The reward for these travails is getting to see the “almost unknown” and unimaginably quiet California coast. is best known as the author of the American classic memoir Two Years Before the Mast, a book that was highly influential in improving the living and working conditions of seamen. When the skins are caught among the trees, Dana is lowered down the face of the bluff to retrieve them. raised high into the air and then plunged below again.” Dana’s voyage includes months of toil collecting and curing cowhides at one stop, the hides must be tossed from a ridge down a 400-foot bluff from the ranch above to the waiting ship below. Boyd Smith (Illustrator) 591 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 0.39 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 17.77 19 Used from 5.49 12 New from 17.77 2 Collectible from 17. “We hardly knew whether we were on or off when the boom lifting us up. Two Years Before The Mast Library Binding Januby Jr. “The vessel, diving into two huge seas, one after the other, plunged us twice into the water up to our chins,” he writes. In “Two Years Before the Mast,” he records the harrowing details of life at sea as the crew outruns pirates, loses a sailor overboard (“like losing a limb”) and faces treacherous storms. leaves Harvard in 1834 and enlists as a seaman on a brig sailing from Boston to California by way of Cape Horn. To improve his failing eyesight, Richard Henry Dana Jr. Photo: TONY KARUMBA/AFP/Getty Images Two Years Before the Mastġ. A pair of white rhinoceros graze with the peak of Mount Kenya in the background.
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They’ve each lost something important-a wife, a lover, a sister, a direction in life-and what they will find in Palimpsest is more than they could ever imagine.ĭid I, a brand-spankin'-new gynecologist, just read a book about a sexually transmitted city? Yeah, I guess so much for that whole 'don't bring your work home' thing. To this kingdom of ghost trains, lion-priests, living kanji, and cream-filled canals come four Oleg, a New York locksmith the beekeeper November Ludovico, a binder of rare books and a young Japanese woman named Sei. Those fated to make the passage are marked forever by a map of that wondrous city tattooed on their flesh after a single orgasmic night. To get there is a miracle, a mystery, a gift, and a curse-a voyage permitted only to those who’ve always believed there’s another world than the one that meets the eye. Now she weaves a lyrically erotic spell of a place where the grotesque and the beautiful reside and the passport to our most secret fantasies begins with a stranger’s kiss.…īetween life and death, dreaming and waking, at the train stop beyond the end of the world is the city of Palimpsest. In the Cities of Coin and Spice and In the Night Garden introduced readers to the unique and intoxicating imagination of Catherynne M. Against them he sent his most formidable servant, Glaurung, a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire. Their brief and passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Húrin, the man who had dared to defy and to scorn him to his face. In that remote time Morgoth, the first Dark Lord, dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband, the Hells of Iron, in the North and the tragedy of Túrin and his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband and the war waged by Morgoth against the lands and secret cities of the Elves. There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings, and the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West: lands where Treebeard once walked, but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World. Painstakingly restored from Tolkien’s manuscripts and presented for the first time as a fully continuous and standalone story, the epic tale of The Children of Húrin will reunite fans of The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings with Elves and Men, dragons and Dwarves, eagles and Orcs, and the rich landscape and characters unique to Tolkien. 5/13/2023 0 Comments Sarah maclean daring and the dukeIf you like books where hero's hearts are yanked from their chests.this one is for you. * Ewan, aka the Duke of Marwick, returned to London to find girl he chased away twenty-years ago.and ready to do anything to win her back. * Grace, aka Dahlia, former bareknuckle fighter, superior businesswoman and the proprietor of a women's pleasure club-and definitely the smartest of the Bareknuckle Bastards. I hope you love their love story as much as I do, complete with angst, drama, dirty fighting, an endless grovel.and Whit and Devil grumbling about it the whole time.Īn incomplete list of stuff you'll find in this book: Here we go! Grace and Ewan finally get their happily ever after in Daring & the Duke - and hoo-boy do they go through the wringer for it. I usually get something up about the book earlier than two months beforehand here on Goodreads, but it's 2020, so I'm taking everything as a win these days! 5/13/2023 0 Comments Washington book by ron chernowWith a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume biography of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. I can't recommend it highly enough-as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment." -Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography" -Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal "Until recently, I'd never believed that there could be such a thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington. Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography "Truly magnificent. About the Book From National Book Award-winner Chernow comes a landmark biography of George Washington-a richly nuanced portrait of the father of the nation featuring a breadth and depth unmatched by any other narrative.įrom the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The inheritance games series orderHis brother, Jameson, views her as their grandfather’s last hurrah: a twisted riddle, a puzzle to be solved. Heir apparent Grayson Hawthorne is convinced that Avery must be a con-woman, and he’s determined to take her down. This includes the four Hawthorne grandsons: dangerous, magnetic, brilliant boys who grew up with every expectation that one day, they would inherit billions. Unfortunately for Avery, Hawthorne House is also occupied by the family that Tobias Hawthorne just dispossessed. To receive her inheritance, Avery must move into sprawling, secret passage-filled Hawthorne House, where every room bears the old man’s touch–and his love of puzzles, riddles, and codes. The catch? Avery has no idea why–or even who Tobias Hawthorne is. But her fortunes change in an instant when billionaire Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery virtually his entire fortune. Avery Grambs has a plan for a better future: survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. 5/13/2023 0 Comments One life megan rapinoeI am also intrigued by the scientific knowledge promised in Jacqueline Mroz's Girl Talk: What Science Can Tell Us about Female Friendship, which Shelf's reviewer said "takes the bonds between women seriously." First to mind was Girl Squads: 20 Female Friendships that Changed History by Sam Maggs, illustrated by Jenn Woodall (Quirk, $16.99), which is exactly what it sounds like: a collection of 20 history-shaping friendships spanning from 400 BCE to present day. Intrigued by Schaefer's exploration of the many (many) ways contemporary culture highlights the more negative aspects of female friendships (catfights, backstabbing, gossip and more), I set off in search of more examples like the positive ones she shares. She draws on her own experience, as well as examples of how these kinds of friendships are portrayed in the media, to shape a slim but powerful tribute to the potential of female friendship to be a defining (if not the defining) relationship in one's life. In Text Me When You Get Home: The Evolution and Triumph of Modern Female Friendship (Dutton, $17), journalist Kayleen Schaefer explores the role of female friendship in contemporary life. Sawyer and Lana may have different motives, but their scintillating hookups are the same kind of steamy. What starts as a carefree fling becomes a lusty game of seduction. Sawyer doesn't know if Lana can heal his broken heart, but spending time with her might at least make Ashton jealous. Ashton's cousin has always been sweet and soft-spoken, but now she's drop-dead gorgeous as well. He's lost his best girl to his best friend. If only he'd get over Ashton-because Lana is sick of second-best. Lana has a chance to make Sawyer see her, and she's taking it. And she's always had Sawyer Vincent-the only boy Lana's ever wanted-wrapped around her finger. Ashton always made perfect grades, had tons of friends, and looks model-perfect. Lana has lived her life in her cousin's shadow. Especially when he's been in love with your cousin for as long as you can remember. Getting a boy to fall head-over-heels in love with you isn't easy. Sawyer and Lana's romance just got steamier in this exclusive eAudio companion to the printed original that includes scandalous, heart-pounding scenes. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The adventures of kavalier & clayIn Joe Kavalier, Chabon has created a hero for the century. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a stunning novel of endless comic invention and unforgettable characters, written in the exhilarating prose that has led critics to compare Michael Chabon to Cheever and Nabokov. The golden age of comic books has begun, even as the shadow of Hitler falls across Europe. Inspired by their own fantasies, fears, and dreams, Kavalier and Clay create the Escapist, the Monitor, and the otherworldly Mistress of the Night, Luna Moth, inspired by the beautiful Rosa Saks, who will become linked by powerful ties to both men. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay Michael Chabon 4.18 197,510 ratings11,839 reviews Joe Kavalier, a young Jewish artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdini-esque escape, has just smuggled himself out of Nazi-invaded Prague and landed in New York City. Like Phillip Roths American Pastoral or Don DeLillos Underworld, Michael Chabons The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is a superb novel with epic sweep, spanning continents and eras, a masterwork by one of Americas finest writers. His cousin, Brooklyn's own Sammy Clay, is looking for a partner in creating the heroes, stories, and art for the latest novelty to hit the American dreamscape: the comic book. He's looking to make big money, fast, so that he can bring his family to freedom. Joe Kavalier, a young artist who has also been trained in the art of Houdiniesque escape, has just pulled off his greatest feat: smuggling himself out of Hitler's Prague. 5/13/2023 0 Comments The night olivia fellThis readers group guide for The Night Olivia Fell includes an introduction, discussion questions, ideas for enhancing your book club, and a Q&A with author Christina McDonald. With flashbacks of Olivia’s own resolve to uncover family secrets, this taut and poignant novel asks: how well do you know your children? And how well do they know you? Excerpt In this “complex, emotionally intense first novel” ( Publishers Weekly), USA TODAY bestselling author Christina McDonald weaves a suspenseful and heartwrenching tale of hidden relationships, devastating lies, and the power of a mother’s love. Was Olivia’s fall an accident? Or something far more sinister? Heartbroken and grieving, she unravels the threads of her daughter’s life. When the police unexpectedly rule Olivia’s fall an accident, Abi decides to find out what really happened that night. And then Abi sees the angry bruises circling Olivia’s wrists. Not only is Olivia brain dead, she’s pregnant and must remain on life support to keep her baby alive. In the small hours of the morning, Abi Knight is startled awake by the phone call no mother ever wants to get: her teenage daughter Olivia has fallen off a bridge. In the vein of Big Little Lies and Reconstructing Amelia comes a n “ atmospheric, absorbing page-turner” ( Heather Gudenkauf, New York Times bestselling author) about a mother unraveling the truth behind how her daughter became brain dead. |