Landfall

Author : Nevil Shute
Publisher : Alien Ebooks
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781667602745

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Landfall: A Channel Story by Nevil Shute Pdf

Landfall is set during World War II and follows the story of a young naval officer named John Franklin, who is given the task of escorting a group of civilian refugees across the English Channel to safety in Scotland. The journey is perilous and Franklin must navigate treacherous waters and avoid German submarines while dealing with the challenges of leading a group of disparate people from different backgrounds and with different needs. Along the way, Franklin falls in love with a young woman named Valerie Russell, who is also one of the refugees. As they make their way north, the group faces many challenges and must rely on each other to survive. "Landfall" is a gripping tale of adventure and survival during wartime, and a poignant story of love and human connection amidst chaos and uncertainty.

Author : Thomas Mallon
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101971352

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Landfall by Thomas Mallon Pdf

Set during the tumultuous middle of the George W. Bush years—amid the twin catastrophes of the Iraq insurgency and Hurricane Katrina—Landfall brings Thomas Mallon's cavalcade of contemporary American politics, which began with Watergate and continue with Finale, to a vivid and emotional climax. The president at the novel's center possesses a personality whose high-speed alternations between charm and petulance, resoluteness and self-pity, continually energize and mystify the panoply of characters around him. They include his acerbic, crafty mother, former First Lady Barbara Bush; his desperately correct and eager-to-please secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice; the gnomic and manipulative Donald Rumsfeld; foreign leaders from Tony Blair to Vladimir Putin; and the caustic one-woman chorus of Ann Richards, Bush's predecessor as governor of Texas. A gallery of political and media figures, from the widowed Nancy Reagan to the philandering John Edwards to the brilliantly contrarian Christopher Hitchens, bring the novel and the era to life. The story is deepened and driven by a love affair between two West Texans, Ross Weatherall and Allison O'Connor, whose destinies have been affixed to Bush's since they were teenagers in the 1970s. The true believer and the skeptic who end up exchanging ideological places in a romantic and political drama that unfolds in locations from New Orleans to Baghdad and during the parties, press conferences, and state funerals of Washington, D.C.

Author : Ellen Urbani
Publisher : Forest Avenue Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781942436133

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Landfall by Ellen Urbani Pdf

Two mothers and their teenage daughters, whose lives collide in a fatal car crash, take turns narrating Ellen Urbani's breathtaking novel, Landfall, set in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Eighteen-year-olds Rose and Rosebud have never met but they share a birth year, a name, and a bloody pair of sneakers. Rose’s quest to atone for the accident that kills Rosebud, a young woman so much like herself but for the color of her skin, unfolds alongside Rosebud’s battle to survive the devastating flooding in the Lower Ninth Ward and to find help for her unstable mother. These unforgettable characters give voice to the dead of the storm and, in a stunning twist, demonstrate how what we think we know can make us blind to what matters most.

Author : Peter Moss
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2006-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595407446

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Landfall by Peter Moss Pdf

An unexpected letter from Tokyo impels a Canadian accountant to break his resolution never to revisit the past. Hunting out an old journal, he relives his adventures on the far side of the Pacific, when he sought redemption for his sins among primitive but contented islanders. There he aided Japanese veterans in their search for a World War 2 flying boat, put an elderly English spinster in touch with her half-caste nephew and helped a tribe to preserve its age-old customs. Only now, ten years later, does he learn that, in the process, he may have forfeited the greatest opportunity of his life. In Landfall, his fourth novel, Peter Moss explores the myriad miscommunications, misunderstandings and mysteries of the human heart.

Author : Robert F. Rogers
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824833343

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Destiny's Landfall by Robert F. Rogers Pdf

This revised edition of the standard history of Guam is intended for general readers and students of the history, politics, and government of the Pacific region. Its narrative spans more than 450 years, beginning with the initial written records of Guam by members of Magellan 1521 expedition and concluding with the impact of the recent global recession on Guam’s fragile economy.

Author : Susan Schmidt
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801882966

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Landfall Along the Chesapeake by Susan Schmidt Pdf

As Schmidt circles the Bay counterclockwise from Jamestown, she explores Smith's encounters with Native Americans and the Bay's ecological changes over the past hundred years. On each river and creek, she quotes Smith's journals on matching wits with Powhatan, meeting Pocahontas, surviving thunderstorms, ambush, and a stingray's barb. Anchored on wild creeks, Schmidt observes swans and dragonflies, lightning and sunsets; in port she interviews colorful characters and working watermen about blue crabs and oysters.

Author : Eben Norton Horsford
Publisher : Boston : Damrell and Upham
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : America
ISBN : BSB:BSB11469557

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The Landfall of Leif Erikson, A.D. 1000 by Eben Norton Horsford Pdf

Author : David John Molloy
Publisher : Breakwater Books
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : 1550810960

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The First Landfall by David John Molloy Pdf

David John Malloy was bo in St. John's in 1954 and attended Bonaventure College in his youth. Later, he studied at several secondary schools in Nova Scotia before enrolling at Dalhousie University. In 1976 he received a BSc (Honours in Psychology) and went on to study architecture at the technical University of Nova Scotia, receiving his bachelor of architecture in 1980. He also studied in Copenhagen and traveled extensively throughout Europe. After practicing architecture with several firms in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland, he joined the department of Municipal Affairs in St. John's, where he now works with municipalities in developing indoor and outdoor recreational facilities. The story of ten of the province's most historic lighthouses, each chapter highlights one of these magnificent places. Tales of heroic rescues and tragic shipwrecks are laced with descriptions of Newfoundland's coastal flora and fauna. Travel back in time to touch the weathered stone and iron towers, which still encircle Newfoundland's rugged coastline.

Author : Alexander Bridport Becher
Publisher : London, J. D. Potter
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1856
Category : America
ISBN : BSB:BSB10466303

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The Landfall of Columbus on His First Voyage to America by Alexander Bridport Becher Pdf

A historical description of the life of Christopher Columbus both before and after his first voyage. Included is a list of charts, plans and sailing directions published by the Hydrographic Departments of the Admiralty.

Author : Jane Fletcher
Publisher : Bold Strokes Books Inc
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781602823501

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The Temple at Landfall by Jane Fletcher Pdf

Lynn is an imprinter, one chosen by the Goddess to receive her greatest gift, that of creating new life. So why does she feel like a prisoner in the Temple? When Lynn learns that she is to be relocated to the temple at Landfall, the arduous journey seems more like a gift—her last chance to see something of the outside world. She does not anticipate the dangers and temptations she will encounter along the way, nor does she expect Lieutenant Kim Ramon, an officer in the squadron of Rangers assigned to protect her. Despite all prohibitions forbidding it, attraction grows between the two women. Against them stand the powerful religious Sisterhood and their holy warriors—the Temple Guards. In a world ruled by the Church, what chance is there that Lynn can escape?

Author : John Gardiner (of -?)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:HX4QVQ

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The Landfall of Columbus by John Gardiner (of -?) Pdf

Author : Alison James
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557098521

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LANDFALL: The Calm At The Eye by Alison James Pdf

Author : Eben Norton Horsford
Publisher : Cambridge [Mass.] : J. Wilson
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1886
Category : America
ISBN : UOM:39015079997030

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John Cabot's Landfall in 1497, and the Site of Norumbega by Eben Norton Horsford Pdf

The author identifies the site of Cabot's landfall as Salem, Mass., and of Norumbega as Weston, Mass.

Author : William Thomson (Author of The Safe Landfall.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000684562

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The Safe Landfall; Consisting of the Shortest Possible Method of Finding the Latitude at Sea in the Mornings and Evenings at the Times of Quadrature, Or C.H. from Noon, by the Adding Together of Five Logarithms ... by William Thomson (Author of The Safe Landfall.) Pdf

Author : Suzie Wilde
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781783522798

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The Book of Bera by Suzie Wilde Pdf

Born and raised in a stark, coastal village on the shore of the Ice-Rimmed Sea, Bera is the daughter of a Valla, the Vikings’ most powerful seers. But her mother died when she was young, leaving Bera alone with her gift, unable to control her feckless twin spirit or understand her visions of the future. When this inability leads to the death of her childhood friend at the hands of a rival clan, Bera vows revenge. And learning that her father has sold her into marriage with the murderous enemy’s chieftain, she is presented with an opportunity even sooner than she had hoped... As her powers grow stronger, her visions of looming disaster become more and more ominous until she is faced with the ultimate choice: will she exact vengeance? Or can she lead her people to safety before it’s too late?