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22) Raven and river
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
Raven and the other animals try to awaken the frozen river to the coming Alaskan springtime.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"The author of the #1 New York Times bestseller and global phenomenon The Girl on the Train returns with Into the Water, her addictive new novel of psychological suspense. A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long...
Author
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Description
He was a fishing guide and struggling artist from a south George trailer park. She was the beautiful only child of South Carolina's most powerful senator. Yet once Doss Michaels and Abigail Grace Coleman met by accident, they each felt they'd found their true soul mate. Ten years into their marriage, when Abbie faces a life-threatening illness, Doss battles it with her every step of the way. And when she makes a list of ten things she hopes to accomplish...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
228 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"When Steph Catudal met her husband Rivs, she thought that the love, stability, and warmth she shared with her husband had finally dispelled her pent-up anger and grief over the loss of her father and her faith. But when Rivs became ill and was put into coma at the height of the pandemic, the painful memories of her childhood--watching her father die of cancer--came flooding back. Written with lush lyricism, Steph's account of how this crisis forced...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
x, 381 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Description
"The acclaimed author of The Unquiet Mind considers the age-old quest for relief from psychic pain and the role of the gifted healer in the journey back to health. "To treat, even to cure, is not always to heal." In this expansive cultural history of the treatment and healing of suffering, Kay Jamison writes about what makes an effective healer, and the role of imagination and memory in the regeneration of the mind. From the trauma of the bloodiest...
29) The long call
Author
Series
Two rivers volume 1
Description
In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his estranged father's funeral takes place. When Matthew left the strict evangelical community he grew up in, he lost his family too. Now, as he turns and walks away again, he receives a call from one of his team. A body has been found on the beach nearby: a man with a tattoo of an albatross on his neck, stabbed to death. The case calls...
30) Bear came along
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Description
An assortment of animals living separate lives discover they need each other when they have a chance encounter on a river.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
400 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"On New Year's Day 2012, Amy-Jane Beer's beloved friend Kate set out with a group of others to kayak the River Rawthey in Cumbria. Kate never came home, and her death left her devoted family and friends bereft and unmoored. Returning to visit the Rawthey years later, Amy realises how much she misses the connection to the natural world she always felt when on or close to rivers, and so begins a new phase of exploration. The Flow is a book about water,...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Description
"One spring morning, Cam was playing by his house. He watched a trickle of water running through the pine trees. The water splashed and sang in the voice of snow, Come with me. Come with me. I will take you to the sea" --
View more details of this book at www.walkerbooks.com.au.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 x 26 cm
Description
When community members work together with trucks and ships to clean up the town's riverfront, an artist and her child hammer, chisel, weld and zap the found materials into something beautiful. Young makers will find inspiration in the playful, rhyming text and mixed media illustrations, while endnotes provide recycled-art activity ideas.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
349 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
"America has more than 250,000 rivers, coursing over more than 3 million miles, connecting the disparate regions of the United States. On a map they can look like the veins, arteries, and capillaries of a continent-wide circulatory system, and in a way they are. Over the course of this nation's history rivers have served as integral trade routes, borders, passageways, sewers, and sinks. Over the years, based on our shifting needs and values, we have...
Author
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
51 p.
Description
Washington's oil spill prevention and response program has been in place for six years. This report is an examination of the history of oil transportation and the resulting trends in oil spills. This analysis is the first step toward measuring the level of success that industry, government and the public are having on preventing oil spills. This report is also intented to help Washington determine how to best provide the "best achievable protection"...
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