From author Rands comes a vividly colored and charming picture book that lets readers spend a good bonding time with family. Join Grandpa and two boys as they prepare their fishing equipment and try to get the catch of the day while enjoying their time spent together. Full color.

K Bay is the third book in the Thunder Bay Seiner Series - a contemporary saga exploring the intertwined lives and loves of a commercial fishing family working the rough waters of untamed, wild Alaska. Gorgeous, pristine, unspeakably beautiful: all the words used to describe Alaska describe Kachemak Bay, yet Mack hates it and his brother Pete seconds that opinion. But they need to earn a living and now they have to deal with Hurley again—and on his home turf. The fight’s on when Hurley decides to teach them both a lesson while they’ve got nets out and crew on deck, but it’s Mack’s ex-wife Hattie showing up that really turns his world upside down. Justin may have been the quiet one but that was only because he didn’t have anything to fight for–until now. He’s done taking orders. Now he’s doing things his way. Ginny loves K-Bay. It is everything she ever dreamed of as she’d idolized Alaska as a child. With Pete back to seining, the close quarters of the crews add an element of attraction that’s making life on the boat even better–until it doesn’t.

A young boy talks about the fishing trips he takes with his grandfather. Book also shows the relationship between a boy and his grandfather. This book is geared for readers in the K-2nd age group. Children should be able to read this with minimal help. Ages 4-7

Raised in a large, loving Irish Catholic family, Valerie O'Connor is a sheltered and innocent young woman who comes of age in the 1950s. When, at age 18, she meets and falls deeply in love with Jack Marsh, a dashing veteran of the Air Force, little does she know that she is about to begin a relationship that is doomed from the start. Their many years of marriage are filled with Jack's drunken rages followed by morning-after remorse, and scenes of escalating violence witnessed by children too terrified to speak out lest they become Jack's next victims. A powerful story of a marriage begun with the best intentions but cursed by a legacy of violence that will have shocking consequences.

Gus goes fishing for the first time and receives expert guidance from his grandfather.