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Author: Melissa Ferguson
Publisher: Raintree
Published: 2021-10-28
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1398212954
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEarth Day celebrates our beautiful planet and calls us to act on its behalf. Some people spend the day planting flowers or trees. Others organize neighborhood clean-ups, go on nature walks or make recycled crafts. Readers will discover how a shared holiday can have multiple traditions and be celebrated in all sorts of ways.
Author: Sue Fagalde Lick
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017-09-28
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9781977712196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is a Californigonian? What was waiting by the door that night? What possessed us to adopt two puppies at once? How is playing the piano like ice skating? Why stay in Oregon when it rains all the time and the family is still back in California? Find the answers to these and other questions in these posts selected from ten years of the Unleashed in Oregon blog. Chapters will look at the glamorous life of a writer and the equally glamorous life of a musician, true stories from a whiny traveler, being the sole human occupant of a house in the woods, and dogs, so much about dogs.
Author: John D. Grainger
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2022-08-17
Total Pages: 491
ISBN-13: 1000594254
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSir John Duckworth commanded ships and squadrons and fleets throughout the Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars. He was an assiduous correspondent, writing to Admirals St Vincent, Nelson, Collingwood, and numerous other naval officers. He kept every piece of paper he wrote on or received. He was in the first expedition to the West Indies when he went on a mission to the United States to suppress a French privateer. He commanded a ship in First of June fight in 1794, and was peripherally involved in the great naval mutinies of 1797. He was picked out by Lord St Vincent to command the recovery of Minorca in 1798. He returned to the West Indies in 1799 where he was commander-in-chief in the Leeward Islands, and then at Jamaica. There he was much involved in the Revolutionary war in Haiti, eventually receiving several thousands of French refugees and sending them on to France. A spell with the Channel fleet was succeeded by time at the blockade of Gibraltar. Against orders, he chased a French squadron across the Atlantic and destroyed it (Battle of San Domingo 1796). One of his more curious adventures was a diplomatic mission to the Constantinople to browbeat the Ottoman Sultan into making peace with Russia in 1807. He failed, of course, and was criticised for not bombarding the city. He served out his time afloat with the Channel fleet, displaying his usual humanity. A three-year appointment as governor of Newfoundland completed his career.
Author: Michelle Dalton
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2011-05-03
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1442423455
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis sweet summer romance about “the floaty happiness of first love” (BCCB) between a girl living in a beachside island town and a city boy is perfect for fans of Jenny Han and Morgan Matson. Anna is dreading another tourist-filled summer on Dune Island that follows the same routine: beach, ice cream, friends, repeat. That is, until she locks eyes with Will, the gorgeous and sweet guy visiting from New York. Soon, her summer is filled with flirtatious fun as Anna falls head over heels in love. But with every perfect afternoon, sweet kiss, and walk on the beach, Anna can’t ignore that the days are quickly growing shorter, and Will has to leave at the end of August. Anna’s never felt anything like this before, but when forever isn’t even a possibility, one summer doesn’t feel worth the promise of her heart breaking…
Author: Megan Cummins
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 269
ISBN-13: 1496223071
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLonglisted for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, If the Body Allows It is divided into six parts and framed by the story of Marie, a woman in her thirties living in Newark, New Jersey. Suffering from a chronic autoimmune illness, she also struggles with guilt over the overdose and death of her father, whom she feels she betrayed at the end of his life. The stories within the frame—about failed marriages, places of isolation and protection, teenage mistakes, and forging a life in the aftermath—are the stories the narrator writes after she meets and falls in love with a man whose grief mirrors her own. If the Body Allows It explores illness and its aftermath, guilt and addiction, and the relationships the characters form after they’ve lost everyone else, including themselves. Introspective, devastating, and funny, If the Body Allows It grapples with the idea that life is always on the brink of never being the same again.
Author: John Ringo
Publisher: Baen Books
Published: 2004-10
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0743488458
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCally O'Neal, from Ringo's bestseller "Hell's Faire," stars in this "New York Times" bestseller--a fast-paced interplanetary adventure that finds the trained killer locked in a battle to reclaim her lost soul.
Author: Thisbe Nissen
Publisher: Anchor
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 030742717X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs summer begins on Osprey Island, preparations at the Lodge -- the island’s one and only hotel — are underway for the busy season. On maintenance and housekeeping there’s Lance and Lorna Squire, Osprey locals and raging drinkers; and their irrepressible son Squee. There are college boys to wait tables and Irish girls to clean rooms. And a few unusual returnees, too: Suzy Chizek, single mom and daughter of the Lodge’s owners, who’s looking for a parentally funded vacation; and Roddy Jacobs, another former local, who has come back after a mysterious twenty-year absence. But when tragedy strikes, dark secrets explode, dividing the island community over the fate of a young boy suddenly more vulnerable to his violent father than ever. In the uniquely ephemeral atmosphere of a summer resort, Thisbe Nissen unfolds, with charecteristic warmth and charm, an ever-deepening story of lost loves and found romance, of loyalties and betrayals; and of lingering–sometimes fleeting–joy.
Author: Evan Levine
Publisher: Orchard Books (NY)
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 32
ISBN-13: 9780531085561
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter several false starts, Mrs. Medley, loaded with gear, sets out for the beach with her grandson Max and her dog Word.
Author: Lon Turner
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2013-03-12
Total Pages: 364
ISBN-13: 1483603555
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Waters family has settled in San Francisco and inadvertently becomes involved with early organized crime in the Bay Area. Cissy Ryder Waters again finds herself incarcerated in a naval brig and her husband Earl works on trying to get her free. Experience the terror of the San Francisco earthquake and subsequent fires through the eyes of all the major characters involved in this story. Also, follow the life of Mike "THE HOOK" Bannon as he directs crime in the early years of the twentieth century. Follow his life story from a young boy to becoming the biggest crime syndicate boss in Northern California.
Author: Erica Olson Jeffrey
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2008-04
Total Pages: 110
ISBN-13: 1435715659
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOmaha Beach is a collection of short stories, many of them set near a fictitious lake outside of Omaha, Nebraska. Like the more famous setting of the World War II D-Day battles, Omaha Beach and its environs have their tales of survival. Omaha Beach is the debut short-fiction collection of writer and editor Erica Olson Jeffrey.
