Download or read book One Legged Seagull written by Joey Avniel and published by Joey Avniel. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you ever wonder what specific steps you can take to transform your life, so you can experience more inner peace? Have you ever thought that books about self-transformation are too vague to be helpful, filled with pie-in-the-sky platitudes and difficult-to-follow instructions? Take a journey with Ehud and Simon, as they discover strategies and techniques that help them change frustration and anger into peace of mind. Ehud, a young teenager, meets Simon after a terrible personal disaster--failing his green belt test at the local dojo. Together they learn how to handle life's ups and downs with more grace and patience. Discover how Ehud and Simon are linked in a mysterious, behind-the-scenes way. Their connection points up the way that all of consciousness is a part of one whole reality, a reality defined by compassion and the unfolding potential for joy. Decipher these and other mysteries, in an easy to read format outlined in my new fictional story, One-Legged Seagull, a Warrior's Journey to Inner Peace.

Download or read book Two Gulls and a Girl written by Roxanne Schinas and published by Imperator Publishing. This book was released on 2008-12-31 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roxanne Schinas has always had a passion for wildlife. Long before she was old enough to read of Gerald Durrell's adventures she was emulating them, with pets ranging from rabbits and half-tame hedgehogs to toads, sticklebacks, locusts, and a crayfish. In the spring of 2008, while her family were cruising in southern Spain, Roxanne decided to make a survey of the seagull colony on an uninhabited island. The project began with a hand-drawn map on which the nests were plotted. Phase two was to have consisted in the study of the young birds growing up on the island, but when a local nature warden told her that most of the chicks would die, Roxanne found that she had a perfect excuse for "rescuing" two and bringing them home. Mother was not impressed... but the deed was done, and now the young naturalist had the opportunity to study, intimately, the development of Larus Cachinanns, the yellow-legged gull. Two Gulls and a Girl is Roxanne's record of events in the seagull colony and amongst her two hand-reared birds. Contains 92 black-and-white photos and illustrations. Foreword by Richard Williamson.

Download or read book Forty Five for Fifty 45 Poems for 50 Years written by Tim Wilkinson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-09-13 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the author of "Tales From The Land of My Heart", Forty-Five Poems for the first Fifty years. By: Tim Wilkinson.

Download or read book BirdNote written by BirdNote and published by Sasquatch Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One hundred entertaining and informative essays from the popular public radio feature program, BirdNote, accompanied by original illustrations throughout--an illuminating volume for bird and nature lovers across North America. Here are the best stories about our avian friends from the public radio show BirdNote, each brief essay illuminating the life, habits, or songs of a particular bird. Why do geese fly in a V-formation? Why are worms so good for you--if you're a robin? Which bird calls, "Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?" From wrens that nest in cactuses to gulls that have a strange red dot on their bills--these digestible and fascinating bird stories are a delightful window to the winged world. A foreword by John W. Fitzpatrick, director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, and an introduction by Gordon Orians, professor emeritus of biology at the University of Washington, are also included. Contains web links to the audio version of each story, with bird sounds.

Download or read book RiverLit written by and published by RiverLit. This book was released on with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Flopping on the Deck written by Matt Kavan and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-12-26 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of 160 songs and poems about travel, water, experiences, struggles, drinking, jokers, myths and dreams, random thoughts, and writing.

Download or read book Our Si Fi God written by Geneva Hewett and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2021-03-14 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are you interested in prophetic dreams and visions? If so, you will enjoy this book as a learning guide or a devotional. God wants to reveal himself to you in ways that challenge your thinking. Open your heart and mind on your daily journey with the Lord and experience true God encounters. Learn how to see things not only in the natural but in the spiritual as well. He created everything and he will use these things to teach us Kingdom principals. I call these my Si-Fi God encounters. We all have them , we just need to fine tune our senses and trust the way we see, hear, and trust the Holy Spirit operating in our day to day experiences. You will be challenged to recognize the gifts that you possess and in the end you too will have your own encounter and say, Yes God, I do see and hear you. I humbly share many encounters in this book about life, dreams ,visions and hardships that will open your eyes to some of the ways God may speak to and through you. You are already on your way because you are searching for truth since you are considering this book.

Download or read book Witness written by Seán Body (Poet) and published by Lapwing Publications. This book was released on 2013 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Summer After You and Me written by Jennifer Doktorski and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will it be a summer of fresh starts or second chances? For Lucy, the Jersey Shore isn't just the perfect summer escape, it's home. As a local girl, she knows not to get attached to the tourists. They breeze in during Memorial Day weekend, crowding her costal town and stealing moonlit kisses, only to pack up their beach umbrellas and empty promises on Labor Day. Still, she can't help but crush on charming Connor Malloy. His family spends every summer next door, and she longs for their friendship to turn into something deeper. Then Superstorm Sandy sweeps up the coast, bringing Lucy and Connor together for a few intense hours. Except nothing is the same in the wake of the storm, and Lucy is left to pick up the pieces of her broken heart and her broken home. Time may heal all wounds, but with Memorial Day approaching and Connor returning, Lucy's summer is sure to be filled with fireworks.

Download or read book The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing Traitor to the Nation Volume I written by M. T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2010-12-21 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award Winner! This deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today. It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a faraway land — are the only persons in their household assigned names. As the boy's regal mother, Cassiopeia, entertains the house scholars with her beauty and wit, young Octavian begins to question the purpose behind his guardians' fanatical studies. Only after he dares to open a forbidden door does he learn the hideous nature of their experiments — and his own chilling role in them. Set against the disquiet of Revolutionary Boston, M. T. Anderson's extraordinary novel takes place at a time when American Patriots rioted and battled to win liberty while African slaves were entreated to risk their lives for a freedom they would never claim. The first of two parts, this deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.

Download or read book The Pox Party written by M. T. Anderson and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.

Download or read book Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea written by Gary Kinder and published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc.. This book was released on 2009-10-20 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek

Download or read book The Survival Guide for Kids with Physical Disabilities and Challenges written by Wendy L. Moss and published by Free Spirit Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many kids with physical disabilities and challenges, the barriers they face go beyond what they can and can’t do with their bodies. Loaded with tools for coping with the intense social, emotional, and academic difficulties these students often must deal with—as well as their secret fears—this book helps kids succeed in and out of the classroom and confidently handle their physical challenges. Friendly illustrations, think-about-it prompts, true-to-life stories gathered from the authors’ decades of experience, and specific tips and advice provide comfort, hope, and supportive guidance.

Download or read book The State of Grace and Other Calamities written by and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gaudere res seria est. Loosely translated from Latin in our Abridged Too Far Dictionary, that means: Having fun is serious business. Please note that it does not translate from old German to mean: "I've got sauerkraut in my lederhosen." Actually, it's the motto of the Mystical Township of Grace, Washington, a place unlike any other town in America. Perhaps it might even be the off-center of the known universe. What follows is a compilation of columns culled from the Greater Grace Gazette's disgustingly dusty archives that will provide insight into the comings and goings and doings of the town's sometimes zany and occasionally self-important residents and interlopers. It is hoped they will make you agree that having fun is serious business indeed. Warning: Not for the Humor Impaired.

Download or read book The Canaries written by Paul August and published by Paul August. This book was released on 2023-04-26 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kim Moreno, a clinical lab technician with a leading Biopharma firm is at the top of her game. All the while she’s living with intense anxiety and grief caused by the traumatic death of her baby sister Grace ten years ago. How did she really die and why did her father disappear, never to be heard from again? To manage her anxiety, Kim self-medicates with synthetic opioids, stolen from work. Years later, helping her mother move into a new home, she hears cries for help coming from a nearby river, and her life changes forever. Kim dives into the freezing waters of The Souhegan to try and save a young girl named Julie. She lives in a secret cave community with a group of teenagers that are fighting off their illnesses and Lee Chen, the head of a mining operation. They’re threatening a massive cave-in to unearth a rare metal worth billions. She allies with Nick, a handsome cowboy whose life is troubled. Together they set in motion a chain of events that plunge Kim into a cave world that is filled with wonder, romance, and death for everyone unless the miners can be stopped. An epic battle wages, the ground is shaking and the clock is ticking. Tic, tic, tic

Download or read book Every Thing Left Unsaid written by Jessica Davidson and published by Pan Australia. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I wait for him, the cold seeping through my clothes, until it finally dawns on me that he's not coming back. And I wonder why he chose her instead of me? Why he went looking for her when I was right there." Tai and Juliet have been best friends forever - since they met at kindy and decided to get married in first grade. They understand each other in the way that only best friends can. They love music, beach walks, energy drinks and, they are slowly discovering, each other. As they begin to dream of adventures beyond the HSC - a future free of homework, curfews and parents, a life together - their plans are suddenly and dramatically derailed. For Tai is sick. And not everything you wish for can come true. A poignant story of first love, hope, grief, family, and the twistedness of life. Shortlisted for Prime Minster's Literary Award Young Adult Fiction 2013

Download or read book Everything Left Unsaid written by Jessica Davidson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tai and Juliet have been friends since they were little. With a shared love of music, an addiction to energy drinks and the belief they can fly off buildings Mary Poppins-style, they understand each other in a way that only best friends can. But as they reach 17, they begin to realise that they might be more than just friends... As they excitedly plan what they'll do once they've finished high school, they believe they have their whole lives ahead of them. But then Tai learns the devastating news that he has a brain tumour - and has only a year left to live. Told from the alternating points of view of Tai and Juliet, this is both a touching story of first love and an unflinching, emotional tale of living life to the full in the face of death.