Roberts, Tara Karr
Summary: "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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2024
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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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Publisher / Publication Date: Reader's Digest Association 1989
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 1967
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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 JONMcGuire, Ian.
Summary: The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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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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Summary: When Lyddie Berry's husband is lost in a whaling disaster, she becomes the dependent of her ruthless son-in-law, who tries to take everything she and her husband had worked for.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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Summary: Captain Ahab takes his crew on a mission to find Moby Dick, the great white whale that crippled him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2012
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: A bedtime story of a whale hunt inspired by the classic tale of the hunt for Moby Dick, here with a new twist. Deep in the dark ocean, Mighty Moby lurks. Up above the ocean waves, a one-legged captain pursues the whale he clashed with long ago.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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Summary: In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2004
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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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Summary: A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1987
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Publisher / Publication Date: J.M. Dent 1993
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Summary: An ivory gull carved by Ezra Brown in 1832 brings luck to four generations of his family as they travel on the seas and in the air.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton 1948
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Summary: A little girl with a big voice who lives in a nineteenth-century whaling town finds a way to be useful and happy aboard a sailing ship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 1998
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos AudioBooks 0000
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2000
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Summary: In 1908, Mary Davidson, tasked with supporting her father's boisterous whaling crews while caring for her five brothers and sisters after the death of their mother, must navigate through sibling rivalries and an all-consuming first love for a new crew member.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2016
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Summary: "When we receive diagnoses from medical professionals, we are often so overwhelmed that we give up authority over our own health and well-being. But the truth is, we have more control over our health and life that we have been led to believe, and that belief is at the core of our body's capacity to heal itself. Based on the groundbreaking documentary of the same name, Heal follows two people on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beyond Words 2019
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Summary: After receiving a new toy car in the mail, Harry and Hedgehog have fun taking turns racing the car around the racetrack Harry built.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn/Scholastic Inc. 2022