From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface forces, and local divers later discovered a rare Enigma machine aboard. Author Jim Bunch traces the destructive history of world war on the shores of the Outer Banks.
Recipes and Notes: Blank Recipe Book To Write In is the perfect place to write down your culinary inspiration, You'll find it easy to organize your favorite meals created in your kitchen or passed down from family members. your brilliant ideas, or just your everyday recipes. Stop Pinning, Printing, and Bookmarking! This 110-page blank recipe book includes areas for cook time, ingredients, directions, and notes. These books are great for keeping your cherished recipes safe and also make a great gift. Get started today and fill this blank cookbook with favorite romantic meals, holiday feast. Perfect!! Plenty of room for the recipe and ingredients. The 2 page layout. and You can add the pictures. For 50 of your Favorite Family Recipes Record the recipe, the source, and why it holds special meaning for your family, as you create a treasure-trove of delicious and nostalgic memories! Easily mark the recipes rating, difficulty, cooking time, servings A Customizable Table of Contents optimal for filling in with recipe sections of your choosing Personalize this Family Recipe Book Adults! Add in all your Secret Family Recipes in this Blank Cookbook This Book makes a great gift and Family Activity for Mom, Dad, and Grandparents to share with Kids and Grandchildren! Create New Traditions, Bake and Record all your Holiday Cookie Recipes and More! Kitchen gag gift for Men & Women Table of Contents, Full 2 Page Spread for Each Recipe Allowing Plenty of Room to Write Down Recipe & Notes, plus a Framed in Area for Photo of the Finished Recipe! 7x10, 110 Pages, Sturdy Paperback Glossy Cover, Perfect Bound. Get started today that allow you to decide the best way to organize and access your recipes and fill this blank cookbook with favorite romantic meals, holiday feast, or secret family desserts and add it to your cart to get going!
This story is about one group of National Park Service seasonal workers, the wildland firefighters. The North Rim of Grand Canyon had for the longest time an elite and historic fire crew known as the "Longshots," made famous in Stephen Pyne's book, "Fire On the Rim". This takes that story and continues on with the emerging national fire policy during the '80's. Many stories have been written by rangers and firefighters in the past. Many of those are good to excellent retellings of the job and what it entails. This is not that type of story. This includes those types of happenings and people, but exposes a vulnerability in the young, grab life by the balls person that portrays a certain niche of individual, best exhibited by this quote, "Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist." (Emerson). The Longshots were a trusted and relied upon crew in the paramilitary organization of wildland fire. Their reputation preceded them and they willingly lived up to the billing. To be a Longshot was an honor and a highly sought after position. Leadership, self-sufficiency, intelligence, as well as hard, sustaining teamwork was expected of each member. They worked hard and they played hard. It comes with laying your life on the line and bonding with your brethren. The other park and concession employees had much respect and admiration for the Longshots and loved them when in station. During the '80's, they received the unofficial title as the, "Fun Bunch," due to their highly positive outlook, their friendliness to all, elite status yet curbed egos and passion for life. They knew how to have a good time and enjoyed themselves wherever they were: on a fire, running a chainsaw, or in the saloon. Part of this story is of that circle around the sun known as nineteen eighty-six, the last season of the fabled "Longshots." Although this story is somewhat about fire management back in its infancy, it is also about a community of people fashioning friendships and forming lives in the isolated land known as the North Rim of Grand Canyon National Park.
As arguably one of the most successfully merchandised characters of all time, Garfield evokes instant recognition all over the world. Popular with both children and adults, this book is another in the Garfield Pocket Books series. The author also created the Garfield Treasuries series.
Recipes and Notes: Blank Recipe Book To Write In is the perfect place to write down your culinary inspiration, You'll find it easy to organize your favorite meals created in your kitchen or passed down from family members. your brilliant ideas, or just your everyday recipes. Stop Pinning, Printing, and Bookmarking! This 100-page blank recipe book includes areas for cook time, ingredients, directions, and notes. These books are great for keeping your cherished recipes safe and also make a great gift. Get started today and fill this blank cookbook with favorite romantic meals, holiday feast Record the recipe, the source, and why it holds special meaning for your family, as you create a treasure-trove of delicious and nostalgic memories! Easily mark the recipes' rating, difficulty, cooking time, servings A Customizable Table of Contents optimal for filling in with recipe sections of your choosing Personalize this Family Recipe Book & Adults! Add in all your Secret Family Recipes in this Blank Cookbook This Book makes a great gift and Family Activity for Mom, Dad, and Grandparents to share with Kids and Grandchildren! Create New Traditions, Bake and Record all your Holiday Cookie Recipes and More! Kitchen gag gift for Men & Women 8.5 x11, 100 Pages, Sturdy Paperback Glossy Cover, Perfect Bound. Get started today that allow you to decide the best way to organize and access your recipes and fill this blank cookbook with favorite romantic meals, holiday feast, or secret family desserts and add it to your cart to get going!
Featuring work previously unpublished, The Heroes Have Gone shows off Jim W. Corder's consummate skills as a memoirist, essayist, and cultural critic. Though the subjects are wide-ranging--West Texas, World War II, writing and teaching, TCU football--one looms above the rest: Corder's lifetime love affair with America's pastoral sport, baseball.
Jim Dent, author of the New York Times bestselling The Junction Boys returns with the remarkable and inspiring story of one of the biggest comebacks in college football history. In the 1960's, Notre Dame's football program was in shambles. Little did anyone know, help was on its way in the form of Ara Parseghian, a controversial choice for head coach—the first one outside of the Notre Dame "family." It was now his responsibility to rebuild the once-proud program and teach the Fighting Irish how to win again. But it was no small task. The men of Notre Dame football were a bunch of unlikelies and oddballs, but Parseghian transformed them into a team: a senior quarterback who would win the Heisman Trophy; a five-foot-eight walk-on who would make first team All-American; an exceptionally rare black player, who would overcome much more than his quiet demeanor to rise to All-American, All-Pro, Hall of Famer, and to the Minnesota Supreme Court. Parseghian would change everything, from the uniforms and pads to the offensive strategy. It would be a huge gamble against great obstacles. But Ara Parseghian had that look in his eye.... New York Times bestselling author Jim Dent chronicles one of the greatest comeback seasons in the history of college football. Once again confirming his position as one of the top sports writers in the country, Dent brings the legends of Notre Dame football to life in an unforgettable story of second chances, determination, and unwavering spirit.
The renowned sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times recalls his many years as a reporter and shares anecdotes about such luminaries as Muhammad Ali, Al Davis, Magic Johnson, Ben Hogan, Pete Rose, and others. 20,000 first printing.
Dr. Deepak Chopra takes a scientific approach to spirituality in this mini version of the enormously inspiring New York Times bestseller, proposing that the human brain is hardwired to know God. The
For the first time since Jeff Buckley’s untimely death on May 29, 1997, Dave Lory reveals what it was like to work alongside one of rock’s most celebrated and influential artists. Go on the road and behind the scenes with Buckley, from his electrifying first solo shows in New York to the difficult sessions for the second album he never completed. Lory opens up about their struggles with the record label and trouble with the band, shares previously untold stories and describes fascinating scenes that only he witnessed, including what went down in the days immediately after getting that fateful call, “Jeff is missing.”
Jill climbs an experimental cornstalk and ends up in Crabby the Giant's land -- only he doesn't really like being crabby. A variation on Jack and the Beanstalk.
Life is full of quandaries. Fortunately for devoted readers of Albany Herald humor columnist Jim Hendricks, many are solved weekly in 600 words or less. Raised in a small town he never outgrew, Jim connects with newspaper readers on critical topics, such as the only two movies where a guy can tear up without being considered a wimp, why Mr. Spock is a better parenting model than Dr. Spock and how picking up your own underdrawers off the bathroom floor can save your marriage. Get ready to laugh out loud and sometimes get a little misty as you read about family life, children growing up, lightning bugs, old grocery stores, enduring Southern traditions and folks you'll be glad you met.
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