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Seventeen-year-old Maile falls in love with Englishman John Harbottle, the navigator for Captain James Cook when they arrive in the Sandwich Islands. The two cultures clash after the death of Captain Cook in 1779, and Maile is forced to make an impossible decision: save John or save her people.
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"Jack would rather be at sea than fixing the mistakes of his grandfather, the late Earl of Stansworth. Instead, he finds that inheriting his grandfather's wealth and title and securing the welfare of his sister and mother means joining the ranks of high society and living with the aristocracy. Luckily, Ivy [Carlisle], the granddaughter of a dear friend of Jack's late grandmother, is willing to teach him etiquette and properly introduce him into society...
4) The sea wolf
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English
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The Sea-Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by Jack London about a literary critic Humphrey van Weyden.The story starts with him aboard a San Francisco ferry, called Martinez, which collides with another ship in the fog and sinks. He is set adrift in the Bay, eventually being picked up by Wolf Larsen.Larsen is the captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the Ghost. Brutal and cynical, yet also highly intelligent and intellectual, he rules over...
5) The whisper
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
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Her magical book of stories is wordless until a whisper in the wind tells a little girl to imagine a story for each page.
6) Seasparrow
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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As Hava sails across the sea toward Monsea with the world's only copies of the formulas for the zilfium weapon, she makes an unexpected discovery about one of the ship's crew, but before she can unravel the mystery, storms drive their ship off course, wrecking them in the ice far north of the Royal Continent.
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English
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"Sydney, Australia, 1946. Four women join 650 other war brides on a voyage to England aboard HMS Victoria, which still carries arms and aircraft as well as a thousand naval officers. Rules are strictly enforced, from the aircraft carrier's captain down to the lowliest young deckhand. But the men and the brides will find their lives intertwined despite the Navy's ironclad sanctions. And for Frances Mackenzie, the complicated young woman whose past...
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English
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Love and betrayal on the high seas highlight this new work by the bestselling author of "The Seville Communion". Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets a beautiful woman on a search for lost treasure. As they follow the course of past sailors, their own journey becomes perilous as secrets await in the depths of the sea. Map.
9) Arch of bone
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Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Josiah dreams of joining the crew of whaling ship, like his father and grandfather. A sailor brings news that his father has died, and that his crew was doomed by the mad Captain Ahab and the white whale, Moby Dick. Josiah and his loyal dog, Zeke, set sail to find out the truth of his father's death.
11) The star thief
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"Young parlor maid Honorine and her friend Francis find themselves in the middle of an epic feud between a crew of scientific sailors and the magical constellations come to life"--
12) The Caine mutiny
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Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
c1951.
Language
English
Description
The story of a modern-day mutiny aboard a U.S. naval vessel.
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Series
The Isles of the Gods volume 1
Language
English
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Selly's plans to follow her father to the north seas are dashed when a handsome stranger with tell-tale magician's marks on his arm boards her ship and presents her with a dangerous mission--to sail to the Isles of the Gods so he can complete a mysterious ritual.
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After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
17) I am a sailor
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Series
Publisher
Windmill Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
A child imagines what it would be like to be a sailor, surviving storms and finding comfort in the stars in the sky.
18) Billy Budd
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Publisher
Blackstone Audio
Pub. Date
p2009.
Language
English
Description
Billy Budd, a paragon of simple goodness and virile beauty, is pressed into the crew of the HMS Indomitable.
19) Buried at sea
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Publisher
Morrow
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
"Jim Leighton is young, fit, and hungry for excitement-and his dream of adventure is coming true, now that he's been hired as a deckhand and personal trainer to a wealthy investment banker and setting sail for Rio de Janeiro aboard the luxury yacht Hustle."--Jacket.
20) Into the wind
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Series
Publisher
Avon Flare
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly working at her father's tavern which is frequented by loutish sailors, early 1800s teen Rosie finds herself without a family or livelihood after a brawl ends her father's life and she is taken in by young sea captain Raider Lyons.
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