Orem Library

An alphabetically-arranged compendium of information about the history of lighthouses, key people associated with lighthouses, and other topics is accompanied by a directory of more than 150 lighthouses throughout the world.

Describes more than 500 lighthouses, detailing their history, architecture, and legends, and provides information on museum and lighthouse tours, hours of operation, nearby sites, and driving directions.

In this cumulative rhyme, lighthouses from around the United States are observed by one sailor, two pilots, three gulls, and more.

This eerie excursion into the Gothic recesses of Maddin's mad, imaginary childhood is a nightmare set in a lighthouse on grim Notch Island, where fictional protagonist Maddin was raised by an ironfisted, puritanical mother.

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...

1913. Eighty-three-year-old Silvestre Swan has dedicated his life to the care of his Newfoundland lighthouse. His petition to relocate Swan Light from its precarious cliff's edge is going unheard by town patriarch Cort Roland, that is, until a terrible storm brings an unlikely ally into Swan's life. But is it too late for the stone lighthouse? 2014. Marine archaeologist Mari Adams's attempts to fund her search for the notorious SS Californian are...

"Here, in one book, are the days of the week, the months of the year, the four seasons, the basic colors, and ... [a] counting adventure"--Jacket.