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Alistair and Kip's great adventure! / by Segal, John;
Alistair and Kip build a boat and soon find themselves sailing down the creek to the river to the bay and out to sea where a violent storm threathens to capsize them."Ages 3-6"--P. [2] of cover.
Subjects: Dogs; Cats; Whales; Boats and boating; Adventure stories;
© c2008., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub.,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Silver Bay : a novel / by Moyes, Jojo,1969-author.;
Liza McCullen will never fully escape her past. But the unspoiled beaches and tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the freedom and safety she craves-if not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah. That is, until Mike Dormer arrives as a guest in her aunt's hotel. The mild-mannered Englishman with his too-smart clothes and distracting eyes could destroy everything Liza has worked so hard to protect: not only the family business and the bay that harbors her beloved whales, but also her conviction that she will never love-never deserve to love-again. For his part, Mike Dormer is expecting just another business deal-an easy job kick-starting a resort in a small seaside town ripe for development. But he finds that he doesn't quite know what to make of the eccentric inhabitants of the ramshackle Silver Bay Hotel, especially not enigmatic Liza McCullen, and their claim to the surrounding waters. As the development begins to take on a momentum of its own, Mike's and Liza's worlds collide in this hugely affecting and irresistible tale full of Jojo Moyes's signature humor and generosity.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Romance fiction.; Hotels; Whales;
Available copies: 0 / Total copies: 3
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Soundings : journeys in the company of whales : a memoir / by Cunningham, Doreen,author.;
Includes bibliographical references."In this memoir of motherhood, love, and resilience, a woman and her toddler son follow the grey whale migration from Mexico to northernmost Alaska. In this striking blend of nature writing, whale science, and memoir, Doreen Cunningham interweaves two stories: tracking the extraordinary northward migration of the grey whales with a mischievous toddler in tow and living with an Iñupiaq family in Alaska seven years earlier. Throughout the journey she explores the stories of the whales and their young calves-their history, their habits, and their attempts to survive the changes humans have brought to the ocean. Cunningham's voice is powerful: sharp, profound, sensitive, and unflinching. A story of courage and resilience, Soundings is about the migrating whales and all we can learn from them as they mother, adapt, and endure, their lives interrupted and threatened by global warming. It is also a riveting journey onto the Arctic Sea ice and into the changing world of Indigenous whale hunters, where Doreen becomes immersed in the ancient values of the Iñupiaq whale hunt and falls in love. For this is Doreen's story, too-a fierce, feminist tale, touching on her childhood and her time living in a Women's Refuge with her baby, becoming a mother, just like the whales. Lyrical, brave, and fearlessly honest, Soundings is an unforgettable journey"--
Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Cunningham, Doreen; Cunningham, Doreen.; Inupiat; Nature; Single mothers; Whales; Women journalists;
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Big blue forever : the story of Canada's largest blue whale skeleton / by Miettunen, Anita.;
Includes bibliographical references and Internet addresses.The story of the blue whale skeleton on permanent display at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum in Vancouver, British Columbia. Includes facts about blue whales and their environment.LSC
Subjects: Beaty Biodiversity Museum; Baleen whales; Marine mammal remains (Archaeology); Blue whale;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Ocean giants [videorecording] / by Allan, Doug.; Brownlow, Mark.; Chapman, Philip.; Noirot, Didier.; 13 Production (Firm); 2 Entertain (Firm); British Broadcasting Corporation.; WNET (Television station : New York, N.Y.); Warner Home Video (Firm);
Giant lives -- Deep thinkers -- Voices of the sea.Dolphins and whales may appear to be totally alien to us. But with their mental ability, group communication and the recent discovery that dolphins have individual names, they are closer to us than we ever imagined. Ace underwater cameramen Doug Allan and Didier Noirot embark on a quest to film the most amazing stories of whales and dolphins across the ocean world.E.DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen presentation, Dolby Digital.
Subjects: Documentary television programs.; Dolphins.; Nature television programs.; Whales.; Wildlife television programs.;
© c2012., 2 Entertain ; Distributed by Warner Home Video,
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Say hello to my little friend : a novel / by Crucet, Jennine Capó,author.;
Failed Pitbull impersonator Ismael Reyes--you can call him Izzy--might not be the Scarface type, but why should that keep him from trying? Growing up in Miami has shaped him into someone who dreams of being the King of the 305, with the money, power, and respect he assumes comes with it. After finding himself at the mercy of a cease-and-desist letter from Pitbull's legal team and living in his aunt's garage-turned-efficiency, Izzy embarks on an absurd quest to turn himself into a modern-day Tony Montana. When Izzy's efforts lead him to the tank that houses Lolita, a captive orca at the Miami Seaquarium, she proves just how powerful she and the water surrounding her really are--permeating everything from Miami's sinking streets to Izzy's memories to the very heart of the novel itself. What begins as Izzy's story turns into a super-saturated fever dream as sprawling and surreal as the Magic City, one as sharp as an iguana's claws, and as menacing as a killer whale's teeth. As the truth surrounding Izzy's boyhood escape from Cuba surfaces, the novel reckons with the forces of nature, with the limits and absence of love, and with the dangers of pursuing a tragic inheritance. Wildly narrated and expertly rendered, Say Hello to My Little Friend is Jennine Capó Crucet's most daring, heart-breaking, and fearless book yet.
Subjects: Humorous fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cuban Americans; Killer whale; Memory;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Grandfather Bowhead, tell me a story / by Johnston, Aviaq.; Campeau, Tamara.;
A grandfather bowhead tells his young grandchild calf about all the beautiful and amazing things he has seen in his lifetime, at the same time he ensures the little calf that nothing is more wondrous than the love a grandfather has for his grandchild.LSC
Subjects: Bowhead whale; Grandfathers; Grandparent and child; Love; Storytelling;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Splash and Bubbles. [videorecording] / by PBS Distribution (Firm),distributor.; PBS for Kids,production company.;
The Reeftown Rangers set off on a migratory adventure from the Antarctic to the Arctic in this new one-hour Splash and Bubbles event. They will encounter narwhals and penguins and humpbacks on the way.G.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; stereo.
Subjects: Children's television programs.; Animated television programs.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Friendship; Marine animals; Ocean;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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In the heart of the sea [videorecording] / by Hemsworth, Chris,actor.; Howard, Ron,1954-film director.; Murphy, Cillian,1976-actor.; Philbrick, Nathaniel.In the heart of the sea.Videorecording.; Walker, Benjamin,1982-actor.; Whishaw, Ben,1980-actor.; Village Roadshow Pictures,production company.; Warner Home Video (Firm),publisher.;
Chris Hemsworth, Benjamin Walker, Cillian Murphy, Ben Whishaw, Brendan Gleeson, Tom Holland, Jordi Molla, Charlotte Riley, Joseph Mawle, Michelle Fairley.Originally produced as a motion picture in 2015.In the winter of 1820, the New England whaling ship Essex was assaulted by something no one could believe: a whale of mammoth size and will, and an almost human sense of vengeance. The real-life maritime disaster would inspire Herman Melville's Moby-Dick. But that told only half the story. This story reveals the encounters harrowing aftermath, as the ship's surviving crew is pushed to their limits and forced to do the unthinkable to stay alive.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.DVD, widescreen ; Dolby digital 5.1.
Subjects: Essex (Whaleship); Action and adventure films.; Animal attacks; Biographical films.; Feature films.; Historical films.; Shipwreck survival; Shipwrecks; Sperm whale; Survival at sea; Whaling ships;
For private home use only.
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Not on my watch : how a renegade whale biologist took on governments and industry to save wild salmon / by Morton, Alexandra,1957-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."Alexandra Morton has been called "the Jane Goodall of Canada." Here is her brilliant account of her thirty-year fight to save British Columbia's wild salmon, inspiring in its own right but also a roadmap of resistance. Alexandra Morton came north from California in the early 1980s, following her first love--the northern resident orca. In remote Echo Bay, in the Broughton Archipelago, she found the perfect place to settle into all she had ever dreamed of: a lifetime of observing and learning what these big-brained mammals are saying to each other. She was also lucky enough to get there just in time to witness a place of true natural abundance, and learned how to thrive in the wilderness as a scientist and a single mother. Then, in 1989, industrial aquaculture moved into the region, chasing the whales away. Her First Nations neighbours, whose people had depended on the bounty of wild salmon for 10,000 years, asked her if she would write letters on their behalf to government protesting the damage the farms were doing to the fisheries, and one thing led to another. Soon Alex had shifted her scientific focus to documenting the infectious diseases and parasites that pour from the ocean pens of Atlantic salmon into the migration routes of wild Pacific salmon, and then to proving their disastrous impact on wild salmon and the entire ecosystem of the coast. Alex stood against the farms, first representing her community, then alone, and at last as part of an uprising that built around her as ancient Indigenous governance resisted a province and a country that wouldn't recognize their own laws. She has used her science, many acts of protest and the legal system in her unrelenting efforts to save wild salmon--a story that reveals her own doggedness and bravery but also shines a bright light on the ways other humans doggedly resist the truth. Here, she brilliantly calls those humans to account: for their sake, as much as ours, they need to listen to the wisdom of the wild salmon and of the people who have lived with them for 10,000 years."--
Subjects: Biographies.; Autobiographies.; Morton, Alexandra, 1957-; Marine biologists; Pacific salmon; Salmon farming;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 3
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