Rain Village

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Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1609530268
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Rain Village by : Carolyn Turgeon

Download or read book Rain Village written by Carolyn Turgeon and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community. Her father seems to believe in nothing beyond his crops, certainly not education for his misfit daughter. When a mysterious, entrancing librarian comes to town, full of fabulous stories, earthy wisdom and potions for the lovelorn, she takes Tessa under her wing, teaching her to read and to believe in herself—and a whole new magical world of possibilities opens up. But even as she blooms, Tessa’s father begins sexually abusing her. And her mentor carries a dark secret of her own that finally causes her to drown herself. Tessa runs off, following Mary’s footsteps, to join the circus as a trapeze artist, where she marries a loving man and finds a fulfilling life for herself amidst her new circus family. But she remains haunted by her past. And when a stranger from one of Mary’s fabulist tales shows up, Tessa risks everything to follow him to Rain Village, where she might finally discover her mentor’s tragic secret. A brilliantly evocative debut set in the early part of the 20th century, steeped in emotional turbulence and down-to-earth wisdom, where a young woman must reconcile the inner traumas from her past and learn to live in the present in order to avoid becoming prisoner to her future. Rain Village casts a fabulous spell, pulling us into a world of mystery and possibility where love, friendship and loyalty might either destroy or set one free.

Rain

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Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804137110
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Rain by : Cynthia Barnett

Download or read book Rain written by Cynthia Barnett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.

All That the Rain Promises and More

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Publisher : Ten Speed Press
ISBN 13 : 0307809463
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book All That the Rain Promises and More written by David Arora and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2022-07-05 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[All That the Rain Promises and More] is certainly the best guide to fungi, and may in fact be a long lasting masterpiece in guide writing for all subjects.”—Roger McKnight, The New York Times Mushrooms appeal to all kinds of people—and so will this handy pocket guide, which includes key information for more than 200 Western mushrooms Over 200 edible and poisonous mushrooms are depicted with simple checklists of their identifying features, as David Arora celebrates the fun in fungi with the same engaging bend of wit and wisdom, fact and fancy, that has made his comprehensive guide, Mushrooms Demystified, the mushroom hunter’s bible. “The best guide for the beginner. I’d buy it no matter where I lived in North America.”—Whole Earth Catalog

The Influence of Strong, Prevalent, Rain-bearing Winds on the Prevalence of Phthisis

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book The Influence of Strong, Prevalent, Rain-bearing Winds on the Prevalence of Phthisis written by William Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lila and the Secret of Rain

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Publisher : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 1845074076
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (45 download)

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Book Synopsis Lila and the Secret of Rain by : David Conway

Download or read book Lila and the Secret of Rain written by David Conway and published by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the sun baking their Kenyan village for months and no rain sight, Lila learns the trick for making the rains come from her wise grandfather and so heads out to confront the sky in the hopes of saving everyone and everything in the land she loves.

Village Life in China

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Village Life in China by : Arthur H. Smith

Download or read book Village Life in China written by Arthur H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.U/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)

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Download or read book Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Quarterly journal of the Poona sarvajanik sabha, ed. by S.H. Chiplonkar

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Quarterly journal of the Poona sarvajanik sabha, ed. by S.H. Chiplonkar written by Poona Sarvajanick sabha and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Survey

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Red Rain

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451636148
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Book Synopsis Red Rain by : R.L. Stine

Download or read book Red Rain written by R.L. Stine and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling author of the Goosebumps and Fear Street series delivers a terrifying horror novel for adults centered on a town in the grip of a sinister revolt. After travel writer Lea Sutter barely survives a merciless hurricane on a tiny island off the South Carolina coast, she impulsively brings two orphaned twin boys home with her to Long Island. Samuel and Daniel seem amiable and intensely grateful at first, but no one in Lea’s family anticipates the twins’ true evil nature—or predicts that within a few weeks’ time her husband, a controversial child psychologist, will be implicated in two brutal murders. “The horror is grisly” (Associated Press) in legendary author R.L. Stine’s “creepy, fun read” (Library Journal)—an homage to the millions of adult fans who grew up reading his classic series and a must-read for every fan of deviously inventive chillers.

June Rain

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Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9927101317
Total Pages : 431 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book June Rain written by Jabbour Douaihy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 16 June 1957, a shoot-out in a village church in northern Lebanon leaves two dozen people dead. In the aftermath of the massacre, the town is rent in two: the Al-Ramis in the north and their rivals the Al-Samaeenis in the south. But lives once so closely intertwined cannot easily be divided. Neighbours turn into enemies and husbands and wives are forced to choose between loyalty to each other and loyalty to their clan. Drawing on an actual killing that took place in his home town, Douaihy reconstructs that June day from the viewpoints of people who witnessed the killing or whose lives were forever altered by it. A young girl overhears her father lending his gun to his cousins, but refusing to accompany them to the church. A school boy walks past the dead bodies, laid out in the town square on beds brought out from the houses. A baker whose shop is trapped on the wrong side of the line hopes the women who buy his bread will protect him. At the center of the portrait is Eliyya, who, twenty years after emigrating to the US, returns to the village to learn about the father who was shot through the heart in the massacre, the father he never knew. With a masterful eye for detail, Douaihy reconstructs that fateful June Sunday when rain poured from the sky and the traditions and affections of village life were consumed by violence and revenge.

The Victoria Nyanza

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis The Victoria Nyanza by : Paul Kollmann

Download or read book The Victoria Nyanza written by Paul Kollmann and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Victoria (in the Bantu language, Victoria Nyanza), is the largest lake in Africa and the second largest body of fresh water in the world, surpassed only by Lake Superior in North America. The lake is crossed by the equator, and is the chief source of the Nile River. The first European to reach the lake was the British explorer John Hanning Speke in 1858, who named it after Britain's Queen Victoria. In 1890, at the height of the European scramble for colonies in Africa, Britain and Germany divided Lake Victoria at 1° south latitude, with the southern portion allotted to Germany, the northern portion to Britain. The Germans conducted extensive scientific surveys of the southern shores of the lake, for both research and strategic purposes. This book, an English translation of a study by a former officer of the Imperial Troops for German East Africa, Paul Kollmann, provides detailed information about the land and peoples living along the shores of the lake. A concluding section is devoted to the grammar, pronunciation, and vocabularies of the Karagwe (Nkole), Ussindja, Uha, Ki-Uganda, and Ki-Ukerewe languages and dialects. Today, Lake Victoria lies partly in Tanzania, in Uganda, and in Kenya.

Year of No Rain

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374372888
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book Year of No Rain written by Alice Mead and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-05-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An artfully told story . . . The history, the land, and the determination of a band of refugees to care for each other are vividly evoked in this important work." -- Starred review, Kirkus Reviews In the dry spring of 1999, eleven-year-old Stephen Majok watches as his friend Wol joins a circle of dancers. Wol is celebrating – only fourteen, he is engaged to Stephen’s sister. Wol wants to marry because he might join the guerrillas in southern Sudan and fight the northern government soldiers. He wants a wife to remember him. Stephen thinks Wol is crazy. Children should study. But because of the civil war, there has been no school in their village for over a year. All Stephen has left from his student days is his books and one precious pencil, and the hunger for knowledge. Then, suddenly – but not unexpectedly – exploding bombs are heard in the tiny village. Stephen’s mother tells him to hurry, pack his bag, and hide beyond the forest with Wol and their friend Deng. Stephen grabs his geography book, his pencil, and little else. He does not want to leave his mother and sister. He does not want to leave the life he loves. In her latest portrayal of “children caught in the cultural crossfire” (School Library Journal), Alice Mead emphasizes the attachment all humans have to the small place on earth we call home, and our resistance to being displaced, even when our very lives are threatened.

The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan written by Sudan and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

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Total Pages : 256 pages
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Download or read book The Anglo-Egyptian Sudan written by Lord Edward Gleichen and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Serowe, Village of the Rainwind

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Publisher : African Writers Series
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Serowe, Village of the Rainwind written by Bessie Head and published by African Writers Series. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiographies of individual villagers arranged in thematic chapters.