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Author: Howard Schwartz
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006-12-27
Total Pages: 705
ISBN-13: 0195327136
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From tales of Adam, Moses, and other biblical figures, to the fall of Lucifer and the quarrel of the sun and moon, an anthology of Jewish myth presents seven hundred key stories and through extensive commentary places them in context with the literature of the world.
Author: Keith Francis Organ
Publisher:
Published: 2018-06-20
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9781627876162
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →As a Catholic boy raised on a rural dairy farm in Wisconsin, author Keith Francis Organ was taught that killing was something you never did--not even to an unborn child. Until he was nineteen, he believed people in the world were mostly good. Getting drafted into the Vietnam War forces a dismantling of that belief and renders him capable of killing. After combat in the Mekong Delta of Vietnam in 1968-69, killing seems normal--and most of his humanity is suppressed. When an injury from a booby trap sends him to a field hospital for amputation of his left leg, he is faced with starting the process of reinstalling his humanity. Once home, he finds a sympathetic mother but an insensitive environment that doesn't support the veterans of the Vietnam War and a veterans administration that allows unqualified employees to treat his injuries. His reaction is anger, isolation, and bitterness. The Tree of Souls portrays one man's journey of disillusionment and eventual enlightenment and includes recommendations to improve our society. It's a raw, honest portrayal of the experience of many during the Vietnam War and the aftermath of life once they returned home.
Author: Katrina Archer
Publisher: Ganache Media
Published: 2016-05-01
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0988051281
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A murky past. A forbidden love. A deathly power. When the river spits Umbra onto its bank, naked and shivering, the only clue to her identity is the arcane brand seared into her skin. A brand hunted by both a murderous necromancer and a handsome stranger. A brand that thrusts Umbra into a simmering conflict between the ascendant Clans and the nomadic Gherza. A brand that may make her the key to averting all-out war. The Tree of Souls weaves an intimate tale of dark sorcery, doomed love, and implacable revenge, amid an age-old clash of nations, with all the souls of the living hanging in the balance.
Author: Margaux J Detterer
Publisher: Partridge Publishing
Published: 2021-04-08
Total Pages: 63
ISBN-13: 1543707637
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →« My dear Gaia, When you will ask me how I met your father, you shall know that you both were gifted to me by Santiago. At the end of my old life, the Way gave me a new one: I fought against the wind and the rain, against the sun and pain, crossed a whole country by foot to prove myself I was alive. The Camino Frances is the place where anything is possible. We found each other with dad to become one, to create true love. At the end of the road, I found myself. » Honorable Mention, writing contest « 100 Caminos in 100 stories » in Chile.
Author: George Nakashima
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2012-02-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1568363958
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On a farmlike compound near New Hope, Pennsylvania, George Nakashima, his family, and fellow wood-workers create exquisite furniture from richly grained, rare timber. Tables, desks, chairs, and cabinets from this simple workshop grace the homes and mansions and executive boardrooms of people who prize such excellence. In this lavishly illustrated volume, George Nakashima allows us in intimate look at his artistry, his philosophy, his life. It is the portrait of an artisan who strives to find the ideal use for each plank in order to "create an object of utility to man and, if nature smiles, an object of lasting beauty." The author's search for the meaning of life took him as a young man to Paris, Tokyo, and Pondicherry, India. In India, he found the inner peace for which he had been searching and began to find ways to work with timber. He writes movingly about the grandeur of ancient trees and stunning figured woods and explains how he selects and prepares his materials. Above all, he impresses us with his devotion to discovering the inherent beauty of wood so that noble trees might have a second life as furniture. The Soul of a Tree looks at the world through the eyes of an artist and evokes the joy of living in harmony with nature.
Author: Suzanne Simard
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 2021-05-04
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 0525656103
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their connections to one another and to other living things in the forest—a moving, deeply personal journey of discovery Suzanne Simard is a pioneer on the frontier of plant communication and intelligence; her TED talks have been viewed by more than 10 million people worldwide. In this, her first book, now available in paperback, Simard brings us into her world, the intimate world of the trees, in which she brilliantly illuminates the fascinating and vital truths--that trees are not simply the source of timber or pulp, but are a complicated, interdependent circle of life; that forests are social, cooperative creatures connected through underground networks by which trees communicate their vitality and vulnerabilities with communal lives not that different from our own. Simard writes--in inspiring, illuminating, and accessible ways—how trees, living side by side for hundreds of years, have evolved, how they learn and adapt their behaviors, recognize neighbors, compete and cooperate with one another with sophistication, characteristics ascribed to human intelligence, traits that are the essence of civil societies--and at the center of it all, the Mother Trees: the mysterious, powerful forces that connect and sustain the others that surround them. And Simard writes of her own life, born and raised into a logging world in the rainforests of British Columbia, of her days as a child spent cataloging the trees from the forest and how she came to love and respect them. And as she writes of her scientific quest, she writes of her own journey, making us understand how deeply human scientific inquiry exists beyond data and technology, that it is about understanding who we are and our place in the world.
Author: Lori M. Lee
Publisher: Page Street YA
Published: 2020-06-23
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1624149286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Danger lurks within the roots of Forest of Souls, an epic, unrelenting tale of destiny and sisterhood, perfect for fans of Naomi Novik, Susan Dennard, and Netflix's The Witcher! "A tantalizing beginning to a rich new fantasy series.” —Traci Chee, NYT bestselling author of The Reader trilogy "Absolutely enchanting.” – Natalie C. Parker, author of Seafire "You won’t want to escape.” – Sarah Henning, author of the Sea Witch "Will leave you shouting sisters unite!” – Mindee Arnett, author of Onyx & Ivory and Avalon Sirscha Ashwyn comes from nothing, but she’s intent on becoming something. After years of training to become the queen’s next royal spy, her plans are derailed when shamans attack and kill her best friend Saengo. And then Sirscha, somehow, restores Saengo to life. Unveiled as the first soulguide in living memory, Sirscha is summoned to the domain of the Spider King. For centuries, he has used his influence over the Dead Wood—an ancient forest possessed by souls—to enforce peace between the kingdoms. Now, with the trees growing wild and untamed, only a soulguide can restrain them. As war looms, Sirscha must master her newly awakened abilities before the trees shatter the brittle peace, or worse, claim Saengo, the friend she would die for.
Author: Stephanie Hudson
Publisher:
Published: 2020-06
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9781913769413
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →It all started with a kiss that ended in a world of pain. Well, now I was on the run from that pain and my map of sorrows was only leading to one place, To a lover's resurrection. But hey, a life on the run shouldn't be too hard right, just throw in a Mob boss, a few movie cars, a phantom dance and a camping trip, and what you had was a recipe for... Oh, who was I kidding! I was being hunted by a Vampire King and this time, he wasn't just out for blood, but he was out for something far more dangerous than that... He was out to reclaim my heart. A heart he had broken. And this time, the only way to fix it was with the truth... The truth about the Tree of Souls.
Author: Denis Johnson
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2007-09-04
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 9780374279127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.
Author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2019-04-04
Total Pages: 637
ISBN-13: 1788547233
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Humanity clings to life on a dying Earth in an epic, far-future science fiction novel from an award-winning author. The sun is bloated, diseased, dying perhaps. Beneath its baneful light, Shadrapar, last of all cities, harbours fewer than 100,000 human souls. Built on the ruins of countless civilisations, Shadrapar is a museum, a midden, an asylum, a prison on a world that is ever more alien to humanity. Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new is Stefan Advani: rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in the verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will meet with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?
