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Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 284 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Joan Rivers said some outrageous things to her audiences as a comedian--but they were nothing compared to what she said and did in private. But her love for her daughter knew no bounds. Now Melissa Rivers shares stories and anecdotes about growing up in the Rosenberg-Rivers household with the woman who raised her.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
207 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Description
Get the lowdown from writer Anna Katz and ski guide Shane Robinson on the best natural waters in which to take a summer dip in the Pacific Northwest, from the San Juan Islands to the Washington-Oregon border and beyond.
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Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xviii, 289 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Description
"Rivers host vibrant multispecies communities in their waters and along their banks, and, according to queer-trans-feminist river scientist Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, their future vitality requires centering the values of justice, sovereignty, and dynamism. At the intersection of river sciences, queer and trans theory, and environmental justice, Underflows explores river cultures and politics at five sites of water conflict and restoration in California,...
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Pub. Date
c1985
Physical Desc
88 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Description
This book will cover the area from the road leading from Forks, a bustling town lying on a prairie in what is know as the "West End" of Clallam County to La Push at the mouth of the Quillayute River, south to the Queets River where it ventures into the northern edge of the Quinault Indian Indian Reservation. Most particulary the western edge of the Olympic Peninsula that is drained by those rivers known as the Hoh, the Clearwater and the Queets,...
28) 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
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...
32) The long call
Author
Series
Two rivers volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
From Ann Cleeves--bestselling and award-winning author of the Vera and Shetland series, both of which are hit TV shows--comes the first in a gripping new series. "Ann Cleeves is one of my favorite mystery writers."--Louise Penny In North Devon, where two rivers converge and run into the sea, Detective Matthew Venn stands outside the church as his father's funeral takes place. Once loved and cherished, the day Matthew left the strict evangelical community...
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"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...
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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
2022.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then we start homeward, fathomless as to what home might make of us."--
""We are matter and long to be received by an Earth that conceived us, which accepts and reconstitutes us, its children, each of us, without exception, every one. The journey is long, and then...
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.
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