Download or read book Saga of a Wayward Sailor written by Tristan Jones and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “unique and arresting” memoir of seafaring adventures from the small boat sailor and author of Ice! and The Incredible Voyage (Motorboat & Yachting). Tristan Jones was one of the most acclaimed sea-faring storytellers ever. The combative Welshman was born at sea on a ship off Tristan da Cunha. He dropped out of school at 14 to work on sailing barges, and then spent the rest of his life at sea—-first in the Royal Navy, then as a delivery skipper, then as a daring adventurer. SAGA OF A WAYWARD SAILOR tells the tale of one of his most exciting adventures. Jones sails through treacherous waters aboard the Cresswell, a lifeboat converted into a sailboat, struggling to survive against impossible odds. He makes it through violent storms, arrest by the Soviet Navy, and other extraordinary experiences. Join Tristan Jones and a host of other lively and intriguing characters, as this salty and humorous tale unfolds.

Download or read book The Constant Rabbit written by Jasper Fforde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Reads like a crazed cross between Watership Down and Nineteen Eighty-Four." --The Guardian "Every book of Fforde's seems to be a cause for celebration." -- Charles Yu, The New York Times Book Review on Early Riser A new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series England, 2022. There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around summer fetes, jam making, gossipy corner stores, and the oh-so-important Best Kept Village awards. No sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart, citing their propensity to burrow and breed, and their shameless levels of veganism. But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff, and her and her family decide they are to stay. Unusually, their neighbors--longtime resident Peter Knox and his daughter, Pippa--decide to stand with them . . . . and soon discover that you can be a friend to rabbits or humans, but not both. With a blossoming romance, acute cultural differences, enforced rehoming to a MegaWarren in Wales, and the full power of the ruling United Kingdom Anti-Rabbit Party against them, Peter and Pippa are about to question everything they had ever thought about their friends, their nation, and their species. An inimitable blend of satire, fantasy, and thriller, The Constant Rabbit is the latest dazzlingly original foray into Jasper Fforde's ever-astonishing creative genius.

Download or read book Tobias Brown Inventor Esquire written by Robin Bennett and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adventure and magic for 7-10 year-olds: Mad inventors, shark submarines and England's deepest lake under Creake Castle. Fred Longshanks is invited to tea in the village by Tobias Brown, Inventor Esquire. Before he knows it, he has embarked on an insane journey to get to the bottom of England's deepest lake in the grounds of his parents home in Creake Castle. What they discover on the journey changes both their lives for ever.

Download or read book Double edged written by Nyla K and published by Nyla K. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's an honest man to do? Isn't that always the question we find ourselves wondering when we get swept up in something bad... Something overpowering and tangibly wrong, with the ability to corrupt our morals down to the core? These boys, they're not mine, but they might as well be. I'm responsible for them, in a sense. And they couldn't be more different, identical in looks alone. One I've noticed... The other has noticed me. One needs me, the other needs him. Sometimes a hero will fall on his own sword, but in my case... I've fallen on two. ** Double-edged is a full-length taboo standalone novel that is intended for mature readers only. Some of the themes in this book could make readers uncomfortable. Please proceed with caution, and heed the author’s warnings.**

Download or read book Downloading the Poetic Self written by Frederic Will and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents an autobiography of one writer’s existence in poetry, the tracks left by a clumsy bear taming himself in public; it is also a forum in which to act out and discover oneself. It will serve to light fires, the can-do drive others can surpass, finding in themselves language as daring as their lives, and more daring than the author’s. It endeavours to allow every reader of this text to leave it feeling better, more able to do things by him- or herself, and more convinced that poetry is essential to a good life. The text itself is the eighth title in the 10-volume series Inside Selfhood and History.

Download or read book Hand Me Down written by Melanie Thorne and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of 2012 “Hand Me Down, which recalls the gritty power of Dorothy Allison's Bastard Out of Carolina, is fiction with the ring of truth.” –San Jose Mercury News Fourteen-year-old Elizabeth Reid has spent her life protecting her sister, Jaime, from their parents’ cruel mistakes and broken promises. When their mother chooses her second husband and their new family over raising her firstborn girls, Elizabeth and Jaime are separated and risk losing the shelter of each other. Hand Me Down indelibly captures a contemporary family journey--how two young people, against incredible odds, forge lives of their own in the face of an uncertain future.

Download or read book The Gentlemen s Hour written by Don Winslow and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Great Britain: William Heinemann, 2009.

Download or read book Iron Love written by Marguerite Poland and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Fraser. For some, just a name, just a boy. For some, not even a remarkable boy. Call it devotion. It was as good a word as any. Why Charlie?Why not Dan or Mac or dear old Sparrow? Herbert only knew it to be so - for Charlie Fraser, despite his odd detachment, had presence. Presence. And whatever presence was, it ensured absolute devotion ... The year is 1913, the place a boys' school in colonial South Africa. For every boy, the heart of the school is his own House, his Housemaster and his particular Hero. And, for every newboy coming through the hallowed doors, there are two commandments. The first: Silence and Denial. The second: Not to fail at Footer. Validation lies in honouring these. At whatever cost.

Download or read book Farrell s Daughter written by Robert Bennick and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-07-17 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ann Farrell notices two strange mourners at her father's funeral. At the reading of her father's legal will it appears they have played a key role in her father's mysterious past. Her determined pursuit to unveil this mystery leads her to France, where her father allegedly was a British secret agent during World War II. There she discovers the shocking truth.The story of four different eras in the life of two young men - courageous soldiers, close friends and successful barristers - their ambiguous hate/love relation gradually turning them into rancorous adversaries, the consequent aftermath of their horrible war experience that atrophied part of their soul.As the story grows, so does suspense. Why did the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, sacrifice two brave young men without mercy? And who is Farrell's daughter?In combat many young men lose their life or limbs, they are called war heroes. But some lose their emotional balance on the battlefield. They are called cowards

Download or read book Hotbed Hotel written by Michael Parker and published by Samuel French, Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terri and Brian Cody are trying to sell their one star (and often one guest) hotel in the Florida Keys. A prospective buyer is about to arrive from New York. They decide to have the staff masquerade as paying guests to convince the him that the establishment is busy and prosperous. Unfortunately, the staff consists of a bibulous maintenance man and a curvaceous but somewhat vacant young maid. Add the eccentric retired British Army Major who resides at the hotel, a wealthy Arab Sheik (who looks suspiciously like the Major), a nymphomaniac dubbed The Barracuda during her annual stays, the prospective buyer's girlfriend and, unexpectedly, his wife, and you have a laugh a minute merry go round that leaves audiences screaming with delight.

Download or read book To Him That Hath A Tale of the West of Today written by Ralph Connor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-02-11 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.

Download or read book Sing and Shout The Mighty Voice of Paul Robeson written by Susan Goldman Rubin and published by Boyds Mills Press. This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive biography explores the tumultuous and passionate life of activist, singer, and actor Paul Robeson. When faced with the decision to remain silent or be ostracized, Paul Robeson chose to sing, shout, and speak out. Sing and Shout: The Mighty Voice of Paul Robeson explores how Robeson's love of African American spirituals and deep empathy towards the suffering of others drove his long, fervent mission as a civil rights activist and his career as an artist. Although he was also an actor, singing was Robeson's defining talent and where he could best express himself. After exploring socialism, Robeson was targeted by the U.S. government for speaking out about discrimination against African Americans and for his political views. He was labeled a communist during the height of the Cold War and found himself stripped of his U.S. passport. But Robeson never gave in and continued to perform and speak out. The book is based on author Susan Goldman Rubin's extensive research, including fieldwork in Harlem, NY, in Princeton and Somerville, NJ, and at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. Includes an author's note, resources, source notes, index, and a preface by author Harry Belafonte.

Download or read book The Seturner Conspiracy written by William Newby and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-12 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global "death syndrome" is paralyzing medical facilities the world over. What diabolical plot is at work? People are dying for no apparent reason. Sister Lily Elizabeth and her dedicated followers are faced with patients who were healed and are suddenly dead. There was a time when pharmaceutical companies developed drugs to cure or prevent sickness. Drugs that killed, caused birth defects, resulted in addiction, or that had side effects worse than the illnesses that they were designed to cure never reached the marketplace. When was the last time a cure was developed? There is no profit in curing illness, only in eternal treatment. Now pharmaceutical companies are simply drug dealers motivated by profit alone. This is not an expose of the pharmaceutical industry, but it makes one think. An investigation is spearheaded by the USFDA's Dr. Grayson Gill into the possible involvement of a pharmaceutical agent in this sudden-death issue. In the meantime, a diverse group of crime fighters—FBI's Alvin Brandon, Scotland Yard's Sir David Charles, and even Interpol sleuths—are investigating a possible tie to a terrorist chemical warfare conspiracy. • What does little Freddie Fender Ramirez, the Green Machine, Urbanati Construction, or Marion Pharmaceutical Corporation have to do with it? • Who are Karim Mashid, alias Jose Vigil, and Hamid Mohamed, alias Raul Benitez? • Who is Stewart Miles, and how does his discovery instigate this pandemic? • Who is Boris Silversen, and what is his connection to all of the above? As the different pieces of this mystical thriller come together, a conspiracy is revealed, crimes are solved, and justice is served, but not before thousands of innocents die. The reader is taken on a frantic journey from Thailand to Brazil, to London, England, and New York, through jungles, hospital wards, corporate boardrooms, crime groups, and behind the walls of major crime fighting organizations as the author tells this tale of adventure, murder, intrigue, and conspiracy.

Download or read book To Him that Hath written by Ralph Connor and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional account of labor unrest in a Canadian manufacturing town after the war and John Maitland's efforts to reorganize his father's mill for economic justice and fair play. In a riot caused by professional agitators, a bullet intended for Jack Maitland wounds a girl.

Download or read book Upswing Downturn written by Frank Valenti and published by Airy Mill. This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stumbling through myriad obstacles, vagabond musician Owen Bowen flopsweats through life determined to catapult his band to the top of the rock heap in this fast-paced comedy. After their first few albums receive quiet toleration in eastern Europe, Bowen and his band remain restless until they can duplicate that same success in the US, their home country. Told through the voice of band leader Bowen, Upswing Downturn paints the picture of a singularly focused man of nebulous talent clutching to his dream tighter than a pair of back-to-school jeans on a kid who drank an ungodly amount of Yoo-hoo over the summer.

Download or read book The Tears of Time written by Susan Hanson and published by Jim Hanson. This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Nightingale chases a 100 year old riddle to track down a modern killer.

Download or read book Garfield Homecoming written by Jim Davis and published by Boom! Studios. This book was released on 2019-02-20 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feeling mistreated and unappreciated, Garfield embarks on a search for a new home. Along the way, he meets up with a clown who works in an old-timey travelling circus. Convinced that this is the place for him, Garfield becomes part of the act. Wait. What is that cannon for? Join Garfield as he travels to find the perfect home, and as he finds a lot of not-so-perfect homes along the way. Writer Scott Nickel (Garfield: His 9 Lives) teams up with artists Sara Talmadge (Steven Universe), Shelli Paroline and Braden Lamb (Adventure Time), Ben Sears (The Ideal Copy), and Genevieve FT (Betty & Veronica) for this epic adventure