Download or read book Tears in the Rubble written by Britni Hill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layla Swanson is terrified of getting stuck in her small town, Hollow Oaks. So, she's made a plan. Graduate her tiny high school, go to college away from home, and get her dream job. She's studied hard and devoted her high school career to reaching her goal. Graduation is just around the corner, and Layla is faced with the only person who could ever throw a wrench in her plan, Taylor Scott. He's her childhood best friend and despite the years since they've been close he knows her better than anyone else. A chance meeting leads them down a road Layla never imagined. Now, Layla has to choose between her longtime plan to get away from Hollow Oaks and the one who's captured her heart.

Download or read book Rubble written by Jeff Byles and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the straight boulevards that smashed their way through rambling old Paris to create the city we know today to the televised implosion of Las Vegas casinos to make room for America’s ever grander desert of dreams, demolition has long played an ambiguous role in our lives. In lively, colorful prose, Rubble rides the wrecking ball through key episodes in the world of demolition. Stretching over more than five hundred years of razing and toppling, this story looks back to London’s Great Fire of 1666, where self-deputized wreckers artfully blew houses apart with barrels of gunpowder to halt the furious blaze, and spotlights the advent of dynamite—courtesy of demolition’s patron saint, Alfred Nobel—that would later fuel epochal feats of unbuilding such as the implosion of the infamous Pruitt-Igoe housing complex in St. Louis. Rubble also delves beyond these bravura blasts to survey the world-jarring invention of the wrecking ball; the oddly stirring ruin of New York’s old Pennsylvania Station, that potent symbol of the wrecker run amok; and the ever busy bulldozers in places as diverse as Detroit, Berlin, and the British countryside. Rich with stories of demolition’s quirky impresarios—including Mark Loizeaux, the world-famous engineer of destruction who brought Seattle’s Kingdome to the ground in mere seconds—this account makes first-hand forays to implosion sites and digs extensively into wrecking’s little-known historical record. Rubble is also an exploration of what happens when buildings fall, when monuments topple into memory, and when “destructive creativity” tears down to build again. It unearths the world of demolition for the first time and, along the way, throws a penetrating light on the role that destruction must play in our lives as a necessary prelude to renewal. Told with arresting detail and energy, this tale goes to the heart of the scientific, social, economic, and personal meaning of how we unbuild our world. Rubble is the first-ever biography of the wrecking trade, a riveting, character-filled narrative of how the black art of demolition grew to become a multibillion-dollar business, an extreme spectator sport, and a touchstone for what we value, what we disdain, who we were, and what we wish to become.

Download or read book Raiephin s Tear written by Steven Van Metteren and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2009-04 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Past the sparkling blue sea and inside the solid walls of the white marble city of Darenjar, an unseen venom spreads, bringing all under the control of a dark power. But still the people speak of the wars of a thousand years ago, of the days before the Lost God was banished, of the days when dragons flew the skies, of the Prophecies. The young thief Berran knew nothing much of lost gods or prophecies when he unintentionally stole Raiephin's Tear, a creation of the Dark God that has all the magic of the world imbued in its core. It is a daring act that attracts the eyes of those with evil intent. The theft sparks off a chain reaction of events with Berran in the middle. The authorities have never been fond of him, but now someone very high up wants him dead. Since stealing the Tear, he finds he has an inexplicable command over the highest levels of magic. His mystery-shrouded past isn't coughing up any answers, but it is doing a good job creating more questions. Enduring pain and hardship, Berran realizes that friendship is only one part of the key to unlocking the riddles of his life. He knows he's not a brave hero like those in the stories of old. However, at times fear proves to be a good thing as Berran is swept up in the inextricable grasp of a powerful prophecy, trying to resurrect the Lost God and restore the magic that is slipping away from the world.

Download or read book From the Rubble written by Britni Hill and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-12-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Rubble is a Hollow Oaks novella and the conclusion to Tears in the Rubble. This edition includes the bonus short story, Give Me Just One Night. Loving someone unconditionally is never easy and forgiveness can be even harder. After being apart for a while Taylor and Layla were reunited only to have their lifelong bond tested by Layla's secret. They bury their feelings for one another, good and bad, just to get by day to day. They're forced together, but Taylor struggles to forgive Layla. As he falls into the role he didn't see coming he wonders if holding onto his anger and hurt is the best thing to do. Layla's guilt overwhelms her as she fights herself and her feelings for Taylor. She doesn't believe she deserves another chance. She's already had too many. Mending a broken relationship won't be easy. Taylor's determination to make Layla his for the rest of their lives will test her resolve.

Download or read book Breathe Restlessness Into Me written by Ted Loder and published by Augsburg Fortress Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-07 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ted Loder continues to inspire readers with his powerful prayers, sermons, and reflections. This compilation includes Guerrillas of Grace, Wrestling the Light, The Haunt of Grace, and Tracks in the Straw. Loder's words speak to the human experience, drawing out the beauty and struggle as we respond to the grace of God.

Download or read book Angel in the Rubble written by Genelle Guzman-McMillan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-02 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the last survivor pulled from the 9/11 Ground Zero debris after 27 hours and her journey from desperation to a miraculous salvation.

Download or read book Incommunicado written by Eric Sutherland and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2007-09-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Bitter Tears written by Marion Kummerow and published by Marion Kummerow. This book was released on 2021-03-05 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s Polish. He’s German. Enemies even after the war. A Wehrmacht deserter of conscience, hiding out on a farm in Poland. The woman who loves him. Richard thought he’d be safe once the war was over… … and he was wrong. Staying with her threatens both of their lives. Katrina longed for peace. But when it finally arrives, nothing changes. Because loving the wrong man still is a crime. To be together they must embark on a life-threatening flight across two countries with no one to turn to for help. This page-turning adventure by an USA Today Bestselling Author will immerse you into the chaos ravaging Europe in the aftermath of WW2 with great attention to historical detail. Bitter Tears is book 8 in the War Girl series but can be read as stand-alone. Characters from previous books make an appearance in later books of the series. Topics: Berlin, World War Two, WWII, German Literature, Historical Fiction, Resistance, European Literature, Heartbreaking Story of Love and Redemption, Jewish and Holocaust History, Concentration Camps, Espionage, Nazi Party, Gestapo, Holocaust, Forbidden love, runaway love story, romantic tale, us against the world Perfect for fans of Ann Bennett, Lucinda Riley, Dinah Jefferies, Victoria Hislop, Marius Gabriel, Tracy Chevalier, Fiona Valpy, Deborah Swift, Jenny Ashcroft, Petra Durst-Benning, Nicola Cornick, Janet MacLeod Trotter, Jean Grainger, Clare Flynn, Kate Furnivall, Kristin Hannah. Sharon Maas, Anna Jacobs, Helen Carey, Catherine Hokin, Sarah Lark, Tania Crosse, Rhys Bowen, Angela Petch, Hazel Gaynor, Roberta Kagan, Anna Stuart, Kate Hewitt, Ellie Midwood, Chrystyna Lucyk-Berger, Eoin Dempsey, Suzanne Goldring

Download or read book Tears for Tarshiha written by Olfat Mahmoud and published by Wild Dingo Press. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Palestinian refugee’s inspiring tale of her lifelong fight to return home. Olfat Mahmoud is a Palestinian refugee – a descendant of the Christian and Muslim people who fled Palestine in the period leading up to and after the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. She is an accomplished woman in her own right: the director of an international NGO, an internationally recognised peace activist, a registered nurse and, most recently, the recipient of a doctorate. Born in a refugee camp in Lebanon more than 60 years ago, Olfat’s determination to help her people in their fight to return to their homeland led to a nursing career that has placed her at the front line of atrocious massacres and wars in the Middle East. Tears for Tarshiha follows Olfat’s career amid the death and destruction of Lebanon’s many conflicts, and chronicles the Palestinian people’s remarkable capacity for love and bravery in the most extreme conditions. Olfat’s extraordinary story is emblematic of the Palestinian plight, illustrating their continued survival and determination that has become an inconvenience to the international community. These are the descendants of those Palestinians who were forced from their homeland at gunpoint by the Israeli military in 1948 in what is known as the Nakba – or Catastrophe. In 1949, David Ben-Gurion, one of the founders and the first prime minister of Israel, stated that ‘we must do everything to ensure [the Palestinians] never do return...the old will die and the young will forget’. Despite Olfat’s parents and grandparents never seeing Tarshiha again, this book is part of Olfat’s ongoing campaign to keep her people’s predicament in the public consciousness.

Download or read book The Progressive written by William Theodore Evjue and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 978 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 2, no. 49 called "Memorial edition" (Belle Case La Follette)

Download or read book The Viennese Students of Civilization written by Erwin Dekker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-19 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fresh look at Austrian economists and the dynamic intellectual and political context in which they lived and worked.

Download or read book Tears in the Fabric of the Universe Science Fiction Thriller Anthology written by Patrick Astre and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A petty crook discovers he can stop time. A Vietnam Vet searching for redemption finds ancient evil. Nazi SS murders finally meet their match. A degenerate gambler thinks he's found God, and when an NYPD detective investigates the murder of a priest, all Hell breaks loose. But nothing is as it seems when you are face-to-face with a tear in the fabric of the universe. Includes: Gone Fishin' Easy Death on a Sunday Morning Tears in the Fabric of the Universe Colored Town The Romanichells A Haunting in Shoreham (based on true events) Fate Layers Instincts Novels by Patrick Astre... THE REMNANTS OF WAR, in series order The Last Operation The Doppelganger Protocol The Devil's Eye Twilight of Demons THE APOCALYPSE SERIES, in order The Boomer Protocols Cold Fusion Sylvans The Devil's Caldera

Download or read book The Topography of Tears written by and published by Bellevue Literary Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “When you first view Rose-Lynn Fisher’s photographs, you might think you’re looking down at the world from an airplane, at dunes, skyscrapers or shorelines. In fact, you’re looking at her tears. . . . [There’s] poetry in the idea that our emotional terrain bears visual resemblance to the physical world; that our tears can look like the vistas we see out an airplane window. Fisher’s images are the only remaining trace of these places, which exist during a moment of intense feeling—and then vanish.” —NPR “[A] delicate, intimate book. . . . In The Topography of Tears photographer Rose-Lynn Fisher shows us a place where language strains to express grief, longing, pride, frustration, joy, the confrontation with something beautiful, the confrontation with an onion.” —Boston Globe Does a tear shed while chopping onions look different from a tear of happiness? In this powerful collection of images, an award-winning photographer trains her optical microscope and camera on her own tears and those of men, women, and children, released in moments of grief, pain, gratitude, and joy, and captured upon glass slides. These duotone photographs reveal the beauty of recurring patterns in nature and present evocative, crystalline imagery for contemplation. Underscored by poetic captions, they translate the mysterious act of crying into an atlas mapping the structure and magnificence of our interior lives. Rose-Lynn Fisher is an artist and author of the International Photography Award-winning studies Bee and The Topography of Tears. Her photographs are exhibited in galleries, festivals, and museums across the world and have been featured by the Dr. Oz Show, NPR, Smithsonian, Harper’s, New Yorker, Time, Wired, Reader’s Digest, Discover, Brain Pickings, and elsewhere. She received her BFA from Otis Art Institute and lives in Los Angeles.

Download or read book Tears of Venus The Complete Series written by Gayle Katz and published by In Your Face Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All three Tears of Venus YA novels in one complete box set collection. Filled with sci-fi adventure, space exploration, and alien invasion, you won’t be able to stop reading! Government secrets. Planets in crisis. Can one scientist save the human race and herself before doomsday? Charlotte Miller was only a little girl when her mother left on an exploratory mission to Venus and never returned. Twenty years later, she’s a government scientist still plagued by her mom’s disappearance when she uncovers startling data that points to a worldwide calamity. Now, this dedicated daughter faces two daunting mysteries, and her quest for answers lies in cold, dark space. Taking matters into her own hands, Charlotte accepts a top-secret presidential assignment to track down her mother. Partnered up with experts to save the global population, she hopes to find a new home before the deep state stops her and humanity is rendered extinct. With annihilation looming, it’s up to Charlotte and her crack team to save the world and everyone they hold dear. Will she rescue her mother and alter the course of the human race forever, or will Earth and her billions of inhabitants succumb to an icy death? The Arrival meets Interstellar meets Contact in this YA sci-fi adventure series filled with high-stakes drama, shocking twists, and alien worlds. Included inside Tears of Venus The Complete Series: Brazen Planet (Tears of Venus Book One) First Colony (Tears of Venus Book Two) Worlds Apart (Tears of Venus Book Three)

Download or read book Through Their Tears written by Maureen Eaton and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-13 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Finally they came for me and demanded to be taken through my home, and after looking it over decided they wanted it. I begged them to leave one room in which to sleep with my children while I waited for news of my husband. They refused at first, then permitted me to take the small room upstairs. Every night they were so drunk I eventually had no choice but to leave." And so begins the harrowing journey of Nadejhda and her two young children, as they fled Russia during the Bolshevik Revolution. They leave in search of her husband who earlier disappeared on his way to America, hoping for a better life for his family. When he leaves in 1917 he begins a series of letters to Nadejhda. Suddenly the letters stop. Years later, she meets Elise, whose own choices would send her down a path from profound grief to healing. With Nadejhda's help Elise learns to forgive the past and to love again. Through Their Tears is an inspiring journey of two unforgettable women who come together determined to start over.

Download or read book Rising from the Rubble written by Jean Maurice Duval and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2011-08-13 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Rising from the Rubble, the reader is infused into the fateful day of January 12th 2010 and its aftermath.The story focuses on the earthquake's devastation and the story of one man's struggles and his recovery. Dr. Duval, an accomplished professional and a consummate family man achieved all of his dreams and was very pleased of all of his intellectual and material acquisitions. Dr. Duval experienced pain and loss along with his nation. This memoir is a saga that recounts the events surrounding a man's near-death experience, agony and eventual triumph over adversity. The sequence of events depicted in the story reminds of a movie thriller more than a natural unfolding of spectacular rescues. The seemingly impossible but true events were only possible because of the insight of the author as a physician and the wonderful people around him. More than a survival story, Rising from the Rubble is a poignant tale of friendship and generosity.

Download or read book Commission of Tears written by Antonio Lobo Antunes and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: António Lobo Antunes’s twenty-fifth novel, Commission of Tears (2011, Comissão das Lágrimas) is set during the Angolan Civil War (1975-2002). Angola attained official independence on November 11, 1975 and, while the stage was set for transition, a combination of ethnic tensions and international pressures rendered Angola’s hard-won victory problematic. As with many post-colonial states, Angola was left with both economic and social difficulties which translated into a power struggle between the three predominant liberation movements. The People’s Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA), formed in December of 1956 as an offshoot of the Angolan Communist Party, had as its support base the Ambundu people and was largely supported by other African countries, Cuba, and the Soviet Union. In this novel, Lobo Antunes delves into this traumatic period of Angola's history through the fragmented memories and dreams of a broken woman. The author drew from the story of the commander of the female battalion MPLA (Popular movement for the liberation of Angola) who was tortured and killed following the state coup of May 1977. It is said that while they tortured her she did not stop singing. This is the story of Cristina, admitted in to a psychiatric clinic in Lisbon. In her torrent of memories, dialogues and traumatic episodes, Cristina remembers her early childhood in Africa, at the time when everything inside her head was intertwined with her father ́s voice, who was a former Black priest and became one of the torturers of the “Commission of Tears.” Cristina’s white mother, a cabaret dancer imported from Lisbon to entertain Portuguese farmers in Angola, marries the Black ex-priest because she finds herself pregnant with Cristina by her the man who exploits her, the cabaret manager. The long, twisting narrative weaves together the three voices of daughter, father, and mother as they recall the terrors of their life in Angola, and their own suffering. Their personal tragedies, scarred by racism and abuse, mirror those of the country that is being torn asunder around them.