Between Two Rivers

Author : Nicholas Rinaldi
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061873748
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Rivers written by Nicholas Rinaldi and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Farro Fescu is the proud and observant concierge of Echo Terrace, a condominium in New York City. Passing through his lobby at all hours is an exotic cross-section of the world's population: an Egyptian-born plastic surgeon who specializes in gender reassignment, a fighter pilot who flew for Nazi Germany during World War II, an Iraqi spice merchant and the world-famous quilter with whom he's having an affair, the adulterer's son who dreams of becoming an undertaker, and the widow whose apartment is a jungle Eden filled with a menagerie of specimens. Farro Fescu knows them all, knows all their secrets. Yet he does not know what is in his own heart -- why, after a long, hard life, he is still alive, and still alone. Nor does he know what he will be capable of in the face of sudden, overwhelming tragedy. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

Author : Harry Turtledove
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429914963
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between the Rivers written by Harry Turtledove and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-04-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the sun-drenched dawn of human history, in the great plain between the two great rivers, are the cities of men. And each city is ruled by its god. But the god of the city of Gibil is lazy and has let the men of his city develop the habit of thinking for themselves. Now the men of Gibil have begun to devise arithmetic, and commerce, and are sending expeditions to trade with other lands. They're starting to think that perhaps men needn't always be subject to the whims of gods. This has the other god worried. And well they might be...because human cleverness, once awakened, isn't likely to be easily squelched.

Author : Susan Cerulean
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Rivers written by Susan Cerulean and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tom Sleigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1555977960
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land Between Two Rivers written by Tom Sleigh and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These essays recount Tom Sleigh's experiences working as a journalist during several tours in Africa and in the Middle Eastern region once called Mesopotamia, "the land between two rivers." Sleigh asks three central questions: What did I see? How could I write about it? Why did I write about it? The first essays focus on the lives of refugees in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, Kenya, Somalia, and Iraq. Under the conditions of military occupation, famine, and war, their stories can be harrowing, even desperate. But unlike their depiction in mass media, their stories are often laced with an undeluded hopefulness. The second part of this book explores how writing might be capable of honoring the texture of these individuals' experiences while remaining faithful to political emotions, rather than political convictions. The final essays meditate on youth, restlessness, illness, and Sleigh's motivations for writing his own experiences in order to move out into the world."--Back cover.

Author : Gretchen M. Bataille
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Worlds Between Two Rivers written by Gretchen M. Bataille and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1978, this work reflected a range of views on Native Americans in Iowa: those of the Native Americans themselves, those of Euro-Americans, of lay people and professionals. This expanded edition reflects the recent changes encountered by Native American Indians in the region.

Author : Russell M. Lawson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472114115
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Land Between the Rivers written by Russell M. Lawson and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of Thomas Nuttall's near-death expedition up the Arkansas River in the early years of the nineteenth century

Author : Maurice Kenny
Publisher : White Pine Press (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Rivers written by Maurice Kenny and published by White Pine Press (NY). This book was released on 1987 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : T. Greenwood
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1496730275
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Two Rivers written by T. Greenwood and published by Kensington Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tammy Greenwood's haunting novel is the beautifully evoked story of a good man who has done a terrible thing, the events leading up to it, and the demons born from it. It is at once a love story set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and civil rights movement and an examination of the power of grief and the importance of forgiveness. In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife Betsy, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the local railroad and raising his daughter Shelly the best way he knows how. Still wracked with sorrow over the loss of his life-long love and plagued by his role in a brutal, long-ago crime, he wants only to make amends for his past mistakes. Then one fall day, a train derails in Two Rivers, and amid the wreckage Harper finds an unexpected chance for atonement. One of the survivors, a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl with mismatched eyes and skin the color of blackberries, needs a place to stay. Though filled with misgivings, Harper offers to take Maggie in. But it isn't long before he begins to suspect that Maggie's appearance in Two Rivers is not the simple case of happenstance it first appeared to be. "This novel is a sensitive and suspenseful portrayal of family and the ties that bind." --Lee Martin, author of The Bright Forever and River of Heaven "Greenwood is a writer of subtle strength, evoking small-town life beautifully while spreading out the map of Harper's life, finding light in the darkest of stories." --Publishers Weekly

Author : Isabel Shipley Cunningham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967454207
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Rivers written by Isabel Shipley Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Allan Carpenter
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Two Rivers written by Allan Carpenter and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1997 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume covers 150 years of Iowan history, from the days when there were no roads, to the conquest of the forests and prairies and the laying of towns and modern highways. The individuals whose adventures made the state are at the heart of each tale.