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1) Coastliners
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English
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Mado has been adrift for too long. After ten years in Paris, she returns to the small island of Le Devin, the home that has haunted her since she left.
Le Devin is shaped somewhat like a sleeping woman. At her head is the village of Les Salants, while its more prosperous rival, La Houssinière, lies at her feet. Yet even though you can walk from one to the other in an hour, they are worlds apart. And now Mado is back in Les Salants hoping
...2) Exposure
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English
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From a New York Times–bestselling author: A woman on the run hides a secret in this novel from "a consistently excellent voice in romantic suspense fiction" (RT Book Reviews).
Port Flannery is a harbor town off the coast of Washington state—quiet, picturesque, and just big enough to hide in for a while. At least that's what Emma Sands hopes when she takes a room above the local cafe. Here, no one knows...
Port Flannery is a harbor town off the coast of Washington state—quiet, picturesque, and just big enough to hide in for a while. At least that's what Emma Sands hopes when she takes a room above the local cafe. Here, no one knows...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Blackwood Bay. An ordinary place, home to ordinary people. It used to be a buzzing seaside destination. But now, ravaged by the effects of dwindling tourism and economic downturn, it's a ghost town - and the perfect place for film-maker Alex to shoot her new documentary. But the community is deeply suspicious of her intentions. After all, nothing exciting ever happens in Blackwood Bay - or does it?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Graydon House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"After the local French teacher scandalizes the fishing village of Little Cove, Newfoundland, by running off with a priest, the school looks to the mainland to fill the job quickly. They want someone who can uphold their Catholic values and keep a motley group of largely unwilling students in line. The position is filled by mainlander Rachel O'Brien--technically a Catholic (baptized!), technically a teacher (honors degree!)--who's desperate to leave...
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English
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"Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She's bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana...
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
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The friendship of two women in a Scottish fishing village, tracing their rivalry for men, jealousy and betrayal. With age, hurts are more difficult to repair and when the daughter of one tries to seduce the other's boyfriend, the friendship ends.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
"Midafternoon on a Tuesday, it occurred to Bean Jessup that she was forgetting her husband's face."
So begins this smart and charmingly written debut novel about a young woman trying to start over amid the grandeur of the Alaskan landscape and the creaky confines of an isolated fishing village and its relentless and pungent salmon cannery.
A Hole in the Heart is the story of what happens when Bean arrives after accepting a last-minute elementary-school-teaching...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
By bestselling British writer Charlotte Bingham, The Chestnut Tree is a sweeping, romantic novel about the women who stayed behind in World War II.
It is the summer of 1939, and the residents of the idyllic Sussex fishing port of Bexham are preparing for war. Beautiful but shy Judy Melton, daughter of a naval hero; her determinedly feckless friend, the social butterfly Meggie Gore-Steward; seemingly demure Mathilda Eastcott, and Rusty Sykes, the...
14) Complete novels
Author
Series
Library of America ; 189
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Cliff Street Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"The fortunes of the Albins and the Fitzes have been twined with the sea for generations, and now the tie is starting to fray. Their tiny fishing community of Rosaline chafes against the imposition of fishing quotas, the closure of the local fish processing plant, and the encroachment of an exploitative tourism industry that buys up their precious waterfront properties and repackages their traditional ways as nostalgic museum fodder."--Jacket.
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