Download or read book The Soul of an Octopus written by Sy Montgomery and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-07-12 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finalist for the National Book Award for Nonfiction * New York Times Bestseller * A Huffington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the Year * One of the Best Books of the Month on Goodreads * Library Journal Best Sci-Tech Book of the Year * An American Library Association Notable Book of the Year “Sy Montgomery’s The Soul of an Octopus does for the creature what Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk did for raptors.” —New Statesman, UK “One of the best science books of the year.” —Science Friday, NPR Another New York Times bestseller from the author of The Good Good Pig, this “fascinating…touching…informative…entertaining” (The Daily Beast) book explores the emotional and physical world of the octopus—a surprisingly complex, intelligent, and spirited creature—and the remarkable connections it makes with humans. In pursuit of the wild, solitary, predatory octopus, popular naturalist Sy Montgomery has practiced true immersion journalism. From New England aquarium tanks to the reefs of French Polynesia and the Gulf of Mexico, she has befriended octopuses with strikingly different personalities—gentle Athena, assertive Octavia, curious Kali, and joyful Karma. Each creature shows her cleverness in myriad ways: escaping enclosures like an orangutan; jetting water to bounce balls; and endlessly tricking companions with multiple “sleights of hand” to get food. Scientists have only recently accepted the intelligence of dogs, birds, and chimpanzees but now are watching octopuses solve problems and are trying to decipher the meaning of the animal’s color-changing techniques. With her “joyful passion for these intelligent and fascinating creatures” (Library Journal Editors’ Spring Pick), Montgomery chronicles the growing appreciation of this mollusk as she tells a unique love story. By turns funny, entertaining, touching, and profound, The Soul of an Octopus reveals what octopuses can teach us about the meeting of two very different minds.

Download or read book Sniper s Pride written by Megan Crane and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-05-07 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Return to Alaska's Grizzly Harbor where danger strikes with arctic precision and love thaws the coldest hearts in the newest romantic suspense from the USA Today bestselling author of SEAL's Honor. After Mariah McKenna lands in the hospital with a life-threatening anaphylactic reaction she knows she didn’t cause, she realizes her cheating, vindictive husband would rather have a dead wife than a divorce. Afraid that he will succeed in killing her next time, Mariah goes to Grizzly Harbor to hire one of the Alaska Force special operatives to help her survive long enough to finally live a little. Griffin Cisneros traded in a comfortable future for boot camp, where he learned the virtue of patience and focus—skills that served him well as a Marine sniper. Few things get to him these days, but something about Mariah’s mix of toughness and vulnerability gets right under his skin. Until it’s clear she’s the one thing in the world that might melt the ice in stoic, reserved Griffin, whether he likes it or not. If he can just keep her alive...

Download or read book Before She Dies written by Mary Burton and published by Pinnacle Books. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Virginia attorney’s deadly past returns with a travelling carnival in this thriller that “will have readers sleeping with the lights on” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). In death, they are purified. Holding his victims under water, he washes away their sins as they struggle for their last breath. Then he exposes them for what they really are: witches, sent to tempt and to corrupt… Virginia defense attorney Charlotte Wellington doesn’t talk about her childhood—not how she was put to work as a carnival fortuneteller, or her sister’s brutal murder. But now the carnival she escaped all those years ago has come to town. For Charlotte, what’s past is past. But others don’t agree. And as a serial killer terrorizes the area, Charlotte and Detective Daniel Rokov are drawn into a case that becomes terrifyingly personal. The killer has waited many years for Charlotte to be within his reach. All his victims deserve their fate, but her guilt is greatest. And he is determined to make her suffer and repent—before she dies.

Download or read book Ghosts written by David A. Robertson and published by Portage & Main Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious murders, shadowy figures, and high school. Life can be hard; death can be harder. Cole Harper is dead. Reynold McCabe is alive and free. Mihko Laboratories has reopened the research facility and works to manufacture and weaponize the illness that previously plagued Wounded Sky. People are missing, and the community has been quarantined. What deal did Eva strike with Choch? Who will defeat Reynold and Mihko? Time is running out.

Download or read book Taught by the Students written by Ruth Gurgel and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-10-22 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within public schools in the United States, students of color are truncating their music education experiences at higher rates than their white counterparts. Music educators have searched for explanations of this phenomenon as well as effective interventions, yet there has been little overall improvement of these statistics. Ruth Gurgel presents and analyzes the perspectives of eight students and their teacher in a pluralistic 7th grade choir classroom at Clark Middle School, located in a large Midwestern urban school district. Through the eyes of the students, music teachers gain insight into the complexity of the engagement cycle as well as interventions that increase and maintain deep engagement. Ruth Gurgel looks at the intersection of instruction, relationships, and music in the classroom, highlighting how each component affects students. Taught by the Students provides an analysis of music education through the lens of Culturally Relevant Pedagogy, connecting this body of literature to Ruth Gurgel’s research in the music classroom at Clark Middle School.

Download or read book Her Name Is Mariah written by Mima and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariah Nichols was adaptable. She lived through her parents bitter divorce, a childhood of neglect and the discovery that her only sibling was transgender so the concept of turning into a mortal vampire was just one more adjustment in an already chaotic life. But when tragedy rips through Mariahs heart, she realizes what it takes to survive in the world. She must become like an animal and run on instincts not emotions. or so she thought. Her name is Mariah, and this is her story.

Download or read book Atlanta Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region. Atlanta magazine’s editorial mission is to engage our community through provocative writing, authoritative reporting, and superlative design that illuminate the people, the issues, the trends, and the events that define our city. The magazine informs, challenges, and entertains our readers each month while helping them make intelligent choices, not only about what they do and where they go, but what they think about matters of importance to the community and the region.

Download or read book The Divorce Workbook for Teens written by Lisa M. Schab and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Divorce Workbook for Teens helps teens understand their feelings, cope with parental fighting, and be happy after their parents' divorce. Activities cover emotional issues, such as developing self-awareness and communication skills, as well as the practical issues related to divorce, such as living in two homes.

Download or read book The Widow of the South written by Robert Hicks and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-30 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a true story, this debut Civil War novel follows a Southern plantation woman's journey of transforming her home into a hospital for the war. This debut novel is based on the true story of Carrie McGavock. During the Civil War's Battle of Franklin, a five-hour bloodbath with 9,200 casualties, McGavock's home was turned into a field hospital where four generals died. For 40 years she tended the private cemetery on her property where more than 1,000 were laid to rest.

Download or read book This Child s Gonna Live written by Sarah E. Wright and published by Feminist Press at CUNY. This book was released on 2002 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic novel of an African American woman's survival amidst poverty, called "a small masterpiece" by the New York Times.

Download or read book Azure Secrets written by Patricia Rice and published by Book View Cafe. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From bestselling author Patricia Rice, another romantic mystery from the peculiar town of Hillvale, CA. . . A chef who brews magic challenges a mayor with secrets After a childhood of being tossed from foster homes for claiming she can detect liars by their scent, Fiona Malcolm McDonald does her best to conceal her secret these days. But when she sniffs a wrongdoer and drives him off with jalapeño cheesecake, she loses still another cooking job and is homeless again. She places her last hope on her mentor in Hillvale, a town as weird as she is. Mayor Monty Kennedy has a secret too. He owns most of Hillvale but hasn’t the cash to repair the only empty cabin. Still, even in his desperation, he refuses to repeat his father’s sins by throwing people out of their jobs and houses just so he can have his own space. Before either of them can find a solid roof for their heads, Fiona’s mentor dies—and it isn’t accidental. Determined to discover who wanted a good woman dead, Fiona camps out in Monty’s cabin, setting her on a collision course with the mayor—and a killer. With the secret help of the town’s spiritualists, Monty and Fiona must cooperate to solve a puzzle with only a dog, a ghost, and a seemingly useless key as clues to stop a murderous gang who stink of corruption. If they survive, perhaps a hot chef and a cool mayor might learn to share a roof.

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Download or read book Tormented Dreams written by Rita Moyes-Vandiver and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004-03-04 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mariah, a self-made businesswoman comes back to her hometown Crystal River, California after disappearing for six months with a secret. It doesn’t take long for her ex-fiance Patrick, and her best friend Charlie, to figure out what her secret is and their involvement with it. Patrick regrets his infidelity and wants her back, but does he have a chance with the gallant and sophisticated Count Jean Paul in her life? Mariah’s world is soon turned upside down once again when and the Count’s businesses are targeted in a drug smuggling plot for revenge. Her reoccurring tormenting dreams heed a warning and now she must face the consequences of her choices. Will she be able to love the man who holds her heart in his? Will she be able to be the mother she never had to her infant daughter? The end will surprise you! TORMENTED DREAMS is a story of not only intense personal growth but growth in relationships through the affirmation of love. You will experience a full range of emotions in this contemporary romance suspense that spans two continents- the United States and France. It is like nothing you have ever read before!! “This is the best contemporary romance suspense novel I’ve read in years. It draws you in with every turn and twist. Since reading TORMENTED DREAMS I have found myself looking at other romance novels differently than I once did. I have and will continue to recommend it to friends.” by Brenda Junker TORMENTED DREAMS is an easy read that captivates you, as you live the life of each character, and it will keep you guessing until the end. You shall laugh, love, hate and cry all within the pages of this book. There is strong character identification and I felt like I had made close friends with each and every one, and when I finished the book I was sad to find I missed my friends. by Pam

Download or read book Marry Me written by Sarah Ball and published by Piatkus. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like most girls, Abby has always dreamed of her wedding day. When she was eight she imagined she'd look like a fairy princess. At thirteen it was the perfect meringue and yards of ivory tulle, at sixteen jeans and her favourite Doc Martins. The only constant in her wedding plans has been Nathan Priestly. Nathan was the school heartthrob and for Abby, the one that got away. Only now Nathan's about to get married to one of Abby's best friends and Abby is having to accept that over a decades' worth of unrequited love will remain just that. The better part of Abby is happy for them both. She's even volunteered to be their DJ at the reception, although her secret play-list consists of: 'Don't Marry Her', 'Temptation' and the complete works of Alanis Morissette. Is Abby destined to be always the DJ and never the bride . . . ? Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.uk

Download or read book All Roads Lead Home written by Christine Johnson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hendrick Simmons despises her. Mariah Meeks doesn't blame him—not after she rejected the handsome mechanic's proposal two years ago. She's certain she's not meant for marriage. All Mariah's energy goes to one purpose—her work as an agent of the Orphaned Children's Society. Now a prodigal father's return threatens a boy under Mariah's care. Mariah insists on approving the lad's future home for herself, even though it requires a cross-country drive that's too dangerous to take on her own. For the child's sake, Hendrick agrees to join her. Can a journey of 2,000 miles bridge the distance between them…and reveal where Mariah truly belongs?

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Download or read book Between Two Worlds written by Mairi Craw and published by Author House. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between Two Worlds is the compelling and beautifully-crafted sequel to Beyond the Hedge, which showcased magical realism at its finest and introduced readers to a fantastical land like no other with deliciously eccentric characters who live in our hearts forever. Set in the seaside town of Irvine, Mairi Craws first fantasy novel chronicled the extraordinary adventures of 11-year old Sandy Henderson and her cat, Leo, when they chanced upon the parallel Scottish fairy world of Sylvania, a magical place where anything can happen and it invariably does. In Between Two Worlds, the Tartan Fairy Folk and their beloved monarch, Queen Celestina, once more find themselves plunged into chaos and despair as the dark shadows of relentless evil, twisted ambition and vile intent threaten their carefree, happy land. When Pongo, the ebulliently cheeky fairy dog, arrives unannounced in Scotland, Sandy embarks on a series of outrageous shenanigans which bring the magic and enchantments of Sylvania into her home and along the sombre, menacing corridors of her school, an ancient Victorian mansion with secrets of its own. What starts out as a merry romp quickly turns into the ultimate battle between good and evil, with a scourge of a villain whose malevolence knows no bounds. The chain of events unleashed threatens to destroy Sylvania and have hideous repercussions in Scotland too. Sandy joins forces with an outrageous collection of characters to protect her beloved homeland while the Tartan Fairy Folk go up against the darkest iniquity their world has ever seen. Will Queen Celestina and her subjects survive the ultimate onslaught on all they love and cherish? And will Sandy be able to make the huge sacrifices demanded of her for the greater good of those she loves?