The Last Loon

Author : Rebecca Upjohn
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 155469292X
Total Pages : 135 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Loon written by Rebecca Upjohn and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 135 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When city-boy Evan realizes that a loon is about to die in the midde of a fast-freezing lake near his aunt's cottage, he decides to rescue it, risking his own life in the process.

Author : Jack McLean
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 034551016X
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loon written by Jack McLean and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Kids like me didn’t go to Vietnam,” writes Jack McLean in his compulsively readable memoir. Raised in suburban New Jersey, he attended the Phillips Academy in Andover, MA, but decided to put college on hold. After graduation in the spring of 1966, faced with the mandatory military draft, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps for a two-year stint. “Vietnam at the time was a country, and not yet a war,” he writes. It didn’t remain that way for long. A year later, after boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, and stateside duty in Barstow, California, the Vietnam War was reaching its peak. McLean, like most available Marines, was retrained at Camp Pendleton, California, and sent to Vietnam as a grunt to serve in an infantry company in the northernmost reaches of South Vietnam. McLean’s story climaxes with the horrific three-day Battle for Landing Zone Loon in June, 1968. Fought on a remote hill in the northwestern corner of South Vietnam, McLean bore witness to the horror of war and was forever changed. He returned home six weeks later to a country largely ambivalent to his service. Written with honesty and insight, Loon is a powerful coming-of-age portrait of a boy who bears witness to some of the most tumultuous events in our history, both in Vietnam and back home.

Author : E.L. Doctorow
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 030776298X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loon Lake written by E.L. Doctorow and published by Random House. This book was released on 2010-09-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The hero of this dazzling novel by American master E. L. Doctorow is Joe, a young man on the run in the depths of the Great Depression. A late-summer night finds him alone and shivering beside a railroad track in the Adirondack mountains when a private railcar passes. Brightly lit windows reveal well-dressed men at a table and, in another compartment, a beautiful girl holding up a white dress before her naked form. Joe will follow the track to the mysterious estate at Loon Lake, where he finds the girl along with a tycoon, an aviatrix, a drunken poet, and a covey of gangsters. Here Joe’s fate will play out in this powerful story of ambition, aggression, and identity. Loon Lake is another stunning achievement of this acclaimed author. “Powerful . . . [a] complex and haunting meditation on modern American history.” –The New York Times “A genuine thriller . . . a marvelous exploration of the complexities and contradictions of the American dream . . . Not under any circumstances would we reveal the truly shattering climax.” –The Dallas Morning News “A dazzling performance . . . [Loon Lake] anatomizes America with insight, passion, and inventiveness.” –The Washington Post Book World “Hypnotic . . . tantalizes long after it has ended.” –Time “Compelling . . . brilliantly done.” –St. Louis Post-Dispatch “A masterpiece.” –Chicago Sun-Times

Author : Kathy-jo Wargin
Publisher : Sleeping Bear Press
ISBN 13 : 1627531815
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Legend of the Loon written by Kathy-jo Wargin and published by Sleeping Bear Press. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fantastic Legend team of Kathy-jo Wargin and Gijsbert van Frankenhuyzen have another beautiful book to add to the Sleeping Bear and Mackinac Island stories. A Grandmother's love for her grandchildren is magically portrayed in "The Legend of the Loon". A perfect addition to your collection, this book remains true to the heartwarming qualities you've come to expect from these legendary storytellers.

Author : James D. Paruk
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452963657
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loon Lessons written by James D. Paruk and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2021-06-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nature of the common loon, from biology to behavior, from one of the world’s foremost observers of the revered waterbird Even those who know the loon’s call might not recognize it as a tremolo, yodel, or wail, and may not understand what each call means, how it’s made, and why. And those who marvel at the loon’s diving prowess might wonder why this bird has such skill, or where loons go when they must leave northern lakes in winter. For these and so many other mysteries, Loon Lessons provides evolutionary and ecological explanations that are curious and compelling. Written by one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, the book is a compendium of knowledge about the common loon and an engaging record of scientific sleuthing, documenting more than twenty-five years of research into the great northern diver. James D. Paruk has observed and compared loons from Washington and Saskatchewan to the coasts of California and Louisiana, from high elevation deserts in Nevada to mountain lakes in Maine. Drawing on his extensive experience, a wealth of data, and well-established scientific principles, he considers every aspect of the loon, from its plumage and anatomy to its breeding, migration, and wintering strategies. Here, in the first detailed scientific account of the common loon in more than thirty years, Paruk describes its biology in an accessible and entertaining style that affords a deeper understanding of this beautiful and mysterious bird’s natural history and annual life cycle.

Author : Henry S. Sharp
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803293212
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loon written by Henry S. Sharp and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an unforgettable journey through the symbolic universe and daily life of the Chipewyan of Mission, his work uses the context and meaning of the loon encounter to show how spirits are an actual and almost omnipresent aspect of life.".

Author : Jean Heilprin Diehl
Publisher : Arbordale Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0976494388
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Loon Chase written by Jean Heilprin Diehl and published by Arbordale Publishing. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother and son enjoy a peaceful canoe trip until their dog's instinct to chase birds adds excitement to the trip. Includes information about loons and directions for making a loon mask.

Author : Laura Purdie Salas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681341583
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of the Loon written by Laura Purdie Salas and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrations and rhyming text follow a loon chick as she learns how to survive--and thrive--in her first year. Includes facts about loons.

Author : Molly Greene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780985511203
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mark of the Loon written by Molly Greene and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when a workaholic serial remodeler falls in love with an old stone cottage? If you're Madison Boone, you kick your budding romance with handsome Coleman Welles to the curb and lose yourself in a new project. Madison renovates property in addition to selling real estate. When she hears about a quaint stone house, she climbs in the window and falls in love. Good fortune allows her to purchase the property, but far more than a new home and lush gardens await discovery during this renovation. Madison works on the remodel and is drawn into an old love story with dangerous consequences. She unearths buried secrets and discovers herself in the process. Good thing her wise, hilarious friends advise her along the way! Mark of the Loon is a combination of history, mystery, and romance in a novel that explores deep friendship, choices and how individuals cope with loss.

Author : Van Reid
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 : 9780142003114
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Loon written by Van Reid and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2003-07-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set at the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, this delightful tale is penned by the author of the Moosepath League chronicles.