Orem Library

"Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--

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 keepthe lights burning by herself.

An inspiring and beautifully illustrated picture book biography based on the life of Kate Moore, a twelve-year-old lighthouse keeper in the 19th century who saved the lives of twenty-three sailors. With an evocative text and stunning illustrations, travel back to the stormy, rocky shores of 19th century Connecticut and meet an unforgettable heroine--at a time when girls were considered anything but. Fayerweather Island had seen blustery blizzards...

When, after a four-year absence, seventeen-year-old Squid returns to her childhood home on a remote lighthouse island off British Columbia with her young daughter in tow, she and her parents try to come to terms with each other and the painful events of the past, especially the death of her older brother.

Feeling restless in spite of her accomplishments and imminent marriage, Trudy is ostracized by her late nineteenth-century Milwaukee community when she falls in love with an enigmatic man and relocates to a California lighthouse.

Finding our way home: The story of Augustin Fresnel and his lenses which revolutionized lighthouses in the early 1800s. The lighthouse speaks: The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse tells its own story. Elizabeth Whitney Williams: One of America's women lighthouse keepers. The lighthouses on Minot's Ledge: The stories of the two lighthouses marking an underwater stone mountain in a shipping lane leading to Boston Harbor. The statue: The story of the construction...

An orphaned boy is sent to be raised by his uncle in a lighthouse, where he learns astonishing truths about his uncle's past and the power of love.

Inspired by the logs and adventures of Juliet Fish Nichols, a female lightkeeper who kept the light shining through the fog following the 1906 San Francisco earthquake,