Author : Lindy Zart
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2014-08-23
Category : Friendship
ISBN : 9781500364229
We are not guaranteed anything, not even this life. Rivers Young is like a star--bright, consuming, otherworldly. Eventually stars fall, and he is no different. Delilah Bana is an outcast. When Rivers hits the ground, she is there to catch him.
Author : Keri Arthur
Publisher : KA Publishing PTY LTD
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 37,39 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0648007782
Author : Lauren Belfer
Publisher : Dial Press Trade Paperback
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2003-08-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385337647
NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Breathtaking . . . a remarkable blend of murder mystery, love story, political intrigue, and tragedy of manners.”—USA Today The year is 1901. Buffalo, New York, is poised for glory. With its booming industry and newly electrified streets, Buffalo is a model for the century just beginning. Louisa Barrett has made this dazzling city her home. Headmistress of Buffalo’s most prestigious school, Louisa is at ease in a world of men, protected by the titans of her city. But nothing prepares her for a startling discovery: evidence of a murder tied to the city’s cathedral-like power plant at nearby Niagara Falls. This shocking crime—followed by another mysterious death—will ignite an explosive chain of events. For in this city of seething intrigue and dazzling progress, a battle rages among politicians, power brokers, and industrialists for control of Niagara. And one extraordinary woman in their midst must protect a dark secret that implicates them all. . . .
Author : Shane W. Evans
Publisher : Roaring Brook Press
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 46,62 MB
Release : 2011-01-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 146681439X
One of School Library Journal's Best Nonfiction Books of 2011 A few well chosen words and spellbinding images pack an emotion wallop not soon forgotten in this picture book for young readers about the Underground Railroad. A family silently crawls along the ground. They run barefoot through unlit woods, sleep beneath bushes, take shelter in a kind stranger's home. Where are they heading? They are heading for Freedom by way of the Underground Railroad.
Author : Meg Waite Clayton
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 30,42 MB
Release : 2011-06-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0345526651
FINALIST FOR THE BELLWETHER PRIZE Nelly Grace is starting over. With her two young sons, Nelly has fled to the simple stone house built by her great-grandfather in the moneyed horse country of Maryland in order to escape the grief of her husband’s death—and perhaps find a way back to her first love: photography. Easing her transition into this strange, mannered world is Emma Crofton, the grand matriarch of the foxhunting community, and Emma’s son, Dac, a handsome yet distant horse trainer. As Nelly slowly makes her way back to the camera, she must come to terms with her troubled relationship with her father, a photojournalist who chose fame over family. But when she finally sees him again, Nelly’s fragile new beginning is threatened by revelations of a secret past, and the fears that kept it hidden.
Author : Don M. Shannon
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 39,7 MB
Release : 1999-10-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1453550577
Waggoner is a semi-rural hamlet several miles down river from New Orleans, nestled into one of the meanders of the mighty Mississippi and surrounded by forest wetlands and swamp. Al Bauer is a professor of Astronomy at a local university who directs a Junior Astronomical Society for Waggoner's children. The quest of his life has been to locate the specific phenomenon that caused the Star of Bethlehem, something he is convinced will be either a black hole or a pulsar left behind after a supernova event. The community he loves plans to put on a living Creche for their annual Christmas pageant but right away things start going wrong. Bauer loses his position at the university, The creche gets caught up in a legal quagmire, one of his junior astronomers runs away from home, and another, Peanut, who's already lost his mom, faces losing his pop. Carol Perilloux, alias Christmas Carol, a name not originally given as a compliment enters into a conspiracy with Bauer to help Peanut's family, and the end result is a meshing of the lives and adventures of all the major players in a delightfully inextricable way. It all culminates in a surprise conclusion for all the characters in this very Christmas tale. A Star for Waggoner is a true American Christmas Carol blending nostalgia of Christmases past with modern times. There are Christmas stories of historical fiction based on the factual Christmas Truce of 1914 at the outbreak of World War I, to one about a little old Cajun lady living alone in the swamp. One can hardly read the story and not come away with a renewed love for the Christmas season, and the spirit it brings. It is a story about love, about hope, and about faith, particularly the faith of one little boy that binds all of the events together.
Author : Sylvester L Steffen
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 26,71 MB
Release : 2010-08-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 1452048894
When salt loses its savor it needs to be thrown out and replaced—this is an emphatic lesson from The Second Vatican Council, which addresses “joy and hope” in a faithless and despairing culture. The shining light of Vatican II is a beacon trained on the natural reality of transformational consciousness that grows out of and thrives in beauty and truth. The beauty of the moment, the truth of the moment is all that is and all that ye need to know, for beauty is truth, truth beauty. A Tree’s leaf is a lexicon (DIVINICON) of symbiotic history. Leaves are pages of durable consciousness that green freshly every Spring. Open to the beauty, the wisdom of a leaf, and the destiny of the blossom—HAPPINESS IS A LITTLE FLOWER GARDEN.
Author : Nicholas Petrie
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,14 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0399575634
"Lots of characters get compared to my own Jack Reacher, but Petrie's Peter Ash is the real deal."--Lee Child In this action-packed thriller starring war veteran Peter Ash, a well-planned and flawlessly executed hijacking reveals the hidden dangers of Colorado's mellowest business, but Ash may find there's more to this crime than meets the eye. Combat veteran Peter Ash leaves a simple life rebuilding hiking trails in Oregon to help his good friend Henry Nygaard, whose daughter runs a Denver security company that protects cash-rich cannabis entrepreneurs from modern-day highwaymen. Henry's son-in-law and the company's operations manager were carrying a large sum of client money when their vehicle vanished without a trace, leaving Henry's daughter and her company vulnerable. When Peter is riding shotgun on another cash run, the cargo he's guarding comes under attack and he narrowly escapes with his life. As the assaults escalate, Peter has to wonder: for criminals this sophisticated, is it really just about the cash? After finding himself on the defensive for too long, Peter marshals his resources and begins to dig for the truth in a scheme that is bigger--and far more lucrative--than he'd ever anticipated. With so much on the line, his enemy will not give up quietly...and now he has Peter directly in his sights.
Author : Paul Bogard
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 27,68 MB
Release : 2013-07-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 0316228796
A deeply panoramic tour of the night, from its brightest spots to the darkest skies we have left. A starry night is one of nature's most magical wonders. Yet in our artificially lit world, three-quarters of Americans' eyes never switch to night vision and most of us no longer experience true darkness. In The End of Night, Paul Bogard restores our awareness of the spectacularly primal, wildly dark night sky and how it has influenced the human experience across everything from science to art. From Las Vegas' Luxor Beam -- the brightest single spot on this planet -- to nights so starlit the sky looks like snow, Bogard blends personal narrative, natural history, science, and history to shed light on the importance of darkness -- what we've lost, what we still have, and what we might regain -- and the simple ways we can reduce the brightness of our nights tonight.
Author : Miss Julie Amanda Longley
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 15,1 MB
Release : 2024-09-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1665590424
A woman lover is my fuse my motorbike, my sunny day, my sea swim, my champagne, wedding, my rainy days is here. I’m house sitting, I’m a lesbian. My ex is away, it’s weird. I walked into this woman’s life and have never ever gone way. 23 years of laughter holidays in Wales, cars, parties, friendships, parties, food, Indian takeaways, Ferrari’s, cocaine, and fireworks. No. Campfires. Diversity committed and action works for SGI Buddhist network.
