Author : Ginger Mynatt
Publisher : Ginger Mynatt
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 39,59 MB
Release : 2001-08-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595197521
Heather Caldwell's feet are ugly and she is proud of it. Long hours of dancing have hardened huge calluses and blackened her toenails. But has she danced enough to get a major role in Viva El Paso, an outdoor theater staged in the mountains? A dream she has had for years. Her dream becomes a nightmare when an unknown enemy kills her boyfriend and threatens her. She flees into the mountains where there is far more to worry about than her dreams.
Author : Thomas Locker
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780152026226
A poetic description of various kinds of mountains and how they are formed. Includes factual information on mountains.
Author : Paul Travers
Publisher : Ozark Mountain Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2021-01-11
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN :
When the cosmic tumblers click into place and the universe opens its vault, miracles can happen. Inspired by his dying father’s dream of hiking the Appalachian Trail, Paul Travers hits the trail and finds that miracle in the healing power of America’s sacred mountains. Dancing with the Mountains… Alzheimer’s, Angels, and the Appalachian Trail – A Journey of Spirit chronicles Paul’s thru-hike to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Association and prove that “60 is the new 40.” More than a travelogue, it is a love story about fathers and sons, families battling Alzheimer’s, and the people and places along the Appalachian Trail. Sprinkled with humor and humanity, It is the spiritual response to Bill Bryson’s bestseller A Walk in the Woods. On his pilgrimage, Paul eludes the FBI, meets his guardian angel, survives a lightning strike and a near drowning, encounters the ghost of a relative, acquires a trail name (Sondance), finds a Field of Dreams, walks off the war, solves the death of a Hollywood starlet, discovers Saint Francis and the Buddha in New York, embraces a religious cult, visits ground zero for the 60s hippie movement (Arlo’s not Alice’s Restaurant), receives a sacred stone from a Lakota medicine man, meets a female apostle, discovers his father’s parallel spiritual journey, and copes with the death of his parents. His adventure ultimately reveals nature is not only the handiwork of God but the hand of God that leads each of us on a unique spiritual journey.
Author : Heather Gilion
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 31,39 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Bereavement
ISBN : 1607998718
Holly and Heather share their story and help to walk the reader through the painful yet necessary healing process for when life deals us its harshest blows. Dancing on my ashes soothes and empathizes with the broken heart, while sharing the truth of scripture, and the hope that comes from the heart of God.
Author : Elizabeth B. Schwall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 20,45 MB
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469662981
Elizabeth B. Schwall aligns culture and politics by focusing on an art form that became a darling of the Cuban revolution: dance. In this history of staged performance in ballet, modern dance, and folkloric dance, Schwall analyzes how and why dance artists interacted with republican and, later, revolutionary politics. Drawing on written and visual archives, including intriguing exchanges between dancers and bureaucrats, Schwall argues that Cuban dancers used their bodies and ephemeral, nonverbal choreography to support and critique political regimes and cultural biases. As esteemed artists, Cuban dancers exercised considerable power and influence. They often used their art to posit more radical notions of social justice than political leaders were able or willing to implement. After 1959, while generally promoting revolutionary projects like mass education and internationalist solidarity, they also took risks by challenging racial prejudice, gender norms, and censorship, all of which could affect dancers personally. On a broader level, Schwall shows that dance, too often overlooked in histories of Latin America and the Caribbean, provides fresh perspectives on what it means for people, and nations, to move through the world.
Author : Richard Hammer
Publisher : Franklin Watts
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 38,12 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Authors
ISBN : 9780531150986
Author : Claudia Rankine
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 25,44 MB
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1644452561
A brilliant and unsparing examination of America in the early twenty-first century, Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely invents a new genre to confront the particular loneliness and rapacious assault on selfhood that our media have inflicted upon our lives. Fusing the lyric, the essay, and the visual, Rankine negotiates the enduring anxieties of medicated depression, race riots, divisive elections, terrorist attacks, and ongoing wars—doom scrolling through the daily news feeds that keep us glued to our screens and that have come to define our age. First published in 2004, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a hauntingly prescient work, one that has secured a permanent place in American literature. This new edition is presented in full color with updated visuals and text, including a new preface by the author, and matches the composition of Rankine’s best-selling and award-winning Citizen and Just Us as the first book in her acclaimed American trilogy. Don’t Let Me Be Lonely is a crucial guide to surviving a fractured and fracturing American consciousness—a book of rare and vital honesty, complexity, and presence.
Author : Jonathan Emmett
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 23,9 MB
Release : 2007-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1416936521
A new version of the traditional American folk song, in which the expected guest will be wearing frilly pink pajamas and juggling with jelly when she comes.
Author : Jean-Philippe Soulé
Publisher : Jean-Philippe Soulé
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2019-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0984344829
“An unforgettable escapade of ultimate danger and discovery…” - Readers' Favorite Fans of Jon Krakauer will devour this gripping tale of adventure, survival, and a search for life’s deeper meaning. Two men, three years, seven countries, 3000 miles… The Central American Sea Kayak Expedition 2000 is an inspiring journey of exploration, endurance, and self-discovery that takes Jean-Philippe Soulé and his traveling partner Luke Shullenberger from Baja California all the way to Panama. During this unfathomably grueling expedition, they face every manner of threat, from sharks, crocodiles, and bandits to stormy seas, malaria, and their own mortality—all in search of a deeper connection to Mother Nature and the indigenous people who revere her most. This riveting memoir of physical and emotional endurance will leave you breathless as you experience their victories, misfortunes and sacrifices. An evocative, gripping narrative coupled with award-winning photographs that is a must-read for those who love travel, outdoor adventure, and cultural exploration—and for the dreamers who've been told they can't, but stubbornly refuse to listen.
Author : McSweeney's
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 18,7 MB
Release : 2006-09-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0307277208
If a mountain man felt compelled to dance, how would he do it? If koala bears could talk, what would they say? And what’s the right pickup line, if you’re a necrophiliac? (Maybe “I’m pretty sure I’m not going to get you pregnant.”) In the throes of debates like these, we’re lucky to have the learned people of McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, America's best low-budget humor website, and their edifying work. From their best-looking writers comes this collection of over three hundred lists, including... “Signs Your Unicorn Is Cheating on You.”"Errors in Communication Between My Hairdresser and Me, in the Form of What I Said and What He Heard""Things This City Was Built On, Besides Rock 'n' Roll""Things This One Girl Sitting Near Me in a Movie Theater Said Out Loud When One of the Characters Was Shown Pulling Into a Gas Station""Future Winners of the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest""Adjectives Rarely Used by Wine Tasters""The Collected Apologies of Lawrence H. Summers, President of Harvard""Exactly What I Mean When I Say My Ex-Girlfriend Kristin and I 'Wanted Different Things from Life’"And much, much more...
