Download or read book Rats in a Sleeping Bag written by P J Hoge and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-07-30 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire group of friends in North Dakota were looking forward to the promised visit of their Caymanian friends. Schroeders had promised the teenaged boys, who were instrumental in saving their lives on the island, that they would have a great trail ride and campout on the prairies with cowboys and Indians. The solo pilot, Crandall, who lived on the Caymans, had befriended the Schroeders and had invited some of his own guests to the campout. No one knew, including the staff he invited, the reason for the invitation, but they thought it would be fun. On the way to the Dakotas, the plane was also stopping in New Orleans to pick up Father Landers twin brother and his kids. The two men had been separated as babies and were now going to become acquainted. They were all looking forward to a fun adventure.
Download or read book Rat written by Fernanda Eberstadt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen-year-old Celia Bonnet, nicknamed “Rat,” lives a peaceful life with her mother, Vanessa, a free-spirited local beauty, and Morgan, the nine-year-old orphan they have taken in. Their farmhouse compound, nestled just north of the Spanish Catalan border, is surrounded by artichoke fields and glittering ocean, cliffs where they can spy down on the rich tourists below. But when Vanessa falls for a dangerous new boyfriend, Rat must leave this place she loves. Together with Morgan, Rat sets out for London to find the father she has never met and the man who might finally explain to Rat where she belongs. An enthralling novel with a luminous sense of place, Rat is the story of a bold, rousing heroine for our times.
Download or read book Nineteen Jumps and a Prayer written by Travis Monday and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the summer of 1970, 18-year-old Travis Monday joined the U.S. Army and volunteered for Airborne School and for Vietnam. Thirty-five years later he wrote his own story -- Nineteen Jumps and a Prayer. His adventures as an Army paratrooper and as a Vietnam veteran also serve as a platform for telling the stories of others -- including other war veterans. And they enable him to explain how he overcame Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) through faith in God.
Download or read book Kenny Salwey s Tales of a River Rat written by Kenny Salwey and published by . This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kenny Salwey, the legendary Last River Rat and famed storyteller, presents a new collection of ""rat tales,"" sure to delight, inform, and entertain. A modern-day American hermit who has lived most of his life in the Mississippi river bottoms, Kenny knows the river ecosystem with an intimacy unavailable to most. Here, he shares his love of, and knowledge about, the mighty river. Read through the pages of "Kenny Salwey’s Tales of a River Rat," and you’ll gain a new perspective on what it means to live with the rhythms of nature. Known as the Woodsman of the Mississippi Backwaters—he’s a hunter, trapper, outdoor guide, and self-sufficient woodsman—Kenny Salwey is said to have cut his milk teeth on a canoe paddle and seasoned it with Mississippi mud. He’s a Mississippi River guide for hunting, fishing, and nature watching; a storyteller; an instructor on environmental education; and a keynote speaker.
Download or read book Rats Proof of Continuity of Life written by Dennis A. Hooker and published by dennis hooker. This book was released on with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Counselors, Pastors, Students - It is said, "Out of the mouths of babes.." suggesting that Truth is sometimes smuggled into our consciousness from strange and wonderful places. "Rats?" is the Year 2009 of actual/UN-edited e-mails between Dennis in Ohio and Bob in Florida. This exchange suggests that life- changing struggles often begin with nightly visits. You MAY NOT doubt now - Life Goes On!
Download or read book Boys Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1936-10 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boys' Life is the official youth magazine for the Boy Scouts of America. Published since 1911, it contains a proven mix of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting.
Download or read book Young Female Traveling Alone written by Anne-Marie M. Pop and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2005-09 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Young Female, Traveling Alone tells the story of a successful western female in her late twenties, who is on the verge of serious depression and leaves her comfort zone behind, embarking on a backpacking journey throughout Southeast Asia and India. On her journey, Anna discovers herself in different towns, beaches and mountains. She experiments with spirituality, drugs and rave parties. Following the loss of a close friend and the failure of a romantic relationship, in the underground rave scene of Goa, Anna roams around aloof, from one Indian town to another. Ultimately, she discovers that conversations with the locals bring insight to the search for her own identity in the world. In the end, she learns that life is a long hard lesson, but a great gift worth living, despite the bumps along the way.
Download or read book Beyond the Sky and the Earth written by Jamie Zeppa and published by Doubleday Canada. This book was released on 2011-01-28 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of Iron and Silk and Touch the Dragon, Jamie Zeppa’s memoir of her years in Bhutan is the story of a young woman’s self-discovery in a foreign land. It is also the exciting début of a new voice in travel writing. When she left for the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan in 1988, Zeppa was committing herself to two years of teaching and a daunting new experience. A week on a Caribbean beach had been her only previous trip outside Canada; Bhutan was on the other side of the world, one of the most isolated countries in the world known as the last Shangri-La, where little had changed in centuries and visits by foreigners were restricted. Clinging to her bags full of chocolate, hair conditioner and Immodium, she began the biggest challenge of her life, with no idea she would fall in love with the country and with a Bhutanese man, end up spending nine years in Bhutan, and begin a literary career with her account of this transformative journey. At her first posting in a remote village of eastern Bhutan, she is plunged into an overwhelmingly different culture with squalid Third World conditions and an impossible language. Her house has rats and fleas and she refuses to eat the local food, fearing the rampant deadly infections her overly protective grandfather warned her about. Gradually, however, her fear vanishes. She adjusts, begins to laugh, and is captivated by the pristine mountain scenery and the kind students in her grade 2 class. She also begins to discover for herself the spiritual serenity of Buddhism. A transfer to the government college of Sherubtse, where the housing conditions are comparatively luxurious and the students closer to her own age, gives her a deeper awareness of Bhutan’s challenges: the lack of personal privacy, the pressure to conform, and the political tensions. However, her connection to Bhutan intensifies when she falls in love with a student, Tshewang, and finds herself pregnant. After a brief sojourn in Canada to give birth to her son, Pema Dorji, she marries Tshewang and makes Bhutan her home for another four years. Zeppa’s personal essay about her culture shock on arriving in Bhutan won the 1996 CBC/Saturday Night literary competition and appeared in the magazine. She flew home to accept the prize, where people encouraged her to pursue her writing. Her letters from Bhutan also featured on CBC’s Morningside. The book that grew out of this has been published in Canada and the United States to ecstatic reviews, followed by British, German, Dutch, Italian and Spanish editions. Although cultural differences finally separated Jamie and Tshewang in 1997 while she was writing the book and she returned to Canada, she will always feel at home in Bhutan. Zeppa shares her compelling insights into this land and culture, but Beyond the Sky and the Earth is more than a travel book. With rich, spellbinding prose and bright humour, it describes a personal journey in which Zeppa acquires a deeper understanding of what it means to leave one’s home behind, and undergoes a spiritual transformation.
Download or read book They Called Us River Rats written by Macon Fry and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2021-05-04 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River. This community exists in the place between the normal high and low water line of the Mississippi River, a zone known in Louisiana as the batture. For the better part of two centuries, batture dwellers such as Macon Fry have raised shantyboats on stilts, built water-adapted homes, foraged, fished, and survived using the skills a river teaches. Until now the stories of this way of life have existed only in the memories of those who have lived here. Beginning in 2000, Fry set about recording the stories of all the old batture dwellers he could find: maritime workers, willow furniture makers, fishermen, artists, and river shrimpers. Along the way, Fry uncovered fascinating tales of fortune tellers, faith healers, and wild bird trappers who defiantly lived on the river. They Called Us River Rats also explores the troubled relationship between people inside the levees, the often-reviled batture folks, and the river itself. It traces the struggle between batture folks and city authorities, the commercial interests that claimed the river, and Louisiana’s most powerful politicians. These conflicts have ended in legal battles, displacement, incarceration, and even lynching. Today Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection. This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.
Download or read book Best of Apex Magazine written by Jason Sizemore and published by Apex Publications. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology collects some of the best original short fiction published in Apex Magazine over the past six years. The stories include our numerous award-nominated works, our readers' Story of the Year selections, and personal favorites chosen by Apex Magazine editor-in-chief Jason Sizemore and managing editor Lesley Conner. TABLE OF CONTENTS Jackalope Wives by Ursula Vernon Going Endo by Rich Larson Candy Girl by Chikodili Emelumadu If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love by Rachel Swirsky Advertising at the End of the World Keffy R.M. Kehrli The Performance Artist by Lettie Prell A Matter of Shapespace by Brian Trent Falling Leaves by Liz Argall Blood from Stone by Alethea Kontis Sexagesimal by Katharine E.K. Duckett Keep Talking by Marie Vibbert Remembery Day by Sarah Pinsker Blood on Beacon Hill by Russell Nichols The Green Book by Amal El-Mohtar L’esprit de L’escalier by Peter M. Ball Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) by Ian Tregillis Build a Dolly by Ken Liu Multo by Samuel Marzioli Armless Maidens of the American West by Genevieve Valentine Pocosin by Ursula Vernon She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow by Sam Fleming Also includes a foreword by Jason Sizemore and afterword by Lesley Conner.
Download or read book Unfortunate Sons written by Joe Tyson Sr. and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unfortunate Sons is a compelling story It will draw you into Joe Tyson's world as a young Marine Tanker, full of fun and enthusiasm. You will share the daily routines of patrols and combat situations as if you were right there with him. You will learn about the deadly toll the war had over the 3rd platoon as they participated with line infantry for seventeen straight months. Now combat veterans, they have become bitter and angry over the effects of the war. Never knowing when they were going home had a deep, profound effect on these men, leaving them to believe they had been forgotten by their superiors. So mount up and feel and see with your mind's eye what it was like to be a Marine Tanker in the Vietnam War.
Download or read book Embracing the Dragon written by Polly Greeks and published by Awa Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vivid recollection follows one woman's remarkable journey walking the Great Wall of China. Polly Greels walked further than any European woman to date--over jagged mountain passes, into villages which had never seen a European woman, and through a blizzard that nearly claimed her life.
Download or read book Filthy Rat written by Simon Illingworth and published by Fontaine Press Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Melbourne's gangland war gathered momentum during the late 1990s, another battle was being fought within the police force by one brave cop. Young detective sergeant Simon Illingworth had joined the force to serve the public and make a difference. His world was forever shattered when he confronted police corruption head-on. Watching Melbourne's toughest killers working alongside his own colleagues made him sick to the guts. Simon soon discovered the price for standing up against them was death threats and isolation. A spate of events finally sent him to the point of no return. He was brutally bashed - not by crooks but other policemen from an entrenched corrupt brotherhood. A witness preparing to give court evidence against police was then found dead in an execution-style murder. And an underworld crim who was given Simon Illingworth's address was caught in possession of eight guns, night vision goggles and a silencer. Fearing for his life, in May 2004 this brave copper went public about the crisis facing the police force, in an episode of ABC Television's Australian Story that stopped the nation. Filthy Rat is a brutally honest and action-packed account of the fight against Melbourne's gangland crooks and the corrupt cops who were in their pockets. Simon Illingworth's decision to speak out would change the face of the Australian justice system forever.
Download or read book Year of the Rat written by Michael La Ronn and published by Author Level Up LLC. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final chapter in the imagination-defying urban fantasy series by bestselling, award-winning author Michael La Ronn! Cheesy jokes. Dates. A bachelor pad of his own. After saving the world (twice), Cyrus Grant deserves to enjoy the single life and relax…until a demon possesses his sister. The cure: a ruthless nightclub owner who peddles dangerous magic. He offers anything for a price. And he doesn’t mean dollars. It takes a rat to fight a rat… Year of the Rat is the page-turning final book in the Chicago Rat Shifter series that explores what happens when we face our inner demons. Scroll up and click the buy button today! V2.0
Download or read book The Final Crucible written by Lee Ballenger and published by Potomac Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Close-quarters combat during the Korean War
Download or read book The Brass Age written by Slobodan Šnajder and published by Mountain Leopard Press. This book was released on 2024-05-02 with total page 577 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Like Olga Tokarczuk, Šnajder has written a novel about a Europe that has lost its diversity and has been destroyed by fascism, communism and, in recent times, nationalism ... a modern epic' Le Monde 'A masterpiece' La Repubblica The very next day processions of young men, some still children, began to move around the little town of Nuštar, with drums providing a steady rhythm ... These young men came from German families, Germans living outside the Reich, Volksdeutsche. Some stayed in their houses, some were shut up in the storeroom by their mothers, but as time went on more and more of them followed the drumming ... 1769. A hungry year in Germany. Kempf the ancestor departs his homeland with his compatriots in search of a brighter future. Years pass and generations of Germans make Slavonia their home. But in 1940, when Europe is at war once more, this minority, the Volksdeutsch, are called to fight for the Reich, for a land now foreign to them. Among their ranks is Georg Kempf, the narrator's father. Forcibly conscripted into the Waffen SS, he deserts, aware of the danger that this involves. At the end of the war, he falls in love with a committed partisan called Vera despite the unimaginable: if they had met earlier, each one would have had to kill the other. The Brass Age, Slobodan Šnajder's masterpiece, is both a family saga and a powerful historical novel about the destiny of those shackled by history, and the generations doomed to inherit the contradictory fates of their forebears. Šnajder looks to his own biography to capture two hundred years of conflict and dividing ideology. In the process, he reconstructs a world that fell apart.
Download or read book Have Pots Will Travel written by Anna Källström and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2014-07-18 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One day years ago, I made a decision to jump head first into an unknown and very different way of life. And there have been no regrets, no looking back. Since that one day, I have been living my dream. The stories you are about to read here are about my life “out there” in that raw Canadian wilderness. During the first eight to nine years of my career I worked in hunting camps. I rode horses, wrestled with wranglers and guides and cooked up some mean moose ribs. Later, I worked in mining exploration camps where I traded the horses for helicopters and guides for drillers.
