Creekfinding

Author : Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452969167
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creekfinding written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time a creek burbled up and tumbled across a prairie valley. It was filled with insects and brook trout that ate them, frogs that chirruped and birds watching for bugs and fish. This is a true story about a man named Mike who went looking for that creek long after it was buried under fields of corn. It is the story of how a creek can be brought back to life, and with it a whole world of nature. In the words of award-winning author Jacqueline Briggs Martin and the enchanting illustrations by Claudia McGehee, this heartening tale of an ecosystem restored in the Driftless Area of northeast Iowa unfolds in a way that will charm and inform young readers who are drawn to a good mystery, the wonders of nature—and, of course, big earth-moving machines.

Author : Jacqueline Briggs Martin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780816698028
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creekfinding written by Jacqueline Briggs Martin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time a creek burbled up and tumbled across a prairie valley. It was filled with insects and brook trout that ate them, frogs that chirruped and birds watching for bugs and fish. This is a true story about a man named Mike who went looking for that creek long after it was buried under fields of corn. It is the story of how a creek can be brought back to life, and with it a whole world of nature. In the words of award-winning author Jacqueline Briggs Martin and the enchanting illustrations by Claudia McGehee, this heartening tale of an ecosystem restored in the Driftless Area of northeast Iowa unfolds in a way that will charm and inform young readers who are drawn to a good mystery, the wonders of nature--and, of course, big earth-moving machines.

Author : Pam Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393077535
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cowboys Are My Weakness: Stories written by Pam Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exhilarating, like a swift ride through river rapids with a spunky, sexy gal handling the oars."—Washington Post Book World In Pam Houston's critically acclaimed collection of strong, shrewd, and very funny stories, we meet smart women who are looking for the love of a good man, and men who are wild and hard to pin down. "I've always had this thing for cowboys, maybe because I was born in New Jersey,” says the narrator in the collection’s title story. “But a real cowboy is hard to find these days, even in the West.” Our heroines are part daredevil, part philosopher, all acute observers of the nuances of modern romance. They go where their cowboys go, they meet cowboys who don't look the part – and they have staunch friends who give them advice when the going gets rough. Cowboys Are My Weakness is a refreshing and realistic look at men and women – together and apart.

Author : Pam Houston
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393285499
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country written by Pam Houston and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do we become who we are in the world? We ask the world to teach us." On her 120-acre homestead high in the Colorado Rockies, beloved writer Pam Houston learns what it means to care for a piece of land and the creatures on it. Elk calves and bluebirds mark the changing seasons, winter temperatures drop to 35 below, and lightning sparks a 110,000-acre wildfire, threatening her century-old barn and all its inhabitants. Through her travels from the Gulf of Mexico to Alaska, she explores what ties her to the earth, the ranch most of all. Alongside her devoted Irish wolfhounds and a spirited troupe of horses, donkeys, and Icelandic sheep, the ranch becomes Houston’s sanctuary, a place where she discovers how the natural world has mothered and healed her after a childhood of horrific parental abuse and neglect. In essays as lucid and invigorating as mountain air, Deep Creek delivers Houston’s most profound meditations yet on how "to live simultaneously inside the wonder and the grief…to love the damaged world and do what I can to help it thrive."

Author : J.R. Roberts
Publisher : Speaking Volumes
ISBN 13 : 1645400581
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Snakebite Creek written by J.R. Roberts and published by Speaking Volumes. This book was released on with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SNEAKY SNAKE Compared to most low-down curs, Henry Whiteoak isn't really a bad man. He just has a way of making people want to see him dangling from a noose—but only because he's cheated at cards, sold snake oil, and run every other con game under the sun. Clint Adams has saved Henry's hindquarters too many times to be sympathetic. But this time is different. Henry's just stumbled onto a scheme that could end with the poisoning of an entire town—and the man behind it wants him dead. But the Gunsmith might have something to say about that...

Author : Harry G. Enoch
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1329138589
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Martin of Lower Howard's Creek, Clark County, Kentucky written by Harry G. Enoch and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Martin was a pioneer of Clark County, Kentucky, where he lived on Lower Howard's Creek. John had been a blacksmith in Goochland County, Virginia, where he married Rachel Pace. He owned a small farm there before moving to Ballenger Creek in what is now Fluvanna County. John and Rachel were the parents of thirteen children. In the late 1780s, the parents and children moved to Kentucky. John settled on a hillside farm in an area then known as the Bush Settlement. John now has descendants too numerous to count, some still in Clark County, the others spread all over. Our John Martin has been confused with a number of other men of the same name, and their deeds have been conflated to create a mythical man. One goal of this work is to provide a fully documented history of the life of John Martin of Lower Howard's Creek. Illustrated, indexed.

Author : Nigel Burch
Publisher : BookPOD
ISBN 13 : 0987371398
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brandy Creek: How Beaconsfield Began Second Edition Volume II written by Nigel Burch and published by BookPOD. This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tasmania Reef was the richest gold discovery anywhere in Australia in the 1870s and 1880s, and Beaconsfield grew to become Tasmania’s third biggest town. In today’s money, some $3 Billion came out of Beaconsfield over the life of the Tasmania mine. This book is a first-hand account of the discovery of gold and how the town was established. The narrator is a composite of the writings of around a dozen miners who were there – and describes the mines, the people and the events of the early years, as Beaconsfield grew and changed from a tent city to become a proud, innovative and community-conscious urban society.

Author : Jill Gregory
Publisher : Dell
ISBN 13 : 0440237327
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thunder Creek written by Jill Gregory and published by Dell. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a place called thunder creek, two wary hearts are about to get a second chance at love. When Katy Templeton fled her small Wyoming town and its painful memories, she thought she’d said good-bye to Thunder Creek forever. But now the prodigal daughter has come home. Home to the relentless ghosts of the past. Home to Jackson Brent, the lean, hard cowboy with the lazy smile--and the last person on earth she ever wanted to lay eyes on again. Time and tragedy had come between them, but Jackson never forgot his best friend’s kid sister. The coltish beauty blossomed into a stunning woman, burned by love yet unafraid to take on the whole town to get justice for her family. Katy blames him for her beloved brother’s death, but as she digs for answers about that fateful day fourteen years earlier, there is someone ready to kill to keep her from getting them--and Jackson might be the only one who can save her. He wants her safe--and in his arms, but Katy can’t rest until she discovers the truth. Fighting her red-hot attraction to Jackson, Katy risks everything--even the yearnings of her own heart--to unravel the truth about her brother’s death.

Author : Liza Ketchum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517908041
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Begin with a Bee written by Liza Ketchum and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-18 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Begin with a Bee and its story of the life of one queen bee, a rusty-patched bumblebee, teaches us not only about bees but also about our own responsibilities in the natural world By looking closely at the life cycle of one bee, Begin with a Bee helps readers of all ages understand and appreciate the contributions and significance of all bees. The life cycle of the rusty-patched bumblebee is a tale of wonder, the adventure of one queen bee who carries an entire colony of bees inside her tiny body. Her story begins in the spring when she emerges from a hole in the ground to search for pollen. She finds a nest, "underground best," lays a few eggs, and seals them in pollen. All summer this single queen lays more eggs, and more worker bees hatch. They gather pollen and maintain the colony until next year's queen hatches in the fall. The queen bee's life unfolds through Claudia McGehee's captivating illustrations. The authors--three beloved and prolific writers of award-winning children's books--impart the poetry and basic science of the rusty-patched bumblebee, the first bee to appear on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Endangered Species list. Extensive commentary at the end of the book offers suggestions for being a friend to bees as well as a good citizen of the natural world. It also introduces the native plants that bumblebees need for survival. Begin with a Bee might inspire a child (or any of us) to seek out, identify, even cultivate these essential flowers--and participate in the next chapter in the story of all bumblebees.

Author : Meredith Hooper
Publisher : Candlewick Press
ISBN 13 : 1536221643
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book River Story written by Meredith Hooper and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2021-04-06 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A luscious blend of cool blues and verdant greens lights up the pages of this poetic picture book, which traces the course of a river from its source.” — Publishers Weekly Follow a river from its beginnings as a mountain stream formed from melting snow, as it rushes over rocks and through valleys to the busy city, and finally to its end, where it joins the sea.