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Author: DK Publishing, Inc
Publisher: DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Published: 2010-10-18
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780756660956
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis cookbook helps you create an island lifestyle with recipes from the Tommy Bahama restaurants and caf́́é́s, and rum cocktails, to give you a taste of the tropics, no matter what your locale.
Author: Rick Rodgers
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 9781452142005
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rick Rodgers
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 223
ISBN-13: 9781452155371
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Gary Kinder
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2009-10-20
Total Pages: 526
ISBN-13: 155584796X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Titanic meets Tom Clancy technology” in this national-bestselling account of the SS Central America’s wreckage and discovery (People). September 1875. With nearly six hundred passengers returning from the California Gold Rush, the side-wheel steamer SS Central America encountered a violent storm and sank two hundred miles off the Carolina coast. More than four hundred lives and twenty-one tons of gold were lost. It was a tragedy lost in legend for more than a century—until a brilliant young engineer named Tommy Thompson set out to find the wreck. Driven by scientific curiosity and resentful of the term “treasure hunt,” Thompson searched the deep-ocean floor using historical accounts, cutting-edge sonar technology, and an underwater robot of his own design. Navigating greedy investors, impatient crewmembers, and a competing salvage team, Thompson finally located the wreck in 1989 and sailed into Norfolk with her recovered treasure: gold coins, bars, nuggets, and dust, plus steamer trunks filled with period clothes, newspapers, books, and journals. A great American adventure story, Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue Sea is also a fascinating account of the science, technology, and engineering that opened Earth’s final frontier, providing “white-knuckle reading, as exciting as anything . . . in The Perfect Storm” (Los Angeles Times Book Review). “A complex, bittersweet history of two centuries of American entrepreneurship, linked by the mad quest for gold.” —Entertainment Weekly “A ripping true tale of danger and discovery at sea.” —The Washington Post “What a yarn! . . . If you sign on for the cruise, go in knowing that you’re going to miss meals and a lot of sleep.” —Newsweek
Author: J. Michael Blue
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2002-04-08
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0595221335
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the Shamus Award nominated short story Setting Up The Kill Micki Garrity has a wonderful life. She lives in a condo on the Gulf of Mexico, has friends and family who love her, makes enough money to keep her independent, and she works at a job she does well. Her cousin, Tim Carniston, Zodiac to his street pals, has a basket of trouble, and he's dumped it all at Micki's front door. If she walks away from him, one of the mobsters he's doublecrossed will certainly carve out his heart, but if she steps into the fray she may lose everything, including her PI license and even her life. “Fast and funny is what A Favor For Zodiac is all about.” —Kerry Schooley, Murder Out There “(Blue’s) Micki Garrity turns out to have quite a sharp eye for the telling detail, and an even sharper wit when it comes to telling us about it. This is a great read…more please.” —Kevin Burton Smith, Thrilling Detective “Top notch and stylish.” —Anthony Neil Smith, Plots with Guns Magazine
Author: Peter Leonard
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2011-01-06
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0571271812
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRome: McCabe and Chip, two American exchange students, are about to become embroiled with a violent street gang, a beautiful Italian girl and a flawed kidnapping plan. Detroit: Sharon Vanelli's affair with Joey Palermo, a Mafia enforcer, is about to be discovered by her husband, Ray, a secret service agent. Brilliantly plotted and shot through with wry humour, All He Saw Was the Girl takes place as these two narratives converge in the backstreets of Italy's oldest city. A thrilling ride, it once again displays Peter Leonard's genius for exploring the wrong turns that life can take. Peter Leonard's growing fan base includes greats such as Carl Hiaasen ('great storytelling') and Michael Connelly ('clever plotting and blood and guts characters'), and publications as diverse as Uncut ('sensational'), the Daily Mirror ('stunning') and the Big Issue ('brilliantly snappy').
Author: Sam Pickering
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2016-10-15
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1680030965
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne Grand, Sweet Song is a collection of familiar essays in which Sam Pickering explores libraries and woods and fields. He wanders over hills and far away—to Caribbean and Canada—but he always returns to the local, to Connecticut and his memories of a Southern childhood. He ponders writing and aging, joy and lunacy. He celebrates family and Christmas. He laughs and tells terrible lies, and jokes. He runs half-marathons, and on a farm in Nova Scotia, he tries to write his Walden. “O World, I cannot hold thee close enough!” Edna St. Vincent Millay once exclaimed. In these pages Pickering embraces his world with great love, wrapping it in words and pulling it and the reader unforgettably close. Pickering has written 28 books and 100s of articles. The subject matter of the books ranges. Three are scholarly studies, two of which focus on 18th century children’s literature. Four are travel books, three of these describing his family’s meanderings in Australia. One book mulls teaching, and another is a memoir. The rest of Pickering’s books are collections of familiar essays, providing his take or perhaps “untake” on things. “Reading Pickering,” a reviewer wrote in the Smithsonian, “is like taking a walk with your oldest, wittiest friend.”
Author: Jen Calonita
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Published: 2009-03-01
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 0316040754
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the last season of Family Affair comes to a close, prime-time teen star Kaitlin Burke is no closer to deciding what she wants to do after the show ends. Struggling with career choices and bummed over a ridiculous catfight with her BFF, Liz, Kaitlin is so mixed up she even starts to semi-bond with her archnemesis, Sky. Worst of all, she falls in with two of Hollywood's biggest party fiends when one of them asks her, "Don't you ever do what you want to do?" Shopping sprees and the Tinseltown nightlife seem fun at first, but soon Kaitlin realizes that being a paparazzi princess just might be her downfall. You won't want to miss the fourth book in Jen Calonita's beloved six-book Secrets of My Hollywood Life series.
Author: Wes Moore
Publisher: One World
Published: 2011-01-11
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0385528205
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the governor-elect of Maryland, the “compassionate” (People), “startling” (Baltimore Sun), “moving” (Chicago Tribune) true story of two kids with the same name from the city: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison. Selected by Stephen Curry as his “Underrated” Book Club Pick with Literati The chilling truth is that his story could have been mine. The tragedy is that my story could have been his. In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting him: Who are you? How did this happen? That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his own: Both had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies. Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.
