Book Description
A Timber Wolf comes out from the trees, and the world all around seems to freeze. A contemporary telling of a great old tale, because we all still love to be scared!
Author : Ann Bryant
Publisher : Caboodle Books Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,64 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Animals
ISBN : 9780995488526
A Timber Wolf comes out from the trees, and the world all around seems to freeze. A contemporary telling of a great old tale, because we all still love to be scared!
Author : Peter David
Publisher : Ace
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,10 MB
Release : 1989
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN : 9780441346639
Author : Ann Bryant
Publisher : Usborne Books
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Boarding school students
ISBN : 9780746098646
Nicole is at Silver Spires on a scholorship and is scared that her friends will think she's a geek. With a party coming up where everyone will be wearing expensive outfits, she's afraid that her new friends will think she doesn't fit in.
Author : Richard P. Thiel
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,54 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780299139445
In early 1958, in the far northern town of Cornucopia, Wisconsin's "last" timber wolf was accidentally run over by an automobile. The "humane" intention to end the animal's suffering produced a grisly aftermath: the wolf survived the impact of the car, was bludgeoned with a tire iron twice but survived, and finally had its throat slit with a restaurant knife. This horrifying scene is certainly an apt (if appalling) symbol of the timber wolf's early fate in Wisconsin. Feared, detested, hunted down for state-authorized bounties, the animal was systematically exterminated as an enemy of man and progress. Yet this bleak chapter in the history of conservation has a happier ending. Seventeen years later, in 1975, the timber wolf had officially reestablished itself and, as a protected species, is now flourishing under the care of Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources. Few can be more caring than the author, a DNR educator in wildlife management. As an inquisitive teenager, Richard Thiel began his pursuit of the Wisconsin timber wolf's story in the mid-1960s and has been at it ever since. The result is this arresting, intensely readable book, a story of fear, mistrust, and misunderstanding that ends, thankfully, as one of hope and appreciation.
Author : Peter Ho Davies
Publisher : HMH
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 38,2 MB
Release : 2013-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547524900
A WWII-era Welsh barmaid begins a secret relationship with a German POW in this “beautiful” novel by the author of A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself (Ann Patchett). Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize Set in the stunning landscape of North Wales just after D-Day, this critically acclaimed debut novel traces the intersection of disparate lives in wartime. When a prisoner-of-war camp is established near her village, seventeen-year-old barmaid Esther Evans finds herself strangely drawn to the camp and its forlorn captives. She is exploring the camp boundary when an astonishing thing occurs: A young German corporal calls out to her from behind the fence. From that moment on, the two begin an unlikely—and perilous—romance. Meanwhile, a German-Jewish interrogator travels to Wales to investigate Britain’s most notorious Nazi prisoner, Rudolf Hess. In this richly drawn and thought-provoking “tour de force,” all will come to question the meaning of love, family, loyalty, and national identity (The New Yorker). “If you loved The English Patient, there’s probably a place in your heart for The Welsh Girl.” —USA Today “Davies’s characters are marvelously nuanced.” —Los Angeles Times “Beautifully conjures a place and its people, in an extraordinary time . . . A rare gem.” —Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs “This first novel by Davies, author of two highly praised short story collections, has been anticipated—and, with its wonderfully drawn characters, it has been worth the wait.” —Booklist, starred review
Author : Peter Annin
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 159726637X
The Great Lakes are the largest collection of fresh surface water on earth, and more than 40 million Americans and Canadians live in their basin. Will we divert water from the Great Lakes, causing them to end up like Central Asia's Aral Sea, which has lost 90 percent of its surface area and 75 percent of its volume since 1960? Or will we come to see that unregulated water withdrawals are ultimately catastrophic? Peter Annin writes a fast-paced account of the people and stories behind these upcoming battles. Destined to be the definitive story for the general public as well as policymakers, The Great Lakes Water Wars is a balanced, comprehensive look behind the scenes at the conflicts and compromises that are the past-and future-of this unique resource.
Author : Barry Holstun Lopez
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Gray wolf
ISBN : 0743249364
Author : Ann Bryant
Publisher :
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 46,67 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Children's stories, English
ISBN : 9780590137591
Author : Sergei Prokofiev
Publisher : Knopf Books for Young Readers
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 13,97 MB
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0307781437
THERE IS NO better way to introduce children to classical music than with Prokofiev’s musical fairy tale of the little boy who, with the help of a bird, outsmarted the big, bad wolf. A new retelling by Janet Schulman follows the basic story, but with a kinder ending for both the big, bad wolf and the argumentative duck. Peter Malone’s paintings have the luminous quality of old Russian masters.
Author : Peter Orullian
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 50,49 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780765364692
A sprawling, complex tale of magic and destiny that won't disappoint its readers. This auspicious beginning for author Peter Orullian will have you looking forward to more.--Terry Brooks.