Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
The Rise and Fall of a Construction Giant
Determined to bring utilities and small-building construction to rural areas, William R. Carter joined with Dick Farrar and John Williams to form the CFW Construction Company in Fayetteville, Tennessee, 1952. Named for the partners, CFW expanded into building plants, roads, tunnels, bridges, and more. Within forty years the company grew to five offices, 14 subsidiaries, a thousand pieces of equipment, and a proud workforce of more than 1,500 across a dozen states. Then came the scandals. By the end of the 20thcentury, CFW was gone, and the lives of everybody had changed. Dick Farrar’s son was there for the best and the worst. Now he’s written the definitive history, not just about a company, but a region and its people. With nearly a hundred restored photos, most in color, Farrar, Jr., tells the true story, naming names and documenting the details. The Rise and Fall of a Construction Giantis a keepsake, a historical record, the chronicle of an era, a compelling story told by the man at its center in the end.
Apache Tears
The Acuñas . . . a Spanish ranching family who have fought for decades to keep their land grant despite the harsh realities of the fickle desert weather and marauding bands of renegade Apaches and greedy Americans who covet their land for themselves. The Apaches . . . Geronimo, Cochise, Eskiminzin . . . are fighting to the death to keep their native lands and fading way of life in the turmoil of western expansion known as Manifest Destiny. The clash of three cultures . . . Spanish, Apache and Anglo . . . creates a thrilling tale of survival of the fittest; terror as the result of endless warfare; selfish greed for what others possess; overcoming terrific odds to maintain life in the brutal and unforgiving but beautiful land of the American Southwest.
Customs Bulletin
None
Tracking the Skies for Lacy
It's the height of the Cold War. The Air Force Sixth Weather Squadron (Mobile) chases tornadoes, tracks weather systems, and provides upper atmosphere weather data for dangerous South Pacific missile detonations. What happens when love and other adventures enter the mix? Sixth Weather warrior Luke LaCrosse roars into manhood by monitoring tornadoes and nuclear tests, surviving a near-fatal accident in Hawaii, and flying Vietnam missions "" while seeking the lifelong love of high school sweetheart Lacy De'Luca. Tracking the Skies for Lacy follows their romantic obstacles "" family concerns, military service, distant locations "" to a climactic river-rafting trip. Their navigation through a decade of challenges forms the beauty, faith, adventure and redemption that make Tracking the Skies for Lacy an engrossing "" and harrowing "" romantic adventure.
Time of Grace
ÒI hole up in my own cozy cubicle and write, considering ways to make the approaching Thanksgiving holiday not just another day in this place. In prison, hope faces east; time is measured in wake-ups.Ó Time of Grace is a remarkable book, written with great eloquence by a former science teacher who was incarcerated for twelve years for his sexual liaison with a teenage student. Far more than a Òprison memoir,Ó it is an intimate and revealing look at relationshipsÑwith fellow humans and with the surprising wildlife of the Sonoran Desert, both inside and beyond prison walls. Throughout, Ken Lamberton reflects on human relations as they mimic and defy those of the natural world, whose rhyth...
Beyond Desert Walls
Essays by an inmate of the Arizona State Prison focus on the natural history of the region and on his own personal experiences of the region.
Writes of Life One
Personal stories form the basis of most great literature--whether fiction, nonfiction, poetry, essays, or biography. Yehling describes how to allow the magical, mystical storyteller within as the authentic foundation for writing.
Chasing Arizona
It seemed like a simple plan—visit fifty-two places in fifty-two weeks. But for author Ken Lamberton, a forty-five-year veteran of life in the Sonoran Desert, the entertaining results were anything but easy. In Chasing Arizona, Lamberton takes readers on a yearlong, twenty-thousand-mile joyride across Arizona during its centennial, racking up more than two hundred points of interest along the way. Lamberton chases the four corners of Arizona, attempts every county, every reservation, and every national monument and state park, from the smallest community to the largest city. He drives his Kia Rio through the longest tunnels and across the highest suspension bridges, hikes the hottest deser...
Wilderness and Razor Wire
A young biology teacher, imprisoned for an affair with one of his students, is rehabilitated through his writing and drawings of nature.
