Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486430300
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Fifteen tales that explain how Prickly Porky got his quills, why Johnny Chuck ran away, the reason for Jerry Muskrat's new house, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.
Mother West Wind's Animal Friends
Author: Thornton W. Burgess
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486430300
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Fifteen tales that explain how Prickly Porky got his quills, why Johnny Chuck ran away, the reason for Jerry Muskrat's new house, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486430300
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 130
Book Description
Fifteen tales that explain how Prickly Porky got his quills, why Johnny Chuck ran away, the reason for Jerry Muskrat's new house, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.
Mother West Wind's Neighbors
Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Mother West Wind's Children
Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Fifteen tales that explain why Danny Meadow Mouse has a short tail, the reason Reddy Fox has no friends, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.
Publisher: Putnam Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
Fifteen tales that explain why Danny Meadow Mouse has a short tail, the reason Reddy Fox has no friends, and other mysteries about the residents of the Green Meadow.
Mother West Wind "When" Stories
Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A collection of animal stories.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
A collection of animal stories.
The Four Winds
Author: Kristin Hannah
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250178622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
"The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year."--Publishers Weekly From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. “My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family.” Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it—the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1250178622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
"The Bestselling Hardcover Novel of the Year."--Publishers Weekly From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression, a time when the country was in crisis and at war with itself, when millions were out of work and even the land seemed to have turned against them. “My land tells its story if you listen. The story of our family.” Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the land is plentiful, and America is on the brink of a new and optimistic era. But for Elsa Wolcott, deemed too old to marry in a time when marriage is a woman’s only option, the future seems bleak. Until the night she meets Rafe Martinelli and decides to change the direction of her life. With her reputation in ruin, there is only one respectable choice: marriage to a man she barely knows. By 1934, the world has changed; millions are out of work and drought has devastated the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as crops fail and water dries up and the earth cracks open. Dust storms roll relentlessly across the plains. Everything on the Martinelli farm is dying, including Elsa’s tenuous marriage; each day is a desperate battle against nature and a fight to keep her children alive. In this uncertain and perilous time, Elsa—like so many of her neighbors—must make an agonizing choice: fight for the land she loves or leave it behind and go west, to California, in search of a better life for her family. The Four Winds is a rich, sweeping novel that stunningly brings to life the Great Depression and the people who lived through it—the harsh realities that divided us as a nation and the enduring battle between the haves and the have-nots. A testament to hope, resilience, and the strength of the human spirit to survive adversity, The Four Winds is an indelible portrait of America and the American dream, as seen through the eyes of one indomitable woman whose courage and sacrifice will come to define a generation.
Old Mother West Wind
Author: Thornton Waldo Burgess
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Wind Child
Author: Shirley Rousseau Murphy
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060249038
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Unaware of her unusual parentage, Resshie grows up restless and longing to know the secrets of the wind and she uses her extraordinary ability as a weaver to help her achieve her dream.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 9780060249038
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Unaware of her unusual parentage, Resshie grows up restless and longing to know the secrets of the wind and she uses her extraordinary ability as a weaver to help her achieve her dream.
A Strong West Wind
Author: Gail Caldwell
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812972562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of both boredom and beauty, its flat horizons broken only by oil derricks, grain elevators, and church steeples. Its story belongs to a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, who took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. What she found there, from renegade women to men who lit out for the territory, turned out to offer a blueprint for her own future. Caldwell would grow up to become a writer, but first she would have to fall in love with a man who was every mother’s nightmare, live through the anguish and fire of the Vietnam years, and defy the father she adored, who had served as a master sergeant in the Second World War. A Strong West Wind is a memoir of culture and history–of fathers and daughters, of two world wars and the passionate rebellions of the sixties. But it is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: about how literature can shape and even anticipate a life. Caldwell possesses the extraordinary ability to illuminate the desires, stories, and lives of ordinary people. Written with humanity, urgency, and beautiful restraint, A Strong West Wind is a magical and unforgettable book, destined to become an American classic.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN: 0812972562
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
In this exquisitely rendered memoir set on the high plains of Texas, Pulitzer Prize winner Gail Caldwell transforms into art what it is like to come of age in a particular time and place. A Strong West Wind begins in the 1950s in the wilds of the Texas Panhandle–a place of both boredom and beauty, its flat horizons broken only by oil derricks, grain elevators, and church steeples. Its story belongs to a girl who grew up surrounded by dust storms and cattle ranches and summer lightning, who took refuge from the vastness of the land and the ever-present wind by retreating into books. What she found there, from renegade women to men who lit out for the territory, turned out to offer a blueprint for her own future. Caldwell would grow up to become a writer, but first she would have to fall in love with a man who was every mother’s nightmare, live through the anguish and fire of the Vietnam years, and defy the father she adored, who had served as a master sergeant in the Second World War. A Strong West Wind is a memoir of culture and history–of fathers and daughters, of two world wars and the passionate rebellions of the sixties. But it is also about the mythology of place and the evolution of a sensibility: about how literature can shape and even anticipate a life. Caldwell possesses the extraordinary ability to illuminate the desires, stories, and lives of ordinary people. Written with humanity, urgency, and beautiful restraint, A Strong West Wind is a magical and unforgettable book, destined to become an American classic.
A Lantern in Her Hand
Author: Bess Streeter Aldrich
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
East Wind, West Wind
Author: Pearl Sydenstricker Buck
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559210867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pearl Buck tells the heart-seaching and tender story of a young Chinese girl's troubled acceptance of an alien way of life, with all its sorrows and rewards.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781559210867
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Pearl Buck tells the heart-seaching and tender story of a young Chinese girl's troubled acceptance of an alien way of life, with all its sorrows and rewards.