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Behind My Badge is a spellbinding story of courage, commitment, and unwavering faith. Captain Mike Rossman takes us behind the scenes of the City of Miami Fire Department over a period of 30 years of service. As his hard-won promotions take him from rookie to Battalion Captain, he tells us what it's really like to be a firefighter or paramedic on a Rescue crew - from learning how to lay a hose or hook a ladder to departmental policies like "skipping." Whether he and his men are responding to a multi-alarm fire, rushing to a riot scene, saving the life of a cardiac arrest patient, delivering a child, or treating a horse, they have to count first on each other. Captain Rossman's stories are honest compassionate, often inspirational, and interlaved with the wry humor born of facing danger on a daily basis.

This modern re-examination of the Bible's references to sex strips away illegitimate religious tradition, to reveal that God views sexual pleasure as a blessing to humanity.

Zooey Goes to Heaven was written to help young children cope with the death of a beloved family pet. Zooey is an old dog who becomes ill and joins a family member in heaven.

Sofia and her Friesian horse, Zydeco, spend a week together at camp learning to understand each other so they can become better partners.

A big sister expressing her love toward her new baby brother.

Learning basic childhood education can be achieved with this hilarious, juvenile character, "Silly Billy". With every mouthful he entertains us by using amusing rhyming words. His witty but clever friends accompany him. They take him on an exciting journey giving the audience an easy and thrilling way to learn. These books are recommended for grades Preschool-Kindergarten. The listener is drawn into the story, learning at the same time and giving him/her motivation.

Seventy million years ago there was explosive volcanic activity in the Mountains near Santa Cruz Valley. Thirty million years ago the volcanoes burst forth again to create sheets of black lava. Only the ancestors of the present day animals witnessed this spectacular event. Scientists know that Paddy the Packrat is a descendant of the packrats that fearfully watched the exploding volcanoes. The main characters of his historical story about southern Arizona are Sancho and Carlos- 300 pound bighorn sheep. They watched children who moved into their valley to work and play. As people moved in, some of the animals moved to the mountains in the surrounding valley. But Paddy the Packrat stayed to build his nest of 'junk': cacti, twigs and shiny objects. Ice Age people came from Siberia with their wooly mammoths. Indians from Mexico arrived with corn seeds to plant. Father Kino brought the "rock horses" and an idea of a Mission from Spain. Chinese people came from the California gold fields to work on the railroad. The Santa Cruz Valley was fertile, protected by mountains with year round flowing water and food for the animals and people. This is a story about the life of the animals, plants and children who came to the Valley before 1900. Part of the story is told in rhymes. Children can colour the pictures and search for Sancho, Carlos or Paddy in the illustrations. Historical dates, maps, photos and illustrations tell the story of the Santa Cruz Valley in the Southern Arizona Valley.

Discover the lives of people of Grand Strand. Learn about a Nazi pilot who became an American citizen (Walter Luff); or an author in charge of the WPA Writers Project (Mabel Montgomery). Charles Joyner is a Burroughs Distinguished Professor of Southern History and Culture at Coastal Carolina University. He is the author of Down by the Riverside: A South Caroline Slave Community (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1984) and Shared Traditions: Southern History and Folk Culture (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1999).

This book chronicles the story of a volunteer firefighter who finds himself helping to battle the largest wildfire in the history of the State of Arizona. Starting in the tiny village of Cibecue, Arizona on the White Mountain Apache Reservation and, eventually, encompassing the entire Mogollon Rim, the human-caused Rodeo-Chediski Fire explodes and forces the evacuation of over thirty thousand people. This story exposes the friction between the United States Forest Service and the small, rural, fire departments in the White Mountains of Arizona and details the differing viewpoints on how the fire should have been fought. The author, a former resident of Tucson, joined the Linden Fire Department in 1999 as a volunteer and on June 18th, 2002 found himself face-to-face with a huge, out-of-control wildfire that threatened to destroy whole towns and neighborhoods on the Mogollon Rim

Ghosts, graveyards, hangings and haunts. Is Kingston one of the most haunted cities in Canada? Since 1995, tour guides from Haunted Walks Inc. have been entertaining and educating the public with Kingston's darker history and many ghost stories. Our guides are easily recognized by their dark cloaks and lanterns as they lead their groups through the quiet streets and alleys of the historic Limestone City. In this collection of supernatural tales from our favourite haunted buildings and places, we share the very best of over a decade's worth of research and investigation. Read about the phantom of Kingston Penitentiary, who swore he would come back from the grave to have his vengeance; the ghost of the gentleman soldier, hanged on the hill at Fort Henry, or the heartbreaking tragedy at Deadman's Bay that reunited the spirits of a young couple after their deaths. These and many other chilling tales are to be found inside.

This book has been in process over a span of forty-nine years. I've been able to document many details-names, places, dates, descriptions-through letters, photos, and newspaper clippings. In some cases, details have been recalled from memory and may not always be accurate, but they are true in essence. Some stories, such as the first three chapters, were written in sequence, but many began as stand-alone vignettes. Those written as individual stories have, of necessity, repetition of descriptions, explanations, and details. There are so many people, places, and things introduced throughout the chapters of Saps From The Pines, that I hope the repetition is helpful in putting the pieces together, rather than distracting. In selecting which events to include, I've considered my audience to be a mixture of family, friends, and those interested in Colorado history. Not all chapters will be of equal interest to this variety of readers, but my hope is that those of you who have the nerve to delve into this book after seeing the title and the cover photo will find some things that strike your fancy.

Par des réalités qui s'entrechoquent, des phrases coups de poing, des images qui hurlent et des cadres qui se brisent, la vie d'une jeune femme nous est livrée sans détour ni censure, à travers les pages de son journal. Du plastique dans la tête se veut un passage intense et nécessaire vers la résilience et la renaissance... pour que plus jamais.