When Rain Falls


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A colorful look at the amazing ways animals behave and interact with their environments on a rainy day. We go inside when the rain comes down, but where do animals go? This engaging book for young readers offers a first glimpse at how different animals in different habitats behave during a thunderstorm. Acclaimed children's nonfiction author Melissa Stewart takes a lyrical look at the behavior of animals in forests, fields, wetlands, and deserts and briefly describes how each creature interacts with its rained-soaked environment. Constance Bergum's soft watercolor paintings colorfully depict the animals and special features of each habitat.




Hard Rain Falling


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A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.




When the Rain Falls


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The soldiers came with the storm. Our people didn’t stand a chance. But we were lucky. Under darkening skies, a group of teens must fight to survive a war no one saw coming. Their families are taken. The citizens, imprisoned. As they hide in the thick native bush they begin to realize they’re alone—no help is coming. In their never-ending struggle for freedom, one question remains: Who started this war? They must discover the truth before war’s fingers reach farther afield.




After Rain Falls


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After Rain Falls is BOOK TWO OF TWO in the River of Rain Duet. In order to understand the contents of this book, you must read Follow the River first. This is the conclusion of River and Rain's story.Love has never been important to me. Not because I didn't want it, I just never imagined feeling something so powerful.There was a point where I thought I felt it years ago for the person I trusted most in the world, only to have it shatter in a thousand pieces.But now he's back in my life and I'm certain I was wrong.Because nothing compares to the way I feel about River Lennox. Nothing could have prepared me for the war we waged against one another to turn into a battle to not only find ourselves, but each other.Our prison sentence became our sanctuary from anything-or anyone-who dared to rip us apart.He crawled under my skin, into my heart, and made a home for himself there despite my efforts to stop him.But it doesn't matter now. Not when I find myself being thrown into a chess game I never asked to play with decisions forced on me that no one should have to make.It's not just life and death.It's love and hate.The past and the future.Except...when my past comes knocking with a thirst for vengeance, I start to question if I have a future at all.




The Way Rain Falls


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It's 1998, and Jim Diffin is a charming, reckless, college sophomore with a unique moral code, a crew of wild friends, and no interest in serious relationships. That is, until he meets Diana Huntington, a precocious teenager who doesn't fall for him so easily and embodies everything he's ever wanted. The longer they date, the more her cool aloofness entrances him. His friends, a memorably eclectic mix of social outcasts offer no shortage of dubious advice and the usual relief of tea with his mother will lose its typical solace once he learns she has worse troubles herself. And while comforting his mother, weighing the insights of his friends, and agonizing over Diana, his mindset opens to a new way, but can his compassion, patience and burgeoning enlightenment ever win him the girl? In the course of The Way Rain Falls, blind hope and frenzied despair send Jim careening from candle-lit dinners to street fights, intimate camp-outs to a drug fueled road trip to Canada, and an indiscretion Jim may never live down.




Rain Fall


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A Japanese-American assassin who specializes in "natural cause" killings finds his carefully ordered world coming under siege in the wake of a government official's murder, with which he has been falsely connected, a situation that is complicated by his attraction to the victim's daugher. Reprint.




When the Rains Fall


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Everyone experiences tragedy - loss of a job, a marriage, a loved one. The rains fall in every life. Bob tells his and wife Jayne's true story of the catastrophic Nashville flood of May 1 and 2, 2010 - the devastation of their home and belongings - and their restoration through the donations and help of scores of volunteers and friends, including Amy Grant, who provides a beautiful endorsement of the book.Bob's very personal and oft-times humorous narrative recounts how God brought order out of chaos, turned calamity and loss in to triumph, and re-taught the couple some vital principles: faith and trust in God's timetable and His provision.




Down Comes the Rain


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After rain comes down, the sun comes out and dries the puddles. But the water isn't gone. The heat from the sun has turned it into water vapor-it has evaporated. Eventually, this moisture in the air condenses to form new clouds. Soon the rain will fall again. Read on to find out all the ups and downpours of the water cycle!




Let the Rain Fall


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Let The Rain Fall is a collection of poems and prose by Lauren Cohen that are a cathartic expression of the struggles occurring within modern society and humanity's existential dilemmas. Her words tell stories often difficult to articulate; stories of pain and grief, healing and growth, oppression and liberation, and light and love. These stories are portrayed through the lens of Lauren's perceptions of her own struggles and those of her friends, people in the community, and the world as a whole. Lauren creates poetic tension that invites the reader to immerse themselves in these universal existential challenges. Despite the dark clouds and menacing storms as the rain falls, eventually the sun breaks through, and with light, we find our way home to a place of healing and growth.




When Rains Fall


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Two girls, two kingdoms, one destiny...Sibba Hallowtide has never felt like a Fielding......but fierce loyalty to her mother has always kept her close to home. When tragedy strikes, Sibba suddenly has a chance to leave the Fields in search of independence. But unless she can rescue her brother and return him to his rightful place as chief, the duty of clan leadership will fall onto her shoulders.Rayne Crowheart is not just any rebel......but the daughter of the Casuin emperor and a trained assassin. She returns home on a mission to kill the crown princess-her own sister-and hand the country over to the rebels. That is, until she makes an unexpected ally who gives her hope there might be another way. A land rife with turmoil, rich in magic and revenge...Sibba wants nothing more than to be free, but her journey to save her brother reveals that instead, her destiny may lie in a land across the sea where a new queen is about to take the throne.When rains fall and tides rise, you must decide on which shore you stand."Amazing! Sheer brilliance! I can't wait for the next one!" - Amazon Reviewer