Teacups And Sandstorms

Author : Susan Yorke
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781491769294

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Teacups and Sandstorms by Susan Yorke Pdf

Herman Strickland is a die-hard English professor and self-professed nerd who lives and breathes science fiction, history, and rock and roll. As he meticulously tracks his daily activities in journals and battles a chronic health issue, he tackles the grammar and language problems of Colorado youth and attempts to make a difference in their lives. Thanks to Alfred P. Handleman, his long-time friend who makes it his mission to keep him in line, Herman manages to remember most of his students’ names and somehow endures his troublesome physical ailments. One night when the threat of a tornado causes Herman to seek cover in his bathtub for the night, he passes the time by reflecting on a past filled with life lessons and a surprise encounter with his niece, Jade. But it is what happens after the tornado passes that will change everything in Herman’s life forever as he receives a shocking diagnosis. Teacups and Sandstorms is the tale of one man’s journey through life as he fights a silent battle with Crohn’s Disease with help from a rather entertaining group of friends.

Author : Margaret E. Ragless
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : South Australia
ISBN : 0858641100

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Dust Storms in China Teacups by Margaret E. Ragless Pdf

John Ragless, Sr. (1789-1877) was the son of Richard Ragless and Mary Penfold Ragless of Angmering, Sussex, England. He married Elizabeth Cobb (1790-1879) the daughter of George Cobb and Sophia Tull of Fulham, Middlesex, England in 1815. He worked as a pit-sawyer and their family moved around the southern area near London. The family emigrated 1838 to South Australia and settled at Enfield. They were the parents of eleven children: John, Sophie, Richard, Benjamin, William Cobb, George, Thomas, Oliver, Mary Penfold, Joseph Francis and Elizabeth. Several generations of descendants are given.

Author : Rebecca Diem
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Airships
ISBN : 1775271900

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Of Tempests and Teacups by Rebecca Diem Pdf

Author : Sarah Beth Durst
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781460330111

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The Lost by Sarah Beth Durst Pdf

Brilliantly riveting. * Thought-provoking and stirring. ** Award-winning author Sarah Beth Durst has been praised for her captivating novels that merge the darkly imagined with very real themes of self-discovery and destiny. In The Lost, we'll discover just what it means to lose one's way…. It was only meant to be a brief detour. But then Lauren finds herself trapped in a town called Lost on the edge of a desert, filled with things abandoned, broken and thrown away. And when she tries to escape, impassible dust storms and something unexplainable lead her back to Lost again and again. The residents she meets there tell her she's going to have to figure out just what she's missing—and what she's running from—before she can leave. So now Lauren's on a new search for a purpose and a destiny. And maybe, just maybe, she'll be found…. Against the backdrop of this desolate and mystical town, Sarah Beth Durst writes an arresting, fantastical novel of one woman's impossible journey…and her quest to find her fate. *Booklist, starred review, for Vessel **Kirkus Reviews, starred review, for Vessel

Author : Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781466879294

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The China Collectors by Karl E. Meyer,Shareen Blair Brysac Pdf

Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? The China Collectors is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong's 1949 ascent. The principal gatherers are mostly little known and defy invention. They included "foreign devils" who braved desert sandstorms, bandits and local warlords in acquiring significant works. Adventurous curators like Langdon Warner, a forebear of Indiana Jones, argued that the caves of Dunhuang were already threatened by vandals, thereby justifying the removal of frescoes and sculptures. Other Americans include George Kates, an alumnus of Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood, who fell in love with Ming furniture. The Chinese were divided between dealers who profited from the artworks' removal, and scholars who sought to protect their country's patrimony. Duanfang, the greatest Chinese collector of his era, was beheaded in a coup and his splendid bronzes now adorn major museums. Others in this rich tapestry include Charles Lang Freer, an enlightened Detroit entrepreneur, two generations of Rockefellers, and Avery Brundage, the imperious Olympian, and Arthur Sackler, the grand acquisitor. No less important are two museum directors, Cleveland's Sherman Lee and Kansas City's Laurence Sickman, who challenged the East Coast's hegemony. Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer even-handedly consider whether ancient treasures were looted or salvaged, and whether it was morally acceptable to spirit hitherto inaccessible objects westward, where they could be studied and preserved by trained museum personnel. And how should the US and Canada and their museums respond now that China has the means and will to reclaim its missing patrimony?

Author : Denis Gifford
Publisher : Newton Abbot : David and Charles
Page : 1068 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : UCAL:B5095783

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The British Film Catalogue, 1895-1970 by Denis Gifford Pdf

Geannot. filmogr. - Met bibliogr., cred., ind. - Ook aanwezig als: The British film catalogue 1895-1985 : a reference guide. - Rev. and updated ed. - Cop. 1986. - 23 p., 15289 lemma's. - ISBN 0-7153-8835-5.

Author : Elaine Dundy
Publisher : Virago
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781405514927

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The Dud Avocado by Elaine Dundy Pdf

'One of the best novels about growing up fast' GUARDIAN 'One falls for Sally Jay Gorce from a great height from the first sentence' OBSERVER 'Scandalous and entertaining . . . Both funny and true' EVENING STANDARD The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status on first publication and remains a timeless portrait of a woman hellbent on living. Sally Jay Gorce is a woman with a mission. It's the 1950s, she's young and she's in Paris. Having dyed her hair pink, she wears evening dresses in the daytime and vows to go native in a way not even the natives can manage. Embarking on an educational programme that includes an affair with a married man (which fizzles out when she realises he's single and wants to marry her); nights in cabarets and jazz clubs in the company of assorted "citizens of the world"; an entanglement with a charming psychopath and a bit part in a film financed by a famous matador. But an education like this doesn't come cheap. Will our heroine be forced back to the States to fulfill her destiny as a librarian, or can she keep up her whirlwind Parisian existence? Books included in the VMC 40th anniversary series include: Frost in May by Antonia White; The Collected Stories of Grace Paley; Fire from Heaven by Mary Renault; The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter; The Weather in the Streets by Rosamond Lehmann; Deep Water by Patricia Highsmith; The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West; Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston; Heartburn by Nora Ephron; Memento Mori by Muriel Spark; A View of the Harbour by Elizabeth Taylor; and Faces in the Water by Janet Frame

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1916
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UIUC:30112002528336

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The Song of the Lark by Willa Cather Pdf

A novelist and short-story writer, Willa Cather is today widely regarded as one of the foremost American authors of the twentieth century. Particularly renowned for the memorable women she created for such works as My Antonia and O Pioneers!, she pens the portrait of another formidable character in The Song of the Lark. This, her third novel, traces the struggle of the woman as artist in an era when a woman's role was far more rigidly defined than it is today. The prototype for the main character as a child and adolescent was Cather herself, while a leading Wagnerian soprano at the Metropolitan Opera (Olive Fremstad) became the model for Thea Kronborg, the singer who defies the limitations placed on women of her time and social station to become an international opera star. A coming-of-age-novel, important for the issues of gender and class that it explores, The Song of the Lark is one of Cather's most popular and lyrical works. Book jacket.

Author : K. Muralidharan
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811618352

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Sustainable Development and Quality of Life by K. Muralidharan Pdf

This book aims at sensitizing readers towards sustainability and encourages them to understand the importance of lean, green and clean (LGC) issues pertaining to everyday life. The necessity of measurement-based evaluations, statistical significance of material use, and energy are discussed. The book focuses on the importance of climate change issues and environmental concerns associated with lean production and manufacturing. Emphasis is laid on understanding and applying the concepts of quality through project management and measurement based assessment methods. A wide range of audience, including students, teachers, quality professionals, management consultants, lean and Six Sigma practitioners, will find this book valuable.

Author : Ranulph Fiennes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471137983

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Heat by Ranulph Fiennes Pdf

Ranulph Fiennes, the world's greatest living explorer, has travelled to some of the most remote, dangerous parts of the globe. Well-known for his experiences at the poles and climbing Everest, he has also endured some of the hottest conditions on the planet, where temperatures regularly exceed 40 degrees and, without water and shelter, death is inevitable.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0912509090

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The Book of King Solomon by Anonim Pdf

The story of King Solomon, as told by his court historian.

Author : Haley Stewart
Publisher : Ave Maria Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781594718182

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The Grace of Enough by Haley Stewart Pdf

Do you ever feel caught in an endless cycle of working harder and longer to get more while enjoying life less? The Stewart family did—and they decided to make a radical change. Popular Catholic blogger and podcaster Haley Stewart explains how a year-long internship on a sustainable farm changed her family’s life for the better, allowing them to live gospel values more intentionally. When Haley Stewart married her bee-keeping sweetheart, Daniel, they dreamed of a life centered on home and family. But as the children arrived and Daniel was forced to work longer hours at a job he liked less and less, they dared to break free from the unending cycle of getting more yet feeling unfufilled. They sold their Florida home and retreated to Texas to live on a farm with a compost toilet and 650 square feet of space for a family of five. Surprisingly, they found that they had never been happier. In The Grace of Enough, Stewart shares essential elements of intentional Christian living that her family discovered during that extraordinary year on the farm and that they continue to practice today. You, too, will be inspired to: live simply offer hospitality revive food culture and the family table reconnect with the land nurture community prioritize beauty develop a sense of wonder be intentional about technology seek authentic intimacy center life around home, family, and relationships Drawing from Pope Francis’s encyclical on the environment, Laudato Si’, Stewart identifies elements of Catholic social teaching that will enhance your life and create a ripple effect of grace to help you overcome the effects of today’s “throwaway” culture and experience a deeper satisfaction and stronger faith.

Author : Erin Swan
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780593299340

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Walk the Vanished Earth by Erin Swan Pdf

"This rich, endlessly engaging novel is, one hopes, the first in a long career for an author who has the talent and imagination to write whatever she wants." --The New York Times In the tradition of Station Eleven, Severance and The Dog Stars, a beautifully written and emotionally stirring dystopian novel about how our dreams of the future may shift as our environment changes rapidly, even as the earth continues to spin. The year is 1873, and a bison hunter named Samson travels the Kansas plains, full of hope for his new country. The year is 1975, and an adolescent girl named Bea walks those very same plains; pregnant, mute, and raised in extreme seclusion, she lands in an institution, where a well-meaning psychiatrist struggles to decipher the pictures she draws of her past. The year is 2027 and, after a series of devastating storms, a tenacious engineer named Paul has left behind his banal suburban existence to build a floating city above the drowned streets that were once New Orleans. There with his poet daughter he rules over a society of dreamers and vagabonds who salvage vintage dresses, ferment rotgut wine out of fruit, paint murals on the ceiling of the Superdome, and try to write the story of their existence. The year is 2073, and Moon has heard only stories of the blue planet—Earth, as they once called it, now succumbed entirely to water. Now that Moon has come of age, she could become a mother if she wanted to–if only she understood what a mother is. Alone on Mars with her two alien uncles, she must decide whether to continue her family line and repopulate humanity on a new planet. A sweeping family epic, told over seven generations, as America changes and so does its dream, Walk the Vanished Earth explores ancestry, legacy, motherhood, the trauma we inherit, and the power of connection in the face of our planet’s imminent collapse. This is a story about the end of the world—but it is also about the beginning of something entirely new. Thoughtful, warm, and wildly prescient, this work of bright imagination promises that, no matter what the future looks like, there is always room for hope.

Author : Robby Charters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1461060753

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The Zondon by Robby Charters Pdf

Ernie Magawan has been bothered by bizarre recurring dreams of outer space and a green crystal. He's tempted to agree with his twin that he might be off in the head - until, during an archaeology dig, he finds the very crystal and realises he's on an mission that started before he was born. The stability of the universe depends on their success. He has to find and wake up six others like himself...

Author : Pascal Garnier
Publisher : Gallic Books
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 191047777X

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A Long Way Off by Pascal Garnier Pdf

'Masterly'John Banville 'Wonderful . . . properly noir'Ian Rankin Marc dreams of going somewhere far, far away - but he'll start by taking his cat and his grown-up daughter, Anne, to an out-of-season resort on the Channel. Reluctant to go home, the curious threesome head south for Agen, whose main claim to fame is its prunes. As their impromptu road trip takes ever stranger turns, the trail of destruction - and mysterious disappearances - mounts up in their wake. Shocking, hilarious and poignant, the final dose of French noir from Pascal Garnier, published shortly before his death, is the author on top form.