The Jeweled Isle
Author : Robert Brown
Publisher :
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 49,96 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781943042128
The Jewel of the Isle
Author : Kerry Rea
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 19,74 MB
Release : 2024-11-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593815645
Book Description
Two very indoor people rough it on a remote island after getting swept up in an archaeologist’s hunt for a famed jewel in this dazzling new adventure rom-com by Kerry Rea, author of Lucy on the Wild Side. If Emily Edwards knows one thing, it’s that you don’t go to a remote island by yourself. Ever the type A personality, Emily doesn’t want to hike around an unfamiliar island, but she’s determined to fulfill her late father’s national park bucket list, starting with Isle Royale National Park—home to wolves, bears, and hundred-year-old shipwrecks. She has no choice but to hire a tour guide, and there is only one that isn’t booked solid. Ryder Fleet, co-owner of Fleet Outdoor Adventures, wouldn’t call himself a wilderness expert, and he definitely doesn’t know how to find true north. But when his dormant adventure guide business suddenly finds life again after a random inquiry, Ryder somehow finds himself on a ferry to Isle Royale with a very beautiful, no-nonsense woman. What this woman doesn’t know is that his brother Caleb, who died two years ago, was the outdoorsman of their business, while Ryder just did the marketing. But how hard could it be to hike up a few mountains? Pretty difficult, actually, when murder is involved. Emily’s perfectly planned trek turns disastrous when she and Ryder witness a brutal crime and are suddenly forced to evade a group of archaeologists on the hunt for a jewel. As they spend nights together too close for comfort, they realize their shoddily built fire isn’t the only thing that’s kindling, and that they must trust each other if they want to escape the island with their lives—and hearts—intact.
Governors Island
Author : Ann L. Buttenwieser
Publisher :
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,30 MB
Release : 2009-08-14
Category : History
ISBN :
Book Description
Governors Island in New York Harbor played an important role in history from being a British fort in the 1700s to a station for the U.S. Army and Coast Guard until 1996. This book brings the legacy to life through never-before-published photographs, blueprints, architectural plans, and interviews with former residents. It reveals an evolving penal system, tells the story worldwide contagion and local sanitation, covers ethnic assimilation, reveals the changing roles of women in the military, and takes a look at military and civilian recreational life on the island.
Word Embodied
Author : Halle O'Neal
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 25,52 MB
Release : 2020-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1684175887
Book Description
"In this study of the Japanese jeweled pagoda mandalas, Halle O’Neal reveals the entangled realms of sacred body, beauty, and salvation. Much of the previous scholarship on these paintings concentrates on formal analysis and iconographic study of their narrative vignettes. This has marginalized the intriguing interplay of text and image at their heart, precluding a holistic understanding of the mandalas and diluting their full import in Buddhist visual culture. Word Embodied offers an alternative methodology, developing interdisciplinary insights into the social, religious, and artistic implications of this provocative entwining of word and image.O’Neal unpacks the paintings’ revolutionary use of text as picture to show how this visual conflation mirrors important conceptual indivisibilities in medieval Japan. The textual pagoda projects the complex constellation of relics, reliquaries, scripture, and body in religious doctrine, practice, and art. Word Embodied also expands our thinking about the demands of viewing, recasting the audience as active producers of meaning and offering a novel perspective on disciplinary discussions of word and image that often presuppose an ontological divide between them. This examination of the jeweled pagoda mandalas, therefore, recovers crucial dynamics underlying Japanese Buddhist art, including invisibility, performative viewing, and the spectacular visualizations of embodiment."
Our Island Story
Author : H. E. Marshall
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 39,37 MB
Release : 2013-02-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1625583745
Book Description
Our Island Story is the "history" of England up to Queen Victoria's Death. Marshall used these stories to tell her children about their homeland, Great Britain. To add to the excitement, she mixed in a bit of myth as well as a few legends.
Dracula
Author : Hamilton Deane
Publisher : Samuel French, Inc.
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780573608223
Book Description
Drama Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, from Bram Stoker's novel Characters: 6 male, 2 female 3 Interior Scenes An enormously successful revival of this classic opened on Broadway in 1977 fifty years after the original production. This is one of the great mystery thrillers and is generally considered among the best of its kind. Lucy Seward, whose father is the doctor in charge of an English sanitorium, has been attacked by some mysterious illness. Dr. Van Helsing,
The Wedding Ringer
Author : Kerry Rea
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2021-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 059320185X
Book Description
A woman who wants nothing to do with love or friendship finds both in the unlikeliest ways in this hilarious and heartwarming debut by Kerry Rea. Once upon a time, Willa Callister was a successful blogger with a good credit score, actual hobbies, and legs that she shaved more than once a month. But after finding her fiancé in bed with her best friend, she now spends her days performing at children's birthday parties in a ball gown that makes her look like a walking bottle of Pepto Bismol. Willa dreams of starting fresh, where no one knows who she used to be, but first she needs to save up enough money to make it happen. Maisie Mitchell needs something too: another bridesmaid for her wedding. After a chance encounter at a coffee shop, Maisie offers to pay Willa to be in her bridal party. Willa wants nothing to do with weddings—or Maisie—but the money will give her the freedom to start the new life she so badly desires. Willa's bridesmaid duties thrust her into Maisie's high-energy world and into the path of hotshot doctor Liam Rafferty. But as Willa and Maisie form a real friendship, and Liam's annoyingly irresistible smile makes her reconsider her mantra that all men are trash, Willa's exit strategy becomes way more complicated. And when a secret from Maisie's past threatens to derail the wedding, Willa must consider whether friendship—and romance—are worth sticking around for.
To Treasure an Heiress (The Secrets of the Isles Book #2)
Author : Roseanna M. White
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 33,9 MB
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1493436104
Book Description
1906 Beth Tremayne has always been drawn to adventure. During her childhood, she fed that desire by exploring every inch of the Isles of Scilly. Now, after stumbling across an old collection of letters and a map buried on her family's property, she's found more adventure than she ever anticipated in the hunt for pirate treasure. But in order to discover where the clues lead, she must search alongside Lord Sheridan, a man she finds insufferable. Sheridan has spent years pursuing whatever archaeological interests pique his imagination. And when he discovers that Beth's search connects with one of his far-removed pirate ancestors, he can't help getting involved. Plus, he finds her irresistible, even though she insists he stole a prized possession of hers. As they work together following different clues and drawing closer to danger, they start to piece together a story of tragic love and piratical adventure. But which treasure will bring the greatest surprise--the one they find in each other or the one just out of their reach?
Isle of the Dead
Author : Roger Zelazny
Publisher : iBooks
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 2014-12-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781596879669
Book Description
Centuries in the future, Francis Sandow is the only man alive who was born as long ago as the 20th century. His body is kept young and in perfect health by advanced scientific methods; he has amassed such a fortune that he can own entire planets; and he has become a god. No, not a god of Earth, but one of the panetheon of the alien Pei'ans: he is Shimbo of Darktree, Shrugger of Thunders. Yet he doesn't believe that his personality has merged with the ancient consciousness of Shimbo, that he really can call down the skies upon his enemies. The time comes, however, when Francis Sandow must use these powers against the most dangerous antagonist in the universe: another Pei'an god -- Shimbo's own enemy, Belion. And Belion has no doubt whatever of his own powers.... Roger Zelazny was a three-time Nebula Award and six-time Hugo Award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy classics, including the short stories "24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai," "Permafrost," and "Home is the Hangman." Zelazny was the bestselling author of the ten-volume Chronicles of Amber series of fantasy novels, as well as the novels Lord of Light, and Psychoshop (written with Alfred Bester). Zelazny's novel Damnation Alley served as the basis for the 1972 cult film of the same name, starring Jan Michael Vincent and George Peppard. Roger Zelazny was a three-time Nebula Award and six-time Hugo Award-winning author of science fiction and fantasy classics, including the short stories "24 Views of Mount Fuji, by Hokusai," "Permafrost," and "Home is the Hangman." Zelazny was the bestselling author of the ten-volume Chronicles of Amber series of fantasy novels, as well as the novels Lord of Light, and Psychoshop (written with Alfred Bester). Zelazny's novel Damnation Alley served as the basis for the 1972 cult film of the same name, starring Jan Michael Vincent and George Peppard.
Jewel of the Isle
Author : Allie Boniface
Publisher : Allie Boniface
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Book Description
When a blue-collar bachelor unexpectedly falls for his friend's little sister, he'll risk everything to save the brainy beauty from the wilds of an island storm. Aidan Nolan has always been a lone wolf, a playboy extraordinaire and confirmed bachelor at forty-four. When he takes a job building high-end homes on Drake Isle, the last person he expects to run into is the cute-as-hell sister of a high school friend he hasn't seen in years. And the last thing he expects is to feel his stone-cold heart stirring. Nature photographer Jules McNerney is on Drake Isle for the most important assignment of her career. But when she realizes the sexy silver fox working construction up the beach is the teenage stud she crushed on for years, her photos are about to take a back seat to, well, him. Summer storms don't have anything on the passion that explodes between them, but do Aidan and Jules have what it takes to survive a protective older brother and a fast-moving hurricane destroying everything in its path? If you like small town island romance, then you'll love this short novella in the Drake Isle series, a new story with familiar characters and its own complete happy ending! Read what others are saying about USA Today bestselling author Allie Boniface's Drake Isle series: “I want to live on Drake Isle!” “I devoured it in one day, just couldn’t put it down." “Secrets, romance, great characters with issues, steam, and a slew of emotional scenes all wrapped up with a wonderfully fantastic ending." “Sweet contemporary romance with characters that will touch your heart and a plot to pull at your heartstrings.” “Allie Boniface can write a love story like nobody else. Even when her characters are behaving badly she makes you see into their soul and wish as hard as you can for the best for them!” --- Read the entire Drake Isle small town island romance series! Because of You Finding You Ghosts of You Chasing You Deck the Isle Jewel of the Isle Topics: contemporary romance, small town romance, island romance, Nantucket, island, New England, series, romantic suspense series, connected stand-alones, mystery, modern romance, later in life romance, second chance romance, mid-life romance, best friend's little sister, kid sister all grown up, brother's best friend, forbidden romance, friends to lovers, wealthy, USA today, USA today bestseller, silver fox, heroes over 40, heroes over forty, city romance, smart romance, lighthearted romance, hot romance, allie boniface, allie boniface romance, proposal, proposal romance, engagement, engagement romance, new york times bestseller romance, NYT romance, new york times romance, sexy, heartwarming, heart-warming, family, love, love books, kissing books, emotional journey, new adult, college students, romance series, long series, long romance series, sassy, strong heroine, self-made woman, captivating romance, hot, hot romance, forbidden love, sparks, loyalty, swoon, contemporary, rescue, justice, best friends, bestie, best friend romance, learning to love again, losing my best friend, claiming, defending, protect, damsel in distress, college romance, new adult romance, college mystery, past vs present romance, past versus present, drama, action and adventure, action romance, escape romance, escape to an island, emotional, HEA, island series, ocean, sea, seaside escape, vacation romance, beach romance, beach read, small town life, small town community, community, mysterious death, solving a cold case, cold case mystery, cold case romance, fraternity, fraternity romance, college fraternities Other readers of Boniface’s books enjoyed books by: Nora Roberts, Elin Hilderbrand, Robyn Carr, Marie Force, Jamie Beck, Lucy Score, Tessy Bailey, Mia Sheridan, Elsie Silver, Devney Perry, Kylie Gilmore, Zoe York, Elana Johnson, Mia Kent, Hanna Hart, Chris Keniston, Shannon Stacey, Carly Phillips, Natalie Ann, Jennifer Probst, Carolyn Brown, Sharon Sala, Jessica Prince, Helen Halme, Hope Ramsay, Tricia Ashley, Corinne Michaels, Melanie Harlow
