Author: John Kraft
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0578032341
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 46
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Little Boat becomes lost while on her way to the great Race to the Moon. Her search for Mommy Boat and Daddy Boat takes her to the Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito, Alcatraz Island and eventually to the top of the Transamerica building. With the help of her friends, Blue Bubble Man, Mr. Yacht, and Rosina, Little Boat is reunited with her parents.
Author: Kathy Harrison
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 9781585424658
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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An intimate portrait of America's foster-care system is told through the experiences of a foster parent and an emotionally abandoned girl who, ensconced with the author's biological, adopted, and foster children, began to thrive in her new family environment. 20,000 first printing.
Author: Richard Bode
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN: 9781455545520
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Now with a brand new foreword from New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Zaslow. FIRST YOU HAVE TO ROW A LITTLE BOAT first hit shelves in the mid 1990s and has been inspiring readers ever since. Written by a grown man looking back on his childhood, it reflects on what learning to sail taught him about life: making choices, adapting to change, and becoming his own person. The book is filled with the spiritual wisdom and thought-provoking discoveries that marked such books as Walden, The Prophet, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For nearly twenty years, it has enchanted and endeared sailors and non-sailors alike, but foremost, anyone who seeks large truths in small things. This refurbished edition will find a place in the hearts of a whole new generation of readers.
Author: Kathy Henderson
Publisher: Candlewick Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780763603700
Category : Sailboats
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Carried on the optimism of a child--the belief in infinite horizons and possibilities--the little boat sails across the ocean and into the hands of another child on a far shore. Henderson's lyrical words evoke the ocean in all its moods and manners while Benson depicts the grand adventure of a very small boat in exhilarating illustrations that sweep across the pages.
Author: Beck Dorey-Stein
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
ISBN: 052550916X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 385
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“[A] witty, heartfelt debut novel about a belated coming-of-age.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ Choice) Old friends discover how much has changed (and how much has stayed the same) when they reunite in their seaside hometown for one unforgettable summer—from the New York Times bestselling author of From the Corner of the Oval When Kate Campbell’s life in Manhattan suddenly implodes, she is forced to return to Sea Point, the small town full of quirky locals, quaint bungalows, and beautiful beaches where she grew up. She knows she won’t be home for long; she’s got every intention (and a three-point plan) to win back everything she thinks she’s lost. Meanwhile, Miles Hoffman—aka “The Prince of Sea Point”—has also returned home to prove to his mother that he’s capable of taking over the family business, and he’s promised to help his childhood best friend, Ziggy Miller, with his own financial struggles at the same time. Kate, Miles, and Ziggy converge in Sea Point as the town faces an identity crisis when a local developer tries to cash in on its potential. The summer swells, and white lies and long-buried secrets prove as corrosive as the salt air, threatening to forever erode not only the bonds between the three friends but also the landscape of the beachside community they call home. Full of heart and humor—and laced with biting wit—Rock the Boat proves that even when you know all the back roads, there aren’t any shortcuts to growing up.
Author: Paul Hendrickson
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307700534
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 545
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National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • National Bestseller • A brilliantly conceived and illuminating reconsideration of a key period in the life of Ernest Hemingway that will forever change the way he is perceived and understood. "Hendrickson’s two strongest gifts—that compassion and his research and reporting prowess—combine to masterly effect.” —Arthur Phillips, The New York Times Book Review Focusing on the years 1934 to 1961—from Hemingway’s pinnacle as the reigning monarch of American letters until his suicide—Paul Hendrickson traces the writer's exultations and despair around the one constant in his life during this time: his beloved boat, Pilar. Drawing on previously unpublished material, including interviews with Hemingway's sons, Hendrickson shows that for all the writer's boorishness, depression and alcoholism, and despite his choleric anger, he was capable of remarkable generosity—to struggling writers, to lost souls, to the dying son of a friend. Hemingway's Boat is both stunningly original and deeply gripping, an invaluable contribution to our understanding of this great American writer, published fifty years after his death.
Author: Graham Coster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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It was the obscure legend of the lying boat Corsair, recued from the Belgian Congo in an epic salvage operation, that fired Graham Coster's quest for the lost world of the flying boat. Coster's journey begins in Southampton, from where Imperial Airways' Empire boats departed to fly up the Nile on their way to South Africa, and takes him to the flying boats' old haunts in Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and Zimbabwe, from Lake Naivasha to Victoria Falls.
Author: Diane Woodrow
Publisher: Bumblebee Books
ISBN: 9781839342042
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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The Little Yellow Boat goes on an adventure and learns an important lesson.
Author: Randall de Sève
Publisher: Philomel Books
ISBN: 0399167978
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 32
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A toy boat gets separated from its owner and has an adventure on the high seas.
Author: Jonathan Franklin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1501116290
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.
