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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower miles from the Cornish coast--and about the wives who were left behind. What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent....
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"When Kate Kaird immigrated with her young son Jacob from Germany to America in 1882, she couldn't have predicted the surprising turn her life would take. She soon met and married John Walker, keeper of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse. They moved to Robbins Reef Lighthouse in New York Harbor in 1885 and she became assistant keeper. At first Kate wondered if she could live in such a lonely place, but she gradually grew to love life at Robbins Reef. When...
10) Out of the storm
Author
Series
Publisher
Two Words Publishing, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Having grown up in a lighthouse, loneliness is all Isabelle Thornton has ever known-and all, she assumes, she ever will know. But when her light keeper father rescues a young man from the lake, her sheltered world is turned upside down. Out of the Storm, bestselling author Jody Hedlund's first novella, introduces listeners to Beacons of Hope, a new series set in the 1800s amid the romance, history, and danger surrounding the Great Lakes lighthouses...
13) Freedom's light
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A young lighthouse keeper, recently widowed, faces war and deprivation to find happiness with a shipwrecked captain who's a spy for George Washington.
1776. Hannah Thomas left the South to marry John, but was never quite accepted by his mother and sister. She doesn't quite fit the strict Massachusetts Puritan community, and life becomes more difficult when John is killed in one of the first battles in the war for freedom. Hannah is allowed to continue...
Author
Publisher
AuthorHouse
Pub. Date
2005
Description
A true story of the Roberts family's three generations of lighthouse keepers in the U.S. Lighthouse Service. Their dedication and devotion began in 1894 when grandfather was assigned to the Cape Saint George Lighthouse in Apalachicola, Florida, and lasted for over 58 years and 3 generations. This story, recorded by a family member, is all about their lighthouses, family lives, duties of maintaining & operating the lighthouses along with childhood...
16) The lighthouse
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"From Roger Eggers,the visionary filmmaker behind the modern horror masterpiece The Witch, comes this hypnotic and hallucinatory tale of two lighthouse keepers (William Dafoe and Robert Patterson) on a remote and mysterious New England island in the 1880s. s an approaching storm threatens to sweep them from the rock and strange apparitions emerge from the fog, each man begins to suspect that the other has become dangerously unmoored."
17) The lightkeepers
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Description
The year is 1912. Vowing to swear off women for good, curmudgeonly Seth Atkins takes refuge tending a remote Cape Cod lighthouse. Then, a mysterious stranger literally washes ashore in Seth's life, with a past full of secrets and a similar aversion to females. But the arrival of two beautiful, spirited women will test the men's resolve.
19) The vanishing
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
After three lighthouse keepers arrive for work on a remote Scottish isle, they make a fateful discovery: a wrecked rowboat, with a chest full of gold. As a mysterious boat heads toward the island, the three men make a choice that will change their lives forever, ensnaring them in a web of greed, paranoia, and murder.
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