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Book Synopsis Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by : Joe Coomer
Download or read book Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God written by Joe Coomer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1997-05-07 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine weeks after losing her husband, Charlotte escapes to a wooden motor yacht in New Hampshire, where her shipmates are an aging blue-haired widow, an emotional seventeen-year-old, and the ugliest dog in literature. A genuine bond develops among the three women, as their distinct personalities and paths cross and converge against the backdrop of emotional secrets, abuse, and the wages of old age. Off the boat, Charlotte, an archaeologist, joins a local excavation to uncover an ancient graveyard. Here she can indulge her passion for reconstructing the past, even as she tries to bury her own recent history. She comes to realize, however, that the currents of time are as fluid and persistent as the water that drifts beneath her comforting new home.
Book Synopsis Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God by : Joe Coomer
Download or read book Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God written by Joe Coomer and published by . This book was released on 1996-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pocketful of Names written by Joe Coomer and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inhabiting an island off the coast of Maine left to her by her great-uncle Arno, Hannah finds her life as a dedicated and solitary artist rudely interrupted one summer when a dog, matted with feathers and seaweed, arrives with the tide. He is only the first of a series of unexpected visitors and is soon followed by a teenager running from an abu...
Download or read book One Vacant Chair written by Joe Coomer and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Vacant Chair by Joe Coomer It's where you sit down that determines everything in life. Sarah's aunt Edna paints portraits of chairs. Not people in chairs, just chairs. The old house is filled with her paintings, and the chairs themselves surround her work—a silent yet vigilant audience. At the funeral of Grandma Hutton—whom Edna has cared for through a long and vague illness—Sarah begins helping her aunt clean up the last of a life. This includes honoring Grandma's surprising wish to have her ashes scattered in Scotland. As the novel turns from the oppressive heat of Texas to the misty beauty of Scotland, Sarah learns of her aunt's remarkable secret life and comes to fully understand the fragile business of living, and even of dying.
Download or read book The Loop written by Joe Coomer and published by Touchstone. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Lyman resolves to locate the parrot's original owners and the source of its utterances. Fiona, the bafflingly spontaneous librarian at the junior college, volunteers her services in researching the parrot's past - a past that proves less elusive than Lyman's own - and in the process begins to lead Lyman out of his own loop."--BOOK JACKET. "The Loop, Joe Coomer's funniest and darkest novel to date, takes a wonderfully refreshing look at the nature of chance and identity."--BOOK JACKET.
Book Synopsis The Confessions of a Beachcomber by : Edmund James Banfield
Download or read book The Confessions of a Beachcomber written by Edmund James Banfield and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 1908 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Facsimile reprint of an edition first published in London in 1908. Includes the original text and all 53 original illustrations and map (some were omitted from editions and reprints since 1908). This is Banfield's story of life on Dunk Island in the early 20th century with details of the island's geography, history, flora and fauna. With an introduction by Banfield's biographer, Michael Noonan. The English-born author's other books include 'My Tropic Isle' and 'Tropic Days'.
Book Synopsis Sailing in a Spoonful of Water by : Joe Coomer
Download or read book Sailing in a Spoonful of Water written by Joe Coomer and published by Pica Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir about an amateur sailor who buys an old motorsailer, which he names Yonder, and sets out to both restore and sail it, also includes reflections on his wife and both of their families.
Book Synopsis Grass Huts and Warehouses by : Caroline Ralston
Download or read book Grass Huts and Warehouses written by Caroline Ralston and published by University of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2014-06-01 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pioneering study of early trade and beach communities in the Pacific Islands and first published in 1977, this book provides historians with an ambitious survey of early European-Polynesian contact, an analysis of how early trade developed along with the beachcomber community, and a detailed reconstruction of development of the early Pacific port towns. Set mainly in the first half of the 19th century, continuing in some cases for a few decades more, the book covers five ports: Kororareka (now Russell, in New Zealand), Levuka (Fiji), Apia (Samoa), Papeete (Tahiti) and Honolulu (Hawai'i). The role of beachcombers, the earliest European inhabitants, as well as the later consuls or commercial agents, and the development of plantation economies is explored. The book is a tour de force, the first detailed comparative academic study of these early precolonial trading towns and their race relations. It argues that the predominantly egalitarian towns where Islanders, beachcombers, traders, and missionaries mixed were largely harmonious, but this was undermined by later arrivals and larger populations.
Download or read book Apologizing to Dogs written by Joe Coomer and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1999-10-24 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Times are tough on Worth Row. This is not to say, however, that it is by any means quiet on the Row, a place where bathtubs double as lawn furniture, and adultery, bribery and larceny are as commonplace as the glass eyeballs that pop up in every yard -- all that remains from the prosthetics mill that once sat on this land. For more than thirty years, the Row's antiques dealers have run their businesses from the front rooms of their aging shotgun-style houses. After all this time, their lives have become inextricably linked -- and undeniably complicated. It is suddenly clear that there's more to be exposed on the Row than buried body parts: it seems everyone has something to hide -- from their customers, their spouses, even themselves. And they feel they're being watched....They are. The seventy-two-year-old widow Effie keeps a minute-by-minute journal of her neighbors' activities, following even stray dogs from house to house, peeking, staring and spying, sure they are all out to steal her past, ruin her future, and plunder her "better things." The fact is, Row residents have far more to concern them than old Effie. Carl, behind curtains he never opens, is using his considerable woodworking talents to turn his life -- and his house -- inside out to prove his devotion to the vintage-clothing dealer Nadine. Howard Dog-in-His-Path, a grave-robbing Indian, keeps count of every pet buried in his neighbors' backyards. The Postlethwaites, running from a tragic past, have retired to long days at the mall photo shop, where they watch pictures of other people's lives roll off the developing machines. Mose, an aged inventor, is trying his hand at the ultimate invention: true love. Mazelle, a used-book dealer, has given up reading because the secret life she lives in the cistern beneath her husband's garden is far more interesting than any fiction. The dog Himself has no greater secret than the location of his next meal, but what he digs up may reveal more than his fellow Row residents would like. From the quirky to the certifiable, folks on the Row have definitely gotten their lines crossed. When a violent storm strikes, causing fire, a heart attack and grand theft, it stirs up more than just the earth it hits. Suddenly, long-buried truths are flowing faster than the flooding rains. When the dust and smoke finally clear, the Row has been turned upside down and nobody -- human or dog -- will ever be the same again. With a strong, rich and uproariously funny voice, Joe Coomer resurrects the magic of his previous novels, Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God and The Loop, and turns the utterly ordinary into the stunningly extraordinary. With a splendid cast of characters and the cleverest canine in comedy, Apologizing to Dogs is a hilarious, heartwarming and wonderfully human tale and proves that no matter how old you get, there's always something worth holding on to, fighting for and loving with all your might.
Book Synopsis Cornish Saints & Sinners by : J. Henry Harris
Download or read book Cornish Saints & Sinners written by J. Henry Harris and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pacific Islanders Under German Rule by : Peter J. Hempenstall
Download or read book Pacific Islanders Under German Rule written by Peter J. Hempenstall and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an important book. It is a reprint of the first detailed study of how Pacific Islanders responded politically and economically to their rulers across the German empire of the Pacific. Under one cover, it captures the variety of interactions between the various German colonial administrations, with their separate approaches, and the leaders and people of Samoa in Polynesia, the major island centre of Pohnpei in Micronesia and the indigenes of New Guinea. Drawing on anthropology, new Pacific history insights and a range of theoretical works on African and Asian resistance from the 1960s and 1970s, it reveals the complexities of Islander reactions and the nature of protests against German imperial rule. It casts aside old assumptions that colonised peoples always resisted European colonisers. Instead, this book argues convincingly that Islander responses were often intelligent and subtle manipulations of their rulers’ agendas, their societies dynamic enough to make their own adjustments to the demands of empire. It does not shy away from major blunders by German colonial administrators, nor from the strategic and tactical mistakes of Islander leaders. At the same time, it raises the profile of several large personalities on both sides of the colonial frontier, including Lauaki Namulau’ulu Mamoe and Wilhelm Solf in Samoa; Henry Nanpei, Georg Fritz and Karl Boeder in Pohnpei; or Governor Albert Hahl and Po Minis from Manus Island in New Guinea.
Download or read book Smiles to Go written by Jerry Spinelli and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2008-04-29 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is stargazer, skateboarder, chess champ, pepperoni pizza eater, older brother, sister hater, best friend, first kisser, science geek, control freak Will Tuppence so afraid of in this great big universe? Jerry Spinelli knows.
Book Synopsis The Sailor's Word-book by : William Henry Smyth
Download or read book The Sailor's Word-book written by William Henry Smyth and published by London : Blackie and son. This book was released on 1867 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oileain written by David Walsh and published by Pesda Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealth of information on the wildlife, stories and history of the islands.For those wishing to visit in small boats or kayaks there are details of:? Landings? Camping? Drinking water? Tidal informationOileain is a detailed guide to almost every Irish offshore island. The guide is comprehensive, describing over 300 islands, big and small, far out to sea and close in by the shore, inhabited and uninhabited. Oileain tells it as it is, rock by rock, good and bad, pleasant and otherwise. It concentrates on landings and access generally, then adds information on camping, drinking water, tides, history, climbing, birds, whales, dolphins, legends or anything else of interest.Oileain will, I hope, appeal to all who go to sea in small boats, divers and yachtsmen as well as kayakers. The sheer level of detail contained in Oileain must surely throw new light on places they thought they knew well. It is not a book about kayaking. It so happens that a practical way of getting to islands is by kayak, and that is how the author gets about. Scuba divers and RIBs get in close too. Yachtsmen get about better than most, and they too enjoy exploring intensively from a dinghy. With the increasing availability of ferries, boatless people will also enjoy Oileain. Offshore islands are the last wilderness in Ireland. Hillwaking is now so popular that there are few untrampled mainland hills. Ninety per cent of offshore islands are uninhabited outside of the first fortnight in August, and eighty per cent even then. You won't meet many other people, if any at all, out beyond an Irish surf line. It is a time of change though, and holiday homes are very much the coming thing in some offshore areas. Sea going will never stop being a great adventure. Therefore, offshore islands are still the preserve of the very few. Now is a golden era for exploration.
Download or read book Kangaroo written by D. H. Lawrence and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical edition of Kangaroo, D. H. Lawrence's eighth novel, set in Australia.
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Download or read book Beachcombing for a Shipwreaked God written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Wreck of the Titan by : Morgan Robertson
Download or read book The Wreck of the Titan written by Morgan Robertson and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on 1912 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
