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George B. Handley

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A Professor of Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brigham Young University, George B. Handley's creative writing, literary criticism, and civic engagement focus on the intersection between religion, literature, and the environment. ...more

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	Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River 4.12 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	If Truth Were a Child: Essays 4.47 avg rating — 64 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Fork 4.32 avg rating — 47 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lowell L. Bennion: A Mormon Educator 4.71 avg rating — 35 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning to Like Life: A Tribute to Lowell Bennion 4.44 avg rating — 36 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Hope of Nature: Our Care for God's Creation 4.68 avg rating — 28 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stewardship and the Creation: LDS Perspectives on the Environment by George B. Handley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Terry B. Ball (Editor), Steven L. Peck (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Postslavery Literature in the Americas : Family Portraits in Black and White 2.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	New World Poetics: Nature and the Adamic Imagination of Whitman, Neruda, and Walcott it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Literature and Ecotheology it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Sobre Dios: Pensar con Simone Weil

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“. . . it was the fact that in my memory he was always about to die but still alive that was the most difficult to bear.”
― George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River

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“A river is water, yes, but it is also soil, plant, and animal life—a watershed. Seeing it requires something more than merely historical or aesthetic lenses. It requires the poet's eye.”
― George B. Handley, Home Waters: A Year of Recompenses on the Provo River

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“There is redemption in this work and play. It is not that I couldn't have had different children and a different life or that no other happiness would have been possible for me, but I tried haltingly to express something of my gratitude for the particular life we had forged together and for the particular joy of these children here in front of us. . .”
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