The Crane - 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 Crane write by . This book was released on 2003. The Crane available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In an ever-expanding city, one young man claims the job of his dreams, operator of the tallest crane around. Since others envy his position, he never leaves his crane, always eager for the day—and work—to begin. As the seasons pass, man and machine almost become one. "The crane was a giant with iron sinews, and the craneman was its heart." Then people begin to hoard their goods, grinning ravens multiply throughout the land, and war is at hand. But the craneman never falters, remaining at his post even when the land is flooded, ready for reconstruction to begin.
The Crane Wife
The Crane Wife - 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 Crane Wife write by CJ Hauser. This book was released on 2023-06-27. The Crane Wife available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A memoir in essays that expands on the viral sensation “The Crane Wife” with a frank and funny look at love, intimacy, and self in the twenty-first century. From friends and lovers to blood family and chosen family, this “elegant masterpiece” (Roxane Gay, New York Times bestselling author of Hunger) asks what more expansive definitions of love might offer us all. A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE GUARDIAN, GARDEN & GUN "Hauser builds their life's inventory out of deconstructed personal narratives, resulting in a reading experience that's rich like a complicated dessert—not for wolfing down but for savoring in small bites." —The New York Times “Clever, heartfelt, and wrenching.” —Time “Brilliant.” —Oprah Daily Ten days after calling off their wedding, CJ Hauser went on an expedition to Texas to study the whooping crane. After a week wading through the gulf, they realized they'd almost signed up to live someone else's life. What if you released yourself from traditional narratives of happiness? What if you looked for ways to leave room for the unexpected? In Hauser’s case, this meant dissecting pop culture touchstone, from The Philadelphia Story to The X Files, to learn how not to lose yourself in a relationship. They attended a robot convention, contemplated grief at John Belushi’s gravesite, and officiated a wedding. Most importantly, they mapped the difference between the stories we’re asked to hold versus those we choose to carry. Told with the late-night barstool directness of your wisest, most bighearted friend, The Crane Wife is a book for everyone whose path doesn't look the way they thought it would; for everyone learning to find joy in the not-knowing and to build a new sort of life story, a new sort of family, a new sort of home to live in.
The Crane Girl
The Crane Girl - 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 Crane Girl write by Curtis Manley. This book was released on 2023-11-07. The Crane Girl available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this magical retelling of a Japanese folktale, a mysterious girl weaves silk to help repay the kindness of a boy and his father until the father's greed finally exposes her secret.
What Can a Crane Pick Up?
What Can a Crane Pick Up? - 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 What Can a Crane Pick Up? write by Rebecca Kai Dotlich. This book was released on 2014-09. What Can a Crane Pick Up? available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Illustrations and rhyming text show that a crane can lift anything from a load of steel to a cow.
Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold)
Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold) - 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 Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold) write by Aida Salazar. This book was released on 2020-09-15. Land of the Cranes (Scholastic Gold) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. From the prolific author of The Moon Within comes the heart-wrenchingly beautiful story in verse of a young Latinx girl who learns to hold on to hope and love even in the darkest of places: a family detention center for migrants and refugees. Nine-year-old Betita knows she is a crane. Papi has told her the story, even before her family fled to Los Angeles to seek refuge from cartel wars in Mexico. The Aztecs came from a place called Aztlan, what is now the Southwest US, called the land of the cranes. They left Aztlan to establish their great city in the center of the universe-Tenochtitlan, modern-day Mexico City. It was prophesized that their people would one day return to live among the cranes in their promised land. Papi tells Betita that they are cranes that have come home.Then one day, Betita's beloved father is arrested by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) and deported to Mexico. Betita and her pregnant mother are left behind on their own, but soon they too are detained and must learn to survive in a family detention camp outside of Los Angeles. Even in cruel and inhumane conditions, Betita finds heart in her own poetry and in the community she and her mother find in the camp. The voices of her fellow asylum seekers fly above the hatred keeping them caged, but each day threatens to tear them down lower than they ever thought they could be. Will Betita and her family ever be whole again?
