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If the Wind Took Me Away
Jeremy David Shockley
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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My Walk upon the Wind is a book not only about the author's adventures while living on a reservation but, more importantly, about what he learned about life along the way. It is a journey taking the author from being broken to becoming a wounded warrior, setting him on the right path and teaching him the way of the warrior. His travels include scenic routes, the people who guided his progress, his struggles, failures, and his changes for the better. The author brings to life what it was like living on the reservation, as well as offering sacred sayings to live by. The setting is the Navajo reservation in the early 1980s and follows the experiences of the author as he best recalls them. If you wish to get a better understanding of the culture and the wisdom of Native Americans, My Walk upon the Wind should be considered a must read.
Don't Wait for the Wind: Find the Success You Dream About
David L. Fullen
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Winter People who Ride the Wind
David Of Arcturus; Celestial Blue Star
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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Shadows of the Wind: poems of July 2015
David S. Wells
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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After a distinguished career in climate science as the Director of the UN Global Climate Observing System in Geneva, David Goodrich returned home to the United States to find a nation and a people in denial. Concerned that the American people are willfully deluded by the misinformation about climate that dominates media and politics, David thought a little straight talk could set things right. As they say in Animal House, he decided that "this calls for a stupid and futile gesture on someone's part, and I'm just the guy to do it." Starting on the beach in Delaware, David rode his bike 4,200 miles to Oregon, talking with the people he met on the ultimate road trip. Along the way he learned a great deal about why climate is a complicated issue for many Americans and even more about the country we all share. Climate change is the central environmental issue of our time. But A Hole in the Wind is also about the people Dave met and the experiences he had along the way, like the toddler's beauty pageant in Delaware, the tornado in Missouri, rust-belt towns and their relationship with fracking, and the mined-out uranium ghost town in Wyoming. As he rides, David will discuss the climate with audiences varying from laboratories to diners to elementary schools. Beautifully simple, direct, and honest, A Hole in the Wind is a fresh, refreshing ride through a difficult and controversial topic, and a rich read that makes you glad to be alive.
In May 1940, a group of Auckland yachtsmen and Royal Navy volunteers left for the war. Leonard Hill, a young M?ori sailor, and his friends arrived in Singapore under siege. They manned fast motor launches, raiding and rescuing Allies from behind enemy lines. On 13 February 1942, the eve of the fall of Singapore, they took two Fairmiles, ML310 and ML311, to evacuate members of the Allied High Command and survivors of sinking vessels. Hunted down by the Japanese, most of the almost one hundred men perished. Only three succeeded: Leonard Hill, Herbert ‘Johnny’ Bull and Andrew Brough. This is the story of how they evaded the Japanese and survived.
The energy transition has begun. To succeed - to replace fossil fuels with wind and solar power - that process must be fair. Otherwise, mounting popular protest against wind farms will prolong carbon pollution and deepen the climate crisis. David Hughes examines that anti-industrial, anti-corporate resistance, drawing insights from a Spanish village surrounded by turbines. In the lives of these neighbours - freighted with centuries of exploitation - clean power and social justice fit together only awkwardly. Proposals for a green economy, the Green New Deal, or Europe's Green Deal require more effort. We must rethink aesthetics, livelihood, property, and, most essentially, the private nature of wind resources. Ultimately, the energy transition will be public and just, or it may not be at all
Aided and abetted by his ventriloquist cousin, Wilbur, Elmer pretends to be blown away on the windiest day. They make fools of the other elephants, but when the laughter dies down, Elmer reassures them that a heavy elephant is safe in the worst of gales. When he tries to prove it, much to his surprise, he really does get blown away!
It's 1973. Our nation is torn apart by the Vietnam War, and the massacre of unarmed students at Kent State. The Vice President has resigned for bribery and tax evasion. The President is being investigated for engaging in criminal activity. At twenty-three, David Reed has become embittered by political strife and corruption. Disenchanted with his future, he wants out. Along with new friends Rusty and Susie, David leaves everything he knows to cross the United States with little more than his bicycle and camera. The trio gets more than they bargain for, with menacing animals, extreme weather, and astonishing encounters. Uphill and Into the Wind recounts an odyssey that spans 5420 miles on bicycles. It chronicles the sudden and surprising glories of nature, the raw beauty of the land, and the majesty of the mountains. But that is just the start. Through it all, the three are changed forever, in ways they did not expect, by their long journey into the unknown.
Good girl Miranda Munchak was naive and pregnant when she received the equivalence of a life sentence for three murders she didn't commit. She gave up her only child and struggled through her first ten years in prison, forming vital alliances but sacrificing her principles in order to survive. But when her decision to donate an organ to the child she had never known led to an unexpected opportunity to escape, her life "in the wind," as the authorities called it, became even more complicated. While on the lam, she met a fine new man and fell in love but couldn't share her dark past with him. Now he too could be arrested, for aiding and abetting a fugitive.