A Story that Stands Like a Dam
Author | : Russell Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Russell Martin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
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Author | : Russell Martin |
Publisher | : |
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Release | : 1992-12-01 |
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ISBN | : 9780517095751 |
Author | : David Almond |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 2021-06-15 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1536221023 |
A haunting, stunningly illustrated story of loss, hope, and the power of music from multi-award winners David Almond and Levi Pinfold. Kielder Water is a wild and beautiful place, rich in folk music and legend. Years ago, before a great dam was built to fill the valley with water, there were farms and homesteads in that valley and musicians who livened their rooms with song. After the village was abandoned and before the waters rushed in, a father and daughter returned there. The girl began to play her fiddle, bringing her tune to one empty house after another — for this was the last time that music would be heard in that place. With exquisite artwork by Levi Pinfold, David Almond’s lyrical narrative — inspired by a true tale — pays homage to his friends Mike and Kathryn Tickell and all the musicians of Northumberland, to show that music is ancient and unstoppable, and that dams and lakes cannot overwhelm it.
Author | : Kevin Fedarko |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2014-07 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1439159866 |
The epic story of the fastest boat ride in history, on a hand-built dory named the "Emerald Mile," through the heart of the Grand Canyon on the Colorado river.
Author | : Stephen Grace |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 363 |
Release | : 2013-05-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 076278587X |
In the scramble to claim water rights in the West during the fevered days of early emigration and expansion, running out of water was rarely a concern, and the dam building fever that transformed the West in the 19th and 20th centuries created a map of the region that may be unsustainable. Throughout the arid American West, metropolitan areas such as Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas and Denver need water. These cities are growing, but water supplies are dwindling. Scientists agree that the West is heating up and drying out, leading to future water shortages that will pose a challenge to existing laws. Dam Nation looks first to the past, to the stories of the California gold rush and the earliest attempts by men to shape the landscape and tame it, takes us to the “Great American Desert” and the settlement of the west under the theory that "rain follows the plow," and then takes on the ongoing legal and moral battles in the West. Author Stephen Grace, is a novelist, a storyteller, and the author of several non-fiction books on Colorado. He weaves the facts into a compelling narrative that informs, entertains, and tells an important story.
Author | : James Lawrence Powell |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780520254770 |
Writing for a wide audience, Powell shows us exactly why an urgent threat during the first half of the twenty-first century will come not from the rising of the seas but from the falling of the reservoirs."--BOOK JACKET.
Author | : Robert Kondo |
Publisher | : First Second Books |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 2017-09-26 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1626724261 |
Based on the Oscar]-nominated animated short film of the same name, "The Dam Keeper" is a lush, vibrantly drawn story by the cofounders of Tonko House about a young pig who is burdened with saving his village. Full color.
Author | : Chelsea Handler |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Humor |
ISBN | : 1455577529 |
In this raucous collection of true-life stories, Chelsea Handler recounts her time spent in the social trenches with that wild, strange, irresistible, and often gratifying beast: the one-night stand. You've either done it or know someone who has: the one-night stand, the familiar outcome of a night spent at a bar, sometimes the sole payoff for your friend's irritating wedding, or the only relief from a disastrous vacation. Often embarrassing and uncomfortable, occasionally outlandish, but most times just a necessary and irresistible evil, the one-night stand is a social rite as old as sex itself and as common as a bar stool. Enter Chelsea Handler. Gorgeous, sharp, and anything but shy, Chelsea loves men and lots of them. My Horizontal Life chronicles her romp through the different bedrooms of a variety of suitors, a no-holds-barred account of what can happen between a man and a sometimes very intoxicated, outgoing woman during one night of passion. From her short fling with a Vegas stripper to her even shorter dalliance with a well-endowed little person, from her uncomfortable tryst with a cruise ship performer to her misguided rebound with a man who likes to play leather dress-up, Chelsea recalls the highs and lows of her one-night stands with hilarious honesty. Encouraged by her motley collection of friends (aka: her partners in crime) but challenged by her family members (who at times find themselves a surprise part of the encounter), Chelsea hits bottom and bounces back, unafraid to share the gritty details. My Horizontal Life is one guilty pleasure you won't be ashamed to talk about in the morning.
Author | : Interior Department |
Publisher | : Reclamation Bureau |
Total Pages | : 668 |
Release | : 2013-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780160913648 |
NOTE: NO FURTHER DISCOUNT FOR THIS PRODUCT- OVERSTOCK SALE Significantly reduced list price The second volume of the history of the Bureau of Reclamation offers a discussion and examination of the eventful years in the latter part ofthe twentieth century. Volume two covers from the end of World War II through year 2000 and is the last volume in this project. "
Author | : Philip L. Fradkin |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 1996-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780520205642 |
Here is the definitive history of the development of the Colorado River and the claims made on its waters, from its source in the Wyoming Rockies to the California and Arizona borders where, so saline it kills plants, it peters out just short of the Gulf of California. Ever increasing demands on the river to supply cities in the desert render this new edition all too timely. Philip Fradkin has updated this valuable book with a new preface.