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Book Synopsis The Oyster Shell Driveway by : Douglas Atwill
Download or read book The Oyster Shell Driveway written by Douglas Atwill and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2014-07-25 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A summer on the California coast calls to Mattox Williams, a writer wanting quiet days to do the finishing work on his novel. He leases his Santa Fe house for three months and finds an ocean-facing room at Glitter Bay. While meeting the other people of the beach community, a love affair develops as well as the surrounding strife. He makes a deep emotional mark on the neighbors, particularly on Hayden Danning and his sister, Sylvan. A surprise offer from a film producer opens his horizons and requires trips south to Hollywood and Laguna Beach. At the end of summer, Mattox tries to find a way to keep alive the love he has found.
Book Synopsis The Old and the Lost by : Glenn Blake
Download or read book The Old and the Lost written by Glenn Blake and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2016-11-23 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Blake is an eloquent singer of Gulf Coast storms and tides, both meteorological and human. These collected stories are a true delight.” —John Barth “I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers,” Glenn Blake writes. “There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay.” These fourteen stories are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a region that is subsiding—sinking inches every year. The characters who inhabit Blake’s haunting landscape—awash in their own worlds, adrift in their own lives—struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams from the encroaching tides. “When he writes about it, you can feel it, smell it, taste it, hear it, see it, that strange, lost, unknown corner of Texas. It is a whole other country and Blake gives it to you with all its oddity and mystery, as it is.” —Molly Ivins
Download or read book Return Fire written by Glenn Blake and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2010-03-31 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “I was born in a land of bayous, raised between rivers,” writes Glenn Blake in his latest collection of short stories. “There is a place in Southeast Texas where two rivers meet and become one. There is a long bridge over these waters, and as you drive across, you can look to the south and see where the Old River and the Lost River become the Old and the Lost. You can look out as far as you can see and watch this wide water become the bay.” The stories in Return Fire are set in the swamps, bayous, and sloughs of Southeast Texas, a region that is subsiding—sinking inches every year beneath the encroaching tides. The characters who inhabit Blake’s Southern landscape struggle to salvage what they can of their hopes and dreams. They are the walking wounded—cautious, crippled, capable of any act. Magnolias, water, mescal, stars, and fire return again and again in these seven sparse—yet tightly written—vignettes.
Book Synopsis The Witch House of Persimmon Point by : Suzanne Palmieri
Download or read book The Witch House of Persimmon Point written by Suzanne Palmieri and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This house is a whole other ball of wax. I’m sure its feelings are hurt as I write this. It fancies itself a horror house. Home of witches and murderesses. Of death and decay and destruction. And here I am calling it comforting...
Book Synopsis The Beachcomber's Companion by : Anna Marlis Burgard
Download or read book The Beachcomber's Companion written by Anna Marlis Burgard and published by Chronicle Books. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A field guide to shells, sand dollars, sea glass, and more that “inspires a new appreciation for the wonders of the shore” (Providence Journal). The Beachcomber’s Companion is a charming illustrated guide to collecting and identifying shells and other coastal treasures. Each of the entries includes fascinating descriptions, fun tidbits, and detailed artwork that makes it easy to identify your own beach discoveries. A handy resource section offers tips on how to prepare before setting out on a shoreline adventure, from the beachcomber’s commandments to must-have items for every beachcombing toolkit and advice on preserving shells. Awash with information and gorgeous watercolor illustrations, this is an essential companion for all who love the ocean’s shore, asbreezy, inviting, and delightful as a day at the beach. “Loaded with interesting information, charming anecdotes, and useful hints.” —Dr. David L. Pawson, Emeritus Senior Scientist, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Book Synopsis Catharina by : George Frederick Brauer Jr.
Download or read book Catharina written by George Frederick Brauer Jr. and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2022-01-21 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The arduous journey of a Dutch - American, from childhood in Nazi occupied Holland, to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the USA.
Book Synopsis Remembering Blue by : Connie May Fowler
Download or read book Remembering Blue written by Connie May Fowler and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emotionally neglected by her mother, abandoned by her father, Mattie O’Rourke spent her childhood starved for the one thing she thought she’d never find: love. When her mother dies and, at twenty-two, she finds herself completely without ties of any kind, Mattie takes a chance at ending her loneliness and moves to a tiny coastal Florida town. At the Suwannee Swifty convenience store, a sea change envelops her. Mattie O’Rourke sees Proteus Nicholas Blue and their fate is sealed after only a few shy, stolen glances. Nick walks into Mattie’s life having fled his own. A lifelong fisherman from a remote island off the coast, Nick is haunted by the certain knowledge that the sea will be the death of him (as it has been for all the Blue men) and he has resolved to leave it behind. But as Nick and Mattie settle into an intimacy that both comforts and surprises them, Nick feels the inextricable pull of the waxing moon’s tide and the siren’s call of the dolphins that, Blue legend has it, are his brethren. And so it is that Mattie, who only months before felt that happiness would never find her, returns with Nick to the island home that nurtured him and finds herself embraced by a large and loving family and an alluring and sensual landscape. Life on Lethe is transforming for Mattie. But Nick always knew that the sea would claim him, and all of Mattie’s love cannot prevent the tragedy that is their destiny. Moving and enchanting, Remembering Blue is a lush story of love, loss, and the mythic power of the ocean, told in an elegant and passionate voice that could only come from Connie May Fowler. From the Trade Paperback edition.
Download or read book Bridge Tender written by Carol Ann Ross and published by Bublish, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bridge Tender is the second book in the Murder by the Sea series by Carol Ann Ross. The little swing bridge that takes you to Topsail Island has been there for over half a century. It’s seen just about everything, who comes across, who goes across-with whom, at what times, and how often. It’s all normal for small-town life and small-town gossip. But as the population of the island soars, sights it’s never seen before have become commonplace. There’s been another murder and it seems that it is not only the good that die young. The nefarious events are rocking the very core of the small coastal town and thought Topsail Island may be used to sudden thunderstorms cropping up from time to time, now, when lightening of a more sinister nature strikes twice in succession, the local police detectives realize there’s more to it and the unexpected twists and turns are baffling. Meanwhile, the bridge tender keeps a watchful eye on everything.
Book Synopsis Trophies and Dead Things by : Marcia Muller
Download or read book Trophies and Dead Things written by Marcia Muller and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a former sixties radical is murdered during a string of random sniper attacks, the All Souls Legal Cooperative must settle his surprisingly large estate. Then private investigator Sharon McCone comes across a new will, made just days before he died, that disinherits his two children in favor of four unknown and unconnected parties. McCone sifts through Perry Hilderly's belongings but finds little to explain this puzzling change. That is, until she uncovers a .357 with the serial number burned off. As McCone tracks down the new beneficiaries she discovers that the shootings aren't so random after all and that the dead man isn't the only one with a lurid past. To link the heirs to the killings, she must follow a treacherous trail of evidence that travels from the Vietnam years to the present. But along the way the elusive sniper waits in a homicidal rage and takes aim-this time at All Souls and Sharon McCone.
Download or read book Blue Green written by Gregory N. Whitis and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Near the town of Tazewell, on the western edge of the Mississippi Delta, amidst vast fields of cotton and ponds of catfish, twenty-four-year-old Warren Pope manages the Paradise Catfish Farm. He befriends most of the locals and struggles with the Delta's lingering reluctance to cast aside the last remaining vestiges of social injustice. Pope's archnemesis, Chief Deputy Leo Abrams, doesn't appreciate the northern outsider and the two tangle in a suspenseful, action-packed sequence of events that could only happen in the backwood haunts of Mississippi.
Download or read book Flight of Lyons written by Patrice Leary and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2004 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While in Miami rehearsing for Tyler Kelly's ice show, Olympic gold medalist Leslie Lyons is brutally beaten by her boyfriend, Frank Garcia. Battered and bleeding, she escapes and heads to Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Upon reaching the small town of McClellanville her car runs out of gas. This high-profile celebrity has no money, wears only a nightgown, and fears she will be recognized, or worse, photographed for the tabloids. By chance, Buddy Lucas comes to her aid a coincidence that alters his life indelibly. Meanwhile, Frank, pursued by his bookie for gambling debts and addicted to cocaine and alcohol, relentlessly pursues Leslie and lands on the doorstep of Buddy Lucas. Buddy is soon embroiled in a struggle for his life . . . and a love he cannot accept for his own good and that of the woman he now loves so hopelessly--Leslie Lyons.
Book Synopsis The Half-Life of Happiness by : John Casey
Download or read book The Half-Life of Happiness written by John Casey and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-08-19 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the winner of the 1989 National Book Award (for Spartina), a major new novel--wise, sad, and richly comic--about the meltdown of a marriage against the backdrop of a gloriously awful congressional campaign. Charlottesville, Virginia, 1978: Mike is a successful forty-something lawyer, a onetime congressional staffer who's had it with Washington; Joss, his wife, is a filmmaker. They're Virginia liberals with a clan of close-knit friends--a bright, edgy, flirty, games-playing group, spinning like a Catherine wheel around Mike and Joss. But the sparks that fly between the two are getting hotter and more dangerous, as Joss' restlessness turns to impatience and then anger. When one of the group introduces them all to the woman he wants to marry, things suddenly explode--this new arrival and Joss fall passionately in love, and their whole world careens out of control. What ensues is tragicomedy, as Mike tries to allay his rage and misery by letting himself get sucked into a trial run for a seat in Congress. He wants to be a hero to someone; instead he becomes the unwitting star of a political farce. Meantime, Joss is struggling with her new life, and their two young daughters (who form a lovingly unmerciful Greek chorus commenting on the action) have to navigate a turmoil in which one parent is a public joke and the other a private scandal. Rarely has the undoing of love been chronicled with such large-hearted humanity.
Book Synopsis Hidden History of Islip Town by : Jack Whitehouse
Download or read book Hidden History of Islip Town written by Jack Whitehouse and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The patchwork of beach towns, villages and hamlets that make up Islip Town represents some of the most historic communities on the whole of Long Island. Local Secatogue Native Americans harrowingly saved the Dutch survivors of one of New York's first shipwrecks in 1657. New York City's infamous Tammany Hall leased an entire summer resort island in Islip Town for decades. In 1912, a young woman from Sayville sacrificed her own life for another on the RMS Titanic. Islip Town's founding father, William Nicoll, owned the largest parcel on Long Island's South Shore but was blocked from owning even a grain of sand on Fire Island. A penniless Dutch immigrant to Islip Town became the world's "Oyster King." Join author and historian Jack Whitehouse as he reveals buried stories from Islip Town's past.
Download or read book Pop's Place written by T.A. Blitch and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-09 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based in part on the life and times of World War II US Navy dive-bomber hero Rear Admiral John Blitch, Jackson "Pop" Harrison returns from the war to his ancestral homestead on Sullivan's Island near Charleston, South Carolina where he finds himself without family... except those in the family plot under the spreading oak tree. There, like so many other Americans who had survived years of intense conflict, he goes about picking up the pieces of his shattered life while haunted by nightmares of his childhood and military combat. Almost immediately upon hanging up the shingle on "Pop's Place," the family residence-turned-boarding-house, Pop is immersed in adventure after adventure with romance and betrayal, life and death, challenges and victories, and the drama of post-war low country. Confident in battle as a warrior, Pop is curious in discovering that he is suddenly unsure of himself outside the cockpit-particularly with his best friend's beautiful young daughter who has matured while he was away at war. Though he narrowly escaped countless close calls in a war that claimed the lives of so many others, true to his selflessness, courage and strength of character, Pop decides between life and making the ultimate sacrifice for the one he loves. Gold Medal Winner 2021 Dan Poynter's Global eBooks Historical Literature Fiction - Contemporary (Set 1940-Now) Gold Medal Winner 2021 Dan Poynter's Global eBooks Romance - Historical
Book Synopsis A Summer Amish Courtship and Amish Reckoning by : Emma Miller
Download or read book A Summer Amish Courtship and Amish Reckoning written by Emma Miller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Will the past tear them apart? A Summer Amish Courtship by Emma Miller After a sudden heartbreaking loss, young widow Abigail Stolz must somehow help her troubled son adjust—even if it means working with Jamie’s stern schoolmaster, Ethan Miller. Much to her surprise, Ethan is actually a sensitive man who is also grieving—and lonely. But will family duty and the past keep them from a chance at happiness together? Amish Reckoning by Jocelyn McClay A new client is just what Gail Lapp’s horse transportation business needs to survive. But as the single mom works with Amish horse trader Samuel Schrock, she’s pulled back into the world she left behind. And even though returning to her Amish life is enticing, it isn’t possible if she wants to keep the truth about her past hidden…
Book Synopsis Harlequin Love Inspired May 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2 by : Emma Miller
Download or read book Harlequin Love Inspired May 2020 - Box Set 1 of 2 written by Emma Miller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love Inspired brings you three new titles! Enjoy these uplifting contemporary romances of faith, forgiveness and hope. A SUMMER AMISH COURTSHIP by Emma Miller With her son’s misbehavior interrupting classes, Amish widow Abigail Stoltz must join forces with the schoolmaster, Ethan Miller. But as Ethan tutors little Jamie, Abigail can’t help but feel drawn to him…even as her son tries to push them apart. Can they find a way to become a forever family? THE PRODIGAL COWBOY Mercy Ranch by Brenda Minton After their daughter’s adoptive mom passes away and names Colt West and Holly Carter as guardians, Colt’s determined to show Holly he isn’t the unreliable bachelor she once knew. But as they care for their little girl together, can the cowboy prove he’d make the perfect father…and husband? WINNING BACK HER HEART Wander Canyon by Allie Pleiter When his ex-girlfriend returns to town and hires him to overhaul her family’s general store, contractor Bo Carter’s determined to keep an emotional distance. But to convince her old boss she’s home for good, Toni Redding needs another favor—a pretend romance. Can they keep their fake love from turning real?
Book Synopsis A Summer Amish Courtship by : Emma Miller
Download or read book A Summer Amish Courtship written by Emma Miller and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can they be a family for all seasons? A lonely schoolmaster. A widowed mother. Will working together be a lesson in love? After a sudden heartbreaking loss, young widow Abigail Stolz must somehow help her troubled son adjust—even if it means working with Jamie’s stern schoolmaster, Ethan Miller. Much to her surprise, Ethan is actually a sensitive man who is also grieving—and lonely. But will family duty and the past keep them from a chance at happiness together?
