2012 Eric Hoffer Book Awards for General Fiction Honorable Mention 2011 Utah Book Award Finalist Crooked Creek takes place during the latter part of westward expansion and chronicles the lives (and deaths) of the Wood family. The Woods--Preston and Sara--must flee Arizona when they, along with Sara's parents and little brother Jasper, unwittingly get caught up in the plunder and sale of American Indian corpses and funerary objects. Preston, Sara, and Jasper end up in the Heber Valley of Utah, where they seek the support of Sara's Uncle Neff until they can be...
2012 Eric Hoffer Book Awards for General Fiction Honorable Mention 2011 Utah Book Award Finalist Crooked Creek takes place...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Musikwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Technische Universitat Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig (Historisches Seminar), Veranstaltung: Die Geschichte des Dings, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die Gitarre ist ein Instrument, das seit dem Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts eine immer groer werde Rolle in der Instrumentenwelt eingenommen hat. In vielen Musikbereichen hat sie ihren Platz gefunden und ist nicht nur in klassischen Stucken zu finden, sondern verkorpert besonders in der Rockmusik ein Ideal von Freiheit und Selbstverwirklichung. Doch was wissen wir...
Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2011 im Fachbereich Musikwissenschaft, Note: 1,0, Technische Universitat Carolo-Wilhelmina zu Braunschweig (Historisches Se...
"The sound of parenthood is the sigh." So begins Gravity Hill, written from the perspective of a new father seeking hope, beauty, and meaning in an uncertain world. Many memoirs recount the author's experiences of growing up and struggling with demons; Werner's shows how old demons sometimes return on the heels of something as beautiful as children. Werner's memoir is about growing up, getting older, looking back, and wondering what lies ahead--a process that becomes all the more complicated and intense when parenting is involved. Moving backward and forward between past, present, and...
"The sound of parenthood is the sigh." So begins Gravity Hill, written from the perspective of a new father seeking hope, beauty, and meaning in an...