Books with author Douglas (Kent

Learn the Essentials of Creating Beautiful, Fire-Resistant Properties With wildfires getting more frequent and ferocious, approximately 120 million US citizens live with the threat of being overrun. Are you one of them? If so, Firescaping helps you create a safer environment. This unique form of landscaping design keeps your property healthy, clean, and clear. Land management expert Douglas Kent shares decades of experience working in many of the nation’s most flammable areas. Get the information needed to determine your property’s degree of fire risk. Learn effective design strategies for your home and landscape, as well as key characteristics that make your property more accessible to firefighters. With checklists, simple instructions, and tips that truly work, this practical, hands-on guide is a valuable resource for homeowners, business owners, landscape professionals, and fire protection agencies. If you live in an area at risk, this book can help to prepare you and give you peace of mind.

Based on the true story of Mary Patten, The Captain's Wife begins in July 1856 during the heyday of the great clipper ships. Mary's husband, Captain Joshua Patten, is hired to navigate Neptune's Car on a treacherous voyage from New York to San Francisco through one of the most dangerous straits in the Western Hemisphere Cape Horn. Early on, trouble erupts on the ship. When the first mate is put in chains for plotting a mutiny and the captain falls ill, Mary must take command of the ship. Having learned how to navigate during her last voyage with her husband, Mary is forced to put her skills, authority, and wits to the test as she demands respect from the crew, nurses her husband day and night, and keeps the mutinous first mate at bay. Using little known facts about Mary Patten's life, Douglas Kelley has crafted a brilliant and gripping tale of deception, danger, and treachery on the high seas.

Travis first felt the eyes watching him as he sat alone in his room. His father doesn’t believe him. His science teacher has it out for him. The kids at school mostly ignore him. He has one friend in the world—Miguel—a guy who would love to camp outdoors and meet a monster. With an enormous windstorm approaching and a flimsy tent for protection, the desert couldn’t get much more dangerous. Or could it?

You want to have a bullet journal, but you don't have the time or the ideas to finish one and make it picture-worthy. The Not So Bullet Journal takes the hard work out of it for you, so you can spend your time filling it in and making it yours. With some pages left intentionally blank, you can add your own creativity to your Not So Bullet Journal and make it work for you.