The Guest Book meets Everything I Never Told You in this gripping novel of a small town caught up in a shocking disappearance, and the lengths we will go to protect the ones we love. When beloved fisherman John Staybrook vanishes in the night, his loss stirs up more than grief. His daughter Ella is convinced he's still alive and vows to bring him home. But as she searches the small Massachusetts town, secrets throughout the community begin to bubble to the surface. As the pieces fall into place of what really happened, everyone from the babysitter to the local librarian are swept into a more urgent question: Why would someone go out in the middle of a deadly storm? Erica Boyce weaves a tense yet hopeful tale of family secrets whispering across the rocky shores and the unshakeable strength that love leaves behind.
He explores all these tales with a sense of higher purpose and universality, yet they are stories not about the fringe of society. They are about all of us.
Then he planned to collect his wages for the last several days. “I liked money,” said Alvarenga. “But no one could say I was a crook, and if they saw me drunk with a woman they at least knew what it had cost me to – 28 – 438 Days.
Recounts the worst commercial fishing disaster in American history, in which fourteen men drowned in 1983 in the Bering Sea, tracing the investigation into the disaster and its far-reaching consequences.
In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an ...
Fletcher S. Bassett, legends and Superstitions of the Sea and of Sailors in all Lands and at all Times (1885), especially pp. 343—63. ... G. Lockhart, Mysteries of the Sea (1924), chapter entitled “The Flying Dutchman.
An exploration of underwater archeological sites and shipwrecks dating from the beginning of recorded history to the present day.
A brother and sister recount their harrowing experiences as they sail a small yacht across the Atlantic Ocean, after their mentally unstable mother's boyfriend is washed overboard.
In Them, journalist Jon Ronson has joined the extremists to track down the fabled secret room. As a journalist and a Jew, Ronson was often considered one of "Them" but he had no idea if their meetings actually took place.
This work is a history and analysis of the 15th century wreck and its cargo giving the background of Chinese trade at the time.
Allison Lassieur. The first thing to do is gather any supplies you can find. A few things are floating near the boat. But the waves are still strong, so you only have time to grab a few items before they're all washed out of reach.