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English
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Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
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Series
Secret explorers volume 13
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Connor and Kiki go in search of pirate treasure, but their plans change when they encounter a basking shark in need of help. Can they find the treasure as well as rescue the shark? Only time will tell!!"--
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Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 3
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English
Description
1889. Audrey Rose Wadsworth and Thomas Cresswell, are en route to New York on the opulent RMS Etruria. When young women begin to go missing, a series of brutal slayings shocks the entire ship. As Audrey Rose and Thomas begin to piece together the gruesome investigation, the clues to the next victim point to someone she loves. Can Audrey Rose unravel the mystery before the killer's horrifying finale? --
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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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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
Description
"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers...
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English
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Mandy Frey and three friends leave their Amish community in Indiana for the trip of a lifetime to Hawaii. But when Mandy and one of her friends miss the cruise ship after a port of call on Kauai, how will they adjust and get back home? Will time away from her community-- and from Gideon-- change Mandy's faith, and her love? Does a Hawaiian quilt have the power to bring two hearts together?
89) Beat the devil
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English
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An offbeat tale of adventure and suspense involving the passengers on a steamer who attempt to outfox each other for illegal control of a parcel of land in East Africa believed to be rich with uranium deposits.
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an extraordinary...
92) The Summer sail
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First Touchstone trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
295 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
94) Star of the Sea
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 386 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Author
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....
96) The salt letters
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
2001.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
189 pages : map ; 21 cm
Language
English
98) Lenobia's vow
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Series
House of Night. Novellas volume 2
Language
English
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Description
The gripping story behind the House of Night's enigmatic riding instructor--and one of Zoey's closest allies against evil.
99) Terrible times
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
145 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leaving his parents, his Mad Uncle Jack, and his Even Madder Aunt Maud at home at Awful End, Eddie Dickens, along with the color-blind Lady Constance, boards the ship the Pompous Pig on a mission to America.
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