Up for Grabs - 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 Up for Grabs write by Thomas Urquhart. This book was released on 2021-06-01. Up for Grabs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Each year thousands of men and women and families recreate on Maine’s Public Reserved Lands. Most of these visitors know only that the large green areas on the map promise them access to some of the state’s most magnificent places. Very few have any idea how Maine acquired them. Or that, as a conservation success, their acquisition (600,000 acres) rivals the celebrated purchase and gift to Maine people of Baxter State Park (210,000 acres) by Governor Percival Baxter. Maine’s two hundredth anniversary is an appropriate moment to celebrate the largest land conservation triumph in its history. The story of the state’s Public Reserved Lands and how we got them speak to the very essence of Maine’s identity. With dramatic moments and colorful characters, the book weaves its way from 1820 to the present, providing an engaging and informative overview of conservation and preservation in Maine.
Up for Grabs
Up for Grabs - 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 Up for Grabs write by Michelle Mulder. This book was released on 2023-05-06. Up for Grabs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Frida wasn’t expecting to find much while digging through relics at her late grandmother’s house. But when she comes across a mysterious painting, family secrets, and a nosy auctioneer, she knows the real digging has just begun. Frida and her brother, Zac, have lived in seven countries in ten years. In fact, they’ve been traveling for so long that Frida has never considered herself from anywhere — until they inherit their grandmother’s house in Victoria, British Columbia. Now they’re up to their ears in family heirlooms, paintings of dead relatives, vintage paper clips, and ceramic animals. Then a nosy antique dealer takes an interest in her grandmother’s stuff. A big, sneaking-around-trying-to-break-in-to-the-house kind of interest. Is this strange neighbor looking for something specific? And will Frida and Hazeem figure it out before it’s too late?
Up For Grabs
Up For Grabs - 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 Up For Grabs write by Max Hennessy. This book was released on 2020-08-17. Up For Grabs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A fighting team with a very special difference... In times gone by, the looting didn’t start until the foe was vanquished! But in North Africa nobody bothered to hang around for the enemy to retreat. With half of Egypt waiting open-armed for anything going, people stole whatever wasn’t screwed down – and flogged it on the Cairo black market. The British... The Italians... and Rommel’s Afrika Corps: they all used each other’s captured weapons, stores, vehicles – even their uniforms. This is the enthralling story of an unlikely group of fighting men – the Desert Ratbags – a concert party stranded behind enemy lines. Their very special skills, from pilfering to stage performing, help them not only to survive, but also to see a little action for themselves. An enthralling, suspenseful tale of WWII, perfect for fans of Alistair MacLean, David Black and Jack Higgins. Praise for Max Hennessy ‘Mr Harris is a master storyteller’ Sunday Mirror
Up For Grabs
Up For Grabs - 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 Up For Grabs write by John Harris. This book was released on 2001-05-30. Up For Grabs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The tale of the Desert Ratbags – a concert group stranded behind enemy lines and using unique skills from petty theft to light entertainment in order to survive. The Ratbags outrageously involve themselves in looting, from captured weapons and vehicles to enemy uniforms, and get caught up in some real action in the process!
The City Is Up for Grabs
The City Is Up for Grabs - 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 City Is Up for Grabs write by Gregory Royal Pratt. This book was released on 2024-04-02. The City Is Up for Grabs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Gregory Pratt had a rare front-row seat to the passions, problems, peculiarities, hopes, disappointments, shenanigans, and pettiness in the drama and farce that was Lori Lightfoot's uneasy tenure on the fifth floor at City Hall. What he delivers on these pages takes us backstage to give us a powerful, incisive portrait of the woman, the details of her mayoralty, and the many players who shared the stage." —Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune reporter and author of A Chicago Tavern Chicago is a world-class city, but it is also a city in crisis. Crime is up, schools have repeatedly shut down due to conflict between City Hall and the powerful teachers' union, and COVID-19 only deepened the entrenched poverty, institutional racism, and endless tug of war between the city's haves and have nots. For four years, the person at the center of this storm was Lori Lightfoot. A groundbreaking figure—the first Black, gay woman to be elected mayor of a major city and only the second female mayor of Chicago—she knew the city was at a critical turning point when she took office in 2019. But the once-in-a-lifetime challenges she ended up facing were beyond anything she or anyone else saw coming. Chicago Tribune reporter Gregory Royal Pratt offers the first comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at the tumultuous single term of Mayor Lightfoot and the chaos that roiled the city and City Hall as she fought to live up to her promises to change the city's culture of corruption and villainy, reform its long-troubled police department, and make Chicago the safest big city in America. Some of Chicago's problems can be explained by forces greater than the mayor: national polarization, long-standing cultural and racial tensions, our plague years. But some are the result of Lightfoot's poor leadership at City Hall, a story that hasn't been told in full—until now.
