Snow Wars
Snow Wars

Author: Cotten Patrick Cotten

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1440190682

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John and Susan Sterling take a much needed break from world class modeling and photography to sail their custom built 90 foot sailing yacht to Tahiti. After years of hard work and planning for the cruise they arrive in the Marquesas Islands of French Polynesia. After only a few idyllic days in a remote cove on Nuka Hiva Island, they are attacked by a man and woman with a machine pistol from another boat. Wounded and bleeding they hide under their skiff which is riddled with bullet holes, while the pirates make off with the Sterling's 90 foot yacht. Stranded and penniless in a foreign country John and Susan set out on a valiant but naive and dangerous attempt to recover their stolen yacht

The Snow War (The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class #5)
The Snow War (The Kids in Ms. Colman's Class #5)

Author: Ann M. Martin

Publisher: Scholastic Inc.

Published: 2016-09-27

Total Pages: 62

ISBN-13: 133809257X

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From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class! The playground is covered with snow. The kids in Ms. Colman's class are busy building snow forts and throwing snoballs. It is fun at first. But then the snowball fights turn mean. Ian does not like the snow war. He wants it to stop. Can Ian and the snow war all by himself?

Journey Through Hell
Journey Through Hell

Author: LS Jordan

Publisher: Dorrance Publishing

Published: 2023-02-03

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13:

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Journey Through Hell: The Logan Nighthawk Story By: LS Jordan Based partially on the author’s real life experience, Journey Through Hell: The Logan Nighthawk Story is tender portrait of the life of Logan Nighthawk, a boy growing up in rural Tennessee with his Cherokee grandfather. Having been all but abandoned by his birth parents, Logan finds solace in his grandfather’s house, where he learns what it means to be a good man and an important member of his community. As Logan gets older, he realizes he cannot remain under his grandfather’s wing forever, so he enters the world in order to make his own way, and finds purpose when enlists in the military service. Through his hard work, dedication, and talent, Logan is recruited to become a member of the Black Ops Special Forces, and despite Logan’s excitement at serving his country, he understands that this line of duty will force him to distance those he loves most so no danger will ever come to them. Despite all of life’s hardships, all the isolation and disappointment Logan must feel, he ultimately finds a family that loves and supports him—a family worth fighting for.

War Gardens
War Gardens

Author: Lalage Snow

Publisher:

Published: 2019-05-28

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9781787470712

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A journey through the most unlikely of gardens: the oases of peace people create in the midst of war. In this millennium, we have become war weary. From Afghanistan to Iraq, from Ukraine to South Sudan and Syria, from Kashmir to the West Bank, conflict is as contagious and poisonous as Japanese knotweed. Living through it are people just like us with ordinary jobs, ordinary pressures and ordinary lives. Against a new landscape of horror and violence it is up to them to maintain a modicum of normality and colour. For some, gardening is the way to achieve this. Working in the world's most dangerous war zones, freelance war correspondent and photographer Lally Snow has often chanced across a very moving sight, a testimony to the triumph of the human spirit in adversity, a celebration of hope and beauty: a war garden. In Kabul, the royal gardens are tended by a centenarian gardener, though the king is long gone; in Camp Bastion, bored soldiers improvise tiny gardens to give themselves a moment's peace; on both sides of the dividing line in Jerusalem families tend groves of olives and raise beautiful plants from the unforgiving, disputed landscape; in Ukraine, families tend their gardens in the middle of a surreal, frozen war. War Gardens is a surprising, tragic and beautiful journey through the darkest places of the modern world, revealing the ways people make time and space for themselves and for nature even in the middle of destruction.

Listening to Grass-hoppers
Listening to Grass-hoppers

Author: Arundhati Roy

Publisher: Penguin Books India

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0670083798

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'What happens once democracy has been used up? When it has been hollowed out and emptied of meaning?' Combining brilliant political insight and razor-sharp prose, Listening to Grasshoppers is the essential new book from Arundhati Roy. In these essays, she takes a hard look at the underbelly of the world's largest democracy, and shows how the journey that Hindu nationalism and neo-liberal economic reforms began together in the early 1990s is unravelling in dangerous ways. Beginning with the state-backed killing of Muslims in Gujarat in 2002, she writes about how 'progress' and genocide have historically gone hand in hand; about the murky investigations into the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament; about the dangers of an increasingly powerful and entirely unaccountable judiciary; and about the collusion between large corporations, the government and the mainstream media. The collection ends with an account of the August 2008 uprising in Kashmir and an analysis of the November 2008 attacks on Mumbai. 'The Briefing', included as an appendix, is a fictional text that brings together many of the issues central to the collection.

The Global Warming Reader
The Global Warming Reader

Author: Bill McKibben

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-03-27

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1101577215

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Van Jones, Al Gore, Elizabeth Kolbert, Naomi Klein, and other essential voices on global warming, from its 19th-century discovery to the present, in a volume edited by Bill McKibben, our most widely respected environmental writer With the rise of extreme weather events worldwide--witness the devastation wrought by Hurricanes Sandy, Irene, and Katrina, and the sustained drought across the American West--global warming has become increasingly difficult to deny. What is happening to our planet? And what can we do about it? The Global Warming Reader provides more than thirty-five answers to these burning questions, from more than one hundred years of engagement with the topic. Here is Elizabeth Kolbert's groundbreaking essay "The Darkening Sea," Michael Crichton's skeptical view of climate change, George Monbiot's biting indictment of those who are really using up the planet's resources, NASA scientist James Hansen's testimony before the U.S. Congress, and clarion calls for action by Al Gore, Arundhati Roy, Naomi Klein, Van Jones, and many others. The Global Warming Reader is a comprehensive resource, expertly edited by someone who lives and breathes this defining issue of our time.

The Dog I Didn't Want
The Dog I Didn't Want

Author: David Bruce Garrett

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-04

Total Pages: 390

ISBN-13: 1440118558

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UNTIL ABBEE CAME INTO MY LIFE, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE COULD LOVE OUR ANIMALS SO MUCH; THAT IN FACT, THEY BECOME PART OF OUR FAMILY. THE FIRST PART OF THIS BOOK IS DEVOTED TO RELIVING OUR FAMILY'S LIFE WITH ABBEE... AND HOW A DOG THAT I INITIALLY WANTED NO PART OF, SOON WORKED HER WAY INTO MY HEART AND BECAME FOR ME, AS THOUGH SHE WERE MY FOUR-LEGGED DAUGHTER. ABBEE'S DEATH BROUGHT US GREAT SORROW. IT ALSO REMINDED ME ABOUT A MOST PERPLEXING BIBLICAL QUESTION-SOMETHING WHICH PROVED TO BE EVEN MORE UNSETTLING THAN HER DEATH. ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN MY ATTEMPT TO FIND SOME MEASURE OF PEACE; THE SECOND PART OF THIS BOOK IS DEVOTED TO THE PRAYERFUL HOPING... THAT THROUGH GOD, THE DIVINE CREATOR OF ALL; THE ANIMALS WE'VE EACH LOVED DURING OUR EARTHLY LIFE; MAY BE GRANTED ENTRY, AND BE INCLUDED WITH US FOR ETERNAL LIFE IN HEAVEN.

The Tales of Tangle Wood the Four Travelers
The Tales of Tangle Wood the Four Travelers

Author: Nick Caruso

Publisher: Trafford Publishing

Published: 2014-08-11

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 1490743138

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Follow Kathryn and Hailey leave Arddunol Castle on the first deer hunt of the season. What they encounter on the trail leads to life changing experiences and adventures. Follow the four travelers as they come to realize the gift of family and the strength of comanionship. Their exploits lead to discoveries about themselves and the land they inhibit. They soon realize that each day brings something new and exciting ad the adventures is only beginning as they travel past the borders of Tangle Wood Forest, past the Sitting Man an in the land beyond.