The Pike: Ships In The Night

The Pike: Ships In The Night
Author: Erik Schubach
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Total Pages: 190
Release: 2016-08-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0997525657

The playfully evil sisters, Zoey and Eve, play matchmaker from their bakery, The Pike, in Pike Place Market in Seattle. Ligaya is a quantum physicist working in a research lab at the University of Washington. She is seduced by the numbers and math with a drive that excludes everything in her life including social interactions. Emotions have always been hard for her to understand or express. When she meets an ex firefighter, Allison, she finds herself fighting to understand all the new feelings rising inside. Allison has a primal drive to help and protect people and Ligaya’s innocence is like a drug to her. With the the non-subtle meddling from the women at the Pike, Ligaya and Allison find themselves pulled inexorably to each other. (The Pike series is set in the same world as Music of the Soul and London Harmony, and can be read as a standalone book.)

Dag Pike's Cruising Under Sail

Dag Pike's Cruising Under Sail
Author: Dag Pike
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012-11-30
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1408181908

Many sailboat owners undertake cruises in their boats, travelling from one port to another, sometimes on a day trip and sometimes for a week or two. The aim of this book is to give novices the information to cruise safely and enjoyably, covering: - the preparations before setting off - conforming with rules and regulations - navigating - coping when things go wrong - operating the boat under different and sometimes challenging conditions With advice, hints, tips and anecdotes, this is a very practical book - rather than being compartmentalized into sections on weather/navigation etc, it accompanies the cruiser from departure to their safe arrival at their destination, drawing out the practical lessons from the theory found in text books. The superb photography illustrates the text and will inspire sailors of all levels.

Djinn: Cursed

Djinn: Cursed
Author: Erik Schubach
Publisher: Erik Schubach
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2016-07-17
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0997525649

While out celebrating her twenty first birthday, Angelina Drake finds herself immersed in a curse that goes back generations, to the time when the first Djinn terrorized the world. She has to fight for her life and her friends when an old evil comes knocking. The wishes of the people around her just complicates the situation as she can hear them all, spoken or not. When she finds herself with wings as a result of an errant wish, she must enlist the help of some new friends to try to end the curse that plagues her line.

The Night the War Was Lost

The Night the War Was Lost
Author: Charles L. Dufour
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780803265998

"Long before the Confederacy was crushed militarily, it was defeated economically," writes Charles L. Dufour. He contends that with the fall of the critical city of New Orleans in spring 1862 the South lost the Civil War, although fighting would continueøfor three more years. On the Mississippi River, below New Orleans, in the predawn of April 24, 1862, David Farragut with fourteen gunboats ran past two forts to capture the South's principal seaport. Vividly descriptive, The Night the War Was Lost is also very human in its portrayal of terrified citizens and leaders occasionally rising to heroism. In a swift-moving narrative, Dufour explains the reasons for the seizure of New Orleans and describes its results.

Spending the Night on the Pike

Spending the Night on the Pike
Author: Tim O'Gorman
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2013-04-01
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781482771541

"Staying here tonight. A beautiful motel as most of them are and there are so many." So wrote a traveler spending a night at a motel between Richmond and Petersburg, Virginia writing home on the motel's postcard in 1955. U.S. Highway 1, before the arrival of Interstate 95, was considered America's Main Street, the most heavily traveled highway on the east coast, running from the Canadian border in Maine to Key West, Florida. In 2010, Highway 1 was designated an Historic Highway. The stretch of highway between Richmond and Petersburg, long known locally as the Richmond-Petersburg Turnpike, or "Pike" for short, was an important stopover for tourists driving to and from Florida and the number, and variety, of travel accommodations attest to the Pike's popularity. Using over 160 postcards along with over 55 other images including some provided by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources and the Chesterfield County Historical Society, the book provides a history of motels, tourist courts, tourist camps, etc. that flourished along Historic Highway 1 from 1920 to 1975. But Spending the Night on the Pike is not a history of postcards. It is a history of what postcards tell us about travelers in the first half of the 20th century and of the evolution of the lodging that accommodated them. For many tourist courts and motels, postcards are the only record remaining of these once vibrant businesses and are the source of clues that help identify buildings that still remain but are hidden or disguised. For those motels still operating, their postcards give us a glimpse of their former glory, when they were new and polished, before the arrival of the interstates that siphoned off the tourist business. And they tell of the time when motels were family-owned “Mom and Pop's” and proudly advertised that fact on their postcards. It is also a nostalgic look back for those who remember the time when road trips required driving through towns instead of around them and of a time that seems less complicated, less stressful, and less rushed. And for those who take the time to look, the motels, tourist courts, and tourist cabins still standing provide us a reminder of that earlier time.

The Lost Ship

The Lost Ship
Author: John Hopkins
Publisher: Hopart Publishing
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2022-11-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Vengeful Gray aliens abandon a humiliating Cretaceous-era colonization failure and time travel to present-day Earth, seeking a doomsday weapon left behind on a shipwreck lost to time in what is now the Amazon’s vast unexplored wilderness. *** Book Two in The Powers That Be trilogy, THE LOST SHIP, immerses readers in the day-after chaos, carnage, and confusion following the near-apocalyptic ending of THE GOLDEN ELLIPSE. *** An offer they can’t refuse: Rachel and Owen Haig convalesce in a decimated Cairo hospital following their death-defying heroism beneath the Giza Plateau, contending with unwanted notoriety and a job proposal from The Powers That Be. The fourth kind: The diabolical time-traveling Grays hijack a lunar-bound medevac, imprisoning the crew in a mind-bending nightmare where startling revelations resolve from the terrifying shadows. Never let a disaster go to waste: A megalomaniacal tech mogul projects international rage onto the lone entity athwart his post-invasion new world order plan: The Powers That Be. Meanwhile, his failsafe manifests in a distant ancestor’s leather-bound journal containing cryptic clues to a doomsday device buried in the heart of the Amazon. Lost worlds: Artemus Pennywell, the ageless PTB CEO, parries post-invasion gut punches, overseeing relief efforts alongside his quintessential replicant, Andrew. With cutthroat mercenaries—and the ruthless Grays—searching for the lost ship, he dispatches eccentric scientist Richard King and new PTB agents Rachel and Owen to the Amazon in a race against time to secure the prehistoric payload. Trekking unexplored jungle teeming with danger, paths collide on a perilous descent into a primeval rift protected by a ghostly cannibal tribe. THE LOST SHIP twists and turns through post-invasion ruins to the heart of the Amazon, where a supernatural revelation illuminates humankind’s destiny in a cerulean glow. Includes an excerpt from THE BLUE SPARK, The Powers That Be | Book Three

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1602
Release: 1969
Genre:
ISBN: