The Lighthouse Keeper

Author : Caroline Woodward
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781550177282

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Light Years by Caroline Woodward Pdf

In 2007, Caroline Woodward was itching for a change. With an established career in book-selling and promotion, four books of her own and having raised a son with her husband, Jeff, she yearned for adventure and to re-ignite her passion for writing. Jeff was tired of piecing together low-paying part-time jobs and, with Caroline’s encouragement, applied for a position as a relief lightkeeper on a remote North Pacific island. They endured lonely months of living apart, but the way of life rejuvenated Jeff and inspired Caroline to contemplate serious shifts in order to accompany him. When a permanent position for a lighthouse keeper became available, Caroline quit her job and joined Jeff on the lights. Caroline soon learned that the lighthouse-keeping life does not consist of long, empty hours in which to write. The reality is hard physical labour, long stretches of isolation and the constant threat of de-staffing. Beginning with a 3:30 a.m. weather report, the days are filled with maintaining the light station buildings, sea sampling, radio communication, beach cleanup, wildlife encounters and everything in between. As for dangerous rescue missions or dramatic shipwrecks—that kind of excitement is rare. “So far the only life I know I’ve saved is my own,” she says, with her trademark dry wit. Yet Caroline is exhilarated by the scenic coastline with its drizzle and fog, seabirds and whales, and finds time to grow a garden and, as anticipated, write. Told with eloquent introspection and an eye for detail, Light Years is the personal account of a lighthouse keeper in twenty-first century British Columbia—an account that details Caroline’s endurance of extreme climatic, interpersonal and medical challenges, as well as the practical and psychological aspects of living a happy, healthy, useful and creative life in isolation.

Author : Cynthia Ellingsen
Publisher : Lake Union Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Dwellings
ISBN : 1477822828

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The Lighthouse Keeper by Cynthia Ellingsen Pdf

An Amazon Charts bestseller. Dawn Conners's parents are famous for finding historic treasures, but she has a knack for losing things--her job, her boyfriend, and now, her reputation. Thanks to a mud-slinging exposé, Dawn's late great-grandfather is assumed guilty of stealing silver from a century-old shipwreck. Hoping to clear his name, Dawn returns to Starlight Cove, her idyllic hometown on Lake Michigan, where the doomed vessel sleeps beneath the beam of a ramshackle lighthouse. Her plan: remodel and sell the lighthouse while untangling the perplexing family mystery. Neither task is easy, especially once her well-meaning parents and the quirky locals--including nautical researcher and Starlight Cove's most eligible bachelor, Kip Whittaker--get involved. Despite their attraction, Dawn is reluctant to trust Kip, or any of the close-knit townsfolk. But as she pieces together the truth, Dawn's once-shuttered heart opens up. And if she's willing, the lighthouse might guide her to a place she never expected to find, where the past entwines with a bright new beginning.

Author : Hazel Gaynor
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062698636

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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Hazel Gaynor Pdf

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.” 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling’s home for all of her twenty-two years. When she and her father rescue shipwreck survivors in a furious storm, Grace becomes celebrated throughout England, the subject of poems, ballads, and plays. But far more precious than her unsought fame is the friendship that develops between Grace and a visiting artist. Just as George Emmerson captures Grace with his brushes, she in turn captures his heart. 1938: Newport, Rhode Island. Nineteen-years-old and pregnant, Matilda Emmerson has been sent away from Ireland in disgrace. She is to stay with Harriet, a reclusive relative and assistant lighthouse keeper, until her baby is born. A discarded, half-finished portrait opens a window into Matilda’s family history. As a deadly hurricane approaches, two women, living a century apart, will be linked forever by their instinctive acts of courage and love.

Author : John Cook,Jon Bauer
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781760874612

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The Last Lighthouse Keeper by John Cook,Jon Bauer Pdf

John Cook's ripping life story exposes Tasmania's old kero-fuelled lighthouses: relentless physically and emotionally demanding labour, done under the often cruel vagaries of nature. Noble work that can ultimately redeem a lost soul. Or break them.' MATTHEW EVANS I loved the life of the island, because I knew my body was more alive than it was on the mainland. People asked how we stood the isolation and boredom, but in some ways, it was more stimulating to have your senses turned up. In Tasmania, John Cook is known as 'The Keeper of the Flame'. As one of Australia's longest-serving lighthouse keepers, John spent 26 years tending Tasmania's well-known kerosene 'lights' at Tasman Island, Maatsuyker Island and Bruny Island. From sleepless nights keeping the lights alive, battling the wind and sea as they ripped at gutters and flooded stores, raising a joey, tending sheep and keeping ducks and chickens, the life of a keeper was one of unexpected joy and heartbreak. But for John, nothing was more heartbreaking than the introduction of electric lights, and the lighthouses that were left empty forever. Evocatively told, The Last Lighthouse Keeper is a love story between a man and a dying way of life, as well as a celebration of wilderness and solitude.

Author : Ronda Armitage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-01-08
Category : Food
ISBN : 0702318620

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The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch (45th Anniversary Ed Ition) (HB) by Ronda Armitage Pdf

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr Grinling... Mr Grinling LOVES his food, but - oh no! - he's not the only one who likes a snack and the local seagulls have started stealing Mrs Grinling's tasty treats...! Can Mr and Mrs Grinling come up with a cunning plan to keep those pesky seagulls away?

Author : Ronda Armitage
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407171517

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The Lighthouse Keeper: The Lighthouse Keeper's Cat by Ronda Armitage Pdf

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr. Grinling. At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs, and in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean and polish the light... When Hamish, the lighthouse keeper's cat, hears that Mr and Mrs Grinling are going to put him on a diet, he decides to find somewhere else to live. Soon, though, Hamish realises that there's no place like home. The first Lighthouse Keeper story, THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER'S LUNCH, published over thirty years ago. It is now a modern picture book classic, and his adventures have been loved by children ever since.

Author : Jean E. Pendziwol
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781443452236

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The Lightkeeper's Daughters by Jean E. Pendziwol Pdf

A Toronto Star bestseller * A Globe and Mail bestseller * A New York Post "must-read" book The Light Between Oceans meets The Language of Flowers in this beautiful debut novel by an acclaimed Canadian children’s author. Elizabeth's eyes have failed. She can no longer read the books she loves or see the paintings that move her spirit, but her mind remains sharp and music fills the vacancy left by her blindness as she ruminates on the secrets in her family's past. When her late father's journals are discovered on a shipwrecked boat, she enlists the help of a delinquent teenager, Morgan, who is completing community service at the senior home where Elizabeth lives. An unlikely relationship develops between the two as they work to decipher the books and are drawn into the musty words he penned more than seventy years before as he manned the lighthouse on Porphyry Island. In the process they come to realize that they are both connected to the isolated island, their lives touched by Elizabeth's enigmatic twin sister Emily and the beautiful but harsh Lake Superior environment. While the discovery of Morgan's connection sheds light onto her own family mysteries, the faded pages of the journals hold more questions than answers for Elizabeth, and threaten the very core of who she is. Combining an emotional story of human connection with a mystery spanning decades, this tale of family, identity, and art will captivate and resonate with readers.

Author : Ronda Armitage
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-04
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781407151885

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The Lighthouse Keeper's Catastrophe by Ronda Armitage Pdf

Once there was a lighthouse keeper called Mr. Grinling. At night time he lived in a small white cottage perched high on the cliffs, and in the daytime he rowed out to his lighthouse to clean and polish the light. When Mr Grinling locks himself out of the lighthouse, he tries everything to get back inside! Available for the first time as an e-book.

Author : James Michael Pratt
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780312273538

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The Lighthouse Keeper by James Michael Pratt Pdf

The beloved bestseller that will shine in your heart forever... From the acclaimed author of The Last Valentine comes an unforgettable story about family, loss, and eternal love. Bestselling writer James Michael Pratt once again touches our emotions and our spirit as only a great writer can... Ten-year-old Peter O'Banyon's life changes forever when his family dies in an accident. Orphaned, he goes to live with his garrulous Uncle Billie, the keeper of the Port Hope Island Lighthouse in Massachusetts. There, as the beacon leads sailors home, Peter learns an astonishing truth about Billie's past-- and the power of love. This message guides Peter's life, even when World War II's brutality rocks his faith, even when he returns to his young bride and an unimaginable tragedy. Now, in the final days of his own life, Peter needs to pass on the lighthouse keeper's secrets to his own daughter, but to do it may take nothing less than a miracle...

Author : Constance Scovill Small
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Lighthouse keepers
ISBN : UOM:39015024930052

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Lighthouse Keeper's Wife by Constance Scovill Small Pdf

Author : Alan Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Flannan Isles (Scotland)
ISBN : 1907777628

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The Lighthouse Keeper by Alan Baker Pdf

A TERRIFYING MYSTERY OF THE SEA... In December 1900, three lighthouse keepers vanished without trace from the remote Scottish island of Eilean Mor. An emergency relief crew was sent to man the lighthouse. At the end of their month-long duty, they resigned from their posts and never spoke of what they had experienced on the island. The mystery of Eilean Mor has never been solved. Until now. In the present, a group of environmental researchers arrives on the island to observe the wildlife. While exploring the lighthouse, now automated and deserted, one of the team discovers a manuscript written by one of the relief keepers, a man named Alec Dalemore. As a sudden storm moves in, cutting off their escape, the researchers come to realise that Dalemore wrote the manuscript as a warning to all the lighthouse keepers who would come after him. A warning of something on Eilean Mor and in the surrounding ocean - something ancient and powerful, and strange beyond imagining...

Author : M.L. Stedman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451681734

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The Light Between Oceans by M.L. Stedman Pdf

A novel set on a remote Australian island, where a childless couple live quietly running a lighthouse, until a boat carrying a baby washes ashore.

Author : David Richards
Publisher : Bookbaby
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1098301455

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The Lighthouse Keeper by David Richards Pdf

What do you do when you know you aren't living the life you want? Sam has come to that place. He embarks on a journey, only to discover that journey is going to be one that forever changes his life, if he can survive.

Author : Ronda Armitage,David Armitage
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Children's stories
ISBN : 1407105469

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The Lighthouse Keeper's New Friend by Ronda Armitage,David Armitage Pdf

Mr Grinling likes to look for mermaids on his days off. but the golden- haired creature he spots on a rock isn't quite what he expected.

Author : Arielle North Olson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781493068159

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The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter by Arielle North Olson Pdf

On a rocky island outpost off the coast of Maine, a young girl once kept the lighthouse lamps burning for days while her father was held on the mainland by a violent storm. This heroic incident forms the basis of Arielle North Olson’s dramatic story about young Miranda and her family. They have recently moved to the lighthouse—and the reader becomes acclimated along with Miranda to the harsh and demanding way of life she finds there. Illustrated in sweeping watercolors of blue and gray by Elaine Wentworth, The Lighthouse Keeper’s Daughter will stir the hearts of readers as they watch Miranda struggle triumphantly against storm and rock and sea.