A View of the River

Reducere. DescriptionWhen I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.Lucy Honeyc...

DescriptionThe Taj Mahal in India has been called a 'teardrop on the cheek of time'. This grand monument that was raised to house the mortal remain...

Reducere. Novelist Raymond L. Atkins offers a lighthearted change of pace in this collection of humorous essays. He explores a diverse range of topics as see...

This top selling map gives an overall view of the island of Ireland. All motorways and major roads are shown. A Distance Chart is included for some...

Reducere. Teardrops on the Weser navigates a geographical river that runs through northwestern Germany, but also an autobiographical river that's sourced in ...

Five newcomers arrive at the 1998 Settlers' Reunion at the mid-Columbia River: two anthropologists drawn by the storytelling, two on special missio...

Reducere. Kirkus Reviews has selected The Smooth River as one of the Best Indie Books of 2021, giving it a coveted Starred Review.The Smooth River is the rem...

Reducere. Much has been written on the topic of aging but little from the point of view of the very old. Gemma d'Auria penned this book when she was well int...

Reducere. ````The Last Final Girl`` is like Quentin Tarantino's take on ``The Cabin in the Woods.`` Bloody, absurd, and smart. Plus, there's a killer in a Mi...

Reducere. This is "The Director's Cut, " as a cinematographically minded wag termed it.This study is based on the observation that Tolkien calqued the names ...

Reducere. Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life p...

Janisse Ray was a babe in arms when a boat of her father's construction cracked open and went down in the mighty Altamaha River. Tucked in a life p...

Reducere. Winner of the 2019 Booklife Prize by Publishers Weekly.Roland Tuttle is the fifth generation Tuttle to work the rocky Vermont farmland nestled betw...

Reducere. Why don't more M tis people go to traditional ceremonies? How does going to ceremonies impact M tis identity? In Rekindling the Sacred Fire, Chanta...

Reducere. Ever wonder what the angler downstream of you catching fish in water you just fished is doing differently from you? Master angler and author Duane ...

Reducere. Thirty years ago, John Keats and his family purchased a two-acre island in the St. Lawrence River, at a time when boats were still lovingly crafted...

DescriptionA book dedicated to the newly constructed expansion of the Kennedy Center that provides a new topology for performing-arts centers and a...

Reducere. The 1848 treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo that ended the Mexican-American War described a boundary between the two countries that was to be ascertained ...

Reducere. A monumental speculative fiction story of love, loyalty, politics, and conscience, set in parallel Londons.Newland...imagines a world where colonia...

Belmar, a unique shore community formerly known as Ocean Beach, was settled around 1700 and has lured summer visitors from near and far for over on...

Reducere. Ancient legends tell us that for one hour on Christmas Eve, animals are given the gift of speech. If we could have heard the animals on that very f...

Reducere. She looked alive, her hair drifting freely in the water, her red lips gently parted, as if to let her final breath escape. A small locket floated b...

The Haudenosaunee, more commonly known as the Iroquois or Six Nations, have been one of the most widely written-about Indigenous groups in the Unit...

A"love hotel" where you can say a prayer, a reconstituted section of the Senne river at Saint-G ry, an extraordinary private museum devoted to plas...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Irish Celtic lore, ""thin places"" are those locales where the veil between this world and the otherworld is porous, where there is m...

Reducere. Also Plays is a memoir of Karl Lindholm's forty years at Middlebury College as a master jack-of-all-trades -- a dean in student affairs, a member o...

Reducere. Comparing our present to our past is how we understand our history. Arcadia's Past & Present series makes such local comparisons available. Books i...

Reducere. Muddy Jungle Rivers, a river assault boat Cox'n's memory journey of his war in Vietnam and return home, gives the reader a close-up look at life in...

Reducere. In a world where global events dominate the news and our children are exposed to other cultures only superficially, author Dedie King and illustrat...

Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Finta...

Immortalized by the movie A Bridge Too Far, the parachute landings of the 82nd and 101st Airborne Divisions were the first part of an Allied breakt...

Nestled between stately live oaks, magnolia trees, and Cane River is the beautiful old town of Natchitoches. The oldest settlement in the Louisiana...

Reducere. Like any tapestry, the threads of history cross over and under each other in different points of view and places in time. Award-winning author Debo...

Reducere. Discover historic wonders and modern delights guaranteed to enlarge your heart and expand your understanding of Canada and its people.Veteran trave...

Reducere. Many narrative accounts of men in combat during World War II have conveyed the horrors and emotions of warfare. However, not many reveal in such an...

Reducere. FIRE CANOE FINNEGAN is historical fiction, action, adventure, and romance at its finest. This story gives a rare insight into the contribution stea...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jane M. GullongDancing at the Castle, a memoir, is the story of an American girl coming of age in the 1950s on the shore of...

Reducere. Description*Philosophical ethics doesn't have to be confusing.* Featuring an "Ask Matt" interface and chapter video summaries at EthicsinaNutshell....

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Chorbishop Seely Joseph BeggianiFor St. Ephrem of Syria (d. 373) and Jacob of Serugh (d. 521), God is utterly mysterious, y...

Reducere. It's a beautiful summer day and Geneva's parents have something special in mind: a hike to a scenic viewpoint in the mountains. So, they load up th...

Reducere. From the irrepressible author of Trout Bum and The View from Rat Lake comes an engaging, humorous, often profound examination of life's greatest my...

DescriptionThe philosophy of CLB Architects, Inspired by Place, permeates all the firm's design work, from public projects to bespoke homes. Their ...

Reducere. 85 A.D. The Roman Empire expanded its conquered territories north to the Danube River. One kingdom is still a serious threat - the third most power...

Reducere. H. B. Cushman, the son of missionaries working at Mayhew, a Choctaw Indian station in Mississippi, observed the Indians' heartbreaking removal from...

Reducere. Drawn from her own experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ghana, Melissa Fischer weaves a rich tale set in 1992, Obuasi, a mining boomtown. The g...

DescriptionDrawing upon his experiences as the captain of a steamer on the Congo River, Joseph Conrad wrote "An Outpost of Progress, " a sharp crit...

Reducere. Jennifer Weiner's talent shines like never before in this collection of short stories, following the tender, often hilarious, progress of love and ...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Blue Ridge begins in North Georgia, home to the southern terminus of the world-famous Appalachian Trail. Together with Southeast Ten...

Flipping the script on climate change, Eisenstein makes a case for a wholesale reimagining of the framing, tactics, and goals we employ in our jour...

Reducere. China has undergone a remarkable process of urbanization, but a significant portion of its citizens still live in rural villages. To gain better ac...

Reducere. They left Ireland by the boatload to head for America before the Revolution, and settled on the rugged western frontiers of the colonies. The desce...

Reducere. "The Book of Nature" is a pocket book of poetry written by William Wordsworth. A common theme of romantic poetry, nature features heavily in the wo...

Reducere. In Fernando Valverde's América, "sorrow is ancient." Mournfully lyrical, politically sharp, with a sweeping view of American roots, dysfunctions, a...

Reducere. Bath Iron Works was established by Gen. Thomas Hyde in 1884 and launched its first ship in 1891. Since then, the shipyard on the Kennebec River has...

Reducere. In this delightful dive into the bygone world of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows staunch Mole, sociable Water Rat, severe Badger, and tro...

Reducere. A box set of the first four bestselling Riverdale original novels!These four novels-based on the massively successful CW show, Riverdale-are all or...

From sea to shining sea, from Yankee Stadium to Yosemite National Park, Mathew Tekulsky turns his lens and commentary on the greatest topic of them...

DescriptionStruggling New York actress Alison has an outwardly good life: toned body, plenty of dates, a comfortable daily regimen. Still, she feel...

DescriptionThis publication brings together the work of German photographer Joachim Brohm (born 1955), credited with being one of the first photogr...

Contributor(s): Author: Andreas WilkensAuthor: Wolfram SchwenkAuthor: Michael JacobiPeople throughout the ages have experienced--consciously or oth...

Reducere. Ernest Dunlop Swinton is a military professional with experience in the Boer War who wrote this famous short book based on a series of thoughts he ...

Reducere. With its fertile soil and more than a century of agricultural heritage, Wisconsin ranks #2 in the nation for its number of organic farms, second on...

BAX 2020, guest-edited by Joyelle McSweeney and Carmen Maria Machado, is the sixth edition of the critically acclaimed anthology series compiling a...

The extraordinary, unknown story of two giants of American history--Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--and their attempt to create an electric-powered c...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes Bronson's own quotes about his life and career *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further re...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes Bronson's own quotes about his life and career *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further re...

Reducere. "A vivid, enchanting tale of friendship, trust, and adventure, good Tolkien-esque ingredients" (Kirkus Reviews): The final installment of The Wolf ...

DescriptionDilip da Cunha integrates history, art, cultural studies, hydrology, and geography to tell the story of how rivers have been culturally ...

Reducere. The remarkable photographs in Peoples of the Plateau capture the lives of Pacific Northwest Indians at the turn of the twentieth century--and at a ...

Three centuries after the French explorer La Salle was murdered in the Texas wilds, this volume presents translations of three obscure documents th...