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Crean, Tom 1877-1938 Sailors Sailors United States Biography Survival United States United States. Navy Biography Women merchant mariners Great Lakes (North America) World War, 1939-1945 Campaigns Pacific Area World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Personal narratives, AmericanFilter By Series
G.K. Hall large print American history seriesStonehouse, Frederick.
Summary: "From deep sea diver to ship's captain, lighthouse keeper and rescuer, women fill virtually every job of the Great Lakes maritime trade--both past and present. This book relates many untold stories of these remarkable women and their impact on the Great Lakes and sailors lives"--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STOFloyd, John Lewis
Summary: "The loss of the Philippine Islands to Japan in 1942 was the greatest military defeat in the history of the United States. The Expendable is the gripping true story of one sailor's struggle to survive this opening battle of WWII in the Pacific. As smoke billows skyward from Pearl Harbor, Japan throws its military might against the outnumbered and under-equipped Filipino forces. When the U.S....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Survival FloydPetersen, Neal
Contents: 1973 -- The dream tree -- Building boats -- California -- Mining diamonds -- The gifts -- First solo crossing -- Ireland -- Back to Ireland -- A family Christmas -- The BOC Atlantic alone -- Charleston, South Carolina -- Racing to the Southern Ocean -- The Earth is flat -- Sailing with Gwen -- Choosing Charleston -- Another OSTAR -- Back to Charleston -- Leg one -- Leg two -- Leg three -- Leg...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of South Carolina Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.124 PETWeintraub, Robert
Summary: Describes the bond that developed between an RAF technician and a fiercely loyal purebred pointer named Judy, a pair who met in an internment camp during World War II where they became a symbol of hope to the other prisoners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2018
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Summary: "The Indestructible Tom Crean reveals the incredible true stories of Crean's adventures on the Discovery, Terra Nova, and Endurance expeditions. When the Endurance becomes trapped in the frozen sea and sinks, it is up to Crean and several others to go for help"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 CREHarding, Stephen
Summary: The story of Lieutenant Hugh Barr Miller, marooned on a South Pacific island, and his one-man war against Japanese forces.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHERER, MIGAEL SCHSummary: "In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2021
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WORHill, Richard N.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gale Force Press 2008
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1 available in Michigan Collection, Call number: MI Maritime HillJones, Brent E.
Summary: "An intimate true account of Americans at war, Days of Steel Rain is an epic drama about an unlikely group of men forced to work together in the face of an increasingly desperate enemy during the final year of World War II. Sprawling across the Pacific, this untold story follows the crew of the newly-built "vengeance ship" USS Astoria, named after her sunken predecessor lost earlier in the war....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 JONMüllenheim-Rechberg, Burkard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1980
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 MULFern, Tracey E.
Summary: Ellen Prentiss's papa said she was born with saltwater in her veins, so he gave her sailing lessons and taught her how to navigate. As soon as she met a man who loved sailing like she did, she married him. When her husband was given command of a clipper ship custom-made to travel quickly, she knew that they would need every bit of its speed for their maiden voyage: out of New York City, down...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction Fern 2014Fisher-Alaniz, Karen.
Summary: On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew and the secret role he played in WWII. With painful memories now at the forefront of his thoughts, her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54867 FISHER, MURRAY WILLIAM ALAFreeman, Gregory A.
Summary: In the vein of Crimson Tide, with action pulled straight from a high seas thriller, this is the exciting story of a mutiny that the U.S. Navy denies to this day. In 1972, the U.S.S. Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin when many of the five thousand men cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the unpopular war rioted -- or, as Freeman claims, mutinied. Most disturbingly,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 FREHamill, Pete
Summary: On temporary leave from his service in Korea for the holiday season, young sailor Pete is devastated by his girlfriend's unfaithfulness and evaluates his relationship with his distant father, a gruff Irish factory worker.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2004
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1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: FIC HAMKemp, Guy
Summary: As his life unfolds before you, Guy Kemp shares his experiences and life-changing decisions during his first 72 years, after his adoption at age four. Life with a new family, a new name, and frequent change of surroundings comes with challenges. But Guy faces the obstacles head-onand learns to handle adversity in his own, interesting -- and sometimes surprising ways. He takes you across the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lovstad Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 KEMP, GUY KEMStonehouse, Frederick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avery Color Studios 2005
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MI 920.72 STOWatson, Jessica
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Paperback 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 1999
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 921 RAYMER, EDWARD RAYSullivan, James
Summary: Documents the true story of a U.S. Navy destroyer that inspired the writings of John Ford and Herman Wouk, drawing on the journals and other writings of five shipmates who witnessed the Anzio attacks and D-Day invasion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War SullivanHill, Frederic B.
Summary: "The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in nineteenth-century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world include surviving a harrowing shipwreckin the Marshall Islands, being washed overboard rounding Cape Horn, and running down Alaskan glaciers. His faithful letters to his family in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 JACKSON, WILL HILKernan, Alvin B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 1994
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 KERMaher, Robert A.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kent State University Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.545 MAHReed, W. Craig.
Summary: "The world came close to annihilation during the Cold War--a sobering fact known to few besides the warriors engaged in the forty-six-year conflict. In this riveting new history, former U.S. Navy diver and fast-attack submariner W. Craig Reed provides a thrilling narrative of the tense underwater dramas and covert espionage operations that brought the United States and the former U.S.S.R. to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2011