Watson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Summary: When two girls disappear from the town of Blackwood Bay, Alex intends to have the residents record their own stories. But she finds a village haunted by a tragedy that overshadows every corner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC WATWatson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Summary: When two girls disappear from the town of Blackwood Bay, Alex intends to have the residents record their own stories. But she finds a village haunted by a tragedy that overshadows every corner.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA Fiction WatFranklin, Jonathan
Summary: "The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history--as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910 FRAFranklin, Jonathan
Summary: The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 FRACopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival FranklinSummary: The great Agnes Varda's film career began with this graceful, penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fishing village. Both a stylized depiction of the complicated relationship between a married couple and a documentary-like look at the daily struggles of the locals, Varda's discursive, gorgeously filmed debut was radical enough to later...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN POISummary: It is 1953, and Freya, who had gone to America as an officer's bride, has returned home to begin a new life. She moves into a small house of distant relatives in a quite fishing village in Iceland. But unlike the drab, plump girl who went abroad, Freya, now in her twenties, is a beautiful woman. She is somewhat of a mystery woman of the household, especially to the men of the community. But...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEACheever, John.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 1957
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHEWatson, S. J. (Steven J.)
Summary: "Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a ghost town--and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay--or does...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC WATGibbons, Gail.
Summary: Discover what life is like season by season when you're surrounded by the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE GIBCorey, Deborah Joy
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CORHarris, Joanne
Summary: Returning to her home town, a tiny French island called Le Devin, Madeleine is saddened to realize that the island's decline reflects the deterioration of her increasingly withdrawn father.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow/HarperCollinsPublishers 2002
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Summary: "From an adventurous and discerning new voice reminiscent of Robert Macfarlane, a captivating portrait of a community eking out its living in a coastal landscape as stark and storied as it is beautiful. Before arriving in Newlyn, a Cornish fishing villageat the end of the railway line, Lamorna Ash was told that no fisherman would want a girl joining an expedition. Weeks later, the only female...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.3 ASHBratley, Carrie-Marie
Summary: From trendy cities to classic fishing villages, soak up the romance of this charming country with Moon Portugal.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Moon Travel 2023
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Summary: Berlin is as challenging a city as it is vital, and always has been since its medieval foundation as twin fishing villages. In exploring the fascinating history of this city, discover how a people as civilized and religious as the Germans could have supported the Kaiser and the Nazis as they inflicted the misery upon the entire world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2021