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Book Swimming to Catalina

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stuart Woods
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-03-17
  • ISBN : 0061798320
  • Pages : 448 pages

Download or read book Swimming to Catalina written by Stuart Woods and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stone Barrington thought he'd heard the last of former girlfriend Arrington after she left him to marry Vance Calder, Hollywood's hottest star. The last thing Stone expected was a desperate call from Calder. Arrington has vanished, and her new fiancé wants Stone to come to LA and find her. In a town where the sharks drive Bentleys and no one can be trusted, Stone soon discovers he's drowning in a sea of empty clues that takes him from Bel Air to Malibu to Rodeo Drive. Running out of time and leads, he needs to keep his head above water and find Arrington fast, or end up swimming with the fishes himself.

Book Catalina

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  • Author : Liska Jacobs
  • Publisher : FSG Originals
  • Release : 2017-11-07
  • ISBN : 0374716722
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Catalina written by Liska Jacobs and published by FSG Originals. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnetic, provocative debut novel chronicling a young woman’s downward spiral following the end of an affair Elsa Fisher is headed for rock bottom. At least, that’s her plan. She has just been fired from MoMA on the heels of an affair with her married boss, and she retreats to Los Angeles to blow her severance package on whatever it takes to numb the pain. Her abandoned crew of college friends (childhood friend Charlotte and her wayward husband, Jared; and Elsa’s ex-husband, Robby) receive her with open arms, and, thinking she’s on vacation, a plan to celebrate their reunion on a booze-soaked sailing trip to Catalina Island. But Elsa doesn’t want to celebrate. She is lost, lonely, and full of rage, and only wants to sink as low as the drugs and alcohol will take her. On Catalina, her determined unraveling and recklessness expose painful memories and dark desires, putting everyone in the group at risk. With the creeping menace of Patricia Highsmith and the bender-chic of Bret Easton Ellis, Liska Jacobs brings you inside the mind of an angry, reckless young woman hell-bent on destruction—every page taut with the knowledge that Elsa’s path does not lead to a happy place. Catalina is a compulsive, deliciously dark exploration of beauty, love, and friendship, and the sometimes toxic desires that drive us.

Book Catalina

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  • Author : W. Somerset Maugham
  • Publisher : eBookIt.com
  • Release : 2021-01-29
  • ISBN : 1456636367
  • Pages : 200 pages

Download or read book Catalina written by W. Somerset Maugham and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2021-01-29 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a sixteen-year-old Spanish girl sees a religious vision while praying in a convent, she becomes involved in a series of humorous adventures. Catalina is a crippled girl, supposedly cured by divine intervention after witnessing a vision of the Virgin Mary. As a result of this, she is pressured into becoming a nun in a Carmelite convent. The Bishop of Segovia, himself undergoing a crisis of faith, becomes involved in the debate about the debt owed to god by Catalina for her cure, but the girl resists all attempts to control her life, determined to marry the man she loves. She joins a troupe of strolling players and becomes the most famous actress in all of Spain.

Book Wild Catalina Island

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  • Author : Frank J. Hein
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2013-03-26
  • ISBN : 1614239185
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book Wild Catalina Island written by Frank J. Hein and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A year-round escape for one million annual tourists, Catalina Island is gaining popularity as a world-class eco-destination. Eighty-eight percent of the island is under the watch of the Catalina Island Conservancy, which preserves, manages and restores the island's unique wild lands. Bison, foxes and bald eagles are its best-known inhabitants, but Catalina is home to more than sixty other animal and plant species that exist nowhere else on earth. And they are all within the boundaries of one of the world's most populous regions: Los Angeles County. Biologists Frank Hein and Carlos de la Rosa present a highly enjoyable tour through the fascinating origins, mysterious quirks and ecological victories of one of the West Coast's most remarkable places.

Book Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan was Her Name

Download or read book Catalina Magdalena Hoopensteiner Wallendiner Hogan Logan Bogan was Her Name written by Tedd Arnold and published by Cartwheel Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the words and music--and varying forms of the name--of a classic camp song that dates at least from the 1940s.

Book Catalina Incognito

Download or read book Catalina Incognito written by Jennifer Torres and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-22 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eight-year-old Catalina Castañeda uses Tía Abuela's sewing kit to turn ordinary clothing into a magical disguise, enabling her to uncover a thief at the local library.

Book Catalina by Sea

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  • Author : Jeannine L. Pedersen
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2006
  • ISBN : 9780738531168
  • Pages : 130 pages

Download or read book Catalina by Sea written by Jeannine L. Pedersen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fancy flight of lyrics specifies that Santa Catalina Island is "26 miles across the sea." But mapmakers put the distance at 19.7 miles from the closest island point, Doctor's Cove (near Arrow Point), to the closest mainland locale, Point Fermin at San Pedro. Today boats and helicopters operating out of the Ports of Los Angeles, Long Beach, Newport Beach, and Dana Point transport musing songwriters and everyone else to Catalina for the song's much-promised "romance, romance, romance, romance," as well as fishing, sightseeing, and gainful employment. But the history of getting to and from the island's ports of Avalon and Two Harbors has been an epic across centuries of business and pleasure, involving a collective flotilla of side-wheelers, yachts, lumber schooners, steamships, water taxis, converted military vessels, crew boats, and today's fast and convenient jet boats.

Book Catalina by Air

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  • Author : Jeannine L. Pedersen
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780738559360
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Catalina by Air written by Jeannine L. Pedersen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, reaching the paradise destination of Santa Catalina Island, located miles out in the Pacific Ocean, was possible primarily by steamship. But as early as 1912, the first amphibious airplane landed in Avalon Bay, and the first air-passenger service was introduced in 1919. Seaplane service thrived on Catalina, and aircraft engine roars became a distinctive memory for many residents, along with the thrill of crossing the channel by plane and landing on the water. The "Airport in the Sky" opened in 1946, with United Airlines operating DC-3s, followed by other airlines operating land-based planes. Today helicopters carry passengers across the San Pedro Channel in less than 15 minutes. This unique photographic history covers public air transportation to and from Southern California's iconic island, featuring memories and stories from residents, visitors, and airline employees.

Book Your Trip Abroad

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  • Author : United States. Bureau of Consular Affairs
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Your Trip Abroad written by United States. Bureau of Consular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalina Island

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  • Author : Jeannine L. Pedersen
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9780738529196
  • Pages : 132 pages

Download or read book Catalina Island written by Jeannine L. Pedersen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout its history, the 76-square-mile island of Catalina has played host to Native Americans, smugglers, otter hunters, ranchers, miners, entrepreneurs, vacationers, movie stars, and nature enthusiasts. William Wrigley Jr. (of chewing-gum fame) bought the island in 1919 and later constructed the recognizable casino building, which was never used for gambling but did become one of the best-known ballrooms in America. In the 1970s, the Wrigley family deeded 88 percent of the island to the Catalina Island Conservancy, which protects the natural state of the island and her inhabitants. Today nearly one million tourists visit annually to take in the fishing, parasailing, glass-bottomed tour boating, scuba diving, cycling, camping, galleries, shopping, and dining.

Book Boating and Diving Catalina Island

Download or read book Boating and Diving Catalina Island written by Bruce Wicklund and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Catalina Island

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  • Author : Jeannine L. Pedersen
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9780738569994
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Catalina Island written by Jeannine L. Pedersen and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Geology of Santa Catalina Island

Download or read book The Geology of Santa Catalina Island written by William Sidney Tangier Smith and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Between Two Harbors

Download or read book Between Two Harbors written by Doug Oudin and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-08-30 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalina Islandthe name conjures images of a pristine tropical island. Located twenty-six miles off the coast of Southern California, Catalina Island is known as the island of romance for good reason. A popular destination for boaters, fishermen, and tourists, its a recreational mecca at seaa place where people come to escape from the reality of urban life. Boasting 86,000 square miles of unspoiled and undeveloped natural beauty, Catalina is an island paradise with wild animals, surrounded by an ocean teeming with fish. For thirty-two years, Charles Douglas Doug Oudin lived a fantasy life on this secluded oasis. As the former harbormaster, he saw it allharrowing storms, dramatic ocean rescues, traumatic accidents, and the tragic death of actress Natalie Wood. Encounters with sharks, buffalo, wild boar, and even a sea serpent are just a few of the strange and unique experiences he had while living on the island. Now, in this memoir, he shares his story. For those who know and love Catalinaand those who have always wanted to visitBetween Two Harbors reveals a glimpse of what life on the island is really like.

Book Tucson Teddy Takes a Trip

Download or read book Tucson Teddy Takes a Trip written by Dennis Seawright and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-17 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tucson Teddy is an adventurous little bear who loves to travel and explore. In this book, Teddy visits beautiful Catalina Island and enjoys many of the exciting attractions that Catalina has to offer.

Book Benjy s Blanket

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  • Author : Miguel Gouveia
  • Publisher : Green Bean Books
  • Release : 2021-04-28
  • ISBN : 1784386332
  • Pages : 34 pages

Download or read book Benjy s Blanket written by Miguel Gouveia and published by Green Bean Books. This book was released on 2021-04-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Benjy is born, his grandfather, a tailor, gives him a beautiful handmade blanket to keep him warm in his cot. As Benjy grows, he takes his blanket with him everywhere. He loves it so much that even when it becomes ragged and stained, he will do anything to stop his mother from throwing it out. He enlists his resourceful grandfather who cuts, measures and sews and turns the blanket into a coat. Benjy wears the coat every day, morning to night, until it grows too tight and his mother threatens again to throw it away. His grandfather turns it into a waistcoat and when that no longer fits, it becomes a handkerchief, and when the handkerchief is torn beyond repair, it is finally turned into a button. But then Joseph loses the button and his grandfather must come up with an even more imaginative solution – one that will ensure the blanket will last forever. Based on a traditional Jewish story, this is a beautiful tale of the love between a boy and his grandfather, between a boy and his blanket, the inevitable passing of time and the glorious power of imagination.

Book The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale

Download or read book The Archaeology of Mission Santa Catalina de Guale written by and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: