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2) Compass rose
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Game warden Elsie Buttrick has just given birth to Dick's illegitimate daughter, Rose, and over the next 16 years the fiercely independent Elsie grapples with motherhood, aging, and love, and throws herself into a crusade to stop her land-grabbing brother-in-law from expanding his seaside resort. Meanwhile, Dick's wife, May, reconciles a public humiliation with an intense love for Rose. As Elsie's lust flares, May sinks deeper into her devotion to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions unimpressed by his wealth and shocked by his ignorance. He will have to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills upon which their common survival depends."--Back cover....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1980]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Fleeing from a neighbor's assailants, who believe he has identified them to the police, LeRoy leaves his Chicago housing project to live with his grandfather, a shrimp fisherman, in Mississippi. When the Chicago police come for him, LeRoy must decide if he is going to risk his life testifying.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Venture into the dark waters of the Bering Sea with eight crab fishing boats and their crews to experience one of the world's most dangerous and deadly professions. Captain Sig Hansen of the Northwestern returns to match his skills against his old rival, Phil Harris of the Cornelia Marie, and a new challenger, rookie captain Blake Painter of the Maverick. With rough waters and fierce weather, the captains and their crews are pushed to their limits...
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt's Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood "It Girl" who's cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn't belong" --
Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party...
11) Black swan
Author
Publisher
Permanent Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
After Sam Acquillo and his grilfriend are forced to land their sailboat on Fisher island and stay at the Black Swan hotel, a former business partner of the hotel's owner is mysteriously murdered and Sam investigates a corporate secret which may have led to the murder.
12) Spartina
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1989.
Language
English
Description
A commercial fisherman, husband, father, and lover, Dick Pierce upsets the placidity of his family when he finds himself in love with two people at the same time.
13) "We get nothing from fishing": fishing for boat opportunities amongst Senegalese fisher migrants
Author
Publisher
Langaa Research and Pub. Common Initiative Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
16) My father's boat
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 850L
Language
English
Description
A Vietnamese-American boy spends a day with his father on his shrimp boat, listening as he describes how his own father fishes on the South China Sea.
18) A king's ransom
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
An inexperienced lawyer struggles to save his father from the Colombian bandits who have kidnapped him.
Publisher
Discovery Channel
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the far northern reaches of the planet a rare breed of extreme fishermen still ply the Bering Sea. Adventure is their call, crab is their prey, and a one hundred million dollar plunder is their reward. Five skippers and their crews will endure boat-killing storms and mind-numbing working conditions, risking it all on the hunt for crab. In the end, they will all come to the realization that the most violent storms come from within. This year, there's...