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"Right after the sudden death of her mother--her first and most devoted fan--and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy--the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted. Months later, Greta--still heartbroken and very much adrift--reluctantly agrees to accompany Conrad on the Alaskan cruise her parents...
62) Rites of passage
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Series
Sea trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Edmund Talbot recounts his voyage from England to the Antipodes, and the humiliating confrontation between the stern Captain Anderson and the nervous parson, James Colley, which leads to the latter's death.
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Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"There's no pussy-footing around murder. It's never too late to kick up your heels. Just ask Tina, Janice, Pat, Mary Louise, and Gini--aka the Happy Hoofers. After posting a video of their tap-dancing routine on the Internet, the leggy ladies find themselves booked to perform on a Russian river cruise up the Volga from Moscow to St. Petersburg. But when murder cuts in, the five fabulous friends find it's not so easy to tap their troubles away. A crew...
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English
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"When seventy-year-old Charlotte Perkins submits a sexy essay to the "Become a Jetsetter" contest, she dreams of reuniting her estranged children: Lee, an almost-famous actress; Cord, a handsome Manhattan venture capitalist who can't seem to find a bride; and Regan, a harried mother who took it all wrong when Charlotte bought her a Weight Watchers gift certificate for her birthday. Charlotte yearns for the years when her children were young and she...
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Publisher
Acre Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
PILGRIM, Canterbury Cruise Line’s flagship, promises its passengers not just a luxurious fortnight away but the opportunity for reinvention. This extraordinary journey is made possible by the captain and visionary plastic surgeon Dr. Walter Heston, and by the vessel’s self-learning artificial intelligence called BECCA. Pilgrims 2.0 begins on the eve of Cruise #52 and follows four women eager for transformation. At the center of the story is Dr....
66) Killer knots
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
Description
When Marla Shore embarks on a supposedly romantic cruise with her fiance Dalton Vail, she finds mystery and mayhem on the high seas when she accidentally receives a cryptic message that leads to the murder of a renowned artist.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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"1939: Europe is on the brink of war when young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex, bound for Australia to start anew. The passage proves magical, complete with live music, cocktails, and fancy dress balls. Stops at exotic locations along the way show Lily places she'd only ever dreamed of, and enable her to make friends with those above her social station. But Lily soon realizes that she's not the only one hiding secrets. By the time the...
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English
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All Cassie wants is to get some solid ground under her following the shock of her parents' divorce. So when she learns of her mom's plans to take Cass and her brother, Drew, on a four-month sailing trip from Oregon to Mexico, she's stunned. There is absolutely nothing solid about the Pacific Ocean. Cassie is furious. And nervous. It's been hard enough keeping Drew sheltered from what Cassie knows about their mother's role in breaking their family...
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Series
Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume 3
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English
Description
Magnus and his friends set sail for the farthest borders of Jotunheim and Niflheim in pursuit of Asgard's greatest threat, Loki's demonic ship full of zombies.
70) The plover
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations, map, music ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A compelling, marvelous novel by the acclaimed author of Mink River Declan O Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that's so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves, and what at first seems a lonely sea voyage becomes a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned"--
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Series
Publisher
Thomas and Mercer
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
Description
This should be the cushiest job Alix London's ever had. The second Alix London mystery finds the art restorer in a world brimming with idle luxury, spectacular locations, and deadly intrigue. Surrounded by art and wealth and the sun-drenched Greek isles, she's aboard a sumptuous mega-yacht with no responsibilities save the occasional lecture to the guests of her temporary employer, Panos Papadakis, one of the world's richest men. But, there's a catch.........
72) The unimaginable
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Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
After twenty-eight years of playing by the rules, Jessica Gregory moves from her small Indiana town to Phuket, Thailand. But her newfound routine is upended with the arrival of Grant Flynn, a captivating, elusive man who is sailing around the world while trying to move on from a past tragedy. Jessica volunteers to help crew Grant's boat, Imagine, on a passage across the Indian Ocean and finds herself falling in love with him as the voyage gets underway....
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Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When her fiancé dumps Dr. Maggie Maguire for an acrobat, the breakup sends Maggie spiraling into an extended ice cream-fueled chick flick binge. Her friends book her as a speaker on a "New Year, New You" cruise in the Gulf of Mexico. When a stranger on board insists that smart women can't ever be happy, Maggie sets out to prove him wrong. Along the way, she discovers that happiness has far less to do with the head than with the heart--and sometimes...
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Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
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281 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Atlantic Ocean, 1926: Voyaging from Southampton to New York, self-reliant Jane Wunderly is determined to prove herself a worthy investigator on the stately ship-even awkwardly going undercover as the fashionable wife of her magnetic partner, Mr. Redvers. Few details are known about the rumored German spy the duo have been tasked with identifying among fellow passengers, but new troubles unfold once wealthy newlywed Vanessa FitzSimmons announces the...
76) Challenger Deep
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English
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Caden Bosch is on a galleon that's headed for the deepest point on Earth: Challenger Deep, the southern part of the Marianas Trench. Caden Bosch is a brilliant high school student whose friends are starting to notice his odd behavior. Caden Bosch is designated the ship's artist in residence to document the journey with images. Caden Bosch pretends to join the school track team but spends his days walking for miles, absorbed by the thoughts in his...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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"Sink or swim. Or at least that's what Annette Feldman tells herself when she books a cruise for her entire family. It's been over a decade since the Feldman clan has spent more than twenty-four hours under the same roof, but Annette is determined to celebrate her seventieth birthday the right way. Just this once, they are going to behave like an actual family. Too bad her kids didn't get the memo. Between the troublesome family secrets, old sibling...
78) Passenger
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves... Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods - a powerful family in the Colonies - and the servitude he's known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can't escape and the family that won't let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a...
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Series
A Dowry Girls adventure volume 1
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Two friends seek their fortunes and mates by shipping off to the New World. At 17, Gwenneth Hume and Patience O'Connor enjoy a happy life near Grenfels Corners in the British Isles. Patience is learning midwifery and preparing to leave a convent orphanage, while Gwenneth, an excellent cook, enjoys helping out at her father's inn. Despite their contentment, when a friend tells them about opportunities in the New World, they book passage on a ship that...
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English
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"Compulsively readable."--New York Times Book Review The extraordinary new thriller from Stuart Turton, author of the bestselling murder mystery The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, winner of the Costa Best First Novel Award. A murder on the high seas. A remarkable detective duo. A demon who may or may not exist. It's 1634 and Samuel Pipps, the world's greatest detective, is being transported to Amsterdam to be executed for a crime he may, or may...
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