No Footprints

Author : Susan Dunlap
Publisher : Crossroad Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2022-11-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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No Footprints by Susan Dunlap Pdf

What is death? Darcy Lott asks her Zen teacher, Garson-roshi. While scouting a location site on the Golden Gate Bridge, stunt double Darcy Lott sees a woman about to jump. The woman fights, but Darcy manages to pull her back. Before disappearing, the woman tells Darcy that by Thanksgiving she’ll be dead. Darcy has four days to find her and keep her from killing herself, but she has no idea who she is. Darcy tracks her to a dodgy San Francisco neighborhood, where she uncovers more perplexing facts. The woman ran a copy shop operating as a front for “the cockroach,” the shady police boss of the neighborhood, lived in a cheap apartment above a bagpipe player, and spent very little money except on an expensive racing bike the week before. Meanwhile, there are problems with the movie production. One of the producers, Macomber Dale, gets their permit revoked, causing them to redo an entire set-up, and then drives the stunt car off the Berkeley pier. The search leads Darcy to the last place a woman would ever bike to: the Top of the Mark on Nob Hill, to a swank charity reception at City Hall and finally to a place more terrifying than the cold Pacific.

Author : Bao Phi
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781684461202

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My Footprints by Bao Phi Pdf

Every child feels different in some way, but Thuy feels "double different." She is Vietnamese American and she has two moms. Thuy walks home one winter afternoon, angry and lonely after a bully's taunts. Then a bird catches her attention and sets Thuy on an imaginary exploration. What if she could fly away like a bird? What if she could sprint like a deer, or roar like a bear? Mimicking the footprints of each creature in the snow, she makes her way home to the arms of her moms. Together, the three of them imagine beautiful and powerful creatures who always have courage - just like Thuy.

Author : Conor Knighton
Publisher : Crown
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781984823557

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Leave Only Footprints by Conor Knighton Pdf

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A delightful sampler plate of our national parks, written with charisma and erudition.”—Nick Offerman, author of Paddle Your Own Canoe From CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton, a behind-the-scenery look at his year traveling to each of America's National Parks, discovering the most beautiful places and most interesting people our country has to offer NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY OUTSIDE When Conor Knighton set off to explore America's "best idea," he worried the whole thing could end up being his worst idea. A broken engagement and a broken heart had left him longing for a change of scenery, but the plan he'd cooked up in response had gone a bit overboard in that department: Over the course of a single year, Knighton would visit every national park in the country, from Acadia to Zion. In Leave Only Footprints, Knighton shares informative and entertaining dispatches from what turned out to be the road trip of a lifetime. Whether he's waking up early for a naked scrub in a historic bathhouse in Arkansas or staying up late to stargaze along our loneliest highway in Nevada, Knighton weaves together the type of stories you're not likely to find in any guidebook. Through his unique lens, America the Beautiful becomes America the Captivating, the Hilarious, and the Inspiring. Along the way, he identifies the threads that tie these wildly different places together—and that tie us to nature—and reveals how his trip ended up changing his views on everything from God and love to politics and technology. Filled with fascinating tidbits about our parks' past and reflections on their fragile future, this book is both a celebration of and a passionate case for the natural wonders that all Americans share.

Author : Karin Michelson,Norma Kennedy,Mercy Doxtator
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-01
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781442628335

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Glimpses of Oneida Life by Karin Michelson,Norma Kennedy,Mercy Doxtator Pdf

Glimpses of Oneida Life is a remarkable compilation of modern stories of community life at the Oneida Nation of the Thames Settlement and the surrounding area. With topics ranging from work experiences and Oneida customs to pranks, humorous encounters, and ghost stories, these fifty-two unscripted narrations and conversations in Oneida represent a rare collection of first-hand Iroquoian reflections on aspects of daily life and culture not found in print elsewhere. Each text is presented in Oneida with both an interlinear, word-by-word translation and a more colloquial translation in English. The book also contains a grammatical sketch of the Oneida language by Karin Michelson, co-author of the Oneida-English/English-Oneida Dictionary, that describes how words are structured and combined into larger linguistic structures, thus allowing Glimpses to be used as a teaching text as well. The engrossing tales in Glimpses of Oneida Life will be a valuable resource for linguists and language learners, a useful source for those studying the history and culture of Iroquois people in the twentieth-century, and an entertaining read for anyone interested in everyday First Nations life in southern Ontario.

Author : Henry Kalalahilimoku Nalaielua,Sally-Jo Keala-o-Ānuenue Bowman
Publisher : Watermark Pub
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0977914305

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No Footprints in the Sand by Henry Kalalahilimoku Nalaielua,Sally-Jo Keala-o-Ānuenue Bowman Pdf

When Henry Nalaielua was diagnosed with Hansen's disease in 1936 and taken from his home and family, he began a journey of exile that led him to Kalaupapa—the remote settlement with the tragic history on the Hawaiian island of Moloka'i. During its century as a virtual prison, more than 8,000 people were exiled to Kalaupapa, until the introduction of sulfone drugs in the 1940s. Today fewer than 30 patients remain.This is Henry's story—an unforgettable memoir of the boy who grew to build a full and joyous life at Kalaupapa, and still calls it home today. No Footprints in the Sand is one of only a few memoirs ever shared with the public by a Kalaupapa patient. Its intimacy and candor make it, in the words of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet W.S. Merwin, “a rare and precious human document.” Nalaielua's story is an inspiring one; despite exile, physical challenges and the severing of family ties, he has faced life—as an artist, musician and historian—with courage, honesty, hope and humor.

Author : Henry Woodward
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105001190847

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Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1880
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:555072336

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The Melbourne Review by Anonim Pdf

Author : Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789811379161

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Carbon Footprints by Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu Pdf

This book addresses carbon footprint calculation and mitigation in various industrial sectors. There are numerous sectors whose carbon footprints need to be calculated, and effective ways to mitigate the greenhouse-gas emissions from these sectors need to be found. This book highlights the carbon sequestration potential of the Western Ghats ecosystems, the carbon footprint of Spanish households and residential buildings, and agricultural products in Canada; it also includes a case study on urban carbon footprints.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Science
ISBN : UIUC:30112111824295

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The American Journal of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11875263

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American Journal of Science by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mrs. Gambold
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Botany
ISBN : UIUC:30112085265459

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The American Journal of Science by Mrs. Gambold Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:73002705

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Munsey's Magazine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN : OSU:32435051463768

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Munsey's Weekly by Anonim Pdf

Author : S. S. VAN DINE
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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THE CANARY MURDER CASE by S. S. VAN DINE Pdf

For many years I was the personal attorney and constant companion of Mr. Philo Vance; and this period covered the four years during which Mr. John F.-X. Markham, Vance’s closest friend, was District Attorney of New York. As a result it was my privilege to be a spectator of what I believe was the most amazing series of criminal cases that ever passed before the eyes of a young lawyer. Indeed, the grim dramas I witnessed during that period constitute one of the most astonishing secret documents in American police history. Of these dramas Vance was the central character. By an analytical and interpretative process which, as far as I know, has never before been applied to criminal activities, he succeeded in solving many of the important crimes on which both the police and the District Attorney’s office had hopelessly fallen down. Due to my peculiar relations with Vance it happened that not only did I participate in all the cases with which he was connected, but I was also present at most of the informal discussions concerning them which took place between him and the District Attorney; and, being of methodical temperament, I kept a complete record of them. It is fortunate that I performed this gratuitous labor of accumulation and transcription, for now that circumstances have rendered possible my making the cases public, I am able to present them in full detail and with all their various sidelights and succeeding steps. In another volume—“The Benson Murder Case”—I have related how Vance happened to become involved in criminal investigation, and have also set forth the unique analytic methods of crime detection by which he solved the problem of Alvin Benson’s mysterious murder. The present chronicle has to do with Vance’s solution of the brutal murder of Margaret Odell—a cause célèbre which came to be known as the “Canary” murder. The strangeness, the daring, the seeming impenetrability of the crime marked it as one of the most singular and astonishing cases in New York’s police annals; and had it not been for Philo Vance’s participation in its solution, I firmly believe it would have remained one of the great unsolved mysteries of this country...FROM THE BOOKS.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433081756474

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Epoch by Anonim Pdf