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The Dockporter

Author : Jim Bolone
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (272 download)

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Download or read book The Dockporter written by Jim Bolone and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dockporter. He's got a bike, a basket ... and a whole lotta baggage. It's the summer of 1989. Jack McGuinn is a dockporter, transporting tourists' luggage, piled high in the basket of his bike on Mackinac Island, Michigan, a tiny summer resort where cars are outlawed and pedal-power rules. He's got the season wired tight: a family cottage on the bluff, a dream job, and a loyal crew of hell-raising, tip-hustling buddies. When his old friend-turned bitter rival challenges him to ride a record-setting load, he takes the bet and soon realizes he's not just carrying suitcases, he's carrying the future of the island, which is about to be paved over for profit. With the help of his pals on the dock and the love of a romantic, free-spirited Irish cellist named Erin, Jack digs deep to discover skills he didn't know he had. The Dockporter is an offbeat, nostalgic coming-of age-story that appeals anyone who ever had a summer job. If Rushmore director Wes Anderson remade Caddyshack but it emerged as a hybrid of Footloose and Meatballs (and was a book) it would be The Dockporter. Genre-smashing, hilariously fresh, yet refreshingly familiar, it's a novel about friends, family, love, luggage, and the summers we never forget. We feel the same way you do. The world's gotten a bit serious lately. So kick back, pour yourself something cold, and take a summer vacation, even if it's just in your mind. Because let's face it: we all need an island.

Mystery on Mackinac Island

Author : Anna Hale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Mystery on Mackinac Island written by Anna Hale and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mackinac Island is a summer vacation spot in Michigan where no cars are allowed, so everyone uses horses and bikes to get around. Thirteen-year-old Hunter Martineau lives on the island year around and knows everything about the place. Well, almost everything. When bikes start to mysteriously disappear all over the island, Hunter is determined to catch the thief and claim the reward money. But that isn't so easy, even for someone as smart as Hunter. Hunter gathers clues and follows suspects to secret places. But every lead turns out to be a dead end - until the thief gives himself away, and Hunter realizes that he is in real danger. Along the way, Hunter makes new friends, grows closer to his dad, and learns why his heritage as an Ottawa Indian is so important to him. Full of fun and surprises, Mystery on Mackinac Island is about adventure, loyalty, and the discoveries of growing up. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

The Elements of San Joaquin

Author : Gary Soto
Publisher : Chronicle Books
ISBN 13 : 1452171955
Total Pages : 90 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (521 download)

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Download or read book The Elements of San Joaquin written by Gary Soto and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A timely new edition of a pioneering work in Latino literature, National Book Award nominee Gary Soto's first collection (originally published in 1977) draws on California's fertile San Joaquin Valley, the people, the place, and the hard agricultural work done there by immigrants. In these poems, joy and anger, violence and hope are placed in both the metaphorical and very real circumstances of the Valley. Rooted in personal experiences—of the poet as a young man, his friends, family, and neighbors—the poems are spare but expansive, with Soto's voice as important as ever. This welcome new edition has been expanded with a crucial selection of complementary poems (some previously unpublished) and a new introduction by the author.

Slave Theater in the Roman Republic

Author : Amy Richlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108216439
Total Pages : 582 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)

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Download or read book Slave Theater in the Roman Republic written by Amy Richlin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-28 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman comedy evolved early in the war-torn 200s BCE. Troupes of lower-class and slave actors traveled through a militarized landscape full of displaced persons and the newly enslaved; together, the actors made comedy to address mixed-class, hybrid, multilingual audiences. Surveying the whole of the Plautine corpus, where slaves are central figures, and the extant fragments of early comedy, this book is grounded in the history of slavery and integrates theories of resistant speech, humor, and performance. Part I shows how actors joked about what people feared - natal alienation, beatings, sexual abuse, hard labor, hunger, poverty - and how street-theater forms confronted debt, violence, and war loss. Part II catalogues the onstage expression of what people desired: revenge, honor, free will, legal personhood, family, marriage, sex, food, free speech; a way home, through memory; and manumission, or escape - all complicated by the actors' maleness. Comedy starts with anger.

Angelina's Island

Author : Jeanette Winter
Publisher : Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR)
ISBN 13 : 9780374303495
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Angelina's Island written by Jeanette Winter and published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2007-04-17 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every day, Angelina dreams of her home in Jamaica and imagines she is there, until her mother finds a wonderful way to convince her that New York is now their home.

Homesick Creek

Author : Diane Hammond
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 030742362X
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Homesick Creek written by Diane Hammond and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diane Hammond’s beautifully rendered description of life in the fictional small town of Hubbard, Oregon, won her plaudits for Going to Bend, her debut novel. In Homesick Creek, Hammond returns to Hubbard and captivates us once again with a cast of characters so vivid we feel like we’ve known them all our lives. Anita and Bunny have been friends since high school, when Anita was a beauty queen runner-up and Bunny a sweet single mother with average looks. They were both taken by surprise when the handsome, charismatic Hack Neary chose Bunny to be his wife. A natural-born salesman, Hack now works his charms at the local car dealership, and he and Bunny enjoy a very comfortable life. But after sixteen years of excusing Hack’s white lies, Bunny is more shaken than she’d like to be by his dangerous new flirtation and her rising suspicions that Hack never meant to put down roots in Hubbard. Anita has also married, but unlike Hack and Bunny, she and her husband are barely scraping by. Bob isn’t ambitious enough to properly support his wife and daughter. He is, however, constant in his love: for Anita, still beautiful in his eyes despite the toll of age, work, and poverty; for his daughter and granddaughter, who need more than the couple can provide; and for Warren, his best friend since they were poor and unwanted children in the same trailer park. Facing a future that seems increasingly difficult, the friends turn to one another and find reserves of love and strength that help heal the wounds they inadvertently inflict on each other. At the deepest point of her grief, Bunny realizes, “If you loved somebody once, no matter how long ago, that had to be worth something.”

Time Crime

Author : H. Beam Piper
Publisher : The Floating Press
ISBN 13 : 1775455475
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (754 download)

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Download or read book Time Crime written by H. Beam Piper and published by The Floating Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cracking a tough case is difficult enough when time is running in just one direction. In H. Beam Piper's Time Crime, detectives have to pursue criminals into the past, future, and other possible presents. SF lovers, settle in for a pulse-pounding -- and thought-provoking -- adventure.

Mackinac Passage

Author : Robert A. Lytle
Publisher : EDCO Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780971269231
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (692 download)

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Download or read book Mackinac Passage written by Robert A. Lytle and published by EDCO Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2001 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pete Jenkins and his friends explore the Round Island Lighthouse and the island after crossing Lake Huron in their dingy, only to find a warning message in their boat and a threat on their lives. Here, their curiosity leads them on the trail of dangerous thieves.

Sea and Sardinia

Author : D. H. Lawrence
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521242752
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (427 download)

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Download or read book Sea and Sardinia written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-06-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written after the First World War when he was living in Sicily, Sea and Sardinia records Lawrence's journey to Sardinia and back in January 1921. It reveals his response to a new landscape and people and his ability to transmute the spirit of place into literary art. Like his other travel writings the book is also a shrewd inquiry into the political and social values of an era which saw the rise of communism and fascism. On one level an indictment of contemporary materialism, Sea and Sardinia is nevertheless an optimistic book, celebrating the creativity of the human spirit and seeking in the fundamental laws which governed human nature in the past fresh inspiration for the present. This 1997 edition restores censored passages and corrects corrupt textual readings to reveal for the first time the book Lawrence himself called 'a marvel of veracity'.

Megan's Island

Author : Willo Davis Roberts
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1481449079
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (814 download)

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Download or read book Megan's Island written by Willo Davis Roberts and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First eleven-year-old Megan is astonished when her mother insists on taking her and her younger brother up to the lake cottage a week before school is out; then they find mysterious strangers following them.

Beach Body Unknown

Author : Emma Jackson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781733892896
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Beach Body Unknown written by Emma Jackson and published by . This book was released on 2020-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Adventures of an Illustrator

Author : Joseph Pennell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Adventures of an Illustrator written by Joseph Pennell and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Old Weird Albion

Author : Justin Hopper
Publisher : Bright Sparks
ISBN 13 : 9781908058379
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (583 download)

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Download or read book The Old Weird Albion written by Justin Hopper and published by Bright Sparks. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman stands at the edge of a cliff, looking out to sea and the horizon. Dancers welcome the sun in a circle of stones. A dowsing road turns without warning. A church bell. Footsteps. Old Weird Albion is America writer Justin Hopper's dark love song to the English South; a poetic essay interrogating the high, haunted landscape of the South Downs Way; the memories, myths and forgotten histories from Winchester to Beachy Head. When someone disappears, when someone leaps from a cliff and is all-but-erased from memory, what traces might we find in the crumbling chalk of the cliff face; in the wind that buffets the edge of this Albion? A skewed alternative to Bill Bryson, Hopper casts himself as the outsider as he wanders the English countryside in pursuit of mystical encounters. His journey sees him joining New Age eccentrics and accidental visionaries on the hunt for crop circles and druidic stones, discussing the power of nature with ecotherapists and pagans, tracing the ruins of abandoned settlements and walking the streets of eerie suburbs. Through a startling revelation of his own family history, Hopper turns part detective, part memoirist, tracking the footsteps of his grandfather's first wife, Doris; piecing together her forgotten history.

The Pink Pony

Author : Charles Cutter
Publisher : Abbott Road Partners, LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781950659630
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book The Pink Pony written by Charles Cutter and published by Abbott Road Partners, LLC. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world-class Port Huron-Mackinac sailboat race has just finished at Mackinac Island. As soon as the boats dock, the sailors head for the legendary Pink Pony. But the night takes a grisly turn, and Jimmy Lyons is found dead the next morning in the bar, strangled by a string of Christmas tree lights. Murdo Halverson, a wealthy manufacturer from Detroit and Jimmy's former partner, is arrested for the murder. It turns out that the free spending Jimmy was broke. Each of his crew, including Murdo, had a reason to kill him. As did his wife, Jane. Burr Lafayette, recently divorced and the deposed head of the litigation department of a major Detroit law firm, is recruited to defend Murdo by his wife, Anne, and his mother, Martha, the widowed matriarch of the family. A man at loose ends, Burr is a brilliant litigator who prefers boats and dogs over courtrooms and clients. But he's not a criminal lawyer, and this looks like a losing case. Did Murdo kill Jimmy or was it someone else?

Bin Laden

Author : Adam Robinson
Publisher : Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1611451221
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Bin Laden written by Adam Robinson and published by Skyhorse Publishing Inc.. This book was released on 2011-09 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive biography of the man behind the September 11th...

A Year In The Wildwood

Author : Alison Cross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519066084
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book A Year In The Wildwood written by Alison Cross and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Come and join the year-long adventure through the sun-dappled paths of the best-selling Tarot deck by Mark Ryan and John Matthews!With a foreword written by John Matthews, this e-book contains all the entries that Alison Cross has written for The Wildwood Tarot's popular Facebook page. Read entries for each of the cards that sit at the hub of The Wheel of The Year - The Shaman, The World Tree, The Seer and The Wanderer.It doesn't matter what time of the year you choose to begin your journey, you can quickly find the relevant active cards and make your first steps on the path with the characters of The Wildwood.

Small Island

Author : Andrea Levy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781472211064
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Small Island written by Andrea Levy and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delicately wrought and profoundly moving novel, Andrea Levy handles the weighty themes of empire, prejudice, war and love, with a lightness of touch and a generosity of spirit that challenges and uplifts the reader.