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Author : Katherine Govier
Publisher : Ruminator Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Without a Guide written by Katherine Govier and published by Ruminator Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories of journeys by known and unknown authors including Margaret Attwood and E. Annie Proulx, Robyn Davidson.
Author : Katherine Govier
Publisher : HarperAvenue
ISBN 13 : 9781443436649
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (366 download)
Download or read book The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel written by Katherine Govier and published by HarperAvenue. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark novel of the Canadian West from one of Canada’s most accomplished writers, author of The Ghost Brush and Fables of Brunswick Avenue Gateway, Alberta, 1911. The coming of the railroad to the Canadian Rockies has brought a parade of newcomers to the heavenly Bow Valley—climbers, coal miners, artists, scientists, runaway aristocrats and remittance men. Among the latter is the poacher Herbie Wishart, who arrived on a one-way ticket and has reinvented himself as a trail guide and teller of tall tales. Herbie becomes outfitter for a fossil-hunting expedition headed by a prominent Washington, D.C., archaeologist. Rumours say that the findings of the secrecy-shrouded Hodgson expedition, as it comes to be known, could overturn all previous knowledge about early life forms. Brought along to help in the quarry for the summer are Hodgson’s adult children, mopey Humphrey and the captivating Isabel, with whom Herbie strikes up a campside alliance. But when an early snowstorm hits and trailside grudges come to a head, the expedition mysteriously disappears. The tragedy threatens to stain the Rocky Mountain park’s reputation just as its newly elected government overseers begin to sell the pristine Canadian wilderness to the world. Despite all efforts from that year on to solve, or bury, the mystery, the disappearance will haunt Gateway, and define the futures of Herbie Wishart and his stubbornly female descendants. The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel is at once sweeping and intimate, and bursting with heart, wit and larger-than-life characters who rival the Rocky Mountain landscape for sheer brio. Katherine Govier proves she is one of Canada’s master storytellers with this new novel, which is a groundbreaking portrait of Western Canada’s past, with all its contradictions and complexities, an intimate story of romance and family, and a tantalizing historical—and prehistorical—mystery. PRAISE FOR THE GHOST BRUSH “Lavishly researched and brilliant. . . . Govier astonishes throughout in her ability to write epic themes intimately. . . . Lyrical, absorbing, and intense.” —PUBLISHERS WEEKLY (STARRED REVIEW)
Author : Katherine Govier
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369315
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)
Download or read book Creation written by Katherine Govier and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In a life so well-documented, these next few months form a rare gap. It is as if the dark cloud and fog Audubon sails into transcends mere weather, and becomes a state of mind. As if Labrador itself (or its weather) swallows the story.” His need to capture the fugitive colours of birds pushed John James Audubon into impossible places, none more dangerous than the fog-ridden coast of Labrador in the summer of 1833. In mesmerizing prose, novelist Katherine Govier explores this fateful summer in the life of a man as untamed as his subjects. Running two steps ahead of the bailiff, alternately praised and reviled by critics, John James Audubon set himself the audacious task of drawing, from nature, every bird in North America. The result was his masterpiece, The Birds of America, which he and his family published and sold to subscribers on both sides of the Atlantic. In June 1833, he enlisted his son and a party of young gentlemen to set sail for nesting grounds no ornithologist had ever seen, in the treacherous passage between Newfoundland and Labrador. Fogbound at Little Natashquan, he encounters Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield of the Royal Navy, whose mission is to chart the labyrinthine coast to make it safe for sea traffic. Bayfield is an exacting and duty-bound aristocrat; the charismatic Audubon spins tales to disguise his dubious parentage and lack of training. Bayfield is a confirmed bachelor; Audubon is a married man in love with his young assistant. But the captain becomes the artist’s foil and his measuring stick, his judge and, oddly, the recipient of his long-held secrets. In this atmospheric and enthralling novel, Katherine Govier recreates the summer in which “the world’s greatest living bird artist” finally understood the paradox embedded in his art: that the act of creation was also an act of destruction.
Author : Thomas Nelson
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
ISBN 13 : 1418525715
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (185 download)
Download or read book The Truth Teller written by Thomas Nelson and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2006-01-08 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A five-year-old boy can sense who is telling the truth...and who isn't. It's a gift some will do anything to silence and a mother will do anything to protect. Lara Godfrey desperately wants to have a child--a living legacy from her late husband. Placing her life in the hands of a doctor she believes she can trust, Lara doesn't relize a web of deception is being woven around her. An unseen voyeur, with dreams of immortality, plans to use the child for a test--an unbelievable experiment that could have genetic consequences not only for Lara's baby, but for the entire human race. In the face of danger, Lara must make impossible choices. That's why she flees the clinic before the baby's birth. It's why she changes her name and hides. She knows she must protect this gifted child who can see through lies and identify truth. Yet how can an innocent truth-telling boy survive in a world that wants to destroy truth at any cost?
Author : Katherine Govier
Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9781554686445
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (864 download)
Download or read book The Ghost Brush written by Katherine Govier and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oei is the daughter of the great Japanese printmaker Hokusai. Long consigned to a minor role as gloomy sidekick, she is barely a footnote in the historical record. Here, Oei recounts her life with one of the great eccentrics of the 19th century. Dodging the Shogun's spies, she and Hokusai live amongst actors, novelists, tattoo artists and prostitutes, making the exquisite pictures that define their time. Disguised, they escape the city gates to view waves and Mount Fuji. But they return to enchanting, dangerous Edo (Tokyo), the largest city in the world. Wielding her brush, Oei defies all expectations of womanhood-- all but one. She is dutiful until death to the exasperating father who created her and, ultimately, steals her future. A breathtaking work of imagination, The Ghost Brush illuminates the most tender and ambiguous love of all--that between father and daughter.
Author : Katherine Govier
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062100688
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book The Printmaker's Daughter written by Katherine Govier and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-11-22 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lost voice of old Japan reclaims her rightful place inhistory in this breathtaking work of imagination and scholarship from award-winning and internationally acclaimedauthor Katherine Govier. In the evocative taleof 19th century Tokyo, The Printmaker’sDaughter delivers an enthrallingtale of one of the world’s great unknown artists: Oei,the mysterious daughter of master printmaker Hokusai, painter of the Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. In a novel that willresonate with readers of Tracy Chevalier’s Girlwith a Pearl Earring, Lisa See’s SnowFlower and the Secret Fan, and David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet,the sights and sensations of an exotic, bygone era form the richly captivatingbackdrop for an intimate, finely wrought story of daughterhood and duty, artand authorship, the immortality of creation and the anonymity of history.
Author : Katherine Govier
Publisher : Little Brown GBR
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery and Other Stories written by Katherine Govier and published by Little Brown GBR. This book was released on 1994 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Katherine Govier
Publisher : Whitecap Books
ISBN 13 : 9781770502123
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (21 download)
Download or read book Half for You and Half for Me written by Katherine Govier and published by Whitecap Books. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Katherine Govier "discovered that the oldest rhymes were not intended for children, but repeated by adults, who were for the most part powerless to change their situations. They would use rhymes speak in code, marking events, making fun of the powerful and passing judgement. In Half for You and Half for Me, the author breaks the codes of these nursery rhymes in accessible, amusing explanations. Beautifully illustrated with vintage pictures as well as contemporary color drawings done especially for this book, Half for You and Half for Me will engage, delight, entertain and inform younger and older readers alike. An essential title for every family bookshelf." --Amazon.com.
Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674955202
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (552 download)
Download or read book Women on the Margins written by Natalie Zemon Davis and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maria Sibylla Merian, a German painter and naturalist, produced an innovative work on tropical insects based on lore she gathered from the Carib, Arawak, and African women of Suriname.
Author : Katherine Govier
Publisher : Vintage Books Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780679310327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Angel Walk written by Katherine Govier and published by Vintage Books Canada. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At eighty-five, Cory Ditchburn has finally agreed to a retrospective of her art. For years she had refused, afraid that any summing up of her life's work would mean she'd never work again. But now vanity has won out - vanity and the need to see it all one more time. As she sorts through her photographs with Tyke, the son she abandoned for her lover and for World War II, each image projects Cory into one of the split-seconds that have strung themselves together as her life. Her pictures give her back the story of her past - from her beginnings in Pointe au Baril, Ontario, a place of rocky islands and forests; to her days in London, England, where she honed her skills as a photographer and met the great love of her life; to war-ravaged Europe where she worked as a war correspondent for Lord Beaverbrook, travelling with the ranks of soldiers, earning fame as "the girl photographer"; to her self-imposed exile at a fishing cabin in Safe Harbour. Together, Cory and Tyke retrace the dramatic and sometimes painful path that has led them to the present. Mother and son reclaim each other, and relive an extraordinary woman's life.
Author : Sheree-Lee Olson
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 0889843015
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)
Download or read book Sailor Girl written by Sheree-Lee Olson and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2008 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer, 1981. On the run from a violent boyfriend, nineteen-year-old art student Kate McLeod packs her camera and her vodka and signs on to an ancient Great Lakes grain boat. Kate finds profound solace in the rhythms of water and hard work. But as she navigates this closed world of old customs, new alliances bring joy and shocking tragedy into her life. Sailor Girl is a love poem to the elemental forces - wind, wild weather, desire and love - that drive a young woman's voyage of self-discovery.
Author : Melissa Kuipers
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1927366631
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (273 download)
Download or read book The Whole Beautiful World written by Melissa Kuipers and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Original, witty, and subtle, these stories feature characters who must navigate life in a small town, and will appeal to fans of Miriam Toews and Kathleen Winter. This collection of beautifully crafted short stories features complex characters whose internal struggles manifest in their most intimate relationships, told by a writer with a compassionate eye. A narrator watches her social sphere deteriorate after her boyfriend’s rough-housing leads to his best friend’s tragic paralysis. Childhood sweethearts, finally united later in life, find that they are not the soulmates they believed themselves to be. After her mother becomes depressed after a miscarriage, a daughter takes on the role of caregiver. Set in fictional small rural towns, these stories explore young people who grow up against a religious backdrop, mothers who baulk against society’s imposed identities, and characters who explore their individual roles within their families as they navigate sexuality, suffering, and shame. These narrators are blunt and sometimes obsessive, but bravely optimistic as they strive to be the best versions of themselves. As her characters struggle to discern deception from reality, using their limited resources to parse charm and charisma from credibility, Kuipers understated style is full of dark wit and detailed observation.
Author : Katherine Govier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140159608
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Hearts of Flame written by Katherine Govier and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dianne Warren
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1459628276
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (596 download)
Download or read book Cool Water written by Dianne Warren and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Juliet, Saskatchewan. A blink and you'll miss it kind of town where nothing much happens, until one day ... secrets are revealed, marriages tested and a life ended. Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink of an eye kind of town - the welcome sign announces a population of 1,011 people - and it's easy to imagine that nothing happens on its hot and dusty streets. Situated on the edge of the Little Snake sand hills, Juliet and its inhabitants are caught in limbo between a century - old promise of prosperity and whatever lies ahead.But the heart of the town beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people: the foundling who now owns the farm his adoptive family left him; the pregnant teenager and her mother, planning a fairytale wedding; a shy couple, well beyond middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings for one another; a camel named Antoinette; and the ubiquitous wind and sand that forever shift the landscape. Their stories bring the prairie desert and the town of Juliet to vivid and enduring life.This wonderfully entertaining, heart - warming, witty and deeply felt novel brims with forgiveness as its flawed people stumble towards the future.
Author : Marjorie Garber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824672
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Academic Instincts written by Marjorie Garber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-10 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and provocative book, cultural critic Marjorie Garber, who has written on topics as different as Shakespeare, dogs, cross-dressing, and real estate, explores the pleasures and pitfalls of the academic life. Academic Instincts discusses three of the perennial issues that have surfaced in recent debates about the humanities: the relation between "amateurs" and "professionals," the relation between one academic discipline and another, and the relation between "jargon" and "plain language." Rather than merely taking sides, the book explores the ways in which such debates are essential to intellectual life. Garber argues that the very things deplored or defended in discussions of the humanities cannot be either eliminated or endorsed because the discussion itself is what gives humanistic thought its vitality. Written in spirited and vivid prose, and full of telling detail drawn both from the history of scholarship and from the daily press, Academic Instincts is a book by a well-known Shakespeare scholar and prize-winning teacher who offers analysis rather than polemic to explain why today's teachers and scholars are at once breaking new ground and treading familiar paths. It opens the door to an important nationwide and worldwide conversation about the reorganization of knowledge and the categories in and through which we teach the humanities. And it does so in a spirit both generous and optimistic about the present and the future of these disciplines.
Author : Pamela Dean
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780142406526
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book Tam Lin written by Pamela Dean and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-08-03 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ancient Scottish ballad "Tam Lin," headstrong Janet defies Tam Lin to walk in her own land of Carterhaugh . . . and then must battle the Queen of Faery for possession of her lover’s body and soul. In this version of "Tam Lin," masterfully crafted by Pamela Dean, Janet is a college student, "Carterhaugh" is Carter Hall at the university where her father teaches, and Tam Lin is a boy named Thomas Lane. Set against the backdrop of the early 1970s, imbued with wit, poetry, romance, and magic, Tam Lin has become a cult classic—and once you begin reading, you’ll know why. This reissue features an updated introduction by the book’s original editor, the acclaimed Terri Windling.
Author : Gyan Prakash
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069114284X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Mumbai Fables written by Gyan Prakash and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-10-10 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting from the catastrophic floods and terrorist attacks of recent years, Prakash reaches back to the sixteenth-century Portuguese conquest to reveal the stories behind Mumbai's historic journey. Examining Mumbai's role as a symbol of opportunity and reinvention, he looks at its nineteenth-century development under British rule and its twentieth-century emergence as a fabled city on the sea. Different layers of urban experience come to light as he recounts the narratives of the Nanavati murder trial and the rise and fall of the tabloid Blitz, and Mumbai's transformation from the red city of trade unions and communists into the saffron city of Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena. Starry-eyed planners and elite visionaries, cynical leaders and violent politicians of the street, land sharks and underworld dons jostle with ordinary citizens and poor immigrants as the city copes with the dashed dreams of postcolonial urban life and lurches into the seductions of globalization. --
