Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher : Delacorte Books for Young Readers
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0385326459
Decribes the author's passion for sailing on the wide open seas as diverse tales about various adventures are recalled.
Author : Gary Paulsen
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786241606
Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet and other adventure novels, tells about his lifelong love of sailing, boats he has owned, and the storms, sharks, and peaceful lagoons he has experienced on his voyages.
Author : Janeen Mason
Publisher : Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 38,94 MB
Release : 2012-09-14
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781589808621
29,000 bathtub toys make history. It was an accident at sea in 1992 that proved the ocean currents are connected. When a cargo ship dropped a bathtub-toy-filled container into the Pacific, the little quackers bobbed along the globe's waterways, coming to rest on beaches near and far. This fictionalized account of the event is accompanied by maps charting the toys' travel pattern, a glossary, and a summary of the highly publicized event.
Author : Ernest Hemingway
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 37,76 MB
Release : 2022-08-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Old Man and the Sea" by Ernest Hemingway. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Author :
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 24,43 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780395150825
A small canoe carved by an Indian boy makes a journey from Lake Superior all the way to the Atlantic Ocean.
Author : Decca Aitkenhead
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2016-08-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0385540663
All at Sea is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other’s life, and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive. On a hot, still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitkenhead’s life changed forever. Her four-year-old son was paddling peacefully at the water’s edge when a wave pulled him out to sea. Her partner, Tony, swam out and saved their son’s life—then drowned before her eyes. When Decca and Tony first met, a decade earlier, she was a renowned Guardian journalist profiling leading politicians of the day; he was a dreadlocked criminal with a history of drug dealing and violence. No one thought the romance would last, but it did—until the tide swept Tony away, plunging Decca into the dark chasm of random tragedy. Exploring race and redemption, privilege and prejudice, All at Sea is a breathtakingly honest, profound, and utterly unforgettable memoir.
Author : Jacquelyn Mitchard
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 501 pages
File Size : 22,60 MB
Release : 1997-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101199563
"Masterful...A big story about human connection and emotional survival" - Los Angeles Times The first book ever chosen by Oprah's Book Club Few first novels receive the kind of attention and acclaim showered on this powerful story—a nationwide bestseller, a critical success, and the first title chosen for Oprah's Book Club. Both highly suspenseful and deeply moving, The Deep End of the Ocean imagines every mother's worst nightmare—the disappearance of a child—as it explores a family's struggle to endure, even against extraordinary odds. Filled with compassion, humor, and brilliant observations about the texture of real life, here is a story of rare power, one that will touch readers' hearts and make them celebrate the emotions that make us all one.
Author : Iris Murdoch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 17,48 MB
Release : 2001-03-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101495650
Winner of the Booker Prize—a tale of the strange obsessions that haunt a playwright as he composes his memoirs Charles Arrowby, leading light of England's theatrical set, retires from glittering London to an isolated home by the sea. He plans to write a memoir about his great love affair with Clement Makin, his mentor, both professionally and personally, and amuse himself with Lizzie, an actress he has strung along for many years. None of his plans work out, and his memoir evolves into a riveting chronicle of the strange events and unexpected visitors-some real, some spectral-that disrupt his world and shake his oversized ego to its very core. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Author : Kathy Kacer
Publisher : Annick Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1773214802
History is made one brave act at a time. Henny has grown up with her father’s boat, the Gerda III, as a home away from home. She loves sailing the waters between Denmark and Sweden, carried along by the salt breeze. But when Nazi rule tightens in Copenhagen, Henny joins the resistance. And when Hitler orders the Gestapo to round up all Jewish citizens, Henny realizes that the Gerda III isn’t just a boat—it’s a means of escape for her Jewish neighbours. Safety and freedom are just across the channel in Sweden—as long as Henny doesn’t get caught. The fourth book in Kathy Kacer’s Heroes Quartet series, Call Across the Sea brings to life a little-known part of World War II and highlights the unsung acts of heroism that moved history forward.
Author : John Banville
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,10 MB
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 030742930X
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “extraordinary meditation on mortality, grief, death, childhood and memory" (USA Today) about a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside to grieve the loss of his wife. In this luminous novel, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness of both love and death for the first time. What Max comes to understand about the past, and about its indelible effects on him, is at the center of this elegiac, gorgeously written novel—among the finest we have had from this masterful writer.
