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Download or read book Close to the Wind written by Jon Walter and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2015-05-26 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Too Close to the Wind by : Richard Attree
Download or read book Too Close to the Wind written by Richard Attree and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What does it take to be a survivor ...? Nick has always been an outsider. Half Aboriginal, half Irish, he escaped from an impoverished fishing town in Western Australia. Now he's running from a drug deal gone wrong, living like a ghost in the Canary Islands and his only friends are the wind and waves. Windsurfing is his obsession, his escape from self-loathing. But when his rig falls apart, like his life, he finds himself drifting alone in the Atlantic. As the sun rises on his last day alive, a yacht appears and offers him a lifeline. But there's a price to pay ... The owner, an enigmatic figure known to his crew as the Master, is the leader of a shadowy cult. He offers Nick a way out of his stalled life--a series of missions: to the haunted Haitian rain-forest, the remote Australian outback, and the wild west coast of Ireland. The puppet master pulls the strings--Nick's quest is to discover why. TOO CLOSE TO THE WIND is an incredible story of survival, an epic travel adventure, a dark journey into the unknown, and a celebration of wind, surf, and the human spirit.
Download or read book Close to the Wind written by Zana Bell and published by Choc Lit Limited. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fall in love with “an ideal romantic hero” on an epic quest “involving the opium trade, a gold rush, lost heirs, murder and other bits of skullduggery” (Historical Novel Society). Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger, when she escapes her fiendish fiancé to engage in a mad dash across the world to save her brother before an unknown assassin can find him. Meanwhile, Cpt. Harry Trent is setting sail for New Zealand. With a mission to complete and the law on his heels, he’s got enough trouble of his own without further complications. Thrown together and unable to trust anyone, Georgiana and Harry are committed to seeing their quests through to the end, despite the distractions each other brings. But liberty comes at a price and the closer they get, the more they must question the true cost of being free. “[A] heady mix of romance and adventure, with plenty of twists in the tale . . . A perfectly indulgent cozy read.” —The Bookbag “A very well written tale of travel and adventure.” —Bookalicious “A journey of high jinks on the high seas.” —The Booktrail
Book Synopsis The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind by : William Kamkwamba
Download or read book The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind written by William Kamkwamba and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Netflix film starring and directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor, this is a gripping memoir of survival and perseverance about the heroic young inventor who brought electricity to his Malawian village. When a terrible drought struck William Kamkwamba's tiny village in Malawi, his family lost all of the season's crops, leaving them with nothing to eat and nothing to sell. William began to explore science books in his village library, looking for a solution. There, he came up with the idea that would change his family's life forever: he could build a windmill. Made out of scrap metal and old bicycle parts, William's windmill brought electricity to his home and helped his family pump the water they needed to farm the land. Retold for a younger audience, this exciting memoir shows how, even in a desperate situation, one boy's brilliant idea can light up the world. Complete with photographs, illustrations, and an epilogue that will bring readers up to date on William's story, this is the perfect edition to read and share with the whole family.
Book Synopsis Speak Through the Wind by : Allison K. Pittman
Download or read book Speak Through the Wind written by Allison K. Pittman and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2010-05-19 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a lifetime of mistakes…can Kassandra ever be forgiven? New York City, 1841 When Reverend Joseph plucks a gravely wounded child from the mean streets of Manhattan’s rough Five Points District, he intends to give her a real home. And though Kassandra flourishes in the preacher’s house, learning Bible verses at his knee and going to school, as a young teenager she makes the first of many devastating decisions, running away from the only haven she’s ever known. What follows is a waking nightmare: life in a tiny room above a brothel, the loss of a child, a lover’s rejection, and finally, life as a prostitute. As circumstances lead her further and further from the reverend’s secure home, an ashamed Kassandra is certain that neither God, nor Joseph, will ever forgive her. Feeling as though she has nothing left to lose and nowhere to go, Kassandra leaves behind her hopes of redemption and heads west to California, where she is transformed into the woman known as Sadie. Unfortunately, nothing in her life is pointing to a happy ending, and Sadie is forced to grapple with the question: Once you’ve passed the point of no return, can you ever go back?
Book Synopsis Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Literature and Language by : Iwona Filipczak
Download or read book Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Literature and Language written by Iwona Filipczak and published by Æ Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an international forum for the exchange of ideas related to multiculturalism; multi-ethicity; cross-cultural perspectives in literature, the arts, and politics; integration versus cultural shock; as well as racial, ethnic, and religious problems of the world in the 21st century. The editors hope that the articles selected for the volume will prove stimulating and inspiring to their readers, be they blooming researchers or specialists in Anglophone literature, culture, linguistics, and didactics. PART I. LITERATURE AND CULTURE PART II. LINGUISTICS AND METHODOLOGY LCCN: 2017962609
Book Synopsis The Shadow of the Wind by : Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Download or read book The Shadow of the Wind written by Carlos Ruiz Zafon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2005-01-25 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis The Sailor's Word-book by : William Henry Smyth
Download or read book The Sailor's Word-book written by William Henry Smyth and published by London : Blackie and son. This book was released on 1867 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Learning to Sail written by H. A. Calahan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-04 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the best guides ever written for the novice sailor. Expert coverage of boat selection, mooring, knots, bending and hoisting sail, much more. 111 black-and-white figures.
Download or read book Close to the Wind written by Pete Goss and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-03-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete Goss became a national and international hero when he rescued French yachtsman Raphael Dinelli as his boat sank beneath him in the round-the-world single-handed sailing race, the Vendee Globe, on Christmas Day 1996. In doing so Pete scuppered his own chances in the race but was awarded theLegion d'Honneur by France's president and made a friend for life in Dinelli.Close to the Wind is his own story of the race and its dramas, his revolutionary boat,Aqua Quorum, his thoughts and emotions during four months of solitude at sea, the extraordinary surgery that he had to perform on his own elbow and the aftermath of the rescue in the Southern Ocean.
Book Synopsis Too Close to Call by : Michael Kelsay
Download or read book Too Close to Call written by Michael Kelsay and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rowdy and deep-dyed "southern," a comic first novel of politics, booze, and a ne'er-do-well's coming of age
Download or read book Modern Achievement written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis What a Word! by : Alan Patrick Herbert
Download or read book What a Word! written by Alan Patrick Herbert and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A Digest of Cases Relating to Shipping, Admiralty, and Insurance Law by : Reginald Godfrey Marsden
Download or read book A Digest of Cases Relating to Shipping, Admiralty, and Insurance Law written by Reginald Godfrey Marsden and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 1032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MotorBoating written by and published by . This book was released on 1943-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Before the Wind written by Jim Lynch and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-04-19 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following The Highest Tide, Border Songs, and Truth Like the Sun, Jim Lynch now gives us a grand and idiosyncratic family saga that will stand alongside Ken Kesey’s Sometimes a Great Notion. Joshua Johannssen has spent all of his life surrounded by sailboats. His grandfather designed them, his father built and raced them, his Einstein-obsessed mother knows why and how they work (or not). For Josh and his two siblings, their backyard was the Puget Sound and sailing their DNA. But both his sister and brother fled many years ago: Ruby to Africa and elsewhere to do good works on land, and Bernard to god-knows-where at sea, a fugitive and pirate. Suddenly thirty-one, Josh—who repairs boats of all kinds in a Steinbeckian marina south of Seattle—is pained and confused by whatever the hell went wrong with his volatile family. His parents are barely speaking, his mystified grandfather is drinking harder, and he himself—despite an endless and comic flurry of online dates—hasn’t even come close to finding a girlfriend. But when the Johannssens unexpectedly reunite for the most important race in these waters—all of them together on a classic vessel they made decades ago—they will be carried to destinies both individual and collective, and to a heart-shattering revelation. Past and present merge seamlessly and collide surprisingly as Jim Lynch reveals a family unlike any other, with the grace and humor and magic of a master storyteller.
Download or read book The Parchment written by Peter Deakin and published by Europa Edizioni. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Parchment is a peripatetic adventure story, interwoven with a nascent romance that starts in Egypt when Alexandria is captured by the Muslims in 641AD. The travellers depart with a precious vellum that holds the key to unlocking the lost language of the Pharaohs as well as containing a secret formula, dating from the time of Archimedes. They encounter scenes of desolation and numerous hazards on a journey that takes them to Sicily and the Italian mainland, where the parchment is to be delivered to monks at the famous Monte Cassino Monastery. Describing a time when external enemies and internal divisions threatened the future of civilization, the story raises fundamental questions that are increasingly relevant today, where the comfortable existence that the West still enjoys can no longer be taken for granted in an increasingly hostile world. Peter Deakin grew up in Sydney in a family of nine children. He worked most of his adult life as a barrister but has now abandoned the law in favour of writing and attempting to improve his watercolours. He divides his time between Sydney and his farm where he breeds Angus cattle and produces olive oil. He has two adult sons and still enjoys sailing, tennis and skiing, despite the impediments of advancing years. He has written two non-fiction books “No Man’s Land” and “Whatever It Takes” but “The Parchment” is his first published novel, incorporating his love of history into a riveting adventure story set in the depths of the Dark Ages, when only pockets of civilization survived.
