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The nobody
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Jeff Lemire |
The Nobody takes H.G. Wells's timeless character of "The Invisible Man" and brings him into a modern small town, using him as a cipher to explore themes of identity, fear and paranoia, and how they c… |
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Complete novels
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John Cheever |
Here are the five novels of John Cheever, together in one volume for the first time. In these dazzling works Cheever laid bare the failings and foibles of not just the ascendant postwar elite but als… |
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The fisherman's daughter
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Molly Jackson |
"When Robbie Fraser receives an anonymous note saying 'Your father has disappeared' he is shocked beyond belief. As far as he knows, he has no father. Robbie travels to a small Scottish fishing villa… |
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Fog magic
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Julia L. Sauer |
A child of Nova Scotia who loves the fog is transported by it to a secret world of her own. |
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Herring girl
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Debbie Taylor |
A troubled boy. A psychotherapist specializing in past life regression. An unsolved murder from 100 years ago that threatens to take another life. Twelve-year-old Ben believes he is a girl. When ther… |
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Braving Troubled Waters
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Rob van Ginkel |
Dwindling fish stocks, changing markets and often ill-advised government intervention have affected the lives of Dutch fishermen for decades. The author of this study has spent years among the fisher… |
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Water Memory
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Mathieu Reynes,Valerie Vernay |
96 pages : 23 cm |
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The width of the sea
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Michelle Chalfoun |
"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 o… |
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The skating pond
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Deborah Joy Corey |
"In the summer, tourists came to the pond to see the early-morning lilies in bloom. But in the winter, the pond belongs to the locals - especially Elizabeth's mother, whose skating is her genius, and… |
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Coastliners
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Joanne Harris |
Joanne Harris writes fiction that engages every one of the senses: reviewers called Chocolat "delectable" and Five Quarters of the Orange "sweet and powerful." In her new novel, she takes readers to … |
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Surrounded by sea
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Gail Gibbons |
By revealing activities of island residents through the four seasons, contemporary everyday life in a New England fishing village is presented. |
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Daughter of the Sea
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Berlie Doherty |
While at sea during a freak storm near his island home in the far north, a fisherman finds a baby girl, and though he and his wife love her as their own, they realize that they may not be able to kee… |
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