Download or read book Raining Fire written by Alan Gibbons and published by Orion Children's Books. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gun is the coward's fist. The gun is power. Alex and Ethan are growing up on an estate where there are just two choices: sport or crime. Ethan is selected for a football training programme in the US, his chance to escape the gangs that terrorise his neighbourhood. But Alex is drawn into an explosive feud with a gun at its heart. In this gripping and absorbing real life thriller, Alan Gibbons explores the complex issue of gun crime, and the far reaching consequences it can have.
Download or read book Raining Fire written by Rajan Khanna and published by Pyr. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Gold, former airship pilot has lost everything: his airship, his friends, and Miranda, the woman he loves. All that he has left is a thirst for revenge, a reckless plan to sate it, and some journal entries from Miranda to help ground him in the chaos. As he spirals out of control, he must survive old friends, new enemies, and of course Ferals, the mindless, violent victims of the global pandemic that shattered the world. Meanwhile, the Cabal, a group of scientists on the floating city of Valhalla, are using the disease as a weapon while the militant Valhallans continue their raiding and destruction across the continent. When raiders from Valhalla massacre a town of innocents, Ben finds a new purpose in doing anything he can to undermine their power. Ben must reunite with old friends and find new ones if he is to succeed. Can he overcome the forces arrayed against him in time to save himself—and maybe the world? From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Rain on Fire written by J. B. Hill and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vicky Weston has just begun her career with the CIA as the terrorist attacks occur. As a Special Skills Officer, she and her partner Mason Trotter are task with finding out who is behind these attacks and bringing them to justice along with their handlers Special Agents Sydney James and Elijah Shane. There is an immediate attraction and connection between Vicky and Sydney that could cause serious complications and put everything at risk.
Download or read book Rain Fire A Companion to The Last Dragon Chronicles written by Jay d'Lacey and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and comprehensive companion to the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling series, the Last Dragon Chronicles! A fascinating and comprehensive companion to the New York Times bestselling series, the Last Dragon Chronicles!While the New York Times bestselling Last Dragon Chronicles has come to a close, husband and wife Chris and Jay d'Lacey have collaborated on RAIN & FIRE, a fabulous companion to the series. Fans will be able to explore d'Lacey's fiery world one last time as they uncover secrets behind all seven books and gain insight into the characters they thought they already knew. Revealing the inspiration behind the dragons and full of fun facts, little-known tidbits, informative glossaries, and never-before-seen images, RAIN & FIRE is sure to be a crowd-pleaser -- the perfect treat for devoted fans of the series who are hungry for more!And don't miss Chris d'Lacey's addition to his rich dragon mythology in his next series, The Erth Dragons!
Download or read book Earth Wind Fire and Rain written by Judy Dodge Cummings and published by Nomad Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We might think humans have control over our environment, but Mother Nature has proven us wrong again and again. Earth, Wind, Fire, and Rain: Real Tales of Temperamental Elements tells the story of five of America’s deadliest natural disasters that were made worse by human error, ignorance, and greed. For example, in the fall of 1871, loggers and farmers chopped trees and burned brush in the vast forest around Peshtigo, Wisconsin. Fire was a tool they believed they could control. But on October 8, 1 million acres burned in the deadliest fire in American history. Later that century, meteorologists mistakenly predicted clearing skies for New York City on March 10, 1888. Then, two devilish storm fronts collided in what was called the Great White Hurricane. The blizzard brought New Yorkers to their knees and unprepared city leaders were powerless to help. Powerless too were the residents of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on May 31, 1889. A private club of wealthy businessmen owned a dam upriver from Johnstown. The club modified the dam to improve recreation on their private lake, but these changes weakened the structure. When heavy rains fell, the dam burst, flooding Johnstown with 20 million tons of water. Residents of San Francisco had no warning when a massive earthquake struck on April 18, 1906. It toppled buildings, ruptured gas mines and ignited fires. Years of political corruption had underfunded the fire department, leaving it without the equipment or training to quench the inferno, and San Francisco burned. In the 1920s, farmers transformed the dry, windy southern Plains by digging up the buffalo grass and planting millions of acres of wheat. But nature fought back by turning this breadbasket into a Dust Bowl. On April 14, 1935, Black Sunday, a 200-mile cloud of dirt buried fields, livestock, and people. Peoples’ choices did not cause these disasters, but they did give the forces of nature an extra nudge. However, tragedy sparked reforms in weather forecasting, soil and forest management, and emergency preparation. But remember—no one can control nature. So be prepared to get out of the way when disaster strikes. This is the tenth book in a series called Mystery & Mayhem, which features true tales that whet kids’ appetites for history by engaging them in genres with proven track records—mystery and adventure. History is made of near misses, unexplained disappearances, unsolved mysteries, and bizarre events that are almost too weird to be true—almost! The Mystery and Mayhem series delves into these tidbits of history to provide kids with a jumping off point into a lifelong habit of appreciating history. The five true tales told within Earth, Wind, Fire, and Rain are paired with maps, photographs, and timelines that lend authenticity and narrative texture to the stories. A glossary and resources page provide the opportunity to practice using essential academic tools. These nonfiction narratives use clear, concise language with compelling plots that both avid and reluctant readers will be drawn to.
Download or read book Fire Rain written by Jerome Greer Chandler and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fire and Rain written by David Browne and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-07-24 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set against a backdrop of world-changing historical and political events, Fire and Rain tells the extraordinary story of one pivotal year in the lives and music of four legendary artists, and reveals how these artists and their songs both shaped and reflected their times. Drawing on interviews, rare recordings, and newly discovered documents, acclaimed journalist David Browne “allows us to see—and to hear—the elusive moment when the '60s became the '70s in a completely fresh way” (Mark Harris, author of Pictures at a Revolution).
Download or read book Through Fire and Rain written by MaryAnn Anselmo and published by Writer's Lifeline. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *100% of the profits of Through Fire and Rain go to www.TheBungalow.org* In 2012, MaryAnn Anselmo was at the height of her career, headlining at Chico's House of Jazz-a premiere venue in New Jersey for jazz singers. It was a sold-out show. The love of her life and husband, Joe, was by her side when she brought the house down. Her dreams were becoming a reality. Two days later she lost everything including the will to live when their son Dustin died unexpectedly. A month later, MaryAnn and her father, Artie, suffered a devastating car accident. Dad was going to be okay, but she shattered dozens of bones, and had a string of strokes that resulted in a coma. This ultimately left her without the use of her left vocal cord. With Joe's love and constant support, she worked hard to recover, even starting from scratch with her old vocal coach. MaryAnn was determined to sing again. Then in mid-November of 2013, she was given eighteen months to live, diagnosed with a high-grade glioblastoma-a later stage brain tumor. How is this possible? Why me? Why us? Through Fire and Rain is a story of deep loss and salvation found through love, prayer, and faith in the future of medicine. "Not my girl. Cancer will not win." Joe uttered as he watched his wife sleep. They had decided to stop chemotherapy; it was going to kill her faster than the tumor. They had made it through the fire, he thought. They had survived so much. This is just a little rain.... And he got to work, studying everything, and calling doctors worldwide to learn more about genomic sequencing, their last hope.
Download or read book Raining Fire written by Lynn A. Coleman and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Friends and servants had warned Pam that the omens were against her family leaving Virginia to cross the Cumberland Gap--but the Danners went ahead with their plans. Now her parents and her only brother are dead, and Pam is stranded on the Wilderness Road with only a man dressed in animal skins to protect her. Terrified that Mac, as he identifies himself, might mistreat her, Pam lets him believe that she is recently widowed in hopes that he will treat her with greater respect. But Mac is not her only concern. Accidental shootings, attacks by bandits, and treacherous weather conditions all conspire to make Pam fear the power of nature and omens even more. How can Pam release her fears and learn to trust God completely? And will the strange new attraction she feels toward Mac lead her to a place of love--or will a mysterious tragedy from his past destroy the only friendship she has left?
Download or read book The Big Burn written by Timothy Egan and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2009-10-19 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award–winner Timothy Egan turns his historian's eye to the largest-ever forest fire in America and offers an epic, cautionary tale for our time. On the afternoon of August 20, 1910, a battering ram of wind moved through the drought-stricken national forests of Washington, Idaho, and Montana, whipping the hundreds of small blazes burning across the forest floor into a roaring inferno that jumped from treetop to ridge as it raged, destroying towns and timber in the blink of an eye. Forest rangers had assembled nearly ten thousand men to fight the fires, but no living person had seen anything like those flames, and neither the rangers nor anyone else knew how to subdue them. Egan recreates the struggles of the overmatched rangers against the implacable fire with unstoppable dramatic force, and the larger story of outsized president Teddy Roosevelt and his chief forester, Gifford Pinchot, that follows is equally resonant. Pioneering the notion of conservation, Roosevelt and Pinchot did nothing less than create the idea of public land as our national treasure, owned by every citizen. Even as TR's national forests were smoldering they were saved: The heroism shown by his rangers turned public opinion permanently in favor of the forests, though it changed the mission of the forest service in ways we can still witness today. This e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.
Download or read book Fire and Rain written by Stephen LaDochy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shows how California’s weather and climate have drastically changed and what we can expect in the near future. California’s weather and climate are becoming as common a topic in the media as inflation and wars. It comes into our lives during heat waves when we require more cooling and during droughts when we are asked to limit our use of water. We may not be able to visit state and national parks when fires rage nearby. Indeed, California does have weather. LaDochy and Witiw dispel the erroneous myths about the state’s climate in a colorful, entertaining way. California does have seasons. It does rain in Southern California. It is not always sunny and mild throughout the year. And not all El Niños bring abundant rainfall every time throughout the state. These and other myths are discussed and dismissed with the latest science and remarkable vignettes. The authors describe the diversity of the state’s physical environment, both natural and man-made and how climate change is currently altering this diverse environment. Climate change, in the past, present and future, continues to influence this most populous state. Yes, California does have weather.
Download or read book Fire Cider Rain written by Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin and published by Coach House Books. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry that navigates the science of cold waterways to consider the warmth of the poet’s Chinese-Mauritian family ties Fire Cider Rain is about the limits to which shared cultural and geographic histories can hold a family together. It follows the lives of three Chinese-Mauritian women on the course of dispersing, settling, and rooting over northern landscapes, and the brittle family bonds that tie them to one another and to their home country. Told from the perspective of the youngest of the three women, the book follows the events leading up to and following the death of her grandmother, an ex-lighthouse keeper and matriarch whose fractured relationship with her own daughter haunts the narrator’s life in soft, painful aftershocks. As she navigates the cold cities and waterways of Southern Ontario, our narrator struggles with conflicting desires to run toward and flee from her island identity, which grows ever distant, ever more difficult to find her way back to. At its core, Fire Cider Rain is a book about parent-child relationships as vessels for cultural identity, and the ways in which expressions of love and non-love within those relationships can rupture sense of place, self, and at times, a collective diaspora. Throughout the book, Ng Cheng Hin explores the geopolitics of island nations, the dilution of family histories over time, and the experience of water as a medium for the cyclical movement of island bodies, stories, and cultures. The Mauritian landscape and waterways of southern Ontario recur through the book as convergence points for its many themes. "In this stunning debut, Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin weaves wondrous verse across geological spaces that extend from Mauritius to Canada. In this poetry, the Indian Ocean converses with northern landscapes to give voice to the (un)settling of diasporic women in search of rootedness. Water becomes a medium, a metaphor, a rhythm, a motif, and a metamorphosing figure through which memory, loss and mourning become bodies. Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin's sweeping poetry is infused with dexterous and lavish verse that makes the reader want to live within the nuances of each line. Fire Cider Rain is a dazzling debut!" – Kama La Mackarel, author of ZOM-FAM “Mauritian waters of memory migrate through ‘imperial decay’ and ‘calcic dust’ to the cold northern continent where Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s lustrous poetic telemetry manifests a lexical biogeography of uprootedness—her lyrical ‘I’ the connecting thread between past and future, between mother and moth, grandmother and cyclone, selia lover and terra nullius. Fire Cider Rain erupts as ebb and swell, distilling belonging and meaning in postcolonial drift, filling absence with terraqueous inquiry and salvaged wake.” – Jeffrey Yang, author of Line and Light "In reading Rhiannon Ng Cheng Hin’s poetry, I became immersed within a deep sense memory of why I came to love poetry in the first place. Her attunement to language and cadence vibrates, or as she writes 'love – or recognition, catches in my throat and stings.' Hers is a voice that can make nerve endings sing and one that speaks with such artful earnestness to the difficulties there are in a personal history. Ng Cheng Hin’s poetry is cousin to the spider's web, which belies a kind of vulnerability through its delicate beauty, yet each of its strands contains an exceptional tensile strength." – Liz Howard, author of Letters in a Bruised Cosmos
Download or read book Fire and Rain written by Diane Chamberlain and published by Diane Chamberlain. This book was released on 2011-02-08 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Into the drought-weary California town of Valle Rosa comes a stranger who promises he can make it rain. All he asks for is a place to stay and complete privacy. But he is too charismatic to maintain a low profile . . . and the adobe cottage he's given to live in is owned by an investigative TV reporter struggling to revive her career. Fire and Rain is a love story filled with mystery and heart.
Download or read book Rain of Fire written by Linda and published by Medallion Media Group. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple award–winning author Michelle Perry brings you Paint It Black, The Three Motives for Murder, In Enemy Hands, and Cain and Abel. Paint It Black DEA agent Necie Bramhall thinks she knows a thing or two about revenge. She’s devoted to bringing down the drug lord father who abandoned her. When she finally captures him, she thinks she’ll be able to put her painful past behind her. What she doesn’t realize is that she’s created a brand-new enemy. A deadly enemy: her half-sister Maria Barnes, who vows to destroy Necie, her marriage, and her family. Necie’s father, the only one who can save her, is behind bars, where Necie herself put him. The Three Motives for Murder A car crash on graduation night leaves three Coalmont, Tennessee, teenagers dead and another three fighting for their lives. Four years later, no one in the small town feels the aftershocks more than Natasha Hawthorne, the young driver. When a murderer targets the survivors, newly appointed police chief Brady Simms finds himself standing squarely between the killer and his next victim, the woman who broke his heart four years ago. Brady’s only hope of saving the intended victims is to get into the mind of a sociopath. What he finds will change their lives forever. In Enemy Hands Reclusive businessman Gary Vandergriff offers Dante Giovanni a cool half million to bring home his estranged daughter, Nadia. His first meeting with her is stunning. He foils an attempt on her life and falls immediately under her spell. It’s not going to be hard to keep her safe from the Mexican drug lord infuriated by her stepfather’s expanding meth operation. He’ll take her out of harm’s way, no problem, get her back to her father, and enjoy the ride along the way. Everything is great. Until he delivers her into enemy hands. Cain and Abel In Los Angeles an unexpected pregnancy sparks a daring plan of escape for a brutally battered wife. Jessica Ramsey fakes her death and flees to Tennessee. Five years later, a chance encounter has destroyed Jessica’s carefully cultivated anonymity. She thought at first Cole had found her, but it was his twin, Alex, who unwittingly unmasked her. Now she must trust him to save her from Cole’s wrath. But the twins are bound by blood. Will it prove stronger than the fragile relationship growing between Alex and Jessica? Or will a third time be a deadly charm?
Download or read book Rain of Fire written by Human Rights Watch (Organization) and published by Human Rights Watch. This book was released on 2009 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report provides witness accounts of the devastating effects that white phosphorus munitions had on civilians and civilian property in Gaza. Human Rights Watch researchers in Gaza immediately after hostilities ended found spent shells, canister liners, and dozens of burnt felt wedges containing white phosphorus on city streets, apartment roofs, residential courtyards, and at a United Nations school. The report also presents ballistics evidence, photographs, and satellite imagery, as well as documents from the Israeli military and government.
Download or read book Fire and Rain written by Dauna Grey and published by Gray Dragon Books. This book was released on 2024-06-13 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world is on fire. During the Great Warming, billions of the Earth’s beings died from the heat, starvation, disease and desperation. This devastation peaked when aliens seeded the scorched soil with magic. As it seeped towards the Earth’s core, it changed everything. Rain Dare is born on an island in the Pacific fifty-eight years later. 99% human and 1% alien Rain is the alien’s parting gift. She is designed to help mankind transition from a technologically based world to a magical one. Unfortunately, her birth came later than anticipated. Now, at seventeen, she must leave her island home to learn all she can about Earth’s changed landscape and inhabitants. Suspicious shapeshifters. Inexperienced mages. Magically created monsters. Danger lurks all around in this hostile world. Rain hopes to teach others how to use their magic, yet with each passing day, she fears she’s already too late. Will she be dismissed and ignored as too young to know anything valuable? Will she be hunted and destroyed as just another threat in the deadly landscape? Or will her alien nature make her the hope the world needs?
Download or read book Water Fire Food Treat Water Build a Fire in the Rain Find Food in the Wild A True Book Survival Skills written by Diane Vukovic and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn basic survival skills and connect with nature! Knowing how to find safe drinking water, how to build a fire, and which foods are safe to eat — as well as which are not — are skills that every outdoor adventurer needs. Did you know that you can find edible plants right in your own backyard? Or that certain insects are super nutritious? Learn all this and more in Food, Water, and Fire—a book that gives kids the confidence they need to get outside and explore. ABOUT THE SERIES: Learning basic survival skills will give every kid the confidence — and the know-how — to handle emergencies and extreme situations. It also helps them feel comfortable and secure when they’re connecting with the outdoors while hiking, backpacking, or simply exploring the woods. The books in the Survival Skills series teach kids how to build a shelter from found materials, how to navigate (even without a compass), how to treat injuries in case of emergency, and so much more. These essential skills will give them the tools to take care of themselves in any situation.
