Blackwater Ben

Author : William Durbin
Publisher : Yearling
ISBN 13 : 0307514595
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackwater Ben written by William Durbin and published by Yearling. This book was released on 2008-12-18 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Ben works at Blackwater Logging Camp as cook’s helper to his Pa. Long days of flipping pancakes and peeling potatoes with his ornery Pa make Ben long to be out in the woods with the lumberjacks. Felling logs, sawing trees, driving a team through the snowy woods . . . that’s what Ben wants to be doing. But the long cold winter in a camp filled with outlandish characters teaches Ben a lot about himself. Especially when an orphan boy called Nevers arrives in camp. When Nevers signs on to work with Pa, Ben makes a friend and a rival, too.

Author : William Durbin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452942374
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackwater Ben written by William Durbin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to thirteen-year-old Ben Ward’s father, lumberjacks look forward to two things: mealtime and springtime. In the winter of 1898, Ben leaves school for a job as a cook’s assistant to his father at the Blackwater Logging Camp. As Ben spends long hours peeling potatoes and frying flapjacks, he dreams of working in the woods with the other men, felling trees, driving a team, and skidding timber. While enduring a long, cold winter in a camp filled with outlandish characters, as well as an orphan boy named Nevers, Ben comes to understand himself and his family’s past. Peppered throughout with heart and humor—and including a glossary and afterword with facts about logging—Blackwater Ben paints a vivid picture of the north woods of Minnesota at the end of the nineteenth century.

Author : William Durbin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781452942360
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackwater Ben written by William Durbin and published by . This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the winter of 1898, a seventh-grade boy drops out of school to work with his father, the cook at Blackwater Logging Camp in Minnesota.

Author : Colm Toibin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501106929
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Blackwater Lightship written by Colm Toibin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of The Master and Brooklyn, Colm Tóibín weaves together the lives of three generations of estranged women as they reunite to witness and mourn the death of a brother, a son, and a grandson. It is Ireland in the early 1990s. Helen, her mother, Lily, and her grandmother, Dora, have come together to tend to Helen's brother, Declan, who is dying of AIDS. With Declan's two friends, the six of them are forced to plumb the shoals of their own histories and to come to terms with each other.​ Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, The Blackwater Lightship is a deeply resonant story about three generations of an estranged family reuniting to mourn an untimely death. In spare, luminous prose, Colm Tóibín explores the nature of love and the complex emotions inside a family at war with itself. Hailed as "a genuine work of art" (Chicago Tribune), this is a novel about the capacity of stories to heal the deepest wounds.

Author : Richard Kyle Smith
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1514417219
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Blackwater Betrayal written by Richard Kyle Smith and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-10-21 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blackwater Betrayal tells the story of the ruthless, ill-conceived scorched earth actions by the Confederacy of Mill Town, or Milton, on the Blackwater River in the Western Florida Panhandle and the rest of the Pensacola Bay area. It tells the journey of John Geoghegan and how he became a successful blockade runner out of Pensacola. It is the story of Maria Moreno, the Spanish beauty whom John loves and almost loses. It is the story of John’s friend Ben Jernigan, engaged to French-educated Amanda Rucker. Ben has no interest in war, so he hides in Yellow River swamp to avoid conscription but finds himself drawn out to help his friend Caleb, a slave who has killed in self-defense. He gets Amanda and her friends out of Milton and finally leaves the Southern ruins with John and his friends on his ship, the Carolina.

Author : Dathan Auerbach
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0525435263
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bad Man written by Dathan Auerbach and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Dathan Auerbach, the author of the horror sensation Penpal, a hauntingly dark novel about a young boy who goes missing, and the brother who won't stop looking for him. Eric disappeared when he was three years old. Ben looked away for only a second at the grocery store, but that was all it took. His brother was gone. Vanished into the sticky air of the Florida Panhandle. Five years later, Ben is still looking for his brother. Still searching, while his stepmother sits and waits and whispers for Eric, refusing to leave the house that Ben's father can no longer afford. Now twenty and desperate for work, Ben takes a job on the night stock crew at the only place that will have him: the store that blinked Eric out of existence. Ben can feel there's something wrong there. With the people. With his boss. With the graffitied baler that shudders and groans and beckons. But he's in the right place. He knows the store has much to show him, so he keeps searching. Except Ben misses the most important thing of all. That he should have stopped looking.

Author : William Durbin
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452931259
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Song of Sampo Lake written by William Durbin and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifteen-year-old Matti Ojala and his family, Finnish immigrants in Minnesota in 1900, starting a new life in America is both a hardship and an opportunity. After a tragic mining accident kills their beloved uncle, the family turns away from the iron mines to pursue the dream of owning a homestead in the wilderness. This means constant hard work and new challenges for the entire family. But will it also allow Matti, the in-between child, the chance to escape from his older brother’s shadow and gain the approval of his father, which he so desperately desires?

Author : Bruce Sandison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781873674314
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trout & Salmon Rivers and Lochs of Scotland written by Bruce Sandison and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Sandison's Rivers and Lochs of Scotland is the only book on fishing in Scotland that an angler will ever need. This new, comprehensive and completely revised edition describes more than 5,000 freshwater fishing locations complete with access details, flies and tactics and where to obtain permission to fish. For anyone fishing in Scotland, this book is the angler's bible.

Author : William Durbin
Publisher : New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub.
ISBN 13 : 044041184X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Broken Blade written by William Durbin and published by New York : Bantam Doubleday Dell Pub.. This book was released on 1997 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre La Page never imagined he'd be leaving Montreal to paddle 2,400 miles. It was something older men, like his father, did. But when Pierre's father has an accident, Pierre quits school to become a voyageur for the North West Company, so his family can survive the winter. It's hard for Pierre as the youngest in the brigade. From the treacherous waters and cruel teasing to his aching and bloodied hands, Pierre is miserable. Still he has no choice but to endure the trip to Grand Portage and back.

Author : Bruce Sandison
Publisher : Black & White Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1845025202
Total Pages : 820 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rivers and Lochs of Scotland written by Bruce Sandison and published by Black & White Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bruce Sandison's "Rivers and Lochs of Scotland" is the only book on fishing in Scotland that an angler will ever need. This new, comprehensive and completely revised edition describes more than 5,000 freshwater fishing locations complete with access details, flies and tactics and where to obtain permission to fish. For anyone fishing in Scotland, this book is the angler's bible.