Mariners

Mariners
Author: Ernest J. Patterson
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2013-12
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1490711147

Meet the Mariners, class of 1972, the year of Pink Floyd, UCLA Basketball and running grunions. Before cell phones, video games and Facebook, these Mariners came of age beachcombing the shore and surfing the tide of Cortez, a small patch of sand located in Imperial Beach, the southwesterly-most city in the United States. It is 1992 and the class of 1972 is back to relive old memories and make new ones. Sabra and Marcus are back, unknowingly they are staying in adjoining rooms at the same beachside villa. Ronnie and Eva are here, but so is wife, Marla. She is from Florida and sinks in Pacific sand like a stone. Shana and Carl are back, but not together. Carl went for a swim one evening at Cortez and never came back. It wasn't until three days later that Shana and the other Mariners learned of his drowning. Like a modern day A Midsummer Night's Dream, Mariner's nature intrudes as the order that all of our individual dreams succumb. In the case of Cortez, the sea is personified by Ariel, an award winning sand mermaid. Like the sea, she brings answers. There's a song from the sea. If you listen closely, you can hear the words-better here than there hodads-back to the sea where all things began. As it turns out the Mariners of 1972 return to the natural order of their lives, realizing that Cortez, the tiny patch of sand where they came of age, goes with them. Viola: a shipwrecked girl (any age). Marcus: a good looking ex surf-bum in his late thirties or early fourties, but looks younger because of the way he carries himself. Brook: a displaced debutante in her early thirties. Sabra: a gorgeous & fit beach girl in her late thirties. Grey: an amicable Midwesterner who tries very hard to fit in (in his mid-40s). Ariel: the Mermaid Ron: Marcus' high school friend. He is not as cool as Marcus, but his boyish traits make him charming; in his late 3thirties, but looks younger. Marla: a displaced Easterner who is not conducive to the attitudes and morays of the west; in her early fourties but acts older. Carl: another friend of Marcus; he is the boy from the sea. He drowned when he was eighteen, so his age and looks have been preserved. Shana: ex cheerleader and very cute. She is in love with her memory of Carl. She is in her late thirties but looks much younger. Eva: a beach girl and friend to Shana. Eva is one of the first women to surf big waves with the boys. She is in her late thiritess but looks younger.

Mariner's Wake

Mariner's Wake
Author: Adan Marsh
Publisher: Brick Cave Books
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1938190742

Kara Nkosi is a Mariner—sworn to protect those of her blood and heart, sworn to protect the sea. Generations ago, her people escaped starvation and oppression on stolen boats, only to find themselves in the midst of increasingly violent storms, rising waters, and international scorn. They were up for the challenge. Now, at the dawn of the twenty-second century, Kara’s people are approached by their age-old adversary. When an ambassador from the United States begs the Mariners for help recovering a cache of unstable weapons of mass destruction, her people are naturally suspicious, but the threat of such weapons being unleashed in their waters is too great to ignore. Only, the Mariners aren’t the only ones racing to recover the cache, and Kara and her shipmates find themselves pitted against powerful corporate mercenaries and hardened criminals, all in the name of helping their sworn enemy. An enemy who may not be telling them the whole truth.

The Morgesons

The Morgesons
Author: Elizabeth Stoddard
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1862
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Mariners Weather Log

Mariners Weather Log
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 496
Release: 1967
Genre: Marine meteorology
ISBN:

November issue includes abridged index to yearly volume.

Perfect Gallows

Perfect Gallows
Author: Peter Dickinson
Publisher: Open Road Media
Total Pages: 235
Release: 2015-05-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1504005813

The twisted circumstances surrounding an unspeakable crime, an old man’s fortune, and a production of Shakespeare’s The Tempest come to light four decades on in this masterful tale of greed, deception, and murder by CWA Gold Dagger winner Peter Dickinson Behind his practiced facade of cheerful sophistication, the renowned actor Adrian Waring is a haunted man. The ghost that torments him is from an earlier era, when a world war raged and Adrian was still Andrew, the guest and possible heir of his rich uncle, Arnold Wragge. Wragge had returned from the diamond mines of South Africa with a fortune and a loyal servant named Samuel Mkele, and when his own son vanished, presumably in the smoke of combat, the old man looked to his poor relation as a potential replacement. Andrew’s true interests lay elsewhere, however, in applause and the attentions of eager young ladies, both of which he realized he could have by starring in his cousin’s amateur production of The Tempest. But young Andrew’s fledgling theatrics would prove merely to be the opening act of a horrific human tragedy, forcing him to keep a terrible truth locked inside himself—even four decades after a body was discovered hanging from a perfect dovecote gallows . . . A master practitioner of the literary art of mystery and murder, author Peter Dickinson stands tall alongside P. D. James, Ruth Rendell, Reginald Hill, and other luminaries of contemporary British crime fiction. A brilliant innovator unafraid to tamper with the rules of genre, he is at the very top of his game with this gripping, twisting, and altogether remarkable psychological thriller.

Punch

Punch
Author: Mark Lemon
Publisher:
Total Pages: 754
Release: 1891
Genre: Caricatures and cartoons
ISBN: