Download or read book Captives of Blue Mountain written by Richard Pini and published by Wolfrider Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wolfriders are taken as slaves into the mysterious Blue Mountain, the stronghold of the ancient Glider elves, while Cutter and Skywise try to come to their rescue.
Download or read book Captives of Blue Mountain written by Wendy Pini and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are called the Bird Spirits. But Cutter and the Wolfriders know they are not spirits--they are real. Because the giant winged creatures attacked the tribe and carried off four of their kin to the distant spire of Blue Mountain. Now Cutter wants them back.
Download or read book Captives of Blue Mountain written by Wendy Pini and published by Father Tree Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something dark dwells within the halls of Blue Mountain, and it has captured nearly all the Wolfriders! Only the very core of the tribe has escaped. Now they must penetrate this bizarre fortress and unravel the ancient mystery of the Gliders, the insane Two-Edge, and the evil Winnowill.
Download or read book Captives of Blue Mountain written by Wendy Pini and published by Ace. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They are called the Bird Spirits. But Cutter and the Wolfriders know they are not spirits--they are real. Because the giant winged creatures attacked the tribe and carried off four of their kin to the distant spire of Blue Mountain. Now Cutter wants them back.
Download or read book Far Blue Mountains written by Max McNabb and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Changeling destiny-an injured Apache girl adopted by a powerful rancher, the rancher's son kidnapped in revenge by the last free Apaches. Inspired by historical events that took place in the 1920s Sierra Madre, Far Blue Mountains is a gothic western like no other. In 1926, when rancher Jubal McKenna discovers an injured Apache girl and welcomes her into his family, he sets in motion an irrevocable exchange of destiny. The girl is a member of the last unsurrendered Apaches. They live in freedom well into the 20th century, hidden in the wild mountains of Mexico, where they keep the old ways. An eye for an eye, blood for blood-in reprisal, the Apaches kidnap Jubal's young son, John Russell McKenna. They take the boy into the sierras to live as one of their own, a beloved captive. The boy is immersed in Apache culture, a world of freedom and adventure, brutal violence and strange magic. John Russell becomes Denali, an Apache warrior. Meanwhile Jubal searches the sierras for Apache camps, as the quest for revenge threatens to consume his soul.This magnificent first novel by Max McNabb, the editor of TexasHillCountry.com, has all the relentless pace of a classic western and the elegiac beauty of a lost myth. At once a grand adventure and a darkly beautiful tragedy, Far Blue Mountains is a meditation on identity and destiny, freedom and revenge.
Download or read book Award winning books for children and young adults written by Betty L. Criscoe and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Quest s End written by Richard Pini and published by Wolfrider Books. This book was released on 1999-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the known tribes of elves - Wolfriders, Sun Folk, Gliders, Go-Backs - Clash with the trolls to win Quest's End.
Download or read book Slow Travels Blue Ridge Parkway written by Lyn Wilkerson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of the Slow Travels Series commemorates the 75th Anniversary of the beginning of the Blue Ridge Parkway construction. The segments of the parkway are separated into the Virginia and North Carolina sections. Also included are U.S. Highways 11, 50, 52, and 60 (Virginia), U.S. Highway 70 (North Carolina), and the Skyline Drive through the Shenandoah National Park. This guide is not intended to be a history of the Blue Ridge Parkway, but a guide to the history which lies along it and in the surrounding region.
Download or read book Blue Ridge 2020 written by Steve Nash and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2003-07-11 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mountain chain known as the Blue Ridge traces a 550-mile arc through Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, South Carolina, and Georgia. Along the way, it encompasses Shenandoah National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, seven national forests, numerous federal wilderness areas and state parks, and parts of the Appalachian Trail. It is the largest concentration of public lands east of the Mississippi and home to an astonishing diversity of plant and animal life. But as the most extensive natural area in the increasingly populous Southeast, the Blue Ridge ecosystem faces unique challenges in the next decades. Drawing on scientific research in a variety of disciplines, journalist Steve Nash provides a clear and evenhanded introduction to some of the most hotly disputed environmental issues facing the Blue Ridge, including the invasion of exotic plants and insects, the explosive growth of suburban-style communities in natural areas, worsening air and water pollution, and the erratic management of national forests. Informative and highly readable, Blue Ridge 2020 takes a hard look at what is at risk in these mountains and what we--as the "owners" of the public lands--must do if we intend to preserve their future.
Download or read book Setting All the Captives Free written by Ian K. Steele and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Among the many upheavals in North America caused by the French and Indian War was a commonplace practice that affected the lives of thousands of men, women, and children: being taken captive by rival forces. Most previous studies of captivity in early America are content to generalize from a small selection of sources, often centuries apart. In Setting All the Captives Free, Ian Steele presents, from a mountain of data, the differences rather than generalities as well as how these differences show the variety of circumstances that affected captives’ experiences. The product of a herculean effort to identify and analyze the captives taken on the Allegheny frontier during the era of the French and Indian War, Setting All the Captives Free is the most complete study of this topic. Steele explores genuine, doctored, and fictitious accounts in an innovative challenge to many prevailing assumptions and arguments, revealing that Indians demonstrated humanity and compassion by continuing to take numerous captives when their opponents took none, by adopting and converting captives into kin during the war, and by returning captives even though doing so was a humiliating act that betrayed their societies' values. A fascinating and comprehensive work by an acclaimed scholar, Setting All the Captives Free takes the study of the French and Indian War in America to an exciting new level.
Download or read book Captive written by Jere Van Dyk and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An American reporter's chilling account of being kidnapped and imprisoned by the Taliban, in the no-man's-land between Afghanistan and Pakistan Jere Van Dyk was on the wrong side of the border. He and three Afghan guides had crossed into the tribal areas of Pakistan, where no Westerner had ventured for years, hoping to reach the home of a local chieftain by nightfall. But then a dozen armed men in black turbans appeared over the crest of a hill. Captive is Van Dyk's searing account of his forty-five days in a Taliban prison, and it is gripping and terrifying in the tradition of the best prison literature. The main action takes place in a single room, cut off from the outside world, where Van Dyk feels he can trust nobody—not his jailers, not his guides (who he fears may have betrayed him), and certainly not the charismatic Taliban leader whose fleeting appearances carry the hope of redemption as well as the prospect of immediate, violent death. Van Dyk went to the tribal areas to investigate the challenges facing America there. His story is of a deeper, more personal challenge, an unforgettable tale of human endurance.
Download or read book The Desert and the Sea written by Michael Scott Moore and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Scott Moore, a journalist and the author of Sweetness and Blood, incorporates personal narrative and rigorous investigative journalism in this profound and revelatory memoir of his three-year captivity by Somali pirates—a riveting,thoughtful, and emotionally resonant exploration of foreign policy, religious extremism, and the costs of survival. In January 2012, having covered a Somali pirate trial in Hamburg for Spiegel Online International—and funded by a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting—Michael Scott Moore traveled to the Horn of Africa to write about piracy and ways to end it. In a terrible twist of fate, Moore himself was kidnapped and subsequently held captive by Somali pirates. Subjected to conditions that break even the strongest spirits—physical injury, starvation, isolation, terror—Moore’s survival is a testament to his indomitable strength of mind. In September 2014, after 977 days, he walked free when his ransom was put together by the help of several US and German institutions, friends, colleagues, and his strong-willed mother. Yet Moore’s own struggle is only part of the story: The Desert and the Sea falls at the intersection of reportage, memoir, and history. Caught between Muslim pirates, the looming threat of Al-Shabaab, and the rise of ISIS, Moore observes the worlds that surrounded him—the economics and history of piracy; the effects of post-colonialism; the politics of hostage negotiation and ransom; while also conjuring the various faces of Islam—and places his ordeal in the context of the larger political and historical issues. A sort of Catch-22 meets Black Hawk Down, The Desert and the Sea is written with dark humor, candor, and a journalist’s clinical distance and eye for detail. Moore offers an intimate and otherwise inaccessible view of life as we cannot fathom it, brilliantly weaving his own experience as a hostage with the social, economic, religious, and political factors creating it. The Desert and the Sea is wildly compelling and a book that will take its place next to titles like Den of Lions and Even Silence Has an End.
Download or read book Blue Mountain written by Margaret Gaan and published by Ulverscroft Large Print. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the lives of the great-grandsons of Charlie, the Red Barbarian--one an opium-dealing criminal, the other an anti-drug agent
Download or read book NLT Go Bible for Kids Leatherlike Blue Mountains written by Tyndale and published by Tyndale House Publishers. This book was released on 2024-09-03 with total page 1589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When God calls, it's time to go! The Go Bible is bursting with fun and engaging content to help kids explore God's Word and go share it with others. Paired with the accurate, easy-to-read NLT translation, this kids' Bible plants seeds of faith and share the life-changing love of God with kids through over 600 features centered on the theme of transformation. Key Benefits of the Go Bible Easy to Understand The NLT's accurate and accessible Bible text uses familiar words that speak to the hearts and minds of readers without having to process technical biblical language. Perfect for readers age 7+. Big Font Size and Colored Text The Go Bible is the full Bible formatted with a 9.5-point font size and a two-column format. Chapter numbers are red and verse numbers are blue, making them easy for children to find. Perfect for reading alone or out loud with an adult. Emphasizes the Theme of Transformation The message of the Bible has transformative effects on the lives of believers. That's why every feature in the Go Bible emphasizes how God's power transforms the lives of people in the Bible, and our lives today. Packed with More than 600 Features Connecting Bible Truths to Everyday Life Includes several features tying Bible truth to modern-day life Go Bible features include: Complete text of the trustworthy, clear, and accurate New Living Translation (NLT) Know, Grow, and Go--Read mini devotions that teach kids to know God's Word, grow their faith, and go share it with others. Key Verse Challenge--Engage with fun activities to help kids memorize scripture. Factoids--Learn interesting facts about life in Bible times. True Tales of Transformed People--Enjoy snapshots of people whose lives were forever changed by God. Choose to Change--Apply Bible knowledge to modern-day problems. 20 Key Moments--This children's Bible contains info-packed illustrations of the tabernacle, ark, Egyptian plagues and more! 32 Special Pages--Explore big Bible ideas with full-color illustrations Book Introductions--Includes a Seek-and-Find guide, chronological timeline, and a big picture view of why the book matters in God's story 8 Kid-Friendly Maps--Discover colorful maps with travel routes, kingdom borders, and animal populations. 9.5-point font For readers familiar with Ken Taylor's best-selling A Child's First Bible, the Go Bible is the perfect next step to deepening their understanding of God's story.
Download or read book The Catskill Mountains and the Region Around written by Charles Rockwell and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-02-25 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1867.
Download or read book Kings Mountain written by Dave Dameron and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2009-02-18 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1780, while British troops roamed the southern countryside striking fear into the hearts of rebels, a hardy group of "over-the-mountain men" from Tennessee vowed to defend their families and farms. At Kings Mountain, in northwest South Carolina, this small volunteer contingent of frontiersmen met the British in early October. The American victory there forced the British to retreat and turned the tide in the American Revolution's southern campaign.
Download or read book UXL Graphic Novelists written by Tom Pendergast and published by UXL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains articles that profile twenty-four authors, writing teams, and illustrators of graphic novels, arranged alphabetically from Masashi Kishimoto to Alex Ross; and includes sidebars, photographs, and illustrations.
