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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm
Description
"In this village by the sea, a young boy notes the roles that each person in town plays. Everyone is busy: the blacksmith, the boatbuilder, the baker. But most important of all, the boy thinks, are the fishermen who bring in the catch, braving the waves and windy weather to return with the finest, freshest fish. His father is a baker, but the boy wants to be a daring fisherman when he grows up, undaunted by the stormy seas. "Have you ever been to...
2) Local hero
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A comedy about the interaction between Americans representing a Texas oil company and the inhabitants of a small village in Scotland.
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 1
Description
A more than welcome addition to the growing ranks of Scandinavian fiction . . . Fjallbacka and its crimes and people will soon be as popular here as they are in (Lackberg's) native Sweden.--Peter Robinson, author of "All the Colors of Darkness." In this electrifying tale of suspense from an international crime-writing sensation, a grisly death exposes the dark heart of a Scandinavian seaside village. Erica Falck returns to her tiny, remote hometown...
6) Man of Aran
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (77 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the life of a family in a small fishing village in the Aran Islands, Ireland, as it struggles to win the daily battle against its magnificent opponent--the sea.
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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 his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiv, 316 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"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 village at 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 on board a trawler called the Filadelfia, she is heading...
11) The nobody
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
The Nobody takes H.G. Wells's timeless character of "The Invisible Man" and brings him into a modern small town, using him as a cipher to explore themes of identity, fear and paranoia, and how they can turn a small community in on itself and destroy even the most pure of friendships.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Description
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.The Connor family is one of the few that is still left in their idyllic fishing village, Big Running; after the fish mysteriously disappeared, most families had no...
13) Water memory
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
96 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Description
"A new life begins for Marion when her mother inherits an old family house and decides to make it their new home. With its own private beach and a view of the sea, the house has all the makings of a happy new life. But when Marion discovers strange rock carvings nearby, and learns that a sinister-looking lighthouse watchman may be part of a local legend come to life, it becomes clear that things are not as idyllic as they seemed"--Page [4] of cover....
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Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. Ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it is now 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 it? -- adapted from the back cover
15) Echo on the bay
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
146 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"All societies, whether big or small, try to hide their wounds away. In this, his Mishima Prize-winning masterpiece, Masatsugu Ono considers a fishing village on the Japanese coast. Here a new police chief plays audience for the locals, who routinely approach him with bottles of liquor and stories to tell. As the city council election approaches, and as tongues are loosened by drink, evidence of rampant corruption piles up--and a long-held feud between...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : colour illustrations ; 27 cm
Description
Tras la despiadada tormenta que azota una pequeña aldea costera, solamente un pescador y su hija deciden permanecer allí. Una noche Daniel sale de casa a escondidas para darle una sorpresa a Marina. La incréible música del mar empieza a sonar para cambiar el rumbo de sus vidas. Una historia sobre el poder de la esperanza y el lenguaje universal de la música. -- Publisher description.
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