Sea Dreamer
Sea Dreamer

Author: Elizabeth Pulford

Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Published: 2012-12-01

Total Pages: 99

ISBN-13: 177553197X

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A powerful young adult novel about the importance of friendship and love for teen girls. Sea Dreamer is about relationships, especially that of Cassie and Rana - who have been friends since they were tiny girls. When this once strong friendship begins to disintegrate Cassie tries to hold onto Rana, tries to hang on to the way things were. But in life nothing ever remains the same. Then when Cassie discovers through a school project the possibility that an ancestor who lived in the 16th century may have been a pirate, she uses it as an anchor in the now turbulent friendship. Cassie, who lives within the smell of the sea, is a sea dreamer. So strongly linked are her thoughts and moods to the sea, it's as if she was born on the ever-ebbing tide. She relates much of her inner and outer world to the spirit of the sea. With a wonderful sense of place - the wild, striking coastline of Otago, New Zealand - this novel is the perfect read for young teenage girls.

The Sea Dreamer
The Sea Dreamer

Author: Gérard Jean-Aubry

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-04-27

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1000040488

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Of Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken has written: ‘There was something almost suggesting the vastness of a natural phenomenon. He transcended all the rules. There have been perhaps, greater novelists, but I believe that he was incomparably the greatest artist whoever wrote a novel.’ Originally published in 1957, the year of the centenary of Conrad’s birth, and although he was firmly established among the world’s great literary figures, little was known about him generally, beyond the fact that he was himself once a sailor, and that the language he handled with such mastery was not the one to which he was born. This was described as the definitive biography, written by one of Conrad’s closest friends, to whom the novelist willed his personal papers. It took many years to prepare and the author travelled extensively in the lands that Conrad knew and wrote about. He writes with clarity, compassion and understanding of Conrad’s childhood in Russia (where the father was exiled for Polish nationalist activities); of how the youth of fifteen, who had never seen the sea before, became a sailor; of how at twenty-nine he became a British subject and master of his own ship; of how in 1894 he became a novelist almost by accident, rose rapidly to literary fame, found new friends and established himself in literary history. This is a record of the strangest and most enigmatic of lives, fascinating and authoritative at the same time.

Bloodlines
Bloodlines

Author: Jan Burke

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2006-08-29

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 0743444558

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Veteran reporter Irene Kelly investigates a story she covered early in her career about human remains discovered in a buried car and the disappearance of a wealthy family.

Voyages
Voyages

Author: Stephen Brooke

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2017-09-16

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 1937745465

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The wind on the prairie, the wind on the sea... These are poems and songs of sea and of land, of yearning for distant horizons and the welcoming hearths of home. Voyage with poet Stephen Brooke across the known and unknown. Visit the fog-shrouded ports, the wide plains rising to vast sky-touching mountains. Glimpse uncharted jungle coasts and those once familiar in the days of youth. Life is made of such VOYAGES. A collection of poems from Stephen Brooke. Illustrated.

The Nudger Dilemmas
The Nudger Dilemmas

Author: John Lutz

Publisher: Crossroad Press

Published:

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13:

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NUDGER IS ONE OF THE COOLEST, MOST ACCESSIBLE DETECTIVES IN HISTORY! This collection of 13 previously published stories starring Nudger, Lutz's worrywart St. Louis detective, provides an entertaining introduction to one of the genre's most distinctive private eyes. Nudger, whose ever-present antacids protect a stomach that turns at the mere hint of danger, somehow manages to do his job without resorting to fists or handguns. The well-turned phrase is his most lethal weapon, whether he's seeking justice for an executed man proved innocent after the fact or coming to the aid of his friend Danny, proprietor of Danny's Donuts, who believes that his fellow shipmates from Vietnam are being killed one by one. Lutz, winner of both the Shamus and the Edgar, also holds a lifetime achievement award from the Private Eye Writers of America. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Lutz's work includes political suspense, private eye novels, urban suspense, humor, occult, crime caper, police procedural, espionage, historical, futuristic, amateur detective, thriller; virtually every mystery sub-genre. He is the author of more than forty novels and over 200 short stories and articles. His novels and short fiction have been translated into almost every language and adapted for almost every medium. He is a past president of both Mystery Writers of America and Private Eye Writers of America. Among his awards are the MWA Edgar, the PWA Shamus, The Trophee 813 Award for best mystery short story collection translated into the French language, the PWA Life Achievement Award, and the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Golden Derringer Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the author of two private eye series, the Nudger series, set in St. Louis, Missouri, and the Carver series, set in Florida, as well as many non-series novels. His SWF SEEKS SAME was made into the hit movie SINGLE WHITE FEMALE, starring Bridget Fonda and Jennifer Jason Leigh, and his novel THE EX was made into the HBO original movie of the same title, for which he co-authored the screenplay.