Driving on the Rim
Title | Driving on the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Thomas McGuane |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2011-10-04 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 140007522X |
The unforgettable story of a housepainter turned doctor in Big Sky country who finds himself on a darkly funny journey to salvation in this “irrepressibly comic and optimistic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him apart—his inability to follow the pack—proves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.
Canaries on the Rim
Title | Canaries on the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Chip Ward |
Publisher | Verso |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2001-05-17 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781859843215 |
A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.
On the Rim
Title | On the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Mark Neumann |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Pages | 373 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 9780816627851 |
Weaving history, ethnography, and documentary photography, the author describes how the Grand Canyon became an internationally renowned tourist attraction and cultural icon. 58 photos.
Off the Rim
Title | Off the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | Sonya Spreen Bates |
Publisher | Orca Book Publishers |
Pages | 164 |
Release | 2015-04-01 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1459808908 |
Dylan’s wish comes true when Coach Scott names him to the starting lineup for the Mountview High Hunters’ first game of the playoffs. But just when he should be concentrating on basketball, Dylan becomes the target of some off-court aggression. As he’s driving his girlfriend, Jenna, home one night, a black pickup truck tries to run them off the road. The police call it an accident. But even as Dylan tries to put it behind him, he has a sense of impending danger that he can’t shake. When Jenna starts receiving threats from an anonymous cyberbully telling her to “keep quiet,” Dylan becomes seriously concerned about her safety. Jenna has no idea what the cyberbully thinks she knows. But Dylan will have to help her figure it out fast if they’re ever going to feel safe again.
On the Rim of the Caribbean
Title | On the Rim of the Caribbean PDF eBook |
Author | Paul M. Pressly |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Pages | 386 |
Release | 2013-03-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0820335673 |
DIVHow did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic culture open to innovation. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character. Georgia's slowness in responding to the revolutionary movement, Pressly maintains, had a larger context. During the colonial era, the lowcountry remained oriented to the West Indies and Atlantic and failed to develop close ties to the North American mainland as had South Carolina. He suggests that the American Revolution initiated the process of bringing the lowcountry into the orbit of the mainland, a process that would extend well beyond the Revolution./div
Over The Rim
Title | Over The Rim PDF eBook |
Author | William Smart |
Publisher | |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1999-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Over the Rim is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah. Led by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, the party traveled from Salt Lake City south across the rim of the Great Basin to the Virgin River near future St. George. They brought back to Mormon leaders their first detailed portrait of the country to the south that the church planned to settle.
Life on the Rim
Title | Life on the Rim PDF eBook |
Author | David Levine |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 1989 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN |
Life in the National Basketball Association is the Big Time. But for many former college stars, the NBA is still a bus ticket away, and to stay sharp, they play in the NBA's official minor league--the Continental Basketball Association. Levine provides a hilarious account of minor league basketball at its very best--or worst! 8-page photo insert.