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Author joe coomers complete list of books and series in order, with the latest releases, covers, descriptions. Beachcombing for a shipwrecked god, graywolf press, 1997. Joe coomer is the author of one vacant chair, pocketful of names, apologizing to dogs, beachcombing for a shipwrecked god, the loop, sailing in a spoonful. This is a captivating novel and one i have been urging friends to read. Nine weeks after losing her husband, charlotte escapes to a wooden motor yacht in new hampshire, where her shipmates are an aging bluehaired widow, an emotional seventeenyearold, and the ugliest dog in literature.

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