Author: Gregory Funderburk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646631766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Gregory Funderburk
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781646631766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Lucy Christopher
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545942772
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212

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A tour de force retelling of The Tempest from a romantic, emotional, and inspiring voice, perfect for passionate readers of all ages. Moss has grown up on the strangest and most magical of islands. Her father has a plan to control the tempestuous weather that wracks the shores. But the island seems to have a plan of its own once Callan -- a wild boy her age -- appears on its beaches. Her complex feelings for Callan shift with every tide, while her love for the island, and her father, are thrown into doubt...And when one fateful day, a young man from the outside world washes up on the beach, speaking of the Old World, nothing will ever be the same. A dark reflection of Shakespeare's The Tempest, Storm-wake is one girl's voyage of discovery -- a mesmerizing tale of magic, faith, and love.

Author: Nathan Ross
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781793183033
Category : Abused children
Languages : en
Pages : 202

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A harrowing story about the secret life of a Kansas City family and the events that made national news. A vulnerable and compelling account of the inner thoughts of an abuse survivor and the journey to find forgiveness, strength and healing- while challenging the foster care system to improve the lives of the children it is charged with protecting.

Author: Lisa Marie Bossier
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781475101751
Category : Floods
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Queen of the Waves is a historical fiction novel that ties together the tales of two dramatic events that shaped the upper Texas Gulf Coast: Galveston's Great Storm of 1900 and the "secret" hurricane that struck Galveston during WWII in 1943. Through the characters of Marie Covington and Woodrow Harris, the parallels drawn against the backdrop of two historical storms tell of a remarkable people. Where Marie faces the risk of losing everything in 1943, Woodrow is a man who has lost all a man can lose in 1900, but uses his painful story of survival to teach what it truly means to be resilient amid the storms of life.

Author: Joanna Francis
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781539871392
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 146

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"She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails." Elizabeth Edwards Life is like a roller-coaster for most of us. We all experience highs and lows, ups and downs. For 7 some, the trajectory and duration of the downs are off the scale, but the ups still exist. It's a case of seeking them out. Yet, sometimes it can be tough. Very tough indeed. You might lose your job, or a friend; your husband/wife might leave you, or you might face financial woes. You might lose your health. Or your hearing. Or both. Like Jo. This is the brave and honest story of Joanna Francis who, having been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma Cancer in 2008, has weathered the most frightful storm(s), adjusted her sails repeatedly and set sail across unknown, frequently treacherous seas. Here, Joanna guides us through her ups and downs and shares the full spectrum of feelings, from hope to despair and back again. She shares her dreams and her fears; her thoughts and her strategy for finding the stars amid the darkness.

Author: Kristina Dunker
Publisher: Amazon Crossing
ISBN: 9781611090307
Category : Friendship
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Annie and her friends are enjoying a lazy day by the lake when ominous clouds appear. In the scramble to escape the storm, Annie's cousin Gina goes missing. After a fruitless search in the rain, the teens call the police for help. But as the days pass without a trace of the lost girl, nerves fray, accusations begin to fly, and disturbing information about the relationships Annie holds so dear come to light. If a girl can't trust her best friends, who can she trust?

Author: Lisa Waller Rogers
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896724785
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 168

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A teenage boy keeps a diary of events during the devastating hurricane which struck Galveston, Texas, in 1900, and of the rescue operations that followed.

Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Author: John Hersey
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0593081072
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 256

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This is a tale of the sea, of two men and their wives on a sailboat, moving toward the heart of a great storm. It is an adventure story that carries four travelers on the yawl Harmony from Edgartown to Menemsha to Block Island and thence out into a huge, dark cone of uncertainty. In the modulating airs of the voyage four personalities emerge to work changes on each other. The two marriages seem to react to the barometer. As the drama of the storm gathers and breaks, themes are sounded of escape and confrontatoin, of illusion, of the "secret place" that every boat and every person harbors, of a meticulousness, a prudent attention to the details of life, which can blind a man to the whole of reality, and also of endurance, of instinctively courageous seamanship, and of strength that the strong may not know they possess even as they exert it. The skipper, a young doctor, follows his obsession to the terrible goal to which it must lead him at the moment wehn the calm eye of the storm looks down on the tiny boat in the violent sea. The four visions of the characters, which seem to have been focused on the one experience, reveal themselves as sharply at variance with each other, so that a final "truth" of the story has to be bargained out. And in the end that truth turns out to be an irony.