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The Ledge

Author : Jim Davidson
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345523210
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book The Ledge written by Jim Davidson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-07-26 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The authors bring extreme climbing to life. . . . Perhaps no author can rationalize why some choose to risk their lives . . . for the thrill of conquering a mountain. The Ledge comes perilously close and tells a ripping true story at the same time.”—The Denver Post In June 1992, best friends Jim Davidson and Mike Price stood atop Washington’s Mount Rainier, celebrating what they hoped would be the first of many milestones in their lives as passionate mountaineers. Then their triumph turned tragic when a cave-in plunged them deep inside a glacial crevasse—the pitch-black, ice-walled hell of every climber’s nightmares. An avid adventurer since youth, Davidson was a seasoned climber at the time of the Rainier ascent. But the harrowing free fall left him challenged by nature’s grandeur at its most unforgiving. Trapped on a narrow frozen shelf, deep below daylight, he desperately battled crumbling ice, snow that threatened to bury him alive, and crippling fear of the inescapable chasm below—all the while struggling to save his fatally injured friend. Finally, alone, with little equipment and rapidly dwindling hope, he confronted a fateful choice: the certainty of a slow, lonely death or the near impossibility of an agonizing climb for life. A story of heart-stopping adventure, heartfelt friendship, fleeting mortality, and implacable nature, The Ledge chronicles the elation and grief, dizzying heights and punishing depths, of a journey to hard-won wisdom. “Plunges readers into a dark, icy chasm from which escape seems impossible. Then it reveals the strength it takes to look up, and to start climbing.”—Jim Sheeler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and author of the National Book Award finalist Final Salute “How [Davidson] rescued himself is the core of The Ledge, and its most gripping part. The physical effort and will involved are astonishing.”—The Plain Dealer “A moving portrait of friendship and loss.”—The Wall Street Journal

Putting Boys on the Ledge

Author : Stephie Davis
Publisher : Leisure Books
ISBN 13 : 9780843953282
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Putting Boys on the Ledge written by Stephie Davis and published by Leisure Books. This book was released on 2003-12-29 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A funny and heart warming tale about first dates, first kisses, and first loves.

The Ledge

Author : Lesley Choyce
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1459824636
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (598 download)

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Download or read book The Ledge written by Lesley Choyce and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nick was used to being good at everything. Hockey, football, track, they all came easy to him. Surfing was his latest passion. That is, until the accident. Now partially paralyzed, Nick is angry, depressed and getting far too fond of his prescription meds. But his frequent visits to his physiotherapist, a Syrian refugee, and a budding friendship with a partial amputee who has also experienced firsthand the horrors of war help him start to piece his life back together. A story about overcoming the odds and changing your life for the better.

Stepping Back from the Ledge

Author : Laura Trujillo
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0593157613
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (931 download)

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Download or read book Stepping Back from the Ledge written by Laura Trujillo and published by Random House. This book was released on 2022-04-19 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this “seismically moving memoir” (The New York Times Book Review, Editors’ Choice), one woman asks a seemingly impossible question in the aftermath of her mother’s suicide: How do you mourn a loved one as you repair the injuries they inflicted? “Laura Trujillo resurfaces from the dark ‘sub-basement’ of despair with assurances for us all: There is hope. There is healing. Always, there is love. This book will save lives.”—Connie Schultz, author of The Daughters of Erietown ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker Laura Trujillo had been close to her mother for most of her adult life, raising her four children within a few miles of their beloved grandmother’s Phoenix home. But just three months after moving her young family to Cincinnati for a new job, Laura receives shocking news: Her mother had taken her own life—by jumping off a ledge into the Grand Canyon, a place Laura knew her mother had always loved. Laura and her mother had shared a profound and special bond, yet each had also kept from the other the deepest truths about their lives. As an adult, Laura finally broke her silence about the sexual abuse she had suffered as a teenager at the hands of her stepfather—a secret Laura had buried to protect her mother. After her mother’s death, Laura embarks on an emotional odyssey, searching for clues that could explain the depression, intergenerational trauma, and shared heartbreaks in her family. When she returns to the Grand Canyon, it becomes an oasis that nurtures Laura’s search for redemption and peace. As Laura wrestles with her feelings, she forges a new path forward. Moving and intimate, powerfully told, Stepping Back from the Ledge is a remarkable exploration of the bond between a mother and daughter, and of the hope that can come from facing the truth.

Ledge

Author : Stacey McEwan
Publisher : Watkins Media Limited
ISBN 13 : 1915202175
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (152 download)

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Download or read book Ledge written by Stacey McEwan and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ledge is the heart-stopping beginning to The Glacian Trilogy from TikTok sensation Stacey McEwan @staceboookspace After being randomly selected as a human sacrifice, instead of death, Dawsyn finds herself on a quest to save her people from their icy prison... In a place known as the Ledge, a civilization is trapped by a vast chasm and sheer mountain face. There is no way for anyone to escape the frozen wasteland without befalling a deathly drop. They know nothing of the outside world except that it is where the Glacians reside – mystical and vicious winged creatures who bring meagre rations in exchange for a periodic human sacrifice. Dawsyn, ax wielder and only remaining member of her family, has so far avoided the annual culling, but her luck has run out. She is chosen and ripped from her icy home, the only world she knows. No one knows what will happen to her on the other side, least of all Dawsyn. Murdered? Enslaved? Worse? Fortunately, a half-Glacian called Ryon offers to help them both escape, but how can she trust one of the very creatures that plagued her life? Dawsyn is a survivor, and she is not afraid to cut anyone down to live. With a slow-burning romance, high stakes and even higher rewards, this richly created new fantasy series by popular TikToker Stacey McEwan will keep you gripped to the very end. File Under: Fantasy [ Ax-ing For It | The Cold Is Not Alive | Finding Freedom | Ledge-hanger ] *Content warnings* gratuitous violence & death; death of a minor; suicide; attempted sexual assault

From the Rut to the Ledge

Author : Suzanne Rutledge
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1512798525
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (127 download)

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Download or read book From the Rut to the Ledge written by Suzanne Rutledge and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2017-09-08 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tired of living in their comfortable rut, Suzanne and Mitch Rutledge decided to quit their jobs in America and take their seven-year-old son with them on a journey around the world. For nine months, they traveled slowly and volunteered, homeschooled their second grader, and experienced what everyday life was like in new and different places.From the Rut to the Ledgeshares their highs and lows, but also provides practical travel tips for anyone who wants to see the world on a budget. Follow their adventures from an elephant sanctuary in Thailand to the pyramids of Egypt. From tiny villages in Cambodia to the bustling streets of Barcelona, the Rutledges went out on a ledge to experience authentic life around the world and hope to encourage and inspire other families to do the same.

City on the Ledge

Author : Philip Kraske
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780988042810
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (428 download)

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Download or read book City on the Ledge written by Philip Kraske and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quito, Ecuador. In this obscure Andean capital, ladled along the ledge of a volcano, an eruption is taking place. After centuries of oppression, the workers are on strike against their banana plantation masters. If Ecuador, the largest banana exporter in the world and the bargain basement of the industry, raises its prices, so will the others. Remarkably, Jay Streets, American pro-football star, is called on to arbitrate and set a final wage for the workers. Having no interest in the matter, he is expected to be impartial The U.S. government, however, with U.S. consumers in mind, would rather that Streets be partial.It has ordered the embassy's CIA chief to ensure it. Set against the emerald majesty of the Andes, City on the Ledge witnesses the machinations of politicians, spies, diplomats and lovers as they strive to pull off a revolution - or kill it before it can bloom.

The Turquoise Ledge

Author : Leslie Marmon Silko
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101464585
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Turquoise Ledge written by Leslie Marmon Silko and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A highly original and poetic self-portrait from one of America's most acclaimed writers. Leslie Marmon Silko's new book, her first in ten years, combines memoir with family history and reflections on the creatures and beings that command her attention and inform her vision of the world, taking readers along on her daily walks through the arroyos and ledges of the Sonoran desert in Arizona. Silko weaves tales from her family's past into her observations, using the turquoise stones she finds on the walks to unite the strands of her stories, while the beauty and symbolism of the landscape around her, and of the snakes, birds, dogs, and other animals that share her life and form part of her family, figure prominently in her memories. Strongly influenced by Native American storytelling traditions, The Turquoise Ledge becomes a moving and deeply personal contemplation of the enormous spiritual power of the natural world-of what these creatures and landscapes can communicate to us, and how they are all linked. The book is Silko's first extended work of nonfiction, and its ambitious scope, clear prose, and inventive structure are captivating. The Turquoise Ledge will delight loyal fans and new readers alike, and it marks the return of the unique voice and vision of a gifted storyteller.

Ledge, Ledger, and the Legend

Author : Paul C. Elliott
Publisher : Dramatic Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780871296368
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (963 download)

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Download or read book Ledge, Ledger, and the Legend written by Paul C. Elliott and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 1972 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dancing Ledge

Author : Derek Jarman
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 1452915717
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (529 download)

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Download or read book Dancing Ledge written by Derek Jarman and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book of No Ledge

Author : Nance Van Winckel
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807165409
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Book of No Ledge written by Nance Van Winckel and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “As usual, it starts with love. I had my heart set on the door-to-door encyclopedia salesboy.” So begins Nance Van Winckel’s latest collection of poetically altered encyclopedia entries that feature a mixture of quirky social satire and absurdist wit. Entries like “The Importance of Mood to Man” use an encyclopedic tone to insist: “Your body is two-thirds water. Mood is one-third body” and “Life and health depend on the mood taken into the body each day.” An anatomic diagram of the nose is accompanied by the promise, “A nose can smell rain coming.” Alongside illustrations of the vestibule, the meatus, and the conchus can be found lines of text like, “As the one you love steps onto / your stoop / a widening wind / underscores the sky’s pummel.” Reminiscent of recent visual-poetic hybrids by such writers as Matthea Harvey and Bianca Stone, Van Winckel’s ground-breaking innovations must be seen to be believed.

Life on the Ledge

Author : Ivor Hanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780976389538
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (895 download)

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Download or read book Life on the Ledge written by Ivor Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tale of risk, punk music, voyeurism, identity, and clean windows.

Out on a Ledge

Author : Eva Libitzky
Publisher : Wicker Park Press Book
ISBN 13 : 9780978967635
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Out on a Ledge written by Eva Libitzky and published by Wicker Park Press Book. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of one woman's uncommon resourcefulness and perseverance, Out on a Ledge uncovers some of the secrets of Jewish suffering and survival in the twentieth century. Related in her plainspoken voice, it will be of considerable interest both to scholars and the general public. This book owes much to a recently opened trove of documents on the Holocaust, 150 million pages that were digitized and made accessible to researchers by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Fred Rosenbaum was among an international team of twelve scholars assembled by the USHMM to examine and analyze the archive in the summer of 2009. It revealed a great deal of information about Eva Libitzky and her times. Original documents, including transport lists, medical records, and identity cards are reproduced in the appendix of this volume.

The Ledge

Author : Michael Collier
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0547346840
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Ledge written by Michael Collier and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2002-04-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new collection of poetry by the director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, which celebrates its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2000. "Dark splendor" are the words Edward Hirsch uses to describe the poems of the award-winning author Michael Collier. Collier's new work balances on the ledge between the everyday and the unknown, revealing the hidden depths of relationships. The poems in THE LEDGE are narrative and colloquial, musical and crystalline, at once intimate and sharp-edged. They render the world beautifully mysterious as they slide into unexpected emotional territory. A son loses his father's favorite hammer, and with it his trust. In "The Wave," the enthusiastic crowd at a baseball game rises and sits in frightening unison, belying their hopeful cheering. In "Fathom and League," a dive two miles deep in the Pacific reveals the submerged volcanoes of the ocean and the soul. In many of the poems, the familiar animal world - of dogs and sparrows and possums in the yard - transfigures the view through a window. As director of the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, Collier has reinvigorated one of America's most important literary institutions. The artistry and directness of THE LEDGE confirm his place among the most significant poets of his generation.

The Next Everest

Author : Jim Davidson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1250272300
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book The Next Everest written by Jim Davidson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2021-04-20 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dramatic account of the deadly avalanche on Everest—and a return to reach the summit. On April 25, 2015, Jim Davidson was climbing Mount Everest when a 7.8-magnitude earthquake released avalanches all around him and his team, destroying their only escape route and trapping them at nearly 20,000 feet. It was the largest earthquake in Nepal in eighty-one years and killed nearly 8,900 people. That day also became the deadliest in the history of Everest, with eighteen people losing their lives on the mountain. After spending two unsettling days stranded on Everest, Davidson's team was rescued by helicopter. The experience left him shaken, and despite his thirty-three years of climbing and serving as an expedition leader, he wasn’t sure that he would ever go back. But in the face of risk and uncertainty, he returned in 2017 and finally achieved his dream of reaching the summit. Suspenseful and engrossing, The Next Everest portrays the experience of living through the biggest disaster to ever hit the mountain. Davidson's background in geology and environmental science makes him uniquely qualified to explain why the seismic threats lurking beneath Nepal are even greater today. But this story is not about “conquering” the world’s highest peak. Instead, it reveals how embracing change, challenge, and uncertainty prepares anyone to face their next “Everest” in life.

Talking Yourself Off the Ledge

Author : Alexys V. Wolf
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781540849410
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (494 download)

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Download or read book Talking Yourself Off the Ledge written by Alexys V. Wolf and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Your point of view has everything to do with the choices you make. The choices you make have everything to do with where you are in life. Some may argue, "Not always. Sometimes life throws you a curveball." Of course, many things in life come without notice and without consent, but again, it's how we respond to those curveballs that make or break our path. Attaining and maintaining a Kingdom-of-God perspective at all times will allow us to actually thrive through the worst of times. People's biggest downfall in this life is not the circumstances, but how we perceive those circumstances. After all, perception is reality. Throughout life, it is inevitable to be hit head-on with tough situations that produce a need to talk ourselves off a proverbial ledge from which we'd like to jump! Life isn't smooth as depicted in works of fiction. Life has a million and one unexpected twists and turns and they can, invariably, cause one to want to inflict bodily harm to self or someone else, say things they ought not, run away, or even bring a sudden end to their life or another's. Life is hard because we live on a planet condemned since The Fall of Man and it can cause a person to experience surges of mass emotions that are not controlled by Holy Spirit. In these situations, one must choose to mature into a place in Christ where it is possible to talk ourselves down without waiting for someone to come to our aid; sometimes there simply isn't anyone available. These are the times where we grow if we so choose. These are the times where we can stop being dependent upon others to do for us what we who are hidden in Christ ought to be able to do for ourselves given the fact that Christ, who is our all-in-all, is the very breath we breathe. Holy Spirit is our comforter, our balance, our sanity, our calm and every other thing required to conduct ourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. He encompasses everything required to encourage ourselves back into sanity, balance, peace, rest and a desire to move forward in His power. This book is written so as to give some guidance of how to do just that: talk yourself off the internal ledges of life from which we'd like to jump.

All the Bright Places

Author : Jennifer Niven
Publisher : Ember
ISBN 13 : 0385755902
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book All the Bright Places written by Jennifer Niven and published by Ember. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOW A NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ELLE FANNING AND JUSTICE SMITH! The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge. And don’t miss Take Me with You When You Go, Jennifer Niven’s highly anticipated new book with bestselling author David Levithan! Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for—and manages to find—something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister’s recent death. When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school—six stories above the ground— it’s unclear who saves whom. Soon it’s only with Violet that Finch can be himself. And it’s only with Finch that Violet can forget to count away the days and start living them. But as Violet’s world grows, Finch’s begins to shrink. . . . “A do-not-miss for fans of Eleanor & Park and The Fault in Our Stars, and basically anyone who can breathe.” —Justine Magazine “At the heart—a big one—of All the Bright Places lies a charming love story about this unlikely and endearing pair of broken teenagers.” —The New York Times Book Review “A heart-rending, stylish love story.” —The Wall Street Journal “A complex love story that will bring all the feels.” —Seventeen Magazine “Impressively layered, lived-in, and real.” —Buzzfeed