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The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland.Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers.
The warm and cold flavors of Santa Ana winds are generally rooted in the same dynamics. But cold Santa Ana wind events, Houk said, are driven by mid- and upper-level low pressure and colder air aloft.
In Santa Rosa, he discovers that Blue Duck has been captured by a sheriff's deputy and is about to be hanged. Call visits Blue Duck in his jail cell, and Blue Duck taunts him, pointing out that he raided, killed, raped, and kidnapped with impunity throughout his life, despite the best efforts of the Texas Rangers.
Uncle Scrooge and Donald Duck: The Don Rosa Library is a series of books published by Fantagraphics Books, collecting all of the Scrooge McDuck and Donald Duck comic book stories written and drawn by Don Rosa, [1] originally published between 1987 and 2006.
The Duck Variations is a 1972 play by American playwright David Mamet. The play depicts a discussion taking place between two elderly men sitting on a park bench watching ducks. The dialogue begins with the mating habits of ducks and runs to examine law, friendship and death. The principal irony is that the men really know nothing about ducks.
The cover of a series of illustrations for the "Night Before Christmas", published as part of the Public Works Administration project in 1934 by Helmuth F. Thoms "A Visit from St. Nicholas", routinely referred to as "The Night Before Christmas" and "' Twas the Night Before Christmas" from its first line, is a poem first published anonymously under the title "Account of a Visit from St ...
Santa Ana – The Golden City [122] Santa Barbara – The American Riviera [123] Santa Catalina Island – The Island of Romance [124] Santa Cruz – (The real) Surf City, USA [125] Santa Monica. Dogtown [9] [8] Home of the Homeless [126] People's Republic of Santa Monica [126] [127] Soviet Monica [128] Santa Paula – Citrus Capital of the ...
Make Way for Ducklings is an American children's picture book written and illustrated by Robert McCloskey.First published in 1941 by the Viking Press, the book centers on a pair of mallards who raise their brood of ducklings on an island in the lagoon in the Boston Public Garden.