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Echo Mountain

Author : Lauren Wolk

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 370 pages

File Size : 43,86 MB

Release : 2021-04-27

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0525555587

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★ “Historical fiction at its finest.” –The Horn Book “There has never been a better time to read about healing, of both the body and the heart.” –The New York Times Book Review Echo Mountain is an acclaimed best book of 2020! An NPR Best Book of the Year • A Horn Book Fanfare Selection • A Kirkus Best Book of the Year • A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year • A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year • A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year After losing almost everything in the Great Depression, Ellie’s family is forced to leave their home in town and start over in the untamed wilderness of nearby Echo Mountain. Ellie has found a welcome freedom, and a love of the natural world, in her new life on the mountain. But there is little joy after a terrible accident leaves her father in a coma. An accident unfairly blamed on Ellie. Ellie is a girl who takes matters into her own hands, and determined to help her father she will make her way to the top of the mountain in search of the healing secrets of a woman known only as “the hag.” But the hag, and the mountain, still have many untold stories left to reveal. Historical fiction at its finest, Echo Mountain is celebration of finding your own path and becoming your truest self. Lauren Wolk, the Newbery Honor– and Scott O'Dell Award–winning author of Wolf Hollow and Beyond the Bright Sea, weaves a stunning tale of resilience, persistence, and friendship across three generations of families. “Soothing and exquisitely written.” –People “This is a book that will soothe readers like a healing balm.” –The Wall Street Journal “Brilliant.” –Lynda Mullaly Hunt, bestselling author of Fish in a Tree



An Echo in the Mountains

Author : Nicholas Bradley

Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Page : 294 pages

File Size : 12,17 MB

Release : 2020-09-23

Category : Literary Criticism

ISBN : 0228004306

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From the 1960s until his death in 2000, Al Purdy was one of the most prominent writers in Canada, famous for his frank language and his boisterous personality. He travelled the country and wrote about its people and places from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island. A central figure in the CanLit explosion of the sixties and seventies, Purdy has been called the best, the most, and the last Canadian poet. But Purdy's Canada no longer exists. A changing country and shifting attitudes toward Canadian literature demand new perspectives on Purdy's impact and accomplishments. An Echo in the Mountains reassesses Purdy's works, the shape of his career, and his literary legacy, grappling with the question of how to read Purdy today, a century after his birth and in a new era of Canadian literature. Contributors to the volume examine Purdy's critical reception, explore little-known documents and textual problems, and analyze his representations of Canadian history and Indigenous peoples and cultures. They show that much remains to be discovered and understood about the poet and his immense body of work. The first sustained examination of Al Purdy's works in over a decade, An Echo in the Mountains showcases the critical challenges and rewards of rereading an iconic and influential Canadian writer.



When I Was Young in the Mountains

Author : Cynthia Rylant

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 33 pages

File Size : 36,2 MB

Release : 1993-01-01

Category : Juvenile Fiction

ISBN : 0140548750

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Caldecott Honor Book! "An evocative remembrance of the simple pleasures in country living; splashing in the swimming hole, taking baths in the kitchen, sharing family times, each is eloquently portrayed here in both the misty-hued scenes and in the poetic text." -Association for Childhood Education International



Voices from the Mountains

Author : Guy Carawan

Publisher : University of Georgia Press

Page : 252 pages

File Size : 12,36 MB

Release : 1996

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0820318825

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A rich mosaic of photographs, words, and songs, Voices from the Mountains tells the turbulent story of the Appalachian South in the twentieth century. Focusing on the abuses of the coal industry and the grassroots struggle against mine owners that began in the 1960s, Guy and Candie Carawan have gathered quotations from a variety of sources; words and music to more than fifty ballads and songs, laments and satires, hymns and protests; and more than one hundred and fifty photographs of longtime Appalachian residents, their homes, their countryside, the mines they work in, and the labor battles they have fought. The "voices" that speak out in these pages range from the mountain people themselves to such well-known artists as Jean Ritchie, Hazel Dickens, Harriet Simpson Arnow, and Wendell Berry. Together they tell of the damage wrought by strip mining and the empty promises of land reclamation; the search for work and a new life in the North; the welfare rights, labor, antipoverty, and black lung movements; early days in the mines; disasters and negligence in the coal industry; and protest and change in the coal fields. Dignity and despair, poverty and perseverance, tradition and change--Voices from the Mountains eloquently conveys the complex panorama of modern Appalachian life.



East of the Mountains

Author : David Guterson

Publisher : A&C Black

Page : 290 pages

File Size : 41,91 MB

Release : 2012-05-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1408834758

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When Dr Ben Givens left his Seattle home he never intended to return. It was to be a journey past snow-covered mountains to a place of canyons, sagelands and orchards, where, on the verges of the Columbia River, Ben had entered the world and would now take his leave of it.



Mountain Rescue

Author : Hope White

Publisher : Harlequin

Page : 159 pages

File Size : 36,86 MB

Release : 2014-08-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1460337549

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In the rugged mountains of Washington State, he will protect her with his life . . . It took just one look in Quinn Donovan’s eyes and Wilhelma “Billie” Bronson knew the search and rescue volunteer had saved her life. Again. But this time her fall down a mountain was no accident. It seems her past has come back to haunt her, and trusting Quinn to protect her is the best way to stay alive. Before long, though, old feelings resurface, and being around him becomes more challenging than figuring out who wants to hurt her. And why they’d stop at nothing to spoil any possible future with Quinn . . .





A Path into the Mountains

Author : Caleb Swift Carter

Publisher : University of Hawaii Press

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 19,6 MB

Release : 2022-05-31

Category : Religion

ISBN : 0824890132

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Shugendō has been an object of fascination among scholars and the general public, yet its historical development remains an enigma. This book offers a provocative reexamination of the social, economic, and spiritual terrain from which this mountain religious system arose. Caleb Carter traces Shugendō through the mountains of Togakushi (Nagano Prefecture), while situating it within the religious landscape of medieval and early modern Japan. His is the first major study to view Shugendō as a self-conscious religious system—something that was historically emergent but conceptually distinct from the prevailing Buddhist orders of medieval Japan. Beyond Shugendō, his work rethinks a range of issues in the history of Japanese religions, including exclusionary policies toward women, the formation of Shintō, and religion at the social and geographical margins of the Japanese archipelago. Carter takes a new tack in the study of religions by tracking three recurrent and intersecting elements—institution, ritual, and narrative. Examination of origin accounts, temple records, gazetteers, and iconography from Togakushi demonstrates how practitioners implemented storytelling, new rituals and festivals, and institutional measures to merge Shugendō with their mountain’s culture while establishing social legitimacy and economic security. Indicative of early modern trends, the case of Mount Togakushi reveals how Shugendō moved from a patchwork of regional communities into a translocal system of national scope, eventually becoming Japan’s signature mountain religion.



Into the Mountains

Author : Maggie Stier

Publisher : Appalachian Mountain Club

Page : 384 pages

File Size : 46,97 MB

Release : 1995

Category : History

ISBN :

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The armchair dreamer's companion -- a graceful and fascinating history of New England's fifteen most celebrated mountains, with information on people, places legends, and lore.



Look to the Mountains

Author : Suzanne Hensel

Publisher :

Page : 317 pages

File Size : 48,25 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Lemmon, Mount (Ariz.)

ISBN :

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An in-depth look into the lives and times of the people who shaped the history of the Catalina Mountains. This revised edition includes a section on the 2003 Aspen fires.