Downriver

• Author : Jess Montgomery
• Publisher : Minotaur Books
• Release : 07 December 2021

Downriver is an evocative, gorgeously written short story: the tale of one woman's past—and her inability to escape it—from Jess Montgomery, author of the Kinship series. "Now that I'm dying, I must decide what to do about the necklace." In 1939, many years ago, Rona Carter was a shy, lonely girl. Nothing like the pretty, popular Emily—the golden girl of Liberty, Ohio. Emily, whose body was found in the river. Now, the legend of Emily's death has lived

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs,J. G. Warren (Col.)
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1991

• Author : China. Hai guan zong shui wu si shu
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1893

• Author : Louis C. Hunter,Beatrice Jones Hunter
• Publisher : Courier Corporation
• Release : 01 January 1993

Richly detailed definitive account covers every aspect of steamboat's development -- from construction, equipment, and operation to races, collisions, rise of competition, and ultimate decline of steamboat transportation.

• Author : Melissa Hamm
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• Release : 01 June 2010

This is a story about a young woman who is a game warden in the rural hills of western Massachusetts, where generations of her family have lived before her. She finds herself, through a freak accident, transported back in time a hundred years to the same area. She is found, injured, by the local doctor, with whom a friendship quickly develops. She realizes that it will be impossible for her to continue in the profession of wildlife law enforcement and

• Author : Emma Rea
• Publisher : Firefly Press
• Release : 06 August 2020

Dylan's mum thinks he's on the school Geography trip. Dylan's teacher thinks he's at home with the flu. In fact he's 30,000 feet up in the air on the way to Brazil. When Dylan's farm is snatched away by a huge global company, he can't just sit back and watch. But the journey to rescue his home takes him deep into the heart of the Amazon. With Floyd, a friend he's not sure of, and Lucia, a street kid armed with

• Author : Iain Sinclair
• Publisher : ePenguin
• Release : 29 April 2004

"Crazy, dangerous, prophetic" Angela Carter In DOWNRIVER, Iain Sinclair traces the ruins of Margaret Thatcher's reign through the lens of a fictional film crew that has been hired to make a documentary about what's left of London's river life. The Thames may still flow through the heart of the capital, but life along its shores has changed dramatically. DOWNRIVER is a savage, satirical quest to understand how people's lives, a government's policies and a legendary waterland conspire together in a

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1889

• Author : Andrew Ward
• Publisher : Penguin
• Release : 31 October 2006

On April 12, 1864, on the Tennessee banks of the Mississippi River, a force of more than 3,000 Confederate cavalrymen under General Nathan Bedford Forrest stormed Fort Pillow, overwhelming a garrison of some 350 Southern white Unionists and over 300 former slaves turned artillerymen. By the next day, hundreds of Federals were dead, over 60 black soldiers had been captured and re-enslaved, and over 100 white soldiers had been marched off to their doom at Andersonville. Confederates called this bloody battle and its aftermath a hard-won victory.

• Author : Paul Vasey
• Publisher : Biblioasis
• Release : 21 October 2013

"Ask anyone what they love most about Winzer, and they seem always to tell you it's the people, the family and friends webbed around each of us. True. But for me the town is also, and perhaps mainly, the larger-than-life characters who ghost around in my imagination and my memory: rumrunners and prize fighters and elegant old ladies and one-eyed thugs and earnest well-meaning politicians and hucksters and hookers and crusty old editors. Many of them I remember meeting. Some

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 2023

• Author : Michael R. Williams,Probe International
• Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
• Release : 01 February 1998

Offers fifteen essays arguing why the Chinese government's construction of the Three Gorges Dam is disasterous for population resettlement, human rights, historical and cultural sites, the environment, and the economy.

• Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 01 February 1965