Author : Melanie Neale
Publisher : Beating Windward Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 28,19 MB
Release : 2012-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 098382522X
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, the author's family lived aboard a 47-foot sailboat, spending their summers along the U.S. East Coast and their winters in the Bahamas. As an adult, she lived aboard her own 28-foot sailboat and had several relationships trying to find someone who wasn't intimidated by her stubborn independence and free-spirited lifestyle.
Author : Kathy Harrison
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781585424658
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 : Danielle Lincoln Hanna
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781737608936
Her biggest dream was to become a mail jumper, not the key witness to a crime... All Bailey wants is to join the elite crew of mail jumpers, fleet-footed kids who must leap from boat to pier to deliver the mail around a Wisconsin lake. She's never done anything so daring in her life, but the hazards of wind and wave would be worth it to work alongside Captain Tommy. If she'd ever had a grandfather-or a family at all-she would have wanted him to be like Tommy. But all her charts to success may end up in the drink when she catches a veteran mail jumper red-handed with a key to the police station. Only the night before, someone broke in and attacked a dispatcher. Is it possible that Baron, the most popular boy in town... is the villain? Meanwhile, Police Detective Monica Steele learns that the case carries ties to a murder thought solved long ago, a suspect who's been behind bars almost twenty years, and a cop she always knew was crooked to the bone. Can they dredge up the truth before Baron catches on? Or will Bailey's dreams for a perfect summer be dashed against the shore? The Girl on the Boat is a prequel novella to the thrilling Mailboat Suspense Series. If you like hurricane-force plot twists, complex characters you can't help but love, and a real-life setting that comes to life on the page, then you'll love Danielle Lincoln Hanna's enthralling tale! Buy The Girl on the Boat to plunge into the suspense today!
Author : Larry Feign
Publisher :
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category :
ISBN : 9789627866541
Historical novel based on the life of the 19th century Chinese prostitute who became the most powerful pirate in history. The first time her story has been fully told in any language.
Author : Daniel James Brown
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 21,19 MB
Release : 2023-12-05
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0593512308
The inspiration for the Major Motion Picture Directed by George Clooney—exclusively in theaters December 25, 2023! The #1 New York Times bestselling true story about the American rowing triumph of the 1936 Olympics in Berlin—from the author of Facing the Mountain For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University of Washington’s eight-oar crew team was never expected to defeat the elite teams of the East Coast and Great Britain, yet they did, going on to shock the world by defeating the German team rowing for Adolf Hitler. The emotional heart of the tale lies with Joe Rantz, a teenager without family or prospects, who rows not only to regain his shattered self-regard but also to find a real place for himself in the world. Drawing on the boys’ own journals and vivid memories of a once-in-a-lifetime shared dream, Brown has created an unforgettable portrait of an era, a celebration of a remarkable achievement, and a chronicle of one extraordinary young man’s personal quest.
Author : Margaret Mayhew
Publisher : Random House
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Canal-boats
ISBN : 0552154911
It is 1943, and three very different girls are longing to do their bit for the war effort. The three become friends when they join the band of women working the canal boats, delivering goods and doing a man's job while the men are away fighting. A tough, unglamorous task - but one which brings them all unexpected rewards.
Author : Cheryl Trzasko
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2013-02-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475975597
Cheryl's Dad had a crazy plan. He wanted to build a cement boat and take the entire family, including a newborn, on a voyage around the world. They would leave their home on the eastern coast of Australia, sail to India, around Africa, and over to the United States where they spend a few months visiting relatives before returning through the Panama Canal to their home. But the crew, a lousy engine, foul weather, and other perils of the sea jeopardize the voyage. Will they survive a cyclone at sea? Or an oncoming oil tanker? Will Pierre-Paul, the bully of the crew, destroy everything on board? How will Cheryl go to school? Will they have enough food and water? Can they avoid pirates? Will they make it back to AustraliaExperience the adventure as they explore a deserted island, escape a harbor at midnight, resort to eating peanut butter and onion sandwiches, and much more. "Around the World in a Cement Boat" is a true story of adventure on the high seas told by one who lived the adventure.
Author : Douglas Alvord
Publisher : Tilbury House Pub
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,21 MB
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780884481188
An eleven-year-old girl demonstrates her sailing skills during a Labor Day weekend race.
Author : Nam Le
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459621042
In 1979, Nam Le's family left Vietnam for Australia, an experience that inspires the first and last stories in The Boat. In between, however, Le's imagination lays claim to the world. The Boat takes us from a tourist in Tehran to a teenage hit man in Colombia; from an ageing New York artist to a boy coming of age in a small Victorian fishing tow...
Author : Emma Martin
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780864738851
"Two girls in a boat is the eagerly-awaited debut collection by the winner of the 2012 Commonwealth Short Story Prize. Eleven warm and shapely stories in the tradition of Alice Munro, moving between the author's native New Zealand, London and other locations."--Publisher's description.
