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Eight stories with a common theme---the wonder of finding love---sweep the reader into sensuous worlds where ordinary people discover, or rediscover, love. Foolish love, forbidden love, married love---even murderous love, each story is a seductive jewel populated with characters that seem like someone we could know---or someone we could be. Each of the stories in this collection is an exquisitely rendered portrait of people from a broad range of ages each proving that passion and love are eternal, regardless of life's far-ranging challenges.
from "Damian"...
The fishing boats are coming in, skimming across the blue waves. You can tell them by the plumes of white gulls that puff out behind each boat awaiting the cleanings the fishermen toss overboard. I lie here on this narrow bed wrapped in late afternoon sunshine and afterglow. Damian is smoking on the porch. Through the open door I can see the rich brown of gnarled arms and the languid wisps of smoke. This is the hottest part of the day and, were it not for the salt-saturated sea-breezes which forever after this summer will fill me with erotic longing, I would not be ab | |  | | The Old Mermaid's Tale
Before the Edmund Fitzgerald there was the Carl D. Bradley, the Willaim B. Davok, the Betty Hedger, the American Sailor and many more...
In 1959 the St. Lawrence Seaway opened to international commerce creating a problem for seaport towns bordering the Great Lakes. Within the first year over a thousand barges and tankers from all over the world arrived at these seaports to unload, re-outfit and reload. While waiting, the crew, that had been at sea for weeks, went ashore looking for fun and companionship. Restaurants, bars, pool halls, rooming houses, tattoo parlors, and rumors of other - less savory - forms of entertainment sprang up in the blocks surrounding the commercial docks. Those parts of town acquired a deservedly terrible reputation.
When Clair Wagner begins college in Port Presque Isle she dreams of meeting a "handsome sailor with the constellations of the Northern Seas in his eyes". Into her life comes Pio, a beautiful Italian fisherman, who dreams of life on the big lakes under the aurora borealis. She meets Gary, the dashing son of a wealthy shipping magnate, who introduces her to Canal Street where she encounters The Old Mermaid Inn, a tavern that, as Gary tells her, "deserves its reputation".
But The Old Mermaid Inn, with its giant painting of a seductive mermaid, is home to some fascinating people including Tessie, the owner and original mermaid, and the intriguing Baptiste, a Breton mariner injured in a shipwreck, who earns his living as a musician.
With Pio, Clair discovers passion, with Gary she gains entry into the world of the commercial waterfront, and with Baptiste she discovers all-consuming love. But as her relationship with Baptiste grows she discovers he is far more complex and mysterious than she could imagine. He has secrets and his secrets will alter her life forever.
The Old Mermaid's Tale weaves a lush romance, filled with folklore, legends, shipwrecks, violence, traditions,and enduring love, that pays homage to the role of storytelling in our lives.
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Art book to accompany the North Shore Arts Association's 85th Anniversary exhibition in 2007. Book contains over 50 full color images ofpainting and sculpture,commentary and artist's biographies.
The artists whose work and biographies are represented in this book are: George Aarons, Albert Henry Atkins, Gifford Beal,N.A., Reynolds Beal, A.N. A., Cecilia Beaux,N.A., Theresa Bernstein, Alden Bryan, Mary Taylor Bryan,A.W.S., Gabrielle DeVeaux Clements, Jon Corbino,N.A., Paul Cornoyer,A.N.A., Howard A.Curtis , Roger W.Curtis , Will Rowland Davis, George Demetrios, Henry Gasser,
Ken Gore, Charles Grafly, Godon Grant, Emile Gruppe, Lilian wescott Hale, Walker Hancock, Samuel hershey, Aldro Hibbard, Eric Hudson, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Mildred C. Jones, Max Kuehne, Anna Coleman Ladd, Philip Little, John Manship, Joseph Margulies, William Meyerowitz, Frederick J. Mulhaupt, William M. Paxton, Marguerite Pearson, Elizabeth Wentworth Roberts, Marian Williams Steele, W. Lester Stevens, Paul Strisik, Anthony Thieme, Frederick Judd Waugh, Katharine Lane Weems, John Whorf, Harry A. Vincent, and Stanley Woodward
Text by Kathleen Valentine, Artists Biographies & History by Ted Tysver
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No Irish Need Apply
by Edward Patterson
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 High school student Kevin Borden has a secret and his name is Louis Lannegan. He also has an overbearing mother. A tale of coming out in the shadow of parents and friends. Award winning novella. |
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Pieces of Eight
by Jay Dubya
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 Pieces of Eight is an eclectic collection of eight imaginative novellas/short stories. Themes represented in the work are science fiction, paranormal, psychological drama, humor, murder/revenge and astrological fulfillment. Pieces of Eight is the com |
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