Author: Adam J. Helman, Ph.D.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490727825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
There is no end to how people seek the heights. Within such a continuum of mountain enthusiasts, the peakbagger is peculiarly focused on the summit-not just in classic alpine style but also in deserts, jungles, and everywhere a big mountain awaits, ticking off his lists. County high-pointing represents this obsession, providing the practitioner with all manner of rewards, perceived and tangible. His hobby is not for the timid, often entails difficulties beyond the norm, and always consumes inordinately large chunks of time. Part 1 describes the genre in five chapters. Part 2 reviews the author's multisummer project of reaching the highest ground for each of the 414 counties in America's west. It's a memorable accomplishment replete with many unexpected challenges. The required perseverance and will to achieve beyond the norm is his parting message to the reader. Part 3 reviews Alaska and Hawaii county high-pointing, followed by four appendices and a 330-entry glossary of terms. With 400 pages and 236 illustrations, A Tale of Twelve Summers is both comprehensive and visually attractive.
A Tale of Twelve Summers
Author: Adam J. Helman, Ph.D.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490727825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
There is no end to how people seek the heights. Within such a continuum of mountain enthusiasts, the peakbagger is peculiarly focused on the summit-not just in classic alpine style but also in deserts, jungles, and everywhere a big mountain awaits, ticking off his lists. County high-pointing represents this obsession, providing the practitioner with all manner of rewards, perceived and tangible. His hobby is not for the timid, often entails difficulties beyond the norm, and always consumes inordinately large chunks of time. Part 1 describes the genre in five chapters. Part 2 reviews the author's multisummer project of reaching the highest ground for each of the 414 counties in America's west. It's a memorable accomplishment replete with many unexpected challenges. The required perseverance and will to achieve beyond the norm is his parting message to the reader. Part 3 reviews Alaska and Hawaii county high-pointing, followed by four appendices and a 330-entry glossary of terms. With 400 pages and 236 illustrations, A Tale of Twelve Summers is both comprehensive and visually attractive.
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1490727825
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
There is no end to how people seek the heights. Within such a continuum of mountain enthusiasts, the peakbagger is peculiarly focused on the summit-not just in classic alpine style but also in deserts, jungles, and everywhere a big mountain awaits, ticking off his lists. County high-pointing represents this obsession, providing the practitioner with all manner of rewards, perceived and tangible. His hobby is not for the timid, often entails difficulties beyond the norm, and always consumes inordinately large chunks of time. Part 1 describes the genre in five chapters. Part 2 reviews the author's multisummer project of reaching the highest ground for each of the 414 counties in America's west. It's a memorable accomplishment replete with many unexpected challenges. The required perseverance and will to achieve beyond the norm is his parting message to the reader. Part 3 reviews Alaska and Hawaii county high-pointing, followed by four appendices and a 330-entry glossary of terms. With 400 pages and 236 illustrations, A Tale of Twelve Summers is both comprehensive and visually attractive.
Summer Days and Summer Nights
Author: Stephanie Perkins
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466891750
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins, will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. So set out your beach chair and grab your sunglasses. You have twelve reasons this summer to soak up the sun and fall in love.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
ISBN: 1466891750
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Maybe it's the long, lazy days, or maybe it's the heat making everyone a little bit crazy. Whatever the reason, summer is the perfect time for love to bloom. Summer Days and Summer Nights: Twelve Love Stories, written by twelve bestselling young adult writers and edited by the international bestselling Stephanie Perkins, will have you dreaming of sunset strolls by the lake. So set out your beach chair and grab your sunglasses. You have twelve reasons this summer to soak up the sun and fall in love.
Tale of Two Summers
Author: Brian Sloan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442407301
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
08:06 p.m. Saturday 07.29.06 You are in L-O-V-E. Notice how I have no hesitation spelling it. At all. Reason? That was just the wildest entry you've posted! Ever....You are so seeing the world through the eyes of L-O-V-E. A ten-year best friendship is put to the test when Chuck and Hal spend their first summer apart falling for two questionable mates: a sexy Saudi songstress and a smokin' hot French punk. As Chuck heads off to summer theater camp and Hal stays in their hometown, learning how to drive, they keep in touch via blogging, reporting to each other about their suddenly separate lives and often ridiculous romantic entanglements. As both their relationships take some unexpected turns, Hal and Chuck struggle to come to terms with their growing differences while trying to keep their friendship alive.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442407301
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
08:06 p.m. Saturday 07.29.06 You are in L-O-V-E. Notice how I have no hesitation spelling it. At all. Reason? That was just the wildest entry you've posted! Ever....You are so seeing the world through the eyes of L-O-V-E. A ten-year best friendship is put to the test when Chuck and Hal spend their first summer apart falling for two questionable mates: a sexy Saudi songstress and a smokin' hot French punk. As Chuck heads off to summer theater camp and Hal stays in their hometown, learning how to drive, they keep in touch via blogging, reporting to each other about their suddenly separate lives and often ridiculous romantic entanglements. As both their relationships take some unexpected turns, Hal and Chuck struggle to come to terms with their growing differences while trying to keep their friendship alive.
The Twelve Days of Summer
Author: Jan Andrews
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1551438194
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Patterned on the popular carol, The Twelve Days of Summer takes readers on a joyous journey into summer, from the first discovery of three eggs in a sparrow’s nest to the day when those eggs hatch. Readers will pore over the pictures, searching for that fifth bumblebee, that tenth crow, and for the thoughtfully chosen toy that turns up on each page: a parachute with the goatsbeard seeds, a fan with the ruffed grouse... This is a story to delight and engage children and adults alike.
Publisher: Orca Book Publishers
ISBN: 1551438194
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Patterned on the popular carol, The Twelve Days of Summer takes readers on a joyous journey into summer, from the first discovery of three eggs in a sparrow’s nest to the day when those eggs hatch. Readers will pore over the pictures, searching for that fifth bumblebee, that tenth crow, and for the thoughtfully chosen toy that turns up on each page: a parachute with the goatsbeard seeds, a fan with the ruffed grouse... This is a story to delight and engage children and adults alike.
Alaska's 12 Days of Summer
Author: Pat Chamberlin-Calamar
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1570613419
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Best-selling Paws IV illustrator Shannon Cartwright is back with this charming children's book based on the infectious rhythms of the classic song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.' Here, the famous 'partridge in a pear tree' becomes a 'black bear in a spruce tree,' while the fifth day of summer in Alaska yields everything from swans and wood frogs to bald eagles and moose. Count Alaska’s famous wild animals while singing along to the well-known tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” On each page, more and more animals appear, starting with starting with a single bear in a spruce tree and growing until animals are everywhere, waiting to be discovered and counted.
Publisher: Sasquatch Books
ISBN: 1570613419
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Best-selling Paws IV illustrator Shannon Cartwright is back with this charming children's book based on the infectious rhythms of the classic song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas.' Here, the famous 'partridge in a pear tree' becomes a 'black bear in a spruce tree,' while the fifth day of summer in Alaska yields everything from swans and wood frogs to bald eagles and moose. Count Alaska’s famous wild animals while singing along to the well-known tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” On each page, more and more animals appear, starting with starting with a single bear in a spruce tree and growing until animals are everywhere, waiting to be discovered and counted.
Twelve Summers
Author: Adam Zwar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780733647383
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"From cricket tragic Adam Zwar, co-creator of Wilfred, Lowdown and Squinters, comes a hilarious, thought-provoking collection of big memories and the big matches that accompanied them. Every significant moment in actor and writer Adam Zwar's life is tied to cricket. He knows when his voice broke - it happened quickly and harshly during the 1985 Ashes tour of England. He got his first girlfriend during the First Test against England in 1990, then realised the relationship was over during the Fifth Test at the WACA. Obsessed with cricket since boyhood, the game has always been in the background - or foreground - of Adam's life. One of Australia's funniest writers, he tells of twelve formative summers, the milestones and the unforgettable moments inextricably linked with the game he loves. During one disastrous Ashes series Adam was making a documentary on Bodyline and facing Brett Lee bowling over 145km/h at his helmetless head, and when Australia lost to Sri Lanka in the 1996 World Cup final he was working as a driver for a Melbourne escort agency. And the time Australia was poised for an easy win against India in Kolkata in 2001, Adam was stuck in a Stuttgart hotel drinking milkshakes with AC/DC. Twelve Summers will entertain you, make you laugh out loud and move you - and not just because India beat Australia in Kolkata and Adam had to try really hard to not let the Young brothers see him cry"--Publisher's description.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780733647383
Category : Cricket
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
"From cricket tragic Adam Zwar, co-creator of Wilfred, Lowdown and Squinters, comes a hilarious, thought-provoking collection of big memories and the big matches that accompanied them. Every significant moment in actor and writer Adam Zwar's life is tied to cricket. He knows when his voice broke - it happened quickly and harshly during the 1985 Ashes tour of England. He got his first girlfriend during the First Test against England in 1990, then realised the relationship was over during the Fifth Test at the WACA. Obsessed with cricket since boyhood, the game has always been in the background - or foreground - of Adam's life. One of Australia's funniest writers, he tells of twelve formative summers, the milestones and the unforgettable moments inextricably linked with the game he loves. During one disastrous Ashes series Adam was making a documentary on Bodyline and facing Brett Lee bowling over 145km/h at his helmetless head, and when Australia lost to Sri Lanka in the 1996 World Cup final he was working as a driver for a Melbourne escort agency. And the time Australia was poised for an easy win against India in Kolkata in 2001, Adam was stuck in a Stuttgart hotel drinking milkshakes with AC/DC. Twelve Summers will entertain you, make you laugh out loud and move you - and not just because India beat Australia in Kolkata and Adam had to try really hard to not let the Young brothers see him cry"--Publisher's description.
Literary News
Sizzling Summer Reading Programs for Young Adults
Author: Katharine L. Kan
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838935637
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Offers over fifty ideas to promote young adult reading, including such theme programs as crime scene investigation, poetry workshops, readings combined with field trips, and cross-cultural events featuring henna tattooing and food.
Publisher: American Library Association
ISBN: 9780838935637
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Offers over fifty ideas to promote young adult reading, including such theme programs as crime scene investigation, poetry workshops, readings combined with field trips, and cross-cultural events featuring henna tattooing and food.
The Bookman
The Greatest Children's Books - E. Nesbit Collection: Fantastical Adventures, Tales of Magical Creatures & Journeys into Enchanting Worlds (Illustrated)
Author: Edith Nesbit
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026872517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3134
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Greatest Children's Books - E. Nesbit Collection: Fantastical Adventures, Tales of Magical Creatures & Journeys into Enchanting Worlds (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Bastable Trilogy The Story of the Treasure Seekers The Wouldbegoods The New Treasure Seekers The Psammead Trilogy Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet The Story of the Amulet The Mouldiwarp Chronicles The House of Arden Harding's Luck Other Novels The Railway Children The Enchanted Castle The Magic City The Wonderful Garden Wet Magic Short Story Collections The Book of Dragons: The Book of Beasts Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger The Deliverers of Their Country The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told The Island of the Nine Whirlpools The Dragon Tamers The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice Royal Children of English History: Alfred the Great Prince Arthur Henry the Third The First Prince of Wales Edward the Black Prince Henry the Fifth and the Baby King Pussy and Doggy Tales: Too Clever by Half The White Persian A Powerful Friend A Silly Question The Selfish Pussy Meddlesome Pussy Nine Lives The Magic World The Cat-hood of Maurice The Mixed Mine Accidental Magic The Princess and the Hedge-pig Septimus Septimusson The White Cat Belinda and Bellamant Justnowland The Related Muff The Aunt and Amabel Kenneth and the Carp The Magician's Heart Nine Unlikely Tales The Cockatoucan Whereyouwanttogoto The Blue Mountain The Prince, Two, Mice, and some Kitchen Maids Melisande Fortunatus Rex and Co. The Sums That Came Right The Town in the Library, in the Town in the Library The Plush Usurpe Oswald Bastable and Others ... Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, jou
Publisher: e-artnow
ISBN: 8026872517
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 3134
Book Description
This carefully crafted ebook: “The Greatest Children's Books - E. Nesbit Collection: Fantastical Adventures, Tales of Magical Creatures & Journeys into Enchanting Worlds (Illustrated)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. The Bastable Trilogy The Story of the Treasure Seekers The Wouldbegoods The New Treasure Seekers The Psammead Trilogy Five Children and It The Phoenix and the Carpet The Story of the Amulet The Mouldiwarp Chronicles The House of Arden Harding's Luck Other Novels The Railway Children The Enchanted Castle The Magic City The Wonderful Garden Wet Magic Short Story Collections The Book of Dragons: The Book of Beasts Uncle James, or The Purple Stranger The Deliverers of Their Country The Ice Dragon, or Do as You Are Told The Island of the Nine Whirlpools The Dragon Tamers The Fiery Dragon, or The Heart of Stone and the Heart of Gold Kind Little Edmund, or The Caves and the Cockatrice Royal Children of English History: Alfred the Great Prince Arthur Henry the Third The First Prince of Wales Edward the Black Prince Henry the Fifth and the Baby King Pussy and Doggy Tales: Too Clever by Half The White Persian A Powerful Friend A Silly Question The Selfish Pussy Meddlesome Pussy Nine Lives The Magic World The Cat-hood of Maurice The Mixed Mine Accidental Magic The Princess and the Hedge-pig Septimus Septimusson The White Cat Belinda and Bellamant Justnowland The Related Muff The Aunt and Amabel Kenneth and the Carp The Magician's Heart Nine Unlikely Tales The Cockatoucan Whereyouwanttogoto The Blue Mountain The Prince, Two, Mice, and some Kitchen Maids Melisande Fortunatus Rex and Co. The Sums That Came Right The Town in the Library, in the Town in the Library The Plush Usurpe Oswald Bastable and Others ... Edith Nesbit (1858-1924) was the author of world famous books for children - the tales of fantastical adventures, jou