Author: Robyn Carr Publisher: MIRA ISBN: 0369722396 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 382
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From the bestselling author of the hit Netflix series, Virgin River Three friends journey to discover the value of family, second chances, and choosing to live your best life in this fan-favorite romance by #1 New York Times bestselling author Robyn Carr. Nikki survived a terrible marriage and a worse divorce, but now suddenly has custody of her kids again. Dixie is through with looking for love when all she gets are expensive gifts and heartache. Carlisle is trying to move forward from a bad relationship that has destroyed his trust. When Nikki, Dixie and Carlisle are offered the chance to join a new airline in Las Vegas, they don’t hesitate. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, these three friends are starting over in search of their own blue skies. Previously published.
Author: Willard Scott Publisher: ISBN: 9780786214150 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 364
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Stanley Waters retired from his job as a TV weatherman to open a bed and breakfast in his Vriginia hometown. Now a guest's death has spoiled the inn's grand opening.
Author: Marilyn Lazzari-Wing Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 9781465349316 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 382
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Blue Skies, Green Hell, a thriller written by a bush pilot’s wife, is a riveting tale set in the 1950s when pioneers of the sky flew single-engine aircraft over unforgiving wilderness and impenetrable jungle in Venezuela. Marilyn and Frank live in a place called the last frontier on the Orinoco River where he establishes a multi-aircraft service that flies supplies and medicine to remote and inaccessible communities. Together they challenge the odds and take the exhilaration of flying to new heights. Their world is fierce weather with no weather reports, aircraft with limited range radios, and planes with six basic instruments. A search and rescue effort ends when they make a forced landing in no man’s land. A flight to Miami turns sour as their twin-engine C-46 conks out over the Caribbean. Best friends die in fiery crashes. A stone age Indian appears where he shouldn’t be. This is drama from the cockpit of vintage aircraft.
Author: Ira D. Rosen Publisher: Gramercy ISBN: 9780517227152 Category : Baseball fields Languages : en Pages : 0
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From beloved old favorites like Wrigley Field to new parks like San Francisco's PacBell Park, fans will adore these beautiful photo spreads, combined with memories and quotes from legendary players, coaches, managers, and fans. Also included are essential history, facts, statistics, and trivia for these 50 major league baseball stadiums.
Author: Matthew E. Kahn Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691169365 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 284
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How individuals and the government are changing life in China's polluted cities Over the past thirty years, even as China's economy has grown by leaps and bounds, the environmental quality of its urban centers has precipitously declined due to heavy industrial output and coal consumption. The country is currently the world's largest greenhouse-gas emitter and several of the most polluted cities in the world are in China. Yet, millions of people continue moving to its cities seeking opportunities. Blue Skies over Beijing investigates the ways that China's urban development impacts local and global environmental challenges. Focusing on day-to-day choices made by the nation's citizens, families, and government, Matthew Kahn and Siqi Zheng examine how Chinese urbanites are increasingly demanding cleaner living conditions and consider where China might be headed in terms of sustainable urban growth. Kahn and Zheng delve into life in China's cities from the personal perspectives of the rich, middle class, and poor, and how they cope with the stresses of pollution. Urban parents in China have a strong desire to protect their children from environmental risk, and calls for a better quality of life from the rising middle class places pressure on government officials to support greener policies. Using the historical evolution of American cities as a comparison, the authors predict that as China's economy moves away from heavy manufacturing toward cleaner sectors, many of China's cities should experience environmental progress in upcoming decades. Looking at pressing economic and environmental issues in urban China, Blue Skies over Beijing shows that a cleaner China will mean more social stability for the nation and the world.
Author: Martha Lohn Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 1411605144 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 248
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"Where Now Is My Garden", Copyright 1966. This is a true story of hope and survival during a time without hope as seen through the eyes of two American twin girls, Ath and Kath, during the Japanese occupation of Indonesia, in the South Pacific, during World War II.
Author: Bruce Kirkby Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1643135694 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 304
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A warm and unforgettable portrait of a family letting go of the known world to encounter an unfamiliar one filled with rich possibilities and new understandings. Bruce Kirkby had fallen into a pattern of looking mindlessly at his phone for hours, flipping between emails and social media, ignoring his children and wife and everything alive in his world, when a thought struck him. This wasn't living; this wasn't him. This moment of clarity started a chain reaction which ended with a grand plan: he was going to take his wife and two young sons, jump on a freighter and head for the Himalaya. In Blue Sky Kingdom, we follow Bruce and his family's remarkable three months journey, where they would end up living amongst the Lamas of Zanskar Valley, a forgotten appendage of the ancient Tibetan empire, and one of the last places on earth where Himalayan Buddhism is still practiced freely in its original setting. Richly evocative, Blue Sky Kingdom explores the themes of modern distraction and the loss of ancient wisdom coupled with Bruce coming to terms with his elder son's diagnosis on the Autism Spectrum. Despite the natural wonders all around them at times, Bruce's experience will strike a chord with any parent—from rushing to catch a train with the whole family to the wonderment and beauty that comes with experience the world anew with your children.
Author: Edwin Palmer Hoyt Publisher: iBooks ISBN: 9780743458351 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 0
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In this exciting work, an eminent authority on naval history offers a definitive account of one of the most critical naval battles of World War II in the Pacific.
Author: Patrick Parsons Publisher: Temple University Press ISBN: 1592137067 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 816
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Cable television is arguably the dominant mass media technology in the U.S. today. Blue Skies traces its history in detail, depicting the important events and people that shaped its development, from the precursors of cable TV in the 1920s and '30s to the first community antenna systems in the 1950s, and from the creation of the national satellite-distributed cable networks in the 1970s to the current incarnation of "info-structure" that dominates our lives. Author Patrick Parsons also considers the ways that economics, public perception, public policy, entrepreneurial personalities, the social construction of the possibilities of cable, and simple chance all influenced the development of cable TV. Since the 1960s, one of the pervasive visions of "cable" has been of a ubiquitous, flexible, interactive communications system capable of providing news, information, entertainment, diverse local programming, and even social services. That set of utopian hopes became known as the "Blue Sky" vision of cable television, from which the book takes its title. Thoroughly documented and carefully researched, yet lively, occasionally humorous, and consistently insightful, Blue Skies is the genealogy of our media society.
Author: Vicky Lynn McNeil Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1532039379 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 315
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It is 1819 England as seventeen-year-old Lady Jessica Morgan returns home to East Lane Manor after seven years away. Unfortunately, her life has dramatically changed since she left. Jessica has known nothing but darkness since a tragic accident robbed her of her sight. After her father, Geoffrey, decides to surrender to the hope that she will never regain her sight and introduce her to society, Jessica attends a ball where she is spotted by a ship captain, Vincent Warner, who is immediately captivated by her beauty. When Vincent learns that Jessica is blind, it is too late for him to change his mind. His heart is already lost to her. But when Jessicas sight miraculously returns after a fall, she fears it is only temporary and that her relationship with Vincent is based only on his loyalty to her father. As a chain of dramatic events unfolds, Jessica must harbor a shocking secret that when eventually revealed, will change everything. In this historical romance, a young woman temporarily blinded from an accident returns home to find love with a handsome ship captain that sets the course of her life in a new direction.
Author: Robyn Carr
Author: Willard Scott
Author: Marilyn Lazzari-Wing
Author: Ira D. Rosen
Author: Matthew E. Kahn
Author: Martha Lohn
Author: Bruce Kirkby
Author: Edwin Palmer Hoyt
Author: Patrick Parsons
Author: Vicky Lynn McNeil