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Woodsqueer

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Author : Gretchen Legler
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 159534960X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Woodsqueer written by Gretchen Legler and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Woodsqueer” is sometimes used to describe the mindset of a person who has taken to the wild for an extended period of time. Gretchen Legler is no stranger to life away from the rapid-fire pace of the twenty-first century, which can often lead to a kind of stir-craziness. Woodsqueer chronicles her experiences intentionally focusing on not just making a living but making a life—in this case, an agrarian one more in tune with the earth on eighty acres in backwoods Maine. Building a home with her partner, Ruth, on their farm means learning to live with solitude, endless trees, and the wild animals the couple come to welcome as family. Whether trying to outsmart their goats, calculating how much firewood they need for the winter, or bartering with neighbors for goods and services, they hone life skills brought with them (carpentry, tracking and hunting wild game) and other skills they learn along the way (animal husbandry, vegetable gardening, woodcutting). Legler’s story is at times humbling and grueling, but it is also amusing. A homage to agrarian American life echoing the back-to-the-land movement popularized in the mid-twentieth century, Woodsqueer reminds us of the benefits of living close to the land. Legler unapologetically considers what we have lost in America, in less than a century—individually and collectively—as a result of our urban, mass-produced, technology-driven lifestyles. Illustrated with rustic pen-and-ink illustrations, Woodsqueer shows the value of a solitary sojourn and both the pathway to and possibilities for making a sustainable, meaningful life on the land. The result, for Legler and her partner, is an evolution of their humanity as they become more physically, emotionally, and even spiritually connected to their land and each other in a complex ecosystem ruled by the changing seasons.

On the Ice

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Author : Gretchen Legler
Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781571312822
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (128 download)

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Download or read book On the Ice written by Gretchen Legler and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "McMurdo Station, Antarctica, is home to eighty-mile-per-hour winds, minus seventy degree temperatures, and months of near-total darkness. Sent to Antarctica as an observer, Gretchen Legler tells the story of her season spent at McMurdo Station. Populated by people from all walks of life - bankers, MBAs, therapists, carpenters, scientists, laborers, and military brass - the individuals that Legler meets have gone to Antarctica to escape everything from parking tickets to angry spouses. Hoping to get away from the complexities of her own life, Legler arrives at McMurdo Station with the intention of researching the landscape; what she finds, instead, is a zany population of people." "Part sociological study, part historiography, and part love story, On the Ice is an exploration of one of the most unexplored places on earth and the people who are drawn to it."--BOOK JACKET.

All the Powerful Invisible Things

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Author : Gretchen Legler
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595349421
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book All the Powerful Invisible Things written by Gretchen Legler and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Powerful Invisible Things is an eloquent memoir of self-discovery and a chronicle of outdoor life. Refusing “impoverished ideas of passion,” Gretchen Legler writes about the complexities of being a woman who fishes and hunts, as well as about the more intimate terrain of family and sexuality. The result is a unique literary confluence filled with the ineffable graces of the natural world. She writes: “I used to hate being a woman. When I was young, I believed I was a boy. Throughout college I never knew what it was like to touch a woman, to kiss a woman, to have a woman as a friend. All of my friends were men. I am thirty years old now, and I feel alone. I am not a man. Knowing this is like an earthquake. Just now all the lies are starting to unfold. I don’t blend in as well or as easily as I used to. I refuse to stay on either side of the line.” Like many women, Legler finds that her presence identifies the unmarked boundaries of where she is and is not welcome, learning when it is advantageous to pass as male and when it is better to disappear into the woods and trees around her. This contrasts sharply with her experience of nature as a source of spiritual sustenance, a space of unparalleled freedom where she can lose herself in something larger. Twenty-five years after it was first published, All the Powerful Invisible Things remains a highwater mark for women writing about the outdoors and is one of the few works to tackle the intricacies of gender identity and sexuality with transcendental aplomb.

The Low, Low Woods

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Author : Carmen Maria Machado
Publisher : DC Comics
ISBN 13 : 1779510810
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book The Low, Low Woods written by Carmen Maria Machado and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2020-09-29 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shudder-To-Think, Pennsylvania, has been on fire for years. The coal mines beneath it are long since abandoned. The woods are full of rabbits with human eyes, a deer woman who stalks hungry girls, and swaths of skinless men. And the people in Shudder-to-Think? Well, they’re not doing so well either. When El and Octavia wake up in a movie theater with no memory of the last few hours of their lives, the two teenage dirtbags begin a surreal and terrifying journey to discover the truth about the strange town that they call home. Like so many women in Shudder-to-Think before them, all they have is a void where the truth once was. But as time passes, El finds herself needing to know more about what has happened, while Octavia wants nothing more than to forget the forgetting. Can these two teens reconcile their differences before the horrible things lurking beneath their town emerge and swallow them whole? Collects The Low, Low Woods #1-6.

Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote

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Author : Andrea Beaty
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1683358325
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote written by Andrea Beaty and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling series! Now a Netflix Series! From the #1 New York Times bestselling team Andrea Beaty and David Roberts who created Ada Twist, Scientist and Iggy Peck, Architect comes a spirited story full of adventure, friendship, and science! This is a unique and exciting series of children’s chapter books for children, parents, and teachers who want to make STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) fun. Miss Lila Greer announces it’s time for Grade Two to get a class pet, and she wants the kids to participate in choosing which one. After all, they will all have to share the responsibility of caring for it. The class narrows it down to two options: Team Turtle and Team Bird. Sofia is named Election Commissioner, in charge of overseeing a fair and honest election between the two teams. There’s a class-wide campaign, complete with posters, articles, and speeches. Then it’s time for the election! But when the votes are counted, there’s a tie, and one vote is missing. How will the class break the tie? And what happened to the vanishing vote? It’s up to Sofia Valdez and the Questioneers to restore democracy! Collect the Whole Series: Rosie Revere and the Raucous Riveters: The Questioneers Book #1 Ada Twist and the Perilous Pantaloons: The Questioneers Book #2 Iggy Peck and the Mysterious Mansion: The Questioneers Book #3 Sofia Valdez and the Vanishing Vote: The Questioneers Book #4 Ada Twist and the Disappearing Dogs: The Questioneers Book #5 Aaron Slater and the Sneaky Snake: The Questioneers Book #6

Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings

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Author : Ursula K. Le Guin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1665936673
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (659 download)

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Download or read book Wonderful Alexander and the Catwings written by Ursula K. Le Guin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jane meets a new friend in this third book in legendary author Ursula K. Le Guin’s bestselling Catwings chapter book series, now with a new look! Fluffy, orange Alexander is the oldest, biggest, loudest, and strongest of all the Furby kittens. Everyone in his family thinks he’s so remarkable that they call him “Wonderful Alexander” and spoil him to pieces. But one morning, when Alexander bravely sets out to explore the world on his own, he finds himself stuck in a tree and unable to get down. It’s up to Jane, the youngest of the Catwings, to rescue him! Now if only Alexander could do something wonderful for her in return…

Nine Mile Bridge

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Author : Helen Hamlin
Publisher : Islandport Press
ISBN 13 : 9780967166254
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (662 download)

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Download or read book Nine Mile Bridge written by Helen Hamlin and published by Islandport Press. This book was released on 2010-08-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this critically acclaimed Maine classic, first published in 1945, Helen Hamlin writes of her adventures teaching school at a remote Maine lumber camp and then of living deep in the Maine wilderness with her game warden husband. Her experiences are a must-read for anyone who loves the untamed nature and wondrous beauty of Maine's north woods and the unique spirit of those who lived there. In the 1930s, in spite of being warned that remote Churchill Depot was 'no place for a woman', the remarkable Helen Hamlin set off at age twenty to teach school at the isolated lumber camp at the headwaters of the Allagash River. She eventually married a game warden and moved deeper into the wilderness. In her book, Hamlin captures that time in her life, complete with the trappers, foresters, lumbermen, woods folk, wild animals, and natural splendour that she found at Umsaskis Lake and then at Nine Mile Bridge on the St. John River.

Eat the Rich

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Author : P. J. O'Rourke
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 1555847102
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Eat the Rich written by P. J. O'Rourke and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller: “The funniest writer in America” takes on the global economy (The Wall Street Journal). In this book, renowned political humorist P. J. O’Rourke, author of Parliament of Whores and How the Hell Did This Happen? leads us on a hysterical whirlwind world tour from the “good capitalism” of Wall Street to the “bad socialism” of Cuba in search of the answer to an age-old question: “Why do some places prosper and thrive, while others just suck?” With stops in Albania, Sweden, Hong Kong, Moscow, and Tanzania, O’Rourke takes a look at the complexities of economics with a big dose of the incomparable wit that has made him one of today’s most refreshing commentators. “O’Rourke has done the unthinkable: he’s made money funny.” —Forbes FYI “[O’Rourke is] witty, smart and—though he hides it under a tough coat of cynicism—a fine reporter . . . Delightful.” —The New York Times Book Review

The Middle of Somewhere

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Author : Suzanne Stryk
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595349626
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Middle of Somewhere written by Suzanne Stryk and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s no such thing as the middle of nowhere. Everywhere is the middle of somewhere for some living being. That was Suzanne Stryk’s mantra as she journeyed through her home state on a mission to re-create Thomas Jefferson’s Notes on the State of Virginia. The founding father’s work surveys the region’s natural history and, as one might expect from a philosopher-statesman living more than 230 years ago, is fact packed and formally written. The Middle of Somewhere takes a different approach—to interpret Virginia land and life from a contemporary perspective and an artist’s point of view. Stryk kayaks pristine swamps in river country, wanders the galleries of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, hikes rocky trails crisscrossing the Appalachians, and strolls the dusty streets of old coal towns. In these sacred spaces she encounters frogs, millipedes, ravens, dragonflies, sparrows, turtles, and many other species that claim a particular place as home. Weaving in historical anecdotes and personal memories, Stryk relates her encounters with all of these beings in their “somewheres.” The creatures in their habitats and the people she meets are characters in the book, a tapestry of essays, lush sketches, and ephemera. Stryk’s multimedia collages, composed of dead bugs, tourist pamphlets, road maps, pressed leaves, rusty farm equipment, animal bones, and handwritten directions, all artistically arranged over USGS topographic maps, bring the narrative to life. Stryk’s personal reflections and conversational tone make readers feel as if they are traveling across Virginia with a friend, one who is at times funny and at other times deeply reflective. As we accompany her, she challenges us to travel slowly, tread lightly, and look closely at each somewhere that defines a place.

No Ashes in the Fire

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Author : Darnell L Moore
Publisher : Bold Type Books
ISBN 13 : 1568589492
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book No Ashes in the Fire written by Darnell L Moore and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir. When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his neighborhood tried to set him on fire. They cornered him while he was walking home from school, harassed him because they thought he was gay, and poured a jug of gasoline on him. He escaped, but just barely. It wasn't the last time he would face death. Three decades later, Moore is an award-winning writer, a leading Black Lives Matter activist, and an advocate for justice and liberation. In No Ashes in the Fire, he shares the journey taken by that scared, bullied teenager who not only survived, but found his calling. Moore's transcendence over the myriad forces of repression that faced him is a testament to the grace and care of the people who loved him, and to his hometown, Camden, NJ, scarred and ignored but brimming with life. Moore reminds us that liberation is possible if we commit ourselves to fighting for it, and if we dream and create futures where those who survive on society's edges can thrive. No Ashes in the Fire is a story of beauty and hope-and an honest reckoning with family, with place, and with what it means to be free.

Death Row Madam

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Author : Cheri Woods
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780971399402
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Death Row Madam written by Cheri Woods and published by . This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former madam-turned author Cheri Woods will reveal the shocking stories of the sex lives of the rich and famous, which includes: studio heads, producers, directors, celebrities, rock stars, sports figures, mobsters and a cast of others, in her book which goes behind the scenes of Hollywood's dazzling movie studios to the top recording studios, where prostitution and cocaine were the real deal makers. Cheri will also share intimate details of her marriage to international pop star Stevie Woods whose record "Steal the Night" hit the charts i the 80's along with his co-produced European hit record "Rock Me Baby." Stevie later skated to fame as the star of the musical play "Starlight Express." Throughout this book, I chronicle my life in the fast lane amongst the glitz and glamour of Hollywood's most sought after stars. I open up the casting couch, a vehicle that exists for studio heads - for whom nothing is more tempting than a young naive, beautiful girl lacking in self esteem, yet bursting with dreams and willing to do anything to fulfill them, and how I was able to turn the casting couch into a multimillion dollar business. I will finally break the madam's code of silence, as you discover the shocking, kinky stories of the sex lives of the rich and famous, which includes studio heads, producers, directors, celebrities, rock stars, sports figures, mobsters, and a cast of others, where I have left nothing to the imagination and spared no one. Writing this book was a form of therapy for me, as it gave me the chance to finally tell my story, and gain the justice that I never received as a victim of the legal system. Written to entertain you, it is filled with the comedy, tragedy, and scandal of my life, having gone from a ghetto welfare recipient, to one of Hollywood's most notorious madams.

We Took to the Woods

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Author : Louise Dickinson Rich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892720163
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book We Took to the Woods written by Louise Dickinson Rich and published by . This book was released on 1975-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her early thirties, Louise Dickinson Rich took to the woods of Maine with her husband. They found their livelihood and raised a family in the remote backcountry settlement of Middle Dam, in the Rangeley area. Louise made time after morning chores to write about their lives.

The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

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Author : Holly Ringland
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487005237
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart written by Holly Ringland and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting and captivating novel about how our untold stories haunt us — and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive. After her family suffers a tragedy, nine-year-old Alice Hart is forced to leave her idyllic seaside home. She is taken in by her grandmother, June, a flower farmer who raises Alice on the language of Australian native flowers, a way to say the things that are too hard to speak. Under the watchful eye of June and the women who run the farm, Alice settles, but grows up increasingly frustrated by how little she knows of her family’s story. In her early twenties, Alice’s life is thrown into upheaval again when she suffers devastating betrayal and loss. Desperate to outrun grief, Alice flees to the dramatically beautiful central Australian desert. In this otherworldly landscape Alice thinks she has found solace, until she meets a charismatic and ultimately dangerous man. Spanning two decades, set between sugar cane fields by the sea, a native Australian flower farm, and a celestial crater in the central desert, The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart follows Alice’s unforgettable journey, as she learns that the most powerful story she will ever possess is her own.

Lost in the Never Woods

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Author : Aiden Thomas
Publisher : Swoon Reads
ISBN 13 : 1250313988
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Lost in the Never Woods written by Aiden Thomas and published by Swoon Reads. This book was released on 2021-03-23 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When children start to go missing in the local woods, a teen girl must face her fears and a past she can't remember to rescue them in this atmospheric YA novel, Lost in the Never Woods from the author of Cemetery Boys. It’s been five years since Wendy and her two brothers went missing in the woods, but when the town’s children start to disappear, the questions surrounding her brothers’ mysterious circumstances are brought back into the light. Attempting to flee her past, Wendy almost runs over an unconscious boy lying in the middle of the road... Peter, a boy she thought lived only in her stories, asks for Wendy’s help to rescue the missing kids. But, in order to find them, Wendy must confront what’s waiting for her in the woods. Praise for Aiden Thomas and Cemetery Boys: “This stunning debut novel from Thomas is detailed, heart-rending, and immensely romantic.” —Mark Oshiro, author of Anger is a Gift “Aiden Thomas masterfully weaves a tale of family, friendships, and love in a heartwarming adventure full of affirmation and being your best self." — C.B. Lee, author of Not Your Sidekick

Calling on Dragons

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Author : Patricia C. Wrede
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780152046927
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (469 download)

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Download or read book Calling on Dragons written by Patricia C. Wrede and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second two volumes of Patricia C. Wrede's beloved, bestselling Enchanted Forest Chronicles!

Terroir

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Author : Natasha Sajé
Publisher : Trinity University Press
ISBN 13 : 1595349332
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Terroir written by Natasha Sajé and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word “terroir” refers to the climate and soil in which something is grown. Natasha Sajé applies this idea to the environments that nurture and challenge us, exploring in particular how the immigrant experience has shaped her identity. She revisits people and literature across her life, including her experiences as the child of European refugees in suburban New Jersey, taken under the wing of a widowed neighbor; a winter spent waitressing in Switzerland; her marriage to a Jamaican man in Baltimore; and finally her marriage to a woman in Salt Lake City. This memoir-in-essays combines poetic lyricism with incisive commentary on nationality, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, and class. Reminding us that change is constant in our lives, Sajé asks how terroir creates identity. Throughout, the English language is her most fertile ground.

The Value of Virginia Woolf

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Author : Madelyn Detloff
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107081505
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Value of Virginia Woolf written by Madelyn Detloff and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-03-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Value of Virginia Woolf explores the writings of Virginia Woolf from her early texts to her inventive novels.