A Year Of Storms

Author : John Mantooth
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101613139

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The Year of the Storm by John Mantooth Pdf

In this haunting, suspenseful debut novel, John Mantooth takes readers to a town in rural Alabama where secrets are buried deep, reality is relative, and salvation requires a desperate act of faith. When Danny was fourteen, his mother and sister disappeared during a violent storm. The police were baffled. There were no clues, and most people figured they were dead. Only Danny still holds out hope that they’ll return. Months later, a disheveled Vietnam vet named Walter Pike shows up at Danny’s front door, claiming to know their whereabouts. The story he tells is so incredible that Danny knows he shouldn’t believe him. Others warn him about Walter Pike’s dark past, his shameful flight from town years ago, and the suspicious timing of his return. But he’s Danny’s last hope, and Danny needs to believe…

Author : Melinda Frank,Alexa Horn,Brianna Patterson,Madison Schmidt
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781609621186

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A Year of Storms by Melinda Frank,Alexa Horn,Brianna Patterson,Madison Schmidt Pdf

A COLLECTION OF POETRY AND SHORT STORIES In one year, about ten hurricanes occur, over one thousand tornadoes form, and over 16 million thunderstorms strike the earth. Storms can be interpreted as more than just rain or snow; they are emotions, relationships, and reflections of the innermost thoughts of humans. Storms help make sense of the turmoils life can bring. Storms change throughout the year with the people who experience them. This anthology takes readers through a year of storms and some of literature's most profound authors such as Madison Cawein, Algernon Blackwood, Emily Dickinson, and Emily Bront , to name a few. They have experienced storms, felt storms, and captured those storms on the page.

Author : Ruth Hatfield
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780805099997

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The Book of Storms by Ruth Hatfield Pdf

Eleven-year-old Danny O'Neill has never been what you'd call adventurous. But when he wakes the morning after a storm to find his house empty, his parents gone, and himself able to hear the thoughts of a dying tree, he has no choice but to set out to find answers. He soon learns that the enigmatic Book of Storms holds the key to what he seeks . . . but unraveling its mysteries won't be easy. If he wants to find his family, he'll have to face his worst fears and battle terrifyingly powerful enemies, including the demonic Sammael himself.In the beautifully imagined landscape of Ruth Hatfield's TheBook of Storms, magic seamlessly intertwines with the everyday, nothing is black and white, and Danny is in a race against time to rescue everything he holds dear.

Author : Dan Soucoup
Publisher : Nimbus+ORM
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781771087735

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Atlantic Canada's Greatest Storms by Dan Soucoup Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the most dramatic storms along Canada’s Atlantic coast, from 1745’s Grand Armada Tragedy to the 2017 Ice Storm. Over the centuries, Canada’s Atlantic coast has been battered by hurricanes and winter blizzards, struck by tornadoes, devastated by floods, and even hit by terrifying tsunamis. Now Dan Soucoup, a historian of Canada’s Maritime Provinces, explores the region’s most dramatic storms from the 18th century into the 21st in Atlantic Canada’s Greatest Storms. Soucoup chronicles the North Atlantic’s greatest hurricanes, including the 1775 Independence Hurricane, the Saxby Gale in 1869, and Hurricane Igor in 2010. He also recounts a terrifying series of blizzards in 1905, The Year of the Deep Snow, which left passenger trains stranded for days in the Annapolis Valley; as well as Newfoundland’s 1929 tsunami, which devastated the Burin Peninsula, striking dozens of coastal communities and carrying people and homes out to sea. Features 25 black and white images.

Author : Dan Yaccarino
Publisher : Astra Publishing House
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781662650482

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The Longest Storm by Dan Yaccarino Pdf

A New York Times 2021 Best Children's Book This heartwarming family story from acclaimed author-illustrator Dan Yaccarino features a father and his kids who are stuck inside the house together — and figure out how to connect and overcome conflict. No one knew where the strange storm came from, or why it lasted so long. The family at the center of this timely story has to hunker down together, with no going outside - and that's hard when there's absolutely nothing to do, and everyone's getting on everyone else's nerves. This classic in the making will lift hearts with its optimistic vision of a family figuring out how to love and support one another, even when it seems impossible.

Author : Erik Larson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780375708275

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Isaac's Storm by Erik Larson Pdf

From the bestselling author of The Devil in the White City, here is the true story of the deadliest hurricane in history. National Bestseller September 8, 1900, began innocently in the seaside town of Galveston, Texas. Even Isaac Cline, resident meteorologist for the U.S. Weather Bureau failed to grasp the true meaning of the strange deep-sea swells and peculiar winds that greeted the city that morning. Mere hours later, Galveston found itself submerged in a monster hurricane that completely destroyed the town and killed over six thousand people in what remains the greatest natural disaster in American history--and Isaac Cline found himself the victim of a devastating personal tragedy. Using Cline's own telegrams, letters, and reports, the testimony of scores of survivors, and our latest understanding of the science of hurricanes, Erik Larson builds a chronicle of one man's heroic struggle and fatal miscalculation in the face of a storm of unimaginable magnitude. Riveting, powerful, and unbearably suspenseful, Isaac's Storm is the story of what can happen when human arrogance meets the great uncontrollable force of nature.

Author : Andrew Bates
Publisher : White Wolf Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1565048571

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Heralds of the Storm by Andrew Bates Pdf

How will the shadowy powers that be respond when the long lived and powerful mummies rise once again? A novel from the co-designer of White Wolf's "Trinity Aberrant" Storyteller games.

Author : United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Beach erosion
ISBN : UCR:31210025319409

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Ocean Beach Storm Damage Reduction Feasibility Study, City and County of San Francisco, CA by United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District Pdf

The report presents information developed in the course of a multi-year investigation of the need for shore protection and storm damage reduction. The study area was 8.6 miles of the Pacific coast, known as Ocean Beach, in the City of San Francisco, CA. The study area extended from Cliff House to Fort Funston. The beach portion of the study area is in the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, under the jurisdiction of the National Park Service. Facilities threatened with damage included the Great Highway, parking lots of the GGNRA, a buried storm and sewer water transport box, a sewer pumping plant and ultimately houses and businesses. The report records the Ocean Engineering, Economic, and Geotechnical studies used to formulate and analyze a variety of alternative measures, including structural seawalls and revetments, as well as beach and dune nourishment. The final analysis indicated that most of the study area, while not absolutely safe, had a low probability of erosion. In the one area with a possible federal interest, the sponsor was unable to agree to cost share at the time of the report. Therefore the study was terminated. The sponsor will pursue other measures not requiring federal cost sharing.

Author : William Reid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1849
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10134574

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The Progress of the Developement of the Law of Storms, and of the Variable Winds, with the Practical Applicationof the Subject to Navigation by William Reid Pdf

Author : Sebastian Junger
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1997-05-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 039307661X

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The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea by Sebastian Junger Pdf

"There is nothing imaginary about Junger's book; it is all terrifyingly, awesomely real." —Los Angeles Times It was the storm of the century, boasting waves over one hundred feet high—a tempest created by so rare a combination of factors that meteorologists deemed it "the perfect storm." In a book that has become a classic, Sebastian Junger explores the history of the fishing industry, the science of storms, and the candid accounts of the people whose lives the storm touched. The Perfect Storm is a real-life thriller that makes us feel like we've been caught, helpless, in the grip of a force of nature beyond our understanding or control. Winner of the American Library Association's 1998 Alex Award.

Author : Christopher R. Altieri
Publisher : Tan Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1505115213

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Into the Storm by Christopher R. Altieri Pdf

Into the Storm: Chronicle of a Year in Crisis is an in-depth look at the critical events of a year that opened a new chapter in the crisis of leadership affecting the Catholic Church. This on-the-ground analysis details bishops' ongoing inability to address the rot within their own leadership culture. Written by a journalist with many years experience at the Vatican, Into the Storm takes readers through the events of the tumultuous year 2018, with the kind of insight that only a keen observer of human nature and ecclesiastical politics can offer. Into the Storm will inform readers' understanding of the twisted logic of action that unfolded throughout the year and has brought us to where we are in the life of the Church.

Author : Bryan Norcross
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-06
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781466870680

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Hurricane Almanac 2006 by Bryan Norcross Pdf

Bryan Norcross's pioneering and courageous TV coverage of Hurricane Andrew in 1992 helped thousands of people in Florida cope with the killer storm. With hurricanes back in the headlines and destined to stay there, one of America's leading experts offers a unique almanac compiling hundreds of nuggets of fascinating, useful, and potentially life-saving information. Bryan Norcross's Hurricane Almanac 2006 reviews the catastrophic season of 2005, including Hurricanes Katrina, Rita and Wilma, looks forward to hurricane seasons to come, highlights the fascinating history of hurricanes interacting with civilization, and details our rapidly increasingly ability -- but still with limitations -- to predict the severity and paths of storms. Key sections offer checklists of items needed to make homes, businesses, and people safe during storms, and where to find the best information before and during a storm and how to best interpret it. Bryan will also include a provocative chapter entitled: What I'd do better: ideas for a better hurricane system.

Author : James Hansen
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408820629

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Storms of My Grandchildren by James Hansen Pdf

_______________ 'When the history of the climate crisis is written, Hansen will be seen as the scientist with the most powerful and consistent voice calling for intelligent action to preserve our planet's environment' - Al Gore 'Few people know more about climate change than James Hansen ... This unnerving and fluently written book is the definitive one to read' - BBC Wildlife 'Anyone concerned about the world our children and grandchildren must inherit owes it to themselves to read this book' - Irish Times _______________ An urgent and provocative call to action from the world's leading climate scientist Dr James Hansen, the world's leading scientist on climate issues, speaks out with the full truth about global warming: the planet is hurtling to a climatic point of no return. Hansen - whose climate predictions have come to pass again and again, beginning in the 1980s when he first warned US Congress about global warming - is the single most credible voice on the subject worldwide. He paints a devastating but all-too-realistic picture of what will happen if we continue to follow the course we're on. But he is also a hard-headed optimist, and shows that there is still time to take the urgent, strong action needed to save humanity. _______________ 'James Hansen gives us the opportunity to watch a scientist who is sick of silence and compromise; a scientist at the breaking point - the point at which he is willing to sacrifice his credibility to make a stand to avert disaster' - LA Times

Author : Florian Illies
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2014-10-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612193915

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1913 by Florian Illies Pdf

International Bestseller This “absolute gem of a book” offers a month-by-month account of the year before World War I—one of the most exciting times in the 20th-century (The Observer) It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong first picked up a trumpet. It was the year Charlie Chaplin signed his first movie contract, and Coco Chanel and Prada opened their first dress shops. It was the year Proust began his opus, Stravinsky wrote The Rite of Spring, and the first Armory Show in New York introduced the world to Picasso and the world of abstract art. It was the year the recreational drug now known as ecstasy was invented. It was 1913, the year before the world plunged into the catastrophic darkness of World War I. In a witty yet moving narrative that progresses month by month through the year, and is interspersed with numerous photos and documentary artifacts (such as Kafka’s love letters), Florian Illies ignores the conventions of the stodgy tome so common in “one year” histories. Forefronting cultural matters as much as politics, he delivers a charming and riveting tale of a world full of hope and unlimited possibility, peopled with amazing characters and radical politics, bristling with new art and new technology—even as ominous storm clouds began to gather. “An utterly delicious treat or an ideal present for anyone even mildly interested in 20th-century art, music and literature . . . a sexy, comic and occasionally heartbreaking soap opera.” —Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Author : Stuart B. Schwartz
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691173603

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Sea of Storms by Stuart B. Schwartz Pdf

A panoramic social history of hurricanes in the Caribbean The diverse cultures of the Caribbean have been shaped as much by hurricanes as they have by diplomacy, commerce, or the legacy of colonial rule. In this panoramic work of social history, Stuart Schwartz examines how Caribbean societies have responded to the dangers of hurricanes, and how these destructive storms have influenced the region's history, from the rise of plantations, to slavery and its abolition, to migrations, racial conflict, and war. Taking readers from the voyages of Columbus to the devastation of Hurricane Katrina, Schwartz looks at the ethical, political, and economic challenges that hurricanes posed to the Caribbean’s indigenous populations and the different European peoples who ventured to the New World to exploit its riches. He describes how the United States provided the model for responding to environmental threats when it emerged as a major power and began to exert its influence over the Caribbean in the nineteenth century, and how the region’s governments came to assume greater responsibilities for prevention and relief, efforts that by the end of the twentieth century were being questioned by free-market neoliberals. Schwartz sheds light on catastrophes like Katrina by framing them within a long and contentious history of human interaction with the natural world. Spanning more than five centuries and drawing on extensive archival research in Europe and the Americas, Sea of Storms emphasizes the continuing role of race, social inequality, and economic ideology in the shaping of our responses to natural disaster.