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Sea glass books and novels and more
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Pure SEA GLASS is an incredible reference for any coastal enthusiast. Over 200 elegant images by photographer Celia Pearson present some of the best sea glass ever collected, along with samples of classical glassware that are often its source.
The book provides tremendous detail on all aspects of identifying sea glass, its historical significance, ways to assess rarity, the most advantageous locations and times to find it.
The reader is also introduced to the science of how sea glass develops its uniquely frosted patina. This brings to light the fact that pure sea glass truly does become a gem when it develops crystalline formations on its surface.
A color rating scale is included that is based on an intensive study of over 30,000 pieces of sea glass. This will help others discover how rare each piece is within their own collection.
A comprehensive assemblage of antique bottles and tableware will educate the reader while paying tribute to the great American glass industry prior to its entry into mass-production.
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The Keeper's Son
http://www.homerhickam.com/
THE KEEPER'S SON is a lively tale of love and redemption (and sea glass plays a major role) set on Killakeet Island of the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Dominating the glorious beauty of the little island is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, kept for generations by the Thurlow family. Seventeen years after the loss of the keeper's youngest son at sea, Coast Guard Captain Josh Thurlow still searches for his baby brother even after German U-boats arrive to soak the beaches with blood. Dosie Crossan, a lusty young woman in love with love, must decide between Josh and her own self-respect while fighting her own war against the invaders. The strands of the story - inexplicable loss, the sometimes strange pathways of love, a plan of hideous murder, the unyielding nature of Providence - are wound ever tighter until the stunning and astonishing final chapter. |
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Sea Glass Chronicles: Whispers from the Past
by C. S. Lambert, Pat Hanbery (Photographer)
Reveals the often overlooked treasures that roll up on beaches worldwide.
From glass shards, which resemble sapphires, emeralds, rubies, and
diamonds to ceramic fragments, which depict miniature pastoral scenes
to tiny porcelain faces, legs, and other early doll parts this book
offers the reader an unforgettable day at the beach. Extraordinary
photographs illustrate this well researched, beautifully written
account of a unique perspective of civilization. |
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The Story of the Sea Glass
by Anne W. Dodd (Editor), Mary Beth Owens (Illustrator)
While exploring the beach near her childhood home, Nana and her
granddaughter find a piece of ruby-red sea glass, which Nana believes
was once a jagged shard from a vase she broke as a child. The sentimental,
wordy story plods along, accompanied by realistic watercolor paintings
of the sun soaked seashore. A note about sea glass and instructions
for making a sun catcher are appended. |
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Sea Glass: A Novel
by Anita Shreve (Author)
From Publishers Weekly
This somewhat labored story of Nicole and her grandmother is nonetheless
chock-full of visual pleasures. Owens's (The Caribou Alphabet) panoramic
scenes of Nicole and Nana searching for sea glass will appeal to
ocean lovers and may well lure a few newcomers to Maine's breathtaking
coast. Unfortunately, the lengthy text is excessively mannered and
the plot-within-a-plot needlessly complicated. After a prolonged
lead-in filled with Nana's memories, the book's central flashback
story is triggered by a piece of smooth red sea glass the woman
finds on the beach. She tells Nicole a story about how she accidentally
broke an heirloom red glass vase and threw the broken shards into
the sea to hide them. Despite an occasional pleasing image, Nana's
speeches often overemphasize the book's themes ("This red glass
is frosted now, and I can't see through it. It can't give us the
rose-colored world I saw through the magical red vase. Yet the sun
makes it glow in a wonderful new way"). Owens's watercolors,
drenched in summer sunlight, portray the warm relationship between
Nicole and her grandmother--and go a long way to ameliorate the
strained tone of the text. All ages. (Dec.)
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. |
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The Tao Of Beach Glass
By Rick McCabe
Here is a jewel of a book -- both photo essay and capsule meditations of life lessons. The author, walking his dog on the beach at dawn, encounters shards of colored glass in the sand. These simple discoveries of beach glass become transcendent contemplations on life, love and thoughts on eternity. Join this stroll through gems found at sunrise and find yourself affirming anew the universal truths. A quiet joy to read and re-read and an enchanting companion for your life journey.
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Frosted Glass
by Michael J. Vaughn, John P. Rutledge (Editor)
Book Description
A painful break-up/break-down chases high-tech marketing wiz Sandy
Lowiltry from her Silicon Valley home. She comes to rest on the
Oregon Coast, where she seeks solace in the opera-themed sanctuary
of the Hotel Bel Canto and the arms of a handsome eccentric who
spends his days combing the beach for sea glass. Sandy soon learns
what the tourist ladies already know - it's easy to fall for Frosted
Glass Man. Besides great sex and alarmingly intricate campsite cuisine,
Frosty offers do-it-yourself mythologies that would melt even the
coldest heart. But will it be enough to quiet the whisper of ambition,
the voice inside Sandy's head that chides her for settling? Will
she really leave behind Silicon Valley for love in such a strange
package? |
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