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81) Moby Dick
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
In this two-part made-for-TV retelling of the legendary Herman Melville tale, Ishmael, sole survivor of the lost whaling ship The Pequod, relates the tale of monomaniacal Captain Ahab 's self-destructive obsession to hunt and slay the elusive great white whale, Moby Dick, who disfigured him, forcing his tired and mutinous crew to travel the seas until they find it.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A companion to Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick," in which Una Spenser tells the story of her life, and discusses her loving marriage to Captain Ahab before the white whale took his leg and drove him into madness.
83) Fire strike
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
When Cabrillo is hired to extract an undercover operative in Kenya, he finds himself on the trail of a deadly international plot. A Saudi Prince seeks to unleash a deadly assault on U.S. forces, sparking a new war in the Middle East and ultimately destroying Israel. Cabrillo's crew have met their most fearsome adversaries yet: a force of bio-hacked soldiers endowed with extreme strength and stamina and an unquenchable appetite for violence. The Oregon...
84) The Truelove
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A British whaler has been captured by an ambitious chief in the sandwich islands at French instigation, and Captain Aubrey, R. N., Is dispatched with the Surprise to restore order. But stowed away in the cable-tier is an escaped female convict. To the officers, Clarissa Harvill is an object of awkward courtliness and dangerous jealousies. Aubrey himself is won over and indeed strongly attracted to this woman who will not speak of her past. But only...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Having sunk the first man-of-war under his command within weeks, Matthew Quinton is determined to complete his second mission without loss of life or honor. His suspicion grows that the previous captain of the "Jupiter" was murdered and many among his crew have something to hide.
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
After Elizabeth, Will, and Captain Barbossa rescue Captain Jack Sparrow, who is trapped in Davy Jones' Locker, they must face their foes. Lord Cutler Beckett, now has control of Jones' heart and forms a dark alliance with him in order to rule the seas and wipe out the last of the Pirates. Jack, Barbossa, Will, Elizabeth, and crew must call the Pirate Lords from the four corners of the globe, including the infamous Sao Feng, together. The Pirate Lords...
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume 4
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Lord Ramage is escorting a convoy from Barbados to Jamaica, normally a routine and tedious chore. But this time Ramage has to be especially vigilant to guard the convoy's precious cargo--a family of important French refugees.
90) Night secrets
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Brianne--a beautiful young woman desperate to escape her life--stows away on Captain Marcus Delaine's ship, but as an unexpected passion flares between them, tragedy and betrayal threaten to tear them apart.
91) Min and Bill
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Min, the feisty owner of a waterfront hotel who has raised an abandoned girl as her own child, is at constant odds with Bill, a rough and ready ship captain. Then the girl's happiness is threatened by her drunken mother's reappearance and Min's world is turned upside down.
92) Ramage's diamond
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume 7
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"The youngest captain in His Majesty's Navy, with a reputation for landing impossible assignments, Lord Ramage is dispatched to the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Diamond Rock. The mission seems humdrum: barricade the French within Fort Royal. But sent to sea in the Juno with a crew grown restless and undisciplined under the prior commmand of a drunk, Ramage realizes his vessel may not be up to battle with the French.
93) A battle won
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
After being tasked with taking HMS Themis into battle against the French for the strategically located island of Corsica, Master and Commander Charles Hayden soon must land his ship on Corsica, where his men join forces with native insurgents.
94) Vengeance
Author
Publisher
Covenant
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Ten years earlier eight year-old Aubree Lansing testified against Stone Lansing--a man she called "daddy"--in a murder trial that led to a hefty prison sentence for Lansing. Now Lansing is out of prison, and he's looking for the daughter whose words sent him there.
Author
Series
Buchanan saga volume 2
Publisher
Crosswalk Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When Captain Ritcherd Buchanan finally finds Kyrah, the woman he loves, on the other side of the Atlantic, they are still a very long way from the idyllic life that both had dreamed of. In a world turned inside out by war, treachery, and his own deep hatred for the evil Peter Westman, who had married Kyrah under false pretenses and viciously abused her, Ritcherd tumbles into an emotional maelstrom that uproots the anger and bitterness of his callous...
96) Calamity
Author
Series
[Uncharted hearts] volume 1
Publisher
Bramble, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The captain of a ragtag mercenary ship is given an offer she can't refuse by the ruthless head of an intergalactic noble family. The only catch? She'll have to team up with his son--an upsettingly competent hardbody with his own agenda--to get her reward. She's got a ramshackle spaceship, a misfit crew, and a big problem with its sexy newest member... Temperance Reed, banished from the wealthy and dangerous Fifteen Families, just wants to keep her...
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume 9
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Setting off on a sweep for freebooters in the waters off Jamaica, Ramage and the crew of the Calypso stumble upon a scene of carnage: a sinking British ship, her crew and passengers, men and women alike, ruthlessly murdered at the hands of a French privateer. Supported by his men in a thirst of righteous vengeance, Ramage ferrets out the brigand's name and sets sail to bring him in.
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume 3
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
Ramage and the Freebooters, is an historical novel by Dudley Pope, set during the French Revolutionary Wars. It is the third of the Ramage novels, following on from Ramage and the Drumbeat.
99) Ramage's devil
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume 13
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Captain Lord Ramage's honeymoon in France is interrupted by a sudden end to the Peace of Amiens. Finding themselves on unfriendly soil just hours before hostilities commence, Ramage and his bride elude the grasp of Napoleon's secret police.
Author
Series
Lord Ramage novels volume 12
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Lord Ramage, on leave from Nelson's Navy since the signing of the Treaty of Amiens, is called upon to inspect the small island of Trinidade off the coast of Brazil where he and the crew of the "Calypso" become caught up in a battle with pirates.
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