Annie Proulx
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
xii, 361 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Assigned to locate land in the panhandles of Texas and Oklahoma that can be purchased and converted into pig farms for his employer, Bob Dollar meets the residents of Woolybucket and comes to respect their fierce desire to retain their land.
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English
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"Open in New France in the late 18th century as Rene Sel, an illiterate woodsman makes his way from Northern France to the homeland to seek a living. Bound to a "seigneur" for three years in exchange for land, he suffers extraordinary hardship and violence, always in awe of the forest he is charged with clearing. In the course of this epic novel, Proulx tells the stories of Rene's children, grandchildren, and great grandchildren, as well as the descendants...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1993
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Quoyle, a third-rate newspaper hack, with a “head shaped like a crenshaw, no neck, reddish hair...features as bunched as kissed fingertips,” is wrenched violently out of his workaday life when his two-timing wife meets her just desserts. An aunt convinces Quoyle and his two emotionally disturbed daughters to return with her to the starkly beautiful coastal landscape of their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Here, on desolate Quoyle’s Point, in...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
381 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A fictional account of different immigrant families in America who all have owned a single handmade accordian. Follows their quests for a fulfilled life in a racist American culture from Iowa to Texas and from Maine to Louisiana.
Author
Series
Wyoming stories volume 1
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
283 p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Read by: Francis Fisher, Bruce Greenwood, Campbell Scott.
7) Postcards
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
©1992
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Postcards are the only communication between Loyal Blood and the poor, hardworking farm family he leaves behind in Vermont. The secret Loyal carries with him--the accidental killing of his girlfriend, Billy--is revealed in the first pages, and thereafter, as he prospects for uranium, traps coyotes, or digs for dinosaur bones, his messages continue to arrive home from across the U.S., long after his father has died and his brother, sister, and mother...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 234 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Bird Cloud" is the name the author gave to 640 acres of Wyoming wetlands and prairie and four hundred foot cliffs plunging down to the North Platte River. On the day she first visited, a cloud in the shape of a bird hung in the evening sky. She also saw pelicans, bald eagles, golden eagles, great blue herons, ravens, scores of bluebirds, harriers, kestrels, elk, deer and a dozen antelope. She fell in love with the land, then owned by the Nature Conservancy,...
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Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"A lifelong environmentalist, Annie Proulx brings her wide-ranging research and scholarship to the subject of wetlands and the vitally important yet little understood role they play in preserving the environment--by storing the carbon emissions that greatly contribute to climate change. Fens, bogs, swamps, and marine estuaries are the earth's most desirable and dependable resources, and in four stunning parts, Proulx documents the long-misunderstood...
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Series
Wyoming stories volume 2
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
219 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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An anthology of short stories, all set in Wyoming, features characters who have a profound effect on the people around them, in such tales as "The Trickle Down Effect," "The Contest," and "What Kind of Furniture Would Jesus Pick?"
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 135 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two cowboys (Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal) in a small country town grow together and develop a special relationship. Love, drama, and controversy is all here.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Edition
Widescreen version (2:35.1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change his life.