Shiners

Author : Amy Jo Burns
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525533656
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiner written by Amy Jo Burns and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2020 BY NPR “Amy Jo Burns writes a version of Appalachia that is one step removed from magic – all strychnine and moonshine and powerful wonder.”—NPR “[A] wrenching testament, told in language as incandescent as smoldering coal. . . This is not a despairing book, but a hopeful one, of Appalachian women taking back their life stories.” —New York Times Book Review On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs-and one young girl must defy her father to survive. An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend. Every Sunday, Wren's father delivers winding sermons in an abandoned gas station, where he takes up serpents and praises the Lord for his blighted white eye, proof of his divinity and key to the hold he has over the community, over Wren and her mother. But over the course of one summer, a miracle performed by Wren's father quickly turns to tragedy. As the order of her world begins to shatter, Wren must uncover the truth of her father's mysterious legend and her mother's harrowing history and complex bond with her best friend. And with that newfound knowledge, Wren can imagine a different future for herself than she has been told to expect. Rich with epic love and epic loss, and diving deep into a world that is often forgotten but still part of America, Shiner reveals the hidden story behind two generations' worth of Appalachian heartbreak and resolve. Amy Jo Burns brings us a smoldering, taut debut novel about modern female myth-making in a land of men-and one young girl who must ultimately open her eyes.

Author : Amy Jo Burns
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807052272
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cinderland written by Amy Jo Burns and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2015-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting literary debut about the cost of keeping quiet Amy Jo Burns grew up in Mercury, Pennsylvania, an industrial town humbled by the steel collapse of the 1980s. Instead of the construction booms and twelve-hour shifts her parents’ generation had known, the Mercury Amy Jo knew was marred by empty houses, old strip mines, and vacant lots. It wasn’t quite a ghost town—only because many people had no choice but to stay. The year Burns turned ten, this sleepy town suddenly woke up. Howard Lotte, its beloved piano teacher, was accused of sexually assaulting his female students. Among the countless girls questioned, only seven came forward. For telling the truth, the town ostracized these girls and accused them of trying to smear a good man’s reputation. As for the remaining girls—well, they were smarter. They lied. Burns was one of them. But such a lie has its own consequences. Against a backdrop of fire and steel, shame and redemption, Burns tells of the boys she ran from and toward, the friends she abandoned, and the endless performances she gave to please a town that never trusted girls in the first place. This is the story of growing up in a town that both worshipped and sacrificed its youth—a town that believed being a good girl meant being a quiet one—and the long road Burns took toward forgiving her ten-year-old self. Cinderland is an elegy to that young girl’s innocence, as well as a praise song to the curative powers of breaking a long silence.

Author : John T. Biggs
Publisher : Oghma Creative Media
ISBN 13 : 1633738795
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiners written by John T. Biggs and published by Oghma Creative Media. This book was released on 2024-06-18 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mother is struck by lightning in the early stages of pregnancy, is it any wonder her child is a little strange? Glenna Anoli is a beautiful teenage girl who hardly ever talks, and when she does, it’s mostly to companions only she can see. She calls them Shiners. People think it’s all in her head, but they’re more real than anyone could imagine. They come to Glenna’s aid whenever she’s in trouble. And she’s in trouble a lot. Predators are drawn to her as moths to a flame, but lightning has a tendency to strike those who seek to do her harm. It’s a mystery, but one that makes her that much more alluring to the good and the evil alike. When Glenna finds herself entangled with a drug-addicted preacher who believes she holds the key to an ancient prophecy, her journey takes her from the red dirt of Oklahoma to the beating green heart of the Amazon rainforest. Friendship, love, and a powerful connection to the native Gurani people await her there, along with a mystery of near Biblical proportions. Together with her loyal Shiners, she uncovers long-buried secrets, dispels the darkness of a decades-old murder, and reclaims stolen land. Transformed from a mysterious young woman to a deity revered by the Gurani, and ultimately, an internet sensation, she becomes a beacon of hope in the digital age.Prepare to be spellbound by a tale of magic, mystery, and the enduring power of the human spirit in the most unexpected of places.

Author : LaRue Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Food of Alewives, Yellow Perch, Spottail Shiners, Trout-perch, and Slimy and Fourhorn Sculpins in Southeastern Lake Michigan written by LaRue Wells and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stomachs of 1,064 alewives, 1,103 yellow perch, 246 spottail shiners, 288 trout-perch, 454 slimy sculpins, and 562 fourhorn sculpins from Lake Michigan were examined for food contents. Fish were sampled primarily from March to November and nearly all were caught at the bottom in the southeastern part of the lake near Saugatuck, Michigan. Pontoporeia was the most commonly reprented food item in the stomach contents of the fish examined, with immature midges, Mysis (a type of freshwater shrimp), copepods, cladocerans, fingernail clams and crayfish also being represented. Different species consumed different proportions of foods. Zooplankton was the principle food of alewives and spottail shiners, but was also consumed in small quantities by yellow perch and trout perch. Mysis was important to fourhorn sculpins, in addition to Pontoporeia. Immature midges were a major portion of spottail shiners and trout perch, also being consumed by alewives. Fish were often the most important food of yellow perch in the largest size category. Crayfish were a sizable portion of the diet of yellow perch on rocky bottoms, but sparingly on smooth bottoms. Spottail shiners also ate substantial numbers of fingernail clams.

Author : Lewis Shiner
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312267438
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Glimpses written by Lewis Shiner and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-03-12 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in the ruins of the idealistic 1960s, Ray Shackleford, a veteran of failed garage bands, works as a repairman and tends to his dying marriage. When he finds the music of his dreams has been mysteriously recorded, Ray is drawn to the past to revisit the histories of Hendrix, Morrison, the Beatles--along with his own history.

Author : LaRue Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life History of the Spottail Shiner (Notropis Hudsonius) in Southeastern Lake Michigan, the Kalamazoo River, and Western Lake Erie written by LaRue Wells and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spottail shiners (Notropis hudsonius) were sampled from portions of Lake Michigan, the Kalamazoo River, and Lake Erie to determine ages, growth rate, sex ratios and life history information.

Author : Scott A. Gritters
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.6O/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Status of the Weed Shiner (Notropic Texanus) in Pool 13 of the Upper Mississippi River System written by Scott A. Gritters and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R. Gordon Zyne
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595137199
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shiners written by R. Gordon Zyne and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-10 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carolyn Todd is the young, self-assured vice president of the Jacobsen Institute, a biotechnology research organization in New York City. Her mentor is the brilliant Dr. Dan Jacobsen. Dan calls her, a real shiner—bright, attractive, but prone to getting burned. Carolyn is plagued by poor eyesight and her vision always seems to be fuzzy and a little out of focus. Her world is full of illusions and mirages, especially when it comes to men. She loves hot-tempered, heavy-drinking Eric Wheeler, a high-powered city commissioner, but she also dreams about Michael, Eric’s sensitive and caring brother. She looks at the two brothers and wants to meld them into one person: Michael, the gentle intellectual and Eric, the passionate lover. And then there’s Buck Ryan the charming college professor whom Carolyn toys with. But when Nicky Wheeler enters the picture all hell breaks loose and Carolyn is forced to see all her men in a new light.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Field & Stream written by and published by . This book was released on 1972-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: FIELD & STREAM, America’s largest outdoor sports magazine, celebrates the outdoor experience with great stories, compelling photography, and sound advice while honoring the traditions hunters and fishermen have passed down for generations.

Author : Mark E. Eberle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fishes of the Central United States written by Mark E. Eberle and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The quality of the 163 color drawings is so astonishing technically and aesthetically superior to photographs - that it's a shame that it confines itself to those species most likely to be caught for fun by sportsmen.