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David Hays
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Language
English
Description
This is a metaphysical novel set in modern times. Mathew Slains, former deputy sheriff, moves to the mid-Atlantic coast to escape his anger over his late wife's early death. The book creates dialogues regarding his answers about life and her death, including past lives' reviews, meeting a new group of friends who share his past lives, guidance from his late wife and a guardian angel group, animal totems, encounters with biblical figures, and an invitation...
Author
Language
English
Description
2025, The Final Drive is a metaphor from my football playing and coaching days. It is an attempt to emphasize the importance of the last chance, time is ticking, or now is the time to go!
As you read through this book you will see we have a real opportunity in front of us. In 2025 the current tax cuts that were passed in 2017 expire and we at a minimum return to the rates before or rates go much higher.
In this book I will discuss the Big Three...
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Series
Language
English
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Kids - Fantasy
Kids - Suggestions for Second Graders
Description
"Dorothy and her little dog Toto are swept away from their home in Kansas by a powerful tornado and dropped into an enchanting new land called Oz. To get home, the Witch of the North tells her she must follow the yellow brick road to the Emerald City and ask the mysterious Wizard of Oz for help. Along the way, she meets the Tin Man, the Scarecrow, and the Cowardly Lion, and together they embark on a strange and magical adventure"--
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Why is Cinco de Mayo-a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862-so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American one, created by Latinos in California during the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time-it embodied...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Since late 2001 more than fifty percent of the babies born in California have been Latino. When these babies reach adulthood, they will, by sheer force of numbers, influence the course of the Golden State. This essential study, based on decades of data, paints a vivid and energetic portrait of Latino society in California by providing a wealth of details about work ethic, family strengths, business establishments, and the surprisingly robust health...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Photographer David Doubilet takes you down to the deep, where a variety of this amazing family awaits you, from the famous Great White to his foot-long cousins. Doubilet spends much of his life trying to get close enough to look them in the eye. And now, through Doubilet's remarkable photographs, you can too!
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Publisher
New York Review Books/NYRB
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
My Face for the World to See is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity is fame and you're only as real as your image. At a party, the narrator, a screenwriter, rescues a young woman who staggers with drunken determination into the Pacific. He is living far from his wife in New York and long ago shed any illusions about the value of his work. He just wants to be left alone. And yet without really meaning to, he gets involved with the young...
13) Shark night
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When Sara and her friends arrive at her family's Louisiana lake house, they quickly strip down to their swimsuits for a weekend of sexy fun in the sun. But they soon discover the lake is infested with hundreds of flesh-eating sharks -- and a few equally dangerous human predators -- that turn their killer vacation into a bone-crunching battle to stay alive!
14) On the beach
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Radioactive fallout from a nuclear war has wiped out the entire northern hemisphere. Australia is the only civilized area spared from destruction. With fallout expected momentarily, the Australians review their lives, establish new relationships and prepare for their tragic demise.