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1) The sea-wolf
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Language
English
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A young art critic is forced to endure the wrath of Wolf Larsen, captain of the sealing schooner which rescues him after a shipwreck.
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Series
Language
English
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Richard Henry Dana referred to this book as "a voice from the sea." Influencing such authors as Conrad and Melville, it has become a maritime classic that has inflicted legions of men with a passion for the sea.
Dana, a law student turned sailor for health reasons, sailed in 1834 on the brigPilgrimfor a voyage from Boston around Cape Horn to California. Dana Point was named as a result of this journey. Drawing from his journals,Two Years
...3) Stranded
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the only person unaffected by the strange force plaguing the ship and her crew,...
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English
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Girls like secretary Emma O'Rourke shouldn't believe in fairy tales, so she keeps her head down and works hard. Now, summoned to bring back the heir of Kent Hotels, she has to step out of the shadows. ... Unshaven and jaded, Gideon Kent has been sailing the world too long. As he docks, he's surprised to find Emma waiting for him. Until now Gideon has refused the role he was born for - but the pretty and oh-so-diligent Miss O'Rourke might just change...
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Series
Wanton Dairymaid trilogy volume 2
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English
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Desperate to escape a loveless marriage and society's constraints, pampered heiress Sophia Hathaway jilts her groom, packs up her paints and sketchbook, and assumes a new identity, posing as a governess to secure passage on the Aphrodite. She wants a life of her own: unsheltered, unconventional, uninhibited. But it's one thing to sketch her most wanton fantasies, and quite another to face the dangerously handsome libertine who would steal both her...
Author
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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Description
Sailors in the Navy will almost certainly spend part of their careers at sea. Everyone on board has a job whether it's a cook, medic, to nuclear equipment operator. And even though a sailor s life on a ship is strict and orderly, there are still some surprising facts about jobs, training, and living quarters in the Navy.
7) All is lost
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
[Spanish subtitled version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 106 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the...
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English
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On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese ttack on Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers headed by Edward C. Raymer are hurriedly flown to Oahu from the mainland. The divers have been given a Herculean task: rescue the sailors and Marines trapped below, and resurrect the pride of the Pacific fleet.
Now for the
10) Arch of bone
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
iii, 195 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Josiah dreams of joining the crew of whaling ship, like his father and grandfather. A sailor brings news that his father has died, and that his crew was doomed by the mad Captain Ahab and the white whale, Moby Dick. Josiah and his loyal dog, Zeke, set sail to find out the truth of his father's death.
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Series
Signet classics volume CT75
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English
Description
Featured in this volume are "Billy Budd", Melville's posthumously published novella, the story of the rivalry between a handsome sailor and his demonic captain; the tale of the apathetic "Bartleby, the Scrivener; " the riveting "Benito Cereno", the story of a slave ship mutiny written at the time of the Amistad case and "The Town-Ho's Story", a chapter from Melville's masterpiece, "Moby Dick".
12) Dark shores
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Series
Dark shores volume 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Captured by a senator with knowledge of the Dark Shores, pirate Teriana and soldier Marcus are forced to sail in pursuit of conquest together, uniting for the sake of their families but unsure of how far they are willing to go.
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Captain Kit Brightling novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Chloe Neill brings her trademark wit and wild sense of adventure to this stunning seafaring fantasy starring a dauntless heroine in a world of magic and treachery. Kit Brightling, rescued as a foundling and raised in a home for talented girls, has worked hard to rise through the ranks of the Isles' Crown Command and become one of the few female captains in Queen Charlotte's fleet. Her ship is small, but she's fast-- in part because of Kit's magical...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
509 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the tiny Gulf Coast settlement of Navy Cove as her family races to build American ships for the War of 1812, Fiona Lanier can scarcely take in the news of her brother's capture by the British Navy -- or the half-drowned British sailor she finds washed ashore on the beach.
15) The whisper
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
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Series
Isles of the gods volume 1
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
Selly's plans to follow her father to the north seas are dashed when a handsome stranger with tell-tale magician's marks on his arm boards her ship and presents her with a dangerous mission--to sail to the Isles of the Gods so he can complete a mysterious ritual.
When Selly's father leaves her high and dry in the port of Kirkpool, she has no intention of riding out the winter on land while he sails to adventure in the north seas. But any plans to...
17) The storm sister
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Series
Seven sisters (Lucinda Riley) volume 2
Language
English
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Ally D'Apliese is about to compete in one of the world's most perilous yacht races, when she hears the news of her adoptive father's sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father - an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt - has left each of them a tantalising clue to their true heritage. Ally has also recently embarked on a deeply passionate love affair...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xvi, 311 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Meet Kevin Hall, brother, son, husband, father, and Olympic and America's Cup sailor. Kevin has an Ivy League degree, a winning smile, and throughout his adult life, he has been engaged in an ongoing battle with a person that doesn't exist to anyone but him: the Director. Kevin suffers from what doctors are beginning to call the 'Truman Show' delusion, a form of psychosis named for the 1998 movie, where the main character is trapped as the star of...
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English
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A memoir by a USS Arizona survivor describes his experience of the attacks that left him with burns over more than sixty-five percent of his body, his resolve to reenter service after a grueling recovery, and his contributions to some of the Pacific's most violent battles.
The most gripping, intimate, and inspiring account of Pearl Harbor, the first memoir ever published by a USS Arizona survivor. At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class...
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Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xx, 267 pages : photographs ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"On August 14, 1945, Alfred Eisenstaedt took a picture of a sailor kissing a nurse in Times Square, minutes after they heard of Japan's surrender to the United States. Two weeks later LIFE magazine published that image. It became one of the most famous WWII photographs in history (and the most celebrated photograph ever published in the world's dominant photo-journal), a cherished reminder of what it felt like for the war to finally be over. Everyone...
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