Book Description
A wonderful look back at the Peak Class locomotives
Author : Kevin Derrick
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2017-02-15
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 1445660504
A wonderful look back at the Peak Class locomotives
Author : Karin Fossum
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 28,97 MB
Release : 2011-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0547538847
Don't Look Back is the second novel in Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author Karin Fossum's Inspector Sejer mystery series. "Sejer belongs alongside the likes of Adam Dalgliesh and Inspector Morse—a gifted detective and troubled man."—Boston Globe At the foot of the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small, idyllic village, where neighbors know neighbors and children play happily in the streets. But when the body of a teenage girl is found by the lake at the mountaintop, the town's tranquility is shattered forever. Annie was strong, intelligent, and loved by everyone. What went so terribly wrong? Doggedly, yet subtly, Inspector Sejer uncovers layer upon layer of distrust and lies beneath the town's seemingly perfect façade. "Psychologically astute, subtly horrifying."—New York Times Book Review "Build[s] to a heart-stopping conclusion."—Entertainment Weekly
Author : Spencer Johnson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2010-03-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1451606613
A parable to help you succeed in today’s challenging environment from the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Who Moved My Cheese? A young man lives unhappily in a valley. One day he meets an old man who lives on a mountain peak. At first the young man doesn’t realize that he is talking to one of the most peaceful and successful people in the world. But in the course of further encounters and conversations, the young man comes to understand that he can apply the old man’s remarkable principles and practical tools to his own life to change it for the better. Spencer Johnson knows how to tell a deceptively simple story that teaches deep lessons. The One Minute Manager (co-written with Ken Blanchard) sold 15 million copies and stayed on the New York Times bestseller list for more than twenty years. Since it was published a decade ago, Who Moved My Cheese? has sold more than 25 million copies. In fact there are more than 46 million copies of Spencer Johnson’s books in print, in forty-seven languages—and with today’s economic uncertainty, his new book could not be more relevant. Pithy, wise, and empowering, Peaks and Valleys is clearly destined to become another Spencer Johnson classic.
Author : Katie Ives
Publisher : Mountaineers Books
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 42,33 MB
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1594859817
Author is a renowned writer in international climbing community Fascinating story of hoax that inspired a quest for a North American Shangri-La Vivid recounting of fabled mountains from across the world Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives, the well-known editor of Alpinist, explores the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination. In Imaginary Peaks she details the cartographical mystery of the Riesenstein Hoax within the larger context of climbing history and the seemingly endless quest for newly discovered peaks and claims of first ascents. Imaginary Peaks is an evocative, thought-provoking tale, immersed in the literature of exploration, study of maps, and basic human desire.
Author : Ben Durant
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 15,9 MB
Release : 2020-04-08
Category :
ISBN : 9781949024142
Podcast hosts Ben Durant and Bryon Kozaczka have covered Twin Peaks on their Podcast for over 200 episodes. They have interviewed just about every cast member, fan and covered every theory about David Lynch and Mark Frost's television masterpiece. Now for the first time, they bring all that coverage to a book.
Author : James Arthur Lees
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,9 MB
Release : 1899
Category : Hunting
ISBN :
Author : Chip Heath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1501147765
The New York Times bestselling authors of Switch and Made to Stick explore why certain brief experiences can jolt us and elevate us and change us—and how we can learn to create such extraordinary moments in our life and work. While human lives are endlessly variable, our most memorable positive moments are dominated by four elements: elevation, insight, pride, and connection. If we embrace these elements, we can conjure more moments that matter. What if a teacher could design a lesson that he knew his students would remember twenty years later? What if a manager knew how to create an experience that would delight customers? What if you had a better sense of how to create memories that matter for your children? This book delves into some fascinating mysteries of experience: Why we tend to remember the best or worst moment of an experience, as well as the last moment, and forget the rest. Why “we feel most comfortable when things are certain, but we feel most alive when they’re not.” And why our most cherished memories are clustered into a brief period during our youth. Readers discover how brief experiences can change lives, such as the experiment in which two strangers meet in a room, and forty-five minutes later, they leave as best friends. (What happens in that time?) Or the tale of the world’s youngest female billionaire, who credits her resilience to something her father asked the family at the dinner table. (What was that simple question?) Many of the defining moments in our lives are the result of accident or luck—but why would we leave our most meaningful, memorable moments to chance when we can create them? The Power of Moments shows us how to be the author of richer experiences.
Author : Scott Frost
Publisher :
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,15 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Beyond the coffee and doughnuts--the real Agent Cooper. Beginning with his 13th birthday, Cooper's autobiography is a unique portrait of a man who is complex and elusive, yet hard-working and generous for a rare glimpse into the private life of the G-Man who captured America's attention.
Author : Eleanor Morse
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,51 MB
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101606207
An extraordinary novel of love, friendship, and betrayal for admirers of Abraham Verghese and Edwidge Danticat Eleanor Morse’s rich and intimate portrait of Botswana, and of three people whose intertwined lives are at once tragic and remarkable, is an absorbing and deeply moving story. In apartheid South Africa in 1977, medical student Isaac Muthethe is forced to flee his country after witnessing a friend murdered by white members of the South African Defense Force. He is smuggled into Botswana, where he is hired as a gardener by a young American woman, Alice Mendelssohn, who has abandoned her Ph.D. studies to follow her husband to Africa. When Isaac goes missing and Alice goes searching for him, what she finds will change her life and inextricably bind her to this sunburned, beautiful land. Like the African terrain that Alice loves, Morse’s novel is alternately austere and lush, spare and lyrical. She is a writer of great and wide-ranging gifts.
Author : Ellin Gallant
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 45,37 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Peaks Island (Me.)
ISBN : 9780692045480
Peaks Island Revisited takes a nostalgic look back at Peaks Island during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Part memoir, part local history record, and part picture album, the book presents a collection of post cards, photographs, personal ephemera and newspaper clippings. The authors, Ellin Gallant, Reta Morrill and Joyce O'Brien, have selected pictures of Peaks Island, as well as some of the neighboring islands, from many different sources and eras to produce the album. They have spent countless enjoyable hours combing through scrap books and recounting their personal memories of life on Peaks Island while they were growing up. All are residents of Peaks Island.