Book Description
Sam is going up the stairs, up the ladder, and more!
Author : Michele Dufresne
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,25 MB
Release : 2015-09-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781603430500
Sam is going up the stairs, up the ladder, and more!
Author : Gordy Sauer
Publisher :
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 2021
Category : California
ISBN : 9781938235795
"For fans of Ian McGuire's The North Water and Michael Punke's The Revenant, Child in the Valley by Gordy Sauer is a coming-of-age story set in the harsh landscape of Gold Rush America, centering on a orphan's journey to California in a wagon train of ruthless 49ers. Seventeen-year-old Joshua Gaines is suddenly orphaned in 1849, and after discovering that his foster father has left him deeply in debt, he flees his St. Louis home for Independence, Missouri. There, he plans to offer his medical expertise in exchange for passage to California in a Gold Rush party. Joshua is initially rebuffed given his youth and inexperience, but as his resentment and greed grow, a chance encounter with a ruthless adventurer and an ex-slave enlists him in a party comprised of provincial identical twins and a wealthy Englishman. The party departs overland along a 1,500-mile trail carved out by hardship, disease, violence, and death. When finally they arrive starving and exhausted in California's Sacramento Valley, Joshua discovers that attaining those riches is not as simple as pulling them from the riverbed, forcing him to redefine his sense of morality within the context of his greed; his complex sexuality; and the growing, though still-fledgling, American government. This novel is part of the Cold Mountain Fund Series, in partnership with Charles Frazier"--
Author : John Renehan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0698186273
*Named one of Wall Street Journal's Best Books of 2015 *Selected as a Military Times's Best Book of the Year “You’re going up the Valley.” Black didn’t know its name, but he knew it lay deeper and higher than any other place Americans had ventured. You had to travel through a network of interlinked valleys, past all the other remote American outposts, just to get to its mouth. Everything about the place was myth and rumor, but one fact was clear: There were many valleys in the mountains of Afghanistan, and most were hard places where people died hard deaths. But there was only one Valley. It was the farthest, and the hardest, and the worst. When Black, a deskbound admin officer, is sent up the Valley to investigate a warning shot fired by a near-forgotten platoon, he can only see it as the final bureaucratic insult in a short and unhappy Army career. What he doesn’t know is that his investigation puts at risk the centuries-old arrangements that keep this violent land in fragile balance, and will launch a shattering personal odyssey of obsession and discovery as Black reckons with the platoon’s dark secrets, accumulated over endless hours fighting and dying in defense of an indefensible piece of land. The Valley is a riveting tour de force that changes our understanding of the men who fight our wars and announces John Renehan as one of the great American storytellers of our time.
Author : Anne Pellowski
Publisher : Bethlehem Books
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 29,82 MB
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1932350241
Six-year-old Anna Pellowski’s older siblings, Jacob, Franciszek, Barney, Mary and Pauline are exposed to English at school, but only Polish is spoken at home. The younger children—Anna, Julian, Anton barely know a word of their new country’s language, but then neither do many of their neighbors. When the family goes to town to celebrate the 100th birthday of the United States, the speaker gives his speech in a mix of German, Polish, Bohemian and Norwegian! Some years before, in the mid 1800’s, Anna’s mother, father and brother Baby Jacob had come from Poland to live in a tiny sod house in Western Wisconsin and establish the very first farm in the entire Latsch Valley. Now the growing family lives in a real house, with neighbors on every side, and the world for quietly curious Anna is filled with fascinating possibilities—as well as lots of hard work. Sometimes she dreams of going back to the Poland she is always hearing about, but increasingly she realizes that life in Latsch Valley, with its rich cultural rhythm of work, play and religious faith, holds everything she could possibly want.
Author : Hal Leonard Corp
Publisher : Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,62 MB
Release : 2005-02
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781881322146
Lyrics and guitar chords for traditional and modern folk songs.
Author : George R. Holmes
Publisher : Harbor House (GA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,36 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Catholics
ISBN : 9781891799624
Scranton, Pa., native Dr. George Holmes recounts the rich diversity of growing up in the valley area. While many scholars are eager to show the short comings of ethnic neighbors, Holmes embraces the memories of his mining-driven hometown.
Author : Jonathan Stroud
Publisher : Random House
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : 0552557935
Halli loves the old stories from when the valley was a wild and dangerous place when the legendary heroes stood together to defeat the ancient enemy, the bloodthirsty Trows. Nowadays heroics seem a thing of the past. But when a practical joke rekindles an old blood feud, Halli spots a chance for a quest of his own.
Author : Peter Amidon
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,55 MB
Release : 2020-08-15
Category :
ISBN : 9780990671695
traditional Anglo/American and African American singing games for children.
Author : Michele Dufresne
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 24,97 MB
Release : 2014
Category :
ISBN : 9781584538332
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 828 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 1922
Category : Electrical engineering
ISBN :