Desert Memories

Author : Ariel Dorfman
Publisher : Disney Electronic Content
ISBN 13 : 1426209029
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Memories written by Ariel Dorfman and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norte Grande of Chile, the world's driest desert, had ''engendered contemporary Chile, everything that was good about it, everything that was dreadful,'' writes Ariel Dorfman in his brilliant exploration of one of the least known and most exotic corners of the globe. For 10,000 years the desert had been mined for silver, iron, and copper, but it was the 19th-century discovery of nitrate that transformed the country into a modern state and forced the desert's colonization. The mines' riches generated mansions and oligarchs in Chile's more temperate region—and terrible inequalities throughout the country. The Norte Grande also gave birth to the first Chilean democratic and socialist movements, nurturing every major political figure of modern Chile from Salvador Allende to Augusto Pinochet. In this richly layered personal memoir, illustrated with the author's own photographs, Dorfman sets out to explore the origins of contemporary Chile—and, along the way, seek out his wife's European ancestors who came years ago to Chile as part of the nitrate rush. And, most poignantly, he looks for traces of his friend and fellow 1960s activist, Freddy Taberna, executed by a firing squad in a remote Pinochet death camp.

Author : Desert Sun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781932129014
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Memories written by Desert Sun and published by . This book was released on 2002-12-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Annie Connole
Publisher : Chin Music Press
ISBN 13 : 1634050266
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Spring written by Annie Connole and published by Chin Music Press. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traversing the wild landscapes of the American West, prose and photography combine to create a lucid, dream-like vision of visitations and allegorical animal encounters with Snake, Owl, and Dragonfly, among others. The Spring tells a stirring, elegiac tale of death, love, rebirth, survival, and resilience.

Author : Chris McCormick
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1250075513
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Desert Boys written by Chris McCormick and published by Picador. This book was released on 2016-05-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Stonewall Book Award/Barbara Gittings Literature Award Finalist for the Binghamton University’s John Gardner Fiction Book Award Finalist for the Saroyan Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Chautauqua Prize "Hilarious, Devious, Original, and Unforgettable."—Karen Russell A vivid and assured work of fiction, from a major new voice, following the life of a young man growing up, leaving home, and coming back again, marked by the start beauty of California's Mojave Desert and the various fates of those who leave and those who stay behind. This series of powerful, intertwining stories illuminates Daley Kushner's world - the family, friends and community that have both formed and constrained him, and his new life in San Francisco. Back home, the desert preys on those who cannot conform: an alfalfa farmer on the outskirts of town; two young girls whose curiosity leads to danger; a black politician who once served as his school's confederate mascot; Daley's mother, an immigrant from Armenia; and Daley himself, introspective and queer. Meanwhile, in another desert on the other side of the world, war threatens to fracture Daley's most meaningful - and most fraught - connection to home, his friendship with Robert Karinger. A luminous debut, Desert Boys by Chris McCormick traces the development of towns into cities, of boys into men, and the haunting effects produced when the two transformations overlap. Both a bildungsroman and a portrait of a changing place, the book mines the terrain between the desire to escape and the hunger to belong.

Author : Natl League Nursing
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1449668496
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Review Guide for RN Pre-Entrance Exam written by Natl League Nursing and published by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. This book was released on 2008-09-24 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Review Guide for NLN-RN Pre-Entrance Exam, Third Edition provides an overview of the math, science, and reading comprehension skills necessary for admission to AD and BS programs in nursing. This best-selling study guide includes review questions and practice exams in each of the three test areas: math, science, and reading comprehension. Also includes helpful tips for test preparation and for becoming a more effective learner and test taker.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 822 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Music Review and Church Music Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 822 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Gifford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quarterly Review written by William Gifford and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia B. Acree
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1574883704
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gulf Between Us written by Cynthia B. Acree and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The compelling true story of Col. Cliff Acree and Cynthia Acree, two high school sweethearts whose lives were torn apart by the Gulf War.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book 1998 The Year In Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ray Gonz‡lez
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816520114
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Memory Fever written by Ray Gonz‡lez and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For poet Ray Gonzalez, growing up in El Paso during the 1960s was a time of loneliness and vulnerability. He encountered discrimination in high school not only for being Latino but also for being a non-athlete in a school where sports were important. Like many young people, he found diversion in music; unlike most, he found solace in the desert. In these vignettes, Gonzalez shares memories of boyhood that tell how he discovered the natural world and his creative spirit. Through 29 storylike essays, he takes readers into the heart of the desert and the soul of a developing poet. Gonzalez introduces us to the people who shaped his life. We learn of his father's difficulties with running a pool hall and of his grandmother's steadfast religious faith. We meet sinister Texas Rangers, hallucinatory poets, illegal aliens, and racist high school jocks. His vivid recollections embrace lizard hunts and rattlesnake dreams, rock music and menudo making—all in stories that convey the pains and joys of growing up on the border. As Gonzalez leads us through his desert of hope and vision, we come to recognize the humor and sadness that permeate this special place.