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2) The pearl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kino, a poor Mexican pearl fisher, finds a valuable pearl. Yet instead of bringing blessings, the pearl acts as a harbinger of misfortune to Kino and his wife, Juana.
4) Suttree
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suttree is the story of Cornelius Suttree, who has forsaken a life of privilege with his prominent family to live in a dilapidated houseboat on the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Remaining on the margins of the outcast community there -- a brilliantly imagined collection of eccentrics, criminals, and squatters -- he rises above the physical and human squalor with detachment, humor, and dignity.
5) Ondine
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a fisherman who pulls up his nets one day to find a woman inside, which his daughter believes to be a selkie, but as they fall in love, a figure from her past threatens to disrupt their happiness.
6) Luzzu
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Maltese
Description
A hardworking Maltese fisherman, struggling to provide for his family amidst strict regulations imposed on his traditional family business by the European Union, enters Malta's fishing underworld.
7) Gone
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hannah Smith: a tall, strong, formidable Florida woman, the descendant of generations of strong Florida women. She makes her living as a fishing guide, but her friends, neighbors, and clients also know her as an uncommonly resourceful woman with a keen sense of justice -- someone who can't be bullied -- and they have taken to coming to her with their problems. Her methods can be unorthodox, though, and those on the receiving end of them often wind...
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Bengali
Description
A River Called Titas: Concerns the lives of people in fishing villages along the banks of Titas in pre-Partition East Bengal. Focusing on the tragic intertwining fates of a series of fascinating characters, it tells the poignant story of an entire community's vanishing way of life.
Dry Summer: Follows a selfish farmer who builds a dam to prevent water from flowing downhill to his neighbor's crops, and a love triangle between the farmer, his more...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
411 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Luther Fox, a man who has taken up life as an illegal fisherman following the deaths of his family members in a freak accident, and Georgie Fox, a woman with a bleak past who is living with newly wealthy lobsterman Jim Buckridge, embark on a relationship that spells danger for everyone involved.
10) Blood diamond
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (138 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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....
11) Trespasser
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on patrol one foggy evening, Game Warden Mike Bowditch receives a call for help. A woman has reportedly struck a deer on a lonely road. When he arrives on the scene, he finds blood -- but the driver and the deer have vanished. The state trooper assigned to the accident appears unconcerned. Details of the disappearance are eerily familiar. Seven years earlier, Erland Jefferts was convicted of the rape and murder of a college student and sentenced...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the dead of night on July 24, 2013, John Aldridge was thrown off the back of the Anna Mary while his fishing partner, Anthony Sosinski, slept below. As desperate hours ticked by, Sosinski, the families, the local fishing community, and the U.S. Coast Guard in three states mobilized in an unprecedented search effort that culminated in a rare and exhilarating success.
Series
Criterion collection volume 685
Criterion collection volume 686
Martin Scorsese's world cinema project volume no. 1
Criterion collection volume 686
Martin Scorsese's world cinema project volume no. 1
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Wolof
Description
Touki-bouki: "A vivid, fractured portrait of Senegal in the early 1970s. .. two young lovers long to leave Dakar for the glamour and comforts of France, but their escape plan is beset by complications both concrete and mystical"--Container.
Redes: "This vivid, documentary-like dramatization of the daily grind of men struggling to make a living by fishing on the Gulf of Mexico (mostly played by real-life fishermen), one worker's terrible loss instigates...
14) Alamar
Series
Film Movement volume year 8, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Jorge has only a few weeks before his five-year-old son Natan leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent o nteaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef, and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan learns to live in harmony with life above and below the surface of the sea.
15) Deceived
Author
Series
Hannah Smith novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida's pothauling days gets Hannah Smith's attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state's earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and many of Hannah's friends and neighbors in Sulfur Wells are being pressured to make contributions. The problem is, the whole thing is a scam, and when Hannah sets out to uncover whoever's behind it, she discovers that...
Publisher
Diamond Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (3.75 hrs.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The farmer's wife (silent film): This first film version of Eden Phillpotts' play "The Farmer's WIfe" involves a recently widowed farmer's search for a new bride. Every candidate proves insufficent until he realizes that his perfect mate has been under his own nose all along, his faithful housekeeper.
The manxman (Hitchcock's last silent film): a lawyer and a fisherman who fall in love with the same woman. She marries one, but she loves the other....
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
274 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing eighty miles offshore. As gale force winds and ten-foot waves pummeled their small, open boat from all sides and nearly capsized them, captain Salvador Alvarenga and his crewmate cut away a two-mile-long fishing line and began a desperate dash through crashing waves as they...
Publisher
Diamond Entertianment Corp
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (4.5 hrs.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Juno and the paycock: During the Irish revolution, a family receives notice that they will inherit a large sum of money. They begin to lead a rich life, forgetting what are the important values to live by. When they find out that they will not get the inheritance, the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start to live like vagabonds.
The skin game: Story about a conflict between two wealthy families. One is the established...
Author
Publisher
Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
For twelve generations, when the fish were plentiful and when they all-but disappeared, the inhabitants of this remote island in Newfoundland have lived and died together. Now, in the second decade of the 21st century, they are facing resettlement, and each has been offered a generous compensation package to leave. But the money is offered with a proviso: everyone has to go; the government won't be responsible for one crazy coot who chooses to stay...
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