The Rain Belongs Here

Author : Dhir Dayal
Publisher : Archway Publishing
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781665733854

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Yes, I Belong Here by Dhir Dayal Pdf

It’s almost dreamy to study in a prosperous North American university, where they welcome foreign students and enable them to become sponges for knowledge. North America offers great promise for study abroad students from developing societies. The students not only gain knowledge and learn about new traditions, but they form enduring friendships. Yes, I Belong Here traces the life of author Dhir Dayal, an international student who traveled abroad for higher studies and earned three graduate degrees. He conveys his serendipitous experiences while pursuing his studies in North America. Dayal exposes his life to future foreign students who might benefit in charting their journey in an environment radically different from their motherland. In this memoir, Dayal discusses what American university life was like for him, a student who had grown up in a small village in India. He shares the ups and downs, the joys and challenges, and the expected and unexpected as he charted his own course for educational achievements.

Author : Julie Rogers
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1999254007

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The Rain Belongs Here by Julie Rogers Pdf

If she succeeds in finding her missing brother he'll be charged with murder. If she fails, he won't survive on his own.

Author : Marius Jacobs
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783642727931

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The Tropical Rain Forest by Marius Jacobs Pdf

In recent years, tropical forests have received more attention and have been the subject of greater environmental concern than any other kind of vegetation. There is an increasing public awareness of the importance of these forests, not only as a diminishing source of countless products used by mankind, nor for their effects on soil stabilization and climate, but as unrivalled sources of what today we call biodiversity. Threats to the continued existence of the forests represent threats to tens of thousands of species of organisms, both plants and animals. It is all the more surprising, therefore, that there have been no major scientific accounts published in recent years since the classic handbook by Paul W. Richards, The Tropical Rain Forest in 1952. Some excellent popular accounts of tropical rain forests have been published including Paul Richard's The Life of the Jungle, and Catherine Caulfield's In the Rainforest and Jungles, edited by Edward Ayensu. There have been numerous, often conflicting, assessments of the rate of conversion of tropical forests to other uses and explanations of the underlying causes, and in 1978 UNESCO/UNEPI FAO published a massive report, The Tropical Rain Forest, which, although full of useful information, is highly selective and does not fully survey the enormous diversity of the forests.

Author : Susan Andres
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781438921587

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The Rain Climber by Susan Andres Pdf

Author : Barbara Wood
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781683367673

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The Far River by Barbara Wood Pdf

For as long as anyone could remember, the Schallers and the Newmans had been enemies. When the skeletal remains of a victim of foul play are discovered at the Schaller estate, a decades-old feud between the rival winemaking families is reignited and dark secrets begin to see the light of day. Set against the lush backdrop of the rolling hills of California's Central Coast, The New York Times best-selling author Barbara Wood's thirtieth novel is a generation-spanning saga of love, treachery, and bitterly held grudges.

Author : L. van der Pijl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9783642961083

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Principles of Dispersal in Higher Plants by L. van der Pijl Pdf

Reviewers from diverse branches of botany have exerted pressure to have chapters dealing with their field extended. If only to cover his incompetence, the author could not accede to these requests. Nor was it possible to respond to Eastern European urgings to extend the classificatory terminology, especially in ChapterX. He is grateful for indications of factual shortcomings in the chosen field, especially for those by Dr. RUDOLF SCHMID (Ann Arbor), who provided exten sive comment. L. VAN DER PIlL The Hague, spring 1972 Preface to the First Edition The work offered here is a companion volume to the work by K. FAEGRI and 1. VAN DER PIJL, Principles of Pollination Ecology, whim. deals with the preced ing phase of reproduction in plants. In the present work too, the emphasis is on principles and ecology. It is neither an enumeration of mechanisms, nor a compilation of cases. RIDLEY'S monumental work The Dispersal of Plants Throughout the World comprises 700 large pages of small print, and research has proceeded since then. Though this work is more than just a compilation and contains much insight and thoughts on principles in addition to reviews, its completeness hinders its use as a text book. As a reference work, it is unsurpassed and the writer made frequent use of it. The writer paid special attention to functional backgrounds for the use of taxonomists working with "characters" and to biosystematics at the macro-level.

Author : R. L. Toalson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-18
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781499808155

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The Colors of the Rain by R. L. Toalson Pdf

This historical middle grade novel written in free verse, set against the backdrop of the desegregation battles that took place in Houston, Texas, in 1972, is about a young boy and his family dealing with loss and the revelation of dark family secrets. Ten-year-old Paulie Sanders hates his name because it also belonged to his daddy—his daddy who killed a fellow white man and then crashed his car. With his mama unable to cope, Paulie and his sister, Charlie, move in with their Aunt Bee and attend a new elementary school. But it’s 1972, and this new school puts them right in the middle of the Houston School District’s war on desegregation. Paulie soon begins to question everything. He hears his daddy’s crime was a race-related one; he killed a white man defending a black man, and when Paulie starts picking fights with a black boy at school, he must face his reasons for doing so. When dark family secrets are revealed, the way forward for everyone will change the way Paulie thinks about family forever. The Colors of the Rain is an authentic, heartbreaking portrait of loss and human connection during an era fraught with racial tension set in verse from debut author R. L. Toalson.

Author : Gillian Flynn
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307588388

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Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes ONE OF TIME'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME, ONE OF CNN'S MOST INFLUENTIAL BOOKS OF THE DECADE, AND ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY'S BEST BOOKS OF THE DECADE ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Janet Maslin, The New York Times, People, Entertainment Weekly, O: The Oprah Magazine, Slate, Kansas City Star, USA Today, Christian Science Monitor On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations are being made when Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears. Husband-of-the-Year Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Under mounting pressure from the police and the media—as well as Amy’s fiercely doting parents—the town golden boy parades an endless series of lies, deceits, and inappropriate behavior. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: San Francisco Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Chicago Tribune, HuffPost, Newsday

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1256 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498330

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Catalog of Copyright Entries by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Author : Helen Susan Swift
Publisher : Next Chapter
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : PKEY:6610000325924

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Dark Mountain by Helen Susan Swift Pdf

In the West Highlands of Scotland, after the end of World War One, Brenda and her friends are preparing for an expedition of a lifetime: climbing An Cailleach, also known as The Witch. But even before they reach the base of the mountain, they realize that something is wrong. Strange apparitions, even stranger locals and ancient superstitions tell them of the dangerous path they have chosen. When things take a turn for the worse, will friendship be more important than survival?

Author : Jeff Porter
Publisher : Akashic Books
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-05
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781617758690

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Planet Claire: Suite for Cello and Sad-Eyed Lovers by Jeff Porter Pdf

The second installment in Ann Hood’s Gracie Belle imprint challenges the traditional solemnity that characterizes nonfiction books of grief, loss, and sorrow. “Few readers will fail to be gripped by this tragically common story about death and what comes after for those left behind . . . A haunting and thought-provoking consideration of death and ‘how utterly it rips apart our lives.'” —Kirkus Reviews, Starred Review Planet Claire is the story of the untimely death of the author’s wife and his candid account of the following year of madness and grief. As his life unravels, Porter analyzes his sadness with growing interest. He talks to Claire as if to evoke a presence, to mark a space for memory. He reports on his daily walks and shares observations of life’s sadness, while reminiscing about various moments in their life together. Like Orpheus, the author searches for a lost love, and what he finds is not the dog of doom but flashes of an intimate symmetry that brighten the darkest places of sorrow. The second title from Ann Hood’s Gracie Belle imprint, Planet Claire takes readers on a journey of sorrow that recalls memorable works by C.S. Lewis (A Grief Observed), Joan Didion (The Year of Magical Thinking), and Julian Barnes (Levels of Life). Porter’s memoir, however, is also playful, quirky, and self-ironic in a way that challenges the genre’s traditional solemnity. Like the novel Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter, this is an unpredictably funny account of heartbreak, as if to say there’s something about the magnitude of loss that troubles even earnestness.

Author : Annie Proulx
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476771823

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Barkskins by Annie Proulx Pdf

Now a television mini-series airing on National Geographic May 2020! A Washington Post Best Book of the Year & a New York Times Notable Book From the Pulitzer Prize–­­winning author of The Shipping News and “Brokeback Mountain,” comes the New York Times bestselling epic about the demise of the world’s forests: “Barkskins is grand entertainment in the tradition of Dickens and Tolstoy…the crowning achievement of Annie Proulx’s distinguished career, but also perhaps the greatest environmental novel ever written” (San Francisco Chronicle). In the late seventeenth century two young Frenchmen, René Sel and Charles Duquet, arrive in New France. Bound to a feudal lord for three years in exchange for land, they become wood-cutters—barkskins. René suffers extraordinary hardship, oppressed by the forest he is charged with clearing. He is forced to marry a native woman and their descendants live trapped between two cultures. But Duquet runs away, becomes a fur trader, then sets up a timber business. Annie Proulx tells the stories of the descendants of Sel and Duquet over three hundred years—their travels across North America, to Europe, China, and New Zealand—the revenge of rivals, accidents, pestilence, Indian attacks, and cultural annihilation. Over and over, they seize what they can of a presumed infinite resource, leaving the modern-day characters face to face with possible ecological collapse. “A stunning, bracing, full-tilt ride through three hundred years of US and Canadian history…with the type of full-immersion plot that keeps you curled in your chair, reluctant to stop reading” (Elle), Barkskins showcases Proulx’s inimitable genius of creating characters who are so vivid that we follow them with fierce attention. “This is Proulx at the height of her powers as an irreplaceable American voice” (Entertainment Weekly, Grade A), and Barkskins “is an awesome monument of a book” (The Washington Post)—“the masterpiece she was meant to write” (The Boston Globe). As Anthony Doerr says, “This magnificent novel possesses the dark humor of The Shipping News and the social awareness of ‘Brokeback Mountain.’”

Author : Margaret Butcher
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781552381663

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The Letters of Margaret Butcher by Margaret Butcher Pdf

Margaret Butcher served as a missionary nurse and teacher at the Elizabeth Long Memorial Home, a residential school in Kitamaat, British Columbia. This collection of letters, written to family and friends, offers a compelling glimpse at her experiences among the Haisla people.

Author : Scott Westerfeld
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407173917

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Horizon: Horizon #1 by Scott Westerfeld Pdf

This harrowing tale of supernatural suspense kicks off a new series from the visionary mind of #1 New York Times bestselling author Scott Westerfeld. When a plane crash-lands in the arctic, eight young survivors step from the wreckage expecting to see nothing but ice and snow. Instead they find themselves lost in a strange jungle with no way to get home and little hope of rescue. Food is running out. Water is scarce. And the jungle is full of threats unlike anything the survivors have ever seen before--from razor-beaked shredder birds to carnivorous vines and much, much worse. With danger at every turn, these eight kids must learn to work together to survive. But cliques and rivalries threaten to tear them apart. And not everyone will make it out of the jungle alive.

Author : Joseph Kanon
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780525621591

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The Prodigal Spy by Joseph Kanon Pdf

In a time of accusations, treachery and lies, some secrets were heartbreaking.... Others were deadly. Once, Nick Kotlar tried to save his father. From the angry questions. From the accusations. From a piece of evidence that only Nick knew about and that he destroyed—for his father. But in the Red Scare of 1950 Walter Kotlar could not be saved. Branded a spy, he fled the country, leaving behind a wife, a young son—and a key witness lying dead below her D.C. hotel room. Now, twenty years later, Nick will get a second chance. Because a beautiful journalist has brought a message from his long-lost father, and Nick will follow her into Soviet-occupied Prague for a painful reunion. Confronting a father he barely remembers and a secret that could change everything, Nick knows he must return to the place where it all began: to unravel a lie, to penetrate a deadly conspiracy, and to expose the one person who knew the truth—and watched a family be destroyed.