Author : Amy Sweezey
Publisher :
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 14,73 MB
Release : 2019-11-13
Category :
ISBN : 9780578599946
AJ lives in Florida where it never, ever snows. He dreams of a day when he can build a snowman, or wear warm boots in the winter like other kids. AJ soon learns he can't say NEVER when it comes to weather. Just because he hasn't seen any, doesn't mean it never snows in Florida.
Author : Robin Pulver
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 24,84 MB
Release : 2001-09-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0142300144
Always impatient and driving too fast, Rush Hotfoot learns the importance of safety from school bus driver Axle Annie and her bus full of kids.
Author : Carlos Eire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 579 pages
File Size : 39,71 MB
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 147110835X
A childhood in a privileged household in 1950s Havana was joyous and cruel, like any other-but with certain differences. The neighbour's monkey was liable to escape and run across your roof. Surfing was conducted by driving cars across the breakwater. Lizards and firecrackers made frequent contact. Carlos Eire's childhood was a little different from most. His father was convinced he had been Louis XVI in a past life. At school, classmates with fathers in the Batista government were attended by chauffeurs and bodyguards. At a home crammed with artifacts and paintings, portraits of Jesus spoke to him in dreams and nightmares. Then, in January 1959, the world changes: Batista is suddenly gone, a cigar-smoking guerrilla has taken his place, and Christmas is cancelled. The echo of firing squads is everywhere. And, one by one, the author's schoolmates begin to disappear-spirited away to the United States. Carlos will end up there himself, without his parents, never to see his father again. Narrated with the urgency of a confession, WAITING FOR SNOW IN HAVANA is both an ode to a paradise lost and an exorcism. More than that, it captures the terrible beauty of those times in our lives when we are certain we have died-and then are somehow, miraculously, reborn.
Author : Norman Ross
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 28,44 MB
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0557034264
A collection of blogs from May 2008 to September 2008 describing the daily condo life of the author and including analysis and discussions of events in the election year.
Author : Shane Snow
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 36,48 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0735217807
Award-winning entrepreneur and journalist Shane Snow reveals the counterintuitive reasons why so many partnerships and groups break down--and why some break through. The best teams are more than the sum of their parts, but why does collaboration so often fail to fulfill this promise? In Dream Teams, Snow takes us on an adventure through history, neuroscience, psychology, and business, exploring what separates groups that simply get by together from those that get better together. You'll learn: * How ragtag teams--from soccer clubs to startups to gangs of pirates--beat the odds throughout history. * Why DaimlerChrysler flopped while the Wu-Tang Clan succeeded, and the surprising factor behind most failed mergers, marriages, and partnerships. * What the Wright Brothers' daily arguments can teach us about group problem solving. * Pioneering women in law enforcement, unlikely civil rights collaborators, and underdog armies that did the incredible together. * The team players behind great social movements in history, and the science of becoming open-minded. Provocative and entertaining, Dream Teams is a landmark work that will change the way we think about people, progress, and collaboration.
Author : Tiffany Baker
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,10 MB
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781455512751
"Strength and quiet beauty mark Baker's writing . . . Mercy Snow provides an authentic universe of damaged souls and a fantastical heroine."--Anita Shreve, Washington Post In the tiny town of Titan Falls, New Hampshire, the paper mill dictates a quiet, steady rhythm of life. But one day a tragic bus accident sets two families on a course toward destruction, irrevocably altering the lives of everyone in their wake. June McAllister is the wife of the local mill owner and undisputed first lady in town. But the Snow family, a group of itinerant ne'er-do-wells who live on a decrepit and cursed property, have brought her--and the town--nothing but grief. June will do anything to cover up a dark secret she discovers after the crash, one that threatens to upend her picture-perfect life, even if it means driving the Snow family out of town. But she has never gone up against a force as fierce as the young Mercy Snow. Mercy is determined to protect her rebellious brother, whom the town blames for the accident, despite his innocence. And she has a secret of her own. When an old skeleton is discovered not far from the crash, it beckons Mercy to solve a mystery buried deep within the town's past.
Author : John Joseph Kelley
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,39 MB
Release : 2013-11
Category : Appalachia (Va.)
ISBN : 9780988414839
"A gripping tale of self-exploration and atonement . . . emotionally complex and brimming with grit." -Publishers Weekly. - A ForeWord Reviews 2012 Book of the Year Award Winner - In the fall of 1918 infantry sniper Joshua Hunter saves an ambushed patrol in the Bois le Pretre forest of Lorraine . . . and then vanishes. Pulled from the rubble of an enemy bunker days later, he receives an award for valor and passage home to Hadley, a remote hamlet in Virginia's western highlands. Reeling from war and influenza, Hadley could surely use a hero. Family and friends embrace him; an engagement is announced; a job is offered. Yet all is not what it seems. Joshua experiences panics and can't recall the incident that crippled him. He guards a secret too, one that grips tight like the icy air above his father's quarry. Over the course of a Virginia winter and an echoed season in war-torn France, The Fallen Snow reveals his wide-eyed journey to the front and his ragged path back. Along the way he finds companions - a youth mourning a lost brother, a nurse seeking a new life and Aiden, a bold sergeant escaping a vengeful father. While all of them touch Joshua, it is the strong yet nurturing Aiden who will awaken his heart, leaving him forever changed. Set within a besieged Appalachian forest during a time of tragedy, The Fallen Snow charts an extraordinary coming of age, exploring how damaged souls learn to heal, and dare to grow.
Author : R.C. Lewis
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,38 MB
Release : 2014-10-14
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1423187970
Princess Snow is missing. Her home planet is filled with violence and corruption at the hands of King Matthias and his wife as they attempt to punish her captors. The king will stop at nothing to get his beloved daughter back—but that's assuming she wants to return at all. Essie has grown used to being cold. Temperatures on the planet Thanda are always sub-zero, and she fills her days with coding and repairs for the seven loyal drones that run the local mines. When a mysterious young man named Dane crash-lands near her home, Essie agrees to help the pilot repair his ship. But soon she realizes that Dane's arrival was far from accidental, and she's pulled into the heart of a war she's risked everything to avoid. In her enthralling debut, R.C. Lewis weaves the tale of a princess on the run from painful secrets . . . and a poisonous queen. With the galaxy's future—and her own—in jeopardy, Essie must choose who to trust in a fiery fight for survival.
Author : Kevin Kremer
Publisher : Snow in Sarasota Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,42 MB
Release : 2004-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780966333527
While trying to find out if it's ever snowed in Sarasota on Christmas, three teens who've just moved to Siesta Key from North Dakota are drawn into a huge mystery involving a fisherman named Captain Sarasota who disappeared under bizarre circumstances. Their attempt to solve the mystery takes the teens all over the Suncoast, and they meet many interesting people along the way inclding Jon Gruden, Dickie V., and a super dolphin named Jack Lambert. Will they ever find out what happened to Captain Sarasota? Who's that man following the teens everywhere?
Author : C. P. Snow
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1107606144
The importance of science and technology and future of education and research are just some of the subjects discussed here.
