Red Weather

Author : Pauls Toutonghi
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307381552
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Weather written by Pauls Toutonghi and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The setting is Milwaukee, Wisconsin—if not America’s heart, then at least its liver—home to an array of breweries and abandoned factories and down-on-their-luck Eastern European immigrants. The year is 1989. Revolutions are sweeping through the nations of the Eastern Bloc. Communism is unraveling. And nobody feels this unraveling more piquantly than Yuri Balodis—a fifteen-year-old first-generation American living with his Latvian-immigrant parents in Milwaukee’s Third Ward. It’s a turbulent time. And when Yuri falls in love with Hannah Graham—the daring daughter of a prominent local socialist—chaos ensues. Within weeks, Yuri is ensnared by both Hannah and socialism. He joins the staff of the Socialist Worker. He starts quoting Lenin and Marx indiscriminately. His parents, of course, are horrified and deeply saddened. They try to educate him, to show him why, in their opinion, communism has ruined so many lives. But Yuri is stubborn. And his ideological betrayal will have more serious consequences than breaking his parents’ hearts. Red Weather is by turns funny and bittersweet, tinged with a rueful comic sense that will instantly remind you of the absurd complications of love. Pauls Toutonghi’s stunning debut novel is at once reminiscent of Michael Chabon’s The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner.

Author : Janet McAdams
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816599637
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Weather written by Janet McAdams and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trip wasn’t about her, her need to escape. She had been too young when it happened. Too young to understand what could be worth risking everything for. Even now they seemed naïve, foolish in their belief that anything could change. They had tried to save a generation. If she couldn’t save them, she might find a way to finish their story. Neva Greene is seeking answers. The daughter of American Indian activists, Neva hasn’t seen or heard from her parents since they vanished a decade earlier, after planning an act of resistance that went terribly wrong. Discovering a long-overlooked clue to their disappearance, Neva follows their trail to Central America, leaving behind an uncaring husband, an estranged brother, and a life of lukewarm commitments. Determined to solve the mystery of her parents’ disappearance, Neva finds work teaching English in the capital city of tiny Coatepeque, a country torn by its government’s escalating war on its Indigenous population. As the violence and political unrest grow around her, Neva meets a man whose tenderness toward her seems to contradict his shadowy political connections. Against the backdrop of Central American politics, this suspenseful first novel from award-winning poet Janet McAdams explores an important chapter in American Indian history. Through finely drawn, compelling characters and lucidly beautiful prose, Red Weather explores the journey from loss to possibility, from the secrets of the past to the longings of the present.

Author : Ruth Padel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 080271854X
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tigers In Red Weather written by Ruth Padel and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poet, writer, and descendant of Charles Darwin, Ruth Padel set out to visit a tropical jungle and wildlife sanctuary in India-- and her visit turned into a remarkable two-year journey through eleven countries in search of that most elusive and most beautiful animal: the tiger. Armed with her grandmother's opera glasses and Tunisian running shoes, she set off across Asia to ask the question: can the tiger be saved from extinction in the wild? Tigers are an "umbrella species", they need everything in the forest to work in tandem: they eat deer, the deer need vegetation, the vegetation has to be pollinated by birds, mammals, rodents and butterflies. If you save the tiger, you save everything else. Today, the 5,000 tigers that still survive in the wild live only in Asia and are scattered throughout 14 countries. Padel says that while tigers will never become extinct-they are too popular for that-they may disappear from the wild. There are as many tigers in cages in the US as there are surviving tigers in the wild. As she travels she meets the defenders of the wild-the heroic scientists, forest guards and conservationists at the frontline, fighting to save tigers and their forests from destruction in the places where poverty threatens to wipe out all wildlife. She also examines her fascination (both as a poet and as the great-great-granddaughter of Charles Darwin) with nature, wildness and survival and in the end, becomes a knowledgeable advocate for the tiger. The result is a beautiful blend of natural history, travel literature and memoir, and a searing, intimate portrait of an animal we have loved and feared almost to extinction.

Author : Liza Klaussmann
Publisher : Bond Street Books
ISBN 13 : 0385677499
Total Pages : 331 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tigers in Red Weather written by Liza Klaussmann and published by Bond Street Books. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summer seemed to arrive at that moment, with its mysterious mixture of salt, cold flesh and fuel. Nick and her cousin, Helena, have grown up sharing sultry summer heat, sunbleached boat docks, and midnight gin parties on Martha's Vineyard in a glorious old family estate known as Tiger House. In the days following the end of the Second World War, the world seems to offer itself up, and the two women are on the cusp of their 'real lives': Helena is off to Hollywood and a new marriage, while Nick is heading for a reunion with her own young husband, Hughes, about to return from the war. Soon the gilt begins to crack. Helena's husband is not the man he seemed to be, and Hughes has returned from the war distant, his inner light curtained over. On the brink of the 1960s, back at Tiger House, Nick and Helena--with their children, Daisy and Ed--try to recapture that sense of possibility. But when Daisy and Ed discover the victim of a brutal murder, the intrusion of violence causes everything to unravel. The members of the family spin out of their prescribed orbits, secrets come to light, and nothing about their lives will ever be the same. Brilliantly told from five points of view, with a magical elegance and suspenseful dark longing, Tigers in Red Weather is an unforgettable debut novel from a writer of extraordinary insight and accomplishment.

Author : Charles Swainson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Handbook of Weather Folk-Lore: Being a Collection of Proverbial Sayings in Various Languages Relating to the Weather, with Explanatory and Illustrative Notes written by Charles Swainson and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Weather Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 504 pages
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Author : Margaret Colby Getchell Parsons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book Red Letter Day Plays written by Margaret Colby Getchell Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Red Polled Cattle Club of America
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 674 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Red Polled Herd Book of Cattle Descended from the Norfolk & Suffolk Red Polled written by Red Polled Cattle Club of America and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Helm Clayton
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 454 pages
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Download or read book World Weather written by Henry Helm Clayton and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: