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January
2006 features
books and links about
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American
Lighthouses: A Pictorial History
by Jill Caravan
387.155 Car
A celebration of the romance and lore behind these architectural
icons. The author explains the origins of lighthouses and
details their evolution from earliest towers to modern marvels of
architecture and automated technology, equiped with sophisticated
lenses, transmitters, and radar. Western Great Lakes lighthouses : Michigan and Superior
photographs by Bruce Roberts and text by Ray Jones
387.1 Rob
Provides historical background and descriptive information on some of the most significant lighthouses on Lakes Michigan and Superior. Wisconsin lighthouses: a photographic & historical guide
by Ken & Barb Wardius
HIST 387.155 War
Color photographs, full descriptions, fascinating history, and travel
tips for visiting more than forty of Wisconsin's best-known
lighthouses on Lake Michigan, Green Bay, Lake Superior and Lake
Winnebago. The lighthouse Stevensons: the extraordinary story of the building of the Scottish lighthouses by the ancestors of Robert Louis Stevenson
by Bella Bathurst
623.8942 Bat and LP 623.89 Bat
A romantic historical story full of adventure and invention, The Lighthouse Stevensons is a unique account of how a single family virtually defined the Scottish coast by designing and building lighthouses in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Stargazing : memoirs of a young lighthouse keeper
by Peter Hill
921 Hill
When Peter Hill, a student at Dundee College of Art, answered an ad in the Scotsman seeking relief lighthouse keepers, little did he imagine that within a month he would be living with three men he didn't know in a lighthouse on Pladda, a small remote island off the west coast of Scotland.
He was to spend the next six months in various lighthouses, "keeping" with all manner of unusual and fascinating people. The resulting book is a charming and beautifully written memoir that is not only a heartfelt lament for Hill's own youth and innocence but also for a simpler and more honest age.
A salty piece of land
by Jimmy Buffett
F Buf
An adventurer finds himself enlisted by an elderly sea-captain to help find a missing lens belonging to a lighthouse, but soon comes to regret his decision.
Murder at Five Finger Light : a Jessie Arnold mystery
by Sue Henry
F Hen (Mysteries)
Jessie has just gotten back together with her ex-boyfriend and sleuthing partner, Alex Jensen, and she's looking forward to some peace and quiet. But even when she's deep in the wilderness, trouble has a way of finding
her.
The keeper's son : a novel
by by Homer Hickam
F Hic
For generations, the Thurlow family have been keepers of Killakeet Lighthouse, on North Carolina's Outer Banks. In 1941, however, Josh Thurlow, the Keeper's son, forswears his heritage to become the commander of a small Coast Guard patrol boat operating in the area. Josh is still tortured by guilt, seventeen years after losing his baby brother at sea. His life is complicated by the arrival of beautiful Dosie Crossan, who has come to lonely Killakeet Island to escape the outside world. Josh must also contend with a wolf pack of German U-boats, one of which is captained by Otto Krebs, a famed and ruthless undersea warrior. But Krebs comes to Killakeet with more than torpedoes and plans for war. He may have the answer to the mystery that haunts Josh Thurlow.
The lighthouse
by P.D. James
F Jam (Mysteries)
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe Island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham.
Keeper of my heart
by Penelope Neri
PB Ner (Romance)
Morgan St. James was by far the most virile man Miranda Tallant had ever seen, with thick locks of midnight silk and a well-muscled chest rippling with power. Miranda realized at once this was no ordinary lighthouse keeper. but while she did not know if he had come to investigate her family's smuggling or if he truly had been disinherited, one glance at his emerald-dark eyes promised her untold nights of desire. Bent on discovering the blackguards responsible for his friend's death, Morgan didn't expect to have his passion awakened by the lovely widow Miranda, but now she fills his every waking thought.
The lighthouse keeper
James Michael Pratt
F Pra
Off the coast of Massachusetts, the Port Hope Lighthouse's inhabitants weather the storms of life. Three generations of the O'Banyon clan have found solace there and learn to "keep a light on" for each other. Kathleen O'Banyon returns to her aging father, Peter, in the now-retired lighthouse. As Peter reminisces about the past and his childhood with his Uncle Billie, we are drawn into the family saga. When Peter was orphaned as a child, he was sent to live with Uncle Billie, the keeper of the Port Hope Lighthouse. From Billie, he learns the secrets of keeping love alive--even when personal tragedy strikes--and he discovers how Billie himself was put to the test as a young man. Lighthouse
Eugenia Price
F Pri
James Gould is the founder of the Southern dynasty whose rich, bold life Eugenia Price has chronicled in her celebrated novel New Moon Rising. His dream is to make a life for himself in the magnificent, untamed, post-Revolutionary South. How Gould pursues his singular ambition, the exotic people and places he encounters along the way, and especially the beautiful and strong girl who comes to share the dream and life he has chosen, make up the captivating core of this engrossing and extraordinary novel. A charmed place
By Antoinette Stockenberg
F Sto (Romance)
Full of the trademark Stockemberg charm, family intrigue, and mystical mystery, this delightful romance is the story of burned-out CNN correspondent Dan Hawke, who comes to the insular Cape Cod town of Sandy Point to seek solace in a lighthouse. College professor Maddie Regan, about to turn forty, has a thirteen-year-old daughter who is driving her crazy. But that's the least of her problems, as it's starting to look like her father's death was murder. But why would anyone want to kill her father, a humble philosophy professor? Together Dan and Maddie team up and must face this small town's scrutiny, the increasingly erratic behavior of Helen's ex-husband, the dangerous knowledge her father died for -- and their undeniable attraction to one another.
Snow Island
by Katherine Towler
F Tow
The story of two strangers who inhabit the same remote island off the New England coast. Sixteen-year-old Alice Daggett still feels the presence of her late father, who died five years earlier, while she shoulders the responsibility of running the family store. George Tibbits, a loner in his forties and the owner of the island's twin houses, returns each year in an act of homage to the women who raised him there. While George struggles to make peace with his troubled past and Alice befriends the twenty-six-year-old who tends the island lighthouse, both characters learn the hard lesson of what it means to love. Lighthousekeeping
Jeanette Winterson
F Win
Orphaned and anchorless, Silver is taken in by blind Mr. Pew, the mysterious and miraculously old keeper of the Cape Wrath lighthouse. As the lighthouse beam illuminates a swath of water, so do stories emerge from the vast oceans of Pew's memory: the history of Cape Wrath and its founder, Babel Dark, a nineteenth-century clergyman. Dark lived two lives: a public one mired in darkness and deceit, and a private one bathed in the light of passionate love. For Silver, Dark's life becomes a map through her own particular madness, into her own story, and, finally, into love. To the lighthouse
by Virginia Woolf
F Woo
The novel that established Virginia Woolf as a leading writer of the twentieth century, To the Lighthouse is made up of three powerfully charged visions into the life of one family living in a summer house off the rocky coast of Scotland. As time winds its way through their lives, the Ramseys face, alone and simultaneously, the greatest of human challenges and its greatest triumph-the human capacity for change. A moving portrait in miniature of family life, it also has profoundly universal implications, giving language to the silent space that separates people and the space that they transgress to reach each other.
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