Monroe, Mary Alice.
Summary: Every woman in the lowcountry knows the unspoken fear that clutches the heart every time her man sets out to sea. Now that fear has become a terrible reality for Carolina Morrison. Her husband, shrimp boat captain Bud Morrison, the only man she's ever loved, is lost and alone somewhere in the vast Atlantic fishing grounds, with a storm gathering and last light falling.--From publisher's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pocket Books 2009
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Summary: Presents a portrait of the late star of Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch," revealing his high-risk private life of tempestuous affairs, drug-fueled parties, and motorcycle riding, as well as his virtues as a devoted friend, loving father, and steadfast captain.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.56 HARDelinsky, Barbara.
Summary: What comes after the moment that forever changes your life? This question haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Collela, the only survivors of a terrible boating accident that claims the lives of nine other people off the coast of Maine.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2004
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Summary: In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the rusted and dilapidated boat was in fact the most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed: the original Western Flyer, immortalized in John Steinbeck’s nonfiction classic The Log from the Sea of Cortez. In this book, Kevin M. Bailey...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The University of Chicago Press 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 BAIMathews, Francine.
Summary: On Nantucket Island, detective Meredith Folger investigates the drowning of a man who worked the scallop boats. A tale of drugs and murder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MATJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENSummary: Click, clack, moo: A bunch of literate cows go on strike after Farmer Brown refuses to give in to their typed demands of electric blankets when the barn gets too cold. The day Jimmy's boa ate the wash: Jimmy's boa constrictor wreaks havoc on the class trip to a farm. The Pigs' wedding: all the pigs must get cleaned up for the big wedding. Hendrika, a Dutch cow, wants to visit the city. Charlie...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CLIDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: "When the popular comics character Morpho the Morph Monster comes to Bayport for a fan event, everyone is excited, including Frank and his brother, Joe! Morpho is also bringing his very important Morph Spork--a special tool that helps him eat people's brains. But right before the event is about to start, Morpho's Spork goes missing!"--P. [4] of cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2011
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED DIXBannalec, Jean-Luc
Summary: "The Killing Tide by Jean-Luc Bannalec is the fifth novel in the internationally bestselling Commissaire Dupin series. Deep sea fishers, dolphin researchers, smugglers, and an island shrouded in myth in the middle of the rough Atlantic ocean: Commissaire Dupin had sworn he would never again investigate on the ocean, but his fifth case takes him offshore, off the west coast of Brittany on a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BANTesta, Maggie
Summary: Olivia, Ian, and Francine want to have a boat race, but there is no water in the pond. Can Olivia control the weather to make it rain?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon Spotlight 2011
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rodale 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.41 CROStabenow, Dana.
Summary: In Alaska, PI Kate Shugak investigates the death of a fisherman whose selfish ways made him hated by other fishermen, so much so he was stabbed, beaten, strangled and drowned. The novel looks at fishing communities whose livelihood is threatened by big business.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STAClements, Andrew
Summary: A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Book Studio 1988
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE CLECurrie, Lindsay
Summary: Haunted after helping her father on his ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, twelve-year-old Claire must discover what the spectral boy from the bus wants before it is too late.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Young Readers 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC CURSummary: Bill Nye illustrates how various types of transportation utilize friction, from traction in trains and the "roll" of ball bearings in skateboards and automobiles, to the lack of friction in a hovercraft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BILMiloszewski, Nathan
Summary: "From the middle of the ocean to your dinner table, the fish you eat may have taken a long journey. This meal was made possible by one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. Commercial fishers risk their lives to make a living and provide food for the world's population. This book helps readers gain a better understanding and appreciation for the men and women who battle severe weather and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 639.2023 MILHooper, Emma
Summary: From Emma Hooper, critically acclaimed author of Etta and Otto and Russell and James, a People magazine "Pick of the Week," comes a lyrical, charming, and mystical story of a family on the edge of extinction, and the different way each of them fights to keep hope, memory, and love alive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOOSalazar, Alicia
Summary: Camila and her Papa enter a televised baking competition, but trying to do everything herself results in a mess so Papa helps to bake strawberry-iced cake pops that could make them sta
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2021
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Rising Reader (Purple), Call number: JBR PURPLE SALDuncan, Daniel
Summary: "When a lonely fisherman finds an injured bird on his boat, he nurtures it back to health, and--since the bird can no longer migrate with its family--charts a course heading south for the winter. Together, the two form a special friendship and enjoy life at sea until both the healing process and the journey come to an end"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams Books for Young Readers 2017
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Summary: "A fishing guide and part-time investigator, Hannah Smith is a tall, strong Florida woman descended from many generations of the same. But the problem before her now is much older even than that. Five hundred years ago, Spanish conquistadors planted the first orange seeds in Florida, but now the whole industry is in trouble. The trees are dying at the root, weakened by infestation and genetic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: M WHIBailey, Tessa
Summary: "King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he's a guaranteed good time-in bed and out-and that's exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She's immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his ... personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. Now,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH LUBear, Greg
Summary: "A sweeping Elizabethan historical fantasy from an internationally renowned author that evokes the seafaring adventures of Robert Louis Stevenson with the magic of The Bear and the Nightingale"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BEAMaden, Mike
Summary: Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must battle an army of genetically engineered mercenaries to stop a hypersonic missile attack before the Arabian Sea becomes a mass grave.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023