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Picnic In the Ruins

2021-01-05 Fiction
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Release : 2021-01-05
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Book Synopsis Picnic In the Ruins by : Todd Robert Petersen

Download or read book Picnic In the Ruins written by Todd Robert Petersen. This book was released on 2021-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named Best Mystery Thriller in the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards "Part mystery; part quirky, darkly funny, mayhem-filled thriller; and part meditation on what it means to 'own' land, artifacts, and the narrative of history in the West . . . A fast-paced, highly entertaining hybrid of Tony Hillerman and Edward Abbey." --Kirkus Reviews Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a "collector" of Native American artifacts, but their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence. Their employer, a former lobbyist seeking lucrative monument land that may soon be open to energy exploration, sends a fixer to clean up their mess. Suddenly, Sophia must put her theories to the test in the real world, and the stakes are higher than she could have ever imagined. What begins as a madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah becomes a meditation on mythology, authenticity, the ethics of preservation, and one nagging question: Who owns the past?

Picnic In the Ruins

2021-01-05 Fiction
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Release : 2021-01-05
Genre : Fiction
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 222/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Picnic In the Ruins by : Todd Robert Petersen

Download or read book Picnic In the Ruins written by Todd Robert Petersen. This book was released on 2021-01-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named Best Mystery Thriller in the 2021 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards "Part mystery; part quirky, darkly funny, mayhem-filled thriller; and part meditation on what it means to 'own' land, artifacts, and the narrative of history in the West . . . A fast-paced, highly entertaining hybrid of Tony Hillerman and Edward Abbey." --Kirkus Reviews Anthropologist Sophia Shepard is researching the impact of tourism on cultural sites in a remote national monument on the Utah-Arizona border when she crosses paths with two small-time criminals. The Ashdown brothers were hired to steal maps from a "collector" of Native American artifacts, but their ineptitude has alerted the local sheriff to their presence. Their employer, a former lobbyist seeking lucrative monument land that may soon be open to energy exploration, sends a fixer to clean up their mess. Suddenly, Sophia must put her theories to the test in the real world, and the stakes are higher than she could have ever imagined. What begins as a madcap caper across the RV-strewn vacation lands of southern Utah becomes a meditation on mythology, authenticity, the ethics of preservation, and one nagging question: Who owns the past?

It Needs to Look Like We Tried

2018-04-25 Fiction
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Release : 2018-04-25
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 665/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis It Needs to Look Like We Tried by : Todd Robert Petersen

Download or read book It Needs to Look Like We Tried written by Todd Robert Petersen. This book was released on 2018-04-25. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Todd Robert Petersen is crazy–talented, and the wild, weird, hilarious stories of It Needs to Look Like We Tried are just what’s called for in these bizarre, frightening times." —Richard Russo, author of Empire Falls and Trajectory A domino chain of failures draws Todd Robert Petersen's characters together in these interconnected stories, despite hopes, dreams, and their best–laid plans Everyone has a dream, an idea, a goal. But what happens when those desires are thwarted, when dreams and goals fall apart? In It Needs to Look Like We Tried, Todd Robert Petersen explores the ways in which our failures work on the lives of others, weaving an intricate web of interconnected stories. A fastidious man takes a detour on the way to his father’s wedding and kicks off a series of events that ricochets from the bride to her real estate clients; to a crazed former homeowner and his sister–in–law’s reality TV lover; to a hoarding family whose lives are wrecked by their appearance on the second–rate show. Their daughter decides to escape the gravity of her tiny town with the help of her boyfriend who has a not–quite–legal plan to scrape together enough money to fund their departure. On their way across the country, these star–crossed lovers encounter our fastidious man, and the Rube Goldberg machine of life continues. Their fling has petered out, and they are driving home, whatever home is left after walking away from everything they abandoned months before.

Impressionist Picnics

1993 Architecture
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Release : 1993
Genre : Architecture
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Book Rating : 805/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Impressionist Picnics by : Gillian Riley

Download or read book Impressionist Picnics written by Gillian Riley. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Written in the Ruins

2016-01-23 History
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Release : 2016-01-23
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 142/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Written in the Ruins by : Paul Chiasson

Download or read book Written in the Ruins written by Paul Chiasson. This book was released on 2016-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2017 Robbie Robertson Dartmouth Book Award — Shortlisted Paul Chiasson reveals the possibility that early Chinese settlers landed in Cape Breton long before Europeans. From the very beginning of the European Age of Discovery, Cape Breton was considered unusual. The history of the area even includes early references to the island having once been the land of the Chinese. In 1497, at least a century before any attempt at European settlement in the region, the explorer John Cabot had referred to Cape Breton as the “Island of Seven Cities.” The indigenous people of the region, the Mi’kmaq, were the only aboriginal people of North America who had a written language when Europeans first arrived. This writing, clothing, and customs also suggested an early Chinese presence. In Written in the Ruins, Chiasson investigates the ruins at St. Peters in the southern part of the island, where evidence brought to light supports a theory that could answer all the questions raised by the island’s curious, unresolved history.

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