A history of lighthouses that served as traffic signals and maps.

A little lighthouse on the Hudson River regains its pride when it finds out that it is still useful and has an important job to do.

The Ramsay family and the one summer spent with their friends in their holiday home in Scotland. Offshore stands the lighthouse; remote, inaccessible, and an external presence in a changing world.

Personal memories, photographs, recipes, and descriptions of daily life from families who lived at and tended lighthouses throughout the United States, including the family of Edward Vance Hewett at the Charleston Light on Morris Island in the 1920s.

Simon and his sister Ellen have to solve the mystery of the hidden treasure if they want to save the island lighthouse they call home.

"It is 1755, and the threat of war with France looms over colonial York, Virginia. Chocolatier Esmée Shaw is fighting her own battle of the heart. Having reached her twenty-eighth birthday, she is reconciled to life alone after a decade-old failed love affair from which she's never quite recovered. But she longs to find something worthwhile to do with her life.Captain Henri Lennox has returned to port after a lengthy absence, intent on completing...

New York Times bestselling author Beatriz Williams brings us the blockbuster novel of the season--an electrifying postwar fable of love, class, power, and redemption set among the inhabitants of an island off the New England coast...In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful...