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41) Imprison the sky
Author
Series
Elementae volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
416 pages cm
Description
Aspasia, eighteen, an Elementae who controls air, gets caught in a battle between Cyrus, who forces her to capture slaves for market, and a queen whose husband experiments on Elementae.
Author
Series
John Pearce novels volume 15
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
382 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
John Pearce is hiding in Gravelines with his mysterious companion, known to him as Oliphant. Although they find a crew willing to take them back to England, they learn on the journey that Pearce's old enemies, the Tolland brothers, are still active on the route, and may have been responsible for the murder of Catherine Carruthers. Back in England their problems continue: Pearce must seek to mend fences with Emily Barclay, in a relationship in which...
Author
Series
John Pearce novels volume 12
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 20 cm
Description
John Pearce, having negotiated the highly questionable sale of the two French prizes taken in The Devil to Pay, has left HMS Flirt, as well as the crew and the wounded Henry Digby in Brindisi and is headed for Naples to see his lover. In an uncomfortable journey he seeks to work out a way to best both Admiral Sir William Hotham and Captain Ralph Barclay, men who are his sworn enemies. All his calculations are thrown into turmoil when he discovers...
Author
Series
John Pearce novels volume 10
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 20 cm
Description
1794. The Mediterranean is proving dangerous waters for John Pearce and his Pelicans. Having left his lover Emily, who is also the wife of his mortal enemy Ralph Barclay, in the Tuscan port of Leghorn, Pearce is detained in Naples. When he unknowingly delivers a letter promoting the shady and incompetent Admiral Hotham, Pearce finds himself entangled in a political plot that soon puts those closest to him at peril. When reunited with Emily, John Pearce...
Author
Series
John Pearce novels volume 14
Publisher
Allison & Busby Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
350 pages ; 23 cm
Description
John Pearce is going home. But he has to avoid capture by an Algerine warship, having his Pelicans pressed into a British frigate and that's before they are at risk of being hanged for desertion once home. Then there is the problem of Emily Barclay and their son Adam. By cunning and bluff he protects his friends, but not his troubled love life. In a whirlwind of action, there are forged wills, devious trades, contrived murders and dangerous spy missions,...
46) The invaders
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
429 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Hal and the other Herons face many perils as they track down the pirates who stole Skandia's most prized artifact, the Andomal"--
47) Treasure hunters
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 1
Formats
Description
"Following clues left by their missing father, twelve-year-old twins Bickford and Rebecca Kidd sail from the Caribbean to New York City with their siblings to finish the dangerous quest of their world-famous treasure-hunting parents"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Formats
Description
"In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Maiden Voyages explores how women's lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were transformed by their journeys between the Old World and the New. Some travelled for leisure, some...
Publisher
Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (250 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! Follow the adventures of this enthusiastic, optimistic sponge whose good intentions inevitably lead him and his friends into trouble.
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 4
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
462 pages : illustration, map ; 24 cm.
Description
With their honor restored, Hal and his fellow Herons leave Skandia again on a new mission--to track down and stop Hal's nemesis, Tursgud, a bullying youth-turned vicious pirate and slave trader.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2015.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Its hours of deep-sea hilarity, with SpongeBob and pals in a two-part mini-movie, 42 shorts and the pilot episode! First, help the Krusty Krew make it to the restaurant's anniversary party. Then enjoy a first-time collection of short episodes and the one that put SpongeBob on the map!
Author
Publisher
Azalea Creek Pub
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
309 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Description
Covers Tom Kendrick's life as a sea urchin diver (and surfer) and the California sea urchin fishery from 1978 through 1996. He and others dived in areas such as the Channel Islands and the shark-infested Farallon Islands.
Series
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of the sea-faring privateer and adventurer whose name has become synonymous with one of English history's most celebrated episodes: the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. In fact, Drake's exploits had made him a popular hero long before - he was the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean and the first to circumnavigate the world. This program provides a vivid account of one of the most colorful characters from the Elizabethan era.
55) Sea venture: shipwreck, survival, and the salvation of the first English colony in the New World
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
276 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Description
Honoring the four hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Jamestown colony, a dramatic chronicle focuses on the "Sea Venture," the ship that came to the rescue of the beleaguered colony in 1610 to transform the history of the New World.
57) The outcasts
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
434 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Skandian outcasts Hal, Stig, and others do battle at sea against the Wolves and the Sharks, in the ultimate race across icy waters where not everyone thinks of the competition as play.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[c2003?]
Physical Desc
251 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Description
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."
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