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Author : Chris Chester
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Providence of a Sparrow written by Chris Chester and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chris Chester
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1400033853
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Providence of a Sparrow written by Chris Chester and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2004-04-13 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There’s a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.” --William Shakespeare, Hamlet B fell twenty-five feet from his nest into the life of Chris Chester. The encounter was providential for both of them. B and Chester spent hours together playing games like bottle-cap fetch or hide-and-seek. They learned “words” in each other’s vocabularies. B developed a fetish for nostrils and a dislike of the color yellow. He grew anxious if Chester came home late from work. At bedtime he would rub his sleepy eyes on Chester’s thumb and settle to sleep in his palm. Chester ended up turning part of his house into an aviary and adjusting his social life to meet B’s demands. This was a small price to pay, though, for the trust and comfort of a twenty-five-gram friend who brought joy and wonder back into his life.
Author : Mary Doria Russell
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345510887
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Sparrow written by Mary Doria Russell and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2008-05-27 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A visionary work that combines speculative fiction with deep philosophical inquiry, The Sparrow tells the story of a charismatic Jesuit priest and linguist, Emilio Sandoz, who leads a scientific mission entrusted with a profound task: to make first contact with intelligent extraterrestrial life. The mission begins in faith, hope, and beauty, but a series of small misunderstandings brings it to a catastrophic end. Praise for The Sparrow “A startling, engrossing, and moral work of fiction.”—The New York Times Book Review “Important novels leave deep cracks in our beliefs, our prejudices, and our blinders. The Sparrow is one of them.”—Entertainment Weekly “Powerful . . . The Sparrow tackles a difficult subject with grace and intelligence.”—San Francisco Chronicle “Provocative, challenging . . . recalls both Arthur C. Clarke and H. G. Wells, with a dash of Ray Bradbury for good measure.”—The Dallas Morning News “[Mary Doria] Russell shows herself to be a skillful storyteller who subtly and expertly builds suspense.”—USA Today
Author : Rhode Island. Commissioners of Birds
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Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Check List of Rhode Island Nesting Birds written by Rhode Island. Commissioners of Birds and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kim Todd
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 1861899777
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (618 download)
Download or read book Sparrow written by Kim Todd and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2013-02-15 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Sparrows are everywhere and wear many guises. Able to live in the Arctic and the desert, from Beijing to San Francisco, the house sparrow is the most ubiquitous wild bird in the world. They are the subject of elegies by Catullus and John Skelton and listed as “pretty things” in Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book—but they’re also urban vermin with shocking manners that were so reviled that Mao placed them on the list of Four Pests and ordered the Chinese people to kill them on sight. In Sparrow, award-winning science and natural history writer Kim Todd explores the bird's complex history, biology, and literary tradition. Todd describes the difference between Old World sparrows, like the house sparrow, which can nest in a garage or in an airport, and New World sparrows, which often stake their claim to remote islands or meadows in the high Sierra. In addition, she looks at the nineteenth-century Sparrow War in the United States—a battle over the sparrow’s introduction—which set the stage for decades of discussions of invasive species. She examines the ways in which sparrows have taught us about evolution and the shocking recent decline of house sparrows in cities globally—this disappearance of a bird that seemed hardwired for success remains an ornithological mystery. With lush illustrations, ranging from early woodcuts and illuminated manuscripts to contemporary wildlife photography, this is the first book-length exploration of the natural and cultural history of this beloved, reviled, and ubiquitous bird.
Author : Reginald Heber Howe
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Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Birds of Rhode Island written by Reginald Heber Howe and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Salim Ali
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Fall of a Sparrow written by Salim Ali and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of an Indian ornithologist.
Author : Louis di Zerega Mearns
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Total Pages : 12 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Birds Observed on Prudence Island, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island written by Louis di Zerega Mearns and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Judge Woerheide
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1532090838
Total Pages : 84 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow written by Robert Judge Woerheide and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 2012 to 2019, Robert Woerheide not only achieved professional success, he also experienced heartbreaking challenges and tragic events. During this time he was, at various points, an honors graduate student, a full-time stay-at-home dad, and an award-winning high school English teacher. With these highs came extreme lows; the full rounding of the human experience. His life fell apart, he lost his children and his freedom, only to find a new kind of wisdom that has since helped him define a new kind of success. Shared in loose chronological order, this collection of poems leads readers through seven years of insight—found in great moments of joy, even during pitfalls of hardship. From weathering a divorce, to finding true love, experiencing the magic of classroom teaching, to the loss of a career and ostracization, these poems describe the hard-won realization that wisdom exists even in the places we might least expect. And always, it is within our reach. Providence in the Fall of a Sparrow is an insightful collection of poetry that illuminates the beauty we can find even in our darkest moments.
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Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Notes on Rhode Island Ornithology written by and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amy Belding Brown
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451466691
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Flight of the Sparrow written by Amy Belding Brown and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of Emily's House comes a “compelling, emotionally gripping”* novel of historical fiction—perfect for readers of America’s First Daughter. Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader, made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutality but also unexpected kindness. To her confused surprise, she is drawn to her captors’ open and straightforward way of life, a feeling further complicated by her attraction to a generous, protective English-speaking native known as James Printer. All her life, Mary has been taught to fear God, submit to her husband, and abhor Indians. Now, having lived on the other side of the forest, she begins to question the edicts that have guided her, torn between the life she knew and the wisdom the natives have shown her. Based on the compelling true narrative of Mary Rowlandson, Flight of the Sparrow is an evocative tale that transports the reader to a little-known time in early America and explores the real meanings of freedom, faith, and acceptance. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED
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Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Bird-lore written by and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Serena Jourdan
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Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Sparrow and the Flea written by Serena Jourdan and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Sinfield
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135228493
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Literature in Protestant England, 1560-1660 (Routledge Revivals) written by Alan Sinfield and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hardline, uncompromising theology preached by the English Church in the 16th and 17th Centuries had disturbing effects on the literature of the period. This study, originally published in 1983, assesses the importance of the prevailing religious climate to the work of several major writers, both in and out of sympathy with the contemporary protestantism. It is argued that the accepted view of the period as essentially 'Christian-Humanist' obscures the harsher aspects of a Calvinism which throws into relief the agonies of a writer like Donne, the acceptances of one like George Herbert. Many writers rejected more or less explicitly the Christian dogma, through the heroic assertion of human potential in Shakespearean and other dramatic characters, the nihilism of Marlowe, or the secular rationalism of Bacon and Hobbes. Milton is central to this complex weft of belief and rejection, piety and atheism, acceptance of predestination and determination to accept fate, that characterises the period. Finally, Sinfield shows how this protestantism disintegrated under the strain of internal contradictions and external pressures, and in the process helped to stimulate secularism. In this original and clearly written book, scholarship is deployed unobstrusively to place many major works in an unaccustomed and stimulating perspective.
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Total Pages : 558 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Audubon written by and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Pearce
Publisher : Ignatius Press
ISBN 13 : 1586174134
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (861 download)
Download or read book Through Shakespeare's Eyes written by Joseph Pearce and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pearce analyzes three of Shakespeare's immortal plays in order to uncover evidence of the Bard's Catholic beliefs.
Author : Peter Farrelly
Publisher : Main Street Books
ISBN 13 : 0307539490
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Outside Providence written by Peter Farrelly and published by Main Street Books. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outside Providence is a hilarious yet melancholy novel of a young man's coming of age in the 1970s. When Timothy Dunphy, native of working-class Pawtucket, Rhode Island, is packed off to a fancy prep school, he finds that the privileged elite is hardly immune to life's screwups. Dunphy must reconcile his pedigreed schoolmates with his mongrel friends back home--including Drugs Delaney, whose diet consists mainly of vitamin Qs (Quaaludes), and Bunny Cote, who thinks New England is a state. Not far below Dunphy's comic demeanor churn powerful fears of abandonment by those he loves best: his mother, his girlfriend, and his closest friend. And he must come to terms with his complex relationship with the person he hates most, his father. As he struggles to live with the paradox of somehow loving the same man he blames for his family's tragedies, Dunphy begins to understand and accept life's betrayals, and learns how to trust in love.
