own right, Rochat understands the space of a publication as site-specific, and has conceived a series of works for the form of the publication, taking into account the possibilities of layout and printing experimentation. Drawing from the past two years of her photographic production, she revisits and interweaves images in various scales and rhythms to create an ongoing, unfolding collage in book form. The name derives from the collection of raw material Rochat gathered to create the book. Much of it was shot in Valle Verzasca, in the Locarno district of her native Switzerland, as well as within other landscapes she has a direct connection to such as Peru, where her father lives. Inspired by the altering states of matter transforming in the natural world - the sculpting forces of continually moving water, rocks transformed by rivers, solids turning to liquids and back again - Rochat works layers of transformation into each her own works, in her own process of sedimentation.

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9791041824151

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Shadows on the Rock by Willa Cather Pdf

"Shadows on the Rock" is a historical novel written by the American author Willa Cather. The book was published in 1931 and is set in the 17th century in colonial New France, specifically in Quebec City. The novel focuses on the lives of the early French settlers and the challenges they faced while establishing a life in the rugged wilderness of North America. The central character is Cécile Auclair, a young girl who, with her father, makes the difficult journey from France to Quebec to join her mother. The novel provides a vivid portrayal of daily life, relationships, and the interactions between the French settlers and the indigenous people of the region. "Shadows on the Rock" is known for its rich historical detail and evocative descriptions of the landscape and characters. Willa Cather's storytelling captures the enduring spirit and resilience of the early settlers in North America. The novel is celebrated for its historical accuracy and its exploration of the human experience in a challenging and often harsh environment.

Author : Stephanie K. Davidson,Sophie Leleu,Colin P. North
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Alluvium
ISBN : 1565763076

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From River to Rock Record by Stephanie K. Davidson,Sophie Leleu,Colin P. North Pdf

Over the last couple of decades, fluvial geomorphology and fluvial sedimentary geology have been developing in parallel, rather than in conjunction as might be desired. This volume is the result of the editors' attempt to bridge this gap in order to understand better how sediments in modern rivers become preserved in the rock record, and to improve interpretation from that record of the history of past environmental conditions. The catalyst for the volume was a conference with the same title hosted at the University of Aberdeen School of Geosciences, in Aberdeen, Scotland, on 12-14 January 2009.

Author : Peter Heller
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525521877

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The River by Peter Heller Pdf

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fiery tour de force... I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." -Alison Borden, The Denver Post From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip--a gripping tale of a friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence Wynn and Jack have been best friends since freshman orientation, bonded by their shared love of mountains, books, and fishing. Wynn is a gentle giant, a Vermont kid never happier than when his feet are in the water. Jack is more rugged, raised on a ranch in Colorado where sleeping under the stars and cooking on a fire came as naturally to him as breathing. When they decide to canoe the Maskwa River in northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries, and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey. When they hear a man and woman arguing on the fog-shrouded riverbank and decide to warn them about the fire, their search for the pair turns up nothing and no one. But: The next day a man appears on the river, paddling alone. Is this the man they heard? And, if he is, where is the woman? From this charged beginning, master storyteller Peter Heller unspools a headlong, heart-pounding story of desperate wilderness survival.

Author : Kekla Magoon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781442422308

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Fire in the Streets by Kekla Magoon Pdf

In the aftermath of Dr. King's assassination in 1968, Chicago fourteen-year-old Maxie longs to join the Black Panthers, whether or not her brother Raheem, ex-boyfriend Sam, or her friends like it, and is soon caught up in the violence of anti-war and civil rights demonstrations.

Author : Vanessa McGrady
Publisher : Little A
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1503903680

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Rock Needs River by Vanessa McGrady Pdf

"After two years of waiting to adopt--slogging through paperwork and bouncing between hope and despair--a miracle finally happened for Vanessa McGrady. Her sweet baby, Grace, was a dream come true. Then Vanessa made a highly uncommon gesture: when Grace's biological parents became homeless, Vanessa invited them to stay. Without a blueprint for navigating the practical basics of an open adoption or any discussion of expectations or boundaries, the unusual living arrangement became a bottomless well of conflicting emotions and increasingly difficult decisions complicated by missed opportunities, regret, social chaos, and broken hearts"--

Author : Skip Johnson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1891852973

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River on the Rocks by Skip Johnson Pdf

River on the Rocks is a story told in the tradition of Bill Byrne's Tale Of The Elk, and may be seen as a modern-day counterpart of that classic.The first recorded white settler on Birch was English Bill Dodrill, an occasional companion of Daniel Boone. English Bill came to the upper part of the river near Boggs in 1799 when that area was still a wilderness. Truth to tell, there aren't many more people living on Birch now than was the case, say, one hundred years ago.The title of this book reflects the geologic gift that makes West Virginia's Birch River unique: its large collection of rocks on an eight mile stretch in Nicholas and Braxton Counties. To celebrate this uniqueness, a number of rocks were "weighed," and the largest topped the scales at two thousand and twenty five tons!River birches, with their crinkly and peeling bark, are found all along the stream, particularly on lower Birch where they form a canopy. It must have been that way two hundred and seven years ago when those eighteenth century surveyors gave the river its fitting name.J.M. Hutchinson, an early Nicholas County historian, wrote that "in the records of a survey of 100,000 acres made by Tabithia McKinley in 1794, they called the river Birch, and it has since gone by that name."

Author : Tim E. H. Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105123242039

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The Aboriginal Rock Paintings of the Churchill River by Tim E. H. Jones Pdf

Author : Annie York,Richard Daly,Chris Arnett,John Haugen
Publisher : Talonbooks
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Art
ISBN : 1772012203

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They Write Their Dream on the Rocks Forever by Annie York,Richard Daly,Chris Arnett,John Haugen Pdf

"The most complete published record of these rock paintings to date." --American Anthropologist Elder Annie York explains the inscriptions on the rocks of British Columbia's Stein Valley in this fully revised edition. Her narratives take us back to the wonder of childhood, and to a time when people and animals lived together in one psychic dimension. Annie York, an Nlaka'pamux Elder, was a cultural authority, healer, and oral teacher. Author, musician, and carver Chris Arnett is a member of the Ngāi Tahu Māori iwi. Richard Daly is an independent anthropologist.

Author : Sarah Noble
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-02
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781838740177

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As Strong as the River by Sarah Noble Pdf

Little cub wants to be big and strong like all the other bears because there's nothing bigger or stronger than a bear... or is there? Join this curious bear cub as it learns from its mother how to hunt, fish, scratch and be patient in this beautiful debut picture book from Sarah Noble. Touching on themes of nature, nurture, and the importance of family, this is the perfect story for any curious young reader starting to question the world around them. In the vein of a classical animal picture book, As Strong as the River is designed to be the perfect bedtime story reading for parents and children.

Author : Nancy E. McIntyre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0984585087

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Rush of River Over Rock by Nancy E. McIntyre Pdf

RUSH of RIVER over ROCK is the story of a part wolf/dog, found badly injured in the mountains of western North Carolina, and the woman who gives him a home. Along with the many daily observations of this unusual dog that is part gray wolf, it is the story of each, both, as they straddled two different cultures and ways of being in the world.