Author: Greg Gilmartin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578251967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Every legend begins with a little lie, but it needs some truth if it's gonna' fly. The chase is on for the American Dream and everyone is looking for a big pay day. Billy and his sailboat race crew are chasing the breeze and a boat load of silver. Their M.F.O. is smuggling home the green grass of Jamaica, and the 'gas and go' Albanians are hoping to fill up on cash. Here comes the D.A., as always, chasing the chasers. What could go wrong? "Can't Sail In Jail!" is a fun romp of misadventures on wisps of wind and weed in a wacky world around Mystic, Connecticut with no room for innocence, where wrong decisions can help you grow up. If you want to. The cast of characters will charm you, offend you, make you laugh and make you cry. Each seeks the Dream, taking different paths to avoid the inevitable nightmare. Remember - It's okay to fail, just stay out of jail! All of Greg Gilmartin's novels are locally based from Coney Island to Block Island with forays to San Francisco and Colombia.
Can't Sail In Jail!
Author: Greg Gilmartin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578251967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Every legend begins with a little lie, but it needs some truth if it's gonna' fly. The chase is on for the American Dream and everyone is looking for a big pay day. Billy and his sailboat race crew are chasing the breeze and a boat load of silver. Their M.F.O. is smuggling home the green grass of Jamaica, and the 'gas and go' Albanians are hoping to fill up on cash. Here comes the D.A., as always, chasing the chasers. What could go wrong? "Can't Sail In Jail!" is a fun romp of misadventures on wisps of wind and weed in a wacky world around Mystic, Connecticut with no room for innocence, where wrong decisions can help you grow up. If you want to. The cast of characters will charm you, offend you, make you laugh and make you cry. Each seeks the Dream, taking different paths to avoid the inevitable nightmare. Remember - It's okay to fail, just stay out of jail! All of Greg Gilmartin's novels are locally based from Coney Island to Block Island with forays to San Francisco and Colombia.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578251967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Every legend begins with a little lie, but it needs some truth if it's gonna' fly. The chase is on for the American Dream and everyone is looking for a big pay day. Billy and his sailboat race crew are chasing the breeze and a boat load of silver. Their M.F.O. is smuggling home the green grass of Jamaica, and the 'gas and go' Albanians are hoping to fill up on cash. Here comes the D.A., as always, chasing the chasers. What could go wrong? "Can't Sail In Jail!" is a fun romp of misadventures on wisps of wind and weed in a wacky world around Mystic, Connecticut with no room for innocence, where wrong decisions can help you grow up. If you want to. The cast of characters will charm you, offend you, make you laugh and make you cry. Each seeks the Dream, taking different paths to avoid the inevitable nightmare. Remember - It's okay to fail, just stay out of jail! All of Greg Gilmartin's novels are locally based from Coney Island to Block Island with forays to San Francisco and Colombia.
Hole in My Life
Author: Jack Gantos
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374430894
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In this Michael L. Printz Honor Book, the Newbery Honor-winning creator of the Joey Pigza books shares the true story of how he became a writer the hard way by learning a valuable lesson while he was in college.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780374430894
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
In this Michael L. Printz Honor Book, the Newbery Honor-winning creator of the Joey Pigza books shares the true story of how he became a writer the hard way by learning a valuable lesson while he was in college.
Official Letters of the Governors of the State of Virginia: The letters of Patrick Henry
Author: Virginia. Governor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 426
Book Description
North U Match Racing Playbook
Author: Dave Perry
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977095247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977095247
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
You Can't Blow Home Again
Author: Herb Payson
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574090901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In this charming, thought-provoking sequel to Blown Away, Herb Payson's singular determination and self-effacing humor are irresistible as he and his family make a Pacific Ocean passage in an old wooden sailboat.
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
ISBN: 9781574090901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
In this charming, thought-provoking sequel to Blown Away, Herb Payson's singular determination and self-effacing humor are irresistible as he and his family make a Pacific Ocean passage in an old wooden sailboat.
Jail Journal; Or, Five Years in British Prisons
Author: John Mitchel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Exiles
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
The Ebb-Tide
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849676285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In 1890, the year after first reaching Samoa but before he had properly settled there, Stevenson and his stepson planned and began what they intended to be a huge novel, a black, ugly, trampling, violent story, full of strange scenes and striking characters. It took them until 1893 to finish the story. It seems to be that Stevenson realized he had taken his spade too deep in the black depths of human nature. His metier had mostly been the dark primitive passions of the race, but not even the conception of pure evil in Mr. Hyde is more repulsive than the trio of villainy in The Ebb Tide, where it is heightened against the dazzling beauty of the Pacific seas and beaches.
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
ISBN: 3849676285
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 103
Book Description
In 1890, the year after first reaching Samoa but before he had properly settled there, Stevenson and his stepson planned and began what they intended to be a huge novel, a black, ugly, trampling, violent story, full of strange scenes and striking characters. It took them until 1893 to finish the story. It seems to be that Stevenson realized he had taken his spade too deep in the black depths of human nature. His metier had mostly been the dark primitive passions of the race, but not even the conception of pure evil in Mr. Hyde is more repulsive than the trio of villainy in The Ebb Tide, where it is heightened against the dazzling beauty of the Pacific seas and beaches.
Words and Patterns
Author: Katharine M. Day
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Seized!
Author: Max Hardberger
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857889126
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Outpirating the pirates with one of the most interesting men alive: Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok. His adventures in rescuing ships pit him against a rogue's gallery of antagonists, including Haitian rebels, modern-day Caribbean pirates and Russian mobsters. • Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed expose of the seedy underworld of international shipping. As a professional ship extractor, he risks death and imprisonment in dangerous third-world ports to steal ships from modern buccaneers and corrupt governments and deliver them back to their rightful owners. In the course of his adventures, he's had to outwit resourceful crime families, subdue armed soldiers, and turn the tables on clever con artists. He's escaped imprisonment in Venezuela and avoided death at the hands of the Russian mafia. Because Max shuns the use of force, the ingenious methods he must use to accomplish his missions are the stuff of legend he's employed a witch doctor in Haiti, tricked armed guards off a ship in Honduras, and rented a brothel in Mexico, all to thwart the designs of ship-thieves. Seized! is an intense, fast-paced window on the underbelly of ocean shipping, where all power comes from the barrel of a gun, and the only law is the law of survival. -- "Max Hardberger, maritime repo man extraordinaire ... Using a combination of ingenuity, stealth and good old-fashioned derring-do, he has made his name retaking vessels which have been hijacked or which, through local corruption, are impounded by authorities hungry for bribes." • -- Sunday Express • "With most people, the longer you spend talking to them, the more normal they appear. With Hardberger, the reverse applies. Just when you think you've heard it all, he comes up with something wilder ... Over the years, he's distracted crews with prostitutes and witch doctors, bribed officials to look the other way, conned Russian mobsters and hidden from naval radar by riding out thunderstorms at sea; he's even taken a 10,000-tonne freighter out of Haiti while the 2004 revolution was going on around him." • -- Guardian • "Required reading, fascinating. Maritime Repo Man Hardberger does it tough; his life is flown by the seat of his pants, or shipped, much like his profession ... This book delivers." • -- Paul Carter, bestselling author of Don't Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs and This Is Not A Drill • "In this heart-stopping account of his work recovering stolen (or otherwise illegally-seized) ships from 'hellhole' ports, commercial captain Hardberger proves himself tough as a tank and articulate as a poet ... [He] has a seafarer's gift for atmospheric storytelling, layering details to create a sense of place, history, and foreboding ... Hardberger's escapades make undeniably fun reading." • -- Publishers Weekly • "One of the strengths of Hardberger's book is his prose, which is lucid, entertaining and dramatic." • -- Daniel Sekulich, author of Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern Day Pirates
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1857889126
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Outpirating the pirates with one of the most interesting men alive: Max Hardberger recounts his adventures repossessing ships and sneaking them out of lawless, third-world countries, often under threat of death or imprisonment. His journeys lead him from corrupt ports in the Caribbean to the ice-bound docks of Vladivostok. His adventures in rescuing ships pit him against a rogue's gallery of antagonists, including Haitian rebels, modern-day Caribbean pirates and Russian mobsters. • Capt. Max Hardberger uses every trick, tool and tactic at his disposal to right wrongs and out-pirate pirates in this action-packed expose of the seedy underworld of international shipping. As a professional ship extractor, he risks death and imprisonment in dangerous third-world ports to steal ships from modern buccaneers and corrupt governments and deliver them back to their rightful owners. In the course of his adventures, he's had to outwit resourceful crime families, subdue armed soldiers, and turn the tables on clever con artists. He's escaped imprisonment in Venezuela and avoided death at the hands of the Russian mafia. Because Max shuns the use of force, the ingenious methods he must use to accomplish his missions are the stuff of legend he's employed a witch doctor in Haiti, tricked armed guards off a ship in Honduras, and rented a brothel in Mexico, all to thwart the designs of ship-thieves. Seized! is an intense, fast-paced window on the underbelly of ocean shipping, where all power comes from the barrel of a gun, and the only law is the law of survival. -- "Max Hardberger, maritime repo man extraordinaire ... Using a combination of ingenuity, stealth and good old-fashioned derring-do, he has made his name retaking vessels which have been hijacked or which, through local corruption, are impounded by authorities hungry for bribes." • -- Sunday Express • "With most people, the longer you spend talking to them, the more normal they appear. With Hardberger, the reverse applies. Just when you think you've heard it all, he comes up with something wilder ... Over the years, he's distracted crews with prostitutes and witch doctors, bribed officials to look the other way, conned Russian mobsters and hidden from naval radar by riding out thunderstorms at sea; he's even taken a 10,000-tonne freighter out of Haiti while the 2004 revolution was going on around him." • -- Guardian • "Required reading, fascinating. Maritime Repo Man Hardberger does it tough; his life is flown by the seat of his pants, or shipped, much like his profession ... This book delivers." • -- Paul Carter, bestselling author of Don't Tell Mum I Work On The Rigs and This Is Not A Drill • "In this heart-stopping account of his work recovering stolen (or otherwise illegally-seized) ships from 'hellhole' ports, commercial captain Hardberger proves himself tough as a tank and articulate as a poet ... [He] has a seafarer's gift for atmospheric storytelling, layering details to create a sense of place, history, and foreboding ... Hardberger's escapades make undeniably fun reading." • -- Publishers Weekly • "One of the strengths of Hardberger's book is his prose, which is lucid, entertaining and dramatic." • -- Daniel Sekulich, author of Terror on the Seas: True Tales of Modern Day Pirates
Works of Captain Marryatt
Author: Frederick Marryat
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1046
Book Description