My dad was a director of the Central California Berry Association for a number of years . Toward the time of the war , he was the vicepresident of the board . This Berry Growers Association shipped a lot of produce to the East .
Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean, in this thrilling, surprising, and thought-provoking debut novel that will appeal to fans of Across the Universe, by ...
As the twelve days that make up the novel's framework yield to a dramatic conclusion, this unforgettable family - motherless children sacrificing for one another as they can, protecting and nurturing where love is scarce - pulls itself up ...
"They couldn't afford a ship, much less the cost of registering one.
Presents short stories that feature rural and working-class characters trying to cope with life in post-industrial America.
Our agent , Angela Miller , adopted this little project immediately and promptly turned around and sold it to the most elegant illustratedbook publisher in the country . Thank you , Angela , for getting us the gold ring .
Like scholars sifting through ancient genizahs in search of spiritual and historical insights, readers immersed in Brother Salvage will find, at the heart of the book, the most sacred entity: hope.
Stuck on this unmapped, hostile planet, lacking resources, and with tech built by the cheapest bidder, the salvage crew must engineer their way to payday ... and beat Urmahon Beta before it kills them all"--Provided by publisher
Spurred by the stories told and retold to him by his parents Soon Ho and Yunpyo, Sohn enacts minor salvage by reading overlooked early Korean American life writings penned by Induk Pahk, Taiwon Koh, Joseph Anthony, and Kim Yong-ik alongside ...
In Salvage, Krisna Uk draws on extensive research in a Cambodian village she calls Leu to provide a unique ethnography of the Jorai, an ethnic minority group that lives in Vietnam and in the most heavily bombed region of northeast Cambodia.
I am told you have arranged for this commodity—” “Not employee?” He grinned and winked. “Want to make sure I'm clear about this.” “Ah, no. ... He said, “The price is the price.” “Perhaps a twenty percent discount for a dozen?