Author Mary Woolsey Gaines has had a lifetime love of travel and always had the dream to take an ocean voyage around the world.Mary grew up in the small Texas town of Olney, moving to Galveston after high school, when her parents retired to a beachfront home. It was there she developed a love of the ocean.After retiring, first from a career as an army nurse, then from the Copperas Cove Independent School system as a school nurse, plans began to materialize for Mary¿s around the world voyage. Once she established that she wanted to make the voyage on a freighter, she had to convince her husband that he also wanted to make the voyage with her.A year of planning began. Then, three months prior to their projected sailing date, Mary and her husband were informed that they could not fulfill their entire journey on the freighter, Rickmers Seoul, due to cancellation of passage between Genoa and Singapore because of pirates around the horn of Africa. They were offered several alternatives, but opted for a faster container ship, the CMA CGM Florida.In planning for freighter travel Mary found very little information. She wrote this book to help others who are considering a freighter voyage.

In the early years after Confederation in Canada, the rising nation needed workers that could take advantage of the abundant resources. Until the time of the Depression, 100,000 impoverished children from the British Isles were sent overseas by well-meaning philanthropists to solve the colony’s farm-labour shortage. They were known as the "home children," and they were lonely and frightened youngsters to whom a new life in Canada meant only hardship and abuse. This bundle of titles tells the entire story from many angles and in its many facets, from historical recounting, to genealogical information, to the personal story one such child, Mary Janeway. Includes: The Golden Bridge The Little Immigrants Mary Janeway Nation Builders Whatever Happened to Mary Janeway?

The definitive guide to the region's 161 breweries and brewpubs. Each brewery profile includes types of beer brewed at each site, special features, available tours, and the author's pick of the best beer to try. Covers the Central Coast area around Santa Cruz north to the border of Oregon, including San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento.

Is Dwyer and Takeo's connection real enough to bet their future on, or a daze inspired by the blue ocean breeze?

As the ship Charity sails from Bristol, England, in 1638 two very different women make the perilous voyage to Lord Baltimore's new colony in the wilderness on the far shore of the Atlantic Ocean. Margaret Brent is of aristocratic birth and determined to make a life for herself. Anicah Sparrow is a teenaged pickpocket kidnapped and transported to the a New World in need of laborers. In the rowdy, irreverent new settlement, both women will find a future they could not have imagined.

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.