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The Phone
A young woman, Karen, is studying psychology at Cambridge University. She finds an iPhone in a waste basket years before its invention. Years later, the owner’s father claims the phone. His son has gone missing. Karen and a detective in Edinburgh suspect Tom has joined psychological experiments using psychedelic drugs. His girlfriend anxiously wants to find Tom, and they suspect a professor at the university because he develops algorithms that cause smartphone addiction.
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Short Stories for the daring yachtsman
Many yachting stories describe difficult passages and the beauty of remote islands. This collection of short stories is different. It is about the lives, real lives, of yachtsmen and women who sail along the coast of Mexico. Many prepare themselves for a cross-Pacific voyage and further. Crossing an ocean will change their lives forever. They become sailors, real sailors. Things never go as planned, sometimes with surprising outcomes and tragic endings.
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The Pearl of saint-sulpice
In the Church of Saint-Sulpice, Paris, there is a holy water font made of a shell of the giant clam, Tridacna gigas. I often wondered where it came from because these clams are found far away from Europe. It is intriguing that the shell already arrived in France in the early sixteenth century as a gift from the Venetian Republic to King Francis I. Where did it come from and what story could the shell tell? What thoughts did the sculptor, Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, had when he carved the beautiful column upon which the shell rests? What is its religious significance?
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the folks from Fowlers Bay
The history of the people that lived along the South Australian coast from the Murray River, the Encounter Bay (Ramong to the Ramindjeri people), Kangaroo Island to Port Lincoln (Kallinyalla, the Place of Sweet Water, to the Barngarla people), and along the entire west coast of the Eyre Peninsula, is at best scanty. But there are stories—interesting stories—of whalers, escaped convicts and their lives among the aboriginal people. Here, I meld these stories together in a tale of love, adventure, and imagination.
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