Drifting Home

Author : Jill Penrod
Publisher : Jill Penrod
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 111 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drifting Home written by Jill Penrod and published by Jill Penrod. This book was released on with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brenda Van der Haas’ parents left her with her cousin to spend some time in Europe, she didn’t expect them to be gone two years. And now that they’re back, calling her away from her cousin and her friends for senior year, Brenda is angry. But bold Brenda can’t stay angry for long, and pretty soon she’s gotten involved with people at work, people at church, and a mysterious guy who lives down the beach. It will take work to bring all the people in her life together, but if she does, she’ll change a lot of lives for the better and maybe find a special relationship or two for herself. God’s got something amazing planned, and Brenda is just the person to see his plans through. Drifting Home is book two of the Girls Aglow series, Christian romance and drama for teens. Companion series to the Boys of Summer books, they can be read alone, or find the boys and read them all.

Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926706560
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drifting Home written by Pierre Berton and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Canadian classic, by one of the country's beloved authors, is a personal journey through time and space to the heart of family and the soul of the Canadian experience. Drifting Home is an account of a journey by Pierre Berton and his family as they raft down the Yukon River from Lake Bennett, British Columbia, to Dawson in the Yukon Territory. It is a meditation on family and childhood and the small moments from which memories are drawn. It is also a tribute by a son to his father. During the Klondike summer of 1898, Francis George Berton paddled the waters of this historic river. Berton was one of the pioneering adventurers who sought his fortune in the goldfields of the north. When the gold rush ended and the crowds left, he stayed on in Dawson City, Yukon, as government mining recorder, married and started a family. It was there, in Canada's most famous ghost town, that Pierre Berton spent his vividly remembered childhood. Through a unique blending of nostalgia, his deep love of the land and his unrivalled knowledge of the history and the area, Pierre Berton has created this magical tale.

Author : Krys Lee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101571977
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drifting House written by Krys Lee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unflinching portrayal of the Korean immigrant experience from an extraordinary new talent in fiction. Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, Krys Lee's stunning fiction debut, Drifting House, illuminates a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present. In the title story, children escaping famine in North Korea are forced to make unthinkable sacrifices to survive. The tales set in America reveal the immigrants' unmoored existence, playing out in cramped apartments and Koreatown strip malls. A makeshift family is fractured when a shaman from the old country moves in next door. An abandoned wife enters into a fake marriage in order to find her kidnapped daughter. In the tradition of Chang-rae Lee's Native Speaker and Jhumpa Lahiri's Interpreter of Maladies, Drifting House is an unforgettable work by a gifted new writer.

Author : Krys Lee
Publisher : Penguin Books
ISBN 13 : 0143122932
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drifting House written by Krys Lee and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2012-12-24 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning Korea and the United States, from the postwar era to contemporary times, the stories presented in "Drifting House" illuminate a people torn between the traumas of their collective past and the indignities and sorrows of their present.

Author : Rachel Maddow
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307461009
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drift written by Rachel Maddow and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The #1 New York Times bestseller that charts America’s dangerous drift into a state of perpetual war. Written with bracing wit and intelligence, Rachel Maddow's Drift argues that we've drifted away from America's original ideals and become a nation weirdly at peace with perpetual war. To understand how we've arrived at such a dangerous place, Maddow takes us from the Vietnam War to today's war in Afghanistan, along the way exploring Reagan's radical presidency, the disturbing rise of executive authority, the gradual outsourcing of our war-making capabilities to private companies, the plummeting percentage of American families whose children fight our constant wars for us, and even the changing fortunes of G.I. Joe. Ultimately, she shows us just how much we stand to lose by allowing the scope of American military power to overpower our political discourse. Sensible yet provocative, dead serious yet seri­ously funny, Drift reinvigorates a "loud and jangly" political debate about our vast and confounding national security state.

Author : Dale Peck
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 159990005X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Drift House written by Dale Peck and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sent to stay with their uncle in a ship-like home called Drift House, twelve-year-old Susan and her stepbrothers embark on an adventure involving duplicitous mermaids, pirates, and an attempt to stop time forever.

Author : Taku Kuwabara
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 1646592263
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drifting Dragons written by Taku Kuwabara and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drifting through the skies, the Quin Zaza anchors at one of the world's largest hubs, Harley. There, Mika reunites with an old friend, Cujo. Though they used be draking partners once upon a time, the two bitterly parted ways after a certain incident drove a wedge between them. After a long night of reminiscing, Cujo enlists Mika to help him take down a dragon...the famous "Ol' Harpoon" Cujo failed to finish off three years ago. And so, the old duo take to the skies for one last catch!

Author : Taku Kuwabara
Publisher : Kodansha America LLC
ISBN 13 : 1646592816
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drifting Dragons written by Taku Kuwabara and published by Kodansha America LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adrift in search of more profit and tasty morsels, the Quin Zaza touches down in the bustling commercial town of Majuro. There, Mika has a run-in with Captain Kurga, head of the infamous "Slayers". Unlike the Quin Zaza, the Slayers are hired killers who hunt down dragons by any means necessary, no matter how cruel or vicious. Mika and Kurga... When the two men with opposite ideologies come head to head, skies know what'll happen!

Author : Namwali Serpell
Publisher : Hogarth Press
ISBN 13 : 1101907142
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Drift written by Namwali Serpell and published by Hogarth Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A dazzling debut, establishing Namwali Serpell as a writer on the world stage."--Salman Rushdie, The New York Times Book Review Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize - "Clear-eyed, energetic and richly entertaining."--The Washington Post NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review - Time - Tordotcom - Kirkus Reviews - BookPage 1904. On the banks of the Zambezi River, a few miles from the majestic Victoria Falls, there is a colonial settlement called The Old Drift. In a smoky room at the hotel across the river, an Old Drifter named Percy M. Clark, foggy with fever, makes a mistake that entangles the fates of an Italian hotelier and an African busboy. This sets off a cycle of unwitting retribution between three Zambian families (black, white, brown) as they collide and converge over the course of the century, into the present and beyond. As the generations pass, their lives--their triumphs, errors, losses and hopes--emerge through a panorama of history, fairytale, romance and science fiction. From a woman covered with hair and another plagued with endless tears, to forbidden love affairs and fiery political ones, to homegrown technological marvels like Afronauts, microdrones and viral vaccines, this gripping, unforgettable novel is a testament to our yearning to create and cross borders, and a meditation on the slow, grand passage of time. Praise for The Old Drift "An intimate, brainy, gleaming epic . . . This is a dazzling book, as ambitious as any first novel published this decade."--Dwight Garner, The New York Times "A founding epic in the vein of Virgil's Aeneid . . . though in its sprawling size, its flavor of picaresque comedy and its fusion of family lore with national politics it more resembles Salman Rushdie's Midnight's Children."--The Wall Street Journal "A story that intertwines strangers into families, which we'll follow for a century, magic into everyday moments, and the story of a nation, Zambia."--NPR

Author : St. George Rathborne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3368336584
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The House Boat Boys; Or, Drifting Down to the Sunny South written by St. George Rathborne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-01-26 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.