High up in the Rolling Hills
High up in the Rolling Hills

Author: Peter Finch

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2013-04-22

Total Pages: 204

ISBN-13: 147598586X

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In his youth, Peter Finch wove his way through a series of exploits and adventures. Travels took him to Canada, where a fateful encounter in the Rocky Mountains opened up new horizons. In midlife he and his wife Gundi made the shift to country living, ushering in a new phase in their life, as they set down roots in the hills and settled into a deliberately simplified lifestyle. Peter relates how he and Gundi immersed themselves in ways guided by nature. As she created and sold glass sculptures, he sunk his hands and tools into pure glacial-till soils, sowing, planting, and growing culinary and medicinal herbs, heirloom vegetables and salad greens to take to farmers markets and restaurants in and around Toronto. Invigorated by the pleasures and health benefits of growing, selling, and eating fresh organic food, Peter reveals how he became a passionate advocate of traditional, small-scale, chemical-free farming. High Up in the Rolling Hills shares the personal journey of an independent couple as they explore the vital role of nature, creativity, and healthy food in life.

Camp Rolling Hills (#1)
Camp Rolling Hills (#1)

Author: Stacy Davidowitz

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 227

ISBN-13: 1613128908

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A hilarious and heartfelt series about the particular magic of summer camp—a place where reinvention is possible and friends are like family—from a sparkling debut talent. Finally, it's summer! Stephanie—aka Slimey—has been counting the days until she can return to her favorite place in the entire world, Camp Rolling Hills. And this year she's especially happy to be back—she'll have eight blissful weeks away from home, where life has been decidedly rocky. New kid Bobby, on the other hand, is pretty sure he's in for the worst summer of his life. He does not understand his weirdo cabinmates, the group singing, and the unfortunate nicknames (including his: Smelly). But he does understand Slimey, and the two soon fall in crush. This summer might not be so bad after all! But then a fight sets off an epic, campwide, girls-versus-boys prank war. Bunks are raided! Boxer shorts are stolen! And it's up to Slimey and Smelly to keep the peace. "Camp Rolling Hills is funny and sweet. It brought me back to those amazing summer camp summers and my very first taste of young adulthood." --Michael Showalter, co-writer of Wet Hot American Summer "Stacy Davidowitz gets the magic of camp and the wonder of being twelve just right. Camp Rolling Hills is both heartwarming and laugh-out-loud hilarious." --Elissa Brent Weissman, author of Nerd Camp

Crossing Over (Camp Rolling Hills #2)
Crossing Over (Camp Rolling Hills #2)

Author: Stacy Davidowitz

Publisher: Abrams

Published: 2016-05-10

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1613128916

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A hilarious and heartfelt series about the particular magic of summer camp—a place where reinvention is possible and friends are like family—from a sparkling debut talent. There's only one thing Melman loves more than soccer: her summers at Camp Rolling Hills. So she's pumped to be back—until she realizes her bunkmates have gone totally boy-crazy over the school year and plastered their cabin in pink. Pink posters, pink t-shirts...it seems that the only not-pink thing in the cabin is Melman herself. That is, until she's given a dare in front of the entire camp: wear a pink princess dress. For Three. Whole. Days. Steinberg's summer gets off to a rough start, too, when his robot (usually his area of expertise) blows up during a camp-wide robotics contest. Steinberg might feel like a loser at home, but camp's supposed to be his place to shine. Steinberg without robots? Melman in pink? This whole summer feels turned upside down! To set things right, Steinberg and Melman team up and hatch a fail-proof plan. The plan's secret ingredient? Hamburgers. "Camp Rolling Hills is funny and sweet. It brought me back to those amazing summer camp summers and my very first taste of young adulthood." --Michael Showalter, co-writer of Wet Hot American Summer "Stacy Davidowitz gets the magic of camp and the wonder of being twelve just right. Camp Rolling Hills is both heartwarming and laugh-out-loud hilarious." --Elissa Brent Weissman, author of Nerd Camp

Nerd Camp
Nerd Camp

Author: Elissa Brent Weissman

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-05-22

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1442417048

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For ten-year-old Gabe, the Summer Center for Gifted Enrichment is all that he dreamed it would be, but he must work hard to write about the fun in letters to Zach, his cool future stepbrother, without revealing that it is a camp for "nerds."

Gone for Soldiers
Gone for Soldiers

Author: Jeff Shaara

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2001-07-03

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0345427513

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In this stunning, unforgettable novel, Jeff Shaara carries us back thirteen years before the Civil War, when that momentous conflict's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican-American War. "BRILLIANT DOES NOT EVEN BEGIN TO DESCRIBE THE SHAARA GIFT." --Atlanta Journal-Constitution SHAARA RELIES "ON THE HISTORY BEHIND THE MEN AND THEIR CAMPAIGNS TO TELL THE TALE. . . . Most poignant of all is the appearance of so many characters who will fight under opposing flags 13 years later. Stonewall Jackson shows up as a humorless young lieutenant with a spiritual reverence for his artillery, and Ulysses S. Grant awkwardly meets [Robert E.] Lee. . . . The salvaging of such episodes from history is ultimately a patriotic task, deserving of gratitude." --The Washington Post Book World "COMPELLING . . . THRILLING . . . Shaara briskly drives the U.S. forces to Mexico City, building suspense at each battle, all towards the climactic storming of the gates of the capital. . . . [He] has humanized the mythos of Lee as no one ever has and, in doing, makes an enduring contribution to literature." --Civil War Book Review "SHAARA, AS USUAL, IS AT HIS BEST IN ACTION AND CONFRONTATION AND IN EVOKING HOW IT FELT TO BE THERE." --The Philadelphia Inquirer

Biking Iowa
Biking Iowa

Author: Bob Morgan

Publisher: Big Earth Publishing

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781931599634

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"50 Great Road Trips and Trail Rides" by Bob Morgan - From cruising the flats to challenging climbs, Iowa has everything a cyclist could want. This is your guide to two-wheeled fun.

Way Up, Way Out
Way Up, Way Out

Author: Harold Strachan

Publisher: New Africa Books

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13: 9780864863553

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South African schools, the provincialism of Natal in the 1930s, airforce training at the start of the Second World War, are all described in graphic detail, with Strachan's often devastating commentary providing a running sub-text.

Tweak
Tweak

Author: Nic Sheff

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2012-12-11

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1471109739

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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR FILM, STARRING STEVE CARELL AND BAFTA AND GOLDEN GLOBE NOMINATED TIMOTHEE CHALAMET ‘It was like being in a car with the gas pedal slammed down to the floor and nothing to do but hold on and pretend to have some semblance of control. But control was something I'd lost a long time ago.’ Nic Sheff was drunk for the first time at age 11. In the years that followed, he would regularly smoke pot, do cocaine and ecstasy, and develop addictions to crystal meth and heroin. Even so, he felt like he would always be able to quit and put his life together whenever he needed to. It took a violent relapse one summer to convince him otherwise. In a voice that is raw and honest, Nic spares no detail in telling us the compelling true story of his relapse and the road to recovery. He paints an extraordinary picture for us of a person at odds with his past, with his family, with his substances, and with himself. Tweak is a raw, harrowing, and ultimately hopeful tale of the road from relapse to recovery and complements his father’s parallel memoir, Beautiful Boy. Praise for Nic Sheff:- ‘Difficult to read and impossible to put down.’Chicago Tribune 'Nic Sheff's wrenching tale is told with electrifying honesty and insight.' Armistead Maupin

Lost Cities of China, Central Asia, & India
Lost Cities of China, Central Asia, & India

Author: David Hatcher Childress

Publisher: Adventures Unlimited Press

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 436

ISBN-13: 9780932813077

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Explores some of the world's oldest and most remote countries in search of lost cities and ancient mysteries.

High Mountain Logger
High Mountain Logger

Author: Walter B. Johnson

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2009-06

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 1440127883

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The story is about a young man who works as a logger far up into the high Cascade Mountains. Located in the northwestern part of the United States. He deals with the dangers of working as a choker setter and getting along with his coworker on the job. At home he is not ready to settle down to the life as a married man and starts enjoying the night life at a dance hall wasting his money and spending life away from his family. He eventually finds a girl as weak as he is and enjoys the sex and the partnership in his night life. He lives in a heaven on earth to him untill it turns into a hell on earth for him. That is when he and his running partner pay the price of his weakness. He tries to change his life but much damage has been done.