The Hour of Land Book
Score: 4
From 56 Ratings

The Hour of Land

  • Author : Terry Tempest Williams
  • Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
  • Release Date : 2016-05-31
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 416
  • ISBN 10 : 9780374712266
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America’s national parks are breathing spaces in a world in which such spaces are steadily disappearing, which is why more than 300 million people visit the parks each year. Now Terry Tempest Williams, the author of the environmental classic Refuge and the beloved memoir When Women Were Birds, returns with The Hour of Land, a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.

The Hour of Land Book
Score: 4
From 55 Ratings

The Hour of Land

  • Author : Terry Tempest Williams
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release Date : 2016-05-31
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 417
  • ISBN 10 : 9780374280093
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"A personal, lyrical, and idiosyncratic ode to our national parks"--

Erosion Book
Score: 4
From 3 Ratings

Erosion

  • Author : Terry Tempest Williams
  • Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
  • Release Date : 2019-10-08
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 336
  • ISBN 10 : 9780374712297
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Fierce, timely, and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist Terry Tempest Williams's fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America's public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: "How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?" We know the elements of erosion: wind, water, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy, science, compassion, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monument—sacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which "oil rigs light up the horizon." And she testifies that the climate crisis is not an abstraction, offering as evidence the drought outside her door and, at times, within herself. These essays are Williams's call to action, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times. We will find new territory—emotional, geographical, communal. The erosion of desert lands exposes the truth of change. What has been weathered, worn, and whittled away is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming. Erosion is a book for this moment, political and spiritual at once, written by one of our greatest naturalists, essayists, and defenders of the environment. She reminds us that beauty is its own form of resistance, and that water can crack stone.

Finding Beauty in a Broken World Book
Score: 4
From 3 Ratings

Finding Beauty in a Broken World

  • Author : Terry Tempest Williams
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release Date : 2009-10-06
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 434
  • ISBN 10 : 9780375725197
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"Shards of glass can cut and wound or magnify a vision," Terry Tempest Williams tells us. "Mosaic celebrates brokenness and the beauty of being brought together." Ranging from Ravenna, Italy, where she learns the ancient art of mosaic, to the American Southwest, where she observes prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, to a small village in Rwanda where she joins genocide survivors to build a memorial from the rubble of war, Williams searches for meaning and community in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. In her compassionate meditation on how nature and humans both collide and connect, Williams affirms a reverence for all life, and constructs a narrative of hopeful acts, taking that which is broken and creating something whole.

When Women Were Birds Book
Score: 4
From 18 Ratings

When Women Were Birds

  • Author : Terry Tempest Williams
  • Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
  • Release Date : 2012-04-10
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 224
  • ISBN 10 : 9781429942829
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The beloved author of Refuge returns with a work that explodes and startles, illuminates and celebrates Terry Tempest Williams's mother told her: "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." Readers of Williams's iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was one of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. It was a shock to Williams to discover that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them. "They were exactly where she said they would be: three shelves of beautiful cloth-bound books . . . I opened the first journal. It was empty. I opened the second journal. It was empty. I opened the third. It too was empty . . . Shelf after shelf after shelf, all of my mother's journals were blank." What did Williams's mother mean by that? In fifty-four chapters that unfold like a series of yoga poses, each with its own logic and beauty, Williams creates a lyrical and caring meditation of the mystery of her mother's journals. When Women Were Birds is a kaleidoscope that keeps turning around the question "What does it mean to have a voice?"

Refuge Book
Score: 4
From 15 Ratings

Refuge

  • Author : Terry Tempest Williams
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release Date : 1992-09-01
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 337
  • ISBN 10 : 9780679740247
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In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s. As it interweaves these narratives of dying and accommodation, Refuge transforms tragedy into a document of renewal and spiritual grace, resulting in a work that has become a classic.

An Unspoken Hunger Book
Score: 3.5
From 2 Ratings

An Unspoken Hunger

  • Author : Terry Tempest Williams
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release Date : 2015-03-18
  • Genre: Nature
  • Pages : 160
  • ISBN 10 : 9781101912430
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The acclaimed author of Refuge here weaves together a resonant and often rhapsodic manifesto on behalf of the landscapes she loves, combining the power of her observations in the field with her personal experience—as a woman, a Mormon, and a Westerner. Through the grace of her stories we come to see how a lack of intimacy with the natural world has initiated a lack of intimacy with each other. Williams shadows lions on the Serengeti and spots night herons in the Bronx. She pays homage to the rogue spirits of Edward Abbey and Georgia O’Keeffe, contemplates the unfathomable wildness of bears, and directs us to a politics of place. The result is an utterly persuasive book—one that has the power to change the way we live upon the earth.

Maid Book
Score: 3.5
From 28 Ratings

Maid

  • Author : Stephanie Land
  • Publisher : Legacy Lit
  • Release Date : 2019-01-22
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 272
  • ISBN 10 : 9780316505109
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES, HAILED BY ROLLING STONE AS "A GREAT ONE." "A single mother's personal, unflinching look at America's class divide, a description of the tightrope many families walk just to get by, and a reminder of the dignity of all work." -PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA, Obama's Summer Reading List At 28, Stephanie Land's dreams of attending a university and becoming a writer quickly dissolved when a summer fling turned into an unplanned pregnancy. Before long, she found herself a single mother, scraping by as a housekeeper to make ends meet. Maid is an emotionally raw, masterful account of Stephanie's years spent in service to upper middle class America as a "nameless ghost" who quietly shared in her clients' triumphs, tragedies, and deepest secrets. Driven to carve out a better life for her family, she cleaned by day and took online classes by night, writing relentlessly as she worked toward earning a college degree. She wrote of the true stories that weren't being told: of living on food stamps and WIC coupons, of government programs that barely provided housing, of aloof government employees who shamed her for receiving what little assistance she did. Above all else, she wrote about pursuing the myth of the American Dream from the poverty line, all the while slashing through deep-rooted stigmas of the working poor. Maid is Stephanie's story, but it's not hers alone. It is an inspiring testament to the courage, determination, and ultimate strength of the human spirit.

The Open Space of Democracy Book
Score: 4
From 1 Ratings

The Open Space of Democracy

  • Author : Terry Tempest Williams
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release Date : 2010-01-01
  • Genre: Social Science
  • Pages : 138
  • ISBN 10 : 9781608992089
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Terry Tempest Williams presents a sharp-edged perspective on the ethics and politics of place, spiritual democracy, and the responsibilities of citizen engagement. By turns elegiac, inspiring, and passionate, The Open Space of Democracy offers a fresh perspective on the critical questions of our time.

Cloud Cuckoo Land Book
Score: 4
From 76 Ratings

Cloud Cuckoo Land

  • Author : Anthony Doerr
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release Date : 2021-09-28
  • Genre: Fiction
  • Pages : 608
  • ISBN 10 : 9781982168452
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On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more “If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” —The Washington Post From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a “wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences” (The New York Times Book Review). Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book. In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna’s will cross. In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forg

Leap Book
Score: 4
From 1 Ratings

Leap

  • Author : Terry Tempest Williams
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release Date : 2015-03-18
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 352
  • ISBN 10 : 9781101912423
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With Leap, Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author of Refuge, offers a sustained meditation on passion, faith, and creativity-based upon her transcendental encounter with Hieronymus Bosch's medieval masterpiece The Garden of Delights. Williams examines this vibrant landscape with unprecedented acuity, recognizing parallels between the artist's prophetic vision and her own personal experiences as a Mormon and a naturalist. Searing in its spiritual, intellectual, and emotional courage, Williams's divine journey enables her to realize the full extent of her faith and through her exquisite imagination opens our eyes to the splendor of the world.

Nobody Rich Or Famous Book

Nobody Rich Or Famous

  • Author : Richard Shelton
  • Publisher : University of Arizona Press
  • Release Date : 2016-10-18
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 296
  • ISBN 10 : 9780816533992
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Nobody Rich or Famous is a literary memoir about family and place. Shelton travels to his childhood home in rural Idaho to connect with his past and discover his family history. The manuscript touches upon family dynamics, death and mortality, alcoholism, abusive relationships, and life in the rural and urban West. The book simultaneously exposes the conflicts within Shelton's family while illustrating life in Great Basin during the first half of the 20th century.

Leave It As It Is Book

Leave It As It Is

  • Author : David Gessner
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release Date : 2021-08-03
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 352
  • ISBN 10 : 9781982105051
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"An urgent call to protect America's public lands told through New York Times bestselling author David Gessner's American road trip with our greatest conservationist, Theodore Roosevelt, as his guide"--

Longitude Book
Score: 4
From 5 Ratings

Longitude

  • Author : Dava Sobel
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release Date : 2010-07-05
  • Genre: Biography & Autobiography
  • Pages : 208
  • ISBN 10 : 0802779433
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The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day-and had been for centuries. Lacking the ability to measure their longitude, sailors throughout the great ages of exploration had been literally lost at sea as soon as they lost sight of land. Thousands of lives and the increasing fortunes of nations hung on a resolution. One man, John Harrison, in complete opposition to the scientific community, dared to imagine a mechanical solution-a clock that would keep precise time at sea, something no clock had ever been able to do on land. Longitude is the dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of Harrison's forty-year obsession with building his perfect timekeeper, known today as the chronometer. Full of heroism and chicanery, it is also a fascinating brief history of astronomy, navigation, and clockmaking, and opens a new window on our world.

The Hour of the Star Book
Score: 4
From 4 Ratings

The Hour of the Star

  • Author : Clarice Lispector
  • Publisher : New Directions Publishing
  • Release Date : 1992
  • Genre: Brazilian fiction
  • Pages : 100
  • ISBN 10 : 0811211908
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The Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector's consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece.