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Author
Series
The Chathrand voyage volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Scant years after a terrible war that shook empires, a 600-year-old ship sails for enemy lands and must deal with deadly assassins, treacherous mermaids, and monstrous slavers in order to deliver a young woman whose marriage will seal the peace.
2) Mad ship
Author
Series
Liveship traders volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Althea Vestrit is determined to get her liveship, Vivacia, back from the pirate captain Kennit.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When the decorated Captain of a great ship descends the gangplank for the final time, a new leader, a man with a yellow feather in his hair, vows to step forward. Though he has no experience, no knowledge of nautical navigation or maritime law, and though he has often remarked he doesn't much like boats, he solemnly swears to shake things up. Together with his band of petty thieves and confidence men known as the Upskirt Boys, the Captain thrills...
Author
Series
Liveship traders volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The final volume in the Liveship Traders trilogy finds Althea Vestrit continuing her quest to regain the liveship Vivacia from the ruthless pirate Kennit.
Author
Series
Stormwrack novels volume 3
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Marine videographer and biologist Sophie Hansa has spent the past few months putting her knowledge of science to use on the strange world of Stormwrack, solving seemingly impossible cases where no solution had been found before. When a series of ships within the Fleet of Nations, the main governing body that rules a loose alliance of island nation states, are sunk by magical sabotage, Sophie is called on to find out why. While surveying the damage...
Author
Series
Adventures of Trim volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Trim gets off to a bumpy start as ship's cat, new friends, human and animal, help him settle in.
Author
Series
Puppy pirates.Super special volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Puppy Pirates have a new recruit and it is up to the crew to teach her everything she needs to know in puppy pirate school.
Author
Publisher
Lantana Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The gnarled tree on the hill sometimes turns into a pirate ship. A rope serves as an anchor, a sheet as a sail, and Sam is its fearless captain. But one day another sailor approaches, and he's not from Sam's street. Can they find something more precious than diamonds and gold? Can they find--friendship?"--Dust jacket flap.
10) Trim helps out
Author
Series
Adventures of Trim volume 2
Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
On his first morning at sea, ship's cat Trim looks for ways to help out, and makes a new friend along the way.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
The roguish yet charming Captain Jack Sparrow's idyllic pirate life capsizes after his nemesis, the wily Captain Barbossa, steals his ship, the Black Pearl, and later attacks the town of Port Royal. Captain Barbossa kidnaps the governor's beautiful daughter, Elizabeth. In a gallant attempt to rescue her and recapture the Black Pearl, Elizabeth's childhood friend Will Turner joins forces with Jack. What Will doesn't know is that a cursed treasure has...
Author
Series
Gabriel Taverner novels volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"October, 1604. Former ship's surgeon turned country physician Gabriel Taverner is surprised to receive an urgent summons from his old naval captain. Now docked in Plymouth harbour, having recently returned from the Caribbean, Captain Colt believes his ship is haunted by an evil spirit, and has asked Gabriel to investigate. Dismissive of the crew's wild talk of mysterious blue-skinned ghosts, Gabriel is convinced there must be a rational explanation...
14) Sailing ships
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1984
Language
English
Description
Text explains the development of various kinds of sailing ships over the centuries and pop-up pictures depict some specific ones.
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