Download or read book Pelican Escape or Die written by Dick Morris and published by http://dickgmorris.blogspot. This book was released on 2011-11-14 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowe, Miller, and Hubbard, are prisoners from an ancient war. As far as their government is concerned, they are missing in action. As far as their families are concerned, they are dead. Since their capture they have been used as slave labor by their captors, but now political changes, and their deteriorating physical condition mean that they face imminent death. But then a chance of escape presents itself... About 31000 words. More than a year before, and far far away, and old man had put the muzzle of a shotgun to his throat and gone to push the trigger. This novel tells their amazing story. (Author's Note: Even though some years have passed since these events took place, I have had, in the interests of international relations, public face, personal feelings and, indeed, diplomacy, to leave some elements of this story deliberately vague. I have also had to include small amounts of disinformation. However, intelligent readers will have no difficulty in filling in the gaps, as it were, and picturing, indeed, the whole story. My main hope is that this book will prove a fitting epitaph to Al Eckman. I also hope that sometime in the future, Hollywood will do its duty and produce a fitting tribute to this incredible man. Where are you Mister Spielberg?)
Download or read book Black Hats written by Morris Dick and published by http://dickgmorris.blogspot.. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Killers written by Dick Morris and published by dick-morris-books. This book was released on 2014-10-20 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Killers Granite is one of the toughest materials known to man. You need special tools to work it. Max Grannit is tough too: he has to be to survive the trouble he keeps getting himself into. Now, fresh from his ordeal at the hands of the black hats, Grannit is looking for a quiet life. But then he saves the life of a beautiful young woman in a New York street. Soon he is heading for more trouble, big trouble, in fact, when he agrees to act as the young woman’s bodyguard. Grannit finds himself first in London and then in the South of France, living luxuriously in each of those places, but also living dangerously. The young woman will not tell him what she really is, and she herself does not know what is going on. Capitaine Labbac of the Police Nationale does not know either. But something big is brewing in the Bay of Cannes… A journey through danger to an explosive conclusion. About 61000 words.
Download or read book No Escape from Death written by Harris Kakoulides and published by Harris Kakoulides . This book was released on with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 21 years ago I was walking on a bridge in Florida, where I saw many fishermen fishing. And contemplating on the subject of death. Looking at the ocean where it seem to have no end. Amazed at the Ocean how it glitters when hit by the sun's rays. And in my depression wishing to drown in it. Wondering if I would throw myself in the ocean to drown would it be true that the dolphins I saw at a distance would save me or if that was a myth only to be found in flipper on my favorite channel Nick a Night at the time. So as I left my spot to walk at the bridge I saw a fish out of the water and gasping for water. A puffer fish with many colors, I thought of saving it but then said to myself what happens if it puffs up and stings me with it's spikes. Although at the time I thought on death , deep inside I didn't want to die. So I walked and thought of letting it die but my conscience bother me to the point of having me run towards it and speaking to it saying don't sting me , I want to save you. So I grabbing it by the tail and throwing it to the ocean with all my might hoping of saving it's life. At that moment a pelican catches it and swallows it whole then looking at me and in it's language asks me for more. In my anger I curse and yell at the poor pelican wishing it to die for wanting to eat to survive. Now years after I look at that event and say in many ways we has humans need to eat something living to survive. For us to live a animal , a fish , or plant must die. Just like Jesus had to die so we can enjoy life everlasting through his life which was his blood. Death and life are closer than one thinks although they may seem to be enemies for now, they walk side by side. One is not without the other. Each day one dies and a other is born. One never decides ones birth and never decides ones death. Although some decides to cheat death before their time only to find out there is a life after this life when they die. So now with all my heart I bless the bird which at one time I cursed in my lack of understanding. Though a murder to some including that pufferfish a hero and a example to others who wish to survive. But thinking how poisonous is a puffer fish I believe the poor loveable pelican later on died . So in thier desire to live , both the puffer fish and the pelican died.
Download or read book Dead by Saturday written by S. Fowler Wright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basil stumbles across a briefcase full of money on a London street. He changes his name and tries to stay one step ahead of the real owners of the cash--a group of American gangsters. But Inspector Cleveland of Scotland Yard knows that he has a major problem on his hands, and needs to find the hapless man before the crooks do. Can Basil remain free--or will he become Dead by Saturday?
Download or read book The Black Pelican written by Vadim Babenko and published by . This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Great Elephant Escape The written by Una Belle Townsend and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When two baby elephants escaped from the circus in 1975, it took eighteen days to find them. The authorities searched all over, but they were always one step behind this sneaky pair of fugitives. This colorful picture book follows these giant hide-and-seekers throughout Oklahoma as they evade capture for as long as they can.
Download or read book The Pelican Brief written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-01-05 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In suburban Georgetown a killer's Reeboks whisper on the front floor of a posh home... In a seedy D.C. porno house a patron is swiftly garroted to death... The next day America learns that two of its Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. And in New Orleans, a young law student prepares a legal brief... To Darby Shaw it was no more than a legal shot in the dark, a brilliant guess. To the Washington establishment it was political dynamite. Suddenly Darby is witness to a murder—a murder intended for her. Going underground, she finds there is only one person she can trust—an ambitious reporter after a newsbreak hotter than Watergate—to help her piece together the deadly puzzle. Somewhere between the bayous of Louisiana and the White House's inner sanctums, a violent cover-up is being engineered. For someone has read Darby's brief. Someone who will stop at nothing to destroy the evidence of an unthinkable crime. Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM!
Download or read book Collier s New Encyclopedia written by and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Uncle written by Irena McCammon Scott and published by Purdue University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source materials-including Purdue's personal correspondence, business ledgers, and the family oral histories-the author examines Purdue's beginning among illiterate, immigrant, Pennsylvania mountain-hollow folks. Uncle challenges a commonly held belief that Purdue was a cold-hearted business mogul. Instead the author shows Purdue as a human being and as a generous family man with a visionary nature.
Download or read book Dead Mentors written by Sandra Nichols and published by BalboaPress. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2005, John Burns, a clairvoyant therapist, provides a reading for a lonely South Florida healthcare manager named Sophia Deming. At fifty-four, Sophia is miserable with work, regret, and failed ambitions. She leaves the reading, disappointed with Burnss forecast and worries that the way to an authentic life is a hopeless dream. From the shores of his cottage on Prince Edward Island, Burns channels Sophia for a period of two years and tells the story of her existential quest. Sophias journey begins when she finds her dead mothers play, The Antiquity, in the family cottage in Peterborough, Ontario. Its main character, Russell Durnin, a biomedical scientist, finds the missing link to his research among the paranormal inhabitants of a futuristic prison. As an ambitious production of the performance develops in Toronto, Sophia encounters a series of misfortunes back home in Florida that mirror those of Durnin and that force her to confront her darkest fears. On opening night of the play, as her mothers portrait is unveiled upon the stage, Sophia discovers the secret of her emotional captivity.
Download or read book The Journal of Hellenic Studies written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Brown Pelican written by Rien Fertel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-09-07 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, Rien Fertel tells the story of humanity’s complicated and often brutal relationship with the brown pelican over the past century. This beloved bird with the mythically bottomless belly—to say nothing of its prodigious pouch—has been deemed a living fossil and the most dinosaur-like of creatures. The pelican adorns the Louisiana state flag, serves as a religious icon of sacrifice, and stars in the famous parting shot of Jurassic Park, but, most significantly, spotlights our tenuous connection with the environment in which it flies, feeds, and roosts—the coastal United States. In 1903, Theodore Roosevelt inaugurated the first national wildlife refuge at Pelican Island, Florida, in order to rescue the brown pelican, among other species, from the plume trade. Despite such protections, the ubiquity of synthetic “agents of death,” most notably DDT, in the mid-twentieth century sent the brown pelican to the list of endangered species. By the mid-1960s, not one viable pelican nest remained in all of Louisiana. Authorities declared the state bird locally extinct. Conservation efforts—including an outlandish but well-planned birdnapping—saved the brown pelican, generating one of the great success stories in animal preservation. However, the brown pelican is once again under threat, particularly along Louisiana’s coast, due to land loss and rising seas. For centuries, artists and writers have portrayed the pelican as a bird that pierces its breast to feed its young, symbolizing saintly piety. Today, the brown pelican gives itself in other ways, sacrificed both by and for the environment as a bellwether bird—an indicator species portending potential disasters that await. Brown Pelican combines history and first-person narrative to complicate, deconstruct, and reassemble our vision of the bird, the natural world, and ourselves.
Download or read book The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal written by John Yow and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With his distinctively witty, anecdotal, and disarming voice, John Yow now journeys to the shore and shares his encounters with some of the most familiar and beloved coastal birds. Out of his travels--from North Carolina's Outer Banks, down the Atlantic coast, and westward along the Gulf of Mexico--come colorful accounts of twenty-eight species, from ubiquitous beach birds like sanderlings and laughing gulls to wonders of nature like roseate spoonbills and the American avocets. Along the way, Yow delves deeply into the birds' habits and behaviors, experiencing and relating the fascination that leads many an amateur naturalist to become the most unusual of species--a birder. Seasonally organized chapters explore the improbable, the wonderful, and the amusing aspects of these birds' lives. Yow embellishes his observations with field notes, anecdotes, and stories from some of America's finest naturalists--including John James Audubon, Arthur Cleveland Bent, Rachel Carson, and Peter Matthiessen. Combining the endless fascination of bird life with the pleasure of good reading, The Armchair Birder Goes Coastal is the perfect companion for any nature lover's next trip to the beach.
Download or read book Cruising World written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-06 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book North American Pelicans written by Lynn M. Stone and published by Lerner Publications. This book was released on 2003-08-01 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With short, stubby legs, long narrow wings, and large throat pouches, North American pelicans are unique and easily recognizable birds. Found throughout the northwest, pelicans can often be seen diving towards the water or paddling around looking for fish in large groups. Endangered over the past several decades, pelicans are beginning to thrive once more thanks to nesting refuges and protection from hunting.
