In this2tale of heartache and self-discovery, Emma seeks2solace on her uncle's boat, where she is greeted by the kindness and companionship of a stranger. As she learns about herself and the possibility of happiness, her vengeful husband follows close behind.
This edition includes a new introduction by historian Mitch Horowitz that highlights the enduring significance of Cayce’s message and the role this book played in its dissemination.
Presents Black history in America as a force of strong resistance to racism and slavery rather than accommodation and discusses the people and events of this struggle
Hailed as one of the year's top five novels by Time, and selected as one of the best books of the year by nearly all major newspapers, national bestseller Peace Like a River captured the hearts of a nation in need of comfort.
In January of 1977 McVicker arrived in Kingman to begin work as the new BLM area manager , and John Neal , whose family had been ranching in the area since the 1880s , was on hand to meet him that first day .
Suspenseful, romantic, and richly atmospheric, this is “a beguiling tale, full of twists and turns like the river at its heart, and just as rich and intriguing” (M.L. Stedman, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Light Between ...
By turns raunchy, poignant, caustic, and elegiac, these are superb tales which express, in Maclean's own words, "a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.
He smiled faintly at her and rose to pull wood and dried leaves from the pack-rat nest clogging a hole in the corner. Using the pointed end of a piece of pack-rat litter, he dug out the firepit before arranging the leaves and wood just ...
When Andrés Ruzo was just a small boy in Peru, his grandfather told him the story of a mysterious legend: There is a river, deep in the Amazon, which boils as if a fire burns below it.
In Along a River, award-winning historian Jan Noel shines a light on the lives of remarkable French-Canadian women — immigrant brides, nuns, tradeswomen, farmers, governors' wives, and even smugglers — during the period between the ...
The main reason that people choose to take the river is so that they can stop at the various attractions along the way. ... with the many boats that you would take from Manaus heading to the beginning of the river or to the end of it.