Download or read book The Bruce Beckons written by William S. Fox and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2002-12-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1952, The Bruce Beckons was immediately acclaimed as a delightful guide to a uniquely beautiful and fascinating part of Ontario. Separating Georgian Bay from Lake Huron, the Bruce Peninsula's remarkable natural history and richly varied wildlife today continue to draw thousands of visitors every year. W. Sherwood Fox, a distinguished scholar who was for twenty years president of the University of Western Ontario, knew and loved the Bruce’s history and its folklore throughout his life. During his retirement he served several years as honorary president of the Federation of Ontario Naturalists.

Download or read book A Colonial Lieutenant Beckons written by Diane M. Unger and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-12-09 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Beckoning written by Michael Minot and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Encouraging to fellow believers and a revelation to skeptics . . . a fascinating read.” —Jerry B. Jenkins, #1 New York Times–bestselling coauthor of the Left Behind series I’m often asked to describe what happened during the months I spent researching these issues. They want to know what facts were so persuasive that an atheist attorney would become a believer in God. But I never felt I could respond in a way that told the true story. No short answer seemed sufficient. So now, in the following pages, I’ll describe for the first time the specifics of what jolted me out of my atheism . . . Michael felt he was living the American dream. For a number of years he’d been reaping the professional and financial rewards of being a commercial litigation attorney. To him, life was great and getting better all the time. He first gained notoriety around his hometown as a nationally ranked tennis player. But now, years later, he was becoming known for his skills as a lawyer and as the youngest elected official in the area. And then, in his late twenties, Michael unexpectedly discovered something that turned his world and his entire idea of life upside down. In response to a challenge from a friend, Michael agreed to investigate issues relating to science, philosophy, and the Scriptures. Comfortable with his life as an atheist, he began reading with an indifferent attitude. But what started as a casual inquiry soon turned into a time of intense research. This is the story of Michael’s journey in his own words, his thoughts and reactions to the evidence he discovered—and the new life that soon followed.

Download or read book Let s Go Peru 1st Edition written by Ashley E. Isaacson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-12-13 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand-new Let's Go: Peru is the only guide you'll need to South America's cultural hotspot. From millennia-old pre-Inca sights to wild nights of salsa, Let's Go's intrepid researchers have canvassed the Andes to bring you the best of Peru. Combining new text and maps with Let's Go's forty-five years of travel savvy, this insider's guide provides extensive coverage of Lima, Lake Titicaca, and Cusco and the Sacred Valley, while paying significant attention to less-touristed destinations. Valuable tips and listings deliver the know-how to see the sights and make a difference, and completely new features provide an in-depth look at the culture. So, whether you'd rather spot condors soaring over fathomless canyons or bask on spectacular sun-kissed beaches, Let's Go can show you the way.

Download or read book Swampwalker s Journal written by David M. Carroll and published by HMH. This book was released on 2001-06-14 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the John Burroughs Medal: An “admission ticket to a secret corner of the world” (Bill McKibben). Naturalist David Carroll has dedicated his life to art and to wetlands. He is as passionate about swamps, bogs, vernal ponds, and the creatures who live in them as most of us are about our families and closest friends. He knows frogs and snakes, muskrats and minks, dragonflies, water lilies, cattails, sedges—everything that swims, flies, trudges, slithers, or sinks its roots in wet places. In this “intimate and wise book,” Carroll takes us on a lively, unforgettable yearlong journey, illustrated with his own elegant drawings, through the wetlands and reveals why they are so important to his life and ours—and to all life on Earth (Sue Hubbell). “Carroll covers four seasons of wading through marshes, swamps, bogs, and fens. [His] eye for detail serves him well, whether he’s spying on a tiny garter snake struggling to suck down a much larger wood frog or watching a raccoon savagely digging a turtle out of its shell.” —Entertainment Weekly “In my pantheon of nature writers, David Carroll walks on water.” —Robert Michael Pyle

Download or read book Barcelona Beckons written by Simonne Celestine and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2019-07-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Manuel returns to Barcelona, Spain, in 2010 after a twenty-five-year absence. In 1984, he married the love of his life, Cristina, and they immediately immigrated to Australia. They enjoyed a very happy and successful life until tragedy took hold of his senses. He felt a desperate need to reconnect with his roots, but his love for Sydney was like a magnet, enticing him to live out his days in his adopted country. As his days unfolded in the land of his birth, unexpected events obscured a clear vision for his future.

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Download or read book The Seduction of Christianity written by Jill Shannon and published by Destiny Image Publishers. This book was released on 2011-07-28 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Book of Revelation offers rewards to those who have overcome demonic activity, trials, and temptations. The Seduction of Christianity equips the Church to overcome the battles, deceptions, and seductions that will assail her in the final hours of this age.Subjects covered in depth include: Knowing your Destiny False Prophets True and False Revival Fear of the Lord Martyrdom Righteous Judgments Strange Fire Sexual Brokenness Seduction Preparation of the Bride The Seduction of Christianity is a mandate to the end-times Church, combining mature biblical teaching with revelatory encounters. The onslaughts and upheavals that will confront you require the Church to move quickly into a new level of resolve, discipline, and authority.You will be ready to face down the seducer and take your rightful place beside the King of kings and Lord of lords!

Download or read book The Water Children written by Anne Berry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WHAT WILL DESTROY ONE CHILD WILL BE THE MAKING OF ANOTHER. From the icy banks of a secluded country pond to the fevered core of a historic London heat wave and immersion in an abandoned underwater village in the Tuscan mountains, four young people—each of whose lives has been irrevocably altered by water— converge in this brilliantly plotted drama of passion, betrayal, revenge, and redemption. Owen is haunted by nightmares of the Merfolk. He believes they have stolen his little sister, who vanished while he was meant to be watching her on the beach. But he was only a child himself. Is it fair for his mother to have blamed him all these years? Catherine’s perfect Christmas was ruined when she went skating on a frozen pond with her cousin and the other girl nearly died. Yet it is Catherine who feels, as she says, “permanently trapped under the ice.” Sean grew up on a farm in Ireland. Learning to swim in the River Shannon was his way of escaping the bitter poverty of his childhood, but communing with the river spirits incurred his superstitious father’s wrath. Naomi never feared the water. She was orphaned, cruelly abused, and the sea offered a cleansing balm; she reveled in the ocean’s power. But Naomi has another secret buried deep within her, and during one searing hot summer she will be the catalyst for the coming together—and tearing apart—of the water children.

Download or read book When The Heart Beckons written by Jill Gregory and published by Jill Gregory. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Private investigator Annabel Brannigan’s mother was a brave Union Spy during the war, so she’s confident she has what it takes to track down her childhood friend Brett McCallum in the wilds of the Arizona Territory and rescue him from whatever trouble drove him to flee his wealthy St. Louis home. Annabel has secretly loved Brett for years and is determined to save him from the ruthless men hunting him out west – but can she save herself from Roy Steele, the rugged, dangerous gunslinger also tracking Brett? When Steele protects her from vicious desperadoes, they’re forced to travel together. Though Annabel has lied and told Steele she’s Brett’s fiancée, she finds herself drawn to the handsome gunslinger against her will. Yet Steele’s heart seems to be made of stone. And he wishes it was. Because Roy Steele is a man of secrets, and a woman slowing him down is the last thing he needs. But he can’t keep the beautiful, courageous Annabel out of his mind – or out of his arms. As danger surrounds them, he wants only two things -- to keep Annabel safe – and to have her for his own…. "A wonderfully exciting romance from the Old West. The plot twists in this novel are handled expertly. . . It's great from start to finish." — Rendezvous "Jill Gregory combines all the drama of a gritty western with the aura of a homespun romance in this beautifully rendered tale. The wonderful characters are sure to win readers' hearts." — Romantic Times

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Download or read book Jinnealogy written by Anand Vivek Taneja and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the ruins of a medieval palace in Delhi, a unique phenomenon occurs: Indians of all castes and creeds meet to socialize and ask the spirits for help. The spirits they entreat are Islamic jinns, and they write out requests as if petitioning the state. At a time when a Hindu right wing government in India is committed to normalizing a view of the past that paints Muslims as oppressors, Anand Vivek Taneja's Jinnealogy provides a fresh vision of religion, identity, and sacrality that runs counter to state-sanctioned history. The ruin, Firoz Shah Kotla, is an unusually democratic religious space, characterized by freewheeling theological conversations, DIY rituals, and the sanctification of animals. Taneja observes the visitors, who come mainly from the Muslim and Dalit neighborhoods of Delhi, and uses their conversations and letters to the jinns as an archive of voices so often silenced. He finds that their veneration of the jinns recalls pre-modern religious traditions in which spiritual experience was inextricably tied to ecological surroundings. In this enchanted space, Taneja encounters a form of popular Islam that is not a relic of bygone days, but a vibrant form of resistance to state repression and post-colonial visions of India.

Download or read book The Wonder of Water written by Ingrid Leman Stefanovic and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2019-12-13 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Judgment calls, values, and perceptions often implicitly affect decisions around water policies and programs. This book explores how embodied, lived experience informs such values and impacts policy and practice around water issues in critical ways.

Download or read book Resisting the Best Friend s Sister written by S.M. West and published by SMW Books. This book was released on 2019-08-16 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A forbidden prequel romance to author S.M. West's Trusting the Ex... I’m screwed. Pippa just showed up uninvited with plans of staying the weekend. I can hardly handle an hour with her, let alone two days. Despite more than a year of dodging her, nothing has changed. She’s the only woman I want. Smart and sexy and bold. My best friend’s little sister. Forbidden. Denying my desire for her is torture. And she doesn’t make it easy; she wants me too. The thing is, making her mine will destroy my best friend. Note: previously published as Love Block.

Download or read book Miss Caprice written by St. George Rathborne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-19 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Miss Caprice" by St. George Rathborne St George Henry Rathborne, who also wrote as Harrison Adams and many other names, was an American author of boys' stories and dime novels. Miss Caprice showed a minor departure in his typical style by focusing on a group of tourists in Malta, many of whom the epitome of femininity. This book takes readers to exotic places as they go on an adventure to encounter Moores, cutthroats, and other explorers.

Download or read book Outside In written by Doug Cooper and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2013-08-13 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: International Book Award, USA Book News Award and IPPY Award Winner! From Memorial Day until the student workers and tourists leave in the fall, the island community of Put-In-Bay, Ohio, thrives on alcohol, drugs, sexual experimentation, and any other means of forgetting responsibilities. To Brad Shepherd--recently forced out of his job as a junior high math teacher after the overdose death of a student--it's exactly the kind of place he's looking for. Allured by the comfort and acceptance of the hedonistic atmosphere, Brad trades his academic responsibilities and sense of obligation for a bouncer's flashlight and a pursuit of the endless summer. With Cinch Stevens, his new best friend and local drug dealer, at his side, Brad becomes lost in a haze of excess and instant gratification filled with romantic conquests, late-night excursions to special island hideaways, and a growing drug habit. Not even the hope from a blossoming relationship with Astrid, a bold and radiant Norwegian waitress, nor the mentoring from a mysterious mandolin player named Caldwell is enough to pull him out of his downward spiral. But as Labor Day approaches, the grim reality of his empty quest consumes him. With nowhere left to run or hide, Brad must accept that identity cannot be found or fabricated, but emerges from within when one has the courage to let go. A look at one man's belated coming of age that's equally funny, earnest, romantic, and lamenting, Doug Cooper's debut novel explores the modern search for responsibility and identity, showing through the eyes of Brad Shepherd how sometimes, we can only come to understand who we truly are by becoming the person we're not.

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