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Steering the Craft: A Twenty-First-Century Guide to Sailing the Sea of Story
From the celebrated Ursula K. Le Guin, "a writer of enormous intelligence and wit, a master storyteller" (Boston Globe), the revised and updated edition of her classic guide to the …
Atlantic: Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories
"Variably genial, cautionary, lyrical, admonitory, terrifying, horrifying and inspiring...A lifetime of thought, travel, reading, imagination and memory inform this affecting …
The King, the Crook, and the Gambler: The True Story of the South Sea Bubble and the Greatest Financial Scandal in History
“Balen reminds us that the murky tale of the first bubble stands as a cautionary tale for our time.” --Lisa Jardine, London Times The greatest financial scandal in …
The Heart Is a Shifting Sea: Love and Marriage in Mumbai
Winner of the Silver Nautilus Award for Journalism & Investigative Reporting"Elizabeth Flock takes us on an intimate cruise on the shifting sea of the heart, in the best book set …
The Sea Lady
This is the story of Humphrey Clark and Ailsa Kelman, who spent a summer together as children in Ornemouth, a town by the gray North Sea. As they journey back to Ornemouth to …
Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II
"World War II produced so many compelling stories that even students of that momentous conflict are apt to discover we've missed whole vital episodes. Down to the Sea, about a …
The Story of Land and Sea
Set in a small coastal town in North Carolina during the waning years of the American Revolution, this incandescent debut novel follows three generations of family--fathers and …
Holding Back the Sea: The Struggle on the Gulf Coast to Save America
Katrina's arrival on the Gulf Coast was a long time in coming. But it was assured. Since 1965, when Hurricane Betsy struck New Orleans, breached a levee, and flooded part of the …
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea
New York Times BestsellerA gripping, definitive account of Sherman's legendary and destructive march through Georgia."Mr. Trudeau's narrative is peppered with trenchant …
Island Beneath the Sea
"Allende is a master storyteller at the peak of her powers."--Los Angeles TimesThe New York Times bestselling author of The House of the Spirits and A Long Petal of the Sea tells …
The Cure for Anything Is Salt Water: How I Threw My Life Overboard and Found Happiness at Sea
At forty, Mary South had a beautiful home, good friends, and a successful career in book publishing. But she couldn't help feeling that she was missing something intangible but …
The Last Run: A True Story of Rescue and Redemption on the Alaska Seas
It was a desperate mission that made front-page headlines and captured the attention of millions of readers around the world. In January 1998, in the dead of an Alaskan winter, a …