"Miss Poppy Summers is determined to keep her family's fishing business afloat. Her poor widowed father has fallen ill, and her foolhardy brother has moved to London, leaving her precious little time to read or pursue her own dreams. But she'll do anything for her family, so she cheerfully spends mornings in her rowboat, casting her nets. The very last thing Poppy expects or wants to find tangled in them is a dangerously attractive man. Especially...

Up all night, Marlene drives the highways and back roads near her home in hopes that some landmark will spark an image of her daughter, one untainted by years of grief. Her husband Les steams out to sea in his effort to cope. He is a commercial fisherman on a boat staffed up with desperate loners and shape-shifting friends obliterating their bodies in two-week shifts of crushing labor. The couple keep their pain hidden from each other, and most of...

For years, Kelly Andrews has waited for her big brother's best friend to notice her. As the physical therapist assigned to his recovery, she is finally getting the chance. But navy SEAL Michael Devaney is broken in body and spirit, all he sees is himself--as half a man. He is sure he will never be enough for the beautiful and vibrant Kelly. Devastated by the discovery of a terrible family secret, Patrick Devaney has shut out the world. But enchanting...

La alegoría más clara de Hemingway la constituye el viejo y el mar. En primer lugar, está la obstinación del anciano pescador contra su mala suerte: ochenta y cuatro días sin poder pescar un pez. Luego, habiendo pescado uno enorme, la lucha de ambos, frente a frente, solos y en mar adentro. Finalmente, el triunfo y el fracaso del hombre: retorna a tierra llevando al gran pez, pero en el trayecto de vuelta los tiburones han devorado al animal...

"All day at school, Rocky stares out the window, imagining fishing boats sailing across the sky. He wants nothing more than to fish for lobster with his dad, and finally one season he's old enough to go along. Before dawn, Rocky, Dad and sister Patsy untie their boat and head out to sea. Surrounded by the vast expanse of sky and water, Rocky feels as free as a seagull. His dad steers toward their first buoy, then pulls up a line of traps full of lobster....

A Vietnamese-American boy spends a day with his father on his shrimp boat, listening as he describes how his own father fishes on the South China Sea.

Rolling into little Black Earth, Wisconsin, intending to go fly fishing, Ned "Dog" Oglivie instead stumbles upon the body of a man trying to save Black Earth Creek, and wonders if by caring about the death of a stranger, he can recover his own life.

A fiercely independent young woman risks her heart and her freedom smuggling liquor in the 1920s.