Download or read book The Air Down Here written by Gil C. Alicea and published by Chronicle Books (CA). This book was released on 1995 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays written by a sixteen-year-old boy confront issues such as drugs, violence, gangs, sex, parents, and school.
Download or read book Flattened written by Chase Walker and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A group of gifted children ages 5-15,find themselves in the middle of nowhere,being lead to safety by the young man who, named Jonathan crashed into their bus. They hike a few miles in the woods and find a commune. The people seem nice, but refuse to help them find help. They claim they have no contact with the outside world. While in the commune some of the gifted children find under ground tunnels. In the tunnels they also find pieces of their bus. They also find the person who put them there, and their fate. Soon a week turns into two weeks, turns into a month, then two months. Where is help!!
Download or read book The Cavalry written by Gerdson Cassamajor and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Garrison, the main character, is coping from the death of his father. He has just started high school with his friends, Brandon and Will. While they are in class, Garrison cant stop thinking about what he saw that morningmen loading a van with guns. Suddenly, he hears marching footsteps, then silence. All he hears is ticking, and before he realizes what it is, an explosion throws him across the room, killing half of his class. The leader of the hostile group, Julian, awakens the other survivors and makes himself clear that no one is coming for them and that they wont hesitate to kill them. Garrison and his friends take it upon themselves to escape with as many students as they can find. But there is something Garrison doesnt know about himself, and he intends to find out what it is, even if he must cross a line he cant come back from.
Download or read book We Are Still Here written by CJ Beuhler and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-02-08 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hinoch has always had a special connection to his native land of Labrador, so when the young Inuit artist is guided to the isolated site of a plane crash by a raven, he is relatively unfazed. It is there Hinoch finds a gold ring belonging to one of the former crew members, a ring containing the spirit of the lost owner. Hinoch knows he must reunite the ring with the owner’s family in order to save the man’s spirit. Hinoch’s efforts to find the lost man’s family finally pay off when a young woman named Joanna visits him in his isolated community. The two immediately hit it off, and Joanna is drawn to the simple Labrador lifestyle and the traditional and spiritual ways of the Inuit. Hinoch and Joanna begin to see themselves sharing their lives together, but then Hinoch drops a bombshell: he’s been having shamanic visions of the world being destroyed by overpopulation and climate change. Now he’s unsure if Joanna will be willing to join him in relocating his people to the safety of the wilderness.
Download or read book The Crumbling City written by JR Konkol and published by Black Rose Writing. This book was released on 2022-08-17 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This dystopian adventure will appeal to adult and young adult readers alike." –Publishers' Weekly Months after the fall of the Citadel, scattered refugees find themselves trapped in the southern swamps, the home of ancient denizens that prefer to be left undisturbed. On the other side of the world, the possessed children struggle to find their place amongst the people of Derregain. But a demonic plague has already taken hold in the once great city, and the few that stand against it are under siege by servants of Plaguebringer, the demon who engineered it. Will friends and enemies, both old and new, set aside their differences and come together to fight the demon that threatens to destroy them all?
Download or read book Ethen Coal and the Legend of the Blood Horn written by Joshua Roberts and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2018-01-20 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethen Coal is an ambitious young archaeologist who lands what he considers the opportunity of a lifetime. Before he embarks on his journey, he is reunited with two childhood friends, Sam and Anastasia. They agree to help him on his dangerous expedition, searching for what some consider to be nothing more than a myth called the Blood Horn. Shortly after the three friends set out for this treasure, they are confronted with dangers beyond their wildest imaginations. They stumble upon the likes of dragons, pirates, and even mermaids as misfortunes overtake them. Luckily, a strangerwho claims to be from another worldsaves their lives. And the adventure has only just begun. The further the search goes, the more Ethen suspects that the Blood Horn is not of this world and that someone will do anything to keep him from finding it. With the support of Sam and Anastasia, he fearlessly embarks on an undertaking full of danger, magic, and some living myths only to discover that what he seeks is so much more than what he imagined.
Download or read book Digger written by Joseph Flynn and published by Stray Dog Press Inc. This book was released on 2010-11-27 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Warrior Soul written by David Barbur and published by David Becker. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mysterious footprints in the forest. A shot in the dark. A dead man in a forest clearing. Tye Caine tries to help out a neighbor but is sucked into a mystery from the past. At the same time, he tries to find out who has been hiding on his property. Visions of dead people still haunt his dreams, and he doesn't know why. It seems like he's moving close to an answer, but does he really want to know? If you stayed up too late reading Wild Mind, if you couldn't wait to finish Primitive Weapons, if you're the kind of person who looks in the forest and wonders what is in there, check out Warrior Soul today!
Download or read book From There to Here written by Robert M. Rock and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-12-20 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories he tells here were written at random over a period of several months, appearing as layers peeled off a consciousness onion, never knowing which ones would "arise" next. Eventually they were arranged into a chronology which resulted in a rather unusual autobiographical form. Each story is complete and essentially stands alone, yet together all blend into one encompassing and distinct story. As new stories continue to take shape, and more old ones emerge from the onion, these may serve the possibility for future stories. The acclaim Rock's stories have begun to receive is evidenced by one having already been selected for reading over National Public Radio, June past of this year within only one week of submittal the Striped Pen story.
Download or read book Waiting for Here written by Jon R. W. Thomas and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-23 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Mathis, A Fashion Designer, experiences cognitive and memory issues of unknown origins and when she discovers the cause, she embarks on an unanticipated 'other-world' adventure.
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Download or read book My Flock in Yankee Blue written by M. J. P. Padre and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Pastor Joshua Campbell as he anguishes over accepting a calling as chaplain of his towns militia during the American Civil War. Feel his guilt as he disrupts the only life his family knows. Follow him on the battlefields where he makes a life-or-death decision amid the brutality of a confederate cavalry charge. Experience with him the living hell of field hospitals during the throes of battle. Listen with him to the agonizing last breaths of the young men he baptized as babies as he writes their final words to their families. Watch the secret battle he wages with God that drives him unmercifully and has him looking to a release that he has come to understand, but disdains. See the life of an American Civil War chaplain come alive in this debut novel, part one of a series.
Download or read book From Here to Eternity written by James Jones and published by Delta. This book was released on 1998-10-13 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him. First Sgt. Milton Anthony Warden knows how to soldier better than almost anyone, yet he's risking his career to have an affair with the commanding officer's wife. Both Warden and Prewitt are bound by a common bond: the Army is their heart and blood . . .and, possibly, their death. In this magnificent but brutal classic of a soldier's life, James Jones portrays the courage, violence and passions of men and women who live by unspoken codes and with unutterable despair. . .in the most important American novel to come out of World War II, a masterpiece that captures as no ther the honor and savagery of men.
Download or read book Safety in Air Navigation written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 1548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1914-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Download or read book Sky Jumpers written by Peggy Eddleman and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this thrilling sci-fi adventure, epic danger and impossible odds are no match for one girl's courage! Twelve-year-old Hope lives in White Rock, a town of inventors struggling to recover from World War III. But adventurous Hope is terrible at inventing. She would much rather sneak off to cliff dive into the Bomb’s Breath, the deadly band of air that surrounds the town. When bandits invade White Rock to steal its greatest invention—priceless antibiotics—the town is left with a heartbreaking choice: hand over the medicine and die from disease, or die fighting the bandits. Help lies in a neighboring town, but the bandits count everyone fourteen and older each hour. Now Hope and her friends Aaren and Brock are only ones who can escape through the Bomb’s Breath. For once, the daring and rebelliousness that usually get Hope into trouble might just save them all. A Texas Library Association’s Bluebonnet Award Selection “Eddleman brings a strong sense of atmosphere to this post-apocalyptic coming-of-age piece, and the underlying message—that it’s possible to contribute in unexpected ways—is a positive one.” —Publishers Weekly
Download or read book Under the Surface written by Diana Urban and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic survival-thriller about four teens who get lost in the Paris catacombs for days—a gripping and propulsive story of love, danger, betrayal, and hope… even when all seems lost. "Tense and fast-moving, with a unique setting and compelling characters, Under the Surface is Diana Urban’s best yet."—Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying Ruby is terrified to cave to her feelings for Sean and risk him crushing her heart. Sean is pumped to spend a week with Ruby in Paris on their senior class trip, and he’ll wait however long until she’s ready to take things further. But when Ruby’s best friend sneaks out the first night to meet a mysterious French boy, Ruby goes after her with two classmates, but caves to another temptation: attending mystery boy’s exclusive party in the Paris catacombs, the intricate web of tunnels beneath the city, home to six million long-dead Parisians. Only they never reach the party. Underground, as something sinister chases them, they get lost in the endless maze of bones, uncovering dark secrets about the catacombs…..and each other. And if they can’t find a way out, they’ll die in the dark beneath the City of Light. Aboveground, Sean races to find the girl he loves as a media frenzy over the four missing teens begins. From award-winning author and rising YA star Diana Urban comes a twisty tale of four teens lost in the dark beneath the City of Light and the race to find them.
