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  • Finest Kind

    Tales of a Brant Rock Lobsterman

    Donal Staples joins the Navy at seventeen and soon finds himself in the Battle of Okinawa, one of the defining conflicts of World War II. Returning home a confident young man, he makes up for lost time by romancing the woman who will become his wife. Together, they build a life founded on Donal becoming a lobsterman in their small fishing village, Brant Rock.As Donal becomes a local industry ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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    Series Book 1 - I Survived True Stories
    The New York Times-bestselling I Survived series expands to include this thrilling nonfiction exploration of five true stories, from the Titanic to the Henryville Tornadoes.REAL KIDS. REAL DISASTERS.From the author of the New York Times-bestselling I Survived series come five harrowing true stories of survival, featuring real kids in the midst of epic disasters.From a group of students surviving ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • The Stowaway

    A Young Man's Extraordinary Adventure to Antarctica

    The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York’s Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age, The Stowaway is “a thrilling adventure that captures not only the making of a man but of a nation” (David Grann, bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon).It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of ... Read more

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  • The Great Hurricane, 1938

    by Cherie Burns ...
    "Before there was the Perfect Storm, there was the Great Hurricane of 1938. A riveting and wonderfully written account." —Nathaniel PhilbrickOn the night of September 21, 1938, news on the radio was full of the invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was no mention of any severe weather. By the time oceanfront residents noticed an ominous color in the sky, it was too late to escape. In an age before ... Read more

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  • The Lost Boys of Montauk

    The True Story of the Wind Blown, Four Men Who Vanished at Sea, and the Survivors They Left Behind

    An immersive account of a commercial fishing disaster at sea whose repercussions haunt its survivors to this day, lauded by New York Times bestselling author Ron Suskind as “an honest and touching book, and a hell of a story.”In March of 1984, the commercial fishing boat Wind Blown left Montauk Harbor on what should have been a routine offshore voyage. Its captain, a married father of three young ... Read more

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  • Chesapeake Requiem

    A Year with the Watermen of Vanishing Tangier Island

    by Earl Swift ...
    A New York Times–bestselling portrait of a two-hundred-year-old crabbing community in the middle of the Chesapeake Bay as it faces extinction.A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Washington Post, NPR, Outside, Smithsonian, Bloomberg, Science Friday, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Review of Books, and Kirkus ReviewsTangier Island, Virgin... ... Read more

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  • Chicken Soup for the Ocean Lover's Soul

    Amazing Sea Stories and Wyland Artwork to Open the Heart and Rekindle the Spirit

    All of us, at one time or another, find ourselves inexplicably drawn to the sea. For some, it's a place for reflection or romance. For others, it's the thrill of watching surf crash against a sandy white beach or studying the kaleidoscope of life among a tropical coral reef. ... Read more

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  • Shipwrecks of Lake Erie

    Tragedy in the Quadrangle

    by David Frew ...
    A history of Lake Erie's most mysterious and notorious wrecks and disappearances.The great lakes have seen many ships meet their end, but none so much as Lake Erie. As the shallowest of the Great Lakes, Lake Erie is prone to sudden waves and wildly shifting sandbars. The steamer Atlantic succumbed to these conditions when, in 1852, a late-night collision brought sixty-eight of its weary immigrant ... Read more

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  • Navy Tin Can Man

    This is a story about a young man who grew up next to Lake Erie, loving boats and loving the water. Fishing, sailing, swimming his younger days were a dream come true. Then at 17 years old WW-2 started and he signed up for the US Navy. His life aboard a US Navy destroyer is as interesting account of life as a sailor. His life returning home is of a guy that loved the Lakes, the Ocean and the sea. ... Read more

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  • 58 Degrees North

    The Mysterious Sinking of the Arctic Rose

    by Hugo Kugiya ...
    In the spring of 2001, an industrial fishing trawler went down in the icy waters just below the Arctic Circle, with its position last recorded at 58 degrees north. The Arctic Rose sank so abruptly that there was not even time to put on survival suits or call for help, and all fifteen men aboard were killed. Hugo Kugiya's book is a powerful story of adventure and disaster, illuminating how the ... Read more

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  • The Hard, Hard Life of George A. Lowe

    by George Lowe ...
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  • Sport Fishing in Palm Beach County

    Series series Images of America
    Settled along 47 miles of beautiful Atlantic coastline, Palm Beach County has long been a mecca for sport fishing enthusiasts. Graced with a mild climate and bounded with waters nourished by the warm Gulf Stream current, Palm Beach�s coastal waters host a rich reserve of marine life. Featured in this captivating retrospective is a history of the sport fishing industry and tales of legendary ... Read more

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