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61) Time is a river
Author
Language
English
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Description
While recovering from breast cancer in a remote cabin in North Carolina, Mia Landan finds the journal of Kate Watkins, a 1920s fly fisher, and, inspired by Kate's example, learns to fish and uncovers many secrets around her.
Author
Publisher
Custom House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A universal story about the power of place to shape families: In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It, comes John N. Maclean's meditation on fly fishing and life along Montana's Blackfoot River, where four generations of Macleans have fished, bonded, and drawn timeless lessons from its storied waters"--
63) Ondine
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Syracuse, a simple fisherman who catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his trawler nets. The woman seems to be dead, but then she comes alive before Syracuse's eyes and he thinks he may be seeing things. However, with the help of his ailing yet irrepressible daughter, Annie, he comes to believe that the fantastical might be possible and that the woman (Ondine) might be a myth come true.
64) High tide
Author
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A rising star at a Manhattan corporation, Fiona Burkenhalter accompanies the handsome Ace Montgomery on a fishing expedition in the Florida Everglades to handle a new account. After they become embroiled in a murder and end up being Florida's most wanted couple, they desperately search for the real killer, while an irresistible chemistry flares between them.
Author
Publisher
Seven Stories Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Too poor to pay his pregnant wife's hospital bill, Vannak Anan Prum left his village in Cambodia to seek work in Thailand. Men who appeared to be employers on a fishing vessel promised to return him home after a few months at sea, but instead Vannak was hostaged on the vessel for four years of hard labor. Amid violence and cruelty, including frequent beheadings, Vannak survived in large part by honing his ability to tattoo his shipmates--a skill...
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Language
English
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Description
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
Series
Joanne Ross novels volume 2
Publisher
Atria Paperback
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Nothing is ever quite at peace on Scotland's Black Isle -- the Traveling people are forever at odds with the locals, the fishermen have nothing in common with the farmers, and the villagers have no connection with the town. But when two deaths occur on the same day involving the same families from the same estate -- the Black Isle seems as forbidding as its name.
68) Blood diamond
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Danny Archer is an ex-mercenary turned smuggler. Solomon Vandy is a local Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join together for two dangerous missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son. The son was conscripted as a child soldier into the brutal rebel forces ripping a swath of torture and bloodshed across the alternately beautiful and ravaged countryside.
Amid...
69) Leviathan
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
One of the most highly anticipated films of the year; the film is a thrilling, immersive documentary that takes viewers deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast—the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick, the film captures the harsh, unforgiving world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.
Author
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"A woman discovers that she is part of a legendary love story that spans lives, years, and continents in this modern-day reimagining of Romeo and Juliet. “Cleverly imagines the epilogue Romeo and Juliet didn’t get to have, and how curses can be blessings in disguise.”٬٢٠١٤؛JODI PICOULT I may go by Sebastien now, but my name was originally Romeo. And hers was Juliet. It's a frosty fairytale of an evening in small-town Alaska when Helene...
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