"Award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us on a journey into the secret history of coal mining in the American heartland. Set in the ruins of his family's strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, Biggers delivers a de…
"Award-winning journalist and cultural historian Jeff Biggers takes us on a journey into the secret history of coal mining in the American heartland. Set in the ruins of his family's strip-mined homestead in the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois, Biggers delivers a de…
"For many people, moving to a mountain town is the realization of a dream, the final step in a pilgrimage to a relaxed lifestyle in a rugged and beautiful setting. For Jamey, the long journey began when he was a teenager in the 1980s with the vague idea there might be a better l…
For many people, moving to a mountain town is the realization of a dream, the final step in a pilgrimage to a relaxed lifestyle in a rugged and beautiful setting. After a long journey that began when he was a teenager in the 1980s with the vague idea there might be a better life…
Poems of a mountain home
by Watson, Burton, Saigyō
fromTranslations from the Oriental classics
Each poem is "accompanied by a romanized version of the Japanese original and identification of its location in Japanese anthologies."
Adirondack: life and wildlife in the wild, wild East
Heidi
by Parminter, Sue, Bowler, Bill, Davenport, Paul, Spyri, Johanna, Armino, Monica
fromDominoes. Starter level, 250 headwords
'I'm not going with you, Aunt Dete!' Heidi cries. 'Oh yes, you are!' Dete answers. Heidi loves her home in the Swiss mountains, her grandfather, and her friend Peter, the goatherd. So when Aunt Dete takes her away to Frankfurt, she doesn't leave happily. In Frankfurt, Heidi is s…
"I'm not going with you, Aunt Dete!" Heidi cries. "Oh yes, you are!" Dete answers. Heidi loves her home in the Swiss mountains, her grandfather, and her friend Peter, the goatherd. So when Aunt Dete takes her away to Frankfurt, she doesn't leave happily. In Frankfurt, Heidi is s…
Icy is only 10 years old the first time the sudden itching, the pressure squeezing her skull, and the "little invisible rubber bands" attached to her eyelids that indicate symptoms of Tourette's syndrome happens. She doesn't have a name for these unsettling impulses, but wheneve…
Icy is only 10 years old the first time the sudden itching, the pressure squeezing her skull, and the "little invisible rubber bands" attached to her eyelids that indicate symptoms of Tourette's syndrome happens. She doesn't have a name for these unsettling impulses, but wheneve…