Waiting For The Morning Train

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814318850
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting for the Morning Train written by Bruce Catton and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The celebrated writer reminisces about his boyhood in Michigan at the turn of the century.

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780385191838
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Starry Christmas Night written by Bruce Catton and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James McCommons
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603582592
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting on a Train written by James McCommons and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2009-11-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the tumultuous year of 2008--when gas prices reached $4 a gallon, Amtrak set ridership records, and a commuter train collided with a freight train in California--journalist James McCommons spent a year on America's trains, talking to the people who ride and work the rails throughout much of the Amtrak system. Organized around these rail journeys, Waiting on a Train is equal parts travel narrative, personal memoir, and investigative journalism. Readers meet the historians, railroad executives, transportation officials, politicians, government regulators, railroad lobbyists, and passenger-rail advocates who are rallying around a simple question: Why has the greatest railroad nation in the world turned its back on the very form of transportation that made modern life and mobility possible? Distrust of railroads in the nineteenth century, overregulation in the twentieth, and heavy government subsidies for airports and roads have left the country with a skeletal intercity passenger-rail system. Amtrak has endured for decades, and yet failed to prosper owing to a lack of political and financial support and an uneasy relationship with the big, remaining railroads. While riding the rails, McCommons explores how the country may move passenger rail forward in America--and what role government should play in creating and funding mass-transportation systems. Against the backdrop of the nation's stimulus program, he explores what it will take to build high-speed trains and transportation networks, and when the promise of rail will be realized in America.

Author : Greil Marcus
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 110166164X
Total Pages : 1525 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mystery Train written by Greil Marcus and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-03-25 with total page 1525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now Available as an eBook Catch a train to the heart of rock ‘n’ roll with this essential study of the quintessential American art form. First published in 1975, Greil Marcus’ Mystery Train remains a benchmark study of rock ‘n’ roll and a classic in the field of music criticism. Focusing on six key artists--Robert Johnson, Harmonica Frank, Randy Newman, the Band, Sly Stone, and Elvis Presley--Marcus explores the evolution and impact of rock ‘n’ roll and its unique place in American culture. This sixth edition of Mystery Train includes an updated and rewritten Notes and Discographies section, exploring the evolution and continuing impact of the recordings featured in the book.

Author : Alice Walker
Publisher : The New Press
ISBN 13 : 1595585893
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting for written by Alice Walker and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2007-11-06 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times bestseller in hardcover, Pulitzer Prize winner Alice Walker’s We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For was called “stunningly insightful” and “a book that will inspire hope” by Publishers Weekly. Drawing equally on Walker’s spiritual grounding and her progressive political convictions, each chapter concludes with a recommended meditation to teach us patience, compassion, and forgiveness. We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For takes on some of the greatest challenges of our times and in it Walker encourages readers to take faith in the fact that, despite the daunting predicaments we find ourselves in, we are uniquely prepared to create positive change. The hardcover edition of We Are the Ones We Have Been Waiting For included a national tour that saw standing-room–only crowds and standing ovations. Walker’s clear vision and calm meditative voice—truly “a light in darkness”—has struck a deep chord among a large and devoted readership.

Author : Monica Brown
Publisher : Tricycle Press
ISBN 13 : 0385374550
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting for the Biblioburro written by Monica Brown and published by Tricycle Press. This book was released on 2013-04-24 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ana loves stories. She often makes them up to help her little brother fall asleep. But in her small village there are only a few books and she has read them all. One morning, Ana wakes up to the clip-clop of hooves, and there before her, is the most wonderful sight: a traveling library resting on the backs of two burros‑all the books a little girl could dream of, with enough stories to encourage her to create one of her own. Inspired by the heroic efforts of real-life librarian Luis Soriano, award-winning picture book creators Monica Brown and John Parra introduce readers to the mobile library that journeys over mountains and through valleys to bring literacy and culture to rural Colombia, and to the children who wait for the BiblioBurro. A portion of the proceeds from sales of this book was donated to Luis Soriano's BiblioBurro program.

Author : Bruce Catton
Publisher : New Word City
ISBN 13 : 1640190155
Total Pages : 435 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bruce Catton's America written by Bruce Catton and published by New Word City. This book was released on 2017-02-08 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one has ever told America's story with more grace, clarity, and emotional power than Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Catton. In his books, ranging from the celebrated Civil War trilogies to the account of his boyhood in back-country Michigan, Catton brought the people of the past to such vivid life that he became the nation's best-loved and most widely read historian. Bruce Catton's friend and associate for many years, Oliver Jensen, has assembled this volume of selections of Catton's works - as a memorial to the man and a tribute to the historian. The excerpts chosen for Bruce Catton's America include portions of A Stillness at Appomattox, which won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; The American Heritage History of the Civil War, awarded a special Pulitzer Prize Citation; and representative selections from many other books and articles. The book also includes several previously unpublished pieces. Bruce Catton helped to create American Heritage magazine in 1954 and continued to influence it for the next twenty-four years - first as editor, then as senior editor and a frequent contributor. He spent much of his adult life as a newspaperman in the Midwest and Washington, D.C., and became a historian "by logical extension." Although best known as the greatest writer on the Civil War, he had wide-ranging interests. To those who are familiar with Bruce Catton's work, these selections will appear as old friends whose company never fails to provide enjoyment, stimulation, and a deep sense of worth. For those who have not yet read him, Bruce Catton's America will be an introduction to historical writing at its best.

Author : Ruskin Bond
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 8184754485
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rusty and the Leopard written by Ruskin Bond and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A chronicle of Rusty’s rebellious, eventful progression into manhood. Rusty, having run away from his guardian’s home, is now trying to define his identity as he lives with the Kapoor family, tutoring their son Kishen and occupying the room on the roof. Soon, he becomes close to Kishen and, in the company of Meena Kapoor, begins to come into his own as an individual. Then tragedy strikes—Meena’s death evastates Rusty, and he leaves Dehra. Rusty and Kishen take to the open road, and their adventures accumulate as they tramp through the Doon valley and the Garhwal hills. Full of incident as well as introspection, this is a book older children will thoroughly enjoy.

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Publisher : David Muncaster
ISBN 13 : 1840946164
Total Pages : 21 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting for a Train written by and published by David Muncaster. This book was released on with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Scheer (III)
Publisher : Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Booked on the Morning Train written by George Scheer (III) and published by Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill. This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a month and a half on the rails on Amtrak, following the routes of famous American trains--from the heat and torpor of New Orleans to the ice and snow of Montana, from New York to San Francisco, and all points in between.