A New Coast

A New Coast
Author: Jeffrey Peterson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2019-11-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1642830127

More severe storms and rising seas will inexorably push the American coastline inland with profound impact on communities, infrastructure, and natural systems. In A New Coast, Jeffrey Peterson presents the science behind predictions for coastal impacts and explains how current policies fall short of what's needed to prepare for these changes. He outlines a framework of bold, new national policies and funding to support local and state governments. Peterson calls for engagement of citizens, the private sector, as well as local and national leaders in a "campaign for a new coast." This is a forward-looking volume offering new insights for policymakers, planners, business leaders preparing for the changes coming to America's coast.

On the Beach

On the Beach
Author: Nevil Shute
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2010-02-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307476987

"The most shocking fiction I have read in years. What is shocking about it is both the idea and the sheer imaginative brilliance with which Mr. Shute brings it off." THE SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE They are the last generation, the innocent victims of an accidental war, living out their last days, making do with what they have, hoping for a miracle. As the deadly rain moves ever closer, the world as we know it winds toward an inevitable end....

Here on the Coast

Here on the Coast
Author: Howard White
Publisher: Harbour Publishing
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2021-03-31
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781550179248

Howard White offers humour-laced sketches of small-town life on the BC Coast.

Kate on the Coast

Kate on the Coast
Author: Pat Brisson
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1992
Genre: Letters Fiction
ISBN: 9780027143416

Kate's letters to her best friend back home chronicle her family's move to the Pacific Northwest and their travels in Washington, Alaska, Canada, California, Oregon, and Hawaii.

Christmas on the Coast

Christmas on the Coast
Author: Lee Tobin McClain
Publisher: HQN Books
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2020-10-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488068909

“Lee Tobin McClain dazzles with unforgettable characters, fabulous small-town settings and a big dose of heart.”—Susan Mallery, New York Times bestselling author There’s no better place to spend Christmas than on the Chesapeake Bay, where it’s always the perfect season to start over. Former police officer Paul Thompson has come to the little town of Pleasant Shores to heal his PTSD. The prescription involves volunteering, therapy and, most of all, a stable routine for his young son. Falling for Amber Rowe, however, would make that stability impossible. Even though she immediately bonds with little Davey, Amber’s future is filled with uncertainty, and Paul can’t bear to see his son love and lose someone else. Amber got to know Paul’s late wife while writing a book about cancer. In doing so, she learned a secret that could tear Paul’s world apart. Keeping her distance is the best way to avoid unwittingly causing turmoil for a man she’s come to care about more than she ever intended. But as Christmas draws near and their joint volunteer project develops, so does the depth of their feelings. And soon, Amber will have to choose between keeping a promise and committing to a risky love… Don’t miss Forever on the Bay, the next book in The Off Season series by Lee Tobin McClain, where safe harbor and new beginnings await on the Chesapeake Bay. The Off Season Series Book 1 - Cottage at the Beach Book 2 - Reunion at the Shore Book 3 - Christmas on the Coast Book 4 - Home to the Harbor Book 5 - First Kiss at Christmas Book 6 - Forever on the Bay

Ghosts from the Coast

Ghosts from the Coast
Author: Nancy Roberts
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2001
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 9780807849910

Acclaimed storyteller Nancy Roberts takes the reader on a haunted tour of coastal North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia in this engaging new collection of thirty-three ghost stories and legends. In North Carolina, we hear of the restless spirit w

Cottages on the Coast

Cottages on the Coast
Author: Linda Leigh Paul
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2004-07-16
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0789310708

Cottages on the Coast: Fair Harbors and Secret Shores is a spectacular look at the extraordinary construction and interior design of coastal cottages on the shorelines of the Pacific, to the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico, to the beaches of the Atlantic. The 200 present-day and vintage full-color photographs of more than two dozen sea-loving residences illustrate the physical desire, wonder, and fear that draw visitors to make their home along these coastal views. Featured in this survey are Tennessee Williams’s Key West haven and the modern Puget Sound cabin of Thomas Bosworth. Design writer and editor Linda Leigh Paul is the author of Cottage and Cabin, Casa Bohemia: The Spanish-Style House, Ranches of the American West, and more.

The Battle for North Carolina's Coast

The Battle for North Carolina's Coast
Author: Stanley R. Riggs
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 161
Release: 2011-09-05
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0807878073

The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States. However, extensive barrier island segments and their associated wetlands are in jeopardy. In The Battle for North Carolina's Coast, four experts on coastal dynamics examine issues that threaten this national treasure. According to the authors, the North Carolina barrier islands are not permanent. Rather, they are highly mobile piles of sand that are impacted by sea-level rise and major storms and hurricanes. Our present development and management policies for these changing islands are in direct conflict with their natural dynamics. Revealing the urgency of the environmental and economic problems facing coastal North Carolina, this essential book offers a hopeful vision for the coast's future if we are willing to adapt to the barriers' ongoing and natural processes. This will require a radical change in our thinking about development and new approaches to the way we visit and use the coast. Ultimately, we cannot afford to lose these unique and valuable islands of opportunity. This book is an urgent call to protect our coastal resources and preserve our coastal economy.

The Coast-to-Coast Murders

The Coast-to-Coast Murders
Author: James Patterson
Publisher: Little, Brown
Total Pages: 576
Release: 2020-09-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0316457434

A detective and FBI agent join forces on what seems like an open-and-shut case—but a new rash of killings sends them on a pulse-pounding race against time in this intense thriller. Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both adopted, and now grown—Michael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a college student majoring in psychology—they trust each other before anyone else. They've had to. Their parents are public intellectuals, an Ivy League clinical psychologist and a renowned psychiatrist, and they brought up their adopted children in a rarefied, experimental environment. It sheltered them from the world's harsh realities, but it also forced secrets upon them, secrets they keep at all costs. In Los Angeles, Detective Garrett Dobbs and FBI Agent Jessica Gimble have joined forces to work a murder that seems like a dead cinch. Their chief suspect is quickly identified and apprehended—but then there's another killing just like the one they've been investigating. And another. And not just in Los Angeles—the spree spreads across the country. The Fitzgerald family comes to the investigators' attention, but Dobbs and Gimble are at a loss—if one of the four is involved, which Fitzgerald might it be? From coastal California to upstate New York, Dobbs and Gimble race against time and across state lines to stop an ingenious and deeply deranged killer—one whose dark and twisted appetites put them outside the range of logic or experience.

The Coast of Summer

The Coast of Summer
Author: Anthony Bailey
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1999
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9781574090741

Anthony Bailey was a staff writer for The New Yorker for 35 years and is the author of 18 books, including The Inside Passage.