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Book The Winds of Paradise

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  • Author : Grace Caldwell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1978
  • ISBN : 9780897720090
  • Pages : 191 pages

Download or read book The Winds of Paradise written by Grace Caldwell and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Warm Winds and Following Seas  Reflections of a Lifeguard in Paradise

Download or read book Warm Winds and Following Seas Reflections of a Lifeguard in Paradise written by Mike Brousard and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ocean Lifeguards make tens of thousands of rescues every year on the fabled, crowded beaches of Southern California. "Warm Winds and Following Seas: Reflections of a Lifeguard in Paradise" tells their stories, recounts their challenges and rescues, and illustrates the pressures of a misunderstood, high profile and physically difficult profession. From the rite of passage of Lifeguard Training, to the grit and grind of surf rescues and piloting rescue boats in big waves, to life-threatening saves in the icy waters of Northern California, this journey into the world of Ocean Lifeguards offers a fresh perspective on open water lifesaving and these unsung heroes of the coastline.

Book Winds of Paradise

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  • Author : Vivi Holt
  • Publisher : Black Lab Press
  • Release : 2017-03-01
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 181 pages

Download or read book Winds of Paradise written by Vivi Holt and published by Black Lab Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wandering cowboy, and a woman who's lost everything and doesn't know who she can trust. Dusty Lewis has a hard heart. Years of loose living and of following the open trail have left him lonely and empty inside. All he has left, all he loves, is the homesteading life and the band of fellow ranch hands who he traveled with from Fort Worth Texas to Montana Territory, to set up a new life. Paradise Ranch is his home now: he’s come to terms with not having a family of his own. That is until he meets Jane Wilder. She’s running from a troubled past as well, but that past is about to catch up with her. When the two of them are forced to work together on the run down schoolhouse where Jane is the schoolmistress, she does everything she can to keep her secret safe while he fights his growing attraction to her. A tragedy throws them together again, and they must each choose whether to follow the path of fear or love, honesty or lies. Can their love overcome the sins of the parents, or will Jane and Dusty miss their chance at happiness?

Book Paradise

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  • Author : Lizzie Johnson
  • Publisher : Crown
  • Release : 2022-08-16
  • ISBN : 0593136403
  • Pages : 449 pages

Download or read book Paradise written by Lizzie Johnson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive firsthand account of California’s Camp Fire, the nation’s deadliest wildfire in a century, Paradise is a riveting examination of what went wrong and how to avert future tragedies as the climate crisis unfolds. “A tour de force story of wildfire and a terrifying look at what lies ahead.”—San Francisco Chronicle (Best Books of the Year) On November 8, 2018, the people of Paradise, California, awoke to a mottled gray sky and gusty winds. Soon the Camp Fire was upon them, gobbling an acre a second. Less than two hours after the fire ignited, the town was engulfed in flames, the residents trapped in their homes and cars. By the next morning, eighty-five people were dead. As a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, Lizzie Johnson was there as the town of Paradise burned. She saw the smoldering rubble of a historic covered bridge and the beloved Black Bear Diner and she stayed long afterward, visiting shelters, hotels, and makeshift camps. Drawing on years of on-the-ground reporting and reams of public records, including 911 calls and testimony from a grand jury investigation, Johnson provides a minute-by-minute account of the Camp Fire, following residents and first responders as they fight to save themselves and their town. We see a young mother fleeing with her newborn; a school bus full of children in search of an escape route; and a group of paramedics, patients, and nurses trapped in a cul-de-sac, fending off the fire with rakes and hoses. In Paradise, Johnson documents the unfolding tragedy with empathy and nuance. But she also investigates the root causes, from runaway climate change to a deeply flawed alert system to Pacific Gas and Electric’s decades-long neglect of critical infrastructure. A cautionary tale for a new era of megafires, Paradise is the gripping story of a town wiped off the map and the determination of its people to rise again.

Book Devotional Poems

Download or read book Devotional Poems written by Emily Henrietta Hickey and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Rosary Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1914
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 758 pages

Download or read book The Rosary Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 758 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Disturbing Argument

Download or read book Disturbing Argument written by Catherine Palczewski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-01-30 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume represents the best of the scholarship presented at the 18th National Communication Association/American Forensic Association Conference on Argumentation. This biennial conference brings together a lively group of argumentation scholars from a range of disciplinary approaches and a variety of countries. Disturbing Argument contains selected works that speak both to the disturbing prevalence of violence in the contemporary world and to the potential of argument itself, to disturb the very relations of power that enable that violence. Scholars’ essays analyze a range of argument forms, including body and visual argument, interpersonal and group argument, argument in electoral politics, public argument, argument in social protest, scientific and technical argument, and argument and debate pedagogy. Contributors study argument using a range of methodological approaches, from social scientifically informed studies of interpersonal, group, and political argument to humanistic examinations of argument theory, political discourse, and social protest, to creatively informed considerations of argument practices that truly disturb the boundaries of what we consider argument.

Book Pigs of Paradise

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  • Author : T. R. Todd
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2018-10-16
  • ISBN : 151073886X
  • Pages : 260 pages

Download or read book Pigs of Paradise written by T. R. Todd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Bahamas are famous for sun, sand—and swimming pigs.” —National Geographic In the middle of paradise, with billionaires and celebrities for neighbors, is an island populated only by swimming pigs. For decades, this archipelago of 365 islands would remain largely unknown to the world. It would not be a ruthless pirate, pioneering loyalists, a notorious drug kingpin, or the infamous Fyre Festival that would unveil Exuma to the world, but rather the most unlikely of creatures. Appearing in magazines, videos, newspapers, commercials, TV shows, and countless selfies, the Swimming Pigs of Exuma, in the Bahamas, have become a bucket-list sensation and have been named one of the marvels of the universe. But how did they reach this celebrity status? What made them so famous? And why, in February 2017, did so many of them die? Pigs of Paradise is an unlikely story of humble beginnings and a swift rise to stardom. With interviews from historians, world-renowned ecologists, famous pig owners, and boat captains, it thoughtfully considers what this phenomenon says about not only these animals but also about us.

Book Little Paradise

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  • Author : Gabrielle Wang
  • Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
  • Release : 2010-03-01
  • ISBN : 1742530435
  • Pages : 313 pages

Download or read book Little Paradise written by Gabrielle Wang and published by Penguin Group Australia. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Mirabel watched him, she could not bear the thoughts creeping up on her. JJ was in the Chinese army and his mission in Australia would one day be over. Then she would be just like the others, a girl left behind in the wake of war. 'I'm afraid,' she whispered. 'When the war ends . . . what's going to happen to us?' He put his arm around her and stroked her face. She knew he could not answer that question. But she wanted him to lie, to say that he would take her with him, that they would be together always. Melbourne, 1943, and Mirabel is seventeen. She's leaving school, designing dresses, falling in love. Then fate intervenes, her forbidden affair is discovered, and JJ is posted back to China where a civil war is raging. Despite all warnings, Mirabel sets off for Shanghai to find him . . . Little Paradise is inspired by a true story. Visit betweenthelines.com.au - the destination for Young Adult books.

Book Fire in Paradise  An American Tragedy

Download or read book Fire in Paradise An American Tragedy written by Dani Anguiano and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing story of the most destructive American wildfire in a century. On November 8, 2018, the ferocious Camp Fire razed nearly every home in Paradise, California, and killed at least 85 people. Journalists Alastair Gee and Dani Anguiano reported on Paradise from the day the fire began and conducted hundreds of in-depth interviews with residents, firefighters and police, and scientific experts. Fire in Paradise is their dramatic narrative of the disaster and an unforgettable story of an American town at the forefront of the climate emergency.

Book A Paradise Built in Hell

Download or read book A Paradise Built in Hell written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of Men Explain Things to Me explores the moments of altruism and generosity that arise in the aftermath of disaster Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-winning author Rebecca Solnit explores these phenomena, looking at major calamities from the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco through the 1917 explosion that tore up Halifax, Nova Scotia, the 1985 Mexico City earthquake, 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. She examines how disaster throws people into a temporary utopia of changed states of mind and social possibilities, as well as looking at the cost of the widespread myths and rarer real cases of social deterioration during crisis. This is a timely and important book from an acclaimed author whose work consistently locates unseen patterns and meanings in broad cultural histories.

Book Surfing Through The Winds of Paradise

Download or read book Surfing Through The Winds of Paradise written by Earnest J Lewis and published by . This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the "Living Through Your Imagination" series comes "Surfing Through The Winds Of Paradise"! To have hope in tough situations can sometimes be hard. Regardless, we should always keep a hold of it! In this book, we search through the topic and effects of hope, and how it can enhance our own will to do amazing things! Keeping hope alive can sometimes fuel your dreams! Meet Earnest Lewis! Known as the "Imagination Activist", Earnest has devoted most of his time writing and publishing children's books. He wants to inspire a lot of people, and hopes that his books are a gateway to accomplishing his goals! He wants all to see the power of imagination and wants all to remember...that your imagination is only what you make of it!"

Book Paradise of the Pacific

Download or read book Paradise of the Pacific written by Susanna Moore and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-09 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of Hawaii may be said to be the story of arrivals -- from the eruption of volcanoes on the ocean floor 18,000 feet below to the first hardy seeds that over millennia found their way to the islands, and the confused birds blown from their migratory routes. Early Polynesian adventurers sailed across the Pacific in double canoes. Spanish galleons en route to the Philippines and British navigators in search of a Northwest Passage were soon followed by pious Protestant missionaries, shipwrecked sailors, and rowdy Irish poachers escaped from Botany Bay -- all wanderers washed ashore. This is true of many cultures, but in Hawaii, no one seems to have left. And in Hawaii, a set of myths accompanied each of these migrants -- legends that shape our understanding of this mysterious place. Susanna Moore pieces together the story of late-eighteenth-century Hawaii -- its kings and queens, gods and goddesses, missionaries, migrants, and explorers -- a not-so-distant time of abrupt transition, in which an isolated pagan world of human sacrifice and strict taboo, without a currency or a written language, was confronted with the equally ritualized world of capitalism, Western education, and Christian values.

Book The Brook Kerith

    Book Details:
  • Author : George Moore
  • Publisher : Good Press
  • Release : 2019-12-02
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 382 pages

Download or read book The Brook Kerith written by George Moore and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Brook Kerith: A Syrian story" by George Moore is a new rendition of the age-old biblical tale. It begins with the story of Jesus of Nazareth and continues for a quarter of a century after the crucifixion. This book is an inspiring and captivating tale that believers and non-believers, as well as people from different religious backgrounds, can appreciate and find themselves unable to put down.

Book Lyra Celtica  An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry

Download or read book Lyra Celtica An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry written by Various and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-05 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology of over 200 Celtic poems is representative of classic poems from Ireland, Scotland, Wales and Brittany. It also includes ancient Cornish, early Armorican and some Anglo-Celtic-Manx poems. Broken down into sections sorting the poems from the period and locations, it covers ancient and medieval poems through to modern times.

Book The First Six Books of Paradise Lost  with Notes by J  Bradshaw

Download or read book The First Six Books of Paradise Lost with Notes by J Bradshaw written by John Milton and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Poetry Review

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  • Author : Stephen Phillips
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1926
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 548 pages

Download or read book Poetry Review written by Stephen Phillips and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: