Nine Island

Author : Jane Alison
Publisher : Catapult
ISBN 13 : 193678727X
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Island written by Jane Alison and published by Catapult. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 “Nine Island is a crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once.” —Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies Nine Island is an intimate autobiographical novel, told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach’s lush Venetian Islands. After decades of disaster with men, she is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Having just returned to Miami from a monthlong reunion with an old flame, “Sir Gold,” and a visit to her fragile mother, J begins translating Ovid’s magical stories about the transformations caused by Eros. “A woman who wants, a man who wants nothing. These two have stalked the world for thousands of years,” she thinks. When not ruminating over her sexual past and current fantasies, in the company of only her aging cat, J observes the comic, sometimes steamy goings–on among her faded–glamour condo neighbors. One of them, a caring nurse, befriends her, eventually offering the opinion that “if you retire from love . . . then you retire from life.”

Author : Jane Alison
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1936787121
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nine Island written by Jane Alison and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2016 “Nine Island is a crackling incantation, brittle and brilliant and hot and sad and full of sideways humor that devastates and illuminates all at once.” —Lauren Groff, author of Fates and Furies Nine Island is an intimate autobiographical novel, told by J, a woman who lives in a glass tower on one of Miami Beach’s lush Venetian Islands. After decades of disaster with men, she is trying to decide whether to withdraw forever from romantic love. Having just returned to Miami from a monthlong reunion with an old flame, “Sir Gold,” and a visit to her fragile mother, J begins translating Ovid’s magical stories about the transformations caused by Eros. “A woman who wants, a man who wants nothing. These two have stalked the world for thousands of years,” she thinks. When not ruminating over her sexual past and current fantasies, in the company of only her aging cat, J observes the comic, sometimes steamy goings–on among her faded–glamour condo neighbors. One of them, a caring nurse, befriends her, eventually offering the opinion that “if you retire from love . . . then you retire from life.”

Author : Soumik Sarkar
Publisher : Notion Press
ISBN 13 : 1636337902
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Call to the Human Race written by Soumik Sarkar and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2020-11-26 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Those fortunate souls who are reading this book right now are the chosen ones, because your mission and real purpose of life will finally be revealed to you soon. This book unlocks the secrets of life. Those who really want to change their life for the better will get this book by divine intervention, at the perfect time. As you go on an epic adventure with Mohan, the young and dynamic character in this book, you will explore the beautiful and divine holy places, ancient Holy Scriptures and the most confidential secrets of life by holy enlightened monks. You will learn how to become extraordinary, successful and lead a satisfying life using real life incidents and ancient, very powerful bonafide techniques. This book has been written in a manner which is simple, understandable and practical in real life, to enlighten and re-energize souls. The readers will be transported to an amazing paradise on Earth. So if you dare to break free, if you dare to think differently and don't want to miss a once in a lifetime opportunity to go on an epic adventure and quest for the absolute truth, just grab this book with both hands and change your life forever.

Author : Godfrey Baldacchino
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317179625
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Archipelago Tourism written by Godfrey Baldacchino and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the conceptual insights provided by the archipelagic 'twist' in the context of tourism principles, policies and practices, this volume draws on an international series of case studies to analyse best practice in branding, marketing and logistics in archipelago tourist destinations. The book asks and seeks to answer such questions as: How to 'sell' a multi-island destination, without risking a message that may be too complex and diffuse for audiences to grab on to? Does one encourage visitors to do 'island hopping'; and, if so, how and with what logistic facilities? How does one ascribe specific island destinations within an overall archipelago brand? Would smaller islands rebel against a composite branding strategy that actually benefits other islands? How does one read or craft transport policies as a function of the 'reterritorialisation' of a multi-island space? This book pioneers the exploration of the archipelago as tourism study focus (and not just locus); a heuristic device for rendering islands as sites of different tourism practices, industries and policies, but also of challenges and possibilities.

Author : Lawrence R. Walker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139500260
Total Pages : 355 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island Environments in a Changing World written by Lawrence R. Walker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-24 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Islands represent unique opportunities to examine human interaction with the natural environment. They capture the human imagination as remote, vulnerable and exotic, yet there is comparatively little understanding of their basic geology, geography, or the impact of island colonization by plants, animals and humans. This detailed study of island environments focuses on nine island groups, including Hawaii, New Zealand and the British Isles, exploring their differing geology, geography, climate and soils, as well as the varying effects of human actions. It illustrates the natural and anthropogenic disturbances common to island groups, all of which face an uncertain future clouded by extinctions of endemic flora and fauna, growing populations of invasive species, and burgeoning resident and tourist populations. Examining the natural and human history of each island group from early settlement onwards, the book provides a critique of the concept of sustainable growth and offers realistic guidelines for future island management.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Islands Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 2000-12 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kevin Redmond
Publisher : Breakwater Books
ISBN 13 : 9781550811018
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canyons, Coves and Coastal Waters written by Kevin Redmond and published by Breakwater Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For both the novice and expert canoeist or kayaker this book is a must as it highlights the paddlers' way through placid inland lakes, over 15,000 km of coastline and some of the most spectacular whitewater in the world. The inland and coastal waterways of Newfoundland and Labrador are the corridors to some of the most inaccessible, rugged and pristine wilderness areas in North America. The canoe and kayak allow the paddler to access barren tundra, southern boreal forest, spectacular inland and coastal geological formations and a wide range of wildlife, Paddle past humpback whales, world renown seabird colonies or visit the most southerly herd of caribou in North America. Labrador's subarctic and arctic wilderness is a mecca for the northern paddler to explore. Fjords, majestic rivers, icebergs, taiga, tundra and glacial valleys all add to the ultimate wilderness paddling experience. Book jacket.

Author : United States. Hydrographic Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sailing Directions for North Channel of Lake Huron and Georgian Bay written by United States. Hydrographic Office and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Mick Houghton
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571278922
Total Pages : 387 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I've Always Kept a Unicorn written by Mick Houghton and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2015-03-03 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've Always Kept a Unicorn tells the story of Sandy Denny, one of the greatest British singers of her time and the first female singer-songwriter to produce a substantial and enduring body of original songs. Sandy Denny laid down the marker for folk-rock when she joined Fairport Convention in 1968, but her music went far beyond this during the seventies. After leaving Fairport she formed Fotheringay, whose influential eponymous album was released in 1970, before collaborating on a historic one-off recording with Led Zeppelin - the only other vocalist to record with Zeppelin in their entire career - and releasing four solo albums across the course of the decade. Her tragic and untimely death came in 1978. Sandy emerged from the folk scene of the sixties - a world of larger-than-life characters such as Alex Campbell, Jackson C. Frank, Anne Briggs and Australian singer Trevor Lucas, whom she married in 1973. Their story is at the core of Sandy's later life and work, and is told with the assistance of more than sixty of her friends, fellow musicians and contemporaries, one of whom, to paraphrase McCartney on Lennon, observed that she sang like an angel but was no angel.

Author : Janet Azevedo
Publisher : Page Publishing Inc
ISBN 13 : 1628381752
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Promise In Portugal written by Janet Azevedo and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2014-03-17 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At 81 years old, Evalina da Rosa, a very wealthy widow, decided to begin her life anew. She had survived a marriage of 60 years to a man whose moral code was non-existent. But her essential optimism had not faded, only dimmed. She was determined to find joy before she passed on to the next world and her methods were distinctly at odds with 1901 Lisbon society. She placed an ad in the city's largest newspaper requesting applicants for an open position - her husband. Shortly before the time that Evalina decided to embark on the scandalous scheme, the young Miguel Machado was departing his native island of Terceira for the big city of Lisbon in an effort to find the financial wherewithal to return to the Azore Islands to marry the beautiful but more well-to-do Maria Barcelos. The journey that brings these two very unique individuals into the same sphere raises themes of love, courage, intrigue, murder and a final redemption that touches each of their core beings and changes their lives forever.