Author | : Jeff Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781937512415 |
A brilliant and visceral cinematic novel about authenticity and the American condition.
Author | : Jeff Wood |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781937512415 |
A brilliant and visceral cinematic novel about authenticity and the American condition.
Author | : Halldor Laxness |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2007-12-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0307429881 |
Nobel laureate Halldór Laxness’s Under the Glacier is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece, a wryly provocative novel at once earthy and otherworldly. At its outset, the Bishop of Iceland dispatches a young emissary to investigate certain charges against the pastor at Snæfells Glacier, who, among other things, appears to have given up burying the dead. But once he arrives, the emissary finds that this dereliction counts only as a mild eccentricity in a community that regards itself as the center of the world and where Creation itself is a work in progress. What is the emissary to make, for example, of the boarded-up church? What about the mysterious building that has sprung up alongside it? Or the fact that Pastor Primus spends most of his time shoeing horses? Or that his wife, Ua (pronounced “ooh-a,” which is what men invariably sputter upon seeing her), is rumored never to have bathed, eaten, or slept? Piling improbability on top of improbability, Under the Glacier overflows with comedy both wild and deadpan as it conjures a phantasmagoria as beguiling as it is profound.
Author | : Alexis M. Smith |
Publisher | : Tin House Books |
Total Pages | : 107 |
Release | : 2023-07-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1953534988 |
A Vulture Best Short Book A She Reads Indie Book Club Pick for Summer “Alexis Smith’s brilliant debut novel is filled with kaleidoscopic pleasures. Line by line, in and out of time, this is a haunted, joyful, beautiful book—a true gift.” —Karen Russell “Her story could be told in other people’s things. The postcards and the photographs. A garnet ring and a needlepoint of the homestead. The aprons hanging from her kitchen door. Her soft, faded, dog-eared copy of Little House in the Big Woods. A closet full of dresses sewn before she was born. All these things tell a story, but is it hers?” Isabel is a single twenty-something in Portland, Oregon, who repairs damaged books in the basement of the local library, dreaming of a life she can’t quite reach. She is filled with longing—for a life in Amsterdam even though she’s never visited, for the unrequited love of a coworker, for a simpler time from her childhood in Alaska among the threatened glaciers she loves, and for the perfect vintage dress to wear to a party that just might change everything. Unfolding over the course of a single day, Alexis M. Smith’s shimmering debut finds Isabel looking into her past—remembering her parents’ separation, a meeting with an astrologer, and a life-changing encounter with a glacier—and shows us how fleeting, everyday moments can reveal an entire life. In classic movies, in old photographs and unsent postcards, rare books, and thrifted gems, Glaciers tells the story of a young woman’s love of the past and a hope to make something new and all her own.
Author | : Matthea Harvey |
Publisher | : Schwartz & Wade |
Total Pages | : 41 |
Release | : 2012-08-14 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375987681 |
In a starred review Publishers Weekly raves: "It’s an avant-garde, surrealist story with a Hollywood-style tearjerker lurking within—and a surprisingly charming and affecting one at that." Award-winning poet Matthea Harvey and illustrator extraordinaire Giselle Potter team up to create an indescribably unique picture book about wanting to be normal, then coming to appreciate being different. Ruby would love to be like everyone else—not easy when you have a tiara-wearing mother and a father who spends his time trimming outrageous topiary. She'd also like to get a nice normal pet, maybe a dog. Then, on a family vacation to Norway, she finds herself adopted by a small, affectionate glacier. How Cecil, as the ice pet is named, proves himself to Ruby—risking his own meltdown—is a story sure to thrill and delight young readers.
Author | : Jorge Daniel Taillant |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0199367256 |
"Glaciers is a volume about the role glaciers play in our daily lives (often without us knowing), the risks posed to glaciers from natural and anthropogenic activity (including climate change and industrial pollution), and policies and practices that should be employed to protect this fundamental hydrological reserve"--
Author | : Andrew Selters |
Publisher | : The Mountaineers Books |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | : 9780898866582 |
Glacier Travel and Crevasse Rescue is a comprehensive course in understanding glaciers, crossing them, avoiding crevasses, and rescuing crevasse victims. Sidebars feature descriptions of accidents and near-accidents to emphasize the importance of the techniques presented.
Author | : Marius Robinson Campbell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1921 |
Genre | : Glacier National Park (Mont.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Douglas Chadwick |
Publisher | : Patagonia |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2013-10-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 193834006X |
Glutton, demon of destruction, symbol of slaughter, mightiest of wilderness villains… The wolverine comes marked with a reputation based on myth and fancy. Yet this enigmatic animal is more complex than the legends that surround it. With a shrinking wilderness and global warming, the future of the wolverine is uncertain. The Wolverine Way reveals the natural history of this species and the forces that threaten its future, engagingly told by Douglas Chadwick, who volunteered with the Glacier Wolverine Project. This five-year study in Glacier National Park – which involved dealing with blizzards, grizzlies, sheer mountain walls, and other daily challenges to survival – uncovered key missing information about the wolverine’s habitat, social structure and reproduction habits. Wolverines, according to Chadwick, are the land equivalent of polar bears in regard to the impacts of global warming. The plight of wolverines adds to the call for wildlife corridors that connect existing habitat that is proposed by the Freedom to Roam coalition.
Author | : Blake Passmore |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Glacier National Park (Mont.) |
ISBN | : 9780988954908 |
Volume Three: The Northern Highline, Lake McDonald and Sperry Glacier Basin