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Author: Sandra Millers Younger
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762799323
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Pages : 256
Category : Nature
Languages : en
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The Fire Outside My Window

by Sandra Millers Younger, The Fire Outside My Window Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Fire Outside My Window books, The Fire Outside My Window: A Survivor Tells the True Story of California's Epic Cedar Fire is both a poignant memoir and a veteran journalist's narrative nonfiction account of a catastrophic event that crippled postcard-perfect San Diego and dominated international headlines in October 2003. Author Sandra Millers Younger's miraculous saga of escape, ruin and renewal unifies a tapestry of experiences woven from more than 100 interviews with firefighters, survivors and the families of those who died. The fire itself, one of the biggest and most destructive in California history, is the main character in this epic story--a rampaging monster, framed within historical context, battled by understaffed, under-equipped firefighters, and confronted from the rare perspective of terrified civilians caught in its path. Timing, location and weather conspired against air tankers, fire engines and bulldozers, enabling a lost hunter's signal fire to gather strength in the mountains east of San Diego. Overnight, a swelling wind sent flames galloping toward the Pacific, killing 15 people, 12 of them the author's neighbors; incinerating more than 2,200 homes, including hers; and creating a lunarscape 20 times the size of Manhattan In this revealing narrative, Younger takes readers into the heart of an epic firefight, telling the stories of fire chiefs and air tanker pilots trying to combat a catastrophe bigger than they had ever imagined, and recounting both survivors' and victims' desperate efforts to escape flames moving faster than fire engines could drive. The Fire Outside My Window is a riveting and nuanced tale that captures the intensity of a runaway wildfire, honors those lost to its fury, and celebrates the human spirit's innate capacity to triumph over adversity.

Author: Mike Lefroy
Publisher: Nelson Thornes
ISBN: 9781869614645
Format: PDF
Pages : 32
Category : Children's stories, Australian
Languages : en
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There S A Ship Outside My Window

by Mike Lefroy, There S A Ship Outside My Window Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download There S A Ship Outside My Window books, Imagine watching a ship being built right outside your wildow. First, a shed is built to house the ship, next the materials arrive, and then the shipbuiders get to work. Before long, the Duyfken will be ready to set sail for adventure, just like another little ship that sailed across the ocean many years ago...

Author: Charlene Wexler
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1449073557
Format: PDF, Kindle
Pages : 112
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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Murder On Skid Row

by Charlene Wexler, Murder On Skid Row Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Murder On Skid Row books, August,1966 newly dental school graduate, Mel Greenberg, opened his first office on Chicago's Skid Row. He was young, naive, poor, and optimistic. "Spare any change, and I don't know nothing," was the language of the many characters he met and treated. Everyone on the street had a secret and a reason for being there. Abe, the pharmacist, acted like a friend to Mel, and the inhabitants of Skid Row, but he had other reasons for staying on a street full of bums, drug addicts, gang members, and prostitutes. Mel really thought he could help his patients, until the murders took over the area. Murders that directly involved him, making him a suspect, and a victim.

Author: Robert Greenler
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc
ISBN: 1312476796
Format: PDF, ePub
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Category : House & Home
Languages : en
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Outside My Window A Look At The Oakwood Village Nature Preserve

by Robert Greenler, Outside My Window A Look At The Oakwood Village Nature Preserve Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Outside My Window A Look At The Oakwood Village Nature Preserve books, Outside My Window is a description of things found in an urban nature preserve, but it is much more. A recurring point of view in this collection of essays is the author’s search for the story behind the immediate visual impression—an attempt to see with the mind as well as the eye. For example: The shape of the grandfather oak shows that when European settlers arrived they found the landscape of an oak savanna; The spacing of old silver maples in a ring tells of the presence of a ghost tree, once inhabiting the place in the center; The presence of small holes on a maple tree reveals the presence of an unseen bird that has arrived this spring, following the lead of others of his kind in past years; and The size of the glacial kettle in the nature preserve reveals the presence, 12,000 years ago, of a buried chunk of ice the size of the adjacent apartment house that now overlooks the preserve.

Author: Donald Miller
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 1418578908
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Pages :
Category : Religion
Languages : en
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Through Painted Deserts

by Donald Miller, Through Painted Deserts Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Through Painted Deserts books,

Author: P. R. Goodman
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469175436
Format: PDF
Pages : 75
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
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The Curious Crime Chronicles Of Matty Jones Detective At Large

by P. R. Goodman, The Curious Crime Chronicles Of Matty Jones Detective At Large Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Curious Crime Chronicles Of Matty Jones Detective At Large books, With a nostalgic flavor of Sam Spade and vintage noir a four-footed force for justice treads the sidewalks of glittering, glamorous Charm City. Introducing Matty Jones, loyal and devoted pet by day, street-savvy detective by night a ten pound Bichonese with a heart of gold, and a steely determination to get the job done. Mystery and fun abound as Matty always gets his manthe four footed kind that is! A quiet evening at home finds Matty dozing on a favorite pillow. Then a visit from his trusted side-kick Scooter informs him that trouble is on the way; Gang-dogs disembarking at Pier Three with their sights set on Charm City! To make matters worse, Mattys best Friend Sadie-Cat will fi nd herself in the thick of it. Matty must somehow enlist human aid to stop the gang-dog takeover, as well as rescue Sadie while theres still time. Its another exciting case for Matty Jones - Charm Citys most popular Detective at large! Grateful thanks to Rachel Malikow for editing

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Category : Psychiatry
Languages : en
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The British Journal Of Psychiatry

by , The British Journal Of Psychiatry Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The British Journal Of Psychiatry books,

Author: Louis L'Amour
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553899238
Format: PDF, Mobi
Pages : 272
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
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The Hills Of Homicide

by Louis L'Amour, The Hills Of Homicide Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Hills Of Homicide books, FROM AMERICA’S STORYTELLER: A TREASURY OF HIS GREAT DETECTIVE STORIES Here is a collection of Louis L’Amour detective stories—vivid tales as memorable and exciting as his beloved frontier fiction. Each story is personally selected and introduced by the author. In the dark alleys of the pulsing cities and the savage criminal wildernesses, Louis L’Amour introduces a new brand of characters: men like Kip Morgan, the ex-fighter turned detective who is tough enough to bounce a bouncer yet has more up his sleeve than sheer muscle; Joe Ragan, the dedicated career cop who fears nothing in the pursuit of justice; and women whose soft laughter covers their underlying cruelty. These are fast-moving stories of brawls where if a man goes down and doesn’t get up fast enough he’s through, of flashing knives that whisper death, of guns that blaze their fatal fire through the blackest nights.

Author: Julia Cameron
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781440678455
Format: PDF, Docs
Pages : 416
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
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Floor Sample

by Julia Cameron, Floor Sample Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download Floor Sample books, An unflinching memoir by the woman who has helped thousands of people uncover their creative inspiration. In Floor Sample, the author of the international bestseller The Artist's Way weaves an honest and moving portrayal of her life. From her early career as a writer for Rolling Stone magazine and her marriage to Martin Scorsese, to her tortured experiences with alcohol and Hollywood, Julia Cameron reflects in this engaging memoir on the experiences in her life that have fueled her own art as well as her ability to help others realize their creative dreams. She also describes the fascinating circumstances that led her to emerge as a central figure in the creative recovery movement-a movement that she inaugurated and defined with the publication of her seminal work, The Artist's Way. Julia Cameron is a passionate and wry observer of the world, and her account of her life as a self-described "floor sample" for all she teaches in her brilliant books on creativity will surprise, entertain, and inspire all her many fans as well as anyone interested in an absorbing literary memoir.

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Category : Electronic journals
Languages : en
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The Journal Of Mental Science

by , The Journal Of Mental Science Books available in PDF, EPUB, Kindle, Docs and Mobi Format. Download The Journal Of Mental Science books, Vol. 77- includes Yearbook of the Association, 1931-