Author: Ursula K. Le Guin Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 9780520227354 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 546
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An "ethnographic" novel that portrays life in California's Napa Valley as it might be a very long time from now, imagined not as a high tech future but as a time of people once again living close to the land.
Author: John Forrest Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501726307 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 373
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Lord I'm Coming Home focuses on a small, white, rural fishing community on the southern reaches of the Great Dismal Swamp in North Carolina. By means of a new kind of anthropological fieldwork, John Forrest seeks to document the entire aesthetic experience of a group of people, showing the aesthetic to be an "everyday experience and not some rarefied and pure behavior reserved for an artistic elite." The opening chapter of the book is a vivid fictional narrative of a typical day in "Tidewater," presented from the perspective of one fisherman. In the following two chapters the author sets forth the philosophical and anthropological foundations of his book, paying particular attention to problems of defining "aesthetic," to methodological concerns, and to the natural landscape of his field site. Reviewing his own experience as both participant and observer, he then describes in scrupulous detail the aesthetic forms in four areas of Tidewater life: home, work, church, and leisure. People use these forms, Forrest shows, to establish personal and group identities, facilitate certain kinds of interactions while inhibiting others, and cue appropriate behavior. His concluding chapter deals with the different life cycles of men and women, insider-outsider relations, secular and sacred domains, the image and metaphor of "home," and the essential role that aesthetics plays in these spheres. The first ethnography to evoke the full aesthetic life of a community, Lord I'm Coming Home will be important reading not only for anthropologists but also for scholars and students in the fields of American studies, art, folklore, and sociology.
Author: Laurie B. Arnold Publisher: Easton Studio Press LLC ISBN: 1632261030 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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Readers of the highly acclaimed “Hello There” series will already be familiar with plucky Madison McGee, her magic fanny pack, and the MegaPix6000 - a TV she uses to teleport into whatever is playing on the screen. In this third and final book in the series, Madison is on a fateful trip back to Bainbridge Island, where she grew up, to spend the summer with her best friends, Noah and Violet. It’s an emotional journey, shadowed with memories of her mother, and questions about her father’s disappearance. As she and her dog Leroy travel from New Mexico to the west coast, she opens her fanny pack and discovers a photo of a black-haired boy. Even though she’s sure he’s a stranger, she intuitively knows that he needs her help. Again, it’s the MegaPix6000 to the rescue, and the “Mighty Trio” enters a weird and frightening world of magicians, shapeshifters, and evil doers. The biggest mystery for Madison to solve is a personal one. Her search for answers leads her to discover that sometimes life changes in unimaginable ways, and that the unexpected can finally lead her home.
Author: Jake Brown Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc. ISBN: Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 111
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The story is basically true about two dogs, Queenie and Gidget, two miniature dachshunds, and their relationship with each other. Queenie and her puppy were taken by persons unknown and she was then abandoned. Her journey trying to return to Gidget was a tremendous struggle but allowed for a wonderful change between the two dogs.
Author: Dicken Bettinger Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781532807831 Category : Banks, Sydney 1931-2009 Languages : en Pages : 0
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Within you there is another world. When you become immersed in this inner space, you will never come to the end of what can be revealed to you. That which is revealed will be uplifting and nourishing. As you become more intimately familiar with this space you will also intuit the loving and wise nature of your inner being. Coming home is waking up to this always-existing inner world. Our wish is that you discover the joys of Coming Home to a life guided by love and wisdom.
Author: Lisa Manterfield Publisher: Steel Rose Press ISBN: 0983012512 Category : Family & Relationships Languages : en Pages : 203
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Lisa Manterfield was a sensible 32-year-old when she met The One—a man who sparked a passion for tango, an urge to break down closed doors, and a deep-rooted desire to reproduce. Five years later she was a baby addict, hiding her addiction, plotting a maternity ward heist, and threatening anything that got in her way, including her beloved husband and his pesky practicality. In this gritty, award-winning memoir, Manterfield traces her spiraling route from rational 21st-century woman to desperate mama-wannabe. She examines the siren song of motherhood, the insidious lure of the fertility industry, and the repercussions of being childless in a mom-centric society. But this isn’t just another infertility story with another miracle baby ending, nor is it a sad introspective of a childless woman; this is a story about love, desire, and choices—and ultimately about hope. It is the story of a woman who escapes her addiction, not with a baby, but with her sanity, her marriage, and her sense-of-self intact. 2012 Independent Publishers Book Awards winner.
Author: Laurie B. Arnold Publisher: Prospecta Press ISBN: 9781632261021 Category : Languages : en Pages : 224
Book Description
Readers of the highly acclaimed "Hello There" series will already be familiar with plucky Madison McGee, her magic fanny pack, and the MegaPix6000 - a TV she uses to teleport into whatever is playing on the screen. In this third and final book in the series, Madison is on a fateful trip back to Bainbridge Island, where she grew up, to spend the summer with her best friends, Noah and Violet. It's an emotional journey, shadowed with memories of her mother, and questions about her father's disappearance. As she and her dog Leroy travel from New Mexico to the west coast, she opens her fanny pack and discovers a photo of a black-haired boy. Even though she's sure he's a stranger, she intuitively knows that he needs her help. Again, it's the MegaPix6000 to the rescue, and the "Mighty Trio" enters a weird and frightening world of magicians, shapeshifters, and evil doers. The biggest mystery for Madison to solve is a personal one. Her search for answers leads her to discover that sometimes life changes in unimaginable ways, and that the unexpected can finally lead her home.
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