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It was the largest moving object on the face of the earth, but for Carolyn and Peter Hardin it was a towering wall of steel bursting out of a squall at full speed, bearing down on their ketch Siren. In a few dramatic moments, Siren was shattered by the indifferent juggernaut. Struggling for his life, Peter Hardin felt the hand of his wife being torn from his grip as the huge white letters on the supertanker's stern Leviathan steamed away. Thus begins...
2) Sea wife
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2020.
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Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her anemic dissertation when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. The couple are novice sailors, but Michael persuades Juliet to say yes. With their two kids--Sybil, age seven, and George, age two, Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four-foot sailboat awaits them--a boat that Michael has christened the Juliet. The initial result is transformative:...
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Secret projects volume 1
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The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has been a simple one, with the simple pleasures of collecting cups brought by sailors from faraway lands and listening to stories told by her friend Charlie. But when his father takes him on a voyage to find a bride and disaster strikes, Tress must stowaway on a ship and seek the Sorceress of the deadly Midnight Sea. Amid the spore oceans where pirates abound, can Tress leave...
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2019]
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218 pages ; 22 cm
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A decade after her caregiver finds her alone on the beach, twelve-year-old Summer begins wondering where she came from, until a frightening experience in the ocean triggers dreams of a strangely familiar girl in another reality.
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QEB Publishing, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 30 cm.
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"In the ocean, everything's turned on its head. Squids eat spaghetti and there's a captain called Fred. King Neptune's upset and the sea snakes can't sleep, it's so topsy turvy...down her in the deep. Spot the weird and the wonderful in Wes Magee's topsy turvy poem. Supporting notes will spark conversation and inspire children's creative writing."--back cover.
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Kronos rising volume 3
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Far from the Tree Press
Pub. Date
[2017].
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541 pages ; 23 cm.
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Unaware of the brutal battle that has just taken place between Ursula, the giant Megalodon shark, and the macropliosaur designated Typhon, Dr. Derek “Dirk” Braddock seizes upon his mentor Eric Grayson's absence and launches a dual-pronged mission into Earth's bloodstained seas. His brother Garm, commanding the anti-biologic submarine Gryphon, is assigned the dubious task of hunting down and exterminating Typhon. Meanwhile, Natalya Dragunova, captain...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 27
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"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Mus�ee de l'Arm�ee is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving...
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Harcourt
Pub. Date
2006.
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275 pages : ill., map ; 21 cm.
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In 1853, four bonded servants escape from a Russian fur post at New Archangel (now Sitka, Alaska) when they cannot bear the ill treatment. A harrowing trip southward brings the two survivors to a bay in southern Washington, where they are rescued.
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Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 25
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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336 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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Lewrie loses his ship and his command when he receives news that Vigilance must return to England to be decommissioned and turned over to the dockyards for a complete refit. Lewrie is grounded, put on half-pay, and his crew disperses to look for new positions. It's late Autumn, and being ashore is heavenly, after a time. Lewrie spends time with his wife Jessica, helps his son Hugh find a new ship, and happily marries off Charlotte. Life onshore is...
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Peachtree
Pub. Date
[2022]
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191, 16 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm
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"Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view. With a chill, he notices a small, still hand hanging over the side. Inside is Zheng, who's escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure. But the villains who are after Zheng are soon after Razi and his sister, Shifa, too! And so begins an exhilarating escapade in the shadow of the biggest sea monster of them all"--
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Nancy Paulsen Books
Pub. Date
2023.
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161 pages ; 22 cm
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A sea-faring girl and her friends take on pirates and grown-ups and bond with dragons as they work to make the world a better place. Otter (short for Ottilie) is a girl who is most comfortable on her family’s ship, the Tempest, where she and her fathers collect the dragon hides that protect the queen’s guards. But all is not well in the kingdom, and it’s not clear if the queen is to blame. The streets are full of homeless kids, and now one of...
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Courtney novels volume 15
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"The New York Times bestselling author of Desert God and Pharaoh adds another chapter to his popular historical saga featuring the seafaring Tom Courtney, the hero of Monsoon and Blue Horizon, with this magnificent swashbuckling saga set in the eighteenth century and packed with action, violence, romance, and rousing adventure. Tom Courtney, one of four sons of master mariner Sir Hal Courtney, once again sets sail on a treacherous journey that will...
13) Meet Maui
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
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Introduces Maui, a shapeshifting demigod with a magical fishhook, who reluctantly helps Moana return the Heart of Te Fiti to the ocean.
14) Migrations
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2020.
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"Franny Stone has always been a wanderer. By following the ocean's tides and the birds that soar above, she can forget the losses that have haunted her life. But when the wild she so loves begins to disappear, Franny can no longer wander without a destination. She arrives in remote Greenland with one purpose: to find the world's last flock of Arctic terns and follow them on their final migration. She convinces Ennis Malone, captain of the Saghani,...
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Horatio Hornblower saga volume 3
Publisher
Back Bay Books
Pub. Date
[1998]
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394 pages ; 21 cm
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In the midst of his wedding reception, Hornblower receives orders to report the next day to his command in the Channel Fleet and help protect England against Napoleon's threatened invasion.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
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274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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"Western Australia, 1886. After months at sea, a slow boat makes its passage from London to the shores of Bannin Bay. The sea is a shocking blue, and gulls float above battered mangrove jetties. From the deck, young Eliza Brightwell and her family eye their strange new home. Here is an unforgiving land where fortune sits patiently at the bottom of the ocean. A land where pearl shells bloom to the size of soup plates. Where men are coaxed into unthinkable...
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Heroes in training volume 2
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2012, ©2012
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110 pages : ill. ; 20 cm.
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Zeus, Hera, and Poseidon continue on their mysterious quest, but when they must find a magical trident that can calm the angry sea, Poseidon reveals that he is terrified of the water.
20) A sea of gold
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Kydd novels volume 21
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2018.
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xiii, 382 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
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1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to first glory, then ruin. The French fleet is massing in the Basque Roads in a near impregnatable position....
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