title: Walking the Wrack Line: On Tidal Shifts and What Remains
author:  Barbara Hurd 
description: In these rich essays, Hurd (<i>Stirring the Mud</i>) wanders the shoreline in search of meaning. Meandering along beaches from Massachusetts to Morocco, she sifts through shells, flotsam and driftwood, finding mythology and metaphor almost in spite of herself. Am I looking for clues? she asks, I'd like to think not.... Yet it's hard to resist: we're doomed, it seems to try to make meaning. Examining a moon snail, a gastropod that surrounds a clam with its oversized foot and invades it with its tongue, she finds its proportions unseemly and concludes that a certain beauty recedes when hunger and threats intensify. Walking a beach of glass pebbles beaten smooth by the waves, she admires the sea's ability to transform human carelessness and reflects, If there is such a thing as transformation, perhaps the smaller manifestation is the more reliable. While Hurd's careful depictions of found objects are delightful, her attempts to relate them to human affairs are occasionally hackneyed. Still, this lyrical book with its scrupulous attention to language and the world will please poets and naturalists alike. <i>(June)</i> <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  # Tidal Wave
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Broken Chains MC Book One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## E.M. Lindsey
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Tidal Wave
  
  
  E.M. Lindsey
  
  
  Copyright © 2021
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  This book is a work of fiction. Any events, places, or people portrayed in the
  book have been used in a manner of fiction and are not intended to represent
  reality. Any resemblance is purely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Cover by Amai Designs
  
  
  Editing: Editing By Rebecca
  
  
  Proofing by: Anne
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Foreword](part0003.html#2RHM0-81f76d80edeb453ea2ebc039ae9b06cc)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0005.html#4OIQ0-81f76d80edeb453ea2ebc039ae9b06cc)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0006.html#5N3C0-81f76d80edeb