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Goodbye to a River

Author : John Graves
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307773353
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Goodbye to a River written by John Graves and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-11-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.

The Graves Are Walking

Author : John Kelly
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0805095632
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Graves Are Walking written by John Kelly and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great Mortality Deeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling decisions behind a tragedy of epic proportions, John Kelly's retelling of the awful story of Ireland's great hunger will resonate today as history that speaks to our own times. It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century--it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and TheGraves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain's nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering. This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine's causes and consequences.

John Graves and the Making of Goodbye to a River

Author : John Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781589070011
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book John Graves and the Making of Goodbye to a River written by John Graves and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A keepsake cloth limited edition published on the occasion of the Texas Book Festival 2000 as a tribute to Mr. Graves. This book includes correspondence with Alfred Knopf, Sr., Carl Hertzog, renowned book designer, and J. Frank Dobie covering the period between 1957-1960. Included is a definitive, annotated bibliography prepared by Mr. Graves and a foreword by First Lady of Texas Laura W. Bush.

The 7% Solution

Author : John H. Graves
Publisher : John Graves
ISBN 13 : 0983573123
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book The 7% Solution written by John H. Graves and published by John Graves. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You CAN afford a comfortable retirement. If you enjoy working in your garden, in your kitchen or in your garage, you will enjoy managing your retirement portfolio.

John Graves, Writer

Author : Mark Busby
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292783469
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book John Graves, Writer written by Mark Busby and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Runner-up, Violet Crown Award, Writer's League of Texas, 2008 Renowned for Goodbye to a River, his now-classic meditation on the natural and human history of Texas, as well as for his masterful ability as a prose stylist, John Graves has become the dean of Texas letters for a legion of admiring readers and fellow writers. Yet apart from his own largely autobiographical works, including Hard Scrabble, From a Limestone Ledge, and Myself and Strangers, surprisingly little has been written about Graves's life or his work. John Graves, Writer seeks to fill that gap with interviews, appreciations, and critical essays that offer many new insights into the man himself, as well as the themes and concerns that animate his writing. The volume opens with the transcript of a revealing, often humorous symposium session in which Graves responds to comments and stories from his old friend Sam Hynes, his former student and contemporary art critic Dave Hickey, and co-editor Mark Busby. Following this is a more formal interview of Graves by Dave Hamrick, who draws the author out on issues relating to each of his major works. John Graves's friends Bill Wittliff, Rick Bass, Bill Broyles, John R. Erickson, Bill Harvey, and James Ward Lee speak to the powerful influence that Graves has had on fellow writers. In addition to these personal observations, nine scholars analyze essential aspects of Graves's work. These include the place of Goodbye to a River within environmental literature and how its writing was a rite of passage for its author; Graves as a prose stylist and a literary, rather than polemical, writer; the ways in which Graves's major works present different aspects of a single narrative about our relationship to the land; the question of gender in Graves's work; and Graves's sometimes contentious relationship with Texas Monthly magazine. Mark Busby introduces the volume with a critical overview of Graves's life and work, and Don Graham concludes it with a discussion of Graves's reception and literary reputation. A bibliography of works by and about Graves rounds out the book. John Graves, Writer confirms Graves's stature not only within Texas letters, but also within American environmental writing, where Graves deserves to be more widely known.

From a Limestone Ledge

Author : John Graves
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477309624
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book From a Limestone Ledge written by John Graves and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Another fine, reflective, anecdotal look at rural Texas." —New Yorker "Graves writes eloquently about a countryman's concerns. There's not a false note in the book." —Boston Globe "Like the unmortared stone fences of Graves's native hill country, From a Limestone Ledge is constructed of bits and pieces never designed to fit together, yet made to achieve a unity that is more enduring than the sum of its individual parts by the hands of a master craftsman." —Southwestern Historical Quarterly "The beauty of his work endures, and there is a greater pride in Texans' hearts for their home, I think, than there would be if he hadn't written the books he did." —Rick Bass, Garden & Gun "In describing the particulars of his surroundings, Graves often was describing the world in microcosm and the place and plight of humankind in it." —Bryan Woolley, Dallas Morning News

Hard Scrabble

Author : John Graves
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477309608
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Hard Scrabble written by John Graves and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The two-time National Book Award finalist and author of Goodbye to a River ruminates over what an “unmagnificent” Texas homestead has meant to him. “A kind of homemade book—imperfect like a handmade thing, a prize. It’s a galloping, spontaneous book, on occasion within whooping distance of that greatest and sweetest of country books, Ivan Turgenev’s A Sportsman’s Notebook.” —Edward Hoagland, The New York Times Book Review “His subjects are trees and brush, hired help, fences, soil, armadillos and other wildlife, flood and drought, local history, sheep and goats . . . and they come to us reshaped and reenlivened by his agreeably individual (and sometimes cranky) notions.” —The New Yorker “If Goodbye to a River was in some sense Graves’s Odyssey, this book is his [version of Hesiod’s] Works and Days. It is partly a book about work, partly a book about nature, but mostly a book about belonging. In the end John Graves has learned to belong to his patch of land so thoroughly that at moments he can sense in himself a unity with medieval peasants and Sumerian farmers, working with their fields by the Tigris.” —Larry McMurtry, The Washington Post Book World “Hard Scrabble is hard pastoral of the kind we have learned to recognize in Wordsworth, Frost, Hemingway, and Faulkner. It celebrates life in accommodation with a piece of the ‘given’ creation, a recalcitrant four hundred or so acres of Texas cedar brake, old field, and creek bottom, which will require of any genuine resident all the character he can muster.” —Southwest Review

Broken Wing

Author : John Graves
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780983573142
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (731 download)

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Download or read book Broken Wing written by John Graves and published by . This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wind energy promises have been broken: birds die, costs escalate, jobs are few and regulations impose higher fees for inefficient electricity.

The Caged Graves

Author : Dianne K. Salerni
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547868537
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (478 download)

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Download or read book The Caged Graves written by Dianne K. Salerni and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning to her hometown of Catawissa, Pennsylvania, in 1867 to marry a man she has never met, seventeen-year-old Verity Boone gets caught up in the a mystery surrounding the graves of her mother and aunt and a dangerous hunt for Revolutionary-era gold.

I, Claudius

Author : Robert Graves
Publisher : Rosetta Books
ISBN 13 : 0795336799
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book I, Claudius written by Robert Graves and published by Rosetta Books. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “One of the really remarkable books of our day”—the story of the Roman emperor on which the award-winning BBC TV series was based (The New York Times). Once a rather bookish young man with a limp and a stammer, a man who spent most of his time trying to stay away from the danger and risk of the line of ascension, Claudius seemed an unlikely candidate for emperor. Yet, on the death of Caligula, Claudius finds himself next in line for the throne, and must stay alive as well as keep control. Drawing on the histories of Plutarch, Suetonius, and Tacitus, noted historian and classicist Robert Graves tells the story of the much-maligned Emperor Claudius with both skill and compassion. Weaving important themes throughout about the nature of freedom and safety possible in a monarchy, Graves’s Claudius is both more effective and more tragic than history typically remembers him. A bestselling novel and one of Graves’ most successful, I, Claudius has been adapted to television, film, theatre, and audio. “[A] legendary tale of Claudius . . . [A] gem of modern literature.” —Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Vaquero

Author : William D. Wittliff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (571 download)

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Download or read book Vaquero written by William D. Wittliff and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Damage Control

Author : John Gilstrap
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786030488
Total Pages : 467 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Damage Control written by John Gilstrap and published by Pinnacle Books . This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hostage crisis in Mexico turns into a deadly game of cat and mouse in this international thriller by the New York Times bestselling author. They were on a mission trip to Mexico to help with earthquake recovery. But in Ciudad Juarez, the busload of well-meaning adults and teenagers became hostages. The ransom demands of their captors are explicit: deliver three million dollars--with zero involvement from law enforcement--or all captives will be executed. But rescue specialist Jonathan Grave doesn't believe in ultimatums. For Grave and his elite team at Security Solutions, it's all about protecting the innocent. When the delicate situation explodes in violence, he must flee with the survivors. Now Grave must face the chilling possibility that someone within the U.S. government has a deadly secret to protect--one that could jeopardize national security like never before. . . “The action is nonstop. Gilstrap knows his technology and weaponry. Damage Control will blow you away.”—Suspense Magazine

Binary

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1453299289
Total Pages : 207 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Binary written by Michael Crichton and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An agent races to stop a chemical attack in this thriller from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of The Andromeda Strain and Jurassic Park. His name is John Wright, and he’s the most dangerous man in the United States. A millionaire radical with a deep hatred for everything America stands for, he has concocted a scheme that will shatter the very foundation of our democracy—and he’s just crazy enough to pull it off. The only man who can stop him is John Graves, an embittered federal agent whose mission in life is to destroy Wright. He’ll get his chance—or America will burn. A train races across the Utah desert, carrying a shipment of the deadliest nerve gas known to man. Seven mobsters stop the train, steal the gas, and hand it over to Wright. His target? The Republican National Convention in San Diego, where unleashing the gas will kill one million honest citizens, including the US president. Graves has just one shot to stop Wright—and for the sake of democracy, he’d better not miss. From “the master of the sci-tech thriller,” this is a terrifying high-speed novel that will keep you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end (Booklist). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Michael Crichton including rare images from the author’s estate.

End Game

Author : John Gilstrap
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
ISBN 13 : 0786030224
Total Pages : 447 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book End Game written by John Gilstrap and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2014-06-24 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The son of a government scientist must be found at any cost in this taut political thriller that “starts off explosively and keeps on rolling” (Joe Hartlaub, BookReporter). Deep in the American Heartland, a team of assassins goes to work. In short order, a Chechen scientist and double agent for the U.S. government is dead. But the team didn’t exactly finish the job. The man’s teenage son is still alive. In possession of crucial and potentially lethal information, he’s now on the run—and off the grid. The feds know who to call: Jonathan Grave and his elite rescue team at Security Solutions. Their mission is simple: find the boy and keep his information out of the wrong hands. But simple doesn’t mean easy. The boy has a bodyguard with unusual talents, and she's not giving up without a fight. Only by bringing them both back alive can Grave expose the traitor in the highest levels of power—and prevent an all-out nuclear war.

Shallow Graves

Author : Jeffery Deaver
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743424018
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Shallow Graves written by Jeffery Deaver and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From The Bone Collector to the brand-new James Bond masterwork, “there is no thriller writer today like Jeffery Deaver”(San Jose Mercury News)! John Pellam had a promising career as a Hollywood stuntman, until a tragedy sidetracked him. Now he’s a divorced, hard-living location scout who travels the country in search of shooting sites, and pulling his camper into any small town brings out the locals seeking their fifteen minutes of fame. But behind an idyllic locale in upstate New York is a hotbed of violence, lust, and conspiracy, and Pellam is thrust into the heart of an unfolding drama and the search for a killer when a brutal murder has him hunting down justice on behalf of a dear friend.

Sounds of the Inner Eye

Author : Wulf Herzogenrath
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295982748
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (827 download)

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Download or read book Sounds of the Inner Eye written by Wulf Herzogenrath and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sounds of the Inner Eyeexplores the artistic and biographical connection among three of the Pacific Northwest's most significant and highly respected artists. Mark Tobey, often aligned with the abstract expressionists, was a pioneer in integrating elements of Asian art into mystical, calligraphic paintings. Morris Graves, known as something of an art world maverick, combined Eastern religious beliefs and a deep appreciation of the natural world in his work, focusing initially on the Northwest's birds and vegetation. John Cage, an avant-garde composer, philosopher, writer, and printmaker, began his visual creations with graphic representations of musical scores, and then evolved to include printmaking, drawing, and watercolor.Sounds of the Inner Eyeexplores the lives and careers of these three men who were instrumental in leading a community of artists, patrons, and scholars into a deeper understanding of the potential and power of art and, in turn, had a large impact on much of what followed in modern art in America. Known as the Northwest Mystics, they were influenced by Eastern philosophies and the natural beauty of the Pacific Rim. Their legendary nickname has remained over time, helping to establish the Northwest as a center for artistic talent, worthy of the admiration of the international art community.

Three Graves Full

Author : Jamie Mason
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 0957548818
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (575 download)

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Download or read book Three Graves Full written by Jamie Mason and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamie Mason spins the gripping story of lonely widower and accidental murderer Jason Getty, who lives with the guilt of having buried his victim in his backyard, only to discover two other bodies, a man and a woman, when his garden is dug up by a landscaping firm. The persistent detectives investigating the two murders are at first unaware of the third, but old blood stains soon reveal its existence. Jason is thrown into a macabre plot of trying to cover up his deed while forging a soul-redeeming friendship with Leah, the dead man's fearless widow.Mason is a master of tight plot-weaving and deep empathy for all of her characters, no matter how flawed. The causes and consequences of their crimes are brilliantly illuminated. Readers will fall in love with the book's most loveable character, a heroic dog who is the best detective and truth-seeker of them all.Jamie Mason is the managing editor of the popular authorscoop.com and lives with her family in North Carolina. Three Graves Full is her first novel.