The Forgotten Shore

The Forgotten Shore
Author: Sarah Maine
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Total Pages: 378
Release: 2023-08-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1399717634

A sweeping and atmospheric story of family ties, interwoven mysteries, love and redemption, set between Scotland and Newfoundland, from the author of Waterstones Scottish Book of the Year The House Between Tides 1940: Wounded in action, Archie Maxwell returns to his Scottish family estate of Rosslie. But between the uneasy company of his father's new wife, and the nightmares that haunt him, he finds the house more of a battleground than a refuge. 1980: Journalist Eva Bayne arrives at Rosslie looking for a story. Since Archie's disappearance forty years ago, the Maxwells have lived in the shadows - and Eva is drawn to their mystery. Especially when a glimpse of a photograph stirs up long-buried memories of her childhood in Newfoundland . . . Could uncovering the truth heal the wounds of Eva's past? And what will it cost for Rosslie to give up its secrets? *** Readers have fallen in love with this story . . . 'A beautifully written book . . . It kept me turning pages well into the night' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A brilliant dual timeline that grips you from the first chapter'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'Historical fiction with stunning descriptions and gripping detail'⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 'A wonderful sense of place and time . . . I felt like I had been on a journey of self discovery' ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

The Forgotten Coast

The Forgotten Coast
Author: Richard Shaw
Publisher: Massey University Press
Total Pages: 205
Release: 2021-11-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 0995146527

&‘You approach family stories with caution and care, especially when a thing long forgotten is uncovered in the telling.'In this deft memoir, Richard Shaw unpacks a generations-old family story he was never told: that his ancestors once farmed land in Taranaki which had been confiscated from its owners and sold to his great-grandfather, who had been with the Armed Constabulary when it invaded Parihaka on 5 November 1881.Honest, and intertwined with an examination of Shaw's relationship with his father and of his family's Catholicism, this book's key focus is urgent: how, in a decolonizing world, Pakeha New Zealanders wrestle with, and own, the privilege of their colonial pasts.

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore
Author: Abigail Perkiss
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 145
Release: 2022-07-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501764322

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore brings to life the individual and collective voices of a community: victims, volunteers, and state and federal agencies that came together to rebuild the Bayshore after the Superstorm Sandy in 2013. After the tumultuous night of October 29, 2012, the residents of Monmouth, Ocean, and Atlantic Counties faced an enormous and pressing question: What to do? The stories captured in this book encompass their answer to that question: the clean-up efforts, the work with governmental and non-governmental aid agencies, and the fraught choices concerning rebuilding. Through a rich and varied set of oral histories that provide perspective on disaster planning, response, and recovery in New Jersey, Abigail Perkiss captures the experience of these individuals caught in between short-term preparedness initiatives that municipal and state governments undertook and the long-term planning decisions that created the conditions for catastrophic property damage. Through these stories, Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore lays bare the ways that climate change and sea level rise are creating critical vulnerabilities in the most densely populated areas in the nation, illuminating the human toll of disaster and the human capacity for resilience.

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore
Author: Abigail Perkiss
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2022-07-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1501764330

Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore brings to life the individual and collective voices of a community: victims, volunteers, and state and federal agencies that came together to rebuild the Bayshore after the Superstorm Sandy in 2013. After the tumultuous night of October 29, 2012, the residents of Monmouth, Ocean, and Atlantic Counties faced an enormous and pressing question: What to do? The stories captured in this book encompass their answer to that question: the clean-up efforts, the work with governmental and non-governmental aid agencies, and the fraught choices concerning rebuilding. Through a rich and varied set of oral histories that provide perspective on disaster planning, response, and recovery in New Jersey, Abigail Perkiss captures the experience of these individuals caught in between short-term preparedness initiatives that municipal and state governments undertook and the long-term planning decisions that created the conditions for catastrophic property damage. Through these stories, Hurricane Sandy on New Jersey's Forgotten Shore lays bare the ways that climate change and sea level rise are creating critical vulnerabilities in the most densely populated areas in the nation, illuminating the human toll of disaster and the human capacity for resilience.

The Forgotten Shore

The Forgotten Shore
Author: J. P. Linstroth
Publisher:
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2017-11-14
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780998146973

Lush and passionate, politically and ethically astute, J.P Linstroth's poems awaken our sensibilities on every page, letting us see the human beauty central to our most intensely lived experiences. This is poetry that authentically holds experience still at the apex of its own fragile beginnings.-Dr. Ann Townsend, Professor, Denison University

Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi

Hurricane Katrina and the Forgotten Coast of Mississippi
Author: Susan L. Cutter
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 221
Release: 2014-04-07
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1139867598

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely, leading to different types and rates of recovery. This volume furthers our understanding of the pace of recovery and its geographic extent, and explores the role of inequalities in the recovery process and those antecedent conditions that could give rise to a 'recovery divide'. It will be especially appealing to researchers and advanced students of natural disasters and policy makers dealing with disaster consequences and recovery.

The Lake Erie Shore

The Lake Erie Shore
Author: Ron Brown
Publisher: Dundurn
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2009-04-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 177070390X

The Lake Erie shoreline has born witness to some of Ontario’s earliest history, yet remains largely unspoiled. Much of the area’s natural features - the wetlands, the Carolinian forests - and its built heritage - fishing ports and military ramparts - provide much of interest for vistors to the region. Ron Brown has traversed this most southern coast line in Ontario, fleshing out forgotten stories of the past, from accounts of the world’s largest freshwater fishing fleet, War of 1812 skirmishes, links with the Underground Railroad, forgotten outposts and canals, the introduction of wineries, and the legacy of the many appealing towns and villages that hug the shoreline.

Destiny Signature Series Strategy Guide

Destiny Signature Series Strategy Guide
Author: BradyGames
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2014-09-09
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 0744015987

In Destiny, you play as a Guardian--one of the only heroes left from the last city on Earth. You must explore the ancient ruins of the solar system to reclaim what was lost and fight back against the alien races that have destroyed the realms of humanity. Destiny is a shared-world first person shooter game with many RPG (Role Playing Game) like elements. Players must explore areas and participate in public events to gain new items and weapons that they can use against foes of increasing difficulty.

I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird

I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird
Author: Susan Cerulean
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Total Pages: 175
Release: 2020-08-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0820357383

Susan Cerulean’s memoir trains a naturalist’s eye and a daughter’s heart on the lingering death of a beloved parent from dementia. At the same time, the book explores an activist’s lifelong search to be of service to the embattled natural world. During the years she cared for her father, Cerulean also volunteered as a steward of wild shorebirds along the Florida coast. Her territory was a tiny island just south of the Apalachicola bridge where she located and protected nesting shorebirds, including least terns and American oystercatchers. I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird weaves together intimate facets of adult caregiving and the consolation of nature, detailing Cerulean’s experiences of tending to both. The natural world is the “sustaining body” into which we are born. In similar ways, we face not only a crisis in numbers of people diagnosed with dementia but also the crisis of the human-caused degradation of the planet itself, a type of cultural dementia. With I Have Been Assigned the Single Bird, Cerulean reminds us of the loving, necessary toil of tending to one place, one bird, one being at a time.