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The toast of literary London at age 21, Rudyard Kipling won numerous awards, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1907. When a spoiled millionaire's son falls overboard from a luxury liner and is rescued by a fishing schooner, he learns the true value of honesty, courage, and hard work. Over 4 million Tor Classics have been sold since 1986. Unabridged edition.
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Envisioned as a "nocturne," Steve Amick's playful, multilayered novel expansively retells Eugene Field's famed verse "Wynken, Blynken, and Nod." In the fishing village of Scheveningen in 1889, three men build and secretly launch an unorthodox fishing vessel, departing from the long tradition of netting herring using massive boats and large crews. Collaborating in this venture are Wyn van Winkel, a cavalier joker and opium addict currently AWOL from...
5) Gone
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Florida native and fishing guide Hannah Smith uses resourcefulness, a sense of justice, and unusual methods to track down a missing girl, putting her on the wrong side of violent adversaries.
7) The deep
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This is an incredible true story of survival and human endurance. As a sole survivor of a tragic shipwreck in the Icelandic Ocean in 1984, a local fisherman survives via his superhuman will to survive which made him both an inexplicable scientific phenomenon and a genuine national hero.
8) Black swan
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Sailing back from Maine, Sam Acquillo, his girlfriend, Amanda Anselma, and screwball mutt Eddie Van Halen get blown off course by a dangerous gale. With damaged boat and frayed nerves, they limp into the closest harbor, which happens to be on Fishers Island, New York, a distant and altogether disassociated scrap of Long Island. A summer preserve for the oldest old money in America, it is defended by year-round denizens who safeguard their island's...
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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 choice but to relocate and find work elsewhere. Aidan and Martha Connor now spend alternate months of the year working at an energy site up north to support their children, Cora and Finn. But soon the family fears they'll have to leave Big Running for good. And as the months go on, plagued...
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From the internationally acclaimed author of Touch, praised as "breathtaking" (People) and "lovely...at once dreamy and riveting" (Washington Post), comes a powerful family saga steeped in the legends of the sea. Set in a lobster fishing village, The Lobster Kings introduces a fiery and unforgettable heroine, Cordelia Kings. The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, blessed with the bounty of the sea. But for the Kings,...
13) Jermal
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After his mother's death, 12-year-old Jaya is sent to his father, Johar, who works as a supervisor on a jermal: a fishing platform perched on log stilts in the middle of the sea. Johar is shocked, as he never knew he had a son, and rejects the boy as his kin. Faced with constant rejection from his father and relentless bullying by the other boys who work at the jermal, Jaya gives up hope of being accepted and focuses on the skills and attitude needed...
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"Far out at sea and deep below whispering waves lives a merman searching for a partner. In the forbidden world above, a kind fisherman wonders if something more is waiting for him beyond the horizon. When they find each other under a star-filled sky, their love will change both of their worlds. Celebrate queer joy and the uniting power of love with this award-winning, inclusive retelling of a classic fairy tale."--
15) Deceived
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Hannah Smith uncovers a museum scam that is seeking contributions from her neighbors and friends in Sulfur Springs while investigating a twenty-year-old cold case.
16) Catch of the day
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Dive into the first book in the fan-favorite Gideon's Cove series by New York Times bestselling author Kristan Higgins!
Maggie Beaumont's luck is about to change. Sure, she's known for her bad romantic choices-her former boyfriend broke up with her by bringing his new girlfriend home for a visit. And then there was the crush she had on a gorgeous young Irishman, who turned out to be Father Tim, the parish's new priest.
But romantic salvation has...
17) Arrow's flight
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"Jared Kane is a West Coast commercial fisherman whose life has been plagued by bad luck and blackout drinking. Once he inherits Arrow, an old forty-six-foot wooden sailboat, Jared begins to see a chance for redemption. With his friend from prison, Danny MacLean, Jared plans an offshore voyage, sailing from Vancouver, British Columbia, down the Pacific Coast to California and out into the South Pacific. But that bad luck rears its ugly head: Danny...
19) A king's ransom
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Young Miami lawyer Nick Rey's father is kidnapped while on business in Cartagena, Columbia. While Nick works to get his father back, he soon discovers that his deadliest enemies are not the kidnappers, but the partners of a law firm with somethig to hide.
20) Moko jumbie
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A gothic punk Caribbean love story arises in the ruins of a coconut plantation in rural Trinidad. Asha is drawn to Roger, the boy across the road. Their taboo attraction grows despite family disapproval, political turmoil, a clash between cultures, and mysterious hauntings by unnaturally tall ancestral spirits.
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