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2) Stern men
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English
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On two remote islands off the coast of Maine, the local lobstermen have fought savagely for generations over the fishing rights to the ocean waters between them. Young Ruth Thomas is born into this feud, a daughter of Fort Niles destined to be at war with the men of Courne Haven. Eighteen years old, smart as a whip, irredeemably unromantic, Ruth returns home from boarding school determined to throw her education overboard and join the “stern...
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HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
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English
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The author of five bestselling novels, including Under Cover of Darkness and The Pardon, James Grippando writes compulsively readable thrillers that could be drawn from today's headlines, only better. Now his trademark gifts are wonderfully demonstrated in a taut new tale of intrigue that will keep you guessing to the final, breathtaking scene. Just two years out of law school, Nick Rey is on the career fast track at a hot Miami law firm when he is...
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English
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On a beautiful spring morning on the island of Pellestrina, south of the Lido on the Venetian lagoon, a small boat moored at the docks suddenly explodes, killing two local clam fishermen. When it becomes clear that the fire was deliberately set, Brunetti decides to investigate. But when he tries to dig up information about the murder, the island's tight-knit, closemouthed community closes ranks-forcing Brunetti to accept Signorina Elettra's offer...
5) Limbo
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Story revolves around Joe Gastineau, a fisherman traumatized by an accident at sea years before, singer Donna de Angelo, and her teenage daughter Noelle who come into Joe's life. When Joe's fast-talking half-brother Bobby returns to town and asks Joe for a favor, the lives of the characters are changed forever
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
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In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerously brutal conditions to achieve the American Dream Sig Hansen has been a star of the Discovery Channel's Deadliest Catch from the pilot to the present. Seen in over 150 countries, the show attracts more than 49 million viewers per season, making it one...
Publisher
Seal Press
Pub. Date
1995
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English
Description
"From Pulitzer prize--winning author E. Annie Proulx to fly casting champion Joan Salvato Wulff, this anthology presents "a different angle" on the literature of fly fishing and its great tales of adventure, renewal, and discovery. Whether exploring the sensual and spiritual pleasures of casting a line or the realities of being female in the predominantly male world of fly fishing, the women in this collection write with humor, eloquence, and passion...
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Roan Group Archival Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"In this musical drama, a child is abandoned upon the San Francisco docks but is found by some kindly fisherman who take him in and raise him. His life is happy until the fisherman's sister-in-law moves in after her husband dies. She brings her bratty son with her. This upsets the orphan so much that he runs away. The fisherman launches a huge city-wide search, finds the sad lad, and finally brings him back home"--https://buy.tromamovies.com.
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After seventeen years at sea, Linda Greenlaw felt she needed to return to Isle au Haut, a tiny island seven miles from the Maine coast where she would pursue a simpler life; move back in with her parents and become a professional lobsterman and settle down. Things don't go as planned and just when she thinks it couldn't get worse, something happens that makes her reevaluate life, luck, and lobsters.
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National Geographic
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
In America's oldest seaport, Gloucester, Mass., there's a special breed of fishermen. They depend on Bluefin tuna for their livelihood in one of the most highly regulated fisheries in the world. But many experts think Bluefin tuna populations are at critical levels. So as the world debates how to save this species, these fishermen depend on them to make their living, one Bluefin at a time.
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