Author: Robert G Mendenhall Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1665541555 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 200
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Jack Watson grew up in upper state New York interested in three things, self defense, cooking and the stock market. They were poor so he worked odd jobs where ever he could and began investing when he was ten years old. He made a decent amount of money before he left home to work on wall street at twenty-one. A few years later his partner tried taking all his money so he retired at twenty-six. He'd had enough of the hustle and bustle anyway so he left to see America and realized he had never left the state of New York. He looked for an occupation he might like to work at for the rest of his life and he found a couple of jobs he liked that fit his skill set but weren't quite for him. He got into a few fights along the way before he ended up on a ranch in Montana. Here he found what he wasn’t looking for. The farmers daughter.
Author: Rainbow Rowell Publisher: Wednesday Books ISBN: 1250254345 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 450
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New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell's epic fantasy, the Simon Snow trilogy, concludes with Any Way the Wind Blows. In Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong. Now, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha must decide how to move forward. For Simon, that means choosing whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages — and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled an American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough. Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet. This book is a finale. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest. The Simon Snow Trilogy was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories; Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings—about catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.
Author: Tim Robinson Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141900717 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 345
Book Description
The first volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume Stones of Aran, moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its folklore and its often terrible history: a work as beautiful and surprising as the place it attempts to describe. Chosen as a book of the year by Iain Sinclair, Robert Macfarlane and Colm Tóibín 'One of the greatest writers of lands ... No one has disentangled the tales the stones of Ireland have to tell so deftly and retold them so beautifully' Fintan O'Toole 'Dazzling ... an indubitable classic' Giles Foden, Condé Nast Traveller 'He is that rarest of phenomena, a scientist and an artist, and his method is to combine scientific rigour with artistic reverie in a seamless blend that both informs and delights' John Banville 'One of contemporary Ireland's finest literary stylists' Joseph O'Connor, Guardian
Author: Pat Hutchins Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1442454024 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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A rhymed tale describing the antics of a capricious wind. The wind blew, and blew, and blew! It blew so hard, it took everything with it: Mr. White’s umbrella, Priscilla’s balloon, the twins’ scarves, even the wig on the judge’s head. But just when the wind was about to carry everything out to sea, it changed its mind! With rhyming verse and colorful illustrations, Pat Hutchins takes us on a merry chase that is well worth the effort.
Author: Tim Robinson Publisher: Penguin UK ISBN: 0141889721 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 417
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The second volume in Tim Robinson's phenomenal Connemara Trilogy - which Robert Macfarlane has called 'One of the most remarkable non-fiction projects undertaken in English'. The first volume of Tim Robinson's Connemara trilogy, Listening to the Wind, covered Robinson's home territory of Roundstone and environs. The Last Pool of Darkness moves into wilder territory: the fjords, cliffs, hills and islands of north-west Connemara, a place that Wittgenstein, who lived on his own in a cottage there for a time, called 'the last pool of darkness in Europe'. Again combining his polymathic knowledge of Connemara's natural history, human history, folklore and topography with his own unsurpassable artistry as a writer, Tim Robinson has produced another classic. A native of Yorkshire, Tim Robinson moved to the Aran Islands in 1972. His books include the celebrated two-volume Stones of Aran. Since 1984 he has lived in Roundstone, Connemara. 'The Proust & Ruskin of modern place-writing, deep-mapper of Irish landscapes, visionary thinker, and human of exceptional intellectual generosity & kindness. He was an immense inspiration to & encourager of me & my work' Robert Macfarlane 'A masterpiece of travel and topographical writing and a miraculous, vivid and engrossing meditation on landscape and history and the sacred mood of places' Colm Tóibín, Irish Times 'One of the greatest writers of lands ... No one has disentangled the tales the stones of Ireland have to tell so deftly and retold them so beautifully' Fintan O'Toole
Author: Greg Mortenson Publisher: National Geographic Books ISBN: 0803730586 Category : Juvenile Nonfiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Greg Mortenson stumbled, lost and delirious, into a remote Himalayan village after a failed climb up K2. The villagers saved his life, and he vowed to return and build them a school. The remarkable story of his promise kept is now perfect for reading aloud. Told in the voice of Korphe’s children, this story illuminates the humanity and culture of a relevant and distant part of the world in gorgeous collage, while sharing a riveting example of how one person can change thousands of lives.
Author: Keith Guzman Publisher: Xulon Press ISBN: 1609571347 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 112
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Keith Guzman was born in San Francisco in 1960. He has lived his entire life in the San Francisco bay area. It was in the year 2001 when he first came to Jesus. He read the Bible from cover to cover at that time and concluded that one word could sum it up. That word of course was love. While at a Bible study the leader of the study suggested that more than study was needed. She said to write a prayer, song, or, poem. In this way one could strengthen their bond with God. The leader of the group had kept constant eye contact with Keith as she said this. Keith believed this to be a clear message from God. That night as he lie asleep he awoke to the need to write down words which made no sense to him at that time. Upon awakening the following morning he read what he had written. To his surprise the words made perfect sense and he could not believe how well they were lined up on unlined paper. This took place again and again over the next several nights. Soon the words began to come to him during the day. This book is just a small sample of some of those words.
Author: Caroline Fyffe Publisher: Montlake Romance ISBN: 9781612187129 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 0
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Cowboy Chase Logan has been in plenty of touchy situations, but pretending to be the husband of a recent widow and father to her adopted children is the most difficult job he's had yet. Original.
Author: Robert G Mendenhall
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Author: Tim Robinson
Author: Pat Hutchins
Author: Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Author: Tim Robinson
Author: Greg Mortenson
Author: Keith Guzman
Author: Caroline Fyffe
Author: Mary Lewis MILNE