The Stormchasers
DOWNLOAD
Download The Stormchasers PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Stormchasers book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Stormchasers
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jenna Blum
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2010-05-27
The Stormchasers written by Jenna Blum and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-27 with Fiction categories.
Twins are forced to confront a violent secret from their past in Jenna Blum's first novel since her runaway bestseller, Those Who Save Us How far would you go to protect a sibling-and at what cost to yourself? In Those Who Save Us, Jenna Blum proved herself a master storyteller with brilliant insight into the spectrum of human emotion. Now, Blum turns her sights to the most intimate and mysterious of family relationships-that between twins-in her powerful and provocative second novel. As a teenager, Karena Jorge had always been the one to look out for her twin brother Charles, who suffers from bipolar disorder. But as Charles begins to refuse medication and his manic tendencies worsen, Karena finds herself caught between her loyalty to her brother and her fear for his life. Always obsessed with the weather-enraptured by its magical unpredictability that seemed to mirror his own impulses—Charles starts chasing storms, and his behavior grows increasingly erratic . . . until a terrifying storm chase with Karena ends with deadly consequences, tearing the twins apart and changing both of their lives forever. Two decades later, Karena gets a call from a psychiatric ward in Wichita, Kansas, to come pick up her brother, whom she hasn't seen or spoken to for twenty years. She soon discovers that Charles has lied to the doctors, taken medication that could make him dangerously manic, and disappeared again. Having exhausted every resource to try and track him down, Karena realizes she has only one last chance of finding him: the storms. Wherever the tornadoes are, that's where he'll be. Karena joins a team of professional stormchasers-passionate adventurers who will transform her life and give her a chance at love and redemption—and embarks on an odyssey to find her brother before he reveals the violent secret from their past and does more damage to himself . . . or to someone else. Watch a Video
Stormchasers The Hurricane Hunters And Their Fateful Flight Into Hurricane Janet
DOWNLOAD
Author : David Toomey
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2003-06-17
Stormchasers The Hurricane Hunters And Their Fateful Flight Into Hurricane Janet written by David Toomey and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-06-17 with Nature categories.
Fifty years after Isaac's Storm, a riveting story of the first Hurricane Hunters, and the one crew who paid the ultimate price. "In a virtual age when tempests are monitored by global positioning and The Weather Channel, Stormchasers reminds us that our first understanding of hurricanes was directly built on the risks and sacrifices of living, breathing heroes," writes Hampton Sides (author of Ghost Soldiers). In September 1955, Navy Lieutenant Commander Grover B. Windham and a crew of eight flew out of Guantánamo Bay into the eye of Hurricane Janet swirling in the Caribbean: a routine weather reconnaissance mission from which they never returned. In the wake of World War II, the Air Force and the Navy had discovered a new civilian arena where daring pilots could test their courage and skill. These Hurricane Hunters flew into raging storms to gauge their strength and predict their paths. Without computer, global positioning, or satellite support, they relied on rudimentary radar systems to locate the hurricane's eye and estimated the drift of their aircraft by looking at windblown waves below. Drawing from Navy documents and interviews with members of the squadron and relatives of the crew, Stormchasers reconstructs the ill-fated mission of Windham's crew from preflight checks to the chilling moment of their final transmission.
The Man Who Caught The Storm
DOWNLOAD
Author : Brantley Hargrove
language : en
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Release Date : 2019-04-02
The Man Who Caught The Storm written by Brantley Hargrove and has been published by Simon & Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of today’s great science writers” (The Washington Post). At the turn of the twenty-first century, the tornado was one of the last true mysteries of the modern world. It was a monster that ravaged the American heartland a thousand times each year, yet science’s every effort to divine its inner workings had ended in failure. Researchers all but gave up, until the arrival of an outsider. In a field of PhDs, Tim Samaras didn’t attend a day of college in his life. He chased storms with brilliant tools of his own invention and pushed closer to the tornado than anyone else ever dared. When he achieved what meteorologists had deemed impossible, it was as if he had snatched the fire of the gods. Yet even as he transformed the field, Samaras kept on pushing. As his ambitions grew, so did the risks. And when he finally met his match—in a faceoff against the largest tornado ever recorded—it upended everything he thought he knew. Brantley Hargrove delivers a “cinematically thrilling and scientifically wonky” (Outside) tale, chronicling the life of Tim Samaras in all its triumph and tragedy. Hargrove takes readers inside the thrill of the chase, the captivating science of tornadoes, and the remarkable character of a man who walked the line between life and death in pursuit of knowledge. The Man Who Caught the Storm is an “adrenaline rush of a tornado chase…Readers from all across the spectrum will enjoy this” (Library Journal, starred review) unforgettable exploration of obsession and the extremes of the natural world.
Adventures In Tornado Alley
DOWNLOAD
Author : Mike Hollingshead
language : en
Publisher: Thames and Hudson
Release Date : 2008-03-25
Adventures In Tornado Alley written by Mike Hollingshead and has been published by Thames and Hudson this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-03-25 with Photography categories.
From surreal skyscapes to wholesale destruction: the most dramatic scenes from the natural world. The destructive power of nature has always been a source of fear and fascination, and never more so than now, when climate change and extreme weather conditions are constantly in the news. Across the central United States, the infamous storms of Tornado Alley are fueled by the collision of cold fronts from Canada and warm fronts from the Gulf of Mexico. People have been chasing these storms for decades in pursuit of thrilling experiences, but now a new generation of storm chasers is combining scientific knowledge with powerful images. This book follows Mike Hollingshead and Eric Nguyen on seventeen chases through Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and South Dakota, illustrating the unfolding events with sequential shots and a running commentary by the chasers themselves. These spectacular storm portfolios are expanded with special features on weather phenomena like hail and mammatus clouds plus insights into forecasting and research.
The Stormchaser
DOWNLOAD
Author : Rita Clay Estrada
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2011-07-15
The Stormchaser written by Rita Clay Estrada and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-15 with Fiction categories.
REBELS & ROGUES Cane Mitchell…born in the eye of a raging Texas storm, he's been raising Cain ever since. His job, his passion, is to go where the danger is—fires, floods, tornadoes, tidal waves. He's there. And then little bitty, vulnerable Bernadette Conrad comes into his life and he wants to run like hell. After the earthquake, her home in ruins, Bernadette turns to the man who's come to help put her life right-side up. But once again, and too late, she discovers that there are some things over which you have no control. And that his given name is …Hurricane
Stormchaser
DOWNLOAD
Author : Paul Stewart
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2006
Stormchaser written by Paul Stewart and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Airships categories.
In his continuing adventures, Twig, now sixteen years old, joins the crew of his father's sky pirate ship and embarks on a dangerous mission to collect the powerful stormphrax, a substance that purifies water and also prevents the city of Sanctaphrax from floating away.
Storm Chasers
DOWNLOAD
Author : Paul Quarrington
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2013-12-24
Storm Chasers written by Paul Quarrington and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-24 with Fiction categories.
Few people seek out the tiny Caribbean island of Dampier Cay—visitors usually wash up there by accident. But this weekend, three people are flying to the island, not for a tan or fun in the sun, but because they have reason to believe that they might encounter something there that most people take great measures to avoid—a hurricane. A lottery windfall and a few hours of selfishness have robbed Caldwell of all that was precious to him, while Beverly, haunted by tragedy and screwed by fate since birth, has given up on life. Also on the flight is Jimmy Newton, a professional storm chaser and videographer who will do anything for the perfect shot. Waiting for them at Dampier is the manager of the Water's Edge Hotel, Maywell Hope, a descendant of the pirates who sailed the Caribbean hundreds of hears ago. As their stories unfold, the tragic underpinnings of Beverly and Caldwell's lives are revealed, a storyline that builds just as the hurricane looms ever-closer on the horizon. Cinematic and harrowing, Paul Quarrington's Storm Chasers is a tale of love and loss—and finding redemption in the eye of a hurricane.
Storm Chaser
DOWNLOAD
Author : Susan H. Gray
language : en
Publisher: Cherry Lake
Release Date : 2015-08-01
Storm Chaser written by Susan H. Gray and has been published by Cherry Lake this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-01 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Readers will learn what it takes to succeed as a storm chaser. The book also explains the necessary educational steps, useful character traits, potential hazards, and daily job tasks related to this career. Sidebars include thought-provoking trivia. Questions in the backmatter ask for text-dependent analysis. Photos, a glossary, and additional resources are included.
Storm Chaser
DOWNLOAD
Author : Chris Platt
language : en
Publisher: Open Road Media
Release Date : 2014-08-19
Storm Chaser written by Chris Platt and has been published by Open Road Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-19 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
The moment Jessica lays eyes on the wild black-and-white paint filly, she knows it was meant to be Jessica’s life at Wild Hawk Ranch is happy, if a bit quiet. But everything changes when her father and brother drive the latest herd of wild young quarter horses into the pen at the family ranch. There, she spots the most beautiful black-and-while paint filly she’s ever seen. She just knows . . . this is the year, and that is the horse. Her moment has come—she’ll finally get to join her father and brother in the family business of breaking wild horses, if only she can convince her father she is old enough. But after a difficult turn, the family has no option but to keep the ranch afloat by turning it into a dude ranch for vacationing city folk. At first, Jess is thrilled by the idea. It will be fun to have new people around—and maybe the extra work will convince her father to give her Storm Chaser, the beautiful paint. But things get complicated when the guests begin arriving. Will Jess be able to salvage her old, happy life and save Storm Chaser from an uncertain future?
Storm Chaser
DOWNLOAD
Author : Cecile Schoberle
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2004
Storm Chaser written by Cecile Schoberle and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Readers (Primary) categories.
In simple language just right for beginning readers, this action-packed storycatches the excitement of how storm trackers predict bad weather.