A Crack in the Edge of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Crack in the Edge of the World write by Simon Winchester. This book was released on 2006-10-10. A Crack in the Edge of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its startling impact on American history and, just as important, what science has recently revealed about the fascinating subterranean processes that produced it—and almost certainly will cause it to strike again.
Living at the Edge of the World
Living at the Edge of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living at the Edge of the World write by Tina S.. This book was released on 2015-08-18. Living at the Edge of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When Tina S. meets April, a teenage runaway, she thinks she's found her best friend. She leaves behind her dysfunctional family to join April in the tunnels of Grand Central Station amidst the homeless and drug addicted. Soon she's bingeing on crack--just like April--and stealing, scamming and panhandling to support her habit and to survive on the streets. In her own words, she describes her descent into crack addiction, being raped in the tunnels, her several arrests and jail terms and her grief and guilt over the death of April, whom she'd come to love. Finally faced with the reality that she might not make it through one more day, Tina takes her first difficult steps towards a normal life. With the help of a homeless advocate and his wife, a gay uncle dying of AIDS, and the woman who was to become her co-author on this book, Tina turns her life around and makes her way back to the world of the living.
A Crack in the Earth
A Crack in the Earth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Crack in the Earth write by Haim Watzman. This book was released on 2007. A Crack in the Earth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Great Rift Valley, which runs some three thousand miles from Syria to Mozambique, is one of the earth's most extraordinary geological features. The result of Syria's split from the African continent fifteen million years ago, this great "crack in the earth" crosses Jordan, Syria, Israel, Tanzania, Ethiopia, and Kenya. In 2004, Israeli journalist Haim Watzman set out to explore the northern part of the Rift Valley, where he had lived for nearly two and a half decades. He interviewed a number of scientific experts: a zoologist fascinated by the behavioral patterns of indigenous birds; an archaeologist trying to re-create the standing stone formations left to us by ancient cultures; a geologist speculating on the valley's origins. Watzman raises provocative questions about the nature of this massive feature in the earth's crust: where it comes from, how it has developed, and how human civilization has fared on its shores. "Humankind has overlaid the geology not just with cities, dams, fields, and roads," he writes, "but also with history and biography and meanings."
The Library at the Edge of the World
The Library at the Edge of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Library at the Edge of the World write by Felicity Hayes-McCoy. This book was released on 2018. The Library at the Edge of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Returning home after her divorce, librarian Hanna Casey is determined to reclaim her independence, but with the threatened closure of the local library she finds herself leading a battle to heal the community.
Girls at the Edge of the World
Girls at the Edge of the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Girls at the Edge of the World write by Laura Brooke Robson. This book was released on 2021-06-08. Girls at the Edge of the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set in a world on the edge of an apocalyptic flood, this heart-stoppingly romantic fantasy debut is perfect for fans of Rachel Hartman and Rae Carson. In a world bound for an epic flood, only a chosen few are guaranteed safe passage into the new world once the waters recede. The Kostrovian royal court will be saved, of course, along with their guards. But the fate of the court's Royal Flyers, a lauded fleet of aerial silk performers, is less certain. Hell-bent on survival, Principal Flyer, Natasha Koskinen, will do anything to save the flyers, who are the only family she's ever known. Even if "anything" means molding herself into the type of girl who could be courted by Prince Nikolai. But unbeknownst to Natasha, her newest recruit, Ella Neves, is driven less by her desire to survive the floods than her thirst for revenge. And Ella's mission could put everything Natasha has worked for in peril. As the oceans rise, so too does an undeniable spark between the two flyers. With the end of the world looming, and dark secrets about the Kostrovian court coming to light, Ella and Natasha can either give in to despair . . . or find a new reason to live.
