TY - BOOK AU - Gilbert,Elizabeth TI - Stern men SN - 0143114697 AV - PS3557.I3415 S74 2009 U1 - 813/.54[Fic] 22 PY - 2009///, c2000 CY - Boston PB - Penguin Books KW - Islands KW - Maine KW - Fiction KW - Lobster fishers KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Humorous fiction KW - sears KW - Love stories KW - Man-woman relationship KW - gsafd N1 - Booklist; Library Journal; Pub Weekly; Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - Eighteen-year-old Ruth Thomas, born on Fort Niles, arrives home from school determined to join the men who work the lobster boats, placing herself squarely in the middle of a generations-old feud over fishing rights between the lobstermen of Fort Niles and Courne Haven, but when she spies Owney Wishnell, a silent young Courne Haven dreamboat, she begins to long for a truce ER -