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Author | : Angus Peter Campbell |
Publisher | : Otago |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Island people |
ISBN | : 9780955228308 |
Invisible Islands is twenty-one beautifully crafted fictions, each illuminating a specific island in the mythic Invisible Islands archipelago. Originally inspired by the genius of Calvino and Borges, these islands are memorable, imaginative and emblematic. The real mixes with the surreal, as you travel from beneath the sea from Armaigh to the Brandenburg Gate and on to the Forbidden City, and from the remote holy island of St Eoinean's to the high ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. Steeped in real and mythic history and tradition, the Islands are utterly contemporary and international. These elegantly written fables, both humorous and humane, remind you that life is fabulous in the true sense of the word.
Author | : Colleen Oakley |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2021-05-25 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1984806483 |
“This is the hopeful book we all need right now. I loved it!”—Emily Giffin, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Lies That Bind As Seen on the TODAY SHOW A Southern Living Best Beach Read * A PopSugar Best Book of May * An Us Weekly Summer Beach Staple * A Frolic Under-the-Radar Book of May * An OK Magazine Best Summer Beach Read * An EW.com Best Book of Spring * A Country Living Can't Miss Beach Read * A LibraryReads Pick for May * An Emily Giffin Book Club pick Sometimes all you need is one person to really see you. Piper Parrish's life on Frick Island—a tiny, remote town smack in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay—is nearly perfect. Well, aside from one pesky detail: Her darling husband, Tom, is dead. When Tom's crab boat capsized and his body wasn't recovered, Piper, rocked to the core, did a most peculiar thing: carried on as if her husband was not only still alive, but right there beside her, cooking him breakfast, walking him to the docks each morning, meeting him for their standard Friday night dinner date at the One-Eyed Crab. And what were the townspeople to do but go along with their beloved widowed Piper? Anders Caldwell’s career is not going well. A young ambitious journalist, he’d rather hoped he’d be a national award-winning podcaster by now, rather than writing fluff pieces for a small town newspaper. But when he gets an assignment to travel to the remote Frick Island and cover their boring annual Cake Walk fundraiser, he stumbles upon a much more fascinating tale: an entire town pretending to see and interact with a man who does not actually exist. Determined it’s the career-making story he’s been needing for his podcast, Anders returns to the island to begin covert research and spend more time with the enigmatic Piper—but he has no idea out of all the lives he’s about to upend, it’s his that will change the most. USA Today bestselling author Colleen Oakley delivers an unforgettable love story about an eccentric community, a grieving widow, and an outsider who slowly learns that sometimes faith is more important than the facts.
Author | : Irwin Stark |
Publisher | : New York : Viking Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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Author | : Ron Roy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Counterfeits and counterfeiting |
ISBN | : 9780439326827 |
While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.
Author | : Ron Roy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1948 |
Genre | : Counterfeits and counterfeiting |
ISBN | : |
While picnicking on Squaw Island, Dink, Josh, and Ruth Rose find a hundred dollar bill, and when they return to explore further they find an entire cave full of money.
Author | : Malia Maunakea |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2024-06-04 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0593522060 |
An exciting follow-up to Lei and the Fire Goddess features a mysterious, invisible island, dangerous spirits, and a newcomer who does not need Lei's help...or does she? It turns out that curses are real. After saving her best friend and ancestral guardian, Kaipo, from Pele the fire goddess’s traps and successfully preventing lava from destroying her tūtū’s house, all Lei wants to do is take a nap. The only problem? Kaipo’s ʻaumakua pendant is missing, and without it, he will soon rot . . . emotionally and physically. So Lei, Kaipo, the shapeshifting bat Ilikea, and newcomer Kaukahi—a fiercely independent fashionista—set off on a journey to an invisible island where they hope to find Kaipo’s pendant. To get there, they’ll have to jump off the edge of their world, contend with sharks, and cross an ocean. And when they arrive? The crew realizes that the missing pendant is the least of their problems. For there are evil spirits gathering, and they’re out for blood. In this exciting follow-up to Lei and the Fire Goddess, Malia Maunakea crafts a tale about friendship, family, culture, and what it means to forgive each other and yourself.
Author | : Randle C. DeFalco |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2022-03-17 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 1108487416 |
This book assesses the role aesthetic factors play in shaping what forms of mass violence are viewed as international crimes.
Author | : Alastair Bonnett |
Publisher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 054410157X |
Alastair Bonnett explores extraordinary, off-grid, offbeat places including micro-nations, moving villages, secret cities, and no man's lands. Consider Sealand, an abandoned gun platform off the English coast that a British citizen claimed as his own sovereign nation, issuing passports and making his wife a princess. Or Baarle, a patchwork city of Dutch and Flemish enclaves where crossing the street can involve traversing national borders. Or Sandy Island, which appeared on maps well into 2012 despite the fact it never existed.
Author | : Judith Schalansky |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2014-11-12 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0143126679 |
A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote Islands The Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal account of the islands that have held a place in her heart throughout her lifelong love of cartography, has captured the imaginations of readers everywhere. Using historic events and scientific reports as a springboard, she creates a story around each island: fantastical, inscrutable stories, mixtures of fact and imagination that produce worlds for the reader to explore. Gorgeously illustrated and with new, vibrant colors for the Pocket edition, the atlas shows all fifty islands on the same scale, in order of the oceans they are found. Schalansky lures us to fifty remote destinations—from Tristan da Cunha to Clipperton Atoll, from Christmas Island to Easter Island—and proves that the most adventurous journeys still take place in the mind, with one finger pointing at a map.
Author | : Michael T. Gracey |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2010-12-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781453801246 |
Jimmy is a nine-year-old boy who has adventures on an old farm in east Texas with his dog named Lady. He and his cousins find invisible islands, battle pirates, and find their own fun by using imagination. This is a cute story that expresses children's love of the outdoors and summer. There are wonderful themes of imagination and adventure (says Joanne S., Editor).