![]() ![]() ![]() They capture the importance and splendors of the individual parks: from Haleakala in Hawaii to Acadia in Maine, from Denali in Alaska to the Everglades in Florida, from Glacier in Montana to Big Bend in Texas. The authors recount the adventures, mythmaking, and intense political battles behind the evolution of the park system, and the enduring ideals that fostered its growth. In this evocative and lavishly illustrated narrative, Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan delve into the history of the park idea, from the first sighting by white men in 1851 of the valley that would become Yosemite and the creation of the world’s first national park at Yellowstone in 1872, through the most recent additions to a system that now encompasses nearly four hundred sites and 84 million acres. The companion volume to the twelve-hour PBS series from the acclaimed filmmaker behind The Civil War, Baseball, and The War.Īmerica’s national parks spring from an idea as radical as the Declaration of Independence: that the nation’s most magnificent and sacred places should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:coldestwinterame00halb_0:epub:2df6fa38-b65f-4700-b68f-dde839e1c7f2 Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier coldestwinterame00halb_0 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t8x95dp1s Invoice 11 Isbn 9780786298327Ġ786298324 Lccn 2007022075 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 9.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.7 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary OL22268544M Openlibrary_edition Containerid_2 X0008 Donorīostonpubliclibrary Edition Large print ed. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:17:34 Bookplateleaf 0010 Boxid IA1129424 Boxid_2 CH129925 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Waterville, Me. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War David Halberstam Pan, 2009 - Korean War, 1950-1953 - 719 pages 29 Reviews Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two of them, Karin and Nicole, make mean jokes at Raina’s expense. Meanwhile, a sub-conflict emerges as Raina’s friends pressure her about how she looks. Raina’s mother consoles her by buying her videogames and allowing her to get a couple of ear piercings on her 12th birthday. To move them down, she will have a root canal as well as painful headgear that makes it hard for Raina to go out in public without feeling like a nerd. Golden tells her that now her front teeth are too high up in her mouth and need to be moved down with braces. When she goes back to her orthodontist, Dr. She is asked invasive questions and given throwaway platitudes. Raina finds this situation funny at first, but then becomes frustrated with the recovery process. Golden for emergency surgery to fix them so they won’t fall out of her mouth completely. ![]() When she falls while running after her friends, she breaks two teeth on her upper jaw. The story takes place in the sixth grade and follows a girl named Raina, who has an overbite that requires braces. “Smile” is a young adult graphic novel by Raina Telgemeier. ![]() She struggles with issues such as bullying and finding friends. The book follows Telgemeier’s life during middle school and high school. It was published in 2010, after originating as a weekly webcomic from 2004-2007. Smile, written and illustrated by Raina Telgemeier, is a graphic novel that tells the story of her childhood. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() On the train she is befriended by Charles H. ![]() Carrie is bright but uneducated, easy prey for male wolves. About the end of the 19th century, eighteen-year-old Carrie leaves her small town, Columbia City, Illinois and takes a train to Chicago to find a career she lives with an older married sister. “Sister Carrie” in the novel is Caroline Meeber Dreiser wanted the title to represent anyone’s sister. At the time Dreiser’s intent was social realism, but today’s reader will perceive the novel as historical fiction. The plot of the novel still reads very well. Dreiser was also one of the first American authors to understand the changing relationship between men and women in this country, which permitted women to take advantage of men, not just vice-versa. It still is considered one of the most powerful of American novels because it continues to carry a powerful message about the strengths and weaknesses of the United States, wherein material and social success is often continued to be more important than the path taken to gain that success. ![]() ![]() ![]() It takes place at the local inn where everyone is drunk. ![]() "At the center of Satantango," George Szirtes has said, "is the eponymous drunken dance, referred to here sometimes as a tango and sometimes as a csardas. Schemes, crimes, infidelities, hopes of escape, and above all trust and its constant betrayal are Krasznahorkai's meat. The story of Satantango, spread over a couple of days of endless rain, focuses on the dozen remaining inhabitants of an unnamed isolated hamlet: failures stuck in the middle of nowhere. From the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International PrizeĪt long last, twenty-five years after the Hungarian genius László Krasznahorkai burst onto the scene with his first novel, Satantango dances into English in a beautiful translation by George Szirtes.Īlready famous as the inspiration for the filmmaker Béla Tarr's six-hour masterpiece, Satantango is proof, as the spellbinding, bleak, and hauntingly beautiful book has it, that "the devil has all the good times." ![]() ![]() There's no way I'll fall for her, even though she’s earning top grades in every single sinfully sexy lesson. Seven nights to teach her everything I know in the bedroom. But then I learn there's another big stake she wants. What do I do when the board throws me for an unexpected loop so I can keep my business in my hands? I enlist the help of my best friend's little sister, since she holds a big stake in the company. ![]() ![]() As the CEO of a fast-growing company, I've been enjoying both to the fullest. As long as I keep my eyes on the prize, there’s no way this pluck-the-flower project could possibly complicate matters. Graham Campbell is charming, smart, and, I’m told, oh-so-skilled in the sack. ![]() Good thing I know just the man for the deflowering job - my brother’s business partner and best friend. ![]() And yet I'm still a card-carrying member of a club I don't want to belong to anymore. When you think about how easy it is to lose keys, phones, sunglasses and your dignity on social media, you might figure it'd be a cinch for me to ditch my V Card.Īt 25, I run a successful business, live in a fantastic apartment, and have fabulous friends to go out with any night of the week. A brand-new sinfully sexy stand-alone romantic comedy from best-selling authors Lauren Blakely and Lili Valente! ![]() ![]() ![]() When I had travelled to France or Spain or Italy, the Orient Express had often been standing at Calais, and I had longed to climb up into it. ![]() She says in her autobiography:Īll my life I had wanted to go on the Orient Express. And not just any train: you could travel on the fabled Orient Express! As it happened, Agatha Christie loved trains, and it had long been her desire to travel on that particular storied line. Christie assumed that to get there, you had to go by sea., but her interlocutors assured her that she could make the journey by train. They raved about the exotic, fascinating city. But two days before her intended departure date, she happened to have dinner with a young couple just returned from Baghdad. ![]() The destination: Baghdad.Ĭhristie had originally planned a Caribbean vacation. Why should she not embark on an adventure? She is in need of a change of scene…. Her marriage, to her grief and mortification, has ended. She is alone her daughter is safely ensconced in a boarding school. Jat 9:06 pm ( Book clubs, books, Mystery fiction) The Pale Horse by Agatha Christie: a book discussion. ![]() ![]() Now these colour short stories offer a great way for young new readers to discover the adventures of Silky, Moon-Face, the Saucepan Man and all of their friends in the Enchanted Wood. The stories about the Magic Faraway Tree have been entertaining children for more than 80 years. It's the perfect place to find something to make Mother feel better. The Land of Magic Medicines has come to the top of the Faraway Tree, and it's full of curious bottles and sparkling potions. A full-colour short story taken from the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. A full-colour short story taken from the world of the Magic Faraway Tree. ![]() ![]() ![]() Throughout his life, Coleridge was continuously ill, mentally and physically and became addicted to opium as an escape from his diseased body. It is said that Mary Shelley hid behind a couch and listened to Coleridge reciting his famous poem, and that is why it is one of her influences throughout Fra nkenstein. Mary Shelley grew up with the influence of Coleridge through her father who often disagreed with his views, but respected the man, often invited him into their home. Alongside The Time of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge wrote Kubla Khan, though never finished. Coleridge was also philosopher, involved in metaphysics, literary critic and but was most noted as a poet. Within this collection, Coleridge contributed the poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. ![]() Coleridge was in a group called the Lake Poets, who are often considered the fore-fathers of this widespread movement of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Lyrical Ballads is considered one of the major texts of Romantic poetry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (born October 1772) is most famous for his poem The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, which was first published in 1798 in Lyrical Ballads, a collection he co-wrote with William Wordsworth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The outside world may have soured but here, time stands still and the appetite for such escapist romantic fiction remains undimmed. Of course he does!įor in Mills & Boon land, cowboys are always noble and rugged, hunky doctors still chase pretty nurses around the wards and snakes of lust uncoil anew in the duchess’s heaving creamy breast. ![]() It is the cockle-warming story of a handsome cowboy called Wayne Black who finds a baby with china-doll cheeks abandoned on the steps of his ranch one fine morning. On the boardroom table in front of us, there is a stack of the company’s best-sellers, including The Rake And The Heiress, Valentino’s Pregnancy Bombshell, Unfinished Business With The Duke and - my favourite - Proud Rancher, Precious Bundle. Here in the Mills & Boon bubble, we are deep in sex talk. To discover the truth, I travel to the mothership of mass market romantic fiction a place where bodices are still ripped and ravishing men and women are willingly ravished, on the page and off it. The real trouble starts, says Martin Amis, when emotion meets sex on the page ![]() |