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101) Deep harbor: a novel
Author
Series
Northern lights (Lisa Tawn Bergren) volume 2
Pub. Date
2010, c1999
Physical Desc
363 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Tora Anders weaves a web of lies that could cost her everything she cares for-including a successful future and the man she loves-but lead her to what her soul most desperately needs. Her sister, Elsa Ramstad, has everything her heart desires: a loving husband, a family she adores, and a fulfilling life at sea. Then tragedy strikes. Four years after her husband's disappearance, Kaatje Janssen struggles to raise two young daughters and tend her farm....
103) The surfacing
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"An extraordinary novel, combining a powerful narrative with a considered and poetic use of language. Reading the book, I recalled the dramatic natural landscape of Jack London and the wild untamed seas of William Golding."--JOHN BOYNE, author of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and A History of Loneliness "The great topic of Cormac James' The Surfacing is the reach of human possibility. The prose is calm, vivid, hypnotic, and acutely piercing. James...
104) Inferno
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Description
"Napoleon Bonaparte's ambitions for world domination are growing apace, when Captain Sir Thomas Kydd returns to take up command of his ship Tyger, he finds himself called to be part of a great armada on a mission of the utmost urgency. Britain is alone and isolated in Europe. If the kingdom is to thwart a deadly threat she must move very quickly to secure her position with neutral Denmark. A desperate decision is made by the Cabinet. It sends a sea...
105) Ocean meets sky
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm.
Description
"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"--
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 20
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
368
Description
"The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. His frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he's living at his father's estate at Anglesgreen, among spiteful neighbors and family, and he's recovering from a wound suffered in the SouthAtlantic. At last, there's a bright spot. When fit, Admiralty awards him a new commission; not a frigate but a clumsy, slow two-decker Fourth Rate 50. Are his frigate days over for good? Lewrie's...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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"Long before Dr. Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly came to the colourful Irish village of Ballybucklebo, young Surgeon-lieutenant O'Reilly answered the call of duty to serve in World War II. Fingal just wants to marry his beloved Deirdre and live happily ever after. First he must hone his skills at a British naval hospital before reporting back to the HMS Warspite, where, as a ship's doctor, he faces danger upon the high seas. With German bombers a constant...
108) Treason's harbour
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Ship's doctor Stephen Maturin, a British intelligence agent, stands as the sole bulwark against the sabotage of his friend Captain Jack Aubrey's mission in Malta.
110) A sea of gold
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Series
Kydd novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
400 ; 20 cm.
Description
1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to first glory, then ruin. The French fleet is massing in the Basque Roads in a near impregnatable position....
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
1996, c1991
Physical Desc
xiii, 367 p. ; 18 cm.
Description
Fresh from duty on the frigate Desperate in her fight with the French Capricieuse, Alan Lewrie is commissioned first officer of the big o'war Shrike. He must bring the Muskogees and the Seminoles onto the British side against the American rebels--with time out, of course, for some other kind of action.
113) Fallen Hunter
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Jesse McDermitt has been grieving the loss of a loved one to terrorists. He's been holed up on his secluded island home for months, numbing his mind and body with endless, mundane tasks. But he has a plan for vengeance.
A friend approaches Jesse seeking help for her dad who's been pressured into running drugs for a dangerous Cuban smuggler. When Jesse learns that the smuggler is also an arms merchant for Hezbollah, the terrorist organization responsible...
114) Liable Charity
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Description
Charity Styles had been the catalyst for the demise of many. But in the past that usually meant the end of a human life. As an assassin for the CIA, it came with the territory.
But this time she feels responsible for the end two of her friend's relationship.
She sets out on a voyage to find one of the partners in the hopes of rectifying the rift she helped create. Along the way, she encounters a deadly foe, bent on becoming rich regardless of how...
115) Fish On!
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Jesse McDermitt is finally ready to retire. But life has other plans. While diving on a remote reef deep in the backcountry of the Florida Keys with his wife, son and two friends, he discovers of all things, a car.
Not just any car, but a 1928 Duesenberg Model J, the most powerful and stylish automobile of its time. The car was once owned by a Saudi prince who was attempting to develop Johnston Key in the heart of Turkey Basin before Henry Flagler...
116) Fallen Out
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Description
When Jesse McDermitt leaves the Marine Corps, he has no idea what he will do for the rest of his life. He only knows he doesn't want to spend the coming winter anywhere cold. His greatest skill is killing people from up to a mile away and he knows there aren't many job opportunities in the civilian world for that.
Jesse also knows his way around boats and has an old friend living free and easy in the Florida Keys. Being an experienced diver and angler,...
117) Ten little fish
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Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Description
Ten little fish swim through the ocean, each finding a different reason to leave until only one remains. It's an undersea countdown in the newest book by bestselling author Audrey Wood and her dynamic, digital-artist son, Bruce. Follow ten little fish as they swim along a beautiful ocean reef, one by one departing from the school for different reasons, eventually leaving one fellow all alone. What will he do? Along comes another, and that makes two!...
118) Moby Dick
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) ; 29 cm.
Description
Ishmael, a sailor, recounts the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him. Presented in comic book format.
119) Enemy in sight!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
366 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
The year is 1794 and Richard Bolitho takes his warship, the Hyperion, to join the blockade of France.
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