The Fire Outside My Window

The Fire Outside My Window

Author: Sandra Millers Younger

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2013-09-03

Total Pages: 267

ISBN-13: 0762799323

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The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire is both a poignant memoir and a veteran journalist's narrative nonfiction account of a catastrophic event that crippled postcard-perfect San Diego and dominated international headlines in October 2003. Author Sandra Millers Younger's miraculous saga of escape, ruin and renewal unifies a tapestry of experiences woven from more than 100 interviews with firefighters, survivors and the families of those who died. The fire itself, one of the biggest and most destructive in California history, is the main character in this epic story--a rampaging monster, framed within historical context, battled by understaffed, under-equipped firefighters, and confronted from the rare perspective of terrified civilians caught in its path. Timing, location and weather conspired against air tankers, fire engines and bulldozers, enabling a lost hunter's signal fire to gather strength in the mountains east of San Diego. Overnight, a swelling wind sent flames galloping toward the Pacific, killing 15 people, 12 of them the author's neighbors; incinerating more than 2,200 homes, including hers; and creating a lunarscape 20 times the size of Manhattan In this revealing narrative, Younger takes readers into the heart of an epic firefight, telling the stories of fire chiefs and air tanker pilots trying to combat a catastrophe bigger than they had ever imagined, and recounting both survivors' and victims' desperate efforts to escape flames moving faster than fire engines could drive. The Fire Outside My Window is a riveting and nuanced tale that captures the intensity of a runaway wildfire, honors those lost to its fury, and celebrates the human spirit's innate capacity to triumph over adversity.


The War Outside My Window

The War Outside My Window

Author: Janet Elizabeth Croon

Publisher: Casemate Publishers

Published: 2018-06-01

Total Pages: 489

ISBN-13: 1611213894

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A remarkable account of the collapse of the Old South and the final years of a young boy’s privileged but afflicted life. LeRoy Wiley Gresham was born in 1847 to an affluent slave-holding family in Macon, Georgia. After a horrific leg injury left him an invalid, the educated, inquisitive, perceptive, and exceptionally witty twelve-year-old began keeping a diary in 1860—just as secession and the Civil War began tearing the country and his world apart. He continued to write even as his health deteriorated until both the war and his life ended in 1865. His unique manuscript of the demise of the Old South is published here for the first time in The War Outside My Window. LeRoy read books, devoured newspapers and magazines, listened to gossip, and discussed and debated important social and military issues with his parents and others. He wrote daily for five years, putting pen to paper with a vim and tongue-in-cheek vigor that impresses even now, more than 150 years later. His practical, philosophical, and occasionally Twain-like hilarious observations cover politics and the secession movement, the long and increasingly destructive Civil War, family pets, a wide variety of hobbies and interests, and what life was like at the center of a socially prominent wealthy family in the important Confederate manufacturing center of Macon. The young scribe often voiced concern about the family’s pair of plantations outside town, and recorded his interactions and relationships with servants as he pondered the fate of human bondage and his family’s declining fortunes. Unbeknownst to LeRoy, he was chronicling his own slow and painful descent toward death in tandem with the demise of the Southern Confederacy. He recorded—often in horrific detail—an increasingly painful and debilitating disease that robbed him of his childhood. The teenager’s declining health is a consistent thread coursing through his fascinating journals. “I feel more discouraged [and] less hopeful about getting well than I ever did before,” he wrote on March 17, 1863. “I am weaker and more helpless than I ever was.” Morphine and a score of other “remedies” did little to ease his suffering. Abscesses developed; nagging coughs and pain consumed him. Alternating between bouts of euphoria and despondency, he often wrote, “Saw off my leg.” The War Outside My Window, edited and annotated by Janet Croon with helpful footnotes and a detailed family biographical chart, captures the spirit and the character of a young privileged white teenager witnessing the demise of his world even as his own body slowly failed him. Just as Anne Frank has come down to us as the adolescent voice of World War II, LeRoy Gresham will now be remembered as the young voice of the Civil War South. Winner, 2018, The Douglas Southall Freeman Award


Then Came The Fire

Then Came The Fire

Author: Stephen J. Lofgren

Publisher: Department of the Army

Published: 2011-09-13

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13:

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On the morning of 11 September 2001, Middle Eastern terrorists hijacked four passenger airliners along the east coast of the United States, one of which they flew into the Pentagon. The crash, ensuing fire, and smoke killed 125 military personnel, Department of Defense civilians, and contractors in the Pentagon in addition to those on the plane. For hundreds of the building’s occupants, the period after the crash was a struggle to help themselves and coworkers escape and survive. Two days after the attack, the U.S. Army Center of Military History began an extensive project to document the historic event through oral history interviews. Published for the incident’s tenth anniversary, Then Came the Fire is an anthology of excerpts from those interviews. This collection highlights the personal accounts of participants who witnessed some aspect of the events in the Pentagon that day: the survivors, some of whom were injured; policemen; firefighters; medical personnel; observers; others involved in the rescue and recovery efforts; and building occupants who began picking up the pieces.


The Dream Document

The Dream Document

Author: Ken Howell

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2000-08

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 0595098282

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During every waking moment of your day, a variety of experiences influence your perceptions, decisions and actions. Invariably, some of these experiences linger in your thoughts. This lingering influence persists during your unconscious, sleeping state as dreams. Your dreams are a result of experiences that persist in influence upon your mind while you sleep.The Dream Document lights a unique path to this remarkable aspect of human experience. It is the first and only book that clearly explains the nature and language of dreams. With nearly 900 original entries, The Dream Document offers a perspective of mind, consciousness, and dreaming that is nearly 60 years ahead of mainstream.


Outside My Window

Outside My Window

Author: Linda Ashman

Publisher: Eerdmans Young Readers

Published: 2018-09-25

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 1467464112

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A joyous glimpse into different cultures Children living in different parts of the world see very different things when they gaze out of their windows. One child looks out over a boulevard lined with palm trees, another sees a train whistling past snow-capped mountains, and another waves to her father as he tends to their garden. But while their lives may seem different, there’s something important that they all share. This beautiful book will spark readers’ curiosity and imagina­tion with its celebration of global diversity.


Love and Friendship Series: Complete Collection

Love and Friendship Series: Complete Collection

Author: Aisha Urooj

Publisher: Aisha Urooj

Published:

Total Pages: 519

ISBN-13:

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Get the complete love and friendship series about Ellie and Cassie, two best friends. Book 1: My Dear Ellie Book 2: Eleanor's Travels Book 3: Ellie's Fate What would you do for your best friend? Cassandra Grace will live through heartbreaks over a thousand lifetimes. A thought-provoking, coming of age story about two best friends. Topics: series starter, first in series, romance series, romance saga, romance ebook, romance series, top romance reads, bestselling, Love, strong heroine, forbidden romance, romance fiction, top ebooks in romance, romance books, romance, young adult romance books, young adult books, ya book series, ya coming of age, ya fiction, young adult books best sellers, shy girl romance, good books teen girls, clean romance, wholesome romance Perfect for fans of John Green, Nicholas Sparks, stephen chobsky, michelle madow, megan montero, matt haig, marissa meyer, leia stone, kiera cass, k. a. riley, jen. l. grey, heather carson, chandelle lavaun, aiden thomas, adam silvera, jenny han, stephanie perkins, nicola yoon, alex light, tillie cole, J. C. Cervantes, talia hibbert, jova goffnev


Outside Your Window

Outside Your Window

Author: Nicola Davies

Publisher: National Geographic Books

Published: 2012-02-14

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 076365549X

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This gorgeously illustrated volume of poetry — sprinkled with facts and fun things to do — sows an early love for nature in all its beauty and wonder. The buzz of bees in summertime. The tracks of a bird in the winter snow. This beautiful book captures all the sights and sounds of a child’s interactions with nature, from planting acorns or biting into crisp apples to studying tide pools or lying back and watching the birds overhead. No matter what’s outside their windows — city streets or country meadows — kids will be inspired to explore the world around them. Written by award-winning author Nicola Davies and illustrated by Mark Hearld, a breathtaking new talent in children’s books, Outside Your Window is a stunning reminder that the natural world is on our doorstep waiting to be discovered.


The Walk: My Journey of Survival of the Japanese Military Occupation of Manila

The Walk: My Journey of Survival of the Japanese Military Occupation of Manila

Author: Ruth Hale Cobb Hill

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2016-10-14

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1630100056

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I was invited by the Bataan Historical Society to be part of a panel asked to present our life experiences during WWII in the Philippines. I came to a realization that I always found it difficult to write about the war. From the time we were liberated in 1945 from the clutches of the Japanese Military, I would jot down notes about incidents I recalled. The thoughts in these notes were usually without beginnings or endings. Then I would get rid of them, not knowing why. They seemed important at the time. When I was teaching Tagalog at Berkeley, I found myself rewriting those "beginnings" in the Tagalog language. I was surprised to find myself producing streams of thoughts that had coherent beginnings and endings. All of them were about the war. I realized that the Filipino side of me was the active speaker. I am half Anglo-American and half Filipina. What did the Filipina side have that made her able to speak? I have decided it is time to write about that of which I had not been aware.


Evergreen

Evergreen

Author: Devin Greenlee

Publisher: Entangled: Teen

Published: 2024-01-16

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 164937514X

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The Secret Garden is gorgeously reimagined in this deliciously dreamy urban fairytale about a dryad who risks immortality for love, from debut author Devin Greenlee All seventeen-year-old Quill wants is a break from the family business. Flowers, plants, the generations-old garden. What he wouldn’t give for a taste of the outside world. Normalcy. But his mom won’t let him out of the house, telling him he’s just not ready... All because he’s a dryad. Well, not just any dryad, but a male dryad—the first ever. And unlike everyone else in his family, he hasn’t a lick of magic. Just a shock of green hair, matching green eyes, and a growing frustration that there’s an entire world out there waiting to be discovered. Until the night when the outside world—specifically his new neighbor—discovers him. Liam Watson lives in a culture filled with electronics, mobile devices, and social media—where there is no magic or even the belief in it. And as much as Quill finds Liam irritating (he’s so cute it’s annoying), he can’t help himself. Now Quill’s getting a taste of the outside world and of Liam...and he wants more. But all is not well in this magical, urban garden, and someone—or something—is changing the very essence of it. And wherever Quill goes, the danger grows...


My Dear Ellie

My Dear Ellie

Author: Aisha Urooj

Publisher: Aisha Urooj

Published:

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13:

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What would you do for your Best friend? Cassandra Grace will live through heartbreaks over a thousand lifetimes. Ellie (Eleanor James) wants to be a superstar. She has natural beauty and talent but is super impatient in achieving her goals. She drops out of High School to pursue acting. She achieves greater success but it comes at a cost. She dwells deeper into darkness as fame becomes a dangerous drug to her. Cassie (Cassandra Grace) is sweet and loving. She is terribly indecisive about what she wants to do in life but will follow Ellie anywhere, including dropping out of High School. After a few years, she decides to go back to University and discovers her love for English literature. As her life gains purpose, she doesn't realize how much her friend Ellie is drifting into despair. Can she save her? She vows to be there for Ellie and to get her the life she deserves to have, even if it means challenging Fate...and losing everything she loves to save her. 'My Dear Ellie' is Aisha Urooj's debut novel and is the first in the Love & Friendship trilogy series. She is currently working on her second novel 'Eleanor's Travels' which will chronicle Ellie's once-in-a-lifetime trip around the world, a extraordinary present given by her parents on her twenty-first birthday. Read 'My Dear Ellie' to learn about the two best friends and the two extraordinary girls, Ellie and Cassie. Join them in their triumphs, their struggles, their adventures and misadventures, and most of all join them for the love and friendship shared between them growing up from little girls to young ladies. Topics: series starter, first in series, romance series, romance saga, romance ebook, romance series, top romance reads, bestselling, Love, strong heroine, forbidden romance, romance fiction, top ebooks in romance, romance books, romance, young adult romance books, young adult books, ya book series, ya coming of age, ya fiction, young adult books best sellers, shy girl romance, good books teen girls, clean romance, wholesome romance Perfect for fans of John Green, Nicholas Sparks, stephen chobsky, michelle madow, megan montero, matt haig, marissa meyer, leia stone, kiera cass, k. a. riley, jen. l. grey, heather carson, chandelle lavaun, aiden thomas, adam silvera, jenny han, stephanie perkins, nicola yoon, alex light, tillie cole, J. C. Cervantes, talia hibbert, jova goffnev, Young adult, Young adult fiction, Young adult novels, Young adult fiction books, Young adult book series