Horgan, a fireman and Little League baseball coach, in the small town of Eckley, realizes that his life has reached a turning point

A Flatland Fable

Coomer, Joe

Literature & Fiction

McGraw-Hill Book Co.

A memoir about an amateur sailor who buys an old motorsailer, which he names Yonder, and sets out to both restore and sail it, also includes reflections on his wife and both of their families.

Sailing in a Spoonful of Water: A Landlubber's Education on a Vintage Wooden Boat

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Pica Books

Joe Coomer whose fiction includes the beloved New England novel Beachcombing for a Shipwrecked God, is a writer of rare warmth, generosity, and insight.Sailing in a Spoongful of Water is his memior of your years spent aboard his vintage motorsailor, Yonder, off the coast of Maine. This is a book that will entrance lovers of the sea, yet more deeply is it's abook about family: In prose rich with humor and awe, Coomer revisits the signal moments in his life and finds in his wife and their parents and grandparents his own safest harbor. The work of a writer whose powers grow with each book, Sailing in a Spoonful of Water is that uncommon thing--a book full of welcome and joy.

Sailing in a Spoonful of Water

Picador USA

Book: The Decatur Road a Novel of the Appalachian Hill Country.

The Decatur Road: A novel of the Appalachian hill country

St. Martin’s/Marek

Hart returns to the Appalachian hills to work on his grandfather's farm and looks back on his life and a love affair

Kentucky Love

United States

St Martins Pr

Traces an Appalachian couple's fifty years together from courtship to death and describes the colorful characters they meet along the way

The Decatur Road: A Novel of the Appalachian Hill Country

Dream House

Random House Value Publishing

Beachcombing For A Shipwrecked God

Contemporary

Simon&Schuster

The author relates how he and his wife undertook construction of their first house in Texas, describing the day-to-day successes and frustrations and the details throughout the process that gave them the greatest satisfaction

Dream House: On Building a House by a Pond

Faber&Faber

The Loop

Lyman, a thirty-year-old night patrolman on a Fort Worth highway, convinced that his pet, a parrot with a complicated history, holds a vital message for him, sits in the library researching its past--and romancing the librarian.

Humor & Satire

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