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| Cruise Ship Diaries: a novel | 
 enlarge | Author: Irene Magers Gingold
Publisher: PublishAmerica
Category: Book
List Price: $27.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (3 reviews)
Sales Rank: 969190
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 267
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 142411618X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781424116188
ASIN: 142411618X
Publication Date: January 23, 2006
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Product Description
Cruise Ship Diaries is a story of life-changing decisions and second chances. When Margaret Maghpye, single and living in New York, is fired from her job, she exhausts her savings on a Mexican cruise, hoping it will lift her spirits. Having spent her young adult life making all the wrong choices, at first blush this seems to be just another one. As she struggles to survive shipboard intrigue as well as entrapment in Acapulco, there is a bright spot when she befriends a fellow passenger, Michael Sanders-a mysterious recluse with plenty of reasons to keep to himself-and for whom this is by no means a pleasure trip. But, having felt the sting of heartbreak time and time again, Maggie is not about to embark on another relationship. Awash in self-doubt, but does she have the courage it takes to love again?
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MUST READ Romantic Adventure!! Couldn't put down! September 29, 2006
This was a truly great read. It's about a forty-something woman named Maggie, who decides she needs a change of direction in her life, and heads out on a cruise. The adventures that befall her, and the colorful crew of characters he meets onboard make this a wonderfully vivid and engaging story. It's absolutely impossible to put down, overflowing with romantic intrigue, and offering a vicarious thrill ride through the exotic ports-of-call in Mexico. Highly recommended!
Fun reading....... even for a guy September 15, 2006
I read the book for the first time. not one curse word and the story is based on cruise adventures of a lady I know personally.
It is a romance novel but with a sense of adventure. The book had interest that kept me reading. The book makes you feel you are there when it happens. I started and finished it two nights. The book was good reading.. I know about most of the characters by talking to Mrs Kaye a lot.
The only problem is the publisher as he printed copies are in poor quality .......but worth it to read a great novel
stunning message that the passengers have fun but beware August 21, 2006
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
Cruise Ship Diaries
Irene Magers Gingold
Publish America, May 2006
ISBN: 142411618X
In New York forty-four year old married trice but now single Margaret Maghpye is stunned when after twelve years at the firm she loses her position as a paralegal at Goodman, Barr & Noune. Her boss Laura Noune unfairly blames Margaret for poor research for a terrible day at court. Stunned and with no one to tie her down, Margaret decides she needs to escape her troubles and the wintry teen temperature of Manhattan so uses her meager savings to go on a Mexican cruise though she knows she cannot afford this financially. She prays this will lift her out of her growing depression.
She flies to San Diego where she boards the Mexican Star for seventeen days and nights of what Margaret hopes is uplifting fun. However, instead of an upbeat time, Margaret feels the sexual shenanigans on board too overwhelming and the port stop at Acapulco too commercial. However, the topper occurs when an elderly passenger Francine Wirth is being tossed from the ship at a remote Mexican hospital because she suffered an injury, which cannot be treated by the ship's doctor; this stuns Margaret (and readers). On the plus side she meets and is attracted to passenger Michael Sanders, though he seems withdrawn. While he has a different agenda for being on this excursion, he cannot stop himself from wanting to spend time with Margaret.
The sea cruise romance between the middle age couple is handled deftly as the two protagonists fear love, but cannot help themselves stop the attraction. However, what makes the CRUSIE SHIP DIARIES different than the myriad of ship romance novels is the insight into the downside of cruises in which the lines are held unaccountable once they cross into international waters as the Francine incident apparently is genuine. Irene Magers Gingold provides a delightful and charming contemporary with quite a stunning message that the passengers have fun but beware.
Harriet Klausner
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