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  The Perfect Storm

  A True Story of Men Against the Sea

  by Sebastian Junger

  October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the "Andrea Gail", a commercial... (more)
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  Fearless

  by Elvira Woodruff

  When a storm brings down his father's boat, Digory Beale is forced to leave home to discover his fate. For if Digory has been orphaned, he can never go home again. On his journey, Digory becomes the apprentice to a charming stranger whose life's obsession is to save sailors' lives. Digory must face his fears of the sea to help Henry bring candles to the lighthouse he's built on a killer reef. But who could... (more)
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  The Secret Life of Lobsters

  How Fishermen and Scientists Are Unraveling the Mysteries of Our Favorite Crustacean

  by Trevor Corson

  In this intimate portrait of an island lobstering community and an eccentric band of renegade biologists, journalist Trevor Corson escorts the reader onto the slippery decks of fishing boats, through danger-filled scuba dives, and deep into the churning currents of the Gulf of Maine to learn about the secret undersea lives of lobsters. This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book,... (more)
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  Rockbound (Literature of Canada: poetry and prose in reprint)

  by Frank Parker Day

  Frank Parker Day's classic novel about a windswept island off Nova Scotia and its ruthless fisherman king was chosen by CBC Radio's CANADA READS panel as the one book all Canadians should read this year. Now, the CBC's magnificent serialization of Rockbound (narrated by Richard Donat and broadcast on "The Round Up" and "Between the Covers" in March 2005) is available on CD. The story of David Jung, who arrives on... (more)
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  Barnacle Love

  by Anthony De Sa

  Shortlisted for the 2008 Scotiabank Giller Prize Like Wayson Choy and David Bezmozgis before him, Anthony De Sa captures, in stories brimming with life, the innocent dreams and bitter disappointments of the immigrant experience. At the heart of this collection of intimately linked stories is the relationship between a father and his son. A young fisherman washes up nearly dead on the shores of Newfoundland. It... (more)
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  The Man I Was Supposed To Be

  by John Struloeff

  THE MAN I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE is an eloquent, vivid new collection of poems from a former Stegner Fellow at Stanford University. Set in the mountainous rainforests of the Pacific Northwest, these poems capture with startling clarity a people and a terrain that is both dark and beautiful.
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  Touch Blue

  by Cynthia Lord

  Touch Blue and your wish will come true. "Why take chances?" says eleven-year-old Tess Brooks. "Especially when it’s so easy to let the universe know what you want by touching blue or turning around three times or crossing your fingers." But Tess is coming to know that it’s not always that simple. The state of Maine plans to shut down her island’s schoolhouse, which would force Tess’s family to move to the... (more)
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  A Terrible Roar of Water (Disaster Strikes!)

  by Penny Draper

  Murphy wants to grow up fast and be a fisherman. It's what men do in his small Newfoundland community. Then one cold day in 1929, a tsunami strikes the Burin Peninsula, destroying most of the out port and killing many people. Suddenly the twelve-year-old is doing a man's work, saving lives and caring for the people he loves. His dad died the day Murphy was born. Since no out port family can survive without a... (more)
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  Demi and the Dolphins: A Lesson in Ecology

  by Alyssa K. Harrell

  Captain Demi is young, smart, and beautiful, but she is also stubborn and selfish. She comes from four generations of tuna fishermen. She is the youngest captain and the only female to have taken over the family business. New laws governing tuna fishing with nets is making business difficult for her. Her family has been net fishing for generations, why should things have to change now? Demi doesn't care if... (more)
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  Remembering Blue

  by Connie May Fowler

  Emotionally neglected by her mother, abandoned by her father, Mattie O’Rourke spent her childhood starved for the one thing she thought she’d never find: love. When her mother dies and, at twenty-two, she finds herself completely without ties of any kind, Mattie takes a chance at ending her loneliness and moves to a tiny coastal Florida town. At the Suwannee Swifty convenience store, a sea change envelops her.... (more)
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  The Sound of Waves

  by Yukio Mishima

  Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. A young fisherman is entranced at the sight of the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. They fall in love, but must then endure the calumny and gossip of the villagers.
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  The Second Coming

  by John Dalmas

  Chaos was sweeping the world, governments were on the verge of collapse, the global economy was hitting rock bottom - and then a man appeared, Nagunda Aran, a charismatic speaker who worked miracles and touched millions of Americans. He made no claim of being a messiah, but he was likely to suffer the traditional fate meted out to messiahs. As his influence grew, powerful men perceived him as a threat to their... (more)
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  The Pearl

  by John Steinbeck

  A poor fisherman finds the Pearl of the World. However, things go terribly wrong when greed and paranoia rear their ugly heads.