Mendocino and Other Stories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Mendocino and Other Stories write by Ann Packer. This book was released on 2008-11-26. Mendocino and Other Stories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. With humor, wisdom and tenderness, Ann Packer offers ten short stories about women and men--wives and husbands, sisters and brothers, daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, friends, and lovers--who discover that life's greatest surprises may be found in that which is most familiar. In the title story, on the anniversary of their father's suicide a young woman discovers that her brother may have found a "reason for living" in the love of a good woman. In "Nerves," a young man realizes that the wife he is separated from no longer loves him but that it is his own life he misses, not her. The narrator of "My Mother's Yellow Dress" is a gay man remembering his deceased mother and their vital and troubling intimacy. In "Babies"--which was included in the prestigious O. Henry anthology series --a single woman in her mid-thirties finds that everyone, including her best friend at work, is pregnant, and that their joy can only be observed, not shared. In these and six other stories, Ann Packer exhibits an unerring eye for the small ways in which people reveal themselves and for the moments in which lives may be transformed.
Behind the Green Curtain
Behind the Green Curtain - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Behind the Green Curtain write by Bruce Anderson. This book was released on 2012-08-01. Behind the Green Curtain available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Another collection of true crime stories from the pages of the Anderson Valley Advertiser, Mendocino County's newspaper of record.
Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties
Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties write by Katy M. Tahja. This book was released on 2013. Logging Railroads of Humboldt and Mendocino Counties available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Locomotive steam whistles echo no more in the forests of the north California coast. A century ago, Humboldt and Mendocino Counties had more than 40 railroads bringing logs out of the forest to mills at the water's edge. Only one single railroad ever connected to the outside world, and it too is gone. One railroad survives as the Skunk Train in Mendocino County, and it carries tourists today instead of lumber. Redwood and tan oak bark were the two products moved by rail, and very little else was hauled other than lumberjacks and an occasional picnic excursion for loggers' families. Economic depressions and the advent of trucking saw railroads vanish like a puff of steam from the landscape.
Legendary Locals of the Mendonoma Coast
Legendary Locals of the Mendonoma Coast - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Legendary Locals of the Mendonoma Coast write by Tammy Durston. This book was released on 2012. Legendary Locals of the Mendonoma Coast available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Sonoma Mendocino coastline, famous for jagged cliffs, timber-filled ridges, and pounding surf, has been home to many people from varying histories and backgrounds. Pomo tribes, renowned for basketmaking, who were the first settlers and descendants, still live in the area. From early pioneers such as George Call, H.A. Richardson, Cyrus Robinson, J.A. Hamilton, and Antonio Stornetta to Pomo spiritual leader Essie Parrish and the founders of Sea Ranch (Al Boeke, and the team of designers and architects Lawrence Halprin, Charles Moore, William Turnbull, Donlyn Lyndon, and Richard Whitaker), the Sonoma Mendocino coast has many legendary locals. This area also has been home to renowned artists, musicians, writers, scientists, educators, and business leaders. Community services are especially vital to rural areas. Dedicated volunteers created Gualala Arts, services for seniors and youth, the Coast Library, theater groups, and restored historic buildings such as the famous Point Arena Lighthouse. These unsung heroes have brought new meaning to this vibrant community.
The Dive From Clausen's Pier
The Dive From Clausen's Pier - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Dive From Clausen's Pier write by Ann Packer. This book was released on 2003-04-08. The Dive From Clausen's Pier available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How much do we owe the people we love? Is it a sign of strength or weakness to walk away from someone in need? These questions lie at the heart of Ann Packer’s intimate and emotionally thrilling new novel, which has won its author comparisons with Jane Hamilton and Sue Miller. At the age of twenty-three Carrie Bell has spent her entire life in Wisconsin, with the same best friend and the same dependable, easygoing, high school sweetheart. Now to her dismay she has begun to find this life suffocating and is considering leaving it–and Mike–behind. But when Mike is paralyzed in a diving accident, leaving seems unforgivable and yet more necessary than ever. The Dive from Clausen’s Pier animates this dilemma–and Carrie’s startling response to it–with the narrative assurance, exacting realism, and moral complexity we expect from the very best fiction.
