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Author | : William Carpenter |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2009-06-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316076511 |
Lucky Lunt is an endangered species: a third generation lobsterman who works the same Maine waters as his father and grandfather in a boat called The Wooden Nickel. He can identify every car in town from the sound of its engine, but his world is changing faster then he can fathom. His wife has become an artist, selling sea-glass sculptures to tourists. His daughter is bound for college, while his son has turned angry and lawless. Lucky's own heart is failing him, too. An operation has kept it ticking, but he can't run the boat alone any more. As the spring lobster season opens, the only deckhand Lucky can find to help load his traps is Ronette, the not-quite-divorced wife of the local lobster wholesaler. When the two make it out to the fishing grounds, someone else's buoys are bobbing in his ancestral waters. Before he knows it, Lucky is in a lobster war and has abandoned all the rules: family, health, finance, even the rules of the sea that have guided him throughout his life. As waves of trouble turn into a flood tide, Lucky's pride propels him into an epic confrontation with his enemies and a rogue whale -- a battle his unreliable heart may not survive. The Wooden Nickel is a classic story of a man raging against a changing world, full of pathos and comedy. It is a remarkable novel by a writer with a powerful, distinct, and original voice.
Author | : William Carpenter |
Publisher | : Little, Brown |
Total Pages | : 281 |
Release | : 2009-06-27 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316076511 |
Lucky Lunt is an endangered species: a third generation lobsterman who works the same Maine waters as his father and grandfather in a boat called The Wooden Nickel. He can identify every car in town from the sound of its engine, but his world is changing faster then he can fathom. His wife has become an artist, selling sea-glass sculptures to tourists. His daughter is bound for college, while his son has turned angry and lawless. Lucky's own heart is failing him, too. An operation has kept it ticking, but he can't run the boat alone any more. As the spring lobster season opens, the only deckhand Lucky can find to help load his traps is Ronette, the not-quite-divorced wife of the local lobster wholesaler. When the two make it out to the fishing grounds, someone else's buoys are bobbing in his ancestral waters. Before he knows it, Lucky is in a lobster war and has abandoned all the rules: family, health, finance, even the rules of the sea that have guided him throughout his life. As waves of trouble turn into a flood tide, Lucky's pride propels him into an epic confrontation with his enemies and a rogue whale -- a battle his unreliable heart may not survive. The Wooden Nickel is a classic story of a man raging against a changing world, full of pathos and comedy. It is a remarkable novel by a writer with a powerful, distinct, and original voice.
Author | : William Carpenter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 1996-07-11 |
Genre | : AIDS (Disease) |
ISBN | : 9780349107349 |
Penelope Solstice, better known as Penguin, is exiled to Cape Cod after setting fire to the site of a gang rape at her college. Here, she defines her relationships with herself and those around her as she cares for a composer who is dying of AIDS and is desperate to complete his final work.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 346 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Domestic fiction |
ISBN | : 9780316162821 |
A third generation lobsterman with an unreliable heart, Lucky Lunt finds himself trying to adapt to change when he is forced to hire a deckhand, but a lobster war leads him to a heroic confrontation with his enemies and a dastardly whale.
Author | : Dave Morice |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Wooden money |
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Author | : Mindy Starns Clark |
Publisher | : Harvest House Publishers |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2011-04-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0736940642 |
From award-winning author Mindy Starns Clark comes the fast-paced and inspirational Million Dollar Mystery series. Attorney Callie Webber investigates nonprofit organizations for the J.O.S.H.U.A. Foundation and awards the best of them grants up to a million dollars. In each book of the series, A young widow, Callie finds strength in her faith in God and joy in her relationship with her employer, Tom. In book number two of The Million Dollar Mystery series, Callie is working to provide quality professional clothes to women who can’t afford to buy their own. She soon becomes involved with one young woman who is trying to come out of drug rehabilitation—just as she’s charged with murder. What appears to be a routine murder investigation in her hometown on the Chesapeake suddenly becomes complicated amid international intrigue, cutting-edge technology, and deadly deception. A string of heart-pounding events lands her disastrously in the hands of the killer, where Callie finds she has less than a moment for a whispered prayer. Will help arrive in time?
Author | : Mike Evett |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2005-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781411640160 |
Features an uprooted country boy and his family, who move to California, and begin a 20 year battle with the powers of fate and destiny.
Author | : Maggie Hoffman |
Publisher | : National Geographic Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018-03-06 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 0399580042 |
A collection of more than 80 wonderfully creative, fresh, and delicious cocktails that only require a bottle of your favorite spirit, plus fresh ingredients you can easily find at the market. In The One-Bottle Cocktail, Maggie Hoffman brings fancy drinking to the masses by making cocktails approachable enough for those with a tiny home bar. Conversational and authoritative, this book puts simple, delicious, and inventive drinks into your hands wherever you are, with ingredients you can easily source and no more than one spirit. Organized by spirit--vodka, gin, agave, rum, brandy, and whiskey--each chapter offers fresh, eye-opening cocktails like the Garden Gnome (vodka, green tomato, basil, and lime), Night of the Hunter (gin, figs, thyme, and grapefruit soda), and the Bluest Chai (rye whiskey, chai tea, and balsamic vinegar). These recipes won't break the bank, won't require an emergency run to the liquor store, and (best of all!) will delight cocktail lovers of all stripes.
Author | : Garrett Culver |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2007 |
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Author | : Barbara Ehrenreich |
Publisher | : Metropolitan Books |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2010-04-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1429926643 |
The New York Times bestselling work of undercover reportage from our sharpest and most original social critic, with a new foreword by Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that a job—any job—can be the ticket to a better life. But how does anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich left her home, took the cheapest lodgings she could find, and accepted whatever jobs she was offered. Moving from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, she worked as a waitress, a hotel maid, a cleaning woman, a nursing-home aide, and a Wal-Mart sales clerk. She lived in trailer parks and crumbling residential motels. Very quickly, she discovered that no job is truly "unskilled," that even the lowliest occupations require exhausting mental and muscular effort. She also learned that one job is not enough; you need at least two if you int to live indoors. Nickel and Dimed reveals low-rent America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity—a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate stratagems for survival. Read it for the smoldering clarity of Ehrenreich's perspective and for a rare view of how "prosperity" looks from the bottom. And now, in a new foreword, Matthew Desmond, author of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, explains why, twenty years on in America, Nickel and Dimed is more relevant than ever.