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1) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Over a century and a half after its publication, Moby-Dick still stands as an indisputable literary classic. It 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 than an encyclopedia of whaling lore and legend, Moby-Dick is a haunting, mesmerizing, and important social commentary populated with several of the most...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Samuel Pipps is the greatest detective of his day...but now he's a prisoner, accused of an unknown crime by one of the world's most powerful men. Along with his faithful sidekick, Arent Hayes, they're sailing back to Amsterdam from the East Indies, where he'll stand trial. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. Still shackled in his cell, Pipps sends Hayes to solve a mystery that connects every passenger on board....
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 9
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[c1958]
Physical Desc
329 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Whisked out to sea when they are accidentally placed in a charity donation box, Annabelle Doll, Tiffany Funcraft, and their families travel thousands of miles by ship alongside other doll people while trying to make their way back home.
7) Inferno
Author
Series
Kydd sea adventures volume 17
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
435 pages : 22 cm. map ;
Language
English
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...
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Language
English
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Description
In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the “cat’s table”—as far from the Captain’s Table as can be—with a ragtag group of “insignificant” adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another,...
11) Sail: a novel
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Struggling to maintain family cohesion after the death of her husband, Katherine Dunne plans an elaborate sailing vacation that is unexpectedly challenged by difficulties with her children and a catastrophic accident.
Author
Series
Capitaine Nemo volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is the story of the submarine that was Captain Nemo's masterpiece, and the marvels of submarine adventures it encountered."
13) A single rose
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matchmaking comes as easily to Victoria Lesser as breathing. Then two of the couples she has brought together decide to turn the tables, and set up a match for her with a treasure-seeking professor who's sailing to Costa Rica. The intrepid Victoria gets cold feet, and talks her niece, Shaye, into coming with her. The professor shows a little caution, too - he's brought along his nephew, Noah.Sparks fly between Shaye and Noah, and the older couple...
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
1965
Physical Desc
: ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.
Author
Series
Alexander Hawke volume 2
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Alex Hawke series, bk. 2.
17) I love you, Blue
Author
Publisher
Flyaway Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An introductory tale about the impact plastic waste has on the ocean is told through a lighthouse keeper's friendship with a whale named Blue"--
Author
Series
Oregon files adventures volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hired by the CIA to track down the U.S. Secretary of State in the aftermath of a suspicious plane crash in Libya, Juan Cabrillo uncovers a sinister plot by Libya's new foreign minister, a scheme with links to a 200-year-old naval battle and centuries-old Islamic scrolls.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"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...