Bøger af Peter Greene

Vivid memoir of Marine gunship missions in Vietnam.

This collection of warm and witty pieces by Venango County columnist Peter Greene profiles some of NW PA's most remarkable residents including John D. Rockefeller, Johnny Appleseed, Civil War General Jesse Reno, best-selling author Hildegarde Dolson, town character Grassy Nichols, trust inventor S. C. T. Dodd, flyswatting pioneer Samuel Crumbine, football coach Joe Stewart, scholar Harold Dodds, and an assortment of teachers, musicians, and colorful local figures. These mini-biographies are warm and light-hearted, capturing the many sorts of lives that have been lived in one slice of small town America. Come meet some of the most interesting people in Venangoland, where American small town life has always retained its special flavor. These columns are collected Peter Greene's work in the News-Herald and Derrick newspapers. For over fourteen years, Greene has chronicled life from the perspective of the small cities of the Oil Heritage Region.

A YOUNG ADULT age-of-sail adventure without the deep technical jargon - it's easy to get hooked! LOSING HIS FATHER MADE HIM AN ORPHAN ON THE STREET. NAPOLEON'S WAR MADE HIM A HERO ON THE SEA. "Greene has provided another page-turner here, filling the seas with gunfire and knife fights, and London with a network of spies and traitors" - Kirkus Reviews "This book was such fun to read. Greene paints not only the scenes in London but those on the Mediterranean, the Adriatic, and even the Black Sea with vivid color and action" - Chanticleer Reviews Book 3 of the Adventures of Jonathan Moore series: Paladin's War: 1802. Fourteen-year-old Midshipman Jonathan Moore, Marine Private Sean Flagon and adventurer Delain Dowdeswell enjoy the company of family and friends during a delicate peace between France and England. However, mysterious spy networks now freely roam Europe's great cities, and the ships and armies of all nations remain on the edge of war. An elaborate scheme involves manipulating Jonathan, now aboard the eighteen-gun HMS Paladin, the Royal Navy's fastest ship. Commanded by his friend and mentor, Lieutenant Thomas Harrison, their mission is to deliver an important treaty to a clandestine location. Remaining in London, and bored with endless tea parties and tedious school lessons, Delain encounters a shadowy black rider sneaking about the mansions of London's elite. Suspecting foul play, she investigates and enters a web of secret meetings, spies, coded messages, and kidnapping. At first merely interesting, Delain's investigation soon turns deadly as she finds that all clues lead to the Paladin's mission, and to her friends, now thousands of miles away--and in grave danger. Once at sea, the boys have a mystery of their own to solve: their sister ship, HMS Echo, avoids all contact. A sabotaged gun, a mistrusted crew, and a vicious assault on their ship by a well-armed band of assailants have the men and officers of the Paladin anxious. Even Jonathan is uneasy, forced by agents of the king to withhold vital information from his officers. Led to waters far from home, the boys become separated and fight for their ship, their friends, and their lives against a rogue naval commodore with a war plan of his own. The answers to these mysteries could eventually be discovered by Jonathan Moore if he can defeat his powerful enemies in the Black Sea - and survive the final conflict of the Paladin's War.Paladin's War is the winner of the Chanticleer Book Reviews Goethe Award for Historical Fiction and a 5 Star Best Book. The Adventures of Jonathan Moore series has been awarded 1st place in the Dante Rossetti Young Adult Series competition.

Northwest Pennsylvania's oil region is known for the many tales surrounding the birth and growth of the petroleum industry, but there's much more to tell. The Venango County area was a pre-Revolution frontier and a front row seat for the Whiskey Rebellion before settling in to become the embodiment of American small town life, both in the age in which that life typified America, and in the era in which the city left the small town behind. This volume collects writing from regional columnist Peter Greene. Light, witty, fun, and informative, it opens a window on a special part of American life.

Peter Greene blogs about the current state of public education with plenty of sass and not much rigor. This book includes almost 100 favorites from his popular blogs Curmudgucation and View from the Cheap Seats, and makes the case that there is much to love at US public education and much not to take serious about many of the folks who want to tear down one of our most fundamental democratic institutions.

This beautifully illustrated book is more than a guide to the mountains of New Mexico. It includes all prominent mountain ranges and other high points, with their locations, access, major peaks, major attractions, hiking/climbing, water, plants, and wildlife.