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Go West, Young Man

Author : William W. Johnstone
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496734505
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book Go West, Young Man written by William W. Johnstone and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nationally bestselling authors William W. Johnstone and J.A. Johnstone give us a standalone, completely new western adventure centering on a wagon train heading west, a vivid account of the pioneering men and women who put their lives on the line to carve out the American Frontier. GO WEST, YOUNG MAN Missouri, 1860. Rumors of war between the North and South are spreading across the land. In rural Green County, many of the farmers are already choosing sides. But not John Zachary. His loyalties lie with his family first—and his heart is telling him to go west. Hoping to build a new life in the fertile valleys of Oregon, he convinces his best friend, Emmett Braxton, to pack up their families and join him on a wagon train across the Oregon Trail. The journey will be long and hard. The physical hardships and grueling mental challenges will bring out the best in some—and the worst in others. But with the guidance of an experienced wagon master and scout, they are determined to reach their destiny, no matter how high the cost . . . Twenty-seven wagons. Twenty-seven different hopes and dreams. This sprawling epic novel from these master storytellers captures the beauty and danger of the American West—and the pioneer spirit of those who tamed it . . . “Brilliantly captures the American spirit in all its never-surrender glory. With masterful storytelling, this novel has all the action anyone could possibly imagine . . . superb from start to finish. An instant classic. “ —New York Times Bestselling Author Marc Cameron on Forever Texas

Why I Came West

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780547237718
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (377 download)

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Download or read book Why I Came West written by Rick Bass and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author discusses the attraction he feels to the landscape of the Yaak Valley in extreme, northwest Montana where he has lived for twenty-one years, and meditates on what drew him to the place, the challenges he faced moving and adjusting to life in a climate very different than he had known before, and how the place has changed him.

Go West, Young Man

Author : B. J. Hollars
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 1496228421
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (962 download)

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Download or read book Go West, Young Man written by B. J. Hollars and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2022 Silver Midwest Book Award Winner At the sound of the bell on the last day of kindergarten, B.J. Hollars and his six-year-old son, Henry, hop in the car to strike out on a 2,500-mile road trip retracing the Oregon Trail. Their mission: to rediscover America, and Americans, along the way. Throughout their two-week adventure, they endure the usual setbacks (car trouble, inclement weather, and father-son fatigue), but their most compelling drama involves people, privilege, and their attempt to find common ground in an all-too-fractured country. Writing in the footsteps of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, Hollars picks up the trail with his son more than half a century later. Together they sidle up to a stool at every truck stop, camp by every creek, and roam the West. They encounter not only the beauty and heartbreak of America, but also the beauty and heartbreak of a father and son eager to make the most of their time together. From Chimney Rock to Independence Rock to the rocky coast of Oregon, they learn and relearn the devastating truth of America's exploitative past, as well as their role within it. Go West, Young Man recounts the author's effort to teach his son the difficult realities of our nation's founding while also reaffirming his faith in America today.

How the West Came to Rule

Author : Alexander Anievas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781783713240
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book How the West Came to Rule written by Alexander Anievas and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mainstream historical accounts of the development of capitalism describe a process which is fundamentally European - a system that was born in the mills and factories of England or under the guillotines of the French Revolution. In this groundbreaking book, a very different story is told. How the West Came to Rule offers a unique interdisciplinary and international historical account of the origins of capitalism. It argues that contrary to the dominant wisdom, capitalism's origins should not be understood as a development confined to the geographically and culturally sealed borders of Europe, but the outcome of a wider array of global processes in which non-European societies played a decisive role. Through an outline of the uneven histories of Mongolian expansion, New World discoveries, Ottoman-Habsburg rivalry, the development of the Asian colonies and bourgeois revolutions, Alexander Anievas and Kerem Nisancioglu provide an account of how these diverse events and processes came together to produce capitalism.

The East Came West

Author : Antonio J. Munoz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The East Came West written by Antonio J. Munoz and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of East European and Middle Eastern Collaboration with Nazi Germany in World War II.Hundreds of color, b&w photos, diagrams, tables, charts, line drawings, etc.

Acid West

Author : Joshua Wheeler
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0374714150
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (747 download)

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Download or read book Acid West written by Joshua Wheeler and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rollicking debut book of essays that takes readers on a trip through the muck of American myths that have settled in the desert of our country’s underbelly Early on July 16, 1945, Joshua Wheeler’s great grandfather awoke to a flash, and then a long rumble: the world’s first atomic blast filled the horizon north of his ranch in Alamogordo, New Mexico. Out on the range, the cattle had been bleached white by the fallout. Acid West, Wheeler’s stunning debut collection of essays, is full of these mutated cows: vestiges of the Old West that have been transformed, suddenly and irrevocably, by innovation. Traversing the New Mexico landscape his family has called home for seven generations, Wheeler excavates and reexamines these oddities, assembling a cabinet of narrative curiosities: a man who steps from the stratosphere and free-falls to the desert; a treasure hunt for buried Atari video games; a village plagued by the legacy of atomic testing; a showdown between Billy the Kid and the author of Ben-Hur; a UFO festival during the paranoid Summer of Snowden. The radical evolution of American identity, from cowboys to drone warriors to space explorers, is a story rooted in southern New Mexico. Acid West illuminates this history, clawing at the bounds of genre to reveal a place that is, for better or worse, home. By turns intimate, absurd, and frightening, Acid West is an enlightening deep-dive into a prophetic desert at the bottom of America.

The Golly Sisters Go West

Author : Betsy Byars
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 9780060208844
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Golly Sisters Go West written by Betsy Byars and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1986-10-29 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny introduction to pioneer life, perfect for classrooms and homeschoolers The Golly Sisters are heading west. They’ve got new dresses and the best show on either side of the Mississippi. But can they keep their act together long enough to get this show on the road? Find out in this hilarious tale of the old west! The Golly Sisters Go West by Newbery medalist Betsy Byars is a Level Three I Can Read, which means it contains a complex plot and challenging vocabulary—just right for the newly independent reader. As Carol Hurst's BooksInTheClassroom site comments: "Byars has the ability to construct believable, often loveable characters who face some of life's greatest hurdles. Her humor is visible everywhere as is her empathy with the difficulties faced by many children. She writes for many ages and her easy to read books are wonderful fare."

Come West and See: Stories

Author : Maxim Loskutoff
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393635597
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Come West and See: Stories written by Maxim Loskutoff and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NPR Best Book of 2018 "Devastating.…Grows increasingly bizarre and haunting until it’s left an indelible mark." —Janet Maslin, New York Times In an isolated region of Idaho, Montana, and eastern Oregon, an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into civil war. Against this backdrop, Maxim Loskutoff shatters the myths of the West: a lonesome trapper falls in love with a bear; a newly married woman hatches a plot to murder a tree; and an unemployed millworker joins a militia after returning home. Written with “blade-sharp prose” (Electric Literature), the twelve stories in this debut collection expose the simmering rage and resentments of small-town America “with extraordinary eloquence and compassion” (National Book Review).

Velvet

Author : Temple West
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250063612
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Velvet written by Temple West and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equal parts steamy and funny, with a few genuinely creepy moments, this paranormal romance has everything -- compelling characters, plenty of witty banter, and a romance that just might be to die for. After losing both her parents before age 17, aspiring designer Caitlin Holte feels like her whole world has been turned upside down, and that was before she accidentally attracted the attention of a demon. Then, she learns that her hot, bad-boy neighbor, Adrian -- who might have just saved her life -- is actually a half-demon vampire. Suddenly, Caitlin is stuck with a vampire bodyguard who feels that the best way to protect her is to become her pretend boyfriend. Trouble is, Caitlin is starting to fall in love for real, while Adrian can never love a human. Caitlin trusts Adrian to keep her safe from his demon father, but will he be able to protect her heart? Temple West’s debut novel Velvet is a sexy, delightful romance chosen by readers like you for Macmillan's young adult imprint Swoon Reads. Praise for Velvet: “This romantic Twilight readalike shines with credible dialogue and fully developed characters.” —School Library Journal "Velvet is fun and very entertaining with snappy dialogue, awesome characters and some solid teen angst.” —The Windy Pages

Mr. West

Author : Sarah Blake
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819575186
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Mr. West written by Sarah Blake and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-09 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr. West covers the main events in superstar Kanye West’s life while also following the poet on her year spent researching, writing, and pregnant. The book explores how we are drawn to celebrities—to their portrayal in the media—and how we sometimes find great private meaning in another person’s public story, even across lines of gender and race. Blake’s aesthetics take her work from prose poems to lineated free verse to tightly wound lyrics to improbably successful sestinas. The poems fully engage pop culture as a strange, complicated presence that is revealing of America itself. This is a daring debut collection and a groundbreaking work. An online reader’s companion will be available at http://sarahblake.site.wesleyan.edu.

The Second Life of Mirielle West

Author : Amanda Skenandore
Publisher : Kensington Books
ISBN 13 : 1496726529
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (967 download)

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Download or read book The Second Life of Mirielle West written by Amanda Skenandore and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The glamorous world of a silent film star’s wife abruptly crumbles when she’s forcibly quarantined at the Carville Lepers Home in this page-turning story of courage, resilience, and reinvention set in 1920s Louisiana and Los Angeles. Based on little-known history, this timely book will strike a chord with readers of Fiona Davis, Tracey Lange, and Marie Benedict. Based on the true story of America’s only leper colony, The Second Life of Mirielle West brings vividly to life the Louisiana institution known as Carville, where thousands of people were stripped of their civil rights, branded as lepers, and forcibly quarantined throughout the entire 20th century. For Mirielle West, a 1920’s socialite married to a silent film star, the isolation and powerlessness of the Louisiana Leper Home is an unimaginable fall from her intoxicatingly chic life of bootlegged champagne and the star-studded parties of Hollywood’s Golden Age. When a doctor notices a pale patch of skin on her hand, she’s immediately branded a leper and carted hundreds of miles from home to Carville, taking a new name to spare her family and famous husband the shame that accompanies the disease. At first she hopes her exile will be brief, but those sent to Carville are more prisoners than patients and their disease has no cure. Instead she must find community and purpose within its walls, struggling to redefine her self-worth while fighting an unchosen fate. As a registered nurse, Amanda Skenandore’s medical background adds layers of detail and authenticity to the experiences of patients and medical professionals at Carville – the isolation, stigma, experimental treatments, and disparate community. A tale of repulsion, resilience, and the Roaring ‘20s, The Second Life of Mirielle West is also the story of a health crisis in America’s past, made all the more poignant by the author’s experiences during another, all-too-recent crisis. PRAISE FOR AMANDA SKENANDORE’S BETWEEN EARTH AND SKY “Intensely emotional…Skenandore’s deeply introspective and moving novel will appeal to readers of American history.” —Publishers Weekly

How I Came West, and why I Stayed

Author : Alison Baker
Publisher : Chronicle Books (CA)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How I Came West, and why I Stayed written by Alison Baker and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1993 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A slightly off-kilter world with eccentric and appealing characters.

The Book of Yaak

Author : Rick Bass
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547349351
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Yaak written by Rick Bass and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Yaak Valley of northwestern Montana is one of the last great wild places in the United States, a land of black bears and grizzlies, wolves and coyotes, bald and golden eagles, wolverine, lynx, marten, fisher, elk, and even a handful of humans. It is a land of magic, but its magic may not be enough to save it from the forces threatening it now. The Yaak does have one trick up its sleeve, though: a writer to give it voice. In Winter Rick Bass portrayed the wonder of living in the valley. In The Book of Yaak he captures the soul of the valley itself, and he shows how, if places like the Yaak are lost, we too are lost. Rick Bass has never been a writer to hold back, but The Book of Yaak is his most passionate book yet, a dramatic narrative of a man fighting to defend the place he loves.

Go West

Author : Andy Mckettrick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Go West written by Andy Mckettrick and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What springs to mind when you think of Spain? Lying around the pool, Karaoke bars with a pint for a Euro and a cheap full English breakfast? I know that for some people, that sounds like the dream holiday. Me? I'd rather stab pencils in my eyes whilst listening to Susan Boyle's greatest hits! What you should be doing is jumping in your van and heading for La Costa Verde. Enjoy Cantabrian stews and a hundred different cheeses. Try traditional cider and a glass of Rioja in a medieval village. Stroll along one of the beautiful deserted beaches or hike through the Picos de Europa. That's what springs to mind when I think of Spain! In this book, through experience, I'll attempt to tell you everything you need to know about visiting Northern Spain in a motorhome. So, forget mini-England. Forget Benidorm and Torremolinos. Next time you arrive in Spain, don't go south, Go West! You won't regret it! Andy

Go West

Author : David Quantick
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912618710
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Go West written by David Quantick and published by Unbound Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GO WEST is a novel about Charlie Bread, self-styled Antiques Whisperer and forgery hunter. When Charlie is sent on the trail of a mysterious document that may have been written by the inventor of Peter Pan, his life becomes a road movie full of pursuit and intrigue, soundtracked by old John Peel shows, the beautiful Penelope, and a game of high road hide-and-seek all across the West Country. In a world where nothing is what it seems, Bread has to find out the truth – before the truth finds him out. Go West is the second novel by David Quantick, Emmy-winning writer (Veep, The Thick Of It) and author of The Mule (“A Da Vinci Code with laughs – The Independent, “ingenious, likable, funny and above all entertaining” –Spectator, “accomplished and witty highbrow farce” – Sunday Times)

West with the Night

Author : Beryl Markham
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780865471184
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (711 download)

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Download or read book West with the Night written by Beryl Markham and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1983 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography detailing the author's life in Africa and career as a pilot.

Sanctuary Somewhere

Author : Brenna Dimmig
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 153838342X
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book Sanctuary Somewhere written by Brenna Dimmig and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2019-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seventeen-year-old Osmel dreams of being a meteorologist. His world is shattered when he finds out he is undocumented. Osmel fears his dreams for college and career are now impossible. Then, ICE begins raiding the orchards his family works in. Will Osmel and his family ever find safety and peace in the place they call home?