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Captains Courageous is a novel by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.
The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers,...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
320
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Fly fisherman and private detective Sean Stranahan tackles two assignments, including the theft of a valuable fly and the murders of two men who have been found on Sphinx Mountain, cases with possible ties to powerful adversaries.
5) Fish
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"A boy and his dog embark on what is clearly not an ordinary day of fishing." -- Page [2] of cover.
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
348 pages ; 25 cm
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A story inspired by the plot of "King Lear" relates the fortunes of a family who has reaped the sea's bounty on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, but pays for it with the loss of every firstborn son.
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Sandpiper, an imprint of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Pub. Company
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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Unable to interest her parents, her brothers, or even her dog in going fishing with her, Lana creates her own boat and lake in her bedroom and soon has all the company a girl could want
10) Immi's gift
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Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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Day after day in the frozen north, a young Inuit girl catches brightly-colored objects while ice fishing and uses them to decorate her igloo, until the ice begins to melt and she drops in a gift of her own before leaving for the season.
12) Henry and Ribsy
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Series
Henry Huggins volume 3
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Henry Huggins makes a deal with his father--if Henry can keep his dog Ribsy out of trouble for a month, he can go fishing with his father. Ribsy does his best to make Henry lose the deal.
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NorthSouth
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
[36] p. : col. ill. ; 25 cm.
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It is winter and the seven little mice are excited about going ice fishing. But they only catch one fish, not enough to feed the seven and their mother. Can the Ice-Fishing Princess (also known as Mother) do any better?
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Island Adventures volume 2
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
103 pages ; 21 cm.
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"When Janey the cat arrives on Furtopia and announces a fishing contest, Alana is reluctant to join. Alana knows she can become hyper-focused on winning contests and is trying to change her competitive ways. Also, Alana just learned how to fish...All of Alana's problems seem to be solved when her new friend Bobby, a sporty bear, convinces Alana to hire him as her trainer...However, she soon realizes that Bobby's way of winning might not be honest"--...
16) The secret river
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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Young Calpurnia takes her dog, Buggy-horse, and follows her nose to a secret river in a Florida forest, where she catches enough fresh fish to feed her hungry neighbors, even after giving some to the forest creatures she meets on the way home.
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In its first time in audio and with an introduction written and read by poet Billy Collins, Trout Fishing in America is an indescribable romp, by turns a hilarious, playful, and melancholy novel that wanders from San Francisco through America's culture.Richard Brautigan's world is one of gentle magic and marvelous laughter, of the incredibly beautiful and the beautifully incredible. Trout Fishing in America is a pseudonym for the miraculous. A journey...
18) Time is a river
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Pub. Date
2008
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Recovering from breast cancer and reeling from her husband's infidelity, Mia flees to the mountains of North Carolina, and seeks refuge in a neglected cabin belonging to her fly-fishing instructor, where she unknowingly reopens a tragic family scandal.
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Publisher
High Bridge Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
7 sound discs (8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Just as Norman Maclean writes at the end of A River Runs through It that he is "haunted by waters," so have readers been haunted by his novella. A retired English professor who began writing fiction at the age of 70, Maclean produced what is now recognized as one of the classic American stories of the twentieth century.
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