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Series
Tide child volume 2
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
514 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Dragons have returned to the Hundred Isles. But their return heralds only war and destruction. When a horde of dying slaves are discovered in the bowels of a ship, Shipwife Meas and the crew of the Tide Child find themselves drawn into a vicious plot that will leave them questioning their loyalties and fighting for their lives.
42) Moby-Dick
Author
Language
English
Description
Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power....
First published in 1851, Herman Melville’s masterpiece is, in Elizabeth Hardwick’s words, “the greatest novel in American literature.” The saga of Captain Ahab and his monomaniacal pursuit of the white whale remains a peerless adventure story but one full of mythic grandeur, poetic majesty, and symbolic power....
Author
Series
Dragonlord volume 1
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
First mass market edition.
Physical Desc
500 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Captain Kit Brightling novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captain Kit Brightling is Aligned to the magic of the sea, which makes her an invaluable asset to the Saxon Isles and its monarch, Queen Charlotte. The Isles and its allies will need every advantage they can get: Gerard Rousseau, the former Gallic emperor and scourge of the Continent, has escaped his island prison to renew his quest for power.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 1
Language
English
Description
When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Language
English
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Description
Gene Tierney and Rex Harrison co-star in one of the most romantic ghost stories of all time. Newly widowed Lucy Muir moves with her daughter into a seaside cottage haunted by the handsome Captain Gregg. Lucy eventually captures the captain's heart, but their spirited love affair is challenged by a flesh-and-blood suitor.
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 5
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the fifth volume of the Temeraire series, as Will Laurence and Temeraire struggle to reunite and face the Napoleonic army on London's doorstep.
“A story about friendship that transcends not only time and class, but species.”—NPR
For Britain, conditions are grim: Napoleon’s resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully...
“A story about friendship that transcends not only time and class, but species.”—NPR
For Britain, conditions are grim: Napoleon’s resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the...
Author
Series
Whispers on the moors novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darbury, England, 1814. Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's baby. She'll risk everything to keep her word -- even to the point of proposing to Graham, the child's father -- a sea captain she's never met.
51) Winterwood
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
424 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
When she inherits a magical winterwood box, Rossalinde Tremayne--a cross-dressing, widowed, privateer captain and unregistered witch--gets a half-brother she didn't know she had and a task she doesn't want: Open the box to right an ancient wrong and free the rowankind bondservants.
52) Ransome's honor
Author
Series
Ransome trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Language
English
Formats
Description
Julia Witherington is pressured into marrying William Ransome in order to receive a huge dowry, but the couple strike a financial deal to feign marriage for one year, leading to situations that reveal a growing affection between the two.
53) L'Atalante
Series
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Collectors édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the barge "L'Atalante", where they travel along the Seine River. The bride becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with other men.
Author
Series
Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
While trying to settle into a life of piety, motherhood, and absolutely nothing that hints of the supernatural, Amina al-Sirafi, one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, is offered a job she cannot refuse, but soon discovers this final chance at glory comes with a high price--her soul.
Author
Series
Water Wheel novel volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A prideful woman and a drunkard captain seek restoration and find it, by God's grace, in each other.
56) Moonspun magic
Author
Series
Magic trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR WEAVES A MAGICAL SPELL.
To save a young woman from his villainous brother, a retired spy marries her—and that's just the beginning of their adventures together.
To save a young woman from his villainous brother, a retired spy marries her—and that's just the beginning of their adventures together.
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Language
English
Appears on list
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Description
Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab.
59) The way of love
Author
Series
Willamette brides volume 2
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Faith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University's medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially the native populations forced onto reservations and then neglected. When she meets Andrew Gratton, a handsome riverboat captain who has been injured on his ship, she uses her skills to tend his wound, and a friendship grows between them. Andrew admires her strength and willingness to...
Author
Series
The adventurers quartet volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Widely known as the lord of the privateers, Royd Frobisher expects to execute the final stage of the rescue mission his brothers have begun. What he does not expect is to be pressured into taking Isobel Carmichael-- his childhood sweetheart, former handfasted bride and current business partner-- with him.
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