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A Kydd Sea adventure ; 13 Alan Lewrie 21 Alan Lewrie naval adventure series ; no. 21 Alan Lewrie naval adventures ; 20 Everyman's library I can read! My first shared reading Kydd sea adventures bk.12 Mercer Mayer's Little Critter Penguin classics Thorndike Press large print adventure seriesRussell, Sean
Summary: While on route to the Caribbean to meddle with French shipping to the colonies, Captain Charles Hayden must deal with two dilemmas when the HMS Themis first rescues a suspicious pair of Spanish castaways whose origins and agenda are suspect, and then stumbles across a crippled slave ship. Upon arriving at the Barbados station, he finds himself under the command of the impetuous and foolhardy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSPielmeier, John
Summary: "A rollicking debut novel from award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Pielmeier reimagines the childhood of the much maligned Captain Hook: his quest for buried treasure, his friendship with Peter Pan, and the story behind the swashbuckling world of Neverland. Long defamed as a vicious pirate, Captain James Cook (a.k.a Hook) was in fact a dazzling wordsmith who left behind a vibrant,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PEICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIECho, Tina
Summary: Wanting to follow in the footsteps of her free-diving haenyeo grandmother, a young Korean girl dutifully consumes her grandmother's strength-building abalone porridge and practices her breath control before suiting up and overcoming fears to make remarkable discoveries.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: [Library Ideas, LLC] 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ ALONG CHOStockwin, Julian.
Summary: "As the captain of a useful frigate, Kydd is claimed by the Leeward Islands station, exchanging the harsh situation in South America for the warmth and delights of the Caribbean. It's a sea change for Kydd, who revisits places and people that figured in his time as a young seaman. Some are nostalgic and pleasing, while others bring challenges of a personal nature. In Europe, Napoleon is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STORussell, Sean.
Summary: Embarking on a mission to destroy a French frigate and gather intelligence during the height of the French Revolution, Charles Hayden of the HMS Themis discovers plans for an invasion of England before being captured by a French squadron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSFarook, Nizrana
Summary: Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view. With a chill, he notices a small, still hand hanging over the side. Inside is Zheng, who's escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure. But the villains who are after Zheng are soon after Razi and his sister, Shifa, too.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC FARStockwin, Julian.
Summary: "Word has come from the British ambassador Arbuthnot that the neutral Turks are being wooed by the French and if the ancient city of Constantinople falls into their hands, Napoleon's route to India will be completely unfettered and his plans for world domination a reality. Concerned for his safety, Arbuthnot is demanding a large fleet presence to take him off and bring the Turks to their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press, Inc. 2014
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Summary: Using rhyming text, a child describes the wonder of the ocean experienced through each of her five senses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2003
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1 available in Juvenile World Languages, Call number: JE SPANISH RYAOlmstead, Kathleen.
Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sterling 2010
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MELCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC MELClanton, Ben
Summary: "Narwhal and Jelly come across a strange object and wonder what its purpose might be."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tundra Books 2021
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1 available in Board Books, Call number: JE CLAMelville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1989
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MelviMelville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1967
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MELMelville, Herman
Summary: Melville wrote of his masterpiece, "It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over it." In part, Moby-Dick is the story of an eerily compelling madman pursuing an unholy war against a creature as vast and dangerous and unknowable as the sea itself. But more than just a novel of adventure, more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MelMelville, Herman
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.M. Dent 1993
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC STOStockwin, Julian.
Summary: After being promoted during the Battle of Camperdown, acting Lieutenant Thomas Kydd finds himself aboard the U.S.S. Constellation operating out of Halifax during the first days of the American Navy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOStockwin, Julian.
Summary: In the eighth book of this popular series, Thomas Kydd and Nicholas Renzi return to England in 1803 after tumultuous episodes on the other side of the world to find England in peril of starvation and bankruptcy. Kydd is placed back in command of his beloved vessel, Teazer, but he barely has time to prep her for the sea when he is sent on an urgent mission. Smugglers, enemy privateers, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOStockwin, Julian.
Summary: Thomas Kydd's ship, part of a makeship fleet from South Africa under Commodore Home Popham, invades Buenos Aires in hopes of a treasure of silver, only to find the local population, instead of rising against the Spanish, uniting against them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOStockwin, Julian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2007
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Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOJones, Ben
Summary: "Brendan Kane is a dreamy, directionless young man in 1860's New England. Inspired by a traveling recruiter, he signs up for the Union cause and experiences the full horrors of the Civil War. He deserts, drifting north into the draft riots in New York and , finally, meets his fate in the form of the Narthex, a strangely shaped vessel anchored in the harbor of a whaling town."-Cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC JONMayer, Mercer
Summary: Little Critter and his dad take their boat to sea to go whale watching and find that the ocean is a great place for adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2017
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Summary: "In Kings and Emperors, the twenty-first book in Dewey Lambdin's beloved Alan Lewrie series, Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is still in Gibraltar, his schemes for raids along the coast of Southern Spain shot to a halt. He is reduced to commanding a clutch of harbor defense gunboats in the bay while his ship, HMS Sapphire, slowly grounds herself on a reef of beef bones! Until Napoleon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2015