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| blame it on the rain: Blame it on the Rain Karen Wiesner, 2019-05-31 Talise Tally Johnson is the second youngest in a family of nine siblings, having grown up a lifer in the small town of Amethyst, where thousands of tourists flock in summer. Once the tourist season is over, the remaining residents do anything and everything to get through the long, hard winters. Tally's family owns Johnson Resort. Tally has managed to cultivate her job there to include professionally cleaning businesses all around the area throughout the year. Like most Amethyst lifers, she can't imagine ever moving, but Amethyst isn't exactly a hotbed for excitement. She and handsome bad boy Adam Schaefer have been an item since high school. Against all odds and despite being a reckless youth always in trouble, Adam is one of the few born and bred in Amethyst who have managed to get out into the big, wide world. As a pilot for a large commercial airline, he's barely home two weeks out of every year. Tally and Adam's informal engagement has stretched out into years and, seeing the happy couples getting engaged, married and starting families all around her, she begins to wonder if he's serious or simply sees her as a convenient stop on the never-ending tour of his life. Donnie Garner's best friend Adam is easy to admire. Though they grew up together and got in the same fracas as boys, Adam has made something of himself. Donnie still lives in Amethyst, still works in his dad's vehicle repair shop with no other career aspirations, still loves the same girl he spent most of his teenage years obsessed with though she's happily married with kids. Donnie finds himself longing to experience the kind of loyalty and crazy-love with a soulmate that he also sees all around him. For once in his life, he'd like to be the hero in some amazing woman's life. Donnie isn't blind to the shoddy way Adam treats beautiful and sweet Tally, cheating on her without remorse and bragging to him about it, while Tally carries on believing the best of him and his future intentions toward her. Almost unconsciously, Donnie finds himself in love with his best friend's girl and trying to make her see she'd be better off without Adam--maybe even better off with him. But, even when Tally falls in love with Donnie instead, she can't easily turn away from the father of the child she never expected to be carrying... |
| blame it on the rain: Blame It On the Rain Lisa Roberts, 2013-09 Ladies remember the thrill of finding Mr. Right only to later discover that he was totally wrong for you? For the men whose exciting relationship turned out to be excruciating, Blame it on the Rain presents warning signs regarding toxic relationships while offering hope that true love still exists. This must read collection of short stories and poems about love, betrayal, heartbreak, and self-discovery challenges the reader to examine one's own perspective on love and relationships. Relationships issues transcend social classes, cultural boundaries, age, and gender differences. Blame it on the Rain is uniquely designed to capture the timelessness and relevance of such matters of the heart. |
| blame it on the rain: Blame it on the Rain, Adventures in Amethyst Series, Book 10 Karen Wiesner, 2019-05-31 Donnie Garner's best friend Adam is easy to admire, given that he's made something of himself as a pilot for a large commercial airline. Donnie still lives in Amethyst, still works in his dad's vehicle repair shop with no other career aspirations. Donnie isn't blind to the shoddy way Adam treats his high school girlfriend and unofficial fianc?e, Tally Johnson, cheating on her without remorse. Almost unconsciously, Donnie finds himself in love with his best friend's girl and trying to make her see she'd be better off with him. But, even when Tally falls in love with Donnie instead, she can't easily turn away from the father of the child she never expected to be carrying? |
| blame it on the rain: World of Reading: Doc McStuffins Blame it on the Rain Disney Book Group, Jennifer Liberts Weinberg, 2014-11-04 In this Level 1 reader, Alma's stuffed cow, Moo Moo, gets soaked when she is left outside in the rain. Alma is sad and Moo Moo is mooo-serable! Will Doc be able to help? |
| blame it on the rain: Blame It on the Rain Laura Lee, 2009-10-13 An amazing, enlightening, and endlessly entertaining look at how weather has shaped our world. Throughout history, great leaders have fallen, the outcomes of mighty battles have been determined, and the tides of earth-shattering events have been turned by a powerful, inscrutable force of nature: the weather. In Blame It on the Rain, author Laura Lee explores the amazing and sometimes bizarre ways in which weather has influenced our history and helped to bring about sweeping cultural change. She also delights us with a plethora of fascinating weather-related facts (Did you know that more Britons die of sunburn every year than Australians?), while offering readers a hilarious overview of humankind's many absurd attempts to control the elements. If a weather-produced blight hadn't severely damaged French vineyards, there might never have been a California wine industry. . . . What weather phenomenon was responsible for the sound of the Stradivarius? If there had been a late autumn in Russia, Hitler could have won World War II. . . . Did weather play a part in Truman's victory over Dewey? Eye-opening, edifying, and totally unexpected, Blame It on the Rain is a fascinating appreciation of the destiny-altering vagaries of mother nature—and it's even more fun than watching the Weather Channel! |
| blame it on the rain: The Billboard Book of Number One Hits Fred Bronson, 2003 Provides lists of hit songs by date with information on the artist, songwriter, producer, label, and offering interviews with popular artists. |
| blame it on the rain: Blame It On The Rain Laura Lee, 2006-08-01 Provides a close-up look at the social, cultural, and historical impact of the weather on human life, furnishing a host of trivia and lore and answering questions that range from the truth behind the biblical story of Noah's Ark to what would happen to th |
| blame it on the rain: Believe Me, I'm Lying Jose M. Gonzalez, 2015-07-24 Believe Me, I'm Lying is a collection of poems about romance, heartache and every emotion in betwee |
| blame it on the rain: Katrina Andy Horowitz, 2020-07-07 Winner of the Bancroft Prize Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities Book of the Year A Publishers Weekly Book of the Year “The main thrust of Horowitz’s account is to make us understand Katrina—the civic calamity, not the storm itself—as a consequence of decades of bad decisions by humans, not an unanticipated caprice of nature.” —Nicholas Lemann, New Yorker Hurricane Katrina made landfall in New Orleans on August 29, 2005, but the decisions that caused the disaster can be traced back nearly a century. After the city weathered a major hurricane in 1915, its Sewerage and Water Board believed that developers could safely build housing near the Mississippi, on lowlands that relied on significant government subsidies to stay dry. When the flawed levee system failed, these were the neighborhoods that were devastated. The flood line tells one important story about Katrina, but it is not the only story that matters. Andy Horowitz investigates the response to the flood, when policymakers made it easier for white New Orleanians to return home than for African Americans. He explores how the profits and liabilities created by Louisiana’s oil industry have been distributed unevenly, prompting dreams of abundance and a catastrophic land loss crisis that continues today. “Masterful...Disasters have the power to reveal who we are, what we value, what we’re willing—and unwilling—to protect.” —New York Review of Books “If you want to read only one book to better understand why people in positions of power in government and industry do so little to address climate change, even with wildfires burning and ice caps melting and extinctions becoming a daily occurrence, this is the one.” —Los Angeles Review of Books |
| blame it on the rain: Marcus Aureliusa Rain Miracle and the Marcomannic Wars Péter Kovács, 2009 The rain and lightning miracles are the best-known events of Marcus Aurelius' northern wars. Several pagan and Christian versions existed in Antiquity. The author studies and publishes for the first time all the sources and the development of the legend from Antiquity to the 14th century. |
| blame it on the rain: In the Sweet by and Bye Ingrid Green Adams, 2014-07-18 While living this thing called life we may encounter many road blocks, setbacks, and detours As we travel along lifes highways. Thank goodness for friends along the way who help to encourage us as we continue on our Journey. Travel along with me through lifes struggles and triumphs those happy as well as those that Make you cry, If you stay the course it will all be worth it IN THE SWEET BY AND BYE ENJOY!!! |
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| blame it on the rain: Blame It on the Duke Lenora Bell, 2017-04-18 Have you heard? The future Duke of Barrington has just been gambled away by his father. To an heiress! The delicious details thus far... Nicolas, Lord Hatherly, never intended to marry—nor add to the “mad” Hatherly line—but now he must honor his father’s debt to a social-climbing merchant or lose the family estate. A notoriously wild marquess, won by her father at a game of cards, is the very last thing Miss Alice Tombs wants. She’s spent the last three seasons repelling suitors in spectacular fashion so she’d be at liberty to explore the world. She’ll just have to drive this one away as well. Until Nick proposes an utterly tempting arrangement: one summer together to prove the legitimacy of their union, then Alice is free to travel while Nick revels in the time he has left before the Hatherly Madness takes hold. It will be easy to walk away after a few months of make-believe wedded bliss—won’t it? Alice and Nick are about to find out...one sultry night at a time. This ought to be fun . . . An Avon Romance |
| blame it on the rain: I've Heard Those Songs Before Elston Brooks, 1981 Describes endangered animals of the Caribbean and South America and discusses the effect man has had on this area. |
| blame it on the rain: From Here to Serenity K.M. Jackson, 2021-10-26 ’Tis the season to satisfy your holiday desires with this festive sexy story… Unstoppable real-estate developer Ross Montgomery is under orders to get some holiday R&R. A cruise to Miami on his yacht, “The Serenity,” is the perfect place to start—especially when he meets his new personal chef, Essie Bradford. Between her calming presence, her amazing food, and her delectable beauty, Ross just might develop a taste for the good life. And when the two discover they have a lot in common—including an irresistible attraction—the next course may be a spicy New Year… |
| blame it on the rain: Blame It on the Mistletoe Joyce Magnin, 2011 The old folks at the Greenbrier Nursing Home seem to have suddenly grown younger and happier thanks to the newest resident at the Paradise Trailer Park. Mildred Blessing sets out to investigate, even as the wedding to end all weddings is being planned. |
| blame it on the rain: Steady Steady Henry Dan, Seaman Dan, Karl Neuenfeldt, 2013 An autobiography by Henry 'Seaman' Dan, which explores his working life as musician, pearl-shell diver, boat skipper, drover, prospector and taxi driver. |
| blame it on the rain: The Things They Carried Tim O'Brien, 2009-10-13 A classic work of American literature that has not stopped changing minds and lives since it burst onto the literary scene, The Things They Carried is a ground-breaking meditation on war, memory, imagination, and the redemptive power of storytelling. The Things They Carried depicts the men of Alpha Company: Jimmy Cross, Henry Dobbins, Rat Kiley, Mitchell Sanders, Norman Bowker, Kiowa, and the character Tim O’Brien, who has survived his tour in Vietnam to become a father and writer at the age of forty-three. Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction, war and peace, courage and fear and longing. The Things They Carried won France's prestigious Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger and the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize; it was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. |
| blame it on the rain: Blame It on the Pain Ashley Jade, 2016-05-24 Pain. It hurts us. It pushes us. It punishes us. Or, for the few poor souls out there like me...it defines us. I'm not a good person. There are no redeeming qualities about me...not anymore. Any that I had, I'd given to the devil on the night that changed everything. The night my baby sister died. The night I murdered her killer. Yes, I've taken a life...and I would do it again in a heartbeat. And I would never, ever, have an ounce of regret for being who I am. Until her. My name is Jackson Reid. There are two things you need to know about me. The first-is that I'm in love with Alyssa Tanner. The second-is that I'm a murderer. My name is Alyssa Tanner, but you probably know me as the whore who caused her step-father to lose the election for New York City Mayor. And you would be right- because the day the world branded me a slut I decided to become one. You think you know all there is to know about me because you've seen what I look like naked. Believe me, you haven't even cracked the surface. What you don't know-is my past, because I've been forced to keep it a secret to ensure my safety. What you don't know is my pain. Because if you did-you'd be dead. I bet you think you know how this story will unfold...but trust me, you really have no idea. Warning: Due to strong language, some violence, explicit sexual content, and some dark elements, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18. This is a full-length, novel. (100,000+ words.) |
| blame it on the rain: Radical Compassion Tara Brach, 2019-12-31 One of the most beloved and trusted mindfulness teachers in America offers a lifeline for difficult times: the RAIN meditation, which awakens our courage and heart Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties--stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning. In this heartfelt and deeply practical book, she offers an antidote: an easy-to-learn four-step meditation that quickly loosens the grip of difficult emotions and limiting beliefs. Each step in the meditation practice (Recognize, Allow, Investigate, Nurture) is brought to life by memorable stories shared by Tara and her students as they deal with feelings of overwhelm, loss, and self-aversion, with painful relationships, and past trauma--and as they discover step-by-step the sources of love, forgiveness, compassion, and deep wisdom alive within all of us. |
| blame it on the rain: The Smell of Rain on Dust Martín Prechtel, 2015-04-14 Beautifully written and wise … [Martin Prechtel] offers stories that are precious and life-sustaining. Read carefully, and listen deeply.—Mary Oliver, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Inspiring hope, solace, and courage in living through our losses, author Martín Prechtel, trained in the Tzutujil Maya shamanic tradition, shares profound insights on the relationship between grief and praise in our culture--how the inability that many of us have to grieve and weep properly for the dead is deeply linked with the inability to give praise for living. In modern society, grief is something that we usually experience in private, alone, and without the support of a community. Yet, as Prechtel says, Grief expressed out loud for someone we have lost, or a country or home we have lost, is in itself the greatest praise we could ever give them. Grief is praise, because it is the natural way love honors what it misses. Prechtel explains that the unexpressed grief prevalent in our society today is the reason for many of the social, cultural, and individual maladies that we are currently experiencing. According to Prechtel, When you have two centuries of people who have not properly grieved the things that they have lost, the grief shows up as ghosts that inhabit their grandchildren. These ghosts, he says, can also manifest as disease in the form of tumors, which the Maya refer to as solidified tears, or in the form of behavioral issues and depression. He goes on to show how this collective, unexpressed energy is the long-held grief of our ancestors manifesting itself, and the work that can be done to liberate this energy so we can heal from the trauma of loss, war, and suffering. At base, this little book, as the author calls it, can be seen as a companion of encouragement, a little extra light for those deep and noble parts in all of us. |
| blame it on the rain: Beyond the Fire and the Rain Wilbert Williams Jr. M.D., 2013-02-14 In July 1978, Dr. Wilbert Williams Jr. was standing on a street corner in Brooklyn, New York, afraid for his life. It had been less than three months since he was awarded a medical degree from Albany Medical College in upstate New York; yet there he wasenduring racial slurs from a group of angry white people who hated him simply because of the color of his skin. Even as the police stood guarding him, the group continued to taunt him with the words, He can go back where he came from. In his poignant memoir, Williams narrates the story of how he beat overwhelming odds, as an African American youth growing up in a public housing project in Brooklyn, New York, to eventually become a physician. While chronicling a journey that took him from the streets of New York through the challenges of medical school to the beautiful Caribbean island of St. Croix, he details how he learned to prevail over racism, anxiety, and depression in order to achieve his dream of becoming a doctor. Dr. Williamss inspiring story offers motivation to soar over the challenges of life and reach for the stars. |
| blame it on the rain: Murder In The Rain Stephen Randorf, 2019-10-09 Baseball was not a sport Detective Bass understood, nor was he familiar with the fine art of the fashion industry, but when a small-time hoodlum's body was pulled from a frozen river on a cold February morning, that he understood. In this unsettling case of a murdered informant, one murder led to another, and passions heightened as Detective Bass closed in on kidnappers, gamblers, and a love-struck baseball player. |
| blame it on the rain: Collins Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2004 Graham Betts, 2004 The most detailed guide to every single and artist that has ever appeared in the UK Chart100 Top 10s Hit Singles -- A-Z by Artist Hit Singles -- A-Z of song titles Sample entry: ELASTICA British rock group formed in London in 1993 by Justine Frischmann (born in Twickenham, Middlesex on 16/9/1969, guitar and vocals), Donna Matthews (born in Newport, Gwent on 2/12/1971, guitar), Justin Welch (born in Nuneaton, West Midlands on 4/12/1972, drums) and Annie Holland (born in Brighton, East Sussex on 26/8/1965, bass). They added Dave Bush (keyboards) in 1995, the same year Holland left and was replaced by Abby Travis. Travis later left and was replaced by Sheila Chipperfield (born on 17/6/1976). Frischmann had previously been rhythm guitarist with Suede. The group announced they were to disband in 2001. |
| blame it on the rain: A Garden in the Rain Lynn Kurland, 2003-09-02 Lynn Kurland tells the story of Patrick MacLeod—the first MacLeod to discover the secrets of his ancestral land.... Patrick MacLeod is haunted by his past, by events he had no control over and wishes desperately he could change. He hasn’t the heart for love, nor the time for rescuing maidens in distress of their own making. Until he sees a woman who touches his heart and stirs his soul...and makes him believe love might be possible again after all. For Madelyn Phillips, Scotland is the land of dreams, filled with magic, romance, and handsome Highland lords. Unfortunately, the reality of her dream vacation is no car, no luggage, and a pesky ex-fiancé determined to shadow her every move. She thinks her dreaming is in vain until she sees a man standing on a windswept moor, a Highlander full of secrets and longing, and knows she has seen her destiny. But the past isn’t through with either of them, and it will take all the love both of them possess to make their dreams come true. |
| blame it on the rain: Blame it on the Rain Jennifer Liberts, Chris Nee, 2014 Alma's stuffed cow, Moo Moo, gets soaked when she is left outside in the rain. Alma is sad and Moo Moo is mooo-serable! Will Doc be able to help?--Publisher. |
| blame it on the rain: Rain Don Paterson, 2014-09-09 In this, his first volume of original verse since the award-winning Landing Light, Don Paterson is found writing at his most memorable and direct. In an assembly of masterful lyrics and monologues, he conjures a series of fables and charms that serve both to expose us to the unsettling forces within the world and to offer some protection against them. Whether outwardly elemental in their address or more personal in their direction, these poems—addressed to the rain and the sea, to his young sons or beloved friends—never shy from their inquiry into truth and lie, embracing everything in scope from the rangy narrative to the tiny renku. Rain, which includes the winner of this year's Forward Prize for the Best Individual Poem and an extended elegy for the poet Michael Donaghy, is Paterson's most intimate and manifest collection to date. |
| blame it on the rain: Blame It on Bath Caroline Linden, 2012-02-28 “[Caroline Linden] touches every emotion.” —Julia Quinn What happens in Bath stays in Bath—or not. Blame It on Bath is the second installment in Caroline Linden’s breathtaking new historical romance series, The Truth About the Duke, in which the three sons of the Duke of Durham, at risk of losing their inheritance, seek their fortunes…and, hopefully, love. Writing in a voice that will remind readers of Julia Quinn and Liz Carlyle, RITA Award-nominee Linden spins a wonderfully sensual yarn about a blackmailed nobleman facing the loss of his birthright and bent on revenge, and the willing heiress he intends to marry for her money—a lady who has loved him from afar for years. |
| blame it on the rain: Rules of Rain Leah Scheier, 2017-12-05 How far would you go to protect the ones you love? Rain has taken care of Ethan all of their lives. Before she even knew what autism meant, she was her twin brother's connection to the world around him. Each day with Ethan is unvarying and predictable, and Rain takes comfort in being the one who holds their family together. It's nice to be needed—to be the center of someone's world. If only her longtime crush, Liam, would notice her too... Then one night, her life is upended by a mistake she can't undo. Suddenly Rain's new romance begins to unravel along with her carefully constructed rules. Rain isn't used to asking for help—and certainly not from Ethan. But the brother she's always protected is the only one who can help her. And letting go of the past may be the only way for Rain to hold onto her relationships that matter most. |
| blame it on the rain: Complete UK Hit Singles 1952-2006 Graham Betts, 2006 This is a detailed guide to every single and artist that has ever appeared in the UK chart. It includes details on when the song was released, top position, weeks in chart, awards, track title, label and catalogue number. |
| blame it on the rain: Henderson the Rain King Saul Bellow, 2012-12-24 It blazes as fiercely and scintillatingly as a forest fire. There is life here; a great rage to live more fully. In this it is a giant among novels. (San Francisco Examiner) A Penguin Classic Saul Bellow evokes all the rich colors and exotic customs of a highly imaginary Africa in this acclaimed comic novel about a middle-aged American millionaire who, seeking a new, more rewarding life, descends upon an African tribe. Henderson’s awesome feats of strength and his unbridled passion for life win him the admiration of the tribe—but it is his gift for making rain that turns him from mere hero into messiah. A hilarious, often ribald story, Henderson the Rain King is also a profound look at the forces that drive a man through life. This Penguin Classics edition contains an introduction by Adam Kirsch. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| blame it on the rain: Come the Rain Shannon Smiley, 2015-10-03 The media coins her the Equinox Angel, the mysterious sixteen-year-old who saves the life of a young girl on the NYC subway. With a thick file on behavioral issues, Anastasija Volikov knows she's no angel. A ward of the state since the age of six, she's seen seven placements, has suffered physical and sexual abuse, has learned never to love or trust. She is a product of The System. She is unreachable. Until she moves to Constance. |
| blame it on the rain: Rain Cynthia Barnett, 2016-04-05 Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain. Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true shape of a raindrop, the mysteries of frog and fish rains—with the human story of our ambition to control rain, from ancient rain dances to the 2,203 miles of levees that attempt to straitjacket the Mississippi River. It offers a glimpse of our founding forecaster, Thomas Jefferson, who measured every drizzle long before modern meteorology. Two centuries later, rainy skies would help inspire Morrissey’s mopes and Kurt Cobain’s grunge. Rain is also a travelogue, taking readers to Scotland to tell the surprising story of the mackintosh raincoat, and to India, where villagers extract the scent of rain from the monsoon-drenched earth and turn it into perfume. Now, after thousands of years spent praying for rain or worshiping it; burning witches at the stake to stop rain or sacrificing small children to bring it; mocking rain with irrigated agriculture and cities built in floodplains; even trying to blast rain out of the sky with mortars meant for war, humanity has finally managed to change the rain. Only not in ways we intended. As climate change upends rainfall patterns and unleashes increasingly severe storms and drought, Barnett shows rain to be a unifying force in a fractured world. Too much and not nearly enough, rain is a conversation we share, and this is a book for everyone who has ever experienced it. |
| blame it on the rain: Who'll Stop the Rain Doug Bradley, 2020-03-10 In their 2015 award-winning book, We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The Soundtrack of the Vietnam War, Doug Bradley and Craig Werner placed popular music at the heart of the American experience in Vietnam. Over the next two years, they made more than 100 presentations coast-to-coast, witnessing honest, respectful exchanges among audience members. That journey prompted Bradley to write Who'll Stop the Rain: Respect, Remembrance, and Reconciliation in Post-Vietnam America and to further explore how the music of the era, shared by those who served and those who stayed, helped create safe, nonjudgmental environments for listening, sharing, and understanding. Those insights, and others, can help redefine America's public memory of Vietnam, one that invites a broader public understanding, sometimes written physically into the landscape via monuments, about what we revere and what we regret about who we are and what Vietnam did to us. A chorus of voices in Who'll Stop the Rain–famous and anonymous, female and male, veteran and non-veteran, American and Vietnamese–suggests new possibilities for understanding the legacy of Vietnam and, ultimately, for bringing the men and women who served their country in that controversial war home for good. |
| blame it on the rain: Law of the Jungle Paul M. Barrett, 2015-09-22 The gripping story of one American lawyer’s obsessive crusade—waged at any cost—against Big Oil on behalf of the poor farmers and indigenous tribes of the Amazon rainforest. Steven Donziger, a self-styled social activist and Harvard educated lawyer, signed on to a budding class action lawsuit against multinational Texaco (which later merged with Chevron to become the third-largest corporation in America). The suit sought reparations for the Ecuadorian peasants and tribes people whose lives were affected by decades of oil production near their villages and fields. During twenty years of legal hostilities in federal courts in Manhattan and remote provincial tribunals in the Ecuadorian jungle, Donziger and Chevron’s lawyers followed fierce no-holds-barred rules. Donziger, a larger-than-life, loud-mouthed showman, proved himself a master orchestrator of the media, Hollywood, and public opinion. He cajoled and coerced Ecuadorian judges on the theory that his noble ends justified any means of persuasion. And in the end, he won an unlikely victory, a $19 billion judgment against Chevon--the biggest environmental damages award in history. But the company refused to surrender or compromise. Instead, Chevron targeted Donziger personally, and its counter-attack revealed damning evidence of his politicking and manipulation of evidence. Suddenly the verdict, and decades of Donziger’s single-minded pursuit of the case, began to unravel. Written with the texture and flair of the best narrative nonfiction, Law of the Jungle is an unputdownable story in which there are countless victims, a vast region of ruined rivers and polluted rainforest, but very few heroes. |
| blame it on the rain: Firefly Rain Richard Dansky, 2010-04-06 When Jacob left home for a new life, he pretty much forgot all about Maryfield, North Carolina. But Maryfield never forgot him. Or forgave him. After a failed business venture in Boston, Jacob Logan comes back to the small Southern town of his childhood and takes up residence in the isolated house he grew up in. Here, the air is still. The nights are black. And his parents are buried close by. It should feel like home—but something is terribly wrong. Jacob loses all his belongings in a highway accident. His car is stolen from his driveway, yet he never hears a sound. The townspeople seem guarded and suspicious. And Carl, the property caretaker with so many secrets, is unnervingly accommodating. Then there are the fireflies that light the night skies . . . and die as they come near Jacob’s home. If it weren’t for the creaking sounds after dark, or the feeling that he is being watched, Jacob would feel so alone. He shouldn’t worry. He’s not. And whatever’s with him isn’t going to let him leave home ever again. |
| blame it on the rain: Out of the Rain J. Malcolm Garcia, 2024-07-16 A debut novel from the award-winning journalist about the people in a San Francisco homeless shelter, and those who try to help—or prey on them. “Ever since I first read Mr. Garcia's journalism I have admired his bravery and accuracy. This work reminds me of György Konrád‘s great novella The Case Worker.” —William T. Vollmann [T]here’s a writer named J. Malcolm Garcia who continually astounds me with his energy and empathy. I’ve been following him wherever he goes. —Dave Eggers Out of the Rain takes us into the growing world of the homeless in the United States, particularly in San Francisco. Here we read their powerful stories, which examine not just poverty but bottom-of-the-barrel destitution, and in many cases self-destruction. Tom, who runs a social services agency, doesn’t play by a book of rules as much as try to bring some humanity to his work. Then there is Walter, a homeless man who can’t save himself from booze but is ready to help others. Throughout this novel told from various perspectives, the reader is introduced in intimate detail to the lives of social services workers trying to find open shelter beds and simultaneously navigating federal programs. Homeless men and women are battling sobriety and addiction and simply trying to find sustainable work and decent housing. Based on the author’s experience working with homeless people in San Francisco as a social services worker in the 1980s and 1990s, this novel vividly takes the reader into the heads of combat veterans, junkies, prostitutes and the unemployed. J. Malcolm Garcia left social services to pursue journalism so he could write about the people he worked with and share their stories—and humanity—with the broader public. “There weren’t enough shelter beds, weren’t enough detoxes, weren’t enough jobs, weren’t enough anything for the people I wanted to help.” —Tom, social worker, in Out of the Rain |
| blame it on the rain: Sometimes a Great Notion Ken Kesey, 2006-08-29 The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half century. This wild-spirited tale tells of a bitter strike that rages through a small lumber town along the Oregon coast. Bucking that strike out of sheer cussedness are the Stampers. Out of the Stamper family's rivalries and betrayals Ken Kesey has crafted a novel with the mythic impact of Greek tragedy. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
| blame it on the rain: Problematic Movies of the 80's Don Hall, 2020-08-15 After Brett Kavanaugh referenced Fast Times at Ridgemont High as a cultural landmark in his sexual assaulting youth and the realization that I am exactly the same age as the SCOTUS justice, it was time to go back and revisit fourteen comedies from the 1980's to see which hold up in the cultural shift of 2020.Includes breakdowns of Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Stripes, Revenge of the Nerds, and Weird Science plus ten more you might remember. |
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5 May 2018 · Music video by Milli Vanilli performing Blame It On the Rain. (C) 1989 BMG Berlin Musik GmbH/MCI.
Blame It on the Rain - Wikipedia
"Blame It on the Rain" is a song written by Diane Warren and performed by the German dance-pop group Milli Vanilli. It was released as a new track from the group's North American debut album, Girl You Know It's True (1989), and did not appear on All or Nothing (1988), their debut album in other regions.
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On the Rain (Lyrics) - YouTube
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On the RainStream/Download: (Lyrics): [Intro]Ooh, oh girlBlame it on the rain (Yeah, yeah)Blame it on the stars (Woo) [Verse 1]You said...
Milli Vanilli – Blame It On the Rain Lyrics - Genius
Blame It On the Rain Lyrics: Ooh, oh girl / Blame it on the rain (Yeah, yeah) / Blame it on the stars (Woo) / You said you didn't need her / You told her goodbye (Goodbye) / You...
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On The Rain (Official Video) - YouTube
7 Jun 2016 · The official music video of Milli Vanilli to "Blame It On The Rain". You can listen to all songs of Milli Vanilli here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJ...
The Meaning Behind The Song: Blame It on the Rain by Milli Vanilli
One song that has always held a special place in my heart is “Blame It on the Rain” by Milli Vanilli. I first heard this song on a sunny afternoon, sitting in my room, and I was instantly captivated by its catchy melody and heartfelt lyrics.
Blame It On The Rain Chords - ULTIMATE GUITAR
21 Nov 2014 · Chorus E B Blame it on the rain that was falling, falling, E B blame it on the stars that did shine at night. Abm E Whatever you do, don't put the blame on you, E B blame it...
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On The Rain Lyrics | AZLyrics.com
Milli Vanilli Lyrics. "Blame It On The Rain". You said you didn't need her... You told her good-bye (good-bye)... You sacrificed a good love... To satisfy your pride... Now you wished that you should had her (had her).. And you feel like such a fool... You let her walk away...
Milli Vanilli: Blame It on the Rain (Music Video 1989) - IMDb
Milli Vanilli: Blame It on the Rain: Directed by Marc Bienstock. With Milli Vanilli, Fabrice Morvan, Rob Pilatus. Milli Vanilli performs in the music video "Blame It on the Rain" from the album "Girl You Know It's True" recorded for Arista Records.
Blame It On the Rain - Song by Milli Vanilli - Apple Music
Blame It On The Rain (Acoustic Version) - Single. Listen to Blame It On the Rain by Milli Vanilli on Apple Music. 1989. Duration: 4:08.
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On the Rain - YouTube
5 May 2018 · Music video by Milli Vanilli performing Blame It On the Rain. (C) 1989 BMG Berlin Musik GmbH/MCI.
Blame It on the Rain - Wikipedia
"Blame It on the Rain" is a song written by Diane Warren and performed by the German dance-pop group Milli Vanilli. It was released as a new track from the group's North American debut …
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On the Rain (Lyrics) - YouTube
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On the RainStream/Download: (Lyrics): [Intro]Ooh, oh girlBlame it on the rain (Yeah, yeah)Blame it on the stars (Woo) [Verse 1]You said...
Milli Vanilli – Blame It On the Rain Lyrics - Genius
Blame It On the Rain Lyrics: Ooh, oh girl / Blame it on the rain (Yeah, yeah) / Blame it on the stars (Woo) / You said you didn't need her / You told her goodbye (Goodbye) / You...
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On The Rain (Official Video) - YouTube
7 Jun 2016 · The official music video of Milli Vanilli to "Blame It On The Rain". You can listen to all songs of Milli Vanilli here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZJ...
The Meaning Behind The Song: Blame It on the Rain by Milli Vanilli
One song that has always held a special place in my heart is “Blame It on the Rain” by Milli Vanilli. I first heard this song on a sunny afternoon, sitting in my room, and I was instantly captivated …
Blame It On The Rain Chords - ULTIMATE GUITAR
21 Nov 2014 · Chorus E B Blame it on the rain that was falling, falling, E B blame it on the stars that did shine at night. Abm E Whatever you do, don't put the blame on you, E B blame it...
Milli Vanilli - Blame It On The Rain Lyrics | AZLyrics.com
Milli Vanilli Lyrics. "Blame It On The Rain". You said you didn't need her... You told her good-bye (good-bye)... You sacrificed a good love... To satisfy your pride... Now you wished that you …
Milli Vanilli: Blame It on the Rain (Music Video 1989) - IMDb
Milli Vanilli: Blame It on the Rain: Directed by Marc Bienstock. With Milli Vanilli, Fabrice Morvan, Rob Pilatus. Milli Vanilli performs in the music video "Blame It on the Rain" from the album …
Blame It On the Rain - Song by Milli Vanilli - Apple Music
Blame It On The Rain (Acoustic Version) - Single. Listen to Blame It On the Rain by Milli Vanilli on Apple Music. 1989. Duration: 4:08.
