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2) 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,...
3) 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...
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.
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,...
8) Lobster lady
Author
Publisher
Flat Hammock Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Down East Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
256 p. 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Troy Hull has troubles. After the death of his parents, he left college to take up his family's traditional lobster-fishing life. Now, thanks to poor fishing, a misguided second mortgage, and the changing nature of his hometown, Troy finds himself faced with the loss of that life. As a former high school classmate turned banker tells him: "This isn't a fisherman's town anymore." Indeed, soaring property values have made it increasingly a haven for...
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...
Author
Publisher
Bowditch Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
236 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Donny Coombs is a fifth generation Main lobsterman, and he's getting tired of being pushed around. His new neighbors -- from away -- are on a crusade to save Maine from the Mainers. His girlfriend's upper class father is bent on killing their relationship. And an Islesboro lobsterman covet's Danny's territory and isn't getting the messages to back off. Ugly undercurrents and spring-tight tensions lie beneath the pristine surface of whitecaps on...
14) The summer wives
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...
15) Islander
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ebon Cole loses his family and friends after causing a tragic accident at sea. He is determined to win back the way of life he fought so hard to protect in his island fishing community.
Author
Publisher
University Press of New England
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
xiv, 270 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vanishing Species chronicles the fate of groundfishing in New England waters since the Sustainable Fisheries Act (SFA) was enacted in 1996, causing increasingly strict regulations to be placed on the harvesting of fourteen species of edible fish. The SFA mandates that within a ten-year period, the stocks of these fish were to be brought up to levels prescribed by the government. To achieve this goal, strict regulations were put in place to limit...
17) 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.
19) Deep waters
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1975
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"A troubled young orphan boy in Maine is taken in by a family and befriended by a lobsterman who shows him the ways of the world"--Container.
20) Salty
Author
Publisher
SDP Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
28 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
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