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Author
Series
Northern lights (Lisa Tawn Bergren) volume 1
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
[2009], c1998
Language
English
83) H.M.S. surprise
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1991.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Third in the series of Aubrey-Maturin adventures, this book is set among the strange sights and smells of the Indian subcontinent, and in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Aubrey is on the defensive, pitting wits and seamanship against an enemy enjoying overwhelming local superiority. But somewhere in the Indian Ocean lies the prize that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams: the ships sent by Napoleon to...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across the Pacific carrying eighty thousand barrels of highly explosive naphtha. The cargo alone makes the journey perilous, with the entire crew aware that one careless moment could lead to disaster. But yet another sort...
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Newly-promoted to Captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's disgraced skipper and deploy on a secret mission--Operation Stellar Shield--which will take his ship and crew into the dangerous waters bordering the Middle East....
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"One spring morning, Cam was playing by his house. He watched a trickle of water running through the pine trees. The water splashed and sang in the voice of snow, Come with me. Come with me. I will take you to the sea" --
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Publisher
Elea Press/Lucy Bellwood
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the world of Baggywrinkles{u2015}a rollicking, educational survey of maritime lore, built around cartoonist Lucy Bellwood's time aboard tall ships. From the scourge of scurvy to the exhilaration of climbing the rigging for the first time, Lucy's comics bring the reader into a world of high seas history and informative adventure with "a sheer and unremitting sense of joy (Andy Oliver, Broken Frontier)""--Amazon.com.
89) South
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"When a lonely fisherman finds an injured bird on his boat, he nurtures it back to health, and--since the bird can no longer migrate with its family--charts a course heading south for the winter. Together, the two form a special friendship and enjoy life at sea until both the healing process and the journey come to an end"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cursed with porcelain skin and on the run from a zealous knight, Ferra has no choice but to trust the disgraced pirate captain Brig to keep her safe and reunite her with her ex-girlfriend in a faraway city. Together, they bicker across the high seas, dodge nefarious obstacles, and accidentally fall in love"--
Author
Series
Kydd novels volume 12
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Newly victorious at the Battle of Trafalgar, England now rules the seas and is free to colonize the furthest reaches of the world. Captain Thomas Kydd joins an expedition to take Dutch-held Cape Town, a strategic harbor that will give England a rich trade route to India. With enemies lurking on all sides, Kydd and his men must defend the fragile colony while braving Africa's vast and hostile hinterland. When Renzi learns too much about the enemy's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Harvey Cheyne, the son of a millionaire, learns lessons about life, responsibility, determination, and self-reliance when, saved from drowning by a fishing schooner, he is forced to share the life and hard work of his rescuers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Now rich, Jacky Faber has purchased the Lorelei Lee to carry passengers across the Atlantic, and believing she has been absolved of past sins against the Crown, she docks in London, where she is arrested and sentenced to life in the newly formed penal colony in Australia.
95) Beat to quarters
Author
Series
Publisher
Back Bay Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"June 1808, somewhere west of Nicaragua-a site suitable for spectacular sea battles. The Admiralty has ordered Captain Horatio Hornblower, now in command of the thirty-six-gun HMS Lydia, to form an alliance against the Spanish colonial government with an insane Spanish landowner; to find a water route across the Central American isthmus; and "to take, sink, burn or destroy" the fifty-gun Spanish ship of the line Natividad or face court-martial. A...
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Napoleon Bonaparte continues planning for the invasion of England as Admiral Horatio Nelson and the Royal Navy patrol the seas, seeking out their elusive enemy. When convoluted political machinations in England lead to the impeachment of the head of the Navy, Commander Thomas Kydd is forced to choose sides. Eager to take on the real enemy, Kydd decides to join Nelson{u2019}s squadron just before the Battle of Trafalgar, the greatest sea encounter...
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 24
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
99) Sea of sorrows
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Plunge headfirst into the icy waters of dread in this graphic novel of deep sea adventure with a horrific twist! In the aftermath of the Great War, the North Atlantic is ripe for plunder by independent salvage crews. When a former naval officer hires the SS Vagabond, he leads the ship to a sunken U-boat, and a fortune in gold. Tensions mount as the crew prepares to double cross each other, but the darkness of the ocean floor holds deeper terrors...
100) Ship of the line
Author
Series
Publisher
Back Bay Books, an imprint of Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
May 1810, seventeen years deep into the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Horatio Hornblower is newly in command of his first ship of the line, the seventy-four-gun HMS Sutherland, which he deems "the ugliest and least desirable two-decker in the Navy List." Moreover, she is 250 men short of a full crew, so Hornblower must enlist and train "poachers, bigamists, sheepstealers," and other landlubbers. By the time the Sutherland reaches the blockaded Catalonian...
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