Sea Change In Crimson

Author : Ray Pace
Publisher : Ray Pace
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Sea Change in Crimson by Ray Pace Pdf

Did Christopher Columbus carve his name into the skull of a Taino sex slave? Did someone find emeralds on an out of the way Florida Key? Or was that a scam to sell the run-down Sea Change Motel at an inflated price? “Look at it," Jimmy Cox says. "We work for a rich egomaniac with a whacked-out sense of the real world. Why are we surprised when a simple real estate deal turns into thirteen people dead and another ten in jail? We arrive for a fishing trip, and we end up at a shark attack.”

Author : Amanda Phillips
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520303591

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Sea Change by Amanda Phillips Pdf

Textiles were the second-most-traded commodity in all of world history, preceded only by grain. In the Ottoman Empire in particular, the sale and exchange of silks, cottons, and woolens generated an immense amount of revenue and touched every level of society, from rural women tending silkworms to pashas flaunting layers of watered camlet to merchants traveling to Mecca and beyond. Sea Change offers the first comprehensive history of the Ottoman textile sector, arguing that the trade's enduring success resulted from its openness to expertise and objects from far-flung locations. Amanda Phillips skillfully marries art history with social and economic history, integrating formal analysis of various textiles into wider discussions of how trade, technology, and migration impacted the production and consumption of textiles in the Mediterranean from around 1400 to 1800. Surveying a vast network of textile topographies that stretched from India to Italy and from Egypt to Iran, Sea Change illuminates often neglected aspects of material culture, showcasing the objects' ability to tell new kinds of stories.

Author : Flora Louisa Shaw
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Accidents
ISBN : WISC:89005373832

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A Sea Change by Flora Louisa Shaw Pdf

Author : Jeremy Page
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101445501

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Sea Change by Jeremy Page Pdf

A stunning follow-up from the author of Salt--"thrilling and memorable" (Richard Eder, Los Angeles Times). After experiencing a devastating tragedy, Guy sets out to sea in an old Dutch barge that has now become his home. Every night, he writes the imagined diary of the man he might have been-and the family he should have had. As he embarks upon the stormy waters of the North Sea-writing about a trip through the small towns and nightclubs of the rural American South-Guy's stories begin to unfold in unexpected ways. And when he meets a mother and daughter, he realizes that it might just be possible to begin his life again. Haunting and exquisitely crafted, Sea Change is a deeply affecting novel of love and family by an acclaimed young writer.

Author : Hanna Rochlitz
Publisher : Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Page : 597 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Music
ISBN : 9783863950453

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Sea-changes: Melville - Forster - Britten by Hanna Rochlitz Pdf

E. M. Forster first encountered Billy Budd in 1926. Some twenty years later, he embarked on a collaboration with Benjamin Britten and Eric Crozier, adapting Melville’s novella for the opera stage. The libretto they produced poignantly reaffirmsthe Forsterian creed of salvation through personal relationships.This study presents an extensive exploration of Forster’s involvement in the interpretation, transformation and re-creation of Melville’s text. It situates the story of the Handsome Sailor in the wider context of Forster’s literary oeuvre, his life, and his lifewritings. In detailed readings, Billy Budd becomes a lens through which the themes, patterns and leitmotifs of Forsterian thought and creative imagination are brought into focus. A close re-examination of the libretto sketches serves to shed new light on the collaborative process in which Melville’s story was changed to fit an archetypal array of plot and character types that is central to Forster’s own storytelling.

Author : Rumer Godden
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781529078510

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Coromandel Sea Change by Rumer Godden Pdf

From Rumer Godden, the acclaimed author of Black Narcissus returns again to her beloved India win Coromandel Sea Change, a novel brimming with heart, wit, unforgettable characters, and ‘a sense of timelessness reminiscent of E. M. Forster’ (The Times). Hotel owner Auntie Sanni has entertained all manner of guests during her many years as hostess at Patna Hall, a popular vacation spot on the lush Coromandel coast. Now, with an election coming, business is especially brisk, and her hotel is packed with Indian politicians, British diplomats, journalists, American tourists – even an elephant, and a woman of mystery or two. Among the vacationers are Mary and Blaise, a young English couple on their honeymoon. But where Mary is enchanted by the colours, sounds and vibrant Indian life, prim and priggish Blaise sees only squalor, sordidness and a Coromandel Sea teeming with sharks. Matters are only made worse when Mary becomes interested in local Indian politics – particularly the handsome, exquisitely spoken candidate Krishnan, whose kindness and wisdom are like a balm for her spirit . . .

Author : Marguerite Bell
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788726565096

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Sea Change by Marguerite Bell Pdf

It is the year 1803 and England and France are barely at peace. When captain Oliver Westland of the British Navy is left by the admiral’s daughter, he seeks consolation and proposes to the woman’s sister Letty instead. Yet soon after their wedding, Oliver soon sails away. When he sends for his bride six months later, she is taken captive by the French captain Armand d’Anviers and finds herself falling hard. She is now trapped between the love of two men in dangerous circumstances. Can she find happiness still? The gripping love story from the early 21st century is written by Marguerite Bell, a pseudonym of the prolific romance writer Ida Pollock. A must-read for fans of literary romance and surprising twists of fate. Marguerite Bell is a pseudonym of Ida Pollock (1908 – 2013), a highly successful British writer of over 125 romance novels translated into numerous languages and published across the world. Ida Pollock has sold millions of copies over her 90-year career. Pollock began writing when she was 10 years old. Ida has travelled widely, living in several different countries. She continues to be popular amongst both her devoted fan base and new readers alike. Pollock has been referred to as the "world's oldest novelist" who was still active at 105 and continued writing until her death. On the occasion of her 105th birthday, Pollock was appointed honorary vice-president of the Romantic Novelists' Association, having been one of its founding members. Ida Pollock wrote in a wide variety of pseudonyms: Joan M. Allen, Susan Barrie, Pamela Kent, Averil Ives, Anita Charles, Barbara Rowan, Jane Beaufort, Rose Burghley, Mary Whistler and Marguerite Bell.

Author : Aimee Friedman
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9780545231985

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Sea Change by Aimee Friedman Pdf

Bestselling author Aimee Friedman is back, with her signature combination of warmth and humor. And with this book, she adds a touch of fantasy. . . Lifetime Original Movie!New York Times bestselling author Aimee Friedman is back, with her signature combination of warmth and humor. And with this book, she adds a touch of fantasy. . .Sixteen-year-old Miranda Merchant is great at science. . .and not so great with boys. After major drama with her boyfriend and (now ex) best friend, she's happy to spend the summer on small, mysterious Selkie Island, helping her mother sort out her late grandmother's estate.There, Miranda finds new friends and an island with a mysterious, mystical history, presenting her with facts her logical, scientific mind can't make sense of. She also meets Leo, who challenges everything she thought she knew about boys, friendship. . .and reality.

Author : J. R. Salamanca
Publisher : Tantor eBooks
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-12-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781618030276

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A Sea Change by J. R. Salamanca Pdf

Engrossing human drama of a marriage on the rocks--an amplified soap, and "the richest and most ambitious work of a greatly gifted novelist."

Author : James Powlik
Publisher : Island Books
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2000-08-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440235088

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Sea Change by James Powlik Pdf

BENEATH THE CALM SURFACE A DEADLY TERROR AWAITS. In the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest, two fishermen are the first to feel the heat. Then a young girl, playing innocently by the seashore--before dying an agonizing death. Now the media have a story. Reporters, scientists, and government officials are descending on the coastline, searching for a killer in the water. Renegade oceanographer Brock Garner is at the center of the storm. He wants to know why he's finding dead zones in the Pacific...and why his best friend's heart stopped after he examined ravaged sea lions on a beach. Dr. Ellie Bridges, on duty when the little girl died, has questions of her own. Thrown together in the chaos, Brock and Ellie are about to uncover some disturbing truths: about a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions that is growing. Gathering strength. And moving--unless they can stop it--south toward a new victim. Seattle. SEA CHANGE "EXCITING...WILL KEEP READERS OUT OF THE WATER AND ON THE BEACH, READING THEIR EYES OUT."

Author : Muna Lee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : American poetry
ISBN : UCAL:B3335631

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Sea-change by Muna Lee Pdf

Author : Will Romano
Publisher : Backbeat Books
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781617133756

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Mountains Come Out of the Sky by Will Romano Pdf

(Book). From its artful beginnings (Syd Barrett-era Pink Floyd, the Mothers of Invention, and those progressive forebearers, the Sgt. Pepper-era Beatles), through the towering guitar solos, monumental synthesizer banks, and mind-boggling special effects of the Golden Age of Prog (Rush, Pink Floyd, Yes, ELP, Genesis, Jethro Tull, King Crimson, UK), through the radio-friendly "pop era" (Asia, the Phil Collins-led Genesis, and a reformed Yes), and right up to the present state of the art (Marillion, Spock's Beard, and Mars Volta), this is a wickedly incisive tour of rock music at its most spectacular. This is indeed the book prog rock fans have been waiting for, the only one of its kind, as fantastic as the subjects it covers.

Author : Alison McLeay
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000029427519

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Sea Change by Alison McLeay Pdf

The arrival of brooding Matthew Oliver frees Kate Summerbee from her father's ramshackle riverboat and takes her to rural England, where she becomes an unwilling pawn in a struggle between the rebellious Matthew and his father.

Author : Michael Arditti
Publisher : Arcadia Books
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015069131202

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A Sea Change by Michael Arditti Pdf

In May 1939, the SS St Louis left Hamburg for Havana carrying almost a thousand refugees from Hitler's Germany. On arrival in Cuba, they were forbidden entry and the captain was forced to turn back. Over the following weeks, the ship crisscrossed the ocean, buffeted alternately by hope and disappointment, as it vainly sought asylum in a friendly port and war drew inexorably closer. Based on actual events, Michael Arditti's enthralling novel is the memoir of one of the passengers, fifteen year- old Karl, heir to a department store fortune. He recounts both the horror and excitement of the trip, along with his personal voyage of discovery, as he learns the truth about his family, battles Nazi crew members and plans mutiny. Most momentously, he describes his first, passionate love affair with the beautiful Johanna. `A Sea Change' is a mesmerizing journey through history. A tale of dreams and betrayal, of courage and resilience, of romance and reconciliation, it unforgettably evokes an extraordinary summer in which a boy crosses the threshold from youth to maturity.

Author : Ralph E. West
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Short stories
ISBN : 0883341263

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Sea-change by Ralph E. West Pdf