[PDF] On The Rim eBook

Author : Thomas McGuane
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2011-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 140007522X

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The unforgettable story of a housepainter turned doctor in Big Sky country who finds himself on a darkly funny journey to salvation in this “irrepressibly comic and optimistic” novel (The New York Times Book Review) from the acclaimed author of Ninety-two in the Shade and Cloudbursts Berl Pickett is living in the small town of Livingston, Montana. The son of Pentecostal rug-shampooers, Pickett has never been the social toast of the town, but when he is accused of negligent homicide in the death of his former lover, he finds himself ostracized by his colleagues and realizes just how small his little village truly is. But fortunately for Berl, the very thing that sets him apart—his inability to follow the pack—proves to be his saving grace. With this inglorious hero, McGuane has created an unforgettable voyager.

Author : Chip Ward
Publisher : Verso
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 38,1 MB
Release : 2001-05-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781859843215

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A quest to understand the secret history of ecocide in Utah.

Author : Sonya Spreen Bates
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1459808908

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Dylan’s wish comes true when Coach Scott names him to the starting lineup for the Mountview High Hunters’ first game of the playoffs. But just when he should be concentrating on basketball, Dylan becomes the target of some off-court aggression. As he’s driving his girlfriend, Jenna, home one night, a black pickup truck tries to run them off the road. The police call it an accident. But even as Dylan tries to put it behind him, he has a sense of impending danger that he can’t shake. When Jenna starts receiving threats from an anonymous cyberbully telling her to “keep quiet,” Dylan becomes seriously concerned about her safety. Jenna has no idea what the cyberbully thinks she knows. But Dylan will have to help her figure it out fast if they’re ever going to feel safe again.

Author : Paul M. Pressly
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2013-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0820335673

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DIVHow did colonial Georgia, an economic backwater in its early days, make its way into the burgeoning Caribbean and Atlantic economies where trade spilled over national boundaries, merchants operated in multiple markets, and the transport of enslaved Africans bound together four continents? In On the Rim of the Caribbean, Paul M. Pressly interprets Georgia's place in the Atlantic world in light of recent work in transnational and economic history. He considers how a tiny elite of newly arrived merchants, adapting to local culture but loyal to a larger vision of the British empire, led the colony into overseas trade. From this perspective, Pressly examines the ways in which Georgia came to share many of the characteristics of the sugar islands, how Savannah developed as a "Caribbean" town, the dynamics of an emerging slave market, and the role of merchant-planters as leaders in forging a highly adaptive economic culture open to innovation. The colony's rapid growth holds a larger story: how a frontier where Carolinians played so large a role earned its own distinctive character. Georgia's slowness in responding to the revolutionary movement, Pressly maintains, had a larger context. During the colonial era, the lowcountry remained oriented to the West Indies and Atlantic and failed to develop close ties to the North American mainland as had South Carolina. He suggests that the American Revolution initiated the process of bringing the lowcountry into the orbit of the mainland, a process that would extend well beyond the Revolution./div

Author : William Smart
Publisher :
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 33,63 MB
Release : 1999-12
Category : History
ISBN :

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Over the Rim is the first book about an important but little-known expedition sent by Brigham Young to explore southern Utah. Led by Mormon apostle Parley P. Pratt, the party traveled from Salt Lake City south across the rim of the Great Basin to the Virgin River near future St. George. They brought back to Mormon leaders their first detailed portrait of the country to the south that the church planned to settle.

Author : David Levine
Publisher : Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,22 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN :

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Life in the National Basketball Association is the Big Time. But for many former college stars, the NBA is still a bus ticket away, and to stay sharp, they play in the NBA's official minor league--the Continental Basketball Association. Levine provides a hilarious account of minor league basketball at its very best--or worst! 8-page photo insert.

Author : Dale Eunson
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,7 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 9781931832205

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A true story of a young boy homesteading in early Montana above the rim of Billings. So beautifully written it lingers in the mind long after you finish reading it.

Author : Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0295805226

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In this lively account of one [fire] season, Pyne introduces us to the tightly knit world of a fire crew, to the complex geography of the North Rim, to the technique and changing philosophy of fire management.Publishers Weekly

Author : Sterling Seagrave
Publisher : Corgi
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2012-05
Category : China
ISBN : 9780552168120

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"Be so subtle that you are invisible. Be so mysterious that you are intangible. Then you will control your rivals's fate' un Tzu, from The Art of War A community of fifty five million expatriates. Up to two trillion dollars in assets. A highly integrated interconnected network of influence and favour. A firm base on the Pacific Rim. Ambitions to influence the West. Imagine the potential power of such an organisation. You don't have to. This is the Overseas Chinese. Sterling Seagrave's brilliant new book, Lords of the Rim, uncovers a complex web of operations which already dominates the Far East and which is already making inroads into the West. It is a superbly researched and spectacularly told account of an extraordinary phenomenon, telling just who the Overseas Chinese are and how they became so powerful. Spanning thousands of years it encompasses stories of murder and betrayal, bravery and corruption; of triads, syndicates, kingmakers, merchants, emperors, generals, spies and pirates. In telling this masterful and entertaining history, Seagrave provides the reader with a cautionary tale- that Chinese strategies so effective for centuries are just as succesful today."

Author : Ross Thomas
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 37,88 MB
Release : 2003-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312290597

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"Booth Stallings, 60-year-old Washington expert on terrorism and perennial drunk," is fired from his job, but Georgia Blue plans to deliver $5 million to rebels in the Philippine jungle, and Stallings, Otherguy Overby, Artie Wu, and Stallings' sidekick Durant "have other destinations in mind."--Audio cassette container.