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A Map of the World
Author | : Jane Hamilton |
Publsiher | : Anchor |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2010-12-15 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780307764065 |
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the author of the widely acclaimed The Book of Ruth comes a harrowing, heartbreaking drama about a rural American family and a disastrous event that forever changes their lives. "It takes a writer of rare power and discipline to carry off an achievement like A Map of the World. Hamilton proves here that she is one of the best." —Newsweek The Goodwins, Howard, Alice, and their little girls, Emma and Claire, live on a dairy farm in Wisconsin. Although suspiciously regarded by their neighbors as "that hippie couple" because of their well-educated, urban background, Howard and Alice believe they have found a source of emotional strength in the farm, he tending the barn while Alice works as a nurse in the local elementary school. But their peaceful life is shattered one day when a neighbor's two-year-old daughter drowns in the Goodwins' pond while under Alice's care. Tormented by the accident, Alice descends even further into darkness when she is accused of sexually abusing a student at the elementary school. Soon, Alice is arrested, incarcerated, and as good as convicted in the eyes of a suspicious community. As a child, Alice designed her own map of the world to find her bearings. Now, as an adult, she must find her way again, through a maze of lies, doubt and ill will. A vivid human drama of guilt and betrayal, A Map of the World chronicles the intricate geographies of the human heart and all its mysterious, uncharted terrain. The result is a piercing drama about family bonds and a disappearing rural American life.
Mapping the World
Author | : Ralph E. Ehrenberg |
Publsiher | : National Geographic Society |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015062882108 |
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"This book highlights more than a hundred maps from every era and every part of the world. Organized chronologically, they display an astonishing variety of cartographic styles and techniques. They range from priceless artistic masterworks like the 1507 Waldseemuller world map, the first to use the name "America, " to such practical artifacts as a Polynesian stick chart, a creation of bent twigs, seashells, and coconut palms that was nevertheless capable of guiding an outrigger canoe safely across thousands of miles of trackless and seemingly endless ocean. Some, like the portolans, or sea charts, of the Age of Discovery, were closely guarded state secrets that shaped the rise and fall of empires; others circulated widely and showed such fabled routes as the Silk Road across western Asia and the Oregon and Santa Fe Trails that opened up the American West."--Jacket.
The Mapping of the World Early Printed World Maps 1472 1700
Author | : Rodney W. Shirley |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : OCLC:1419294419 |
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The Book of Ruth
Author | : Jane Hamilton |
Publsiher | : HMH |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2014-10-07 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780547523590 |
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PEN/Hemingway Award Winner: An “enthralling” novel of a woman trapped within a tragically dysfunctional family (Entertainment Weekly). From the New York Times–bestselling author of The Excellent Lombards and A Map of the World, this is “an extraordinary story of a family’s disintegration [that] will be compared to Jane Smiley’s A Thousand Acres” (People). It follows Ruth Grey, a young woman in a tiny Illinois farm town, who has lost her father to World War II, and constantly faces her unhappy mother’s wrath—when she isn’t being ignored in favor of her math-prodigy brother. As Ruth navigates her lonely life, she strives to find happiness and pleasure where she can, but the world may conspire to defeat her. “A sly and wistful, if harrowing, human comedy . . . [An] original voice in fiction and one well worth listening to.” —The Boston Sunday Globe “Unforgettably, beat by beat, Hamilton maps the best and worst of the human heart and all the mysterious, uncharted country in between.” —Kirkus Reviews “Hamilton’s story builds to a shocking crescendo. Her small-town characters are as appealingly offbeat and brushed with grace as any found in Alice Hoffman’s or Anne Tyler’s novels.” —Glamour
Mapping the World
Author | : Sylvia A. Johnson |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Cartography |
ISBN | : 9780689818134 |
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A history of mapmaking showing how maps both reflect and change people's view of the world.
Mapping the World
Author | : Caroline Laffon,Martine Laffon |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 1554077818 |
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An illustrated history of cartogrphy and what it reveals about the world around us.
Early Printed Maps of the British Isles 1477 1650
Author | : Rodney W. Shirley |
Publsiher | : Young Writers |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105000213566 |
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Mapping Penny s World
Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2003-08 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0805072624 |
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After learning about maps in school, Lisa maps all the favorite places of her dog Penny.