From The Wreck
Title | From The Wreck PDF eBook |
Author | Jane Rawson |
Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
Pages | 179 |
Release | 2019-04-18 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1529006570 |
‘This strange story of love and loneliness, which explores how we all long to belong, is simply wonderful.’ Daily Mail When, in 1859, George Hills is pulled from the wreck of the steamship Admella, he carries with him the uneasy memory of a fellow survivor. Someone else – or something else – kept him warm as he lay dying, half-submerged in the freezing Southern Ocean, kept him bound to life. As George adapts to his life back on land, he can’t quite escape the feeling that he wasn’t alone when he emerged from the ocean that day, that a familiar presence has been watching him ever since. What the creature might want from him – his life? His first-born? Simply to return to its home? – will pursue him, and call him back to the water, where it all began. ‘[A] singular novel . . . [From the Wreck] movingly explores themes of loss, loneliness and guilt.’ Guardian ‘An absorbing, disturbing read, full of deep currents and lurking fears.’ Adrian Tchaikovsky, Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning author of The Children of Time
The Wreck & Rise of Whitson Mariner
Title | The Wreck & Rise of Whitson Mariner PDF eBook |
Author | Sam Smith Smith |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2023 |
Genre | Imaginary places |
ISBN | 9781951305260 |
King Whitson Mariner leads the displaced rabbits as they weather every challenge on their quest for a new home.
The Wreck
Title | The Wreck PDF eBook |
Author | Marie Force |
Publisher | HTJB, Inc. |
Pages | 341 |
Release | 2011-03-06 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0983475423 |
Wrenched apart by tragedy, they’re brought back together by love. Carly Holbrook and Brian Westbury are weeks away from their high school graduation. The young couple plans to marry before they head to college, and their future seems bright with promise. Everything changes one spring night when their six closest friends, including Brian's younger brother, are killed in a fiery car accident that Carly and Brian witness. The trauma leaves Carly unable to speak, and Brian is forced to make unimaginable decisions about a future that once seemed so certain. With Carly incapable of going forward with their plans, Brian leaves home and Carly for good. Fifteen years later, disturbing new clues indicate the accident that wrecked so many lives wasn't an accident at all, bringing Brian home to face a past—and a love—he's never forgotten.
The Wreck of the Medusa
Title | The Wreck of the Medusa PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Miles |
Publisher | Open Road + Grove/Atlantic |
Pages | 434 |
Release | 2008-10-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1555848672 |
A “thrilling . . . captivating” account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic—a tragedy that inspired an unforgettable masterpiece of Western art (The Boston Globe). In June 1816, the Medusa set sail. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate West African coast. During the chaotic evacuation a privileged few claimed the lifeboats, while 147 men and one woman were herded aboard a makeshift raft that was soon cut loose by the boats that had pledged to tow it to safety. Those on the boats made it ashore and undertook a two-hundred-mile trek through the sweltering Sahara, but conditions were far worse on the drifting raft. Crazed, parched, and starving, the diminishing band fell into mayhem. When rescue arrived thirteen days later, only fifteen were alive. Among the handful of survivors were two men whose bestselling account of the maritime disaster scandalized Europe and inspired promising artist Théodore Géricault, who threw himself into a study of the Medusa tragedy, turning it into a vast canvas in his painting, The Raft of the Medusa. Drawing on contemporaneously published accounts and journals of survivors, The Wreck of the Medusa is “a captivating gem about art’s relation to history” (Booklist) and ultimately “a thrilling read” (The Guardian).
The Wreck
Title | The Wreck PDF eBook |
Author | Landon Beach |
Publisher | Landon Beach Books |
Pages | 300 |
Release | 2018-03-03 |
Genre | Beaches |
ISBN | 9781732257801 |
Are you ready for an underwater adventure? Witness the mystery unfold as you dive in!Nate Martin finds something unfathomable on the beach-something impossible-that creates a frenzied search for answers amongst people who hold life less dear than their more desirous pursuits.On the famous beaches of Hampstead, Michigan, what was once a small community of summer cottage holders has turned into a beachfront full of gaudy mansions owned by the mega-rich. Among the few remaining cottage folk are Nate and Brooke Martin, two teachers who have settled in for the summer to relax and rekindle their relationship. And on a remote peninsula resides Abner Hutch, retired Coast Guard Officer and Great Lakes master of the deep-a man with a mysterious past and a core wound that will not heal.Everything changes on the sunny day in June when Nate takes a walk on the beach.Put on some sunscreen, unfold a beach chair, and get ready to discover The Wreck.
Wreck This Picture Book
Title | Wreck This Picture Book PDF eBook |
Author | Keri Smith |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 65 |
Release | 2020-11-03 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 0593111028 |
An Indie Next List Selection Keri Smith, creator of the mega-bestselling Wreck This Journal, now brings her imagination and inspiration to children with this picture book that explores the very active experience of reading. What if there were a book that changed every time you read it? Actually, every book does this. We are all part of the books we read, because our individual reactions, ideas, and emotions make the book whole, and these things are changing all the time. Keri Smith has helped millions of people free their creativity and find their own voice with her interactive books, and now she brings that sensibility to children and to the act of reading. This picture book is an invitation to honor your own vision and to welcome imperfection. Kids will discover that reading can engage all five senses, and that what they themselves bring to a book is an important contribution. (And of course they'll be invited to do a bit of harmless "wrecking"!)
The Wreck of Heaven
Title | The Wreck of Heaven PDF eBook |
Author | Holly Lisle |
Publisher | Harper Collins |
Pages | 511 |
Release | 2009-10-13 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0061835706 |
There are doors into other worlds -- and those who cross over are changed forever ... Two women have discovered the way into a new reality -- one so close to Earth that events there have shattering repercussions here. On Oria -- a wondrous paradise and nightmare both -- Molly McColl has powers she never imagined ... and a destiny that threatens her life, her love, and her soul. While Lauren Dane must use an extraordinary, newfound magic to protect her young son -- and to join with her sister on a quest that will shake the foundations of Heaven itself. For a serpentine evil now threatens the worldchain -- a soulless, immortal enemy who feeds on the death of worlds, and who is now turning its hungry, malevolent gaze on Oria ... and Earth.