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Great Lakes (North America) Navigation History Great Lakes (North America) Navigation History 20th century Merchant ships Merchant ships Great Lakes (North America) History Merchant ships Great Lakes (North America) History 20th century Pirates Fiction Pirates Miscellanea Seafaring life Shipping Great Lakes (North America) History 20th century World War, 1939-1945Summary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONCampbell, Robert B.
Summary: Robert Campbell's Classic Ships of the Great Lakes presents a visually stunning array of historical and present-day inland shipping including passenger ships, whaleback, bulk carriers, self-unloaders, cement carriers, oil tankers, car ferries, super ships, and more.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thunder Bay Press 2015
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 386 CAMVan Loan, Ryan
Summary: "Buc and Eld are the first private detectives in a world where pirates roam the seas, mages speak to each other across oceans, mechanical devices change the tide of battle, and earthly wealth is concentrated in the hands of a powerful few. It's been weeks since ships last returned to the magnificent city of Servenza with bounty from the Shattered Coast. Disaster threatens not just the city's...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VANGreenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1987
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GREGreenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1984
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GREVan der Linden, Peter J.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.24 GREVilliers, Alan John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 1971
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1981
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GREGreenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GREGreenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GRE1 available in Reference, Call number: NEL 386.22 Green
Greenwood, John Orville.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Freshwater Press 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 386.22 GRESummary: The object of this game of strategy and skulduggery is to be the pirate with the most stolen treasure when the deck is depleted. and one player is out of cards.
Format: three dimensional object
Publisher / Publication Date: Gamewright 2019
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1 available in Games, Call number: GAME LOOSummary: World War II - British merchant ships fitted with armour plates and guns
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 1940
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Stilton, Geronimo
Summary: Geronimo and his friends journey to the eighteenth century to stop the Pirate Cats from pillaging the East India Company's merchant ships.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Papercutz 2016
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Summary: Chronicles the real-life adventures of Welsh pirate Henry Morgan and his exploits in the Caribbean in the service of the English, from his attacks on Spanish merchant ships to his final assault on Panama that ended Spanish domination of the New World.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2007
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Summary: This is an extraordinary tale of life on the high seas aboard one of the last American merchant ships, the S.S. Stella Lykes, on a forty-two-day journey from Charleston down the Pacific coast of South America. As the crew of the Stella Lykes makes their ocean voyage, they tell stories of other runs and other ships, tales of disaster, stupidity, greed, generosity, and courage.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 1990
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 MCPHRichards, Lynette
Summary: "It was April 1, 1873. In the middle of the night, Sarah Jane spotted flares off the coast of her island home. She woke her father, who quickly gathered their neighbours. Over the next several hours, rescuers pulled 429 traumatized survivors out of the wreckage of the SS Atlantic. But 535 people didn't survive, including Bill, a sailor. However, this story isn't about death--it's about living....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Emanata 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Oversize, Call number: YA 741.5 RICChurchill, Winston
Summary: Covers the German drive toward the East and the United States becomes involved in World War II.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 1950
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 CHUBosher, J. F. (John Francis)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: National Historic Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada 1992
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1 available in Genealogy, Call number: R-GEN 929.371 BOSFurst, Alan.
Summary: In 1941, Eric DeHaan, the captain of the Noordendam, a Dutch tramp freighter, is recruited by the Dutch Naval Intelligence Section for dangerous secret missions that take the ship and its crew behind enemy lines in Europe and North Africa.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FURHannon, Irene
Summary: Katherine Parker searches for peace in Hope Harbor on the Oregon coast. Zach Garrett recovers after a traumatic loss. When Katherine and Zach are recruited to help rehab a home for foster children, sparks fly.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021