Download or read book A Desperate Stand at the Rivers Edge written by Joquita Burka and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This travel article from the South Carolina Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism provides a description of the Civil War battle of Rivers Bridge and the Rivers Bridge State Historic Site in Bamberg County.

Download or read book DIRE ENCOUNTERS written by Dolph C. Volker and published by Dolph C. Volker. This book was released on 2017-06-07 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A continuation of the story from Book 1 "DIRE ENCOUNTERS - Man Meets Wolf - TOME 1". This is the second book of the series. Kahn, the youthful, bold, brash, and driven deposed prince of the Gamma Dire Wolf Pack seeks to regain his status within the pack but uncertain how. After surviving and discovering the plot to Eliminate him by his father, he struggles with his mind on exactly how to regain dominance and pack Ultimately overthrow his father for the status of Alpha of the pack. Kahn is not one to mix words or actions. His approach has always put directly and to the point; Usually with a certain degree of anger, violence, and revenge. He must decide Which direction his soul must take to get what he wants. With his loyal protectorate and only friend Simeon, huh Decides if it's the right approach or one with more consideration ... something Simeon tries instilling in him. Either path leads to uncertainty and lifelong Consequences. There is a light and dark side to us all in regards to our thoughts and actions. There is also a touch of gray; all of it Influenced by what we experience, know, And taught. The path to redemption is long and hard. Will the negative influences from Kahn's old Gamma pack direct his actions or the teachings of his wise and considerate protectorate, Simeon? What is Alden's influence in this process? What's to Become of him? What are the wolves influences on him, and vice versa? Alden has his own demons to sort out. His final destination is uncertain as well. What's to Become of Alden's mammalian allies, Shasta, Condo, and the wolves? This book reveals all. This book has put a pleasure to write, Such That It Became too large for just one book. It is in two volumes, with a third Considered, depending on public interest. Dire Encounters is a fiction and a work or result of my fascination with extinct megafauna of the Ice Age, admiration for the American Native Indian and my general fascination with life sciences in general. Dire Encounters has taken me seven years to write, edit, compose, illustrate, and finally publish. I hope this book inspires, entertains, educates, and moves you as it did me while writing it. This was my goal for the reader, though I started writing for Entirely different Reasons. This book is much about me as it is the characters in it and a dream of mine ... That now share digitally on virtual paper with you. The journey within the plot is filled with Christian themes as I am a Christian above all else. Try and discover the hidden meaning, words, places, names, and numbers than have references to the Bible, Christianity, and God. May the Great Spirt Bless you. Most of all Enjoy!

Download or read book The Assignment written by Liza Wiemer and published by Ember. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by a real-life incident, this riveting novel explores the dangerous impact discrimination and antisemitism have on one community when a school assignment goes terribly wrong. Would you defend the indefensible? That's what seniors Logan March and Cade Crawford are asked to do when a favorite teacher instructs a group of students to argue for the Final Solution--the Nazi plan for the genocide of the Jewish people. Logan and Cade decide they must take a stand, and soon their actions draw the attention of the student body, the administration, and the community at large. But not everyone feels as Logan and Cade do--after all, isn't a school debate just a school debate? It's not long before the situation explodes, and acrimony and anger result. Based on true events, The Assignment asks: What does it take for tolerance, justice, and love to prevail? "An important look at a critical moment in history through a modern lens showcasing the power of student activism." --SLJ

Download or read book Standing on the Edge of Time written by Daniel Singleton and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-06-12 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Jarman lived in Hempstead County, in what was known as the “wilds of Arkansas.” Hearing of the war coming to Arkansas, Robert and his three friends soon joined the 4th Arkansas Infantry, Confederate States of America, having to leave their families and sweethearts behind. The war took the four friends through the battles of Elkhorn Tavern (Pea Ridge) in Arkansas; Farmington, Mississippi; Richmond, Kentucky; and Murfreesboro, Tennessee (Stones River), all in 1862. Having volunteered to defend their homes in Arkansas, they ended up fighting their first four battles in four different states. Standing on the Edge of Time brings out the many hardships and the suffering the soldiers endured on the campaigns and long marches sometimes through the worst weather conditions. Hundreds of historical facts are included, giving a unique view of the Civil War as rarely seen.

Download or read book Desperate written by Kris Maher and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Erin Brockovich meets Dark Waters in this propulsive and heart-wrenching legal drama set in Appalachian coal country, as one determined lawyer confronts a coal industry giant in a battle over clean drinking water for a West Virginia community--from Wall Street Journal reporter Kris Maher. For two decades, the water in the taps and wells of Mingo County didn't look, smell, or taste right. Could it be the root of the health problems--from kidney stones to cancer--in this Appalachian community? Environmental lawyer Kevin Thompson certainly thought so. For seven years, he waged an epic legal battle against Massey Energy, West Virginia's most powerful coal company, helmed by CEO Don Blankenship. While Massey's lawyers worked out of a gray glass office tower in Charleston known as "the Death Star," Thompson set up shop in a ramshackle hotel in the fading coal town of Williamson. Working with fellow lawyers and a crew of young activists, Thompson would eventually uncover the ruthless shortcuts that put the community's drinking water at risk. A respected preacher and his brother, retired coal miners, and women whose families had lived in the area's coal camps for generations, all put their trust in Thompson when they had nowhere else to turn. As he dug deeper into the mystery of the water along a stretch of road where the violence from the legendary Hatfield-McCoy feud still echoes, he was pulled into the darkest corners of Mingo County, risking his finances, his marriage, his career, and even his safety. Bringing to life a rich cast of characters and the legacy of coal mining in an essential yet often misunderstood part of America, Desperate is a masterful work of investigative reporting about greed and denial, a revealing portrait of a town besieged by hardship and heartbreak, and an inspiring account of one tenacious environmental lawyer's mission to expose the truth and demand justice.

Download or read book The New Larned History for Ready Reference Reading and Research written by Josephus Nelson Larned and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 982 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Download or read book Rivers of Silence written by Ashok Kalyan Verma and published by Lancer Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accounts of the Sino-Indian border dispute, 1962 and the India-Pakistan conflict of 1971.

Download or read book Sad Confetti written by Mark Binmore and published by Mark Binmore. This book was released on 2020-11-08 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The older we get the less certain we become. That’s what I feel anyhow. That is why we sometimes feel the need to invent. To take away the doubt. But when I was your age, I was so confident, full of hope about where I was going and what I was going to do. Now the season fades somewhat, But this is not your fault my dear. Don’t feel disillusioned, doubts will come later.' Set in one of the last great villas on the French Riviera, in cosmopolitan London, and in the home of a landed German family within the shadow of the wall, Sad Confetti is a heart-felt tale of mature and immature love. A small group of people come together by chance, link, hold, and finally break away. The elegant well-born English hosts, the fabulous Betty and husband, army-mad military historian Archie. Both ageing, aware, alone, vulnerable, dissatisfied. The young visitors Liza, a cabaret crooner, trying to distance herself away from her German heritage. And Lee, who had worked as a model for publications of a dubious nature. Both desperately in love, both eagerly exploring, both drifting their way together. But there are secrets. There are always secrets. All are caught up in the potent chemistry of their meeting as the mid-summer picnic ends, leaves fall, the yacht sails away and the garden voices fade.

Download or read book Atalanta written by L. T. Meade and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Losing Your Head Without Losing Your Mind written by Charles Lyons and published by Infinity Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Rivers written by Michael Farris Smith and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Cormac McCarthy and Annie Proulx, “a wonderfully cinematic story” (The Washington Post) set in the post-Katrina South after violent storms have decimated the region. It had been raining for weeks. Maybe months. He had forgotten the last day that it hadn’t rained, when the storms gave way to the pale blue of the Gulf sky, when the birds flew and the clouds were white and sunshine glistened across the drenched land. The Gulf Coast has been brought to its knees. Years of catastrophic hurricanes have so punished and depleted the region that the government has drawn a new boundary ninety miles north of the coastline. Life below the Line offers no services, no electricity, and no resources, and those who stay behind live by their own rules—including Cohen, whose wife and unborn child were killed during an evacuation attempt. He buried them on family land and never left. But after he is ambushed and his home is ransacked, Cohen is forced to flee. On the road north, he is captured by Aggie, a fanatical, snake-handling preacher who has a colony of captives and dangerous visions of repopulating the barren region. Now Cohen is faced with a decision: continue to the Line alone, or try to shepherd the madman’s prisoners across the unforgiving land with the biggest hurricane yet bearing down—and Cohen harboring a secret that poses the greatest threat of all. Eerily prophetic in its depiction of a Southern landscape ravaged by extreme weather, Rivers is a masterful tale of survival and redemption in a world where the next devastating storm is never far behind.“This is the kind of book that lifts you up with its mesmerizing language then pulls you under like a riptide” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution).

Download or read book A Choice written by Kimberly Aspelin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-12 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Book of the Dead written by Muriel Rukeyser and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written in response to the Hawk's Nest Tunnel disaster of 1931 in Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, The Book of the Dead is an important part of West Virginia's cultural heritage and a powerful account of one of the worst industrial catastrophes in American history. The poems collected here investigate the roots of a tragedy that killed hundreds of workers, most of them African American. They are a rare engagement with the overlap between race and environment in Appalachia. Published for the first time alongside photographs by Nancy Naumburg, who accompanied Rukeyser to Gauley Bridge in 1936, this edition of The Book of the Dead includes an introduction by Catherine Venable Moore, whose writing on the topic has been anthologized in Best American Essays.

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Download or read book The American Journal of Science written by Mrs. Gambold and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: