Water to the Angels
Water to the Angels

Author: Les Standiford

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2015-03-31

Total Pages: 263

ISBN-13: 0062251449

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The author of Last Train to Paradise tells the story of the largest public water project ever created—William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct—a story of Gilded Age ambition, hubris, greed, and one determined man who's vision shaped the future and continues to impact us today. In 1907, Irish immigrant William Mulholland conceived and built one of the greatest civil engineering feats in history: the aqueduct that carried water 223 miles from the Sierra Nevada mountains to Los Angeles—allowing this small, resource-challenged desert city to grow into a modern global metropolis. Drawing on new research, Les Standiford vividly captures the larger-then-life engineer and the breathtaking scope of his six-year, $23 million project that would transform a region, a state, and a nation at the dawn of its greatest century. With energy and colorful detail, Water to the Angels brings to life the personalities, politics, and power—including bribery, deception, force, and bicoastal financial warfare—behind this dramatic event. At a time when the importance of water is being recognized as never before—considered by many experts to be the essential resource of the twenty-first century—Water to the Angels brings into focus the vigor of a fabled era, the might of a larger than life individual, and the scale of a priceless construction project, and sheds critical light on a past that offers insights for our future. Water to the Angels includes 8 pages of photographs.

The House of Broken Angels
The House of Broken Angels

Author: Luis Alberto Urrea

Publisher: Little, Brown

Published: 2018-03-06

Total Pages: 275

ISBN-13: 0316516252

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In this "raucous, moving, and necessary" story by a Pulitzer Prize finalist (San Francisco Chronicle), the De La Cruzes, a family on the Mexican-American border, celebrate two of their most beloved relatives during a joyous and bittersweet weekend. "All we do, mija, is love. Love is the answer. Nothing stops it. Not borders. Not death." In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies, transforming the weekend into a farewell doubleheader. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life. Across two bittersweet days in their San Diego neighborhood, the revelers mingle among the palm trees and cacti, celebrating the lives of Big Angel and his mother, and recounting the many inspiring tales that have passed into family lore, the acts both ordinary and heroic that brought these citizens to a fraught and sublime country and allowed them to flourish in the land they have come to call home. Teeming with brilliance and humor, authentic at every turn, The House of Broken Angels is Luis Alberto Urrea at his best, and cements his reputation as a storyteller of the first rank. "Epic . . . Rambunctious . . . Highly entertaining." -- New York Times Book Review"Intimate and touching . . . the stuff of legend." -- San Francisco Chronicle"An immensely charming and moving tale." -- Boston GlobeNational Bestseller and National Book Critics Circle Award finalistA New York Times Notable BookOne of the Best Books of the Year from National Public Radio, American Library Association, San Francisco Chronicle, BookPage, Newsday, BuzzFeed, Kirkus, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Literary Hub

Angel in the Waters
Angel in the Waters

Author: Regina Doman

Publisher: Sophia Institute Press

Published: 2006-12-01

Total Pages: 27

ISBN-13: 1928832814

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In its mother’s womb, a tiny baby grows, explores the waters, and talks with the angel who is there. These gentle illustrations and wise words tell the story of that baby and the angel in the waters . . . a story that delights all children, because the journey from conception to birth is their story, too.

Bring Now the Angels
Bring Now the Angels

Author: Dilruba Ahmed

Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 0822987309

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This collection juxtaposes text from Google Search autocomplete with the intimate language of prayer. Corporate jargon coexists with the incantatory and ancient ghazal form. Ahmed’s second book of poetry explores the terrain of loss—of a beloved family member, of human dignity and potential, of the earth as it stands, of hope. Her poems weave mourning with the erratic process of healing, skepticism with an unsteady attempt to regain faith. With poems that are by turns elegiac, biting, and tender, Bring Now the Angels conveys a desire to move toward transformation and rebirth, even among seemingly insurmountable obstacles: chronic disease, corporate greed, environmental harm, and a general atmosphere of anxiety and violence. UNDERGROUND …They are turning their locks to paint their faces and their daughters’ faces. They look on as the girls regard their eyes in mirrors, in the long cracked mirror of history, and war. They paint themselves into existence inside the shuttered rooms of their hearts, where freedom still bristles…

From Wine to Water
From Wine to Water

Author: Carolyn Brown

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781410436764

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All Tyrell Fannin and his cousins Isaac and Micah Burnet want is to get out of a Texas jail and go home to Mississippi. Delia Lavalle didn't need three outlaws to escort her and her sisters to Louisiana, but she doesn't really have a choice. The outlaws aren't happy about escorting nuns, but figure not even Santa Anna would harm a holy woman. A week into the trip, however, the outlaws find out that the women are sisters, but not of the cloth ...

Water Angels
Water Angels

Author: Mons Kallentoft

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton

Published: 2015-04-23

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 1444776363

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A married couple is found dead in their jacuzzi. Their adopted five-year-old daughter has vanished. Inspector Malin Fors, the troubled but brilliant star of the Linkoping police force, is put in charge of the case. But this is a haunting mystery where the borders have been blurred: those between the living and the dead, between good and evil. Malin is only too aware of her own tendencies towards obsession and addiction. As the investigation takes a darker turn, forcing Malin to confront her own demons, will she hold out long enough to find the killer - and the missing girl - before it's too late?

Waterslain Angels
Waterslain Angels

Author: Kevin Crossley-Holland

Publisher: Orion Children's Books

Published: 2010-01-21

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1842557521

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In the village of Waterslain in Norfolk, in the 1950s, a fragment from a carved angel's wing is discovered. Maybe the wooden angels that once supported the church roof were not, after all, destroyed centuries ago, but spirited away to safety. Two children decide to find them. There are few clues, but a strange inscription on the church wall leads them into terrifying places - up to the top of the church tower, down a tunnel where they are nearly drowned. Annie dreams of the man who was sent in by Cromwell to smash up the church, and of angels flying and falling. For Sandy, whose father, an American airman, was recently killed, the angels bring comfort. The whereabouts of the angels become clear to them - but then they discover that other people are hunting for them, and are determined to stop the children at all costs. The friendship between the boy adjusting to a new life in his mother's village, and the girl whose family have always lived on their remote farm, the haunting atmosphere of the Norfolk saltmarshes, and the strong sense of the past still present, give richness to a tense and fast-paced story of detection for younger readers.

Partner with Angels
Partner with Angels

Author: Rae Chandran

Publisher: Light Technology Publishing

Published: 2015-07-01

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1622337700

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Angels are the Creator’s workforce, and in this book, individual angels describe their responsibilities and explain how they can help you with all aspects of your life — practical and spiritual. All you need to do is ask. Many of these angels have never spoken to human beings before or revealed their names or what they do. Here are some examples of what you will find inside: La Banaha, the essence of the Moon, explains feminine empowerment and organ rejuvenation. Angel Anauel describes fair commerce. Angel Tahariel helps you purify and shift your vibration. Angel Mansu gives advice about how to eliminate the trauma from birthing procedures. Angel Agon inspires writers and filmmakers and relates how you can call on him for inspiration. Angel Tadzekiel helps you access your own wisdom and put it into perspective. Archangel Maroni downloads your individual pathway to ascension. The purpose of this material is to bring the awareness of angels in a much more practical, easy-to-understand way. Call on the angels to show you all the potential you have in your life to create a new reality.