Author : Mike Kaye
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 16,9 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1514442833
Dump Truck Dave and his smaller dump truck mates are always being teased by the larger dump trucks because of their size. This all changes when a huge storm hits Barcoo mine. Dave, along with his mates, comes to the rescue and save the larger trucks from drowning.
Author : Joe Hutto
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 37,80 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1629141178
Hutto is living in a tent at twelve thousand feet, where blizzards occur in July and where human wants become irrelevant and human needs can become a matter of life and death—to study the Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep. The population of these rare alpine sheep is in decline. The lambs are dying in unprecedented numbers. Hutto’s job is to find out why. For months at a time, he follows the bighorn herds, meets mountain lions and bears, weathers injury and storms, and beautifully observes the incredible splendor of the Rocky Mountains. Hutto has a deep connection to Wyoming, having managed a large cattle ranch in his past. He weaves Wyoming’s history of the cowboy, mountain ecology, and the lives of the bighorn sheep into a beautiful flowing narrative. Ultimately, he discovers that the lambs are dying of cystic fibrosis due to selenium deficiency, which is caused by acid rain—a grim ecological disaster caused by human pollution. Here is a new twist on a cautionary tale, and a new voice, eloquently expressing the urgency that we mend our ways.
Author : Dave Isay
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0143110071
“Callings will inspire readers at every stage of their careers to view work with a new appreciation for the possibilities it holds beyond the mundane.” —Booklist Stories of passion, courage, and commitment, following individuals as they pursue the work they were born to do, from StoryCorps founder Dave Isay In Callings, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay presents unforgettable stories from people doing what they love. Some found their paths at a very young age, others later in life; some overcame great odds or upturned their lives in order to pursue what matters to them. Many of their stories have never been broadcast or published by StoryCorps until now. We meet a man from the barrios of Texas whose harrowing experiences in a family of migrant farmers inspired him to become a public defender. We meet a longtime waitress who takes pride in making regulars and newcomers alike feel at home in her Nashville diner. We meet a young man on the South Side of Chicago who became a teacher in order to help at-risk teenagers like the ones who killed his father get on the right track. We meet a woman from Little Rock who helps former inmates gain the skills and confidence they need to rejoin the workforce. Together they demonstrate how work can be about much more than just making a living, that chasing dreams and finding inspiration in unexpected places can transform a vocation into a calling. Their shared sense of passion, honor, and commitment brings deeper meaning and satisfaction to every aspect of their lives. An essential contribution to the beloved StoryCorps collection, Callings is an inspiring tribute to rewarding work and the American pursuit of happiness.
Author : Robin Nagle
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 36,89 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0374299293
Charting New York's four-hundred-year struggle with trash, an anthropologist who spent ten years with sanitation workers of all ranks reveals what it takes for the Department of Sanitation to manage Gotham's garbage.
Author : Kelley Dupuis
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 37,13 MB
Release : 2020-07-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1728366801
Hurricane Park tells the story of a homeless man and his friends who live in a park in central Los Angeles. The novel traces the events that lead him there, how he and his closest friend in the park come to make a friendly wager as to which of them will get off the street first, and what happens to them afterward. Hurricane Park ts a story about giving up hope and then trying to get it back again.
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Page : 216 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Persian Gulf War, 1991
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Author : James Lee Burke
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2003-09-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 074326097X
Sheriff Dave Robicheaux returns to New Orleans to investigate the beating of a controversial Catholic priest and murder of three teenage girls in this intense, atmospheric entry in the New York Times bestselling series. For Dave Robicheaux, there is no easy passage home. New Orleans, and the memories of his life in the Big Easy, will always haunt him. So to return there means visiting old ghosts, exposing old wounds, opening himself up to new, yet familiar, dangers. When Robicheaux, now a police officer based in the somewhat quieter Louisiana town of New Iberia, learns that an old friend, Father Jimmie Dolan, a Catholic priest always at the center of controversy, has been the victim of a particularly brutal assault, he knows he has to return to New Orleans to investigate, if only unofficially. What he doesn’t realize is that in doing so he is inviting into his life—and into the lives of those around him—an ancestral evil that could destroy them all. A masterful exploration of the troubled side of human nature and the darkest corners of the heart, and filled with the kinds of unforgettable characters that are the hallmarks of his novels, Last Car to Elysian Fields is Burke in top form in the kind of lush, atmospheric thriller that is “an outstanding entry in an excellent series” (Publishers Weekly).
Author : Patrick Kirk
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 37,4 MB
Release : 2020-01-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1646284224
Over the last twenty years of the 20th Century, set in Georgia and primarily in southern California, Patrick Kirk writes a fictional account of the lives of Bryan and Carolyn Jenkins as they traverse the “yuppies gotta have it all” lifestyle. The story is in some ways a high tech suspense thriller; part romance, part spy novel. It is about business, mentorship, career changes and their effects on a marriage and having a family in the 90’s. It’s also about corporate corruption and greed and how the PC software revolution assisted in the decline in American business values. It’s a dissection of the Enron-driven rolling electrical blackouts and the company’s ultimate demise. Some of the story lines are imagined after people, places, events and technology encountered by the author during his thirty years in the PC software business.
Author : John Verdon
Publisher : Catapult
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1640090649
"John Verdon writes grown–up detective novels, by which I mean stories with intelligent plots, well–developed characters and crimes that have social consequences. White River Burning, featuring the author's brainy gumshoe–for–hire, Dave Gurney, checks all these boxes." —The New York Times Book Review Tensions have been running high in White River as it approaches the anniversary of a fatal shooting of a black motorist by a local police officer. The polarized city is on edge, confronted with angry demonstrations, arson, and looting. In the midst of the turmoil, a White River police officer is shot dead by an unknown sniper. As the town spirals out of control, local authorities approach Dave Gurney to conduct an independent investigation of the shooting. White River Burning is the most provocative and timely book yet by the author hailed by The New York Times as "masterly."
Author : Parker Avrile
Publisher : Paris April Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 11,90 MB
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
When he can't keep pretending... Gray's social-climbing parents have a plan for their son. The same plan that worked perfectly well for his father before him. Law school, socialite wife, millions of dollars in the bank. It's all planned out for the next thirty years. The plan doesn't allow for art school. Much less kissing boys. This shorter 30,000-word novel is a "sweet" gay coming-of-age story featuring a character in his mid-teens. There is some rough language, but there is no "steam." Like many young adult novels featuring a teen hero, the ending is open-ended because life is open-ended at that age. Gray and Sparky will meet again in college. You can read their college gay romance in the full-length 80,000-word novel, Kickoff Blues. You may consider this book a prequel to Kickoff Blues, but it doesn't matter which one you read first. Also, Kickoff Blues is Book #3 in the Last Chances Academy series, but you can read it first if you want to since Books 1 & 2 follow a different romance. Keywords & themes: Last Chances Academy, gay academy romance, free, free gay books, free young adult books, free YA, young adult, coming of age, first love, crushes, runaway teens, teen boys, gay teens, puppy love, contemporary, coming of age, escape from conversion therapy, homophobic parents, father/son conflict, fathers and sons, families. Related Books by Parker Avrile include the novels in the Last Chances Academy series: Hot Roommate Blues, Hot Mafia Blues, and Kickoff Blues, as well as the short story Bully Crush Blues. Similar themes of runaway gay teens and father/son struggle appear in the author's original Runaway Model trilogy, which includes The Runaway Model, The Runaway Millions, and The Runaway Father. That series is a LOT more angsty, though.
