Author: Major Mayo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781098317799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This is an autobiography of my life that begins with growing up in a small town in Ohio and continues to the present. I'm wrote this for my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
It Always Rains on Monday
Author: Major Mayo
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781098317799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This is an autobiography of my life that begins with growing up in a small town in Ohio and continues to the present. I'm wrote this for my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781098317799
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158
Book Description
This is an autobiography of my life that begins with growing up in a small town in Ohio and continues to the present. I'm wrote this for my children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
Rain
Author: Cynthia Barnett
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0804137110
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
Publisher: Crown
ISBN: 0804137110
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our "founding forecaster," Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it.
It Always Rains on Sundays
Author: Roger Johnson
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784621803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Cyn. Cyn, where have you bin? I’ve been trying to call you all day. Expect you’re in bed with Kevin the Red, Where the skies are not cloudy all day. Life is happy for 40-year-old poetry buff and senior librarian Colin Quirke, happily married to Cynthia for thirteen years with two great kids. Not so for Cynthia. Cyn is bored. This all changes when a new, younger couple moves in next door. Eddie and ditsy blonde Avril’s motto is ‘Life is for living!’. Wild parties with loud music are soon followed by girls’ nights out, and life will never be the same on the De Lacey Street cul-de-sac. In the meantime, Eddie is killed in a tragic micro-light plane accident. Cyn consoles Avril by taking her to Miami. Next thing you know, she’s met up with some red-haired American guy called Kevin Ranker (aka 'the home-wrecker'). Is divorce on the cards for Cyn and Colin? Consolations, at least. Still, there’s always the lovely Alison at the Poetry Society. Or the new assistant librarian at work, she could be interesting… It Always Rains on Sundays is a laugh-out-loud new novel from BBC prize-winner Roger Johnson. Full of intelligent humour, it is an entertaining read for fans of funny and original fiction.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1784621803
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
Cyn. Cyn, where have you bin? I’ve been trying to call you all day. Expect you’re in bed with Kevin the Red, Where the skies are not cloudy all day. Life is happy for 40-year-old poetry buff and senior librarian Colin Quirke, happily married to Cynthia for thirteen years with two great kids. Not so for Cynthia. Cyn is bored. This all changes when a new, younger couple moves in next door. Eddie and ditsy blonde Avril’s motto is ‘Life is for living!’. Wild parties with loud music are soon followed by girls’ nights out, and life will never be the same on the De Lacey Street cul-de-sac. In the meantime, Eddie is killed in a tragic micro-light plane accident. Cyn consoles Avril by taking her to Miami. Next thing you know, she’s met up with some red-haired American guy called Kevin Ranker (aka 'the home-wrecker'). Is divorce on the cards for Cyn and Colin? Consolations, at least. Still, there’s always the lovely Alison at the Poetry Society. Or the new assistant librarian at work, she could be interesting… It Always Rains on Sundays is a laugh-out-loud new novel from BBC prize-winner Roger Johnson. Full of intelligent humour, it is an entertaining read for fans of funny and original fiction.
It Always Rains in November
Author: Richard Hoffman
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1848762011
Category : Child sexual abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
It Always Rains in November follows the story of a dysfunctional family, hiding a dark, disturbing secret.
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN: 1848762011
Category : Child sexual abuse
Languages : en
Pages : 249
Book Description
It Always Rains in November follows the story of a dysfunctional family, hiding a dark, disturbing secret.
The Illustrated Man
Author: Ray Bradbury
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451678185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451678185
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Eighteen science fiction stories deal with love, madness, and death on Mars, Venus, and in space.
The City When It Rains
Author: Thomas H. Cook
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453228020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
DIVDIVA photographer struggles to understand a stranger’s suicide/divDIV /divDIVThere’s nothing special about the woman’s death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But something about the gruesome scene grabs David Corman’s attention. A freelance photographer with a defunct marriage and a career on the skids, he fixates on this mysterious death. Though near starvation, the woman had been buying formula to feed to a baby doll. Before she leapt, she tossed the plastic child out the window. /divDIV /divDIVDavid photographs the dead woman and her pretend child; although he’s jaded, the strange scene stirs his compassion, and he begins researching her past. He’s convinced that his job has shown him the worst the city has to offer. But learning the truth behind this futile suicide will teach David that New York is even uglier than he imagined./div/div
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453228020
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
DIVDIVA photographer struggles to understand a stranger’s suicide/divDIV /divDIVThere’s nothing special about the woman’s death. It comes over the police radio like any other sad story: a woman found on the sidewalk, killed after plunging from her apartment. But something about the gruesome scene grabs David Corman’s attention. A freelance photographer with a defunct marriage and a career on the skids, he fixates on this mysterious death. Though near starvation, the woman had been buying formula to feed to a baby doll. Before she leapt, she tossed the plastic child out the window. /divDIV /divDIVDavid photographs the dead woman and her pretend child; although he’s jaded, the strange scene stirs his compassion, and he begins researching her past. He’s convinced that his job has shown him the worst the city has to offer. But learning the truth behind this futile suicide will teach David that New York is even uglier than he imagined./div/div
Through the Buffer State
Author: John MacGregor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Southeast Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Dear Weirdo
Author: Abraham Smith
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982770481
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A long poem.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780982770481
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 96
Book Description
A long poem.
Richard Scarry's Best Rainy Day Book Ever
Author: Richard Scarry
Publisher: Golden Books
ISBN: 037582927X
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Includes such activities as connecting-the-dots, making holiday decorations and cards, coloring, and making paper models.
Publisher: Golden Books
ISBN: 037582927X
Category : Amusements
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
Includes such activities as connecting-the-dots, making holiday decorations and cards, coloring, and making paper models.
First Rain
Author: Charlotte Herman
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807593958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Abby and her parents have moved to Israel, where they've always dreamed of living. Abby's excited about her new home, but she misses her grandma. As they exchange letters and emails, Abby tells about her new life-learning Hebrew, eating falafel, and floating in the Dead Sea. And through the long dry summer, as she looks forward to the first rain of autumn, she misses how she and Grandma used to splash and play on rainy days. Finally, one morning, Abby hears the long-awaited ping ping ping on the roof. And then something even more wonderful happens. Kathryn Mitter's bright paintings perfectly complement Charlotte Herman's appealing story of the love between a grandma and a little girl.
Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN: 0807593958
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 35
Book Description
Abby and her parents have moved to Israel, where they've always dreamed of living. Abby's excited about her new home, but she misses her grandma. As they exchange letters and emails, Abby tells about her new life-learning Hebrew, eating falafel, and floating in the Dead Sea. And through the long dry summer, as she looks forward to the first rain of autumn, she misses how she and Grandma used to splash and play on rainy days. Finally, one morning, Abby hears the long-awaited ping ping ping on the roof. And then something even more wonderful happens. Kathryn Mitter's bright paintings perfectly complement Charlotte Herman's appealing story of the love between a grandma and a little girl.