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The Light Between Oceans
by M. L. Stedman
A captivating, beautiful, and stunningly accomplished debut novel—the story of a lighthouse keeper and his wife who make one devastating choice that forever changes two worlds.In 1918, after four harrowing years on the Western Front, Tom Sherbourne returns to Australia to take a job as the lighthouse keeper on remote Janus Rock. To this isolated island, where the supply boat comes only four times a year and... (more)
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To the Lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
TO THE LIGHTHOUSE is a haunting psychological portrait of the Ramsay family and their friends who gather for a brief vacation in the Ramsay summer home on the Hebrides Isle of Skye. There is talk of a boating trip to the lighthouse at the island's end. But the year is 1914, a World War intervenes, and it is a somber group that finally assembles to make the ritual journey.
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Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie
by Connie Roop, Peter Roop, Peter E. Hanson
In the winter of 1856, a storm delays the lighthouse keeper's return to an island off the coast of Maine, and his daughter Abbie must keep the lights burning by herself.
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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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La Trilogía de la Niebla: Book 1
The Prince of Mist
by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
In 1943 Max Carver's father - a watchmaker and inventor - decides to move his family to a small town on the Atlantic coast. They move into a house built for a prestigious surgeon, Dr Richard Fleischmann and his wife but abandoned when their son drowned in a tragic accident. Behind the house Max spies an overgrown garden surrounded by a metal fence topped with a six-pointed star. When he goes to investigate, Max... (more)
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The Ridge
by Michael Koryta
On an isolated ridge in the Kentucky woods stands a homemade lighthouse, hundreds of miles from any substantial body of water. Local reporter Roy Darmus has always found it an amusing oddity- until he is selected as the recipient of a suicide note from its builder. Roy enters the bizarre structure to find the walls covered in maps bearing the names of the dead--including his own parents, who were killed in a car... (more)
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Isle Royale
by John C. Hamilton
PRODUCT DESCRIPTION: Shipwrecks, gangsters, and the mother of all storms. Living in a lighthouse can be murder. SYNOPSIS: The year is 1924, at the height of Prohibition. The place: Isle Royale, a remote island on Lake Superior. Clarence MacDougal, keeper of Wolf Point Lighthouse, stands ready to guide sailors through treacherous waters. One storm-tossed night, French-Canadian bootleggers arrive. The gang’s... (more)
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The Language of Sand
by Brett Ellen Block
A magical novel that unravels one of life’s greatest mysteries—how to go on after a devastating loss—through the power of words and their ability to heal, to transform, and to touch the heart. Luck: an event that could be for good or ill, depending on your interpretation. As a lexicographer, Abigail Harker has always taken refuge in the meaning of words. But when fate erases in one tragic moment what she loves... (more)
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Ahab's Wife
or, The Star-Gazer
by Sena Jeter Naslund
From the opening line—"Captain Ahab was neither my first husband nor my last"—you will know that you are in the hands of a master storyteller and in the company of a fascinating woman hero. Inspired by a brief passage in Moby-Dick , Sena Jeter Naslund has created an enthralling and compellingly readable saga, spanning a rich, eventful, and dramatic life. At once a family drama, a romantic adventure, and a... (more)
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A Salty Piece of Land
by Jimmy Buffett
If Tully Mars had known what he had gotten himself into when he agreed to help find the lost lens belonging to the lighthouse on Cayo Loco-well, he might never had agreed to help in the first place. Then again, maybe he would just have taken a slightly longer nap before setting off on his wild adventure. And it isn't just Tully-who Buffett fans will remember well from Jimmy's bestselling Tales from... (more)
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Comet's Nine Lives
by Jan Brett
It all begins when Comet walks away from the lighthouse close to his birthplace on Nantucket Island. He visits a garden, a bookstore, a boat, and a party, and at each place he gets into trouble and loses one of his lives. Comet starts to worry. He longs for a home, a place where he'll be safe. Will he find one before he uses up all nine lives? "Brett's style is deliciously intricate and detailed. Charming." - USA... (more)
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Cold Skin: A Novel
by Albert Sánchez Piñol
Shortly after World War I, a troubled man accepts a solitary assignment as a “weather official” on a tiny, remote island on the edges of the Antarctic. When he arrives, the predecessor he is meant to replace is missing and a deeply disturbed stranger is barricaded in a heavily fortified lighthouse. At first adversaries, the two find that their tenuous partnership may be the only way they survive the unspeakably... (more)
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Light at Tern Rock
by Julia L. Sauer
Ronnie and his aunt are tending the Tern Rock lighthouse while the keeper takes a vacation. Ronnie loves living in the lighthouse, and looks forward to telling his family about it at Christmas. But the days go by, and the lighthouse keeper doesn't return to take them home . . . A Newbery Honor Book.
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The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge
by Hildegarde Hoyt Swift, Lynd Ward
Lighting up readers' hearts and imaginations since it was first published in 1942. The Little Red Lighthouse is concerned that its important job might be redundant once the Great Gray Bridge is built above it.
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Books by the Bay Mysteries: Book 3
The Last Word
by Ellery Adams
Olivia Limoges and the Bayside Book Writers are excited about Oyster Bay's newest resident: bestselling novelist Nick Plumley, who's come to work on his next book. But when Olivia stops by Plumley's rental she finds that he's been strangled to death. Her instincts tell her that something from the past came back to haunt him, but she never expects that the investigation could spell doom for one of her dearest... (more)
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Lighthouse Christmas
by Toni Buzzeo
Frances is determined to make Christmas jolly for her younger brother, even if it means joining family on the mainland and leaving Papa behind on their isolated lighthouse island. After all, would Santa even know how to find them in this faraway spot? But when Christmas Eve is ushered in on a wild storm and Papa risks his life to rescue a drowning man, the children realize that the most important thing about the... (more)
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The Legend of the Seahawk
by Adele Clagett
In the small Connecticut seaside town of Stuart Cove, David, a young ambitious professional takes a short leave of absence from his job at the New York Daily Press to settle his elderly aunt's affairs after her death. On a visit to the Fishhook Pub, an old fisherman approaches David. This old man has a story to tell-a story about a lighthouse keeper named Danny and the loss of the fishing vessel, Seahawk. She went... (more)
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Gracie, the lighthouse cat
by Ruth Brown
The story of national heroine Grace Darling is made accessible for children by a master of the picture book genre. One stormy night, Grace Darling, the lighthouse keeper's daughter, spots a ship in trouble on the rocks. At the same time, the lighthouse cat, Gracie, spots that a kitten from her new litter has strayed. Grace and Gracie both hurry to the rescue, braving the rain and storm. Grace alerts her father... (more)
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The Mermaid Collector
by Erika Marks
More than a century ago, lighthouse keeper Linus Harris left his beloved wife and waded into the ocean with three other men to reunite with their mermaid lovers. The mysterious Mermaid Mutiny of 1888 has become legend for the residents of Cradle Harbor, Maine, honored by the town’s Mermaid Festival every August, when wind chimes are hung from seaside porches to drown out the alluring sound of mermaid song. For... (more)
The Lost LighthouseJustin VanRiper, Gary VanRiper
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The Adirondack Kids: Book 3
The Lost Lighthouse
by Justin VanRiper
Justin RObert, Jackie Salsberry and Nick Barnes are fishing under sunny adirondack skies when a sudden and violent storm chases them off Fourth Lake and into an unfamiliar forest - a forest that has harbored a secret for more than 100 years

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