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| | Maritime Books -- BooksandCoffee, Dewey Beach, Delaware |
 | | In a stellar fiction debut written with dark humor and deadpan wit, Henry Seine's dreams of white sandy beaches are shattered when a capsizing leaves him struggling to survive the freezing Gulf of Alaska. |
 | | This epic historical novel follows the true story of Mary Patten, who, in 1856, found herself in one of the most dangerous straits of sea in the Western Hemisphere, Cape Horn, with a ship full of mutinous sailors to command, and a deathly sick husband, their captain, to care for. |
 | | Critics everywhere welcomed the fiction debut of Dave Barry--when they were able to recover, that is. But Barry isn't finished with them yet, not when there is "Tricky Business" to conduct in this astonishing, wickedly satisfying, all-too-human novel by "one of the funniest writers alive" (Carl Hiaasen). |
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