End Of The Pier

Author : James C. Lee
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781785891984

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The End of the Pier by James C. Lee Pdf

Martin Collier is a stagehand on “Seaside Spectacular” where he falls for an unattainable dancer and where he suspects that Gerry Neon, the star of the show, may be his father. Only his mother knows for sure… Set in the summer of 1985 in the northern coastal town of Grumby, The End of the Pier explores the Great British seaside resort and the much-loved Variety show. There is sea air and sand castles, comedians and jugglers; but this is no postcard from the good old days as sex and violence are never far away. …and when Martin learns something about his mother - a secret, a lie - he is compelled to search into her dark past and to confront his own painful history. “Striking, compelling… A sharply observed evocation of a dying world. The writing is superb, the characters unforgettable and the ending incredibly moving. One of the best debuts I've read. Highly recommended.” Stav Sherez, Author of A Dark Redemption “Lifts the curtain on the dark reality of summer season shows. Characters recognisable but stripped of cheap sentiment. A great read.” Tony Peers, veteran comedian, actor and producer “Fantastic! Gripping. Nostalgic. Brought back memories. I was there!” Kevin McFarlane, Technical Stage Manager, Lyceum Theatre, Crewe

Author : Martha Grimes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476733005

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The End of the Pier by Martha Grimes Pdf

The setting: a small, sleepy American town where secrets are almost impossible to keep. The center of town life: the Rainbow Cafe where Maud Chadwick works as a waitress, hiding behind a quiet manner the intensity and confusion of emotions she feels as her twenty-year-old son takes his final steps out of her life and into his own. Maud’s only confidant: Sam DeGheyn, the town sheriff, who, trapped in a loveless, childless marriage, turns his attentions to Maud, and to the murders of three local women, which have occurred in the past five years. Sam’s suspicion: that the wrong man may have been convicted of the crimes and the right man may soon kill again.

Author : DANNY. ROBINS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1910067679

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END OF THE PIER. by DANNY. ROBINS Pdf

Author : George Orwell
Publisher : Modernista
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789180948654

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The Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell Pdf

George Orwell provides a vivid and unflinching portrayal of working-class life in Northern England during the 1930s. Through his own experiences and meticulous investigative reporting, Orwell exposes the harsh living conditions, poverty, and social injustices faced by coal miners and other industrial workers in the region. He documents their struggles with unemployment, poor housing, and inadequate healthcare, as well as the pervasive sense of hopelessness and despair that permeates their lives. In the second half of the The Road to Wigan Pier Orwell delves into the complexities of political ideology, as he grapples with the shortcomings of both socialism and capitalism in addressing the needs of the working class. GEORGE ORWELL was born in India in 1903 and passed away in London in 1950. As a journalist, critic, and author, he was a sharp commentator on his era and its political conditions and consequences.

Author : Philip Norman
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781447203445

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Babycham Night by Philip Norman Pdf

Philip Norman's family considered themselves genteel yet somehow became involved in the opportunistic world of seaside trade on the Isle of Wight. With masterly skill, Norman recreates his upbringing among this gallery of social misfits - his handsome but unstable father Clive, once a dashing RAF officer, now a reluctant showman at the end of Ryde Pier, his pub-owning Uncle Phil, who dresses as a woman every New Year's Eve, and his irresistible Grandma Norman who presides over her rock kiosk and rules the troubled family like a Mafia don. The year is 1953. While Britain celebrates the coronation, ten-year-old Philip watches disaster approach in his father's obsession with Joan, the Bronze Medal roller skating champion. Finally, he concocts a stratagem to win his parents' attention which explodes spectacularly in his face . . . Funny and poignant, Babycham Night evokes the joys and heartache of childhood, and takes the reader on a nostalgic trip back to a lost era, when the Isle of Wight was an exotic holiday location and Babycham the height of sophistication. 'Spellbinding memoir of a Fifties childhood by one of Britain's most stylish writers' Daily Mail 'Beautifully written . . . so vivid you can taste the teacakes' Time Out 'So richly vivid are his general recollections that practically every passing reference draws us deeper into a childhood world' Financial Times

Author : Paul Erickson
Publisher : Tilbury House Nature Book
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0884489183

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The Pier at the End of the World (Tilbury House Nature Book) by Paul Erickson Pdf

*THE PIER AT THE END OF THE WORLD is on the CBC NSTA 2016 Outstanding Science List* With lyrical writing and stunning underwater photography, this picture book follows a day in the life of the denizens lurking in the cold, tide-swept waters beneath a remote pier on the shore of a northern sea.

Author : Danielle Lincoln Hanna
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1737608928

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Mailboat I by Danielle Lincoln Hanna Pdf

A teen without a family. A town with a dark history. A body in the lake. Abandoned by her own parents, forgotten by the foster care system, Bailey's learned to weather every storm-except the one that rages inside. Is a family of her own too much to ask for? Her only anchor is Tommy, captain of the famous Lake Geneva Mailboat for the past fifty years, as reliable as the mail itself. Delivering letters by boat in the Wisconsin resort town, Bailey's learned that the occasional splash into the lake as she jumps to the piers is just part of her job. But discovering a dead body tied to a pier post is far from routine... Bailey's fears only grow when the police investigation spills over into her abusive foster home-threatening to take her away from Lake Geneva entirely. When it comes to the surface that Tommy has close ties to the chief suspect, his wounds from the past threaten to close him off from Bailey completely, snuffing out her last beacon of hope. Will the mystery of the body in the lake be solved before a killer destroys Bailey's last chance at finding a family? Or will a madman's sinister plot leave her marooned forever? The End of the Pier is the first book in the thrilling Mailboat Suspense Series. If you like twists that leave you breathless, complex characters you can't help but love, and a real-life setting that comes to life on the page, then you'll love Danielle Lincoln Hanna's enthralling tale! Buy The End of the Pier to dive into the suspense today!

Author : Laura Barton
Publisher : Unbound Publishing
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-23
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781783527717

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West of West by Laura Barton Pdf

Swim out into the Pacific and look back to the shore. To the couple kissing in the hot afternoon, and the young girl rollerskating along the front, and the family setting up camp on the soft, warm sand. To the blues and yellows and pinks of fierce, determined revelry. Santa Monica, where the wooden pier juts out into the Pacific Ocean, marks the end of Route 66. The great American journey west culminates here, and it is on this short stretch of coast that Sarah Lee began shooting her photographic series in 2015. In West of West Sarah Lee and Laura Barton explore the idea of the West in shaping American identity, with its idealism and notions of the frontier, and what the American West means in an age of political turbulence, when the East is the rising global force and the frontier is shifting once more.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1160 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Pilot guides
ISBN : OSU:32435062858238

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Great Lakes Pilot by Anonim Pdf

Author : Barry Hannah
Publisher : Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780802196200

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Long, Last, Happy by Barry Hannah Pdf

A definitive, career-spanning, best-of tribute to a master of the modern American short story, featuring work from his final unpublished collection. A fitting summation of one of America’s greatest short story masters, this towering tribute features stories from Airships, Captain Maximus, Bats Out of Hell, High Lonesome, and Barry Hannah’s final unfinished collection, Long, Last, Happy. The astonishingly varied stories in this collection span nearly five decades of unremitting brilliance. Praised for writing “the most consistently interesting sentences of any writer in America” (Sven Birkerts), Hannah’s ferocious, glittering prose and sui generis worldview introduced readers to a literary New South—a fictional landscape that encompasses “women, God, lust, race, nature, gay Confederates, good old boys, bad old boys, guns, animals, fishing, fighting, cars, pestilence, surrealism, gritty realism, the future, and the past . . . tossed together in glorious juxtapositions” (Vanity Fair). Long, Last, Happy confirms Barry Hannah as one of our most brilliant voices. “Hannah is the Jimi Hendrix of American short fiction; an electrifying Mark Twain—a wailing genius of literary twang, reverb, feedback, and general sonic unholiness that results in grace notes so piercing you heart melts like an overloaded amp.” —Interview

Author : Paul Tomkins
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784621049

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The Girl on the Pier by Paul Tomkins Pdf

Abandoned time and again by those he holds dear, Patrick Clement is forging a reputation as a forensic sculptor, helping to identify the unclaimed missing. But he can’t leave behind a remarkable summer night in 1993, spent alone on Brighton’s derelict West Pier with Black, a beautiful photography student. Patrick is haunted by the fact that no sooner did he get to know her than she disappeared from his life... Who is this girl? And where is Black, the one who got away? Decades on, while at work, Patrick is tasked with reconstructing the skull of an unidentified girl found on the pier in the 1970s – the pier he still thinks about. A crime he recalls from childhood, when his family life was in turmoil, Patrick works to discover the truth behind what has happened. Set in Brighton, The Girl on the Pier spans several decades, from the seventies to the present day. Inspired by literary novelists such as Ian McEwan, Anne Tyler and John Updike, Paul uses vivid images to make the reader feel as though they are right there in the story. The Girl on the Pier will appeal to lovers of psychological thrillers and suspense novels.

Author : U.S. Lake Survey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1326 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Great Lakes (North America)
ISBN : OSU:32435062858030

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Bulletin by U.S. Lake Survey Pdf

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250265555

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Last Dance on the Starlight Pier by Sarah Bird Pdf

Set during the Great Depression, Sarah Bird's Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a novel about one woman—and a nation—struggling to be reborn from the ashes. July 3. 1932. Shivering and in shock, Evie Grace Devlin watches the Starlite Palace burn into the sea and wonders how she became a person who would cause a man to kill himself. She’d come to Galveston to escape a dark past in vaudeville and become a good person, a nurse. When that dream is cruelly thwarted, Evie is swept into the alien world of dance marathons. All that she has been denied—a family, a purpose, even love—waits for her there in the place she dreads most: the spotlight. Last Dance on the Starlight Pier is a sweeping novel that brings to spectacular life the enthralling worlds of both dance marathons and the family-run empire of vice that was Galveston in the Thirties. Unforgettable characters tell a story that is still deeply resonant today as America learns what Evie learns, that there truly isn’t anything this country can’t do when we do it together. That indomitable spirit powers a story that is a testament to the deep well of resilience in us all that allows us to not only survive the hardest of hard times, but to find joy, friends, and even family, in them.

Author : Lesley Choyce
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459745254

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Broken Man on a Halifax Pier by Lesley Choyce Pdf

Broken Man on a Halifax Pier is a tale of one man’s shipwrecked life and an unlikely crew of rescuers hoping to save not only him but also themselves.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 766 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Beach erosion
ISBN : UCSD:31822008700247

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The Bulletin of the Beach Erosion Board by Anonim Pdf