We were propped on a hill overlooking a patchwork quilt of greens, field after field of tea bushes outlined by hedges of blooming flowers. We could see the colorful wraps of women with baskets strapped to their backs as they walked up ...
The bands acted as clamps , anchoring the set to my head , and me into the dancing current of a universe of electrical signals , all of which seemed capable of sizzling me into deafness . I listened and listened , thoroughly spellbound ...
A story of secrets, sisterhood, and adventure aboard the Titanic!
After centuries of virtual isolation, during which time international sea travel was forbidden outside of Japan’s immediate fishing shores, Japanese shogunal authorities in 1862 made the unprecedented decision to launch an official ...
Tania Aebi was an unambitious eighteen-year-old, a bicycle messenger in New York City by day, a Lower East Side barfly at night.
The drivers saton their seats, dozing, theirheads slumped forward andshaded by their hat brims,the reins loose in slack ... So you see you are wrong, as usual. Drunk, yes, but never before noon. Never!” “Yah, yah, Mr. Smartmouth.
After ten years at war, he comes home and his wife, Clytemnestra, stabs him in the bathtub.” Agamemnon rolled his eyes toward heaven in exaggerated anguish. “Women!” he exclaimed. “Ouch,” said Chris. “That's the worst place to be ...
But the only way to do that is to smuggle her little brother aboard the Titanic and hope they can last the week without him getting caught.Three girls, three different classes on the ship, yet their pasts and futures are more intertwined ...
This book provides new pastors with a clear sense of the pastoral task and equips them with proven strategies for redemptive leadership.
"When a fisherman's daughter inherits a map and joins the crew of a courageous female captain, a bond between them soon forms into love.
Maiden Voyage
Maiden Voyage
Constance Lloyd dreams of a Hollywood career working alongside the likes of Mary Pickford and Lillian Gish, and book passage on the magnificent new ship the Titanic.
Maiden Voyage is Denton Welch's debut novel, a frankly autobiographical account of a short period in his life when - at the age of 16 - he ran away from his English boarding school, before being sent back to Shanghai to live with his ...