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Harris, Josh

Summary: Presents a portrait of the late star of Discovery Channel's "Deadliest Catch," revealing his high-risk private life of tempestuous affairs, drug-fueled parties, and motorcycle riding, as well as his virtues as a devoted friend, loving father, and steadfast captain.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2013

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.56 HAR

Miloszewski, Nathan

Summary: "From the middle of the ocean to your dinner table, the fish you eat may have taken a long journey. This meal was made possible by one of the most dangerous jobs on the planet. Commercial fishers risk their lives to make a living and provide food for the world's population. This book helps readers gain a better understanding and appreciation for the men and women who battle severe weather and...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 639.2023 MIL

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LUZ

Hume, Mark

Summary: "A unique and radiant memoir about fatherhood and fly fishing. Fishing was Mark Hume's passion since he was a young boy, a lifeline through a childhood marked by impermanence. When he became a father, he knew he wanted to pass on his love of fishing and the natural world to his daughters. Most of all, he wanted to give them hope for their future even as they were growing up during an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HUME, MARK HUM

Coggins, David

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: "The author of the instant fishing classic The Optimist wades into deeper waters and shares new wisdom, humor, and experience in seven extraordinary fly-fishing expeditions that mark one year in his journey through the middle part of life when worldly demands increase even as fishing continues to beckon-and must be pursued.In David Coggins's previous book, The Optimist, he tackles the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.124 COG

Ash, Lamorna

Summary: "From an adventurous and discerning new voice reminiscent of Robert Macfarlane, a captivating portrait of a community eking out its living in a coastal landscape as stark and storied as it is beautiful. Before arriving in Newlyn, a Cornish fishing villageat the end of the railway line, Lamorna Ash was told that no fisherman would want a girl joining an expedition. Weeks later, the only female...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.3 ASH

Upton, Joe

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Saquatch Books 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639.275 UPT

Franklin, Jonathan

Summary: The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 FRA

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 FRA

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival Franklin

Franklin, Jonathan

Summary: "The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history--as told to journalist Jonathan Franklin in dozens of exclusive interviews"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 910 FRA

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North American Fishing Club 1990

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Water Strangis

Maclean, John N.

Summary: "A universal story about the power of place to shape families: In the spirit of his father's beloved classic A River Runs Through It, comes John N. Maclean's meditation on fly fishing and life along Montana's Blackfoot River, where four generations of Macleans have fished, bonded, and drawn timeless lessons from its storied waters"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Custom House 2021

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MAC

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 MAC

Moore, Charlie

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1092 MOO

Prosek, James

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Rob Weisbach Books 1997

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.1 PRO

Adams, L. H.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: A.R. Harding Pub. Co. 1962

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 636.932 ADA

Dihle, Bjorn

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sport Dihle

Fagan, Brian M.

Summary: Humanity's last major source of food from the wild, and how it enabled and shaped the growth of civilization In this history of fishing-not as sport but as sustenance-archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food to allow cities, nations, and empires to...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 639 FAG

Gierach, John

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 799.124 GIE

Hemingway, Ernest

Summary: Hemingway's triumphant yet tragic story of an old Cuban fisherman and his relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream combines the simplicity of a fable, the significance of a parable, and the drama of an epic.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 1995

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEM

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult, Call number: FICTION Hemingway 1995
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Hemingway 1995

Summary: Noodling is the lost art of using your hands as bait to catch fish. Follow this group of Oklahoma fishermen as they catch 60 pound catfish with their bare hands, as has been done for hundreds of years.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Redline Entertainment 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC OKI

Greenlaw, Linda

Summary: A humorous collection of true fishing tales shares the author's experiences of navigating through a mercurial storm as well as the yarns of Portland, Maine, fishermen about their funniest experiences, biggest fish, and wildest nights.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2004

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 799.16 GRE

Greenlaw, Linda

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 799.16 GRE

Hemingway, Ernest

Summary: Santiago is a Cuban fisherman who encounters a giant marlin in the Gulf Stream and the battle for his catch becomes one of survival against a band of marauding sharks.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1996

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HEM

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HEM

Lyons, Nick

Summary: "Fire in the Straw is the witty and deeply felt memoir of Nick Lyons, a man with an intrepid desire to reinvent himself—which he does, over and over. Nick Lyons shape shifts from reluctant student and graduate of the Wharton School, to English Professor, to husband of a fiercely committed painter, to ghost writer, to famous fly fisherman and award-winning author, to father and then grandfather,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Arcade Publishing 2020

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Lyons

Nugent, Rory.

Summary: A hard, unvarnished look at New Bedford, Massachusetts today, where the relic commercial fishing industry is only one of the components, and where the old ways run smack into modern problems like drug-smuggling, illegal immigration, organized crime, disorganized crime, and suffocating government regulations.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 974.485 NUG

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