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Author: Wilma Dykeman Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469629151 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
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Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920–2006), who would become one of the American South's most prolific and storied writers. Focusing on her childhood in Buncombe County, Dykeman reveals a perceptive and sophisticated understanding of human nature, the environment, and social justice. And yet, for her words' remarkable polish, her voice still resonates as raw and vital. Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life in Asheville, she chronicles the touching, at times harrowing, story of her family's fortunes, plotting their rise and fall in uncertain economic times and ending with her father's sudden death in 1934 when she was fourteen years old. Featuring a new foreword by fellow North Carolinian Robert Morgan, Family of Earth stands as a new major literary work by a groundbreaking author.
Author: Wilma Dykeman Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469629151 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 204
Book Description
Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920–2006), who would become one of the American South's most prolific and storied writers. Focusing on her childhood in Buncombe County, Dykeman reveals a perceptive and sophisticated understanding of human nature, the environment, and social justice. And yet, for her words' remarkable polish, her voice still resonates as raw and vital. Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life in Asheville, she chronicles the touching, at times harrowing, story of her family's fortunes, plotting their rise and fall in uncertain economic times and ending with her father's sudden death in 1934 when she was fourteen years old. Featuring a new foreword by fellow North Carolinian Robert Morgan, Family of Earth stands as a new major literary work by a groundbreaking author.
Author: John Elder Publisher: Beacon Press ISBN: 9780807085295 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 340
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Indigenous Tales of Nature from Around the World An array of vivid responses to nature from indigenous oral traditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.
Author: Marisa Papen Publisher: ISBN: 9780578345093 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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One day a beautiful blue ball of yarn rolls naturally into the galaxy? and so, the journey of life begins. The yarn symbolizes the heartbeat that connects us all. It swiftly travels through time on Earth and draws our deep interconnectedness with everything. The yarn unravels and endlessly shape-shifts into flowers and trees and animals and? into humans as well. Following the line of life, we reach a tipping point, the recent pandemic. A shared chapter of sadness, desolation and separation but also an unexpected chance for human-heartfelt contemplation. With a new awareness, the humans realize that the only way forward is together. Inspired by unity, they take one big harmonious breath to flip the page into history. And that my dear, was the beginning of Earth Family.
Author: Ted Genoways Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company ISBN: 0393292584 Category : Technology & Engineering Languages : en Pages : 288
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Winner of the Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize 2019 selection for the One Book One Nebraska and All Iowa state reading programs "Genoways gives the reader a kitchen-table view of the vagaries, complexities, and frustrations of modern farming…Insightful and empathetic." —Milwaukee Journal Sentinel The family farm lies at the heart of our national identity, and yet its future is in peril. Rick Hammond grew up on a farm, and for forty years he has raised cattle and crops on his wife’s fifth-generation homestead in Nebraska, in hopes of passing it on to their four children. But as the handoff nears, their family farm—and their entire way of life—are under siege on many fronts, from shifting trade policies, to encroaching pipelines, to climate change. Following the Hammonds from harvest to harvest, Ted Genoways explores the rapidly changing world of small, traditional farming operations. He creates a vivid, nuanced portrait of a radical new landscape and one family’s fight to preserve their legacy and the life they love.
Author: Jorge Mario Bergoglio Publisher: Image ISBN: 0804138729 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 258
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New York Times Bestseller! From the man who became Pope Francis, Jorge Mario Bergoglio shares his thoughts on religion, reason, and the challenges the world faces in the 21st century with Abraham Skorka, a rabbi and biophysicist. For years Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio, archbishop of Argentina, and Rabbi Abraham Skorka were tenacious promoters of interreligious dialogues on faith and reason. They both sought to build bridges among Catholicism, Judaism, and the world at large. On Heaven and Earth, originally published in Argentina in 2010, brings together a series of these conversations where both men talked about various theological and worldly issues, including God, fundamentalism, atheism, abortion, homosexuality, euthanasia, same-sex marriage, and globalization. From these personal and accessible talks comes a first-hand view of the man who would become pope to 1.2 billion Catholics around the world in March 2013.
Author: J. Patrick Lewis Publisher: Dawn Publications (CA) ISBN: 9781584690306 Category : Animals Languages : en Pages : 0
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Many diverse creatures, including a beetle, a hawk, a whale, a dragonfly, a deer, a penguin, and a boy, converse about their habitats, which are all so different, but together make up the Earth.
Author: Kate Southwood Publisher: Europa Editions ISBN: 1609451104 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 220
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A “poignant [and] powerful” novel about a 1920s Midwestern community in the aftermath of a devastating tornado (The New Yorker). In March 1925, the worst tornado in the nation’s history will descend without warning on the small town of Marah, Illinois. By nightfall, hundreds will be homeless and hundreds more will lie in the streets, dead or grievously injured. Only one man, Paul Graves, will still have everything he started the day with—his family, his home, and his business, all miraculously intact. This “absolutely gorgeous” novel follows Paul Graves and his young family in the year after the storm as they struggle to comprehend their own fate and that of their devastated town (The New York Times). They watch helplessly as Marah tries to resurrect itself from the ruins and as their friends and neighbors begin to wonder how one family, and only one, could be exempt from terrible misfortune. As the town begins to recover, the family miscalculates the growing resentment and hostility around them with tragic results, in an “extraordinarily moving” portrayal of survivor’s guilt and the frenzy of bereavement following a disaster (Financial Times). “All the big themes are here—chance, fate, loyalty, revenge, guilt, jealousy . . . Inspired by actual events surrounding the 1925 Tri-State tornado, the worst in U.S. history, Southwood’s poignantly penetrating examination of the psychic cost of survival is breathtaking in its depth of understanding.” —Booklist (starred review) “What’s most exciting about Southwood’s debut is her prose, which is reminiscent of Willa Cather’s in its ability to condense the large, ineffable melancholy of the plains into razor-sharp images.” —The Daily Beast
Author: Mary Inez Hilger Publisher: Borealis Book S. ISBN: 9780873513524 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 189
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This valuable study of twentieth-century reservation life, first published in 1939, portrays 150 families at White Earth, Minnesota in a period of loss of traditional ways.
Author: Ifeanyi Chukwujama Publisher: CreateSpace ISBN: 9781514649459 Category : Languages : en Pages : 176
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Every family on earth and in heaven derives its name from God the Father. This means that as humans take their family names as their last names, every member of the human family on earth, has the name of God attached to their names-as their ultimate last name-for the glory of God who formed and made them out of Love, and has imparted His qualities and goodness on every single one of them. The importance of each of our last names to our lives is not so others can identify us as discrete individuals. The true importance of the last name that we each have is to reflect the values put into us in our upbringing. Our last names tell other people who we truly are! Our last name is designed by God to tell everyone we meet in life what values our family holds dear to their respective hearts. Our last name represents the journey we've made in our lives-where we have been; our experiences; our triumphs and failures-as part of our life experiences within our respective families. Our last names bear the hallmarks of the qualities our life's experiences had molded us into. According to this revelation of God, we are our last names. In much the same way human parents raise their children to grow up with certain values that would serve them well in life; God gave to all mankind His commands, and set automatic measures to keep us all in straight path, to avoid any of us falling off the cliff and plunging to our spiritual deaths. God filled the earth and the entire universe with His Grace to replenish us and restore us so we can continue to grow and mature spiritually; and to sustain all our life's processes-biological and otherwise.
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