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Fox & Friends meteorologist Janice Dean explains how she purposefully finds the silver lining in every cloud, no matter what challenge she faces. Janice is well-known for the infectious joy she brings to segments on Fox & Friends, no matter the weather. Yet many of her fans know there's more to her story than blizzards that are brewing or National Pancake Day celebrations. In this honest yet optimistic book, Janice reveals obstacles she's faced that...
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"In these pages is a story of an American boy who loved weather, who knew early on that he wanted to become a weather broadcaster, served his country in the U.S. Army, and loved his job, which began at the advent of television--live and unrehearsed"--P. [4] of cover.
4) Papi Chulo
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Cast adrift in Los Angeles, Sean, a lonely TV weatherman, drives past a middle-aged Latino migrant worker standing outside a hardware store looking for work. He decides to hire this kind-looking man to be his friend. Sean is young, gay, and white. Ernesto, portly, straight, and married. Despite having nothing in common and the language barrier, they build a sort of friendship, until Sean becomes consumed with a deeper obsessive need.
5) Second wind
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In his fortieth novel, Francis introduces a decidedly unhorsey hero, BBC meteorologist Perry Stuart, who, with his best friend Kris, an amateur pilot, has long dreamed of flying through the eye of a hurricane. In an odd twist of fate, all the right circumstances fall into place: Hurricane Odin forms over the Caribbean; Perry and Kris have overlapping vacations; and Kris finds a wealthy Florida businessman willing to finance their adventure. As part...
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"Russ Richards [is] a weatherman in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Russ is a local celebrity, but when an unusually mild winter causes his snowmobile dealership to take a plunge, Russ needs a get-rich scheme -- and fast. With his greedy girlfriend, the TV station's lotto-ball girl, and a criminally minded buddy, Russ hatches a plan to fix the lottery. Russ' numbers come up right, but then everything goes completely wrong, throwing Russ and his co-conspirators...
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British TV morning weather personality Faith Martin is not used to being told the forecast, especially about her own marriage. After years of being wed to Peter, there isn't much she doesn't know about him. But a casual remark from Faith's ultra-glam friend plants a seed of doubt, strangling all sense of Faith's contentment.
8) Let it snow
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"After the end of a relationship, local weather girl Bea Armstrong has been avoiding her family. But with Christmas approaching, she is heading home to Charis House, the school in Sherwood Forest that her parents run. And to top it all, the insufferable Henry Fairfax -- who her folks have always wanted her to marry -- has also been invited. Relief comes in the shape of an interview for her dream job. There are just a few problems. The interview is...
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Cloudy with a chance of meatballs: In a town where food drops from the sky like rain, young inventor Flint hopes to create something that will change everyone's life. However, when the weather takes a turn for the worse, the residents of the town of Chewandswallow will find their eating habits have drastically changed.
Cloudy with a chance of meatballs 2: Inventor Flint Lockwood thought he saved the world when he destroyed his machine that turned...
10) Weather girl
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Sylvia is quickly succumbing to the stresses of work and a romance-gone-wrong with a devilishly handsome newcaster. Sylvia is a Seattle morning weather anchor who has a melt down live on-air. At 35, she is now unemployed and lacks career prospects. She has to move in with her brother, but soon begins dating a younger man - her brothers best friend. Now, Sylvia has to reckon with the difference between growing old and growing up.
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The author recounts his life story, beginning in 1930 in the south Chicago suburb of South Holland, his service as a meteorologist for the Strategic Air Command during the Korean War, and his more than 30 year career as a weather forecaster on Chicago's ABC-TV and as lead forecaster at WGN-TV and WGN Radio.
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A successful Parisian lawyer travels to defend an elderly widow accused of murder. The defendant's son hires a bodyguard for him, and the lawyer falls for an ambitious TV weather girl who sees him as a means to advance her career. To complicate matters, she was the bodyguard's former girlfriend, and he wants her back.
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"Providing a clear road map of how the DNA discovery process works, resources, and explanations of just what second cousin-once-removed really means, as well as insight on life as a gay public figure in the South, this generous book makes it clear why Billingsley has found such a home in Houston's heart. Anyone who has ever wondered about missing branches on their family tree, wanted to know more about their heritage, or wanted to understand, once...
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Alexander and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day: Follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.
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