With the help of what he learned from a Delaware Indian boy and an accommodating mother raccoon, young Daniel Boone escapes danger when a bear steals his coonskin cap.

Winner of the 2012 National Book Award for Poetry. To read David Ferry’s Bewilderment is to be reminded that poetry of the highest order can be made by the subtlest of means. The passionate nature and originality of Ferry’s prosodic daring works astonishing transformations that take your breath away. In poem after poem, his diction modulates beautifully between plainspoken high eloquence and colloquial vigor, making his distinctive speech one of the most interesting and ravishing achievements of the past half century. Ferry has fully realized both the potential for vocal expressiveness in his phrasing and the way his phrasing plays against—and with—his genius for metrical variation. His vocal phrasing thus becomes an amazingly flexible instrument of psychological and spiritual inquiry. Most poets write inside a very narrow range of experience and feeling, whether in free or metered verse. But Ferry’s use of meter tends to enhance the colloquial nature of his writing, while giving him access to an immense variety of feeling. Sometimes that feeling is so powerful it’s like witnessing a volcanologist taking measurements in the midst of an eruption. Ferry’s translations, meanwhile, are amazingly acclimated English poems. Once his voice takes hold of them they are as bred in the bone as all his other work. And the translations in this book are vitally related to the original poems around them. From Bewilderment: October The day was hot, and entirely breathless, so The remarkably quiet remarkably steady leaf fall Seemed as if it had no cause at all. The ticking sound of falling leaves was like The ticking sound of gentle rainfall as They gently fell on leaves already fallen, Or as, when as they passed them in their falling, Now and again it happened that one of them touched One or another leaf as yet not falling, Still clinging to the idea of being summer: As if the leaves that were falling, but not the day, Had read, and understood, the calendar.

With the help of what he learned from a Native American boy and an accommodating mother raccoon, young Daniel Boone escapes danger when a bear steals his coonskin cap.

This book illustrates the truth of that statement.

AN OPRAH'S BOOK CLUB SELECTION An Instant New York Times Bestseller Shortlisted for the 2021 Booker Prize Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Fiction Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction A heartrending new novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning and #1 New York Times best-selling author of The Overstory. The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He’s also about to be expelled from third grade for smashing his friend in the face. As his son grows more troubled, Theo hopes to keep him off psychoactive drugs. He learns of an experimental neurofeedback treatment to bolster Robin’s emotional control, one that involves training the boy on the recorded patterns of his mother’s brain… With its soaring descriptions of the natural world, its tantalizing vision of life beyond, and its account of a father and son’s ferocious love, Bewilderment marks Richard Powers’s most intimate and moving novel. At its heart lies the question: How can we tell our children the truth about this beautiful, imperiled planet?

Life of Daniel Boone and how he fought in the wilderness.

Two zealots plan to destroy America by spreading the Ebola virus, but Michael Reynolds stands in their way, desperately searching for answers. The attack date is another 9/11. The year is 2021. Two disillusioned zealots plan to end world violence once and for all by stripping the powerful United States of its electric power and communications and possibly the lives of its citizens. Their weapons are a nuclear electromagnetic pulse bomb and a modified Ebola virus capable of airborne infection. During the nations global warming crisis of 2014 to 2018, the U.S. capital was temporarily moved from Washington, D.C. to Denver, Colorado. There, Michael Reynolds finds himself again in the midst of terror and turmoil. Over a three-day period in one square mile of Denver, Reynolds must find a way to counter the zealots scheme and save America from utter destruction. Part of the destructive plot, the young and beautiful Fila also enters the fray, but eventually becomes uncertain of her role. Will she hinder or help Reynolds? If the virus spreads unabated, there is little hope for survival. With no means of communications and with no anti-viral against Ebola, Americans face a tragic end if Reynolds does not follow the right clues.