Tales from the Left Coast
Tales from the Left Coast

Author: James Hirsen

Publisher: Forum Books

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 346

ISBN-13: 0307421732

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When Barbra Streisand sends Dick Gephardt a personal fax, it makes headline news. When international relations expert Sean Penn leads his own "tour of peace" in Baghdad, every news desk across the country reports it. It's no secret that Hollywood has a leftward tilt when it comes to politics. But what the celebrity-fawning media fail to show is how Hollywood's liberal bias affects actors, movies, and even public policy. In Tales from the Left Coast, author and political commentator James Hirsen digs deep into the liberal underbelly of Hollywood to reveal how biased politics have corrupted the entire entertainment industry. Through extensive research and scores of interviews, Hirsen uncovers some of the most ridiculous, infuriating, and damning political stunts pulled by celebrities of yesterday and today, and he traces the tangled web of influence the Hollywood elite have over politicians in Washington, D.C.

Astonishing Tales of the Sea
Astonishing Tales of the Sea

Author: Peter Schranz

Publisher: CreateSpace

Published: 2012-10-02

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9781479325153

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In Peter Schranz's new collection, the Bridges family tries out a new diet, a documentarian discovers that drowning is an urban legend, and a regal sea monster can't tell the difference between a human and a chimpanzee. While the author apologizes that one of the stories' most significant body of water is a lake, he assures readers that the mighty oceans feature in all six tales.

Strange Tales from Virginia's Foothills to the Coast: The Richmond Vampire, the Witch of Pungo, the Dismal Swamp Monster & More
Strange Tales from Virginia's Foothills to the Coast: The Richmond Vampire, the Witch of Pungo, the Dismal Swamp Monster & More

Author: Denver Michaels

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2023-03-13

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 1467152714

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The Old Dominion is filled with the unexplained... With a history stretching back to the 1607 Jamestown settlement, Virginia is rich in mystery. There are ghost towns, fake towns, a vampire in Richmond, a Bunnyman in Clifton and secret government sites all over. Colonists buried gold along the James River and Sir Francis Bacon's plan for a "New Atlantis" lies in a vault in Williamsburg. Fabled pirates Captain Kidd and Blackbeard stashed treasure along the Virginia coast. A ghost light appears at a railroad crossing near West Point and mysterious booms rattle windows from central Virginia to the Eastern Shore. Cryptid creatures stalk the forests from Fairfax County to the Great Dismal Swamp. A devil monkey lurks in Goochland, Bigfoot roams Marine Corps Base Quantico, and a sea serpent swims through the Chesapeake Bay. Join Virginia native Denver Michaels as he explores these legends and many more.

Tales from the Seaside
Tales from the Seaside

Author: Borry Porter

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2013-11-26

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1493119087

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These tales from the author's life experiences are mostly light-hearted but they all true. They start with Nellie the dinghy who eventually became the long, red, sleek speedboat named The Phantom. Some of the tales also involve the caravan that the author's father bought when Borry was thirteen years old. The family spent almost every weekend from March to October at St. Lawrence Bay in the wilds and farmlands of Essex, by the River Blackwater with recurring battles against screaming winkles, the bog of eternal stench and the evil mud sucking monster. Fun and frolics ensued for over forty-eight years.

Tales from The Beach House
Tales from The Beach House

Author: James Aylott

Publisher: Beautiful Arch LLC

Published: 2019-06-14

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0578479567

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Tales from The Beach House is a satiric work of fiction that sharply captures the “Man-Bites-Dog” world of contemporary South Florida. The Beach House, a crumbling old motel, is home to a collection of eccentric residents. Amongst their ranks; are a tennis pro at the end of his game, a mortuary scientist whose love life has flat-lined, a paparazzo photographer searching for scoops, a bawdy duo fronting an improbable Ponzi enterprise, a beauty from “The Islands” with a dark secret, a fried-out TV weather man who claims to channel God, a middle school principal with a soft spot for Crack, a Rod Stewart cover artist searching for redemption, and a waitress serving a side order of erotic fiction. Each member of this cohort is in search of something – fast money, an easy hustle, fleeting romance, enduring love, fame, power, dignity, happiness… a place they can call home. As well as facing their own tender, tragic, and often hilarious personal circumstances, this eclectic gang is compelled by necessity to band together when a sinister developer threatens the very existence of The Beach House. Tales from The Beach House is carefully crafted in the spirit of Carl Hiaasen’s career-long deconstruction of South Florida. Each chapter focuses on one of The Beach House’s individual apartments. These standalone stories possess interwoven subplots reminiscent of Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, Paul Theroux’s Hotel Honolulu, and Thornton Wilder’s classic novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey. Tales from The Beach House is written in a fast-paced tabloid style, reflecting both the author’s transatlantic sensibilities and his two-decade career in the rough and tumble trenches of celebrity journalism.

Tales of the New England Coast
Tales of the New England Coast

Author: Frank Oppel

Publisher: Castle Books

Published: 2008-05-15

Total Pages: 488

ISBN-13: 9780890098738

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Come along on a fascinating journey back to Turn of the Century New England; to Martha’s Vineyard, Cape Cod, Old York, the Great Shell Mounds of Damariscotta, Newport, Old Saybrook, Cuttyhunk and dozens of other areas. Reproduced with illustrations from the actual turn-of-the-century New England magazines in which they first appeared, these articles by the well-known authors of that era bring the magic of the New England Coast to life as no modern-day author can achieve. Sail on into “living” history with Tales of the New England Coast.

Tales of the Malayan Coast
Tales of the Malayan Coast

Author: Rounsevelle Wildman

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2019-12-03

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13:

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Tales of the Malayan Coast is a well-written and vivid depiction of Consul General Rounsevelle Wildman's travels through the Malay peninsula. Contents: "Baboo's Good Tiger9 Baboo's Pirates28 How we Played Robinson Crusoe47 The Sarong66 The Kris74 The White Rajah of Borneo81 Amok!101 Lepas's Revenge130 King Solomon's Mines147 Busuk181 A Crocodile Hunt200 A New Year's Day in Malaya219 In the Burst of the Southwest Monsoon230 A Pig Hunt on Mount Ophir254 In the Court of Johore270 In the Golden Chersonese293 A Fight with Illanum Pirates."

THE SEA ADVENTURES - Boxed Set: 20+ Maritime Novels & Tales of Seas and Sailors
THE SEA ADVENTURES - Boxed Set: 20+ Maritime Novels & Tales of Seas and Sailors

Author: Jack London

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2017-04-03

Total Pages: 1596

ISBN-13: 8026875982

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This carefully crafted ebook: "THE SEA ADVENTURES – Boxed Set: 20+ Maritime Novels & Tales of Seas and Sailors (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: The Cruise of the Dazzler The Sea-Wolf Adventure A Son of the Sun The Mutiny of the Elsinore The Cruise of the Snark Tales of the Fish Patrol White and Yellow The King of the Greeks A Raid on the Oyster Pirates The Siege of the "Lancashire Queen" Charley's Coup Demetrios Contos Yellow Handkerchief South Sea Tales The House of Mapuhi The Whale Tooth Mauki "Yah! Yah! Yah!" The Heathen The Terrible Solomons The Inevitable White Man The Seed of McCoy Jack London (1876-1916) was an American novelist, journalist, and social activist. His amazing life experience also includes being an oyster pirate, railroad hobo, gold prospector, sailor, war correspondent and much more. He wrote adventure novels & sea tales, stories of the Gold Rush, tales of the South Pacific and the San Francisco Bay area - most of which were based on or inspired by his own life experiences.