Sea stories

  • Beat to Quarters

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    Called “as gripping and realistic a sea tale as you are likely to run across” by the New York Times, C. S. Forester’s Beat to Quarters finds Hornblower faced with a near-impossible mission off the coa[more below]

    • Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #06
    • Author: Forester, C. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 288
    • Publish Date: September 30 1985
    • ISBN10: 0316289329
    • Language: English
  • Poems of the Sea

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    Poems of the Sea is an anthology of classic poetry that celebrates the sea; from the power of a stormy ocean to ships and sailors and beaches strewn with shells.

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    • Author: Nicolson, Adam
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: November 23 2021
    • ISBN10: 1529045665
    • Language: English
  • If the Tide Turns: A Thrilling Historical Novel of Piracy and Life After the Salem Witch Trials

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    Set during the Golden Age of Pirates and the shadowy aftermath of the Salem witch trials, this vivid literary debut is inspired by the captivating true story of real-life pirate Samuel Bellamy, combin[more below]

    • Author: Rueckert, Rachel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: March 26 2024
    • ISBN10: 1496747534
    • Language: English
  • The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic

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    Inspired by true events, the New York Times bestselling novel The Girl Who Came Home is the poignant story of a group of Irish emigrants aboard RMS Titanic–a seamless blend of fact and fiction that e

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    • Series: P.S.
    • Author: Gaynor, Hazel
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: April 01 2014
    • ISBN10: 0062316869
    • Language: English
  • Mutiny on the Bounty

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    Mutiny on the Bounty is an “astounding sea tale” (New York Times) that thrills readers young and old with its action-packed account of treachery and survival in the South Pacific.
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    • Series: Back Bay Books
    • Author: Nordhoff, Charles
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: April 11 1989
    • ISBN10: 0316611689
    • Language: English
  • Sea of Treason

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    Following his recovery after a savage wounding in America, Kydd returns to England to re-assume command of his ship-of-the-line, Thunderer, which is sent to the remote station of Bermuda.

    • Author: Stockwin, Julian
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: January 09 2024
    • ISBN10: 1399716719
    • Language: English
  • Moby-Dick

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    Teeming with ideas and imagery, and with its extraordinary intensity sustained by mischievous irony and moments of exquisite beauty, Moby-Dick is both a great American epic and a profoundly imaginati

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    • Author: Melville, Herman
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 768
    • Publish Date: November 01 2016
    • ISBN10: 1509826645
    • Language: English
  • Lieutenant Hornblower

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    Hornblower gets his first independent command in this installment of C. S. Forester’s beloved series, “the most popular modern saga of the days when ships were wood and men were iron” (New York Times [more below]

    • Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #02
    • Author: Forester, C. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: November 16 1998
    • ISBN10: 0316290637
    • Language: English
  • 21: The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey

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    Blue at the Mizzen (novel #20) ended with Jack Aubrey getting the news, in Chile, of his elevation to flag rank: Rear Admiral of the Blue Squadron, with orders to sail to the South Africa station. Th

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    • Series: Aubrey-Maturin (Paperback) #21
    • Author: O’Brian, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 140
    • Publish Date: September 20 2010
    • ISBN10: 0393339335
    • Language: English
  • Meet Maui (Disney Moana)

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    Walt Disney Animation Studios’ Moana is a sweeping, CG-animated comedy-adventure about a spirited teenager on an impossible mission to fulfill her ancestors’ quest. In the ancient South Pacific world … [more below]

    • Series: Pictureback(r)
    • Author: Posner-Sanchez, Andrea
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 24
    • Publish Date: January 03 2017
    • ISBN10: 073643738X
    • Language: English
  • Twelve Mile Bank

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    A grandfather’s tale. A mysterious shipwreck. A race against time.

    Cayman Islands divemaster AJ Bailey is searching for a long forgotten WWII U-boat at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea. Armed with nothi

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    • Series: Aj Bailey Adventure #1
    • Author: Harvey, Nicholas
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 260
    • Publish Date: January 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 1959627015
    • Language: English
  • H. M. S. Surprise

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    In H.M.S. Surprise, British naval officer Jack Aubrey and surgeon Stephen Maturin face near-death and tumultuous romance in the distant waters ploughed by the ships of the East India Company. Tasked w

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    • Series: Aubrey/Maturin Novels #3
    • Author: O’Brian, Patrick
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: May 11 2021
    • ISBN10: 0393541606
    • Language: English
  • Sacculina

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    When Jim’s big brother Jack is released from prison, the brothers-along with their broken father and Jack’s menacing best friend-decide to charter an ocean fishing boat to celebrate Jack’s new freedom

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    • Author: Fracassi, Philip
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 90
    • Publish Date: December 07 2020
    • ISBN10: 1590217349
    • Language: English
  • Underjungle

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    “Strange, beautiful, and brilliant!” –Sy Montgomery, author of The Soul of an Octopus

    2023 FOREWORD INDIES FINALIST FOR FANTASY

    Deep below the surface, our world is cold, dark and content. Colors are f

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    • Author: Sturz, James
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 0
    • Publish Date: August 01 2023
    • ISBN10: 1951213750
    • Language: English
  • Hornblower and the Hotspur

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    Hornblower’s reconnaissance mission quickly turns to warfare in this installment of the beloved series of naval adventures by C. S. Forester, “a master of the genre” (New York Times).

    April 1803. Th

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    • Series: Hornblower Saga (Paperback) #03
    • Author: Forester, C. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: November 01 1998
    • ISBN10: 0316290467
    • Language: English
  • The Plover

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    Declan O Donnell has sailed deep into the vast, wild ocean, having had just finally enough of other people and their problems. He will go it alone, he will be his own country, he will be beholden to a

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    • Author: Doyle, Brian
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 352
    • Publish Date: March 31 2015
    • ISBN10: 1250062454
    • Language: English
  • The Sea-Wolf

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    In The Sea-Wolf, London’s most gripping novel, Humphrey Van Weyden is rescued from the freezing waters of San Francisco Bay by a demonic sea captain and introduced to fates far worse that death. Throu… [more below]

  • The Good Shepherd

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    Now a major motion picture Greyhound on AppleTV+, a WWII naval thriller of “high and glittering excitement” (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series

    The mission of Commande

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    • Author: Forester, C. S.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: October 02 2018
    • ISBN10: 0143134124
    • Language: English
  • Out of Aztlan

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    An ancient goddess rises up from an inverted temple in a lake of blood to purify the earth. Two pearl divers plot revenge against the Spanish merchants who enslave them. A mutant species of jellyfish

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    • Author: Castro, V.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 200
    • Publish Date: December 06 2022
    • ISBN10: 1951971094
    • Language: English
  • Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies

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    Following the hugely popular Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers and Woodlands and Forests comes Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies, an exploration of the mysteries of the stars, skies, and heave[more below]

    • Author: Winsham, Willow
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 14 2023
    • ISBN10: 1849947740
    • Language: English
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