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The Rains

Author : Gregg Hurwitz
Publisher : Tor Teen
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781466888517

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The first young adult page-turner from New York Times bestselling author Gregg Hurwitz. In one terrifying night, the peaceful community of Creek's Cause turns into a war zone. No one under the age of eighteen is safe. Chance Rain and his older brother, Patrick, have already fended off multiple attacks from infected adults by the time they arrive at the school where other young survivors are hiding. Most of the kids they know have been dragged away by once-trusted adults who are now ferocious, inhuman beings. The parasite that transformed them takes hold after people turn eighteen--and Patrick's birthday is only a few days away. Determined to save Patrick's life and the lives of the remaining kids, the brothers embark on a mission to uncover the truth about the parasites--and what they find is horrifying. Battling an enemy not of this earth, Chance and Patrick become humanity's only hope for salvation. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Before the Rains

Author : Dinah Jefferies
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780241978825

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A romantic, heart-wrenching tale of love against the odds from the Number One Sunday Times bestselling author 1930, Rajputana, India. Since her husband's death, 28-year-old photojournalist Eliza's only companion has been her camera. When the British Government send her to an Indian princely state to photograph the royal family, she's determined to make a name for herself. But when Eliza arrives at the palace she meets Jay, the Prince's handsome, brooding brother. While Eliza awakens Jay to the poverty of his people, he awakens her to the injustices of British rule. Soon Jay and Eliza find they have more in common than they think. But their families - and society - think otherwise. Eventually they will have to make a choice between doing what's expected, or following their hearts. . .

When the Rains Come

Author : John Alcock
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780816527625

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Life in the desert is a waiting game: waiting for rain. And in a year of drought, the stakes are especially high. John Alcock knows the Sonoran Desert better than just about anyone else, and in this book he tracks the changes he observes in plant and animal life over the course of a drought year. Combining scientific knowledge with years of exploring the desert, he describes the variety of ways in which the wait for rain takes place—and what happens when it finally comes. The desert is a land of five seasons, featuring two summers—hot, dry months followed by monsoon—and Alcock looks at the changes that take place in an entire desert community over the course of all five. He describes what he finds on hikes in the Usery Mountains near Phoenix, where he has studied desert life over three decades and where frequent visits have enabled him to notice effects of seasonal variation that might escape a casual glance. Blending a personal perspective with field observation, Alcock shows how desert ecology depends entirely on rainfall. He touches on a wide range of topics concerning the desert’s natural history, noting the response of saguaro flowers to heat and the habits of predators, whether soaring red-tailed hawk or tiny horned lizard. He also describes unusual aspects of insects that few desert hikers will have noticed, such as the disruptive color pattern of certain grasshoppers that is more effective than most camouflage. When the Rains Come is brimming with new insights into the desert, from the mating behaviors of insects to urban sprawl, and features photographs that document changes in the landscape as drought years come and go. It brings us the desert in the harshest of times—and shows that it is still teeming with life.

Farms the Rains Can't Take

Author : Kenneth Pickett Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1942
Category : Soil conservation
ISBN : UVA:X030354117

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And So the Rains Must Fall

Author : David Sickmeier
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024-03-29
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781387832637

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Leaving Before the Rains Come

Author : Alexandra Fuller
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780345814876

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Looking to rebuild after a painful divorce, Alexandra Fuller turns to her African past for clues to living a life fully and without fear. A child of the Rhodesian wars and daughter of 2 deeply complicated parents, Alexandra Fuller is no stranger to pain. But the disintegration of Fuller's own marriage leaves her shattered. Looking to pick up the pieces of her life, she confronts the tough questions about her past, about the American man she married, and the family she left behind in Africa. A breathtaking achievement, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a memoir of such grace and intelligence, filled with such wit and courage, that it could only have been written by Alexandra Fuller. Leaving Before the Rains Come begins with the dreadful first years of the American financial crisis when Fuller's delicate balance--between American pragmatism and African fatalism, the linchpin of her unorthodox marriage--irrevocably fails. Recalling her unusual courtship in Zambia--elephant attacks on the first date, sick with malaria on the wedding day--Fuller struggles to understand her younger self as she overcomes her current misfortunes. Fuller soon realizes that what is missing from her life is something that was always there: the brash and uncompromising ways of her father, the man who warned his daughter that "the problem with most people is that they want to be alive for as long as possible without having any idea whatsoever how to live." Fuller's father--"Tim Fuller of No Fixed Abode" as he first introduced himself to his future wife--was a man who regretted nothing and wanted less, even after fighting harder and losing more than most men could bear. Leaving Before the Rains Come showcases Fuller at the peak of her abilities, threading panoramic vistas with her deepest revelations as a fully grown woman and mother. Fuller reveals how--after spending a lifetime fearfully waiting for someone to show up and save her--she discovered that, in the end, we all simply have to save ourselves. An unforgettable book, Leaving Before the Rains Come is a story of sorrow grounded in the tragic grandeur and rueful joy only to be found in Fuller's Africa.

Butterflies, Love & the Rains

Author : SANGEETA SAIKIA PATHAK
Publisher : Zorba Books
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-16
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9789393029409

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An anthology of sixteen award winning stories, short stories by Sangeeta Saikia Pathak is all about the varied human emotions ranging from love & romances, family drama & intrigues to the terror let loose by gunshots and slogans reigning in the air during the crucial hours of agitations (andolaan) from her homeland, Assam!!! With her award winning stories based mostly in Guwahati, Assam there are some vivid references to the natural beauty of her place like the majestic waters of the river Brahmaputra, the tea-gardens of Upper Assam, the Kamakhya Hills, the Kaziranga National Park, the premier college and Universities of Assam besides the overcrowded market places like Fancy Bazar, Maligaon and Uzanbazar….

During the Rains & Flowers in the Shade

Author : Kaf? Nagai
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0804722595

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Nagai Kafu was one of the most important Japanese writers of fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. He is best known for his evocative descriptions of the moods and fancies of Tokyo: its gardens and canals, its streets and alleys, its people, and above all its women - especially the kept women, geisha, and prostitutes. During the Rains and Flowers in the Shade, which appear here in English for the first time, are set in the Tokyo of the 1930's. Most of the seedy neighborhoods that Kafu so lovingly describes have long since vanished, either in the bombing raids of 1945 or in the rebuilding that followed. Kafu's sympathies are clearly with the women that figure in these stories. A man wedded to the past, happy only in retrospect, Kafu saw in the world of the demimondaine the last tattered vestiges of the old Tokyo, when it was called Edo. He also saw in their day-to-day life the only honest way to live, the love with the least falsehood, in a materialistic, hypocritical society. During the Rains (1931) is the story of the vicissitudes of an amiable and lascivious Ginza cafe girl. It is considered to be among Kafu's masterpieces by many writers, critics, and scholars, including Donald Keene: "One of Kafu's finest achievements....The exceptional praise that During the Rains won from discriminating critics was occasioned chiefly by the novelistic interest. The detached analysis of a group of people makes the story read like a work of French Naturalism, though a few passages...evoke the beauty of place and season in the typical Kafu manner." Flowers in the Shade might almost be called a continuation of During the Rains. Its hero, kept by a wealthy woman in his student days, ends up in his forties being supported by a prostitute. Donald Keene says that Kafu "makes us see and all but smell the dingy rooms he describes, without ever allowing us to pass judgment on them or their inhabitants. Kafu neither approves or disapproves of his characters, and if he tells us in detail about their past it is not in order to demonstrate how environment and heredity have determined their lives...but to assuage our curiosity as to how Jukichi came to live off women, how a particular woman happened to become a prostitute or a procuress, and so on." The present volume contains a Preface by the translator that briefly summarizes Kafu's life and career.

Until It Rains Again

Author : Ruchikaa Bhuyan
Publisher : Blue Rose Publishers
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Until It Rains Again by Ruchikaa Bhuyan Pdf

Until It Rains Again' is a 2021 coming-of-age fiction novel by teen author Ruchika Rashya Bhuyan that explores the journey of seventeen-year-old Alaina Kaur, its protagonist, as she approaches the cusp of adulthood and finds herself in a mental ruckus of friendship, relationships, and sexuality. The story beautifully portrays presently sensitive themes like mental health and unconventional romance through a gripping first-person narration. It is a perfect read for cravers of romance and bildungsroman narratives.

Monique and the Mango Rains

Author : Kris Holloway
Publisher : Waveland Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2006-07-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781478609025

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Monique and the Mango Rains by Kris Holloway Pdf

In a remote corner of West Africa, Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope every day in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of the authors decade-long friendship with Monique, an extraordinary midwife in rural Mali. It is a tale of Moniques unquenchable passion to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless backbreaking work, as well as her tragic and ironic death. In the course of this deeply personal narrative, as readers immerse in village life and learn firsthand the rhythms of Moniques world, they come to know her as a friend, as a mother, and as an inspired woman who struggled to find her place in a male-dominated world.

Deadly Rains

Author : Diane Compagno
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2002-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780595222483

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Reports of strange deaths in a remote area of Utah trigger an investigation by the CDC. Carol McCoy finds that a strange substance falling along with the rain is killing animals and humans. Not only does death follow this strange phenomenon, but wherever the rain falls the landscape changes. It is up to Carol to discover the secrets of the rain and determine how to stop it before it destroys the human race.

Spring, Heat, Rains

Author : David Shulman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780226755786

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“Rocks. Goats. Dry shrubs. Buffaloes. Thorns. A fallen tamarind tree.” Such were the sights that greeted David Shulman on his arrival in the South Indian state of Andhra Pradesh in the spring of 2006. An expert on South Indian languages and cultures, Shulman knew the region well, but from the moment he arrived for this seven-month sojourn he actively soaked up such simple aspects of his surroundings, determined to attend to the rich texture of daily life—choosing to be at the same time scholar and tourist, wanderer and wonderer. Lyrical, sensual, and introspective, Spring, Heat, Rains is Shulman’s diary of that experience. Evocative reflections on daily events—from explorations of crumbling temples to battles with ineradicable bugs to joyous dinners with friends—are organically interwoven with considerations of the ancient poetry and myths that remain such an inextricable part of life in contemporary India. With Shulman as our guide, we meet singers and poets, washermen and betel-nut vendors, modern literati and ancient gods and goddesses. We marvel at the “golden electrocution” that is the taste of a mango fresh from the tree. And we plunge into the searing heat of an Indian summer, so oppressive and inescapable that when the monsoon arrives to banish the heat with sheets of rain, we understand why, year after year, it is celebrated as a miracle. An unabashedly personal account from a scholar whose deep knowledge has never obscured his joy in discovery, Spring, Heat, Rains is a passionate act of sharing, an unforgettable gift for anyone who has ever dreamed of India.

The Manufacture of Poi from Taro in Hawaii

Author : Carey Dunlap Miller,Charles Mountjoy Bice,Charles Richter,Frederick George Krauss,Howard Adorno Powers,John Carson Ripperton,Louis Albert Henke,Oscar Nelson Allen,Willis Thomas Pope,Ethel Kullmann Allen,Yasuo Baron Goto
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : UIUC:30112055079419

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Telegraphic Mining Code

Author : Charles Algernon Moreing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Cipher and telegraph codes
ISBN : UCAL:$B38628

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