Capture the Wind for Me

Capture the Wind for Me
Author: Brandilyn Collins
Publisher: Zondervan
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2003
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0310242436

The poignant and powerful conclusion to the Bradleyville series finds 15-year-old Jackie Delham running the household and playing mommy to her two younger siblings. A year and a half after her mother's funeral, the possibility arises for new love to enter the life of Jackie . . . and that of her father. As love whirls through two generations, the Delham family is buffeted by loss, hope, elation, and tears.

The Capture of Osama Bin Laden

The Capture of Osama Bin Laden
Author: Tina Louise Ristine
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2007-07-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1467831093

Kelly Englewood was raised by her mother Christina Harrison, a news reporter in Afghanistan who is captured by Osama bin Laden. Christina is released from his harem and is brought back to the United States. She discovers that she has become pregnant by Osama. She, then, marries Leonardo Englewood, who Kelly believes to be her father until age 13 when her mother tells her who her real father is. She questions her mother’s validity and still calls Leonardo dad. Kelly tries earnestly to reach Osama by letters. After he writes back to her for her to meet him at the Sacramento State Capitol, Leonardo and Kelly become suspicious that he is planning another terrorist attack. Leonardo and Kelly turn in the letters to the FBI. Osama is captured while he is visiting Kelly by national helicopter and imprisoned by the National Guard. He is executed via President Bush’s order. In the novel, justice is served on the victims of the Septemeber 11, 2001 attacks.

Captured at Sea

Captured at Sea
Author: Jatin Dua
Publisher: University of California Press
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2019-12-10
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0520305205

How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia in the twenty-first century. Taking the reader inside pirate communities in Somalia, onboard multinational container ships, and within insurance offices in London, Dua connects modern day pirates to longer histories of trade and disputes over protection. In our increasingly technological world, maritime piracy represents not only an interruption, but an attempt to insert oneself within the world of oceanic trade. Captured at Sea moves beyond the binaries of legal and illegal to illustrate how the seas continue to be key sites of global regulation, connectivity, and commerce today.

Home Power

Home Power
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2007
Genre: Renewable energy sources
ISBN:

The Capture of Attu

The Capture of Attu
Author: United States. War Department
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1944
Genre: Attu Island (Alaska), Battle of, 1943
ISBN:

The Catch Me If You Can

The Catch Me If You Can
Author: Jessica Nabongo
Publisher: Disney Electronic Content
Total Pages: 581
Release: 2022-06-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1426222467

In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongo—the first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the world—shares her journey around the globe with fascinating stories of adventure, culture, travel musts, and human connections. It was a daunting task, but Jessica Nabongo, the beloved voice behind the popular website The Catch Me if You Can, made it happen, completing her journey to all 195 UN-recognized countries in the world in October 2019. Now, in this one-of-a-kind memoir, she reveals her top 100 destinations from her global adventure. Beautifully illustrated with many of Nabongo's own photographs, the book documents her remarkable experiences in each country, including: A harrowing scooter accident in Nauru, the world's least visited country, Seeing the life and community swarming around the Hazrat Ali Mazar mosque in Afghanistan, Horseback riding and learning to lasso with Black cowboys in Oklahoma, Playing dominoes with men on the streets of Havana, Learning to make traditional takoyaki (octopus balls) from locals in Japan, Dog sledding in Norway and swimming with humpback whales in Tonga, A late night adventure with strangers to cross a border in Guinea Bissau, And sunbathing on the sandy shores of Los Roques in Venezuela. Along with beloved destinations like Peru and South Africa, you'll also find tales from far-flung corners and seldom visited destinations, including Tuvalu, North Korea, South Sudan, and the Central African Republic. Nabongo's stories are love letters to diversity, beauty, and culture—and most of all, to the people she meets along the way. Throughout, she offers bucket-list experiences for other travel-lovers looking to follow in her footsteps. For armchair travelers or readers planning a trip around the globe, this arresting collection will awe and inspire!

Out of Order, Out of Sight

Out of Order, Out of Sight
Author: Adrian Piper
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 426
Release: 1996
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9780262661522

Adrian Piper joins the ranks of writer-artists who have provided much of the basic and most reliable literature on modern and contemporary art. Out of Order, Out of Sight is an artistic and intellectual autobiography and an (occasionally scathing) commentary on mainstream art, art criticism, and American culture of the last twenty-five years. Piper is an internationally recognized conceptual artist and the only African American in the early conceptual art movement of the 1960s. The writings in Out of Order, Out of Sight trace the development of her thinking about her artwork and the art world, and her evolving awareness of herself as a creative, racial, and gendered subject situated in an often limiting and always absurd cultural and social context.

The Shepherd

The Shepherd
Author: Mario Martinez
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 157
Release: 2011-08-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1463452853

Allan Thomas White, a soldier unable to cope with the atrocities of war becomes a deserter. Along the way on his flight to freedom, he encounters the smallest victims of war: children. Unable to merely abandon them, he strings them along on his journey until he can find a safe and suitable drop-off point. In war-torn Italy, that soon becomes unlikely and he decides to take them with him until he feels he can safely separate from the children. As his journey continues, he finds more displaced children whom he also cannot abandon. They soon total eighteen! Faced with a dilemma not of his choice, he must decide how to handle his growing brood. Read The Shepherd to discover the fate of the children and how he solves his problem of desertion which has come to the attention of the military's upper brass.

Nature

Nature
Author: Sir Norman Lockyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 760
Release: 1889
Genre: Electronic journals
ISBN: