The Water in Between
Title | The Water in Between PDF eBook |
Author | Kevin Patterson |
Publisher | Vintage Canada |
Total Pages | 306 |
Release | 2011-02-04 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 0307363767 |
A broken heart leads Kevin Patterson to the dock of a sailboat brokerage on Vancouver Island, where he stands contemplating the romance of the sea and his heartfelt desire to get away. By the end of the day, he finds himself the owner of a thirty-seven-foot ketch called Sea Mouse. Although he's never really been on the ocean before (aside from the odd ferry-ride), he feels compelled to sail to Tahiti and back, to burn away his failings in hard miles at sea.
Between the Water and the Woods
Title | Between the Water and the Woods PDF eBook |
Author | Simone Snaith |
Publisher | Holiday House |
Total Pages | 322 |
Release | 2019-04-02 |
Genre | Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | 0823441938 |
Emeline's quiet village has three important rules: Don't look at the shadows. Don't cross the river. And don't enter the forest. An illustrated fantasy filled with beauty and power, Between the Water and the Woods sweeps you into a world where forests are hungry; knights fight with whips; the king is dying; and a peasant girl's magic will decide the future of the realm . . . When Emeline's little brother breaks all three of their village's rules, she is forced to use her family's forbidden magic to rescue him from the dark things he awakens, the Ithin. Now that the Ithin are afoot in the land, she must, by law, travel to the royal court and warn the king. But the only way she and her family can make the journey to the capital is with the protection of a sour magister and a handsome, whip-wielding Lash Knight. Will Emeline survive in a city where conspiracies swirl like smoke and her magic is all but outlawed? Seven full-page black-and-white illustrations accompany Between the Water and the Woods, a lush, fairy-tale-style fantasy perfect for readers of Karen Cushman and Shannon Hale.
Between the Woods and the Water
Title | Between the Woods and the Water PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
Publisher | John Murray |
Total Pages | 318 |
Release | 2010-10-10 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 184854524X |
The acclaimed travel writer's youthful journey - as an 18-year-old - across 1930s Europe by foot began in A Time of Gifts, which covered the author's exacting journey from the Lowlands as far as Hungary. Picking up from the very spot on a bridge across the Danube where his readers last saw him, we travel on with him across the great Hungarian Plain on horseback, and over the Romanian border to Transylvania. The trip was an exploration of a continent which was already showing signs of the holocaust which was to come. Although frequently praised for his lyrical writing, Fermor's account also provides a coherent understanding of the dramatic events then unfolding in Middle Europe. But the delight remains in travelling with him in his picaresque journey past remote castles, mountain villages, monasteries and towering ranges.
The Water Between Us
Title | The Water Between Us PDF eBook |
Author | Shara McCallum |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | 130 |
Release | 2014-10-15 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 0822980762 |
1998 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize winner.Shara McCallum is the eighteenth winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, one of the nation's most prestigious awards for a first book of poetry. The Water Between Us is a poetic examination of cultural fragmentation, and the exile's struggle to reconcile the disparate and often conflicting influences of the homeland and the adopted country. The book also centers on other kinds of physical and emotional distances: those between mothers and daughters, those created by being of mixed racial descent, and those between colonizers and the colonized. Despite these distances, or perhaps because of them, the poems affirm the need for a multilayered and cohesive sense of self. McCallum's language is precise and graceful. Drawing from Anancy tales, Greek myth, and biblical stories, the poems deftly alternate between American English and Jamaican patois, and between images both familiar and surreal.
Between Wind and Water
Title | Between Wind and Water PDF eBook |
Author | Gerald Warner Brace |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 1966 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN |
Collection of experiences, descriptions, and recollections of life along and near the New England coast.
The Blue Between Sky and Water
Title | The Blue Between Sky and Water PDF eBook |
Author | Susan Abulhawa |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 332 |
Release | 2015-04-23 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1408865130 |
From the author of the international bestseller Mornings in Jenin comes a powerful, passionate story of a family separated by conflict, and the tragedy they endure 'The story Susan Abulhawa tells in this marvellous novel is hard to bear but impossible to ignore ... precise, courageous, and dazzling' Teju Cole 'Gripping and deeply moving ... Suffering and resilience are difficult things to witness, but this powerful, politically engaged novel does so with a transformative literary grace.' Independent on Sunday It is 1947, and Beit Daras, a rural Palestinian village, is home to the Baraka family – oldest daughter Nazmiyeh, brother Mamdouh, beautiful, dreamy Mariam and their widowed mother. When Israeli forces descend, sending the village up in flames, the family must take the long road to Gaza, in a walk that will test them to their limits. Sixty years later, in America, Mamdouh's granddaughter Nur falls in love with a doctor. Following him to his work in Gaza, she meets Alwan, who will help Nur discover the ties of kinship that transcend distance – and even death. Told with raw humanity, The Blue Between Sky and Water is a lyrical, devastatingly beautiful story of a family's relocation, separation, survival and love.
Big Water
Title | Big Water PDF eBook |
Author | Jacob Blanc |
Publisher | University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | 345 |
Release | 2018-04-10 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0816537143 |
"A transnational approach to the history of a key Latin American border region"--Provided by publisher.