Leaning Into the Wind

Leaning Into the Wind PDF Author: Linda M. Hasselstrom
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395901311
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Originally published in 1997 by Houghton Mifflin, this is a collection of true stories, essays and poems which tell of the glories and rigours of living close to the land.

Leaning Into the Wind

Leaning Into the Wind PDF Author: Linda M. Hasselstrom
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395901311
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Book Description
Originally published in 1997 by Houghton Mifflin, this is a collection of true stories, essays and poems which tell of the glories and rigours of living close to the land.

Listen to the Wind, Speak from the Heart

Listen to the Wind, Speak from the Heart PDF Author: Roger Thunderhands Gilbert
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781615931491
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 153

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Imagine sitting around a campfire listening to a wise elder speak wisdom so deep that each short tale could be life changing. Listen to the Wind, Speak from the Heart, tells these kind of stories. Roger Thunderhands Gilbert writes from the heart, passing on the wisdom of his Spirit self in plain, understandable, and passionate language. Thunderhands’s integration of Native American, Taoist, and many other wisdom traditions blend seamlessly, illuminating everything from Earth changes, Hopi and Mayan prophecies, ancient star ancestors, global political climate and protests, technology, food and water crisis and other issues. Thunderhands’s stories are full of light and hope, teaching of love and life, and of the responsibility to the self, the planet, and all people. Combining shamanistic and Eastern knowledge, healing techniques, and practices, this book delivers an important synthesis of insights for today's global culture. Winner 2013 COVR award - Gold

The Wind Is My Mother

The Wind Is My Mother PDF Author: Bear Heart
Publisher: Berkley
ISBN:
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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With eloquent simplicity, one of the world's last Native American Medicine Men demonstrates how traditional tribal wisdom can help us maintain spiritual and physical health in today's world. Bear Heart is both a healer and a "road man" of the Native American Church.

The Shadow of the Wind

The Shadow of the Wind PDF Author: Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101147067
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512

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The New York Times bestseller “The Shadow of the Wind is ultimately a love letter to literature, intended for readers as passionate about storytelling as its young hero.” —Entertainment Weekly (Editor's Choice) “One gorgeous read.” —Stephen King Barcelona, 1945: A city slowly heals in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War, and Daniel, an antiquarian book dealer’s son who mourns the loss of his mother, finds solace in a mysterious book entitled The Shadow of the Wind, by one Julián Carax. But when he sets out to find the author’s other works, he makes a shocking discovery: someone has been systematically destroying every copy of every book Carax has written. In fact, Daniel may have the last of Carax’s books in existence. Soon Daniel’s seemingly innocent quest opens a door into one of Barcelona’s darkest secrets--an epic story of murder, madness, and doomed love.

My Searching Heart

My Searching Heart PDF Author: Crying Wind
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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The Wind In My Heart

The Wind In My Heart PDF Author: Douglas Wynne
Publisher: Crystal Lake Publishing
ISBN: 9781637529850
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Miles Landry is trying to put violence behind him when he takes up work as a private detective focused on humdrum adultery cases. But when a Tibetan monk hires him to find a missing person, things get weird fast. Charged with tracking down the reincarnation of a man possessed by a demonic guardian from the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Miles is plunged into a world of fortune-tellers, gangsters, and tantric rituals. The year is 1991 and a series of grisly murders has rocked New York City in the run up to a visit from the Dalai Lama. The police attribute the killings to Chinatown gang warfare. Miles-skeptical of the supernatural-is inclined to agree. But what if the monster he's hunting is more than a myth? Proudly represented by Crystal Lake Publishing-Tales from the Darkest Depths. Interview with the author: What makes this Horror/Noir novel so special? I've always been attracted to mashups of my favorite genres. I think what makes The Wind In My Heart special is that it takes the best of both worlds from crime novels and horror thrillers and adds a dash of the supernatural with a Tibetan twist. I'd like to think it's a unique cocktail. Tell us more about your lead character. Miles Landry is a private detective with a short fuse and a black sense of humor. He's suffered some personal losses that have left him pretty hardened. He's a pragmatic ex-military man who views the world with a skeptical eye. But he also tries to keep an open mind when his clients have an open wallet. So it's interesting to see what happens when a group of Buddhist monks hires him to solve a supernatural mystery. His world view is bound to clash with theirs, but he may learn something along the way. Why should readers give this book or your work a try? So much of supernatural horror and thriller fiction is based on Judeo-Christian premises. I wanted to explore a different perspective on gods, demons, and the afterlife, and to contrast that with a very American setting. The result is a violent, urban occult thriller with the voice of a classic noir. It's a quick, entertaining read with some deep philosophical roots that have interested me for decades.

The Heart of the Night Wind

The Heart of the Night Wind PDF Author: Vingie Eve Roe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 395

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Defining the Wind

Defining the Wind PDF Author: Scott Huler
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0307420558
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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“Nature, rightly questioned, never lies.” —A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, Third Edition, 1859 Scott Huler was working as a copy editor for a small publisher when he stumbled across the Beaufort Wind Scale in his Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. It was one of those moments of discovery that writers live for. Written centuries ago, its 110 words launched Huler on a remarkable journey over land and sea into a fascinating world of explorers, mariners, scientists, and writers. After falling in love with what he decided was “the best, clearest, and most vigorous piece of descriptive writing I had ever seen,” Huler went in search of Admiral Francis Beaufort himself: hydrographer to the British Admiralty, man of science, and author—Huler assumed—of the Beaufort Wind Scale. But what Huler discovered is that the scale that carries Beaufort’s name has a long and complex evolution, and to properly understand it he had to keep reaching farther back in history, into the lives and works of figures from Daniel Defoe and Charles Darwin to Captains Bligh, of the Bounty, and Cook, of the Endeavor. As hydrographer to the British Admiralty it was Beaufort’s job to track the information that ships relied on: where to lay anchor, descriptions of ports, information about fortification, religion, and trade. But what came to fascinate Huler most about Beaufort was his obsession for observing things and communicating to others what the world looked like. Huler’s research landed him in one of the most fascinating and rich periods of history, because all around the world in the mid-eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, in a grand, expansive period, modern science was being invented every day. These scientific advancements encompassed not only vast leaps in understanding but also how scientific innovation was expressed and even organized, including such enduring developments as the scale Anders Celsius created to simplify how Gabriel Fahrenheit measured temperature; the French-designed metric system; and the Gregorian calendar adopted by France and Great Britain. To Huler, Beaufort came to embody that passion for scientific observation and categorization; indeed Beaufort became the great scientific networker of his time. It was he, for example, who was tapped to lead the search for a naturalist in the 1830s to accompany the crew of the Beagle; he recommended a young naturalist named Charles Darwin. Defining the Wind is a wonderfully readable, often humorous, and always rich story that is ultimately about how we observe the forces of nature and the world around us.

Who Brings Forth the Wind

Who Brings Forth the Wind PDF Author: Lori Wick
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736931902
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Lori Wick’s bestselling series The Kensington Chronicles (more than 375,000 copies sold) has a fresh, new look sure to please her longtime fans and draw a new generation of readers. Set in the 1800s, this series captures the adventure, wealth, and romance of the British empire. Tanner Richardson, the volatile duke of Cambridge, sees his wife with another man. Misinterpreting the situation, he erupts in rage and throws her and their unborn baby out. Tanner’s anger smolders—until the night he is shot....

Close to the Wind

Close to the Wind PDF Author: Jon Walter
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 054582298X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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A simple, resonant, and utterly heart-shattering debut about greed, love, trust and what matters most when your world falls apart. A war-torn country... only one way out.Ten-year-old Malik's world is falling apart. Soldiers have invaded town, and his mother is missing, leaving Malik with his grandfather, Papa. Along with a thousand other refugees, their hope for escape to a new life lies in gaining passage aboard one ship -- but the demand for tickets is high, and so is the cost. Can they make it on? And will they find Mama before the ship departs? When things don't go as planned, Malik must summon all of his courage and resourcefulness to survive.A heart-wrenching and suspenseful story of sacrifice and resilience, Close to the Wind confronts the realities of war in a timeless and accessible way.