Author : Janet Fox
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2024-10-22
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1665956666
Twelve-year-old Becca's unwelcome trip to a dude ranch turns adventurous when she and the wrangler's son uncover clues to the lost treasure of Pearlhandle Pete.
Author : Larry D. Thacker
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 25,8 MB
Release : 2006-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570723162
A near-obsessive pursuit of ghost stories and odd superstitions cranks up this serious study of Appalachian tales of the supernatural and their origin in both old-world customs and real historical events. An effort to preserve and record one aspect of a dying way of life, the book relies on interviews and historic documents to search for the facts behind local lore of murder, witchcraft, and weird hauntings. Several campfire-worthy ghost stories are recounted in their entirety—including "The Swinging Gate of Fern Lake Hollow"—and an unexpectedly large number of stories about aliens and UFOs provide an interesting comparison of three-century-old mysteries and those stirred up in comparatively recent times
Author : Janet S. Fox
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,91 MB
Release : 2024
Category :
ISBN : 9781665956673
Twelve-year-old Becca's unwelcome trip to a dude ranch turns adventurous when she and the wrangler's son uncover clues to the lost treasure of Pearlhandle Pete.
Author : Joe Langa
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 10,43 MB
Release : 2005-11-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1466957530
Joe is a 21st-Century man who unknowing starts on a journey thru time itself and an adventure of a forgotten world. He is alone in the world: no family, few friends and finds that deep within him is an urge to find a wife and settle down his queen. As we follow along with him on his adventure it is plain to see that this simple task of finding a wife is bigger than his wildest dreams. His journey takes him to a remote town in the south-west and to his surprise is a double image of itself. When he arrives the destiny of what his life was is to end and the journey of whom he really is to begin. Christina is the queen to be but faces death at the hands of thugs. Eventually their lives join for a brief encounter then are torn apart to set the adventure in motion and to begin the closing of the circle. His journey takes him into the caves and the bowels of the earth to where Middle Earth now resides. Along the way he encounters creatures never known, creatures of myth and legend. The largest gold mine and wealth beyond imagination But the true wealth is what lies for him at the end of his first journey and what is to be discovered there in Middle Earth. The world is about to come to an end, as we know it and the world of man. For, locked away in this hidden world waiting centuries to be awakened is what man forgot and Joe is the key.
Author : Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names
Publisher :
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 42,22 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Alaska
ISBN :
Author : Daphne Sleigh
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 35,73 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Art
ISBN : 1927051398
Winner (Honourable Mention), 2014 BC Historical Federation Lieutenant-Governor's Medal for Historical Writing. Each year, visitors from all parts of the globe find their way to a sequestered Benedictine monastery in the hills of Mission, BC, and view the art and sculptures that beautify the abbey and its walls. But the man responsible for this work rarely ventures outside the monastery, never mind the province. He is an artist who has seen few of the masterpieces of Western art that inspire him in person; he is a musician who has seldom attended a concert; and he is an intellectual who, at his own insistence, dropped out of high school as early as he could. Acknowledged by some as one of the major British Columbian artists of his generation, Dunstan Massey could have developed a successful public career in Vancouver or Toronto as an artist or musician—or perhaps even as an actor or academic. But none of this happened because at the age of 18 he renounced every one of these possibilities and dedicated his life to God. Daphne Sleigh introduces both the artist and his art in this fascinating and lavishly illustrated new biography.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN :
Author : Satyan Devadoss
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 36,30 MB
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0262542757
Sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles in a story-driven, illustrated volume that invites readers to peek over the edge of the unknown. Most people think of mathematics as a set of useful tools designed to answer analytical questions, beginning with simple arithmetic and ending with advanced calculus. But, as Mage Merlin's Unsolved Mathematical Mysteries shows, mathematics is filled with intriguing mysteries that take us to the edge of the unknown. This richly illustrated, story-driven volume presents sixteen of today's greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles, all understandable by anyone with elementary math skills. These intriguing mysteries are presented to readers as puzzles that have time-traveled from Camelot, preserved in the notebook of Merlin, the wise magician in King Arthur's court. Our guide is Mage Maryam (named in honor of the brilliant young mathematician, the late Maryam Mirzakhani), a distant descendant of Merlin. Maryam introduces the mysteries--each of which is presented across two beautifully illustrated pages--and provides mathematical and historical context afterward. We find Merlin confronting mathematical puzzles involving tinker toys (a present for Camelot's princesses from the sorceress Morgana), cake-slicing at a festival, Lancelot's labyrinth, a vault for the Holy Grail, and more. Each mystery is a sword awaiting removal from its stone, capturing the beauty and power of mathematics.
Author : Vickie McKeehan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,34 MB
Release : 2017-12-14
Category :
ISBN : 9781979441292
Welcome to Coyote Wells, a town with a storied history, full of quirky characters, hidden secrets, sometimes dark and deadly. A cozy murder mystery with a side of chocolate. Emotionally reeling after the death of her grandmother, Gemma Channing is settling into Coyote Wells, the hometown where she grew up, after a ten-year absence. While coming to terms with the loss of her Gram, disturbing things begin to happen. Women are disappearing. Just when she begins to realize Coyote Wells has changed-and not for the better-she's forced to bump heads with Lando Bonner, her ex, a man who still carries around a grudge. But since she's digging for answers trying to explain exactly how her grandmother died, she needs his help. It won't be easy. Lando has never forgiven her for leaving him. Tensions flair between the two as a killer grips the town in fear. Is it kill or be killed? Who will the killer target next? And when will it all end?
Author : S H E W E I A
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1452521719
The Old Shoes is a story about how love changes everything, how art can be a template for healing, how beauty transforms the soul, how support comes from unexpected sources, and how reincarnation can be a manifestation of dreams and a harvesting of seeds planted long ago. Through the lens of art, life ends and begins anew. Mya, an abstract artist of the twenty-first century, epitomizes the soul's longing for connection, for community, and for communion with all that is. She jump-starts a healing process by facing a life crisis triggered by the past. Souls outside time and space come together to lead her to the validation she so desperately needs in order to trust again. Always in the background are the letters of Vincent van Gogh along with Michelangelo's search for beauty and self-acceptance. Weaving in and out of the years, angelic messages add perspective and clarity to human perception and understanding. The revelations span fifteen years, walking through doors and crawling through windows to get to the golden gate. The door opens. The door closes. The cat meows. The fracture becomes a fractal pointing to the whole.
