One Small Boat

One Small Boat
Author: Kathy Harrison
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2006
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9781585424658

An intimate portrait of America's foster-care system is told through the experiences of a foster parent and an emotionally abandoned girl who, ensconced with the author's biological, adopted, and foster children, began to thrive in her new family environment. 20,000 first printing.

The Motion of the Ocean

The Motion of the Ocean
Author: Janna Cawrse Esarey
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 445
Release: 2009-07-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 141659681X

Choosing a mate is like picking house paint from one of those tiny color squares: You never know how it will look across a large expanse, or how it will change in different light. Meet Janna and Graeme. After a decade-long tango (together, apart, together, apart), they're back in love -- but the stress of nine-to-five is seriously hampering their happiness. So they quit their jobs, tie the knot, and untie the lines on a beat-up old sailboat for a most unusual honeymoon: a two-year voyage across the Pacific. But passage from first date to first mate is anything but smooth sailing. From the rugged Pacific Northwest coast to the blue lagoons of Polynesia to bustling Asian ports, Janna and Graeme find themselves at the mercy of poachers, under the spell of crossdressers, and under the gun of a less-than-sober tattooist. And they encounter do-or-die moments that threaten their safety, their sanity, and their marriage. Join Janna and Graeme's 17,000-mile journey and their quest to resolve the uncertainties so many couples face: How do you know if you've really found the One? How do you balance duty to others while preserving space for yourself? And, when the waters get rough, do you jump ship, or do you learn to navigate the world...together?

A Small Boat at the Bottom of the Sea

A Small Boat at the Bottom of the Sea
Author: John Thomson
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Total Pages: 168
Release: 2005
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9781571316578

Twelve-year-old Donovan's summer with his aunt and uncle on Puget Sound becomes a test of his own convictions when he suspects his uncle's involvement in a local racist group.

Small Boat to Freedom

Small Boat to Freedom
Author: John Vigor
Publisher: Sheridan House, Inc.
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781574093032

John Vigor is a writer and a former South African sailing champion. In 1987, John and his family began their new life in America. He now lives in Washington state.

Little Bear's Little Boat

Little Bear's Little Boat
Author: Eve Bunting
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Total Pages: 37
Release: 2003-05-19
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 0547533284

Little Bear loves his little boat. He rows it around Huckleberry Lake, fishing and dreaming. But then Little Bear begins to grow and grow, until one day he doesn’t fit in his little boat anymore! All children who experience growing pains will appreciate Little Bear’s predicament. And they will smile with satisfaction as the solution to his problem unfolds in simple, lyrical words and charming pictures from two award-winning picture-book creators.

Building Small Boats

Building Small Boats
Author: Greg Rössel
Publisher: WoodenBoat Books
Total Pages: 300
Release: 1998
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780937822500

Greg Rossel grew up cruising the waters of New York Harbor and spending time in the boatyards on the south shore of Staten Island where economics (more than anything else) made wooden boats the craft of choice. He makes his home in Maine where he specializes in the construction and repair of small wooden boats, as well as writing for several publications. Greg has been an instructor at WoodenBoat School in Maine since the mid-1980's, teaching lofting, skiff building, and the "Fundamentals of Boatbuilding".

The Voyage of the Cormorant

The Voyage of the Cormorant
Author: Christian Beamish
Publisher: Patagonia
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2013-10-06
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1938340116

Christian Beamish, a former editor at The Surfer’s Journal, envisioned a low-tech, self-reliant exploration for surf along the coast of North America, using primarily clothes and instruments available to his ancestors, and the 18-foot boat he would build by hand in his garage. How the vision met reality – and how the two came to shape each other – places Voyage of the Cormorant in the great American tradition of tales of life at sea, and what it has to teach us.

First You Have to Row a Little Boat

First You Have to Row a Little Boat
Author: Richard Bode
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-05-21
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 9781455545520

Now with a brand new foreword from New York Times bestselling author Jeffrey Zaslow. FIRST YOU HAVE TO ROW A LITTLE BOAT first hit shelves in the mid 1990s and has been inspiring readers ever since. Written by a grown man looking back on his childhood, it reflects on what learning to sail taught him about life: making choices, adapting to change, and becoming his own person. The book is filled with the spiritual wisdom and thought-provoking discoveries that marked such books as Walden, The Prophet, and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. For nearly twenty years, it has enchanted and endeared sailors and non-sailors alike, but foremost, anyone who seeks large truths in small things. This refurbished edition will find a place in the hearts of a whole new generation of readers.

Three Years in a 12-Foot Boat

Three Years in a 12-Foot Boat
Author: Stephen G. Ladd
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2000
Genre: Adventure and adventures
ISBN: 9780966933734

For anyone who dreams of sailing away, here's an engrossing, gritty memoir of a 15,000-mile solo expedition in a tiny, hand-made boat. Bent on discovery, Ladd ranges from Montana to a harrowing sail along the pirate-ridden coast of Panama and Colombia, across the Andes, down a 600-mile river by night to avoid guerrillas, to the Antilles and the Caribbean. Robbed, capsized, arrested and befriended, he sails and rows through a tumult of uncharted adventures. The cast of characters: Dieter, mad ex-Nazi on a desert island; Hans, the smuggler who disappears at sea; castaways, prostitutes, and fortune seekers. Stow away with a poetic storyteller on a stormy, soulful voyage through nineteen countries, on the razor's edge between freedom and fear, loneliness and love.