Red Weather A Novel

Author : Pauls Toutonghi
Publisher : Broadway Books
ISBN 13 : 030733676X
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Weather: A Novel written by Pauls Toutonghi and published by Broadway Books. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written coming-of-age novel, a Latvian-American teenager living in downtown Milwaukee with his immigrant parents during the late 1980s experiences adolescent growing pains while he tries to become a typical American teenager.

Author : Liza Klaussmann
Publisher : Little, Brown
ISBN 13 : 0316211346
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tigers in Red Weather written by Liza Klaussmann and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2012-07-17 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Janet McAdams
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
ISBN 13 : 0816520356
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( 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 2012-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This trip wasnÕt 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 na•ve, foolish in their belief that anything could change. They had tried to save a generation. If she couldnÕt save them, she might find a way to finish their story. Ê Neva Greene is seeking answers. Ê The daughter of American Indian activists, Neva hasnÕt 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. Ê Determined to solve the mystery of her parentsÕ disappearance, Neva finds work teaching English in the capital city of tiny Coatepeque, a country torn by its governmentÕs 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. Ê 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,Ê 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 : Pauls Toutonghi
Publisher : Topeka Bindery
ISBN 13 : 9781417823536
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Red Weather written by Pauls Toutonghi and published by Topeka Bindery. This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this beautifully written coming-of-age novel, a Latvian-American teenager living in downtown Milwaukee with his immigrant parents during the late 1980s experiences adolescent growing pains while he tries to become a typical American teenager.

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 : Pan MacMillan
ISBN 13 : 9781447231066
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tigers in Red Weather written by Liza Klaussmann and published by Pan MacMillan. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paulette Jiles
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061752886
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stormy Weather written by Paulette Jiles and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Paulette Jiles, the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of Enemy Women, comes a poignant and unforgettable story of hardship, sacrifice, and strength in a tragic time—and of a desperate dream born of an undying faith in the arrival of a better day Oil is king of East Texas during the darkest years of the Great Depression. The Stoddard girls—responsible Mayme, whip-smart tomboy Jeanine, and bookish Bea—know no life but an itinerant one, trailing their father from town to town as he searches for work on the pipelines and derricks; that is, when he's not spending his meager earnings at gambling joints, race tracks, and dance halls. And in every small town in which the windblown family settles, mother Elizabeth does her level best to make each sparse, temporary house they inhabit a home. But the fall of 1937 ushers in a year of devastating drought and dust storms, and the family's fortunes sink further than they ever anticipated when a questionable "accident" leaves Elizabeth and her girls alone to confront the cruelest hardships of these hardest of times. With no choice left to them, they return to the abandoned family farm. It is Jeanine, proud and stubborn, who single-mindedly devotes herself to rebuilding the farm and their lives. But hard work and good intentions won't make ends meet or pay the back taxes they owe on their land. In desperation, the Stoddard women place their last hopes for salvation in a wildcat oil well that eats up what little they have left . . . and on the back of late patriarch Jack's one true legacy, a dangerous racehorse named Smoky Joe. And Jeanine, the fatherless "daddy's girl," must decide if she will gamble it all . . . on love.

Author : Edmund Lester Pearson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Books in Black Or Red written by Edmund Lester Pearson and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Liza Klaussmann
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1447212061
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tigers in Red Weather written by Liza Klaussmann and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Richard and Judy Book Club Pick! The award-winning Tigers in Red Weather is a book that simmers with tension, threat and an intoxicating cocktail of money, sex, heat, boredom and beauty. Utterly intriguing, it's the perfect summer read. 'Immensely gripping' – Sunday Times Liza Klaussmann's Tigers in Red Weather tells the story of Nick and her cousin Helena who have grown up together, sharing long hot summers at Tiger House. With husbands and children of their own, they keep returning. But against a background of parties, cocktails, moonlight and jazz, how long can perfection last? There is always the summer that changes everything . . . 'Tragedy, betrayal and passion . . . A riveting, intelligent read' – Stylist 'Heady, page-turning stuff' – Guardian

Author : R. J. R. Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elementary Hand-book of the Red Karen Language written by R. J. R. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: