Along the Maine coast, the distinctive lobster boat is ubiquitous, and fisherman devote nearly as much time and effort naming their boats as their children. In this charming little volume, Victor Cole has reached out to hundreds of lobstermen and collected the stories behind the names of their boats. Some of the names are of children, or of loved ones who’ve passed on; some are religious or inspirational, and some are downright funny. But the stories behind them are all interesting and reveal something about Maine’s fishing culture.

In The Chinese Atlantic, Sean Metzger charts processes of global circulation across and beyond the Atlantic, exploring how seascapes generate new understandings of Chinese migration, financial networks and artistic production. Moving across film, painting, performance, and installation art, Metzger traces flows of money, culture, and aesthetics to reveal the ways in which routes of commerce stretching back to the Dutch Golden Age have molded and continue to influence the social reproduction of Chineseness. With a particular focus on the Caribbean, Metzger investigates the expressive culture of Chinese migrants and the communities that received these waves of people. He interrogates central issues in the study of similar case studies from South Africa and England to demonstrate how Chinese Atlantic seascapes frame globalization as we experience it today. Frequently focusing on art that interacts directly with the sites in which it is located, Metzger explores how Chinese migrant laborers and entrepreneurs did the same to shape—both physically and culturally—the new spaces in which they found themselves. In this manner, Metzger encourages us to see how artistic imagination and practice interact with migration to produce a new way of framing the global.

Questions and answers provide information about lobsters, crabs and a variety of other crustaceans.

Mysteries is the sharing of a profound revelation iced over a lifetime of fishing experience. Meant to be entertaining and informative, it opens with the authors youngest family experiences on fishing outings and takes you through many shallow water ecosystem experiences and mindsets throughout. Not an informative or how manual, there is much to be learned about the food chain and fish behaviors in shallow water. The stories, like the last book, are true events with real people, and the fly fishing revealing. Inspiring and decadent is his look into the world of elitist fly fishing.

Osiris may be descended from Egyptian Pharaoh cats, but even he’s not above solving a mystery ... With his new human owners Pepper Park and Lucas Havers, can they solve the case when an attractive female cat and her owner go missing while on holiday on the French Riviera? After one innocent little vacation, my life gets turned upside down. I visit a quaint little British village and end up sort of dating a rich British billionaire who owns, Osiris, a cat that saved my life before a murderer would have had his second victim. Naturally, Osiris adopted me as his and since I sort of have a crazy crush on Lucas, I’m not about to turn down an offer to vacation with him and Osiris in a fancy hotel on the French Riviera. But our plans to have a nice quiet vacation go out the window when we meet a young woman and her lovely Russian Blue Cat who she nicknamed “the Prussian”. When our new friend and her furry companion go mission, a host of suspects pop up and the bodies start to drop around us. What’s a girl to do but solve a murder right?