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Author
Series
Canaan trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Description
The only survivors of a devastating boating accident off the coast of Maine, Julia, Noah, and Kim struggle with their brush with death, their feelings of guilt, and their changed perspectives on their lives.
2) Trespasser
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Maine game warden Mike Bowditch's quest to find a missing woman leads him through a forest of lies in search of a killer who may have gotten away with murder once before. While on patrol one foggy March evening, Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely coast road. When the game warden arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road--but both the driver and the deer have vanished. And the state trooper assigned...
3) Stern men
Author
Language
English
Description
The "wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing" (USA Today) from the #1 bestselling author of Eat Pray Love, Big Magic and City of Girls
Off the coast of Maine, Ruth Thomas is born into a feud fought for generations by two groups of local lobstermen over fishing rights for the waters that lie between their respective islands. At eighteen, she has returned from boarding school-smart as a whip,...
Off the coast of Maine, Ruth Thomas is born into a feud fought for generations by two groups of local lobstermen over fishing rights for the waters that lie between their respective islands. At eighteen, she has returned from boarding school-smart as a whip,...
6) Lobster lady
Author
Publisher
Flat Hammock Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
370 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After her father's death, Rilla Brae puts off thoughts of college to take over his lobstering business, while helping an archaeology student excavate nearby Malaga, an uninhabited island with a ghost that beckons her.
After her father's death, Rilla Brae puts off thoughts of college to take over his lobstering business. She begins helping Sam, an archaeology student excavating nearby Malaga, an uninhabited island. Sam's work-- and the haunting song...
8) Sea gift
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
v, 202 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While working on the lobster boats in his Nova Scotia town, thirteen-year-old Lauchie hauls up an old crock which hides a letter that sends him on a quest for treasure that was hidden long ago.
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season--an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast...In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful...
10) The lobster war
Author
Publisher
Front Street/Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
146 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Although he fears being in the water, sixteen-year-old Dain is determined to be a professional lobsterman, despite pressure from his older brother and widowed mother that he attend college instead, and despite the fact that someone is sabotaging his lobster traps.
11) Mistwalker
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Forbidden to set foot on her family's lobster boat after her brother's death, sixteen-year-old Willa will do anything to help her grieving, financially-troubled family, even turn to the weird Grey Man who haunts the lighthouse near her small Maine village.
Author
Publisher
Down East
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Grandma and Billy enjoy a nice boat ride while her sons catch the lobsters for the town's lobster bake on Labor Day, until problems arise and Grandma must take the wheel herself to bring home the day's catch.
Author
Publisher
Ruby Window Productions
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
44 p. ; 29 cm. + 1 audio disc
Language
English
Description
During his summer break on Martha's Vineyard, a boy takes on his grandfather's values while learning the business of lobstering: siting buoys; hauling pots; measuring, banding, and storing lobsters.
14) A narrow escape
Author
Series
Lobster chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
132 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wanting nothing more than to be liked despite his naughty behavior, Norris swipes lunches and ruins a neighbor's prize cactus before resolving to save a giant lobster that his rich father wants to buy for a trophy.
Author
Series
Seaside saga volume 11
Publisher
[Joanne Demaio]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's been a long, hot summer in Stony Point. As temperatures rise on the Connecticut coast, so do the secrets. Everyone's got one. Jason and Maris, Celia and lobsterman Shane, the beach commissioner, and especially innkeeper Elsa. With the passing summer days, each secret--sad, shocking, and sweet--unfurls like a breaking wave."--Goodreads
Author
Series
Publisher
[Createspace Independent Publishing]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everything was in place for the perfect beachside gathering. Lace-wrapped jars hung from white chairs on the sand. Paper lanterns and tiki torches glimmered in the twilight evening. A rowboat draped with roses and vines waited in the wings. Love floated on the salt air. Until the arrival of a mysterious guest named Shane Bradford, a lobsterman with a tangled past in this little New England beach town. Like a sudden sea breeze, the special evening...
18) Of sea and cloud
Author
Publisher
Tyrus Books, F+W Media, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Nicolas Graves raised his sons to be lobstermen. Bill and Joshua (known as Jonah) Graves grew up aboard their father's boat--the Cinderella--learning the rules and rites of the antiquated business they love. But when their father is lost at sea and the price of lobster crashes worldwide, Bill and Jonah must decide how much they are willing to risk for their family legacy. Standing against them is Osmond Randolph--former Calvinist minister, mystic,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Joanne DeMaio
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The cottage is nestled along winding Sea View Road, set back from the sandy street. Surrounded by swaying dune grass, it's a shabby little beach bungalow with an open back porch overlooking sparkling Long Island Sound. A sign propped in the front window says: For Rent. Well, the cottage was For Rent...until one particular lobsterman booked a summer stay there. As Shane Bradford settles into the New England beach town of Stony Point, he unloads more...
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"They say Mackerel Sky was founded when Captain Burrbank first saw Nimuë the Mermaid and forgot the sea. Stricken by love, he moored his tall ship and made camp on the highest cliff, hoping to forever gaze upon her beauty. That camp became a settlement, the settlement a town, the town a community both blessed and cursed by their tempestuous affair. Three hundred years later, the legend of the Mermaid and the Captain who loved her still invigorates...
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