Walking with Rocks

Walking with Rocks
Author: Esther Parry
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2020-06-07
Genre:
ISBN:

Looking for an original mid-life crisis to celebrate her 50th birthday, Esther Parry sold her house, quit her jobs, and flew to America with nothing but a backpack and plans to walk the Appalachian Trail. After finishing her undergraduate degree and the subsequent failure of her second marriage, she embarks upon a journey that turns out to be as much spiritual and emotional as it is physical. It's a journey of discovery...mostly discovering that she really, REALLY, hates rocks. Very soon it becomes obvious that the trail's description as "a bit rocky" is a ludicrous understatement. The relentless boulder fields become a pivotal feature of her journey and take her mental and physical endurance to its limit. The practicalities and dangers of trail life, and the challenging situations she encounters with complete naivety, are both amusing and sobering but it's her faith and the amazing kindness, hospitality and encouragement of complete strangers that carry her through.Honest and often funny, it will inspire you to find the courage to do 'that thing' that you never thought you could, but that you always dreamt you might.

Rocks

Rocks
Author: Joe Perry
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2014-10-07
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476714541

Joe Perry exposes his unrepentant, unbridled life as the lead guitarist of Aerosmith. He delves deep into his volatile, profound, and enduring relationship with singer Steve Tyler and reveals the real people behind the larger-than-life rock-gods on stage. The nearly five-decade saga of Aerosmith is epic, at once a study in brotherhood and solitude that plays out on the killing fields of rock and roll. With record-making hits and colossal album sales, Aerosmith has earned their place in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But theirs is ultimately a story of endurance, and it starts almost half a century ago with young Perry, the rebel whose loving parents wanted him to assimilate, but who quits school because he doesn't want to cut his hair. He meets Tyler in a restaurant in New Hampshire, sways him from pop music to rock-and-roll, and it doesn't take long for the "Toxic Twins" to skyrocket into a world of fame and utter excess. From the mega-successful song and music video with Run DMC, "Walk This Way," to the realization that he can't pay his room service bill, Perry takes a personal look into the human stories behind Aerosmith, the people who enabled them, the ones who controlled them, and the ones who changed them.

JOE'S GIRL

JOE'S GIRL
Author: Margaret St. George
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2011-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1459260589

FORTUNE COOKIE Follow Your Dream Joe Townsend had fallen in love with Molly Stevens in Mrs. Paulson's eighth-grade English class when she was the most beautiful girl in the school. Over the last fifteen years he'd watched her—in magazines and on TV—become the most beautiful woman in the world. Molly had always been a part of his fantasies—but now she was back…. Joe had watched Molly live the high life—until her career went bust. She'd been "America's sweetheart," but now all he wanted her to be was "Joe's girl." But what would happen when she tired of potluck suppers and mountain nights under the stars…and the big city lights beckoned? How wrong could a fortune cookie be?

Minerals, Rocks, and Soil

Minerals, Rocks, and Soil
Author: Barbara J. Davis
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Total Pages: 49
Release: 2016-08
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1410985210

'Minerals, Rocks, and Soil' shows you how minerals, soil, and rocks form. You will learn where minerals can be found and how to identify them. You will find out all about the different types of rocks and what they can be used for. You will discover which types of soil are best for plants to grow in. So, come on a fantastic journey into the world of minerals, rocks, and soil! Sci-Hi is an engaging, comprehensive, and visually stimulating series that takes learning science core curriculum to a whole new level!

Rocks and Minerals

Rocks and Minerals
Author: Barry Fried
Publisher: Walch Publishing
Total Pages: 104
Release: 2000
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780825139352

Help your students actually do science, and in the process truly understand science. Hands-on Science: Rocks and Minerals offers 17 ready-to-use activities for exploring crystal structures, types of rocks, weathering, geologic history, and more. Designed with the National Science Education Standards in mind, these engaging, high-interest activities build greater conceptual understanding and promote important critical-thinking and science process skills.

The Wordsmiths and the Warguild

The Wordsmiths and the Warguild
Author: Hugh Cook
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2006-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1411685415

Togura Poulaan, a questing hero whether he liked it or not, is precipitated into a series of adventures in a world which includes dragons, sea serpents, war, wild tribes and the wizard Hostaja Sken-Pitilkin, lord of the island of Drum. A fast-paced fantasy novel published in the USA as two volumes, THE QUESTING HERO and THE HERO'S RETURN.

Junction

Junction
Author: Daniel M. Bensen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 195
Release: 2019-01-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1787580970

"The author’s creativity gambols across the planet along with his characters, and the journey is as much about the weird creatures as it is about the human drama. Readers will enjoy taking a trip to Junction and experiencing some of its bizarre wonders." - Publishers Weekly When Japanese nature show host Daisuke Matsumori finds himself on an alien world, he hopes to rekindle his passion for his work. Traveling through a newly-discovered wormhole in the Papuan highlands, he joins biologist Anne Houlihan on Junction, a patchwork planet of competing alien ecosystems. When their exploratory party crashes in the alien wilderness, Daisuke and Anne try to lead bickering soldiers and civilians back to civilization alive. As they trek across one unearthly biome after another and members of the party continue to die, however, Daisuke wonders whether human politics might be more deadly than alien biology. One of his companions might be a murderer. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

Talking Rocks

Talking Rocks
Author: Ronald Lee Morton
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2003
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN: 9781452907086

Dragonfired

Dragonfired
Author: J. Zachary Pike
Publisher: Gnomish Press
Total Pages: 685
Release: 2023-09-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1963158008

The monarch wants him dead. A dragon’s torching the realm. Is his heroic gig about to be a critical catastrophe? Gorm Ingerson knows the king is a fink. With the land’s insidious ruler hell-bent on his destruction, the axe-wielding Dwarf berserker is desperate to beat him to the punch. But when he discovers the rotten regent’s claim of a town razed by the world’s richest dragon is false, the gruff adventurer fears there’s more than a personal grudge at stake. Struggling to convince his old comrades that they need to help him solve the mystery, the dwarven idealist stumbles into a sinister smuggling ring. And with strange creatures, cunning assassins, and vindictive bankers all plotting his demise, Gorm worries this time the price of doing the right thing will be fatally high. Can he make a saving throw against death with a high-stakes roll at disadvantage? Dragonfired is the thrilling third book in the Dark Profit Saga satirical fantasy trilogy. If you like witty banter, RPG references, and clever sendups of popular tropes, then you’ll love J. Zachary Pike’s laugh-out-loud conclusion. Buy Dragonfired to gamble with initiative today!

Above & Beyond

Above & Beyond
Author: Azaria Rose
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 146
Release: 2010-06
Genre: High school students
ISBN: 1452031339

I don't get why people have to steal. Especially when they want to steal the one you love the most... and actually do it. She stole her. Right out of my hands. Took her from my very existence... and now I can't find her. She could be dead. Gone. No longer alive. And here I am. Sitting on a rock staring hopelessly into the water. What kind of protector am I? But I won't give up though. I will find her. Somehow. Even if that means losing my own life. I promise, Mia. I'm coming.