Rough Beauty

Rough Beauty
Author: Karen Auvinen
Publisher: Scribner
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2019-06-04
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501152297

In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed’s Wild and Helen MacDonald’s H Is for Hawk, Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life’s big questions with “candor [and] admirable courage” (Christian Science Monitor). Determined to live an independent life on her own terms, Karen Auvinen flees to a primitive cabin in the Rockies to live in solitude as a writer and to embrace all the beauty and brutality nature has to offer. When a fire incinerates every word she has ever written and all of her possessions—except for her beloved dog Elvis, her truck, and a few singed artifacts—Karen embarks on a heroic journey to reconcile her desire to be alone with her need for community. In the evocative spirit of works by Annie Dillard, Gretel Ehrlich, and Terry Tempest Williams, Karen’s “beautiful, contemplative…breathtaking [debut] memoir honors the wildness of the Rockies” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). “Rough Beauty offers a glimpse into a life that’s pared down to its essentials, open to unexpected, even profound, change” (Brevity Magazine), and Karen’s pursuit of solace and salvation through shedding trivial ties and living in close harmony with nature, along with her account of finding community and even love, is sure to resonate with all of us who long for meaning and deeper connection. An “outstanding…beautiful story of resilience” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Rough Beauty is a luminous, lyric exploration, “a narrative that reads like a captivating novel...a voice not found often enough in literature—a woman who eschews the prescribed role outlined for her by her family and discovers her own path” (Christian Science Monitor) to embrace the unpredictability and grace of living intimately with the forces of nature.

Rough Beauty

Rough Beauty
Author: Dave Anderson
Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2006
Genre: Photography
ISBN:

A powerful expose of poverty in America. Photographed in Vidor, Texas, Rough Beauty explores the character and burden of a close-knit community branded by its past and its links to the Ku Klux Klan. Behind the stereotype is a town of bootstrappers struggling to get by against a background of crushing poverty reminiscent of the Depression. Dave Anderson is an award-winning photographer, widely tipped as a rising star in the international photo press, and worked for Bill Clinton at the White House.

The Rough-Face Girl

The Rough-Face Girl
Author: Rafe Martin
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 19
Release: 1992-04-29
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1524740780

From Algonquin Indian folklore comes one of the most haunting, powerful versions of the Cinderella tale ever told. In a village by the shores of Lake Ontario lived an invisible being. All the young women wanted to marry him because he was rich, powerful, and supposedly very handsome. But to marry the invisible being the women had to prove to his sister that they had seen him. And none had been able to get past the sister's stern, all-knowing gaze. Then came the Rough-Face girl, scarred from working by the fire. Could she succeed where her beautiful, cruel sisters had failed?

Rough Animals

Rough Animals
Author: Rae DelBianco
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2018-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1628729740

The 25 Best Thriller Books of the Summer—New York Post Best New Books Coming Out Summer 2018 —Southern Living 46 Great Books to Read This Summer—Nylon Dazzling Debuts"—WYPR, "The Weekly Reader" Summer Thrillers That Will Have You at the Edge of Your Chaise Lounge—Refinery29 8 New Books You Should Read This June—vulture.com What We Read, Watched, and Listened to in May—Outside “Furious and electric . . . a fever dream."—Publishers Weekly, *Starred Review!* Breaking Bad meets No Country for Old Men... Ever since their father's untimely death five years before, Wyatt Smith and his inseparably close twin sister, Lucy, have scraped by alone on their family's isolated ranch in Box Elder County, Utah. That is until one morning when, just after spotting one of their steers lying dead in the field, Wyatt is hit in the arm by a hail of gunfire that takes four more cattle with it. The shooter: a fever-eyed, fearsome girl-child with a TEC-9 in her left hand and a worn shotgun in her right. They hold the girl captive, but she breaks loose overnight and heads south into the desert. With the dawning realization that the loss of cattle will mean the certain loss of the ranch, Wyatt feels he has no choice but to go after her and somehow find restitution for what's been lost. Wyatt's decision sets him on an epic twelve-day odyssey through a nightmarish underworld he only half understands; a world that pitches him not only against the primordial ways of men and the beautiful yet brutally unforgiving landscape, but also against himself. As he winds his way down from the mountains of Box Elder to the mesas of Monument Valley and back, Wyatt is forced to look for the first time at who he is and what he’s capable of, and how those hard truths set him irrevocably apart from the one person he’s ever really known and loved. Steeped in a mythic, wildly alive language of its own, and gripping from the first gunshot to the last, Rough Animals is a tour de force from a powerful new voice.

Vanitas Rough

Vanitas Rough
Author: Lisa Russ Spaar
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012-12-25
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0892554207

“Spaar sounds like no other poet writing today.”—Jennifer Chang, The Believer With her trademark language—baroque yet colloquial, immediately recognizable but impossible to duplicate—Lisa Russ Spaar has written her most sumptuous, alluring, and steamy poems to date, each one bursting with an appetite for the sensuous and the lingual. “Is syntax erotic?” she asks in Vanitas, Rough. “If so, please. Please read. Here.”

Rough Ideas

Rough Ideas
Author: Stephen Hough
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0374721408

A collection of essays on music and life by the famed classical pianist and composer Stephen Hough is one of the world’s leading pianists, winning global acclaim and numerous awards, both for his concerts and his recordings. He is also a writer, composer, and painter, and has been described by The Economist as one of “Twenty Living Polymaths.” Hough writes informally and engagingly about music and the life of a musician, from the broader aspects of what it is to walk out onto a stage or to make a recording, to specialist tips from deep inside the practice room: how to trill, how to pedal, how to practice. He also writes vividly about people he’s known, places he’s traveled to, books he’s read, paintings he’s seen; and he touches on more controversial subjects, such as assisted suicide and abortion. Even religion is there—the possibility of the existence of God, problems with some biblical texts, and the challenges involved in being a gay Catholic. Rough Ideas is an illuminating, constantly surprising introduction to the life and mind of one of our great cultural figures.

Bulletin

Bulletin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1206
Release: 1888
Genre:
ISBN:

Rough Wilderness

Rough Wilderness
Author: Rosemary Aubert
Publisher: Quattro Books
Total Pages: 72
Release: 2011
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1926802411

Rough Wilderness chronicles one of the most famous tales of love, betrayal and redemption. Heloise and Abelard were medieval scholars whose taboo-breaking affair shocked clerics and fellow scholars and assured the star-crossed pair a place in history. These poems are contemporary in subject and tone, but also explore some of the most complex modes that have come down to us, including sonnets, pantoums, villanelles and others.

When The Night Gets Rough

When The Night Gets Rough
Author: A.M Metcalf
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 138
Release: 2019-11-07
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 1794731091

These poems are intended for those whose emotions or racing mind may keep them up late at night. Spanning multiple generations, the story told between the pages is that of the fighters by our sides that we cannot see, and what our lives look like from their point of view.