Download or read book Camino Island written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Soak up the sun—and the intrigue—with the first novel in John Grisham’s beloved Camino series. “A happy lark [that] provides the pleasure of a leisurely jaunt periodically jolted into high gear, just for the fun and speed of it.”—The New York Times Book Review A gang of thieves stage a daring heist from a secure vault deep below Princeton University’s Firestone Library. Their loot is priceless, but Princeton has insured it for twenty-five million dollars. Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer’s block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious woman working for an even more mysterious company. A generous offer of money convinces Mercer to go undercover and infiltrate Bruce Cable’s circle of literary friends, ideally getting close enough to him to learn his secrets. But eventually Mercer learns far too much, and there’s trouble in paradise as only John Grisham can deliver it. Look for all of John Grisham’s rollicking Camino novels: Camino Island Camino Winds Camino Ghosts

Download or read book The Goodbye Lie written by Jane Marie Malcolm and published by Greenlightwrite. This book was released on 2004-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: the LURE, the LOVE, the LEGEND - That is The Goodbye Lie series - where Little House on the Prairie meets Gone With The Wind ... on Amelia Island, Florida, at the edge of the world ...

Download or read book How I Became a Pirate written by Melinda Long and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Pirates have green teeth when they have any teeth at all. I know about pirates, because one day, when I was at the beach building a sand castle and minding my own business, a pirate ship sailed into view."So proclaims Jeremy Jacob, a boy who joins Captain Braid Beard and his crew in this witty look at the finer points of pirate life by the Caldecott Honor winning illustrator David Shannon and the storyteller Melinda Long. Jeremy learns how to say scurvy dog, sing sea chanteys, and throw food . . . but he also learns that there are no books or good night kisses on board: Pirates don t tuck. A swashbuckling adventure with fantastically silly, richly textured illustrations that suit the story to a T. "

Download or read book Amelia Island written by Rob Hicks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tiny Amelia Island, in the northeast corner of Florida, was once among the most important ports in the western hemisphere. Before Florida was granted statehood, the island served as an international gateway between Spanish Florida and the English colonies that would later become the United States. Where Spanish monks and pirates once roamed, the island eventually developed into a significant seaport that exported the rich resources of Florida's interior in the late 1800s. This era was known as the Golden Age of Amelia Island and the town located on its north end, Fernandina. The railroad that connected Amelia Island to the Gulf Coast was largely responsible for the Golden Age, as it brought a burgeoning economy and many of the South's most prominent and wealthy figures. Today the island is best known as a resort community but retains the influence and charm of its remarkable past.

Download or read book This Is My South written by Caroline Eubanks and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You may think you know the South for its food, its people, its past, and its stories, but if there’s one thing that’s certain, it’s that the region tells far more than one tale. It is ever-evolving, open to interpretation, steeped in history and tradition, yet defined differently based on who you ask. This Is My South inspires the reader to explore the Southern States––Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia––like never before. No other guide pulls together these states into one book in quite this way with a fresh perspective on can’t-miss landmarks, off the beaten path gems, tours for every interest, unique places to sleep, and classic restaurants. So come see for yourself and create your own experiences along the way!

Download or read book I Was Amelia Earhart written by Jane Mendelsohn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-12-07 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly imagined novel, Amelia Earhart tells us what happened after she and her navigator, Fred Noonan, disappeared off the coast of New Guinea one glorious, windy day in 1937. And she tells us about herself. There is her love affair with flying ("The sky is flesh") . . . . There are her memories of the past: her childhood desire to become a heroine ("Heroines did what they wanted") . . . her marriage to G.P. Putnam, who promoted her to fame, but was willing to gamble her life so that the book she was writing about her round-the-world flight would sell out before Christmas. There is the flight itself -- day after magnificent or perilous or exhilarating or terrifying day ("Noonan once said any fool could have seen I was risking my life but not living it"). And there is, miraculously, an island ("We named it Heaven, as a kind of joke"). And, most important, there is Noonan . . .

Download or read book Amelia Island written by Rob Hicks and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-03 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seeing its golden age in the 1800s and early 1900s, Amelia Island slipped into a calm and quiet slumber for most of the 20th century; nevertheless, the local paper mills provided an important economic base that brought people and jobs to the area. It did not take long for people to discover the majestic beaches of the island, and growth followed. Companies specializing in resort development soon arrived, and the island became a popular vacation destination. Throughout that transformation, local residents worked hard to keep the small-town feel, natural surroundings, and historic relevance intact.

Download or read book Finding Amelia written by Ric Gillespie and published by Naval Inst Press. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 70 years, the disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan during a flight over the Central Pacific has remained one of history's most debated mysteries. Revealing new information uncovered by the International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR), this book offers the first fully documented history of what happened. An accompanying DVD reproduces the documents, reports, and technical studies cited in the text, allowing instant review and verification of the sources.

Download or read book The Hallelujah Girls written by Jessie Jones and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several feisty females in Eden Falls, Georgia decide to shake up their lives starting with the Spa-Dee-Dah!, the abandoned church-turned-day-spa where they meet every Friday afternoon.

Download or read book American Beach written by Russ Rymer and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of race relations in Florida focuses on the resort area founded by Florida's first Black millionaire

Download or read book Destination Anthropocene written by Amelia Moore and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-08-27 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destination Anthropocene documents the emergence of new travel imaginaries forged at the intersection of the natural sciences and the tourism industry in a Caribbean archipelago. Known to travelers as a paradise of sun, sand, and sea, The Bahamas is rebranding itself in response to the rising threat of global environmental change, including climate change. In her imaginative new book, Amelia Moore explores an experimental form of tourism developed in the name of sustainability, one that is slowly changing the way both tourists and Bahamians come to know themselves and relate to island worlds.

Download or read book The Fun of It written by Amelia Earhart and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2012-10-15 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others.

Download or read book The Shop on Royal Street written by Karen White and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-03-21 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nola Trenholm is hopeful for a fresh start in the Big Easy but must deal with ghosts from her past—as well as new ones—in this first book in a spin-off series of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street novels. After a difficult detour on her road to adulthood, Nola Trenholm is looking to begin anew in New Orleans, and what better way to start her future than with her first house? But the historic fixer-upper she buys comes with even more work than she anticipated when the house’s previous occupants don’t seem to be ready to depart. Although she can’t communicate with ghosts like her stepmother can, luckily Nola knows someone in New Orleans who is able to—even if he’s the last person on earth she wants anything to do with ever again. Beau Ryan comes with his own dark past—a past that involves the disappearance of his sister and parents during Hurricane Katrina—and he’s connected to the unsolved murder of a woman who once lived in the old Creole cottage Nola is determined to make her own...whether the resident restless spirits agree or not.

Download or read book Amelia Earhart written by Doris L. Rich and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 1996-10-17 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She died mysteriously before she was forty. Yet in the last decade of her life Amelia Earhart soared from obscurity to fame as the best-known female aviator in the world. She set record after record—among them, the first trans-Atlantic solo flight by a woman, a flight that launched Earhart on a double career as a fighter for women's rights and a tireless crusader for commercial air travel. Doris L. Rich's exhaustively researched biography downplays the “What Happened to Amelia Earhart?” myth by disclosing who Amelia Earhart really was: a woman of three centuries, born in the nineteenth, pioneering in the twentieth, and advocating ideals and dreams relevant to the twenty-first.

Download or read book Florida Off the Beaten Path written by Diana Gleasner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you’re a visitor or a local looking for something different, Florida Off the Beaten Path shows you the Sunshine State with new perspectives on timeless destinations and introduces you to those you never knew existed––from the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales.

Download or read book Fernandina Growing Up on Amelia Island written by Gordon E. Hart and published by . This book was released on 2015-10-15 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Voices in St Augustine written by Jane R. Wood and published by . This book was released on 2008-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thirteen-year-old Joey Johnson has a problem. He hears voices, only he can't find the people who belong to them. His curiosity leads him on a quest where he learns more than just history about "the Nation's Oldest City." He discovers he has a special connection to the past -- something that changes his life forever.