Author: Nancy Taylor Robson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781939632005
Category : Seafaring life
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Nancy Taylor Robson is one of the first women in the country to earn a US Coast Guard license. She grew up sailing and building boats with her father and worked as a housepainter, desk clerk and yacht maintenance person while in college. After earning a degree in history, she married and went to work alongside her husband as cook/deckhand on an old 85-foot tugboat. The fear of being maimed or lost overboard, the male opposition, and the drudgery during seagoing tours that ranged from Maine to Florida, Bermuda, New Orleans and Mexico was coupled with romantic sunsets, a ringside seat on nature and an appreciation for hard won accomplishment. Robson, one of a handful of women who paved the way for every intrepid woman who has followed, brings that world alive. Author of numerous articles and essays, Nancy Taylor Robson is also the author of two novels: Course of the Waterman and A Love Like No Other: Abigail and John Adams, A Modern Love Story.
Author: Catherine Poulain
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473548152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 309
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**SHORTLISTED FOR THE SCOTT MONCRIEFF PRIZE 2019** **NOMINATED FOR THE MÉDICIS PRIZE 2018** 'A tale of travel and adventure, the story of a body utterly surrendered to pain and joy. It is mind-blowing, a delight.' Le Monde Lili is a runaway. She’s left behind her native France to go in search of freedom, of adventure, of life. Her search takes her to Kodiak, Alaska, home to a ragtag community of fishermen, army vets and drifters who man the island’s fishing fleet. Despite her tiny frame, faltering English and lack of experience, Lili lands a job on board the Rebel, the only woman on the boat. Out on the open sea, everything is heightened: colours are more vivid, sounds are louder and the work is harder than anything she's ever known. The terrifying intensity of the ocean is addictive to the point of danger. But Lili is not alone: in her fellow crewmembers she finds kindred spirits – men living on the edge, drawn to extremes. Based on Catherine Poulain’s own experiences, and written in taut, muscular prose, Woman at Sea cuts through the noise of life and straight to the heart of our innermost longings.
Author: Lee Child
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1984818619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 369
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Don’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher! A string of mysterious deaths. A long-classified mission. A young MP with nothing to lose. 1992. All across the United States respectable, upstanding citizens are showing up dead. These deaths could be accidents, and they don’t appear to be connected—until a fatal fall from a high-floor window attracts some unexpected attention. That attention comes from the secretary of defense. All of a sudden he wants an interagency task force to investigate. And he wants Jack Reacher as the army’s representative. If Reacher gets a result, great. If not, he’s a convenient fall guy. But office politics isn’t Reacher’s thing. Three questions quickly emerge: Who’s with him, who’s against him, and will the justice he dispenses be the official kind . . . or his own kind?
Author: Yael Kohen
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374287236
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 338
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Kohen assembles America's most prominent comediennes to piece together an oral history about the revolution that happened to (and by) women in American comedy.
Author: Claire Merle
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571280544
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 424
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London, in the not too distant future, and people are now divided into Pures and Crazies, according to the results of a DNA test, with the Crazies sectioned off to live within 'the City', on the other side of the Community wall. Until the age of fifteen, Ana has lived a privileged existence amongst the Pures, but her whole world crumbles when she finds out that her DNA test was faked, which makes her one of the Crazies. She has just three years before she will be cast out of the Community . . . But Ana meets Pure-born Jasper and is offered a ticket to freedom when he asks her to Join with him. She looks forward to a 'normal' life, and fulfilling her dreams of becoming a musician. Then, just a week before the Joining ceremony, Jasper goes missing; it appears he is somewhere in the City, and no one knows why. Ana sets off on his trail, which takes her through the underbelly of society and into the pits of the human soul. And as she delves deeper into the mystery of Jasper's disappearance Ana uncovers some devastating truths that destroy everything she has grown up to believe, but she also learns to love as she has never loved before.
Author: Chick O'Brien
Publisher: America Star Books
ISBN: 145606231X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
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Deirdre: A Woman from Clare is a historical romance wrapped around a mystery. It explores the many loves we enjoy: lustful love between man and woman, trusting love with parent and child, brothers, sisters and family. It explores our strong love for the land and place of our birth. There are many common threads between the British Empire of the early twentieth century and our own U.S. government at the beginning of this new twenty-first century. Set in 1915 while Europe is aflame with war, and Irish rebellion close at hand, Jay and Deirdre meet on a train in Russia and fall in love. She disappears in Paris and Jay, frantic to find her, enlists the aid of MacGregor, his father’s best friend. Is she really a member of the secret Irish Republican Brotherhood? The sinking of the Lusitania adds a twist and Jay goes to Ireland to find his father and Deirdre.
Author: Green War by H-Beam Hammer
Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1460229681
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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The North California Republic: founded in the aftermath of a horrible plague and a cataclysmic earthquake, closed her borders to anyone entering or leaving in 2018. The Council of Legislators authorized funding and stood up the Long Range Border Patrol or LRBP, a Ranger Infantry Company to ensure that their citizenry is protected and outsiders remained out. This is the story of Second Platoon and their mission to keep the fledgling Republic safe from the hazards of a savage new world order. Not an easy task.
Author: Derek Hart
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 0595810802
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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Canadian Travis Kelland was 20 years old when Germany invaded Poland to start World War II. Travis was also the only son and heir to Sir Charles Kelland, a wealthy and powerful businessman whose vast holdings stretched across many provinces of Canada. Sir Charles was grooming young Travis to eventually take the reins of the Kelland empire. However, Travis had other plans. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy and set forth on a grand adventure to fight the Nazis. Of course, Travis was in for a rude awakening. He joined the MTB's (Motor Torpedo Boats) squadrons fighting in the Channel and the North Sea and was immediately faced with death and destruction, winning the DSO from the King himself. Yet Travis was a survivor too. After proving himself in combat, he is transferred to the Mediterranean and took command of his own MTB based out of Alexandria, Egypt. In this theatre of operations, his crew fight Germans and Italians, constantly faced with overwhelming odds and the constant threat of Rommel. These are the adventures of MTB 545, from 1940?1945, spanning the desperate years to the days just prior to the D-Day invasion.
Author: Walt Gaines
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1477292659
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 163
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Heres hoping that you are enjoying a peaceful day with your family or maybe with your friends. Thank you for taking the time to pick up Life In The Wheel House for a preview. Walt Gaines wrote Life In The Wheel House for you to enjoy during the quiet hours of the day or to get away from the hustle and bustle of hard work and anxiety. Life In The Wheel House was designed for the purpose of enjoyment and relaxation. We need that from time to time. As you read through the first few pages, you will see that this is about the American family. Life In The Wheel House contains 28 short stories. You will laugh at some of them and think serious thoughts at others. The underlying theme of the book deals with the stability of the family and the welfare of our blessed United States.
Author: Nancy Taylor Robson
Publisher: River City Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Seventeen-year-old Bailey Kraft must fight against his own family in order to preserve his birthright as a waterman along the Chesapeake Bay's Eastern shore.
