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Captains Courageous is a novel by Rudyard Kipling, that follows the adventures of fifteen-year-old Harvey Cheyne Jr., the spoiled son of a railroad tycoon, after he is saved from drowning by a Portuguese fisherman in the north Atlantic.
The book's title comes from the ballad "Mary Ambree", which starts, "When captains courageous, whom death could not daunt". Kipling had previously used the same title for an article on businessmen as the new adventurers,...
4) Trespasser
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Mike Bowditch novels volume 2
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While on patrol one evening, Bowditch receives a call for help: a woman has struck a deer on a secluded road. When he arrives on the scene, he finds blood in the road, but both the driver and the deer have vanished. The details of the disappearance seem eerily familiar as seven years earlier, lobsterman Erland Jefferts was convicted of rape and murder, but his supposed victim was later found alive in what was possibly an elaborate frame up. For Bowditch,...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2012
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Follows the experiences of a youth whose family and island community entirely depend on the king crab trade that constantly risks his father's life, a situation that is further threatened by a new fleet owner's intentions of selling away the island's livelihood.
8) South
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"When a lonely fisherman finds an injured bird on his boat, he nurtures it back to health, and--since the bird can no longer migrate with its family--charts a course heading south for the winter. Together, the two form a special friendship and enjoy lifeat sea until both the healing process and the journey come to an end"--
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
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348 pages ; 25 cm
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A story inspired by the plot of "King Lear" relates the fortunes of a family who has reaped the sea's bounty on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, but pays for it with the loss of every firstborn son.
11) Gone
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Hannah Smith novels volume 1
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Florida native and fishing guide Hannah Smith uses uncommon resourcefulness, a keen sense of justice, and unorthodox methods to track down a missing girl, a case that puts Hannah on the wrong side of violent adversaries.
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William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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367 pages ; 24 cm
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"In the summer of 1951, Miranda Schuyler arrives on elite, secretive Winthrop Island as a schoolgirl from the margins of high society, still reeling from the loss of her father in the Second World War. When her beautiful mother marries Hugh Fisher, whose summer house on Winthrop overlooks the famous lighthouse, Miranda's catapulted into a heady new world of pedigrees and cocktails, status and swimming pools. Isobel Fisher, Miranda's new stepsister-all...
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
387 pages
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Reynard, a young apprentice, seeks release from the drudgery of working for his fisherman uncle in the English village of Southwold. His rare days off lead him to strange encounters?not just with press gangs hoping to fill English ships to fight the coming Spanish Armada, but strangers who seem to know him?one of whom casts a white shadow. The village?s ships are commandeered, and after a fierce battle at sea, Reynard finds himself the sole survivor...
17) Deceived
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Hannah Smith novels volume 2
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
338 pages : maps; 24 cm
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A twenty-year-old unsolved murder from Florida's pothauling days gets Hannah Smith's attention, but so does a more immediate problem. A private museum devoted solely to the state's earliest settlers and pioneers has been announced, and many of Hannah's friends and neighbors in Sulfur Wells are being pressured to make contributions. The problem is, the whole thing is a scam, and Hannah discovers that the museum scam is a front for a real estate power...
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Bellinger sisters romances volume 2
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King crab fisherman Fox Thornton has a reputation as a sexy, carefree flirt. Everyone knows he's a guaranteed good time-in bed and out-and that's exactly how he prefers it. Until he meets Hannah Bellinger. She's immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his... personality? And wants to be friends? Bizarre. But he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic pals it is. Now, Hannah's in town for work, crashing in Fox's spare bedroom....
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Bellinger sisters romances volume 1
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Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar...in Washington. Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when...
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Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 21 cm.
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"Joe, Miles, and Harry are growing up on the remote southern coast of Tasmania--a stark, untamed landscape swathed by crystal blue waters. The rhythm of their days is dictated by the natural world, and by their father's moods. Like the ocean he battles daily to make a living as a fisherman, he is wild and volatile--a hard drinker warped by a devastating secret. Unlike Joe, Harry and Miles are too young to move out, and so they attempt to stay as invisible...
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