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Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
920L
Physical Desc
408 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young parlor maid Honorine and her friend Francis find themselves in the middle of an epic feud between a crew of scientific sailors and the magical constellations come to life"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
456 pages : illustration, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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 follow him are dashed when a handsome stranger with tell-tale magician's marks on his arm boards her ship, presenting her and the crew with a dangerous mission: to cross the Crescent Sea without detection so he can complete a ritual on the sacred Isles of the Gods....
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
493 pages, 7 unnumbered pages : genealogical table, illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ally is in the midst of preparations for a challenging yacht race when she receives news of her adopted father's death. When tragedy strikes on the high seas, pummeling Ally yet again with a terrible and unexpected loss, she turns her back on the water and instead follows her own North Star-- a clue left by her father, leading her to Norway. There Ally begins to unpack the century-old story of a remarkable young woman named Anna Landvik, a talented...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
285 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Evangeline Hussey has made a home for herself on Nantucket, though she knows she is still an outsider to the island's small, close-knit community, one that by 1849 has started to feel the decline of a once-thriving whaling industry. Her husband, Hosea, and the life they built together, was once all she needed--but now Hosea is gone, lost at sea. Evangeline is only able to hold on to his inn, and her place on the island, by employing a curious gift...
8) All is lost
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen ver.
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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
As the second daughter of a royal chief, Maile will be permitted to marry for love. Her fianč is the best navigator in Hawaii, and he taught her everything he knows how to feel the ocean, observe the winds, read the stars, and how to love. But when sailors from a strange place called England arrive on her island, a misunderstanding ends in battle, and Maile is suddenly widowed before she is wed. Finding herself in the middle of the battle and fearing...
10) Dark blues
Author
Publisher
[CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform]
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
402 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Straddling the cultural divide between his Greek roots and American birth, Alex Poulos can't seem to get traction to move on with his life. Feeling trapped and powerless, he abandons his immigrant parents and the Catholic woman he loves to face an uncertain future as a tin can sailor during the Korean War. His unresolved problems follow him, however, and he encounters more challenges, sometimes with hilarious results. After an ill-fated attack in...
11) Surface tension
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Large print ed.
Physical Desc
432 pages (large print) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
SURFACE TENSION is the first book in this four-book suspense series featuring Florida tug and salvage captain Seychelle Sullivan. Working as she does in a man's world, Seychelle has to work twice as hard just to compete. Some have even called her reckless. In her view, she's just doing her job, salvaging boats and people's lives.On a steamy Florida morning Seychelle is answering a Mayday call launched from the five-million-dollar Broward yacht called...
12) The whisper
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a little girl receives a curious book filled only with pictures, a whisper urges her to create the words she cannot see. As the pages turn, her imagination takes flight and she discovers that the greatest storyteller of all might come from within." -- From dust jacket.
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Special ed. ; Widescreen version (2.55:1).
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Widow Danielle Collins runs into her ex, Reece Bradley, just in time--right after she and her daughter are abducted from their campsite. Only the former navy SEAL can save them from a mystery enemy who shot her brother. Now as they run for their lives, Danielle must figure out why they're being hunted...and how to tell Reece the little girl he's protecting is his daughter." -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
348 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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
Series
Publisher
Dark Horse Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (77 pages) : chiefly color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Offers an adaptation of Melville's "Moby Dick," starring Donald Duck, Scrooge McDuck, and nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie. When Moby the white whale steals Captain Quackhab's lucky dime, the captain chases Moby across the seas to get it back.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
115 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Told in dual flashbacks, this novel relates the stories of both Trevor Roberts, a British journalist-in-training, and Henry Friston, a World War I Royal Navy sailor. Assigned in the 1950s to cover the annual hibernation awakening of Ali Pasha, a giant tortoise and local celebrity owned by Henry, Trevor meets and connects with Henry who then shares his wartime photos, memorabilia, and diary as well as reminiscences of harrowing battles with Turkish...
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
369 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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 affinity to the sea. But the waters become perilous when the queen sends Kit on a special mission with a partner she never asked for. Rian Grant, Viscount Queenscliffe,...
19) Kodi: [Book 1]
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions, an imprint of IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
173 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Katya and her Meema are spending another normal summer at their cottage in Alaska, when a chance accident leaves Katya face-to-face with the biggest creature she's ever seen... an enormous Kodiak bear, soon to become her closest friend. But when Katya must suddenly return home to Seattle, the two are torn apart, leaving Kodi to do whatever it takes to reunite with his fragile human friend. It's a wild adventure packed with breathtaking views, new...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (941 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A new military drama that follows the professional and personal lives of the most elite unit of Navy SEALs as they train, plan, and execute the most dangerous, high-stakes missions the country can ask of them. Jason Hayes is the respected, intense leader of the Tier One team whose home life has suffered as a result of his extensive warrior's existence.