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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless and friendless, she now finds herself in the care of her mother's sister, a fearful stranger who has...
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 26
Physical Desc
xiv, 481, 16 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A man climbs over the railings and plunges into Niagara Falls. A newlywed, he has left behind his wife, Ariah Erskine, in the honeymoon suite the morning after their wedding. "The Widow Bride of The Falls," as Ariah comes to be known, begins a relentless, seven-day vigil in the mist, waiting for his body to be found. At her side throughout, confirmed bachelor and pillar of the community Dirk Burnaby is unexpectedly transfixed by the strange, otherworldly...
Author
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Physical Desc
138 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the thundering power of the river's swift current, to the stillness of clear freshwater pools ; to desert springs, birds and wind, and rattlesnakes... and the terrible intrusion of man, Lopez allows us to share moments of intense personal experience as man tries to come to terms with the Earth's landscape, and with his own existence.
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