Author: Jack Sheriff
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN: 0709098839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
When ex-outlaw Bobbie Lee sees a rider approaching Beattie's Halt he know it means trouble. Hours later his innocent son is gunned down in the saloon and three more hard-bitten strangers have joined the gunman called Van Gelderen. But who are they? Two days later a second young man dies and the strangers leave town. But murder cannot go unpunished. Bobbie Lee, Will Blunt and his daughter, Cassie, pick up the trail outside Beattie's Halt. In the scorching heat of the desert old feuds are settled in a six-gun blaze.
The Last Water-hole
Author: Jack Sheriff
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN: 0709098839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
When ex-outlaw Bobbie Lee sees a rider approaching Beattie's Halt he know it means trouble. Hours later his innocent son is gunned down in the saloon and three more hard-bitten strangers have joined the gunman called Van Gelderen. But who are they? Two days later a second young man dies and the strangers leave town. But murder cannot go unpunished. Bobbie Lee, Will Blunt and his daughter, Cassie, pick up the trail outside Beattie's Halt. In the scorching heat of the desert old feuds are settled in a six-gun blaze.
Publisher: Robert Hale
ISBN: 0709098839
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
When ex-outlaw Bobbie Lee sees a rider approaching Beattie's Halt he know it means trouble. Hours later his innocent son is gunned down in the saloon and three more hard-bitten strangers have joined the gunman called Van Gelderen. But who are they? Two days later a second young man dies and the strangers leave town. But murder cannot go unpunished. Bobbie Lee, Will Blunt and his daughter, Cassie, pick up the trail outside Beattie's Halt. In the scorching heat of the desert old feuds are settled in a six-gun blaze.
The Last Water Hole in the West
Author: Daniel Tyler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"The history of the largest transmountain diversion project ever built - the Colorado-Big Thompson (C-BT) - designed to bring Colorado River water through a thirteen-mile tunnel under the Continental Divide to farmers in the South Platte River basin. The book also offers a detailed exploration of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District (NCWCD), the agency created to oversee the design, construction, water delivery, and payment of the monumental C-BT. Using a wealth of sources - minutes, reports, speeches, memoranda, newspaper accounts, and interviews with NCWCD officials - Daniel Tyler presents a practical, hands-on story of construction, operation, and maintenance of a supplemental water delivery system. Tyler writes history that reflects the pros and cons of litigation and negotiation in water-conflict resolutions. His book is also a chronology of the struggle between disciples of water development and proponents of environmental causes, including many issues of relevance to other state and federal entities with a stake in western water"--P. [4] of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
"The history of the largest transmountain diversion project ever built - the Colorado-Big Thompson (C-BT) - designed to bring Colorado River water through a thirteen-mile tunnel under the Continental Divide to farmers in the South Platte River basin. The book also offers a detailed exploration of the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District (NCWCD), the agency created to oversee the design, construction, water delivery, and payment of the monumental C-BT. Using a wealth of sources - minutes, reports, speeches, memoranda, newspaper accounts, and interviews with NCWCD officials - Daniel Tyler presents a practical, hands-on story of construction, operation, and maintenance of a supplemental water delivery system. Tyler writes history that reflects the pros and cons of litigation and negotiation in water-conflict resolutions. His book is also a chronology of the struggle between disciples of water development and proponents of environmental causes, including many issues of relevance to other state and federal entities with a stake in western water"--P. [4] of cover.
The Water Hole Board Book
Author: Graeme Base
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810972469
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles. On board pages.
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810972469
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
As ever growing numbers of animals visit a watering hole, introducing the numbers from one to ten, the water dwindles. On board pages.
Waterhole
Author: Fiona Bell
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702261130
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A haunting and engaging debut from a talented Australian author. Sixteen-year-old Sunny Maguire is dreading the school holidays. She used to love visiting her grandmother's farm but ever since her mother died in a tragic car accident, Sunny doesn't feel at home anywhere anymore and the farm is a constant reminder of what she has lost. She knows it's going to be a long summer. Worse, she has to spend it with her distant stepfather, Kevin, the only &‘family' she has left. On her return to the small town of Kelly's Crossing, Sunny is distracted by a new resident &– Matthew Bright &– and the disappearance of local teenager Dylan Koslovski. She gets involved in the search for Dylan along the mysterious Constant Creek Gorge, a beautiful location tainted by tragic drownings. Complications arise when Kevin becomes a suspect in the case and rumours begin to circulate. Sunny doesn't trust him and she's beginning to lose faith in herself, too, especially when she starts to see her mother's ghost.
Publisher: Univ. of Queensland Press
ISBN: 0702261130
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 208
Book Description
A haunting and engaging debut from a talented Australian author. Sixteen-year-old Sunny Maguire is dreading the school holidays. She used to love visiting her grandmother's farm but ever since her mother died in a tragic car accident, Sunny doesn't feel at home anywhere anymore and the farm is a constant reminder of what she has lost. She knows it's going to be a long summer. Worse, she has to spend it with her distant stepfather, Kevin, the only &‘family' she has left. On her return to the small town of Kelly's Crossing, Sunny is distracted by a new resident &– Matthew Bright &– and the disappearance of local teenager Dylan Koslovski. She gets involved in the search for Dylan along the mysterious Constant Creek Gorge, a beautiful location tainted by tragic drownings. Complications arise when Kevin becomes a suspect in the case and rumours begin to circulate. Sunny doesn't trust him and she's beginning to lose faith in herself, too, especially when she starts to see her mother's ghost.
Hole in the Water
Author: Robert Kearney
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 9780449001752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In the shadow of his father's death, Chuck has come home. With his new wife, Gretchen, and his stepdaughter, Kara--and a dark past he cannot escape. For on a desolate island in Lake Superior, the people who have known Chuck longest revile him most. Now, layer by terrifying layer, Gretchen begins to uncover the chilling sins long hidden in her husband's heart. Is Chuck the innocent man he claims to be, or is he a killer? Blinded by fear, trapped by water, Gretchen and Kara take desperate flight for their lives in this "People" page-turner of the week.
Publisher: Fawcett
ISBN: 9780449001752
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
In the shadow of his father's death, Chuck has come home. With his new wife, Gretchen, and his stepdaughter, Kara--and a dark past he cannot escape. For on a desolate island in Lake Superior, the people who have known Chuck longest revile him most. Now, layer by terrifying layer, Gretchen begins to uncover the chilling sins long hidden in her husband's heart. Is Chuck the innocent man he claims to be, or is he a killer? Blinded by fear, trapped by water, Gretchen and Kara take desperate flight for their lives in this "People" page-turner of the week.
A Long Walk to Water
Author: Linda Sue Park
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547251270
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547251270
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
When the Sudanese civil war reaches his village in 1985, 11-year-old Salva becomes separated from his family and must walk with other Dinka tribe members through southern Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya in search of safe haven. Based on the life of Salva Dut, who, after emigrating to America in 1996, began a project to dig water wells in Sudan. By a Newbery Medal-winning author.
At the Waterhole
Author: Beth Shoshan
Publisher: Hutton Grove
ISBN: 9781910925515
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Crash! Bang! Clatter! Boom! Woosh! Swish! Scurry! There's a rumble in the jungle as the animals rush to the waterhole. With bright, gorgeous artwork, this fun phonetic book from the creators of Mess Monsters, is bound to make a splash!
Publisher: Hutton Grove
ISBN: 9781910925515
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Crash! Bang! Clatter! Boom! Woosh! Swish! Scurry! There's a rumble in the jungle as the animals rush to the waterhole. With bright, gorgeous artwork, this fun phonetic book from the creators of Mess Monsters, is bound to make a splash!
Dear Wandering Wildebeest
Author: Irene Latham
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
ISBN: 1467772763
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Welcome wildebeest / and beetle, / Oxpecker and lion. / This water hole is yours. / It offers you oasis / beside its shrinking shores. Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. From dawn to nightfall, animals come and go. Giraffes gulp, wildebeest graze, impalas leap, vultures squabble, and elephants wallow. Fact sidebars support the poems about the animals and their environment. Imaginative illustrations from Anna Wadham complete this delightful collection.
Publisher: Millbrook Press ™
ISBN: 1467772763
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Welcome wildebeest / and beetle, / Oxpecker and lion. / This water hole is yours. / It offers you oasis / beside its shrinking shores. Spend a day at a water hole on the African grasslands. From dawn to nightfall, animals come and go. Giraffes gulp, wildebeest graze, impalas leap, vultures squabble, and elephants wallow. Fact sidebars support the poems about the animals and their environment. Imaginative illustrations from Anna Wadham complete this delightful collection.
Holes
Author: Louis Sachar
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307798364
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves! Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment —and redemption. Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; "Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES" by Louis Sachar; and more!
Publisher: Yearling
ISBN: 0307798364
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
This groundbreaking classic is now available in a special anniversary edition with bonus content. Winner of the Newbery Medal as well as the National Book Award, HOLES is a New York Times bestseller and one of the strongest-selling middle-grade books to ever hit shelves! Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. But what could be buried under a dried-up lake? Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment —and redemption. Special anniversary edition bonus content includes: A New Note From the Author!; "Ten Things You May Not Know About HOLES" by Louis Sachar; and more!
Explorations in Australia
Author: John M. Stuart
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752582359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart during the year 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1862, when he fixed the centre of the continent and successfully crossed it from sea to sea.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752582359
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1864. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart during the year 1858, 1859, 1860, 1861, and 1862, when he fixed the centre of the continent and successfully crossed it from sea to sea.