Drowned River
Title | Drowned River PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Solnit |
Publisher | |
Pages | 212 |
Release | 2018-04-24 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781942185253 |
Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; text by Rebecca Solnit.
The Drowned River
Title | The Drowned River PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas Lux |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN |
Into This River I Drown
Title | Into This River I Drown PDF eBook |
Author | TJ Klune |
Publisher | Dreamspinner Press LLC |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Gays |
ISBN | 9781623804084 |
Five years ago, Benji Green lost his beloved father, Big Eddie, when his truck crashed into a river. Everyone called it an accident, but Benji knows it was more. Even years later, he's buried in his grief, throwing himself into managing Big Eddie's convenience store in the small-town of Roseland, Oregon. Surrounded by his mother and three aunts, he lives day to day, struggling to keep his head above water. But Roseland is no ordinary place. With ever more frequent dreams of his father's death and waking visions of feathers on the river's surface, Benji finds his definition of reality bending. He thinks himself haunted; by ghosts or memories, he can no longer tell. Not until a man falls from the sky, leaving the burning imprint of wings on the ground, does Benji begin to understand that the world is more mysterious than he ever imagined--and more dangerous. As uncontrollable forces descend on Roseland, they reveal long-hidden truths about friends, family, and the stranger Calliel--a man Benji can no longer live without.
The Other Side of the River
Title | The Other Side of the River PDF eBook |
Author | Alex Kotlowitz |
Publisher | Anchor |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2012-01-04 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0307814297 |
Bestselling author Alex Kotlowitz is one of this country's foremost writers on the ever explosive issue of race. In this gripping and ultimately profound book, Kotlowitz takes us to two towns in southern Michigan, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, separated by the St. Joseph River. Geographically close, but worlds apart, they are a living metaphor for America's racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and ninety-five percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and ninety-two percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns' populations surface as well. The investigation into the young man's death becomes, inevitably, a screen on which each town projects their resentments and fears. The Other Side of the River sensitively portrays the lives and hopes of the towns' citizens as they wrestle with this mystery--and reveals the attitudes and misperceptions that undermine race relations throughout America.
Drowned Valley
Title | Drowned Valley PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | University Press of New England |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Drowned Town
Title | Drowned Town PDF eBook |
Author | Jayne Moore Waldrop |
Publisher | University Press of Kentucky |
Pages | 173 |
Release | 2021-10-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1950564177 |
"They had been told their sacrifice was for the public good. They were never told how much they would miss it, or for how long." Drowned Town explores the multigenerational impact caused by the loss of home and illuminates the joys and sorrows of a group of people bound together by western Kentucky's Land Between the Lakes and the lakes that lie on either side of it. The linked stories are rooted in a landscape forever altered by the mid-twentieth-century impoundment of the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers and the seizing of property under the power of eminent domain to create a national recreation area on the narrow strip of land between the lakes. The massive federal land and water projects completed in quick succession were designed to serve the public interest by providing hydroelectric power, flood control, and economic progress for the region—at great sacrifice for those who gave up their homes, livelihoods, towns, and history. The narrative follows two women whose lives are shaped by their friendship and connection to the place, and their stories go back and forth in time to show how the creation of the lakes both healed and hurt the people connected to them. In the process, the stories emphasize the importance of sisterhood and family, both blood and created, and how we cannot separate ourselves from our places in the world.
The Place No One Knew
Title | The Place No One Knew PDF eBook |
Author | Eliot Porter |
Publisher | Gibbs Smith Publishers |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Glen Canyon (Utah and Ariz.) |
ISBN | 9780879059712 |
Glen Canyon was a place of extraordinary beauty before it disappeared, flooded when a new dam ("a major mistake of our time," says environmentalist David Brower) was completed in 1963. This book is a commemorative edition of Eliot Porter's exquisite photographs of the canyon.