Snow Country Tales
Author : Bokushi Suzuki
Publisher : Weatherhill, Incorporated
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 49,92 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Cover this Country Like Snow, and Other Stories
Author : Kristine Zeigler
Publisher : Kristine Zeigler
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 12,74 MB
Release : 2018
Category :
ISBN : 9781732904408
Book Description
Cover This Country Like Snow is a collection of ten short stories spanning time and terrain in one of the world's most majestic landscapes, the Owens Valley, epicenter of water wars waged in California since the 19th century.
Snow Treasure
Author : Marie McSwigan
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 34,86 MB
Release : 1958
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780590425377
Book Description
Grade Level 5.5, Book# 85, Points 4.
Snow in May
Author : Kseniya Melnik
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 47,39 MB
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1627790071
Book Description
Residents of a thriving port town in Russia's Far East are shaped by regional history and lore throughout the latter half of the twentieth century, from a local woman who considers an Italian footballer's proposition to a former Soviet boss' memories about a thorny friendship.
Palm-of-the-hand Stories
Author : Yasunari Kawabata
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,73 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Book Description
Translated by Lane Dunlop and J. Martin Holman Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1968, Yasunari Kawabata is perhaps best known in the United States for his deeply incisive, marvelously lyrical novel "Snow Country." But according to Kawabata himself, the essence of his art was to be found in a series of short stories-which he called "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories"-written over the entire span of his career. He began experimenting with the form in 1923 and returned to it often. In fact, his final work was a "palm-sized" reduction of "Snow Country," written not long before his suicide in 1972. Dreamlike, intensely atmospheric, at times autobiographical and at others fantastical, these stories reflect Kawabata's abiding interest in the miniature, the wisp of plot reduced to the essential. In them we find loneliness, love, the passage of time, and death. "Palm-of-the-Hand Stories" captures the astonishing range and complexity of one of the century's greatest literary talents.
Best in Snow
Author : April Pulley Sayre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 10,7 MB
Release : 2016-10-11
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1481459163
Book Description
"A photographic non-fiction picture book about the wonder of snowfall and the winter water cycle"--Provided by publisher.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Author : Lisa See
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 45,38 MB
Release : 2011-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1408821621
Book Description
Lily is the daughter of a humble farmer, and to her family she is just another expensive mouth to feed. Then the local matchmaker delivers startling news: if Lily's feet are bound properly, they will be flawless. In nineteenth-century China, where a woman's eligibility is judged by the shape and size of her feet, this is extraordinary good luck. Lily now has the power to make a good marriage and change the fortunes of her family. To prepare for her new life, she must undergo the agonies of footbinding, learn nu shu, the famed secret women's writing, and make a very special friend, Snow Flower. But a bitter reversal of fortune is about to change everything.
The Hank Snow Story
Author : Hank Snow
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 48,25 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Book Description
With remarkable candor, Country Music Hall of Famer Hank Snow traces his life from humble beginning in Canada to worldwide acclaim as one of country's greatest and most legendary stars. Chock-full of fascinating revelations, The Hank Snow Story reveals the inner workings of the music industry, how Snow helped launch the career of Elvis Presley, and more.
Tales from the Cloud Walking Country
Author : Marie Campbell
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 12,59 MB
Release : 2000-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780820321868
Book Description
Assembled here are seventy-eight stories from six of the "ballad-singingest, tale-tellingest" residents of the eastern Kentucky mountain country. Based on stories rooted in European traditions from German fairy tales to Irish hero stories to Greek myths, the tales had been handed down through generations of telling before Marie Campbell collected them in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Readers will recognize the story of Snow White in "A Stepchild That Was Treated Mighty Bad," while "Three Shirts and a Golden Finger Ring" recalls the fairy tale of the Seven Swans. "The Fellow That Married A Dozen Times" is a lively rendition of "Bluebeard." As the narrators cautioned Marie Campbell again and again, "Tale-telling is nigh about faded out in the mountain country," but Tales from the Cloud Walking Country offers a lasting record of history, cultural heritage, language, and good old-fashioned fun.
Rabbit's Snow Dance
Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 16,67 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0803732708
Book Description
Rabbit’s Snow Dance Master storytellers Joseph and James Bruchac present a hip and funny take on an Iroquois folktale about the importance of patience, the seasons, and listening to your friends. Pair it with other stories about stubborn animals like Karma Wilson’s Bear Wants More and Verna Aardema’s Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears. Rabbit loves the winter. He knows a dance, using an Iroquois drum and song, to make it snow—even in summertime! When rabbit decides that it should snow early, he starts his dance and the snow begins to fall. The other forest animals are not happy and ask him to stop, but Rabbit doesn’t listen. How much snow is too much, and will Rabbit know when to stop? The father-son duo behind How Chipmunk Got His Stripes, Raccoon’s Last Race, and Turtle’s Race with Beaver present their latest retelling of Native American folklore. “The telling is sprightly, and Newman's ink-and-watercolor artwork makes an ideal companion. An appealing addition to folktale shelves.” —Booklist “This modern retelling maintains [the Bruchacs’] solid reputation for keeping Native American tales fresh.” —School Library Journal “The picturesque language makes it a pleasure to read aloud.”—BCCB
