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Author
Series
Hope Harbor volume 4
Language
English
Description
After inheriting a crumbling lighthouse, Army doctor Ben Garrison is more than ready to get rid of it. Then he meets Marci Weber, the determined editor of the Hope Harbor Herald, who wants to save the landmark. Can she make him see her point of view?
Author
Language
English
Description
On the Manhattan bank of the Hudson River, a small lighthouse--made of steel and painted bright red--proudly protects boats with his faithful beam. One day a great expanse of gray steel, which also shines a bright light into the fog and darkness, is built over it. The little red lighthouse feels insignificant and useless in comparison but soon learns that . . . small can be mighty!
7) Ghostlight
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Rebecca Strand and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn't actually believe in ghosts--until he finds himself face to face with Rebecca...
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 30
Language
English
Description
The serene and maternal Mrs. Ramsay, the tragic yet absurd Mr. Ramsay, and their children and assorted guests are on holiday on the Isle of Skye. From the seemingly trivial postponement of a visit to a nearby lighthouse, Woolf constructs a remarkable, moving examination of the complex tensions and allegiances of family life and the conflict between men and women. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramsays face, alone and simultaneously,...
10) Light: a novel
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Two sisters are raising their children alone on a lighthouse off the Isle of Man in 1831 and dread the day that outsiders will come to their island.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
Every Saturday, while helping polish the lens of the lighthouse his grandfather tends, nine-year-old Will tells a tale he hopes will top Grandad's, but Grandad always wins until Dad reminds Will of a long-forgotten escapade with his brother.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011.
Language
English
Description
Christmas is two days away, but Frances and her little brother Peter, who recently moved with their father to a lighthouse on an isolated island, fear that they will have no treats, no music, and no visit from Santa. Includes facts about the Flying SantaService.
14) Storm's coming!
Author
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Did you know that flowers, insects, and birds can help predict the weather? Near her lighthouse home, Sophie reads the signs and sounds a warning: 'Storm's coming!'"--
15) The summer wives
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Summer, 1951. Miranda Schuyler's mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop Island overlooks the famous lighthouse. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister, is eager to draw Miranda into the arcane customs of Winthrop society. Miranda finds herself drawn to Joseph Vargas, whose father keeps the lighthouse. Joseph works summers in the lobster boats, attends Brown University, and enjoys an intense friendship with Isobel. Summer, 1969....
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
England is at war. Growing up in a lighthouse, Pets world has been one of storms, secret tunnels and stories about sea monsters. But now the clifftops are a terrifying battleground, and her family is torn apart. This is the story of a girl who is small, afraid and unnoticed. A girl who freezes with fear at the enemy planes ripping through the skies overhead. A girl who is somehow destined to become part of the strange, ancient legend of the Daughters...
Author
Series
[Bellweather tale] volume 1
Publisher
Egmont
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
In Eel-Smack-by-the-Bay, put-upon butler Tristan Benway writes a memoir of his years spent working for the chaotic and eccentric Bellweather family in their lighthouse, as he prepares for his long-awaited departure from indentured servitude.
19) May
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares.
20) Faraway things
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Secundo enjoys searching the beach below his home for treasure, but after becoming attached to a mysterious cutlass he meets its owner, who offers something greater for its return.
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