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41) The shark mutiny
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Formats
Description
As oil tankers explode, placing the world supply in jeopardy, mutiny is brewing aboard a US Navy submarine when Navy Seals are confronted with the unexpected death of one of their own.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"A new, definitive edition of Herman Melville's virtuosic short stories--American classics wrought with scorching fury, grim humor, and profound beauty. Though best-known for his epic masterpiece Moby-Dick, Herman Melville also left a body of short stories arguably unmatched in American fiction. In the sorrowful tragedy of Billy Budd, Sailor; the controlled rage of Benito Cereno; and the tantalizing enigma of Bartleby, the Scrivener; Melville reveals...
Author
Series
Happy people read and drink coffee volume 1
Publisher
Weinstein Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After suffering a deeply tragic personal loss, the owner of a cozy book cafe in Paris moves to a small Irish coastal town where she finds herself at odds with the abrasive and unwelcoming, but handsome, photographer next door.
44) Pirate Bob
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes the life of a pirate, named simply Bob, whose job is to cut the steering cables and cripple the ships he and his shipmates will loot.
45) The Wanderer
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. "They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty." 1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands has been Grace Darling's home for all of her twenty-two years....
47) Tooth or dare
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Whoever loses the most shark teeth in Harry Hammer's class will get to go on the new ride at Dregoland before anyone else.
48) Devour
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
It Lurks
Deep beneath the ice of the Arctic Circle, something has awakened. A primordial creature frozen in time, it is the oldest, largest, most efficient predator that nature has ever produced. And it is ravenously hungry…
It Hunts
Thirty-five miles off the Massachussetts coast, a small research ship is attacked. All but one of its crew is killed by the massive serpentine horror that rises from the sea. The creature likes this human prey. The...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A fearless Spanish crew embarks on a search for a lost ship, swallowed by the Indian Ocean centuries ago, in a novel by "a master of the literary thriller" (Booklist, starred review). Manuel Coy is a suspended sailor with time on his hands, a mariner without a ship. While attending a maritime auction in Barcelona, he meets Tánger Soto, a captivating beauty who works for the Naval Museum in Madrid. A woman obsessed with the Dei Gloria, a famed Jesuit...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
No-nonsense Captain Swashby is used to the sea meeting all of his needs and when, after his retirement, new neighbors disturb his solitary life, the sea helps in just the right way.
52) Ghost force
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
The year is 2011. An oil-hungry world is starving...... and Argentina, with Russia's help, is determined to brutally wrest the petroleum-rich Falkland Islands from British hands. Enraged over this brazen act of international piracy, Great Britain dispatches a battle fleet to the islands for the second time in thirty years-unaware that Viper K-157, a lethal Russian Akula-class submarine, lies in wait, stuffed to the gunwales with ship-killingtorpedoes....
53) I love you, Blue
Author
Publisher
Flyaway Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An introductory tale about the impact plastic waste has on the ocean is told through a lighthouse keeper's friendship with a whale named Blue"--
Author
Publisher
Blue Mug Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"It's 1913 and Great Lakes galley cook Sunny Colvin has her hands full feeding a freighter crew seven days a week, nine months a year. She also has a dream--to open a restaurant back home--but knows she'd never convince her husband, the steward, to leave the seafaring life he loves. In Sunny's Lake Huron hometown, her sister, Agnes Inby, mourns her husband, a U.S. Life-Saving Serviceman who died in an accident she believes she could have prevented....
55) Waiting on love
Author
Series
Ladies of the Lake volume 3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
She's made big promises. It'll take everything she's got to keep them. Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her father's freighter ship, the Mary Elise, Elise Wright has grown up cooking and caring for the crew. It is a life she loves. Unlike her estranged sister, Elise has turned down numerous opportunities for a "respectable life" with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, she's bound to the ship and...
56) Under the sea
Author
Publisher
Flowerpot Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Hi there! This is a fun book where we play hide and seek. If you think you'd like to play it is okay to take a peek. When you're ready just say, "go"! I will hide inside the book and the undersea creatures will all try to help you look!
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
As the "Titanic" and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the "SS Californian" sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress rockets that the "Titanic" fired. The next morning, the "Titanic" was at the bottom of the sea and more than 1,500 people were dead. When they learned the...
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
59) Shark Island
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
A shark attack survivor believes she has already lived through her worst nightmare. She's dead wrong...
Naomi Cardiff is not one to give up without a fight-and now, after learning about a series of shark attacks in Cape Cod, she's joined a team of scientists to put a stop to the terror. The plan: to lure the sharks to a remote island far from the populated coastline. Meanwhile, a fierce Nor'Easter is underway...
In the midst of the storm, an alarming...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
The South Seas are a paradise for battle-weary Captain Jack Aubrey and ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin. But their peace is disturbed when Stephen's fancy for a peculiar marine organism lands him overboard. Acting in his usual headstrong fashion, Jack dives in to the rescue, unfortunately failing to plan what will happen once they are both in the water watching the sails of the Surprise disappear in the mist.
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