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Poe - Peter Ackroyd
"Peter Ackroyd's life of Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49) opens with his end, his final days. No one knows what happened between the moment when friends saw him off on the steamboat to Ba... -
Passage to Juneau_ A Sea and It - Jonathan Raban
Amazon.com ReviewBritish-born Jonathan Raban sets out on a passage from Seattle to Juneau in a small boat that is more a waterborne writing den, and as usual with the brilliant Rab... -
Life on the Mississippi - Mark Twain; Bill Mckibben
ReviewMemoir of the steamboat era on the Mississippi River before the American Civil War by Mark Twain, published in 1883. The book begins with a brief history of the river from it... -
Kristen - Lisi Harrison
SUMMARY: Kristen sets sail on the Love Boat... With the rest of the Pretty Committee scattered across the globe, Kristen is stuck in summer school at OCD, making good on her schola... -
Johnny Angel - Danielle Steel
From Publishers WeeklyIn the 1962 rock ballad, Johnny Angel isn't an angel, but an angelic young dreamboat. In Steel's book, the titular hero is both-as well as class valedictorian... -
Jesus, My Father, the CIA, and - Ian Morgan Cron
"When I first discovered the grainy picture in my mother's desk-me as a towheaded two year old sitting in what I remember was a salmon-orange-stained lifeboat-I was overwhelmed by ... -
In Siberia - Colin Thubron
As mysterious as its beautiful, as forbidding as it is populated with warm-hearted people, Syberia is a land few Westerners know, and even fewer will ever visit. Traveling alone, b... -
Ground Zero_ A Repairman Jack N - F. Paul Wilson
SUMMARY: On September 11, 2001, a man drifts in a boat off lower Manhattan as the towers burn. He removes a small box from his pocket and presses a button. As he waits for the sout... -
Devil's Gate - Clive Cussler
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes.... -
Bastard Out of Carolina - Dorothy Allison
Fairly autobiographical in nature, this audio book evokes strong, disturbing and haunting images of growing up as poor white trash in the rural South. Ruth Anne Boatwright, known s...