Author: Ivan DoigPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
ISBN: 9780151900558
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Autobiography of a newspaperman and editor who grew up in the wilderness of Montana.
Author: Hetty SaundersThis House of Sky
Author: Ivan DoigPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547488556
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
National Book Award Finalist: A “beautifully written, deeply felt” memoir about growing up in the American West (Los Angeles Times). Ivan Doig grew up in the rugged wilderness of western Montana among the sheepherders and denizens of small-town saloons and valley ranches. What he deciphers from his past with piercing clarity is not only a raw sense of land and how it shapes us, but also of the ties to our mothers and fathers, to those who love us, and our inextricable connection to those who shaped our values in our search for intimacy, independence, love, and family. A powerfully told story, This House of Sky is uniquely American—yet also universal in its ability to awaken a longing for an explicable past. “Engrossing and moving.”—Time
Summary of Ivan Doig's This House of Sky
Author: Everest Media,Publisher: Everest Media LLC
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 25
Book Description
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 My mother and father lived a herding life in Montana, with no people in sight. The only sound was the water flowing down Sixteenmile Creek. #2 My parents were herding cattle in Montana when they met. They married, and my father left his previous life to join my mother in her new one. But he soon got sick and died young. #3 When I was six, my mother passed away from asthma. My father and I moved on to the next chapter of our lives, but the start of my memory is June 27, 1945.
House of Sky and Breath
Author: Sarah J. MaasPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1635574080
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 820
Book Description
The #1 New York Times bestseller! Sarah J. Maas's sexy, groundbreaking CRESCENT CITY series continues with the second installment. Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal-they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds. The Asteri have kept their word so far, leaving Bryce and Hunt alone. But with the rebels chipping away at the Asteri's power, the threat the rulers pose is growing. As Bryce, Hunt, and their friends get pulled into the rebels' plans, the choice becomes clear: stay silent while others are oppressed, or fight for what's right. And they've never been very good at staying silent. In this sexy, action-packed sequel to the #1 bestseller House of Earth and Blood, Sarah J. Maas weaves a captivating story of a world about to explode-and the people who will do anything to save it.
Author: Ivan DoigWacky Aphorisms, What the Web Says about This House of Sky
Author: Alice SkinnerPublisher: Lennex
ISBN: 9785458803267
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
In this book, we have hand-picked the most sophisticated, unanticipated, absorbing (if not at times crackpot!), original and musing book reviews of "This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind." Don't say we didn't warn you: these reviews are known to shock with their unconventionality or intimacy. Some may be startled by their biting sincerity; others may be spellbound by their unbridled flights of fantasy. Don't buy this book if: 1. You don't have nerves of steel. 2. You expect to get pregnant in the next five minutes. 3. You've heard it all.
A House in the Sky
Author: Amanda LindhoutPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451645627
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
BREAKING NEWS: Amanda Lindhout’s lead kidnapper, Ali Omar Ader, has been caught. Amanda Lindhout wrote about her fifteen month abduction in Somalia in A House in the Sky. It is the New York Times bestselling memoir of a woman whose curiosity led her to the world’s most remote places and then into captivity: “Exquisitely told…A young woman’s harrowing coming-of-age story and an extraordinary narrative of forgiveness and spiritual triumph” (The New York Times Book Review). As a child, Amanda Lindhout escaped a violent household by paging through issues of National Geographic and imagining herself visiting its exotic locales. At the age of nineteen, working as a cocktail waitress, she began saving her tips so she could travel the globe. Aspiring to understand the world and live a significant life, she backpacked through Latin America, Laos, Bangladesh, and India, and emboldened by each adventure, went on to Sudan, Syria, and Pakistan. In war-ridden Afghanistan and Iraq she carved out a fledgling career as a television reporter. And then, in August 2008, she traveled to Somalia—“the most dangerous place on earth.” On her fourth day, she was abducted by a group of masked men along a dusty road. Held hostage for 460 days, Amanda survives on memory—every lush detail of the world she experienced in her life before captivity—and on strategy, fortitude, and hope. When she is most desperate, she visits a house in the sky, high above the woman kept in chains, in the dark. Vivid and suspenseful, as artfully written as the finest novel, A House in the Sky is “a searingly unsentimental account. Ultimately it is compassion—for her naïve younger self, for her kidnappers—that becomes the key to Lindhout’s survival” (O, The Oprah Magazine).
Author: George Herman Ellwanger
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