Schooner

Author : Tom Dunlop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615342672
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schooner written by Tom Dunlop and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of Ross Gannon and Nat Benjamin and the Gannon and Benjamin Marine Railway where the sailing vessel Rebecca was designed and built. Gannon and Benjamin is one of only a few full-time boatyards in the United States devoted exclusively to the design, construction, repair, and maintenance of traditional, plank-on-frame wooden boats--Publisher's description.

Author : Theodore J. Karamanski
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814329115
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schooner Passage written by Theodore J. Karamanski and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evolution of the Lake Michigan Schooner -- The maritime frontier : schooners and urban development on the Lake Michigan shore -- Before the mast and at the helm : captains and crews on Lake Michigan schooners -- Schooner City : the life and times of the Chicago River port -- Lost on Lake Michigan wrecks, rescues, and navigational aids.

Author : Susan Blackwell Ramsey
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803244703
Total Pages : 109 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mind Like This written by Susan Blackwell Ramsey and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 109 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry, Susan Blackwell Ramsey’s A Mind Like This is a work of humor and wit, unexpectedly delightful and full of surprises as it reflects on the oddness of everyday life, the natural world, literary history, popular culture, and more. Everything is fair game for Ramsey, who finds poetry in love and sickness and life, of course, but also in knitting and unreliable bladders and the peculiar name of Kalamazoo. Neruda makes an appearance, as do Eric Clapton and Brahms, Leonard and Virginia Woolf, and Jimmy Stewart. Whether observing the pickled heads of Peter the Great’s offenders, wondering “How to Seduce Henry David Thoreau,” becoming the insecure voice of Kalamazoo, or puzzling over the intricacies of the mind that blocks a dear friend’s birthday while preserving the name of Emily Dickinson’s dog in perpetuity, Ramsey’s collection is wise and funny, allusive and deeply felt.

Author : Xhenet Aliu
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803271832
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Domesticated Wild Things, and Other Stories written by Xhenet Aliu and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just down the highway from Connecticut’s Gold Coast is the state’s rusty underbelly, the wretched, used-up sort of place where you might find Xhenet Aliu’s Domesticated Wild Things: the reluctant mothers, delinquent dads, and not-quite-feral children, yet dreamers all. These are the children of immigrants who found boarded-up brass mills instead of the gilded streets of America; they’re the teenaged girls raised in the fluorescent glow of Greek diners, the middle-aged men with pump trucks and teratomas. These are people who have fled, or who should have. And if they are indeed familiar, it is because Aliu writes what is real, whether we ourselves, her readers, have seen it up close or not. And her stories make sense in a way that matters. A young mother buys into a real-estate investment seminar offered on an infomercial, only to be put back into her place by a bully in foreclosure. A closeted wrestler befriends a latchkey seven-year-old neighbor who harbors secrets of her own. A YMCA counselor tries to reclaim shoes stolen by a troubled young camper. What they share is a biting humor, an eye for the absurd, and fumbling attempts at human connection, all rendered irresistible—and as moving as they are amusing—by a writer whose work is at once edgy and endearing and prize winning for reasons any reader can appreciate.

Author : Pat Lowery Collins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Schooner written by Pat Lowery Collins and published by . This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed children's author Pat Lowery Collins chronicles the generations-old art of shipbuilding and the extraordinary construction of a modern day schooner. Through the magic of memory and artistic imagination, a young boy sees it all unfolding once again. And through his diary and in Collins's brilliant paintings, Schooner tells the tale of shipwrights in action and of the young boy who watched and helped as the mighty vessel rose from keel to spars.

Author : James Crews
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803236352
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Book of what Stays written by James Crews and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For any of us, what stays? James Crews writes of the love and lives that, whatever the loss or cost, we must hold and keep.

Author : Ted Gilley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803233566
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bliss and Other Short Stories written by Ted Gilley and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction, this daring collection of nine stories introduces readers to an edgy vision and a world in which certainties are tested and found wanting. A Cambodian refugee negotiates the icy waters of American social and sexual life. A young couple seeks "peak experiences" to escape grief, only to discover that they've brought it along with them. A teenage girl, unable to face the imminent end of her grandfather's life, risks her own life in an impulsive act. A man's fragile hold on reality becomes the key to his finding, albeit through a terrifying labyrinth, his heart's desire. The characters inBliss and Other Short Storiesmust find their way to a truth that, though less than perfect, is one they can live with. Finding bliss, it seems, is as much about pain as about pleasure, and in Ted Gilley's writing the discovery is always exquisite.

Author : Kathleen Flenniken
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803269242
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Famous written by Kathleen Flenniken and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2006-09-01 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of poems about ordinary women piecing together their own significance.

Author : Arthur G. Sir Doughty
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Under the Lily and the Rose written by Arthur G. Sir Doughty and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-06-13 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Under the Lily and the Rose: A Short History of Canada for Children - Volume 1" is a historic constitutional book specifically written for children. This story features a charming narrative style supplemented by beautiful illustrations, and so it would repay perusal by many who have long passed the days of childhood. It was written by Arthur G. Sir Doughty, who was the Chief Archivist of the Archives of Canada from 1904 to 1935.

Author : Kara Candito
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803226276
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Taste of Cherry written by Kara Candito and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Kara Candito's prize-winning debut collection a "garish/human theatre" comes to life against richly textured geographic and psychic landscapes. These poems are high-speed meditations on a world where Walter Benjamin meets the "glitzy chain-link of Chanel scarves" and Puccini's Tosca meets the din of the Times Square subway station. Ferociously witty and intensely lyrical, Taste of Cherry speaks to us in a language that is simultaneously private and public, sensual and cerebral.