Sunrise Cabin


Book Description

Two very different people... One very special place. Dylan’s an overworked investment banker. Paige is a free-spirited first-grade teacher. From the first time they meet, these two opposites attract. Meanwhile, the cabin Paige is renting has gone up for sale. She loves living there, and she just might be able to buy it—if she finally achieves her dream of selling her children’s stories. When she learns Dylan is also determined to buy the cabin, their new romance turns into a real estate rivalry. Dylan could explain his own connection to the place…but that would mean opening up about his past. As his relationship with Paige goes from funny to touching, they both learn more about love and the true meaning of home. This feel-good romance contains a free Hallmark original recipe for Maple Pecan Streusel Muffins With Cider Glaze.




The Design-Build Studio


Book Description

The Design-Build Studio examines sixteen international community driven design-build case studies through process and product, with preceding chapters on community involvement, digital and handcraft methodologies and a graphic Time Map. Together these projects serve as a field guide to the current trends in academic design-build studios, a window into the different processes and methodologies being taught and realized today. Design-build supports the idea that building, making and designing are intrinsic to each other: knowledge of one strengthens and informs the expression of the other. Hands-on learning through the act of building what you design translates theories and ideas into real world experience. The work chronicled in this book reveals how this type of applied knowledge grounds us in the physicality of the world in which we live.




The Camp Fire Girls Amid The Snows


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"The Camp Fire Girls Amid The Snows" by Margaret Vandercook is a thrilling tale that follows the adventures of a group of Camp Fire Girls as they navigate the challenges and wonders of a winter wilderness. In this captivating narrative, the Camp Fire Girls find themselves in a snowy and picturesque setting, where they embark on a winter camping trip that promises excitement and valuable life lessons. Led by their wise and experienced leader, the girls set out to explore the snowy landscapes, frozen lakes, and dense forests. The story introduces readers to a diverse group of girls, each with her own unique strengths and talents. As they face the harsh realities of winter camping, such as extreme cold, deep snow, and the need for survival skills, they also discover the beauty and serenity of the winter wilderness. Throughout their journey, the Camp Fire Girls learn essential outdoor skills like building snow shelters, starting fires in challenging conditions, and identifying wildlife tracks. These practical lessons not only deepen their connection to nature but also boost their self-confidence and resilience. The leader of the Camp Fire Girls plays a crucial role in guiding them through the challenges of winter camping. She emphasizes the values of teamwork, cooperation, and self-reliance, fostering a strong sense of camaraderie among the girls. As they navigate the snowy terrain and face unexpected obstacles, the Camp Fire Girls demonstrate determination, resourcefulness, and a deep appreciation for the natural world. They also develop a profound respect for indigenous cultures and their ancestral knowledge of surviving in winter conditions. "The Camp Fire Girls Amid The Snows" is a story of adventure, self-discovery, and the enduring bond of friendship. It encourages young readers to embrace the beauty of the natural world, develop essential life skills, and cherish the moments of wonder that can be found in the heart of winter's embrace.




Mount Rogers National Recreation Area Guidebook


Book Description

Encompassing more than 140,000 acres of scenic beauty in southwestern Virginia, the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area offers outdoor enthusiasts a myriad of activities, from hiking, camping, and fishing to horseback riding, picnicking, swimming, tour driving, and biking. In the only comprehensive guidebook for this region, now newly updated, Johnny Molloy covers all of these activities and more, providing visitors with everything they need, including detailed maps, to enjoy the entire Mount Rogers area-one of the true jewels of Southern Appalachia. Molloy details the more than 430 miles of marked and maintained trails that criss-cross the Mount Rogers NRA and nearby Grayson Highlands State Park. Organized both by type, such as long trails and rail trails, and the areas they cover, including West Side, Central Area, Far East, and High Country, the trail descriptions include comprehensive, narratives of each hike, noting the various trail junctions, stream crossings, and trailside features with their distances from the trailhead. With each trail summary is an information box that offers quick access to such pertinent data as trail type (foot, horse, and/or bike), difficulty, length, degree of use, trail connections, and highlights. Complementing the sections on the extensive trail system are chapters on many other recreational options. Anglers will find lists of the best streams and tips for both fly and spin-cast fishing. For those seeking a way to cool off after a mountain excursion, the book locates the area's favorite swimming holes. Molloy also reveals the best roads from which to view the gorgeous scenery and wildlife of the Mount Rogers area. Rounding out the guidebook is information on national forest and state park campgrounds, picnic areas, and accommodations and services in nearby towns, including motels, bed-and-breakfasts, outfitters, and stores."







The Camp Fire Girls Amid the Snows


Book Description

The snow was falling in heavy slashing sheets, and a December snowstorm in the New Hampshire hills means something more serious than a storm in city streets or even an equal downfall upon more level meadows and plains. Yet on this winter afternoon, about an hour before twilight and along the base of a hill where a rough road wandered between tall cedar and pine trees and low bushes and shrubs, there sounded continually above the snow's silencing two voices, sometimes laughing, occasionally singing a brief line or so, but more often talking. Accompanying them always was a steady jingling of bells.




Assault on Sunrise


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Less than a hundred years in the future, pollution, economic disaster, and the rapacious greed of the corporate oligarchy has brought America to its knees and created dystopian urban nightmares, of which L.A. may be the worst. Curtis, Japh, and Jool are film extras, who—with the help of a couple of very gutsy women—survived being anonymous players in a "live-action" film in which getting killed on-screen meant getting killed for real. Surviving the shoot made them rich enough to escape the post-apocalyptic Hell that L.A. has become. But their survival was not what Panoply Studios' CEO Val Margolian had in mind, especially since it cost his company millions. Now he's taking his revenge. After several plainclothes police are found dead in the former extras' new home, the bucolic, peaceful town of Sunrise, California, the entire town is subjected to Margolian's invidious plan to punish the entire town...and make a fortune doing it. Margolian has created toxic, murderous wasp-like mechanical creatures to set upon the people of Sunrise, while his film crew captures the carnage in what promises to be the bloodiest "live-action" film yet. With their haven from L.A. besieged by the deadly assault, the former extras—and their fellow townspeople—are faced with a grim task: to defeat the creatures and take back their town and their freedom. Michael Shea's Assault on Sunrise is a saga of courage and sacrifice in a world gone mad. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.




The Cabin Book


Book Description

Once rustic and simple, the cabin is now comfortable and chic. "The Cabin Book" offers a wonderful variety of forms and explores the most innovative designs in cabin architecture.




The Last Ride


Book Description

Billy, A young lad who fell in love with a story in a book. The saga of Mister Bill became Mister Bill Driven by an inner desire to see the lands of the western frontier. He left his home at the age of fourteen. Inside him was a love for adventure. He could not put this aside and knew he had to go. some how he knew he was not traveling alone because deep inside him was some one else. He followed his heart in all endeavors. his love for the beautiful work and love for his fellow men and women kept him going. About the Author William Stafford Sessoms was born on a farm in North Carolina and went on to work for JCPenney’s for thirty-five years. He began writing thirty-five years ago and has four previously published works. He now resides in a retirement community with a family of like people enjoying their retirement. He enjoys playing bridge with friends, attending socials, and traveling, especially cruises. Sessoms is the father to two daughters, grandfather to three, and a great-grandfather to four.




All of God's Children


Book Description

This book is about an ordinary man who lived in extraordinary times during the period of slavery in southern history. Abraham was born into an institution which viewed him as three-fifths of a white person by the United States Constitution. He was sold into the slave state of Georgia from South Carolina in 1856, one year before the infamous Dred Scott decision of 1857. This decision proclaimed in March of 1857 declared that African Americans were not citizens of the United States and could not sue in federal courts. A United States citizen had a constitutional right to take his slave property into any state or territory based on the property clause of the Fifth Amendment. This book is not about the life of an invisible historical figure in a remote period of time in Southern and United Sates history. Its about a real person and his family who survived the brutality and savagery of slavery. This book is about a people who experienced disenfranchisement, the violence of the Ku Klux Klan, lynching, the loss of property through trickery, and deceit. Its about a man who left his wife and four small children to join the union army. He wanted to be free. He arrived in Savannah on a cold rainy wind- swept day; dressed in raggedy clothes with worn out shoes with holes in each one. His body exposed to the near freezing cold and rainy weather of February 1865. On March 7, 1865 he enlisted in the union army with Company C, Thirty-Third Regiment United States Colored Troops. Abraham knew that his fate and the destiny of thousands of other slaves and free African Americans rested upon the outcome of union victory.