Download or read book A Boy at War written by Harry Mazer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-06-26 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They rowed hard, away from the battleships and the bombs. Water sprayed over them. The rowboat pitched one way and then the other. Then, before his eyes, the Arizona lifted up out of the water. That enormous battleship bounced up in the air like a rubber ball and split apart. Fire burst out of the ship. A geyser of water shot into the air and came crashing down. Adam was almost thrown out of the rowboat. He clung to the seat as it swung around. He saw blue skies and the glittering city. The boat swung back again, and he saw black clouds, and the Arizona, his father's ship, sinking beneath the water. -- from A Boy at War "He kept looking up, afraid the planes would come back. The sky was obscured by black smoke....It was all unreal: the battleships half sunk, the bullet holes in the boat, Davi and Martin in the water." December 7, 1941: On a quiet Sunday morning, while Adam and his friends are fishing near Honolulu, a surprise attack by Japanese bombers destroys the fleet at Pearl Harbor. Even as Adam struggles to survive the sudden chaos all around him, and as his friends endure the brunt of the attack, a greater concern hangs over his head: Adam's father, a navy lieutenant, was stationed on the USS Arizona when the bombs fell. During the subsequent days Adam -- not yet a man, but no longer a boy -- is caught up in the war as he desperately tries to make sense of what happened to his friends and to find news of his father. Harry Mazer, whose autobiographical novel, The Last Mission, brought the European side of World War II to vivid life, now turns to the Pacific theater and how the impact of war can alter young lives forever.

Download or read book Father Bear Goes Fishing written by Beverley Randell and published by Nelson Thornes. This book was released on 1993 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Father Bear has gone fishing to find fish for dinner.

Download or read book Simon Peter written by Adam Hamilton and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2018-12-18 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Peter—an ordinary fisherman who heard an extraordinary call. He left everything to follow his teacher and possessed a passion that would change the world. That’s one way to describe Peter. Here’s another: poor, uneducated, quick-tempered, and full of doubts and fears. Doesn’t even sound like the same man. And that’s the point of Simon Peter, a new book and six-week adult Bible study by Adam Hamilton. Peter was just an ordinary guy who heard and followed God’s extraordinary call. Discover how you, too, have special gifts, talents, and abilities that God can use to make a difference today. In addition to the Leader Guide and DVD components for adult studies, corresponding youth and children’s resources, sold separately, can be used to create a churchwide study. Chapters Include: The Call of the Fisherman Walking with Jesus in the Storm Bedrock or Stumbling Block? “I Will Not Deny You” From Cowardice to Courage The Rest of the Story

Download or read book Blood Stained written by CJ Lyons and published by CJ Lyons+ORM. This book was released on 2012-02-12 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An FBI agent must return to a traumatic case to protect her family and stop a killer in this small-town Pennsylvania thriller. Ever since she fatally disobeyed orders, Supervisory Special Agent Lucy Guardino has been chained to her desk. But now a mysterious letter has arrived, hinting that a case she closed four years ago pinned a string of rapes and killings on the wrong man. Lucy jumps at the chance to re-open the case—despite orders to leave well enough alone. Her unofficial investigation takes her back to the small town where a killer took his own life along with one final victim—a mother who left behind a grieving husband and son. Could those dramatic events have all been orchestrated to protect the real killer? Now, with the lives of her own family at risk and a desperate boy out for vigilante justice, Lucy must race to uncover the truth.

Download or read book The Day Fin Flooded the World written by Adam Stower and published by Andersen Press USA. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fin is extremely forgetful—he wears slippers to school and comes home without his pants. So it's no surprise when he leaves the tap running . . . until it floods the world! Who will be outraged, and who will be overjoyed?

Download or read book Heritage written by Sean Brock and published by Artisan Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A James Beard Award-winning executive chef and restaurateur offers inspired recipes that reinterpret Southern heritage and comfort foods including Pickled Shrimp, Hoppin' John, Chocolate Alabama Stack Cake, Crispy Pig Ear Lettuce Wraps and Baked Sea Island Red Peas. 50,000 first printing.

Download or read book Breakup in a Small Town written by Kristina Knight and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-09-01 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This isn’t the man she married… Jenny Buchanan never considered what “for better or for worse” meant when she married Adam Buchanan at nineteen. Six years and two little boys later, “for worse” arrives in the form of a tornado that ravages Slippery Rock and injures Adam. Now he’s a stranger to his family…and love won’t be enough to bring him back. Only when Jenny asks him to move out does Adam become the husband she needs…but Adam isn’t the only one who’s changed. As their attraction sparks back to life, Jenny and Adam must learn what it is to grow up—and grow together—before this small-town breakup lasts forever.

Download or read book The Marriage Season written by Linda Lael Miller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet a single dad flirting with forever in this heartwarming classic Brides of Bliss County novel from New York Times bestselling author Linda Lael Miller! Now that Becca “Bex” Stuart’s two best friends have married the men of their dreams, she’s thrilled for them…and a little envious, if she’s being honest. If her own first love hadn’t died serving the country years ago, everything would have been so different. Maybe she’d even have a family of her own by now. But when her sweet nephew, Josh, moves in with her for a while, Bex’s life is turned upside down…and there’s only one person she can rely on. Single dad Tate Calder came to Mustang Creek with his two sons in tow, looking for a fresh start. Love was the last thing on his mind…until he and Bex are constantly thrown together. Bex is unlike any woman he’s ever known before and his sons adore her. But the last time Tate risked his heart, he crashed and burned. Could this season be different? Previously published. Read the entire reader-favorite The Brides of Bliss County series: Book 1: The Marriage Pact Book 2: The Marriage Charm Book 3: The Marriage Season Don't miss author Linda Lael Miller's next heartwarming holiday drama, Christmas in Painted Pony Creek, where a single mom and her daughter find their lives magically changed and filled with the love and kindness of a man who would do anything to protect them.

Download or read book Provenance written by Paul M. Levitt and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-09-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in Hungamon (aka Bogalusa), Louisiana 1988-89, Provenance takes the reader through progressive historical discoveries to the sources of a Hungarian painting that escaped the grasping fingers of Nazis and Communists, and to the secrets of two families, one Jewish, the owners of the Hungarian painting, and the other gentile, the owners of an American painting, which hides a dark tale.

Download or read book The Cloth Elephant written by David Fawkes and published by Memoirs Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-28 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is 1927, and young German diplomat Peter von Saloman and his family are posted to Canton in China, only to find themselves caught up in vicious political turmoil which soon leads to a violent encounter with rebel communists. Cured of crippling injuries by ancient Chinese medicine, their young son Adam soon emerges as a boy with unusual spirit - and very special gifts. On their return to their homeland, the Von Salomans find themselves caught up in the rise of the Nazis in the prelude to World War II. Peter, his beautiful wife Kathe and young Adam will need all the courage and wisdom they learned in China to survive the iniquities of the Third Reich. Long after the war, when her professor boss and lover dies of cancer, Katerina Lindemann discovers that he is not at all the man she thought he was, and that the two of them share an unexpected link with the Von Salomans and their stand against the Nazis. This thrilling and intriguing story will draw the reader into an ingenious and stirring tale of fascism and bravery, love and loyalty.

Download or read book The Whale Spirit written by Charles Hall and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-07-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Controversy over whale hunting by the Native American, Makah tribe in Washington State after a seventy-year ban hit the national news in 1999, when the tribe harvested a whale. The author uses a myth among the Makahs that the "Whale Spirit," has protected its warriors in every war they have fought in under the U.S. flag. Set in the rain forest of the Pacific Northwest and the jungles of Vietnam, the book is a combination of culture, action, adventure, romance, and suspense. It is a page-turner that is guaranteed to make you use all your emotions.

Download or read book The Wolf Scout written by Susan Dash Humphrey and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Journey, with twelve years old, Seth Michaels, and Maine Guide Melissa Woodwright, in the vast Maine outdoors. Both are enlightened through their own personal growth where survival depends on smarts: not brawn in this moving story of hardship in the great woods. An experience no mother would want to happen to her precious child: lost.

Download or read book The Box written by Charlotte L R Kane and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book My Brother written by Karin Smirnoff and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2022-09-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This year’s best novel… Brutal, colourful, carnal... Impossible to put down.” --Expressen A Swedish publishing phenomenon: a literary noir of extraordinary power follows the discovery of a young woman’s body in the long grass behind the sawmill… Which part of the story is not for telling? Jana Kippo has returned to Smalånger to see her twin brother, Bror, still living in the small family farmhouse in the remote north of Sweden. Within the isolated community, secrets and lies have grown silently, undisturbed for years. Following the discovery of a young woman's body in the long grass behind the sawmill, the siblings, hooked by a childhood steeped in darkness, need to break free. But the truth cannot be found in other people's stories. The question is: can it be found anywhere?

Download or read book Lost Summer written by Stuart Harrison and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 403 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suspense, intrigue and a classic love triangle set against the brooding atmosphere of a remote tarn in the Lake District, from the author of STILL WATER.

Download or read book Fractured Bonds written by Claudia A. Niemeyer and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates some of our experiences during 30 years as foster parents. The reality of what these children endured before and after placement in the foster care system is heartbreaking. After all these years, my husband Ron and I cling stubbornly to our belief that time and man can change, but God and truth will not.My goal is to inform the public, about the foster care system. I hope to sound the alarm loud and clear, that the current foster care system is not working. I want to bring attention to the powerless children, within the system, being tossed about in the waves of loophole laws, uninformed policy makers, non-committed decision-makers, and non-motivated and often disinterested birth parents. Court mandated and enforced accountability must take place at all levels involved!

Download or read book Promises written by Fern Michaels and published by HQN Books. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nightstar: Caren Ainsley was plucked from obscurity to be the face of Nightstar, the hot new perfume from Rayven Cosmetics. More than that, she's fallen for Marc Rayven. But his world is ruthless and competitive. Can Caren hold on to everything or will it vanish when the clock strikes midnight? Beyond Tomorrow: Carly Andrews's predictable life as the manager of a real estate agency was turned upside down the day Adam Noble commissioned her to find his dream house. In Bar Harbor, Maine, the Noble family was the next thing to royalty, but despite Adam's obvious desire for her, Carly couldn't help wondering what a man who had everything would want with a woman like her ... ordinary, average, unremarkable"--Page 4 of cover.