Stirring the Mud
Title | Stirring the Mud PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Hurd |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 162 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 082033152X |
In these nine evocative essays, Barbara Hurd explores the seductive allure of bogs, swamps, and wetlands. Hurd's forays into the land of carnivorous plants, swamp gas, and bog men provide fertile ground for rich thoughts about mythology, literature, Eastern spirituality, and human longing. In her observations of these muddy environments, she finds ample metaphor for human creativity, imagination, and fear.
Walking the Wrack Line
Title | Walking the Wrack Line PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Hurd |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 141 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0820331023 |
This final volume in the author's trilogy, which began with Stirring the Mud and Entering the Stone gives nature writing a human dimension and throws light on the mysterious and overlooked wonders on beaches as far-flung as Morocco, St. Croix, or Alaska, and as familiar as California and Cape Cod.
Entering the Stone
Title | Entering the Stone PDF eBook |
Author | Barbara Hurd |
Publisher | University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | 188 |
Release | 2008-06-01 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0820331538 |
In this exhilarating work, Barbara Hurd explores some of the most extraordinary places on earth, from sacred caves in India to secret caves in Arizona. With passionately informed prose, Hurd makes these strange dark spaces come to light, illuminating the natural history and spiritual territory of caves as powerfully as Kathleen Norris portrayed the Dakotas. Entering the Stone provides an awe-inducing tour through a fragile and beautiful subterranean world.
Mudbound
Title | Mudbound PDF eBook |
Author | Hillary Jordan |
Publisher | Algonquin Books |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2008-01-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781565125698 |
In 1946, Laura McAllan tries to adjust after moving with her husband and two children to an isolated cotton farm in the Mississipi Delta.
Mississippi Mud
Title | Mississippi Mud PDF eBook |
Author | Edward Humes |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 460 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Crime |
ISBN | 0671535056 |
Documents governmental and political corruption in the Deep South through the story of a daughter who seeks justice when her parents are slain in Mississippi.
Sharable Parables
Title | Sharable Parables PDF eBook |
Author | Steven James |
Publisher | Standard Publishing |
Total Pages | 148 |
Release | 2005-01-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780784716328 |
Teach 15 parables in fun and fresh ways. There is 1 parable per chapter with multiple ideas such as drama, skits, and interactive activities for each age group. Enjoy this library of favorite Bible stories and storytelling techniques developed by award-winning author and professional storyteller Steven James. Each book includes creative storytelling techniques especially suited to help teachers tell God’s story and involve children in the Bible story.
The Distant Hours
Title | The Distant Hours PDF eBook |
Author | Kate Morton |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | 576 |
Release | 2011-07-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1439152799 |
Edie Burchill visits Milderhurst Castle where her mother stayed during World War II, discovering the three elderly sisters of the castle still alive but haunted by the secrets of their past life with their father, a famous children's author.