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Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlike many other writers of nautical action-adventure, William Clark Russell often added a layer of psychological and existential terror to his tales of heroism and happenstance on the high seas, reflecting the rigors of long stretches of isolation in trying conditions. His novel The Last Entry is a thrilling blend of pulse-pounding plot twists and gradually increasing suspense.
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
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Description
William Clark Russell joined the Merchant Navy at the age of 13 and served an eight-year stint, permanently damaging his health in the process. He then traded in life at sea for life as a writer, penning dozens of nautical romances and action-adventure novels over the course of his literary career. In A Tale of Two Tunnels, Captain Jackman of the Lovelace leads his crew on a series of adventures on and off the water.
3) Typhoon
Author
Series
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Description
Captain MacWhirr cannot fathom anything outside the facts of his own life. His first mate, Mr. Jukes, is the perfect contrast as an imaginative man prone to speaking in figurative language. Though they are opposites, MacWhirr and Jukes respect each other and run a tight ship, until the crew notices the barometer predicting a serve storm. Jukes and the crew suggest alternate paths to MacWhirr, but he is unconvinced. Since MacWhirr has not experienced...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Fracasse (French: Le Capitaine Fracasse) is an 1863 novel by the French writer Théophile Gautier. It is an adventure novel set in the seventeenth century. The story has been adapted for film and television numerous times. An 1866 edition of the novel was illustrated by Gustave Doré. The novel recounts the story of the baron of Sigognac during the reign of Louis XIII of France (reign 1610-1643), a destitute nobleman who decides to abandon...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its clever selection of hints and incidents suggestive of latent horrors in nature, this book at times reaches enviable peaks of power." -- H.P. Lovecraft...
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The Frozen Pirate is the story of Paul Rodney, a sailor who narrowly escapes death by shipwreck and exposure in the Straits of Magellan. Surmounting that peril, he faces another: Embedded in the Antarctic ice is an ancient vessel, filled with what seem to be frozen, contorted corpses. But the ship is a pirate ship, and the corpses aren't dead. When one of them revives, Rodney must fend off (and cooperate with, if he hopes to survive) one of the most...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"Five years ago, Cass barely survived a brutal attack that left her family dead. Now a scuba diving instructor in Thailand, she has spent years trying to build a new, anonymous life for herself as one of the Permanents, a group of expats who have claimed the beautiful Thailand destination as their own. The permanents are charming, they're close-knit, and they don't linger on who they were before the island--they're the perfect group for Cass to finally...
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Language
English
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Description
"Sharks are as timid as rabbits." So says a superintendent of the Coast Guard, dismissing the possibility that a shark could be the culprit in an unprecedented fatal attack on a swimmer at the Jersey Shore.
It's July 1916, a time when little is known about ocean creatures, and swimming in the sea is a relatively new pastime. Americans up and down the East Coast are shocked and mystified by the swimmer's death. Little do they know that this is only...
10) Ocean
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Who has scales? There's a lot to discover in the ocean! What do you know? What else can you learn? -- Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A novel of coming out, surviving grief, and embracing myth in a Maine lobstering town purportedly founded when a sea captain fell in love with a mermaid 300 years ago. For readers of Madeline Miller, Alix E. Harrow, and Erin Morgenstern"--
Author
Publisher
The Floating Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
Capt'n Davy's Honeymoon (1893) is a novella by British author Hall Caine. Set on the Isle of Man-the proud British island where Caine's father was born-the story begins with the separation of Capt'n Davy from his wife Nelly after only ten days of marriage following a heated argument over money. With humorous and emotional dialogue enriched with an authentic Manx flavor, detailed portraits of land and seascapes, and a critical eye for society's shortcomings,...
Author
Publisher
Galaxy Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Stop the presses! One hundred thousand dollar reward offered for the return of George Harley Rockham! That's more than enough to turn Shanghai newspaperman Jimmy Vance's head. Throw in the gorgeous dame who's offering the reward-Rockham's daughter Virginia-and he might lose his head altogether. As fast-talking as Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story, Vance jumps at the chance . . . the money . . . and the girl. But as Jimmy quickly discovers,...
14) Unsinkable
Author
Publisher
Harper Muse
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Unsinkable is a stand-alone historical novel about two women who survive against all odds and become legends. Violet Jessop is Miss Unsinkable. Daphne has survived calamity of her own"--
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
Excerpt: "My dandy-rigged yacht, the Spitfire, of twenty-six tons, lay in Boulogne harbour, hidden in the deep shadow of the wall against which she floated. It was a breathless night, dark despite the wide spread of cloudless sky that was brilliant with stars. It was hard upon the hour of midnight, and low down where we lay we heard but dimly such sounds of life as was still abroad in the Boulogne streets. Ahead of us loomed the shadow of a double-funnelled...
Author
Publisher
Notable Kids Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Meet Marissa, a curious and brave eleven-year-old, whose summer stroll on a quiet beach becomes an unexpected epic quest for a rare flower, which holds the salvation for an entire undersea universe. As Marissa is pulled into a battle between an ancient marine species and advanced lifeforms not of this planet, her survival and only path home is that of legends as she befriends mystical creatures. Quest for the Neptius is a grand and magical story...
17) A vineyard vow
Author
Series
Vineyard sunset ; 6
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A dream wedding with an unexpected twist takes Susan Sheridan and Amanda on a wild rollercoaster of emotions - one that brings them closer than ever as mother and daughter. If there's anything Susan Sheridan understands, it's that things don't always go as planned. From her divorce, to her move from Newark, to her cancer diagnosis, finally to Scott popping the question at the Sunrise Cove Inn's New Year's Party in front of all her closest family...
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Provides lots of opportunities for parent-and-child interaction and hours of enchanting underwater mermaid fun. Journey through the ocean and find all the magical mermaid friends getting ready to go to the Mermaid Queen's birthday ball"--
Author
Publisher
Duke Classics
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This short section of Honore de Balzac's vast story cycle The Human Comedy unfolds against the beautiful backdrop of the western coast of France. A couple on vacation have a chance encounter with a fisherman. After chit-chatting for a while, they take him up on his offer to shuttle them to a nearby island. Along the way, he recounts a heartbreaking local legend that puts a damper on the trip. Honore de Balzac (20 May 1799 — 18 August 1850) was a...
Author
Publisher
Arthur Anderson
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
En la vastedad del océano Pacífico, un grupo de jóvenes emprende un paseo tranquilo en su yate, ansiosos por explorar las aguas cristalinas y crear recuerdos inolvidables. Sin embargo, la naturaleza, indiferente a sus planes, desata una tormenta despiadada que cambia el rumbo de su travesía. A la deriva y con el sistema de comunicación averiado, encuentran refugio en una isla olvidada, cuyos secretos oscuros los
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