Author: Torre DeRoche
Publisher: Hachette+ORM
ISBN: 1401342914
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 238
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New love. Exotic destinations. A once-in-a-lifetime adventure. What could go wrong? City girl Torre DeRoche isn't looking for love, but a chance encounter in a San Francisco bar sparks an instant connection with a soulful Argentinean man who unexpectedly sweeps her off her feet. The problem? He's just about to cast the dock lines and voyage around the world on his small sailboat, and Torre is terrified of deep water. However, lovesick Torre determines that to keep the man of her dreams, she must embark on the voyage of her nightmares, so she waves good-bye to dry land and braces for a life-changing journey that's as exhilarating as it is terrifying. Somewhere mid-Pacific, she finds herself battling to keep the old boat, the new relationship, and her floundering sanity afloat. . . . This sometimes hilarious, often harrowing, and always poignant memoir is set against a backdrop of the world's most beautiful and remote destinations. Equal parts love story and travel memoir, Love with a Chance of Drowning is witty, charming, and proof positive that there are some risks worth taking.
Author: V J Wells
Publisher: Geezer Guides Publications
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Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 143
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A tropical island, a World War II submarine, a brave dolphin, and 13-year-old twin sleuths. A non-stop adventure/mystery for children 8-12. It was just supposed to be a day at the beach, in the clear blue waters surrounding a small Bahamian island. Then everything changed. Sally was the first to see it - a dark shadow on the ocean floor. Carefully Sally, Jimmy, and their new friend Sandy swam towards the shape in order to get a better look and were startled by what they saw. What the heck was an old, World War II submarine doing in the waters of the Bahamas? That's just one of the questions that 13-year-old twins, Jimmy and Sally Brant need to answer as they find themselves in the middle of a dangerous, perhaps even life-threatening, mystery. Will they be able to solve the mystery, save the day and bring a nefarious kingpin to justice? And escape with their lives? A Modern Children’s Classic Adventure/Mystery Readers of The Sinister Submarine have compared it to Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys mystery adventure books. its non-stop action, with unexpected twists and turns, make it a clear favorite with both boys and girls.
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Languages : en
Pages : 2188
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Author: Curtis Gillespie
Publisher: Dundurn.com
ISBN: 177102030X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 169
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We all have memories of family vacations: the cross-country marathon drive, the camping trip, a couple lazy weeks at the lake, a helter-skelter month in Europe, four days in Disneyland. The variations may be endless, but the common denominator is that there are always stories to tell. The family vacation, with all its funny, sad, relaxing, stressful, frustrating, and exhilarating moments, shapes us, and helps us create an understanding of who we are and of those we travel with. In his humourous new book, Almost There, award-winning writer Curtis Gillespie explores the meaning of our family vacations, the memories created by them, and how we use these memories to define our relationship with our families and ourselves. Using his own history of family vacations as a backdrop, Gillespie explores how the meaning and symbolism of the family vacation has shifted throughout the decades. For years, families drove across the country or relaxed at a lakeside cottage. Now even the middle-class travel with their nannies or go on a Disney cruise ... or take their nannies with them on a Disney cruise. As he sifts through memories and explores family vacation history, Gillespie ultimately discovers that not only is how we choose to vacation an expression of who we are as individual families, but that the very nature of the family vacation reflects, and sometimes even predicts, societal change. The family vacation is something we all share; the laughter, the tears, the moments, the memories. In Almost There, Curtis Gillespie reminds us how important these moments in our lives are, and how important they will continue to be.
Author: United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ships
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Languages : en
Pages : 496
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Pages : 176
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Languages : en
Pages : 2228
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Pages : 1262
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Pages : 1306
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Author: John Sadowski
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595416187
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
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It's autumn, 1971 in Flint, Michigan. Alexander is a student at a small, parochial high school. The senior is captain of the top-ranked football team and is an excellent student in the classroom. He is also a deeply troubled, young man, struggling with low self-esteem, a growing intellectual and emotional separation from family and friends, sexual frustration, and increasing doubts about his Catholic faith and his relationship to God. In the week before the final game that will decide the state championship and a possible athletic scholarship, Alexander discovers disturbing truths about the coaches, the school, his friends and himself. Feeling increasingly isolated and desperate, Alexander finds support and encouragement from an insightful, warm, red-haired, young nun: Sister Becky.
