Kaufman, Amie
Summary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: November 1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd must sail to Lisbon to aid the Portuguese Royal Family's evacuation in the face of Napoleon's ruthless advance through Iberia. In the chaos of the threatened city an old passion is reawakened when he meets Persephone Lockwood, a beautiful and determined admiral's daughter from his past. But the Royal Family's destination is Brazil, Perspehone's England,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOGarrison, Paul
Summary: When Jim Leighton becomes a deckhand for venture capitalist Will Spark, he finds himself sailing to Rio de Janeiro, but when Stark suddenly changes their course in a fit of paranoia, Jim is soon alone at sea and fighting for his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GARLendroth, Susan.
Summary: In nineteenth-century New England, a young girl watches her baby brother learn to walk and talk while waiting for Papa's return from the sea after he joins the China trade and sails to foreign lands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tricycle Press 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE LENMacLeod, Bracken
Summary: "Badly battered by an apocalyptic storm, the crew of the Arctic Promise find themselves in increasingly dire circumstances as they sail blindly into unfamiliar waters and an ominously thickening fog. Without functioning navigation or communication equipment, they are lost and completely alone. One by one, the men fall prey to a mysterious illness. Deckhand Noah Cabot is the only person...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MACRingo, John
Summary: "With human civilization annihilated by a biological zombie plague, a rag tag fleet of yachts and freighters known as Wolf Squadron scours the Atlantic, searching for survivors. Within every abandoned liner and carrier lurks a potential horde of zombies but also holds the flickering hope of survivors. Now Wolf Squadron must clear the assault carrier USS Iwo Jima of infected before the trapped...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2014
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.K. Hall 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANMelville, Herman
Summary: Billy Budd, a handsome and innocent sailor, is admired by all except for the jealous master-at-arms who plots to frame the young man for treason with tragic results.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MELMelville, Herman
Summary: Publisher's description: Almost from the time of its publication in 1846, Melville's first book, based on his own travels in the South Seas, has been recognized as a classic in the literature of travel and adventure. Although initially rejected as too fantastic to be true, Typee was immensely popular and regarded in Melville's lifetime as his best work. It established his reputation as the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 2003
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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 HAMNisbet, Jim.
Summary: In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly-completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Overlook Press 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NISParrett, Favel
Summary: Isla is a lonely girl who moves to Hobart with her mother and brother to try and better their lives. It's not really working until they meet Bo, a crewman on an Antarctic supply ship, the Nella Dan, who shares stories about his adventures with them--his travels, bird watching, home in Denmark, and life on board the ship. Isla is struggling to learn what truly matters and who to trust; and this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2002
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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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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOEngle, Margarita
Summary: In early 1940s Los Angeles, Mexican Americans Marisela and Lorena work in canneries all day then jitterbug with sailors all night with their zoot suit wearing younger brother, Ray, as escort until the night racial violence leads to murder. Includes historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atheneum 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ENGGay, William
Summary: Billy Edgewater is a harbinger of doom. Estranged from his family, discharged from the Navy, and touched by a rising desperation, he sets out hitchhiking home to East Tennessee, where his father is slowly dying. On the road, separately, are Sudy and Bradshaw, brother and sister, and a one-armed con man named Roosterfish. All, in one way or another, have their pasts and futures embroiled with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dzanc Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GAYGhosh, Amitav
Summary: On a journey across the Indian Ocean, the passengers of the enormous ship, The Ibis, bond together like family. Intent on fighting China's nineteenth-century Opium Wars, this hodgepodge group of passengers travel together from the high seas to the poppy fields of the Ganges, and into the backstreets of exotic Canton.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brillance Audio 2008
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Summary: When Hannah Snow saves sailor Billy from drowning after his ship runs aground, he helps her man the lighthouse at Dangerfield while hiding a dark secret.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2014
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Summary: Humphrey becomes an unwilling sailor on a seal hunting expedition in this classic story of good against evil.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1988
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2002
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2004
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Summary: In this ninth installment in the Kydd series, Lieutenant Thomas Kydd faces implacable enemies in high places as he reels from the death of his fiancee and the loss of his brig, Teazer. Framed and unfairly dismissed from his ship, he and his friend Renzi struggle to survive in Guernsey while they attempt to clear Kydd's name. Then Renzi is hired by a mysterious nobleman and reluctantly engages...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Independent Pub Group 0000