![]() ![]() Part adventure, part historical saga, and part coming-of-age love story, West with Giraffes explores what it means to be changed by the grace of animals, the kindness of strangers, the passing of time, and a story told before it’s too late. West with Giraffes: A Novel Kindle Edition by Lynda Rutledge (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 67,942 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 0.00 This title and over 1 million more are available with Kindle Unlimited 3.29 to buy Audiobook 0. ![]() Inspired by true events, the tale weaves real-life figures with fictional ones, including the world’s first female zoo director, a crusty old man with a past, a young female photographer with a secret, and assorted reprobates as spotty as the giraffes. ![]() Behind the wheel is the young Dust Bowl rowdy Woodrow. What follows is a twelve-day road trip in a custom truck to deliver Southern California’s first giraffes to the San Diego Zoo. They find it in two giraffes who miraculously survive a hurricane while crossing the Atlantic. Hitler is threatening Europe, and world-weary Americans long for wonder. But when he learns giraffes are going extinct, he finds himself recalling the unforgettable experience he cannot take to his grave. Woodrow Wilson Nickel, age 105, feels his life ebbing away. “Few true friends have I known and two were giraffes…” An emotional, rousing novel inspired by the incredible true story of two giraffes who made headlines and won the hearts of Depression-era America. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The third book in this engaging romance series made it a trilogy. It was quickly followed up with an exciting sequel referred to as Seal’s Kiss. This fictional series kicked off in 2016 with the release of the first book in the series, called Seal’s Bride. Vivian Wood is the creator and writer of the Small Town Seals series. Vivian studied creative writing at a women’s college and she has been enjoying writing and exploring different worlds and characters ever since! Wood says that she likes to write alpha males that have flaws and the strong and often fiery women that end up seducing them completely. She is known to her many readers for her engaging romantic stories that feature strong female and male characters that have complex pasts but frequently come across the one love that could change everything. ![]() Vivian Wood is an American author of romantic fiction born in Atlanta, Georgia. ![]() ![]() ![]() The stubborn Scotsman is intent on truly knowing her… down to the very soul. But after an intrigued Jocelyn accepts, she realizes that Braden won’t be satisfied with just mind-blowing passion. Knowing how skittish she is about entering a relationship, Braden proposes an arrangement that will satisfy their intense attraction without any strings attached. Braden Carmichael is used to getting what he wants, and he’s determined to get Jocelyn into his bed. Her solitary life is working well-until she moves into a new apartment on Dublin Street where she meets a man who shakes her carefully guarded world to its core. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare… Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. more Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Herbert’s creation of this universe, with its intricate development and analysis of ecology, religion, politics and philosophy, remains one of the supreme and seminal achievements in science fiction. “Powerful, convincing, and most ingenious.”-Robert A. God Emperor Of Dune 15.60 Free shipping God Emperor of Dune Format: Paperback 10.99 + 4.35 shipping God Emperor of Dune Paperback Frank Herbert 8.39 Free shipping God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert (English) Paperback Book 17. “One of the monuments of modern science fiction.”- Chicago Tribune Binding: HARDCOVER ISBN 10: 0399125930 Quantity Available: 1 Seller. “A portrayal of an alien society more complete and deeply detailed than any other author in the field has managed.a story absorbing equally for its action and philosophical vistas.”- The Washington Post Book World God Emperor of Dune is a science fiction novel by Frank Herbert published in 1981. God Emperor Of Dune: The Fourth Dune Novel Herbert, Frank Published by Gollancz, 2021 ISBN 10: 1473233801 ISBN 13: 9781473233805 Seller: Y-Not-Books, Hereford, United Kingdom Contact seller Seller Rating: Book New - Softcover Condition: New £ 2.05 Convert currency £ 2.40 Shipping Within United Kingdom Quantity: > 20 Add to Basket Paperback. “I know nothing comparable to it except Lord of the Rings.”-Arthur C. “A fourth visit to distant Arrakis that is every bit as fascinating as the other three-every bit as timely.”- Time Millennia have passed on Arrakis, and the once-desert planet is green with life. ![]() ![]() “Rich fare.Heady stuff.”- Los Angeles Times ![]() ![]() The craft touched down like a regular airplane at 11:14 a.m. The top altitude was confirmed by radar while SpaceShipOne was gliding back to Earth. Louis, Missouri in order to win the cash prize. Seconds after being released from the White Knight carrier plane somewhere above 46,000 feet, Binnie ignited SpaceShipOne's hybrid rocket motor, boosting the craft well above the target point of 62 miles (100 kilometers) required by the X Prize Foundation of St. This flight couldn't have been any smoother." This is rocket science.this is real first-class, top-line rocket science executed to an incredible degree of precision. "I've been involved in technology for awhile. ![]() ![]() "It's really an incredible feat of technology," Allen said. At a post-flight press briefing, Rick Searfoss, a former shuttle astronaut and now chief judge for the Ansari X Prize, stated: "I declare that the Mojave Aerospace Ventures has indeed earned the Ansari X Prize."īinnie was the 434 th human to have left our planet to go into space, Searfoss noted. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Then, a figure from her past reemerges to change her life forever: the hotel's dapper owner, railroad tycoon Rake Solvino. Working at the lavish Regal Sol hotel and newly engaged to Pinkerton Detective Martin Cadden, Josephine Galena Valencia has big dreams for her future. ![]() Snow Falling is a sweeping historical romance set in 1902 Miami-a time of railroad tycoons, hotel booms, and exciting expansion for the Magic City. With these tumultuous events as inspiration, Jane's breathtaking first novel adapts her story for a truly epic romance that captures the hope and the heartbreak that have made the television drama so beloved. "Just the thing for a cold winter's night between episodes." -The Washington Post Book World "Fans of the show will undoubtedly enjoy the chance to read Jane's book in real life." -Entertainment Weekly It's been a lifetime (and three seasons) in the making, but Jane Gloriana Villanueva is finally ready to make her much-anticipated literary debut! Jane the Virgin, the Golden Globe, AFI, and Peabody Award-winning The CW dramedy, has followed Jane's telenovela-esque life-from her accidental artificial insemination and virgin birth to the infant kidnapping and murderous games of the villainous Sin Rostro to an enthralling who-will-she-choose love triangle. ![]() ![]() ![]() Others are slighter, such as one on black representation in children’s literature, or more personal, like “Color Him Father,” about Asim’s family. ![]() Some of these pieces are more ambitious than others and pack more of a punch-particularly “Getting It Twisted” and “The Elements of Strut” as well as the concluding “Of Love and Struggle: The Limits of Respectability,” which counters Michelle Obama’s strategy of going high when they go low. ![]() Strutting requires freedom, the liberty to flex and stretch.” This prose struts in an inherently musical way that also seems integral to the black experience as the author delineates its rhythms. A response to the rhythms that animate the earth….Strut is the body in motion, occupying, manipulating and moving through space. “In ideal circumstances, the human body flows in a state of strut,” he writes of the body confidence that white people too often find menacing in black males. He places current events within the context of a legacy that is literary, political, and cultural as well as racial, with a voice that is both compelling and convincing. A collection of essays that go wide and deep into the black experience in America.Īs a former editor and columnist for the Washington Post and editor-in-chief of the NAACP’s The Crisis, Asim ( A Taste of Honey, 2009, etc.) brings an impressive breadth of experience to these pieces. ![]() ![]() ![]() The book in the photograph, an eighteenth-century religious text thought to have been taken from France in the waning days of the war, is one of the most fascinating cases. The accompanying article discusses the looting of libraries by the Nazis across Europe during World War II-an experience Eva remembers well-and the search to reunite people with the texts taken from them so long ago. She freezes it’s an image of a book she hasn’t seen in more than sixty years-a book she recognizes as The Book of Lost Names. ![]() ![]() Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this “sweeping and magnificent” (Fiona Davis, bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue) historical novel from the #1 international bestselling author of The Winemaker’s Wife.Įva Traube Abrams, a semi-retired librarian in Florida, is shelving books when her eyes lock on a photograph in the New York Times. “A fascinating, heartrending page-turner that, like the real-life forgers who inspired the novel, should never be forgotten.” -Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Thus begins an unlikely friendship between a 16-year-old high school girl and a sly but smart 24-year-old man. As Teru begins working for the unlikable school janitor, her feelings begin to surpass that of master and servant and she begins to question Daisy's true identity. One afternoon, after bullies from the student council are mysteriously driven away, Teru accidentally breaks a school window, which results in her working for the grouchy, cruel school janitor named Tasuku Kurosaki. Daisy became Teru's pillar of strength over the next few years, as he sent her encouraging words through his phone, whether inspiring or mere chatter, as she faces her life alone. When Teru's older brother died, she was left with little more than a cellphone containing the address of an elusive character called Daisy, whom Teru's brother said would watch over her. ![]() Viz Media licensed the series for an English-language release in North America. ![]() Shogakukan later collected the individual chapters into 16 bound volumes under the Flower Comics imprint. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Betsucomi magazine from May 2007 to October 2013. "Electric Shock Daisy") is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Kyousuke Motomi. ![]() ![]() ![]() Once there, he places the bullets into pairs of socks and swings them into the bushes behind the metal detector. Tony buys them at a Walmart in Oakland, puts them in his backpack, and rides his bike to the coliseum. ![]() ![]() They are packed in boxes of sixteen and stored in a warehouse in California for seven years. The bullets come from the Black Hills Ammunition Plant in South Dakota. The tragedy will be how long Native people have fought for recognition, only to die at their own gathering. When the bullets come, they will be almost expected. At the same time, it is expected in the same way that death is. No one at the Powwow expects gun violence-shootings happen somewhere else, to other people. White men also gave Natives their last names to keep track of them. Descendants of colonizers say Natives should “get over it” without realizing that they benefit from the violent deeds of their ancestors. Now, Indians have survived, but it is not resilience, not a badge of honor. ![]() Blood matters: it used to define their “Indianness” to the colonizers. Their mix of white and Native blood varies. Every kind of Indian, from cities, reservations, and everything in between, travel to the Oakland Powwow because it is one of the last places where they can be together. First, the narrator explains the far-reaching phenomenon of a Powwow. The first section of Interlude is in essay format, like the opening prologue. ![]() |