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1) Black notice
Author
Series
Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
415 p. ; 25 cm.
Author
Series
Secret projects volume 1
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A fictionalized account of the adventures of eighteen-year-old Perce Blackborow, who stowed away for the 1914 Shackleton Antarctic expedition and, after their ship Endurance was crushed by ice, endured many hardships, including the loss of the toes of his left foot to frostbite, during the nearly two-year return journey across sea and ice.
Author
Publisher
A Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
176 pages
Description
"Esther is a stowaway. She's hidden herself away in the Librarian's book wagon in an attempt to escape the marriage her father has arranged for her-a marriage to the man who was previously engaged to her best friend. Her best friend who she was in love with. Her best friend who was just executed for possession of resistance propaganda. The future American Southwest is full of bandits, fascists, and queer librarian spies on horseback trying to do the...
10) Nim at sea
Author
Series
Nim series volume 2
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
183 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
After Alex leaves the island, and Selkie the sea lion is kidnapped, Nim accidentally stows away on the cruise ship that took Selkie, in the hopes of rescuing her and bringing Alex back.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations ; cm
Description
In 1912, orphaned Irish street musician Jonathan Harker accidentally stows away on the Titanic, where he is befriended by Wallace Hartley, called "the bravest man in the world" for playing violin with the band as the Titanic sank. Includes historical note.
12) The stowaway
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From internationally bestselling authors James Murray and Darren Wearmouth comes The Stowaway, a suspenseful masterpiece that leaves a cruise ship stranded at sea with a serial killer hiding aboard... Two years ago, Maria Fontana was the deciding vote ona jury that set alleged serial killer Wyatt Butler free. Now, she and her family are enjoying vacation on a two week long transatlantic cruise. But when passengers are discovered brutally murdered...
Author
Publisher
North Mankato, Minnesota
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
34 p. ;
Description
"When a spontaneous time leap sends Nickolas Flux back to Ernest Shackleton's ill-fated Endurance Expedition to Antarctica, what's a teenage history buff to do? Try to avoid becoming stranded, of course! From the crushing of the Endurance to a heroic lifeboat journey, Nick must survive one of the most amazing expeditions of the early 1900s"--
Author
Publisher
Overlook Duckworth
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 24 cm
Description
August 1914. While World War I rears its head across Europe, Sir Ernest Shackleton begins a daring expedition to be the first man to cross the Antarctic on foot. With him on his ship Endurance are twenty-eight crew members, sixty-nine sled dogs, a gramophone, a bicycle, and Merce Blackboro, a seventeen-year-old stowaway hidden amidst oilskins and sea boots. Their journey into the ice is by way of the sub-Antarctic island of South Georgia. But the...
15) C?digo negro
Author
Series
Scarpetta volume 10
Publisher
Atlantida
Pub. Date
c2000
Physical Desc
349 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Spanish translation of "Black notice". Chief medical examiner Kay Scarpetta of Richmond, Virginia, investigates a body found in a ship's container from Europe. A tattoo on the body sends her flying to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, where she learns of a killer known as The Werewolf.
El m?dico forense jefe Kay Scarpetta de Richmond, Virginia, investiga un cuerpo encontrado en el contenedor de un barco procedente de Europa. Un tatuaje en el...
16) The water keeper
Author
Series
Murphy Shepherd novels volume 1
Formats
Description
"Murphy Shepherd lives alone, doing maintenance work for a church that no one attends and trying to heal from scars gained rescuing others who dwell in the margins. His specialty is finding young girls bought and sold in the flesh trade, and leading them from brokenness to freedom, but Shepherd thinks he has given everything he has and it may be time to retire. His hermetic healing process is interrupted when he rescues a woman named Summer in Florida's...
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