Books with title Mountain

Winner of the 1997 National Book AwardA New York Times and Globe and Mail Notable Book of the YearCharles Frazier has created a masterpiece that is at once an enthralling adventure, a stirring love story, and a luminous evocation of a vanished land, a place where savagery coexists with splendour and human beings contend with the inhuman solitude of the wilderness. Sorely wounded and fatally disillusioned in the fighting at Petersburg, Inman, a Confederate soldier, decides to walk back to his home in the Blue Ridge mountains and to Ada, the woman he loved there years before. His trek across the disintegrating South brings him into intimate and sometimes lethal converse with slaves and marauders, bounty hunters and witches, both helpful and malign. At the same time, the intrepid Ada is trying to revive her father's derelict farm and learning to survive in a world where the old certainties have been swept away.As it interweaves their stories, Cold Mountain asserts itself as an authentic odyssey, hugely powerful, majestically lovely, and keenly moving.From the Trade Paperback edition.

Each book in this series begins by explaining what a landform is before launching into the specific type of landform covered in the book. The titles use a compare and contrast format in order to get readers understanding the main characteristics of the geography being discussed. Detailed photos and diagrams help drive home the Earth science topics covered. Through stunning photographs and simple text, the books in this series introduce landforms and their characteristics. In this book, children learn about the features of mountains, where mountains are found, and what makes mountains unique.

2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Dylan BakerAt once a magnificent love story and a harrowing account of one man's long journey home, Cold Mountain introduces a stunning new talent in American literature.Based on local history and family stories passed down by the author's great-great-grandfather, Cold Mountain is the tale of Inman, a wounded soldier who walks away from the ravages of the Civil War and back home to Ada, his prewar sweetheart. Inman's odyssey through the devastated landscape of the soon-to-be-defeated South interweaves with Ada's struggle to revive her father's farm with the help of a young drifter named Ruby. As their long-separated lives begin to converge at the close of the war, Inman and Ada must confront the vastly transformed world they've been delivered.Also available Unabridged from Random House AudioBooks (May, 1998)

Mountains can be found on each of Earth’s seven continents. This book explores the plants, animals, and environment of this important ecosystem. Learn more in Mountains, an AV2 media enhanced book. Each AV2 media enhanced book is a unique combination of a printed book and exciting online content that brings the book to life. Readers can access embedded weblinks, audio and video clips, activities, and other features, such as a slide show, matching word activity, and quiz.

Wiley Homan has a business plan for Virginia, a waitress and the daughter of the same man whom his own father had robbed once. Naturally, Homan's return to the Death Valley sounds alarm bells all over the decrepit mining town and Virginia cannot believe that he is up to any good. To add to the mystery, there is also a slight possibility that Virginia's father did not die as she was led to believe. But what does Homan wants from her? Where is her father?Dane Coolidge was a naturalist, author, photographer and a poet. He is now best remembered for his Westerns and his non-fiction books about the West, many of which were illustrated with his own photographs.

Elizabeth Lancaster, in her mid-teens living in a mansion belonging to her grandfather, Liam Lancaster, shinnies down a tree next to her second story bedroom window. An hour before daylight, she runs straight for the forest almost a mile away, desperate, with only her instincts to guide her. Deep into the forest, as she lay sleeping from exhaustion just in front of a cloaked village of Wee People, The Lady of Gnome Mountain issues the order and she is lifted by many winged villagers to the inside. The shielding properties of the Gateway makes the village invisible to the men and tracking hounds on her trail.Only The Lady knows of her ties to her lost family of the past that has all to do with the elves, pixies, gnomes, etc. belonging to this sequestered little village. The Lady also realizes Lancaster has long vowed to destroy the forest and now, through Elizabeth’s presence here, he may have a way of making good on that deadly promise. Elizabeth is a dilemma for both worlds and upon learning of this imminent danger she is responsible for, the reality is to go back and face her grandfather.Attempting a potential truce with Liam Lancaster, however, doesn’t quell the other problems falling upon the Wee People: an impending early frost that could wipe out their food stores for the upcoming winter, their protective dragon Pegasus whose issues force him and The Lady to leave the village, the threat of Ole Jake, the Tracker hound, and the rescue of Pegasus after a fearsome battle with a long-time foe Golden Good Eye the bald eagle.The upside for Elizabeth, now called Elsbeth (because the Wee People have trouble pronouncing their ‘z’s’) is the discovery of old family ties once thought lost. She is privy to a completely different way of life as opposed to being locked and guarded in her room ‘for her own good’. This ‘lost’ waif, now a blossoming young lady is completely enamored by members of the wee village from Elg-who wears a Viking helmet and communicates between all the animals and people, Madelyn the Master Chef, who makes ‘killer’ blueberry muffins down to Dobb, The Lady’s personal messenger. Her biggest challenge becomes balancing her role in both worlds.

Born into every generation are a few restless souls who long for adventure. In the early 1800s this wild breed became mountain men who headed up the Missouri, crossed the Rock-ies and continued west, hunting, trapping and exploring as they went. One mountainman,reflecting the general attitude of the day, wrote, 'We found the richest place for beaver we had yet come across, and it took us forty days to clean that section.' Valley by valley, stream by stream, the mountain men eliminated the beaver. They reasoned they would never pass that way again and, anyway, why should they leave fur for the competition? A typical mountain man had grown up in Kentucky, Virginia or Tennessee hunting squirrels, deer, coon and turkey gobblers. When civilization pressed in he escaped, in search of places no white man had been. Where beaver were plentiful and would come easily to his traps. Where there were no property lines. No neighbors. No boundaries. Where he could come and go as he pleased and the world, as far as the eye could see, was his. The heyday of the mountain men spanned only a few short decades. By the 1840s wagon pioneers were flooding into the West. And the free-roaming mountain men disappeared.

This you should know: Gray squirrels are almost always larger, faster, and more aggressive than reds. They out-eat the reds and out-breed them. Science says the grays will eventually win. Nutley is a young red squirrel. For most of his life, he's been content to live on local seeds and the cautious wisdom of his parents. But like so many young squirrels before him, he feels the call of the wild (and the hazelnuts) beyond the safety of his family's own tree. Nutley wonders what it would be like to be Dangerous, like the growing band of gray squirrels that roam his neighborhood. Nature, which is truly red in tooth and claw, forces Nutley to find out if he's cut out for a life of danger. He must flee his familiar tree for the smelly shelter of the local landfill. There, with the help of some unlikely allies, he might just be able to make a stand against the grays. This you should know: No matter what scientists say is almost always true, the exceptions are almost always the best stories.