Rain Village

Author : Carolyn Turgeon
Publisher : Unbridled Books
ISBN 13 : 1609530268
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rain Village written by Carolyn Turgeon and published by Unbridled Books. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Tessa is a diminutive girl, far too small for farm work and the object of ridicule by both her own family and the other children in their isolated Midwestern community. Her father seems to believe in nothing beyond his crops, certainly not education for his misfit daughter. When a mysterious, entrancing librarian comes to town, full of fabulous stories, earthy wisdom and potions for the lovelorn, she takes Tessa under her wing, teaching her to read and to believe in herself—and a whole new magical world of possibilities opens up. But even as she blooms, Tessa’s father begins sexually abusing her. And her mentor carries a dark secret of her own that finally causes her to drown herself. Tessa runs off, following Mary’s footsteps, to join the circus as a trapeze artist, where she marries a loving man and finds a fulfilling life for herself amidst her new circus family. But she remains haunted by her past. And when a stranger from one of Mary’s fabulist tales shows up, Tessa risks everything to follow him to Rain Village, where she might finally discover her mentor’s tragic secret. A brilliantly evocative debut set in the early part of the 20th century, steeped in emotional turbulence and down-to-earth wisdom, where a young woman must reconcile the inner traumas from her past and learn to live in the present in order to avoid becoming prisoner to her future. Rain Village casts a fabulous spell, pulling us into a world of mystery and possibility where love, friendship and loyalty might either destroy or set one free.

Author : William Gordon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.9E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Influence of Strong, Prevalent, Rain-bearing Winds on the Prevalence of Phthisis written by William Gordon and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cynthia Barnett
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804137110
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rain written by Cynthia Barnett and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.

Author : Arthur H. Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Village Life in China written by Arthur H. Smith and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers from the Tortugas Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution of Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.9C/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Papers from the Department of Marine Biology of the Carnegie Institution of Washington written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Poona Sarvajanick sabha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quarterly journal of the Poona sarvajanik sabha, ed. by S.H. Chiplonkar written by Poona Sarvajanick sabha and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 758 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Survey written by and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Conway
Publisher : Frances Lincoln Childrens Books
ISBN 13 : 1845074076
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lila and the Secret of Rain written by David Conway and published by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the sun baking their Kenyan village for months and no rain sight, Lila learns the trick for making the rains come from her wise grandfather and so heads out to confront the sky in the hopes of saving everyone and everything in the land she loves.

Author : Paul Kollmann
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Victoria Nyanza written by Paul Kollmann and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lake Victoria (in the Bantu language, Victoria Nyanza), is the largest lake in Africa and the second largest body of fresh water in the world, surpassed only by Lake Superior in North America. The lake is crossed by the equator, and is the chief source of the Nile River. The first European to reach the lake was the British explorer John Hanning Speke in 1858, who named it after Britain's Queen Victoria. In 1890, at the height of the European scramble for colonies in Africa, Britain and Germany divided Lake Victoria at 1° south latitude, with the southern portion allotted to Germany, the northern portion to Britain. The Germans conducted extensive scientific surveys of the southern shores of the lake, for both research and strategic purposes. This book, an English translation of a study by a former officer of the Imperial Troops for German East Africa, Paul Kollmann, provides detailed information about the land and peoples living along the shores of the lake. A concluding section is devoted to the grammar, pronunciation, and vocabularies of the Karagwe (Nkole), Ussindja, Uha, Ki-Uganda, and Ki-Ukerewe languages and dialects. Today, Lake Victoria lies partly in Tanzania, in Uganda, and in Kenya.