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2009., Ballantine Books Call No: Fic How Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Jenner Redwine wins the lotter, she never imagined how much it would cost her. Luckily she finds an ally-and a guide to the rarefied realm of privilege in a shy, kind-hearted heiress who invites Jenner on a charity cruise. But what should have been a "Love Boat" cruise suddenly turns into a game of dizzying intrigue and harrowing danger, and Jenner finds herself taken hostage by a menacing stranger--a stranger that helps her rediscover feelings she hasn't had in years. Now if she can only survive to live a life worth living ....
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2010., Random House Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: A funny, compelling and heartwarming cruisin' story by CBCA award-winning author Brian Caswell Told as a dual narrative, a writing style Caswell has made his own, between thirteen-and-a-half-year-old Jules Macaffrey and Suzi Q. After Jules' mother wins a cruise for four on the POLYNESIAN QUEEN, he discovers it's really a floating 'geriatric ward' with very little choice of companionship other than his sixteen-year-old, dancing-obsessed cousin Adrian, the very beautiful Jenna (also sixteen), wheelchair-bound Suzi Q and bully Barry Barnes.Falling madly in love with the unobtainable Jenna, Jules develops a strong friendship with Suzi as she steers Jules through his unrequited love - with unexpected results.
![Cruisin' [eBook]](/Library/images/~imageCT76186.JPG "Cruisin' [eBook]")
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2018., Atria Books Call No: MYS Fic Rhy Edition: First Atria Paperback Canadian export edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Servants and socialites sip cocktails side by side on their way to new lives in this "thrilling, seductive, and utterly absorbing" (Paula Hawkins, #1 New York Times bestselling author) historical suspense novel in the tradition of Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile and Ken Follett's Night Over Water . The ship has been like a world within itself, a vast floating city outside of normal rules. But the longer the journey continues, the more confined it is starting to feel, deck upon deck, passenger upon passenger, all of them churning around each other without anywhere to go... 1939: Europe is on the brink of war when young Lily Shepherd boards an ocean liner in Essex, bound for Australia. She is ready to start anew, leaving behind the shadows in her past. The passage proves magical, complete with live music, cocktails, and fancy dress balls. With stops at exotic locations along the way--Naples, Cairo, Ceylon--the voyage shows Lily places she'd only ever dreamed of and enables her to make friends with those above her social station, people who would ordinarily never give her the time of day. She even allows herself to hope that a man she couldn't possibly have a future with outside the cocoon of the ship might return her feelings. But Lily soon realizes that she's not the only one hiding secrets. Her newfound friends--the toxic wealthy couple Eliza and Max; Cambridge graduate Edward; Jewish refugee Maria; fascist George--are also running away from their pasts. As the glamour of the voyage fades, the stage is set for something sinister to occur. By the time the ship docks, two passengers are dead, war has been declared, and Lily's life will be changed irrevocably.
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[2020]., Adult, HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. Call No: Fic StJ Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it. Vincent is a bartender at the Hotel Caiette, a five-star glass-and-cedar palace on the northernmost tip of Vancouver Island. New York financier Jonathan Alkaitis owns the hotel. When he passes Vincent his card with a tip, it's the beginning of their life together. That same day, a hooded figure scrawls a note on the windowed wall of the hotel: "Why don't you swallow broken glass." Leon Prevant, a shipping executive for a company called Neptune-Avramidis, sees the note from the hotel bar and is shaken to his core. Thirteen years later, Vincent mysteriously disappears from the deck of a Neptune-Avramidis ship. Weaving together the lives of these characters, The Glass Hotel moves between the ship, the skyscrapers of Manhattan and the wilderness of remote British Columbia, painting a breathtaking picture of greed and guilt, fantasy and delusion, art and the ghosts of our pasts." --Provided by publisher.
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c2008., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Cus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The crew of the Oregon has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as ship captain Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate--and as perilous--as any he has ever known, and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human race . . . plans he may already be too late to stop.--From publisher description.
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2006., Simon Schuster/Scribner Call No: LP Fic Cla Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Alvirah & Willy Volume: 6Summary Note: Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, her husband Willy. recently 'hitched' private investigator Regan Reilly and her groom Jack, head of NYPD major case squad, embark on a luxury cruise to nowhere, sailing the day after Christmas. Among the passengers is a group of fifty mystery writers, fans and assorted lecturers who have signed up for a mystery seminar. The hoped for tranquility soon vanishes as an aging fan swears she has spotted the 'Ghost of Horror', the deceased mystery writer to whom the seminar is dedicated. Another fan disappears, an unexpected storm seemingly drives the ship off course, and another ship with no markings is making a fast approach. Alvirah, Regan and their group quickly become involved in getting to the bottom of what is going on. Filled with suspense and humour, this is a holiday mystery you wont want to miss.
![Santa cruise [LP] : a holiday mystery at sea](/Library/images/~imageCT66323.JPG "Santa cruise [LP] : a holiday mystery at sea")
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By Aitken, Will2022., Adult, Anansi Call No: Fic Ait Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: In this darkly hilarious satire by the inimitable Will Aitken, class war erupts aboard a luxury cruise ship. A boatload of white privilege, The Emerald Tranquility is the most luxurious cruise liner afloat, its passengers some of the richest people in the world. Meanwhile the ship's crew, overworked and underpaid, live packed tightly together in airless below-deck cabins. The passengers encounter a great number of cataclysms at sea, but no matter the catastrophe, the great ship always sails on. Briony, a globetrotting luxury travel writer, emulates the rich--though homeless and penniless herself--as she hops from gig to all-expenses-paid gig. On her own personal voyage, she encounters Mrs. Moore, an enigmatic woman of advanced age clandestinely fomenting a mutiny on this bountiful ship. With the captain overthrown, roles quickly reverse: the crew become the ship's new leisure class and the aged passengers learn how to mop floors and scrub toilets. Confused and terrified by the resultant chaos, Briony must decide which lot to cast her fate with in this savage satire of the way we live now.
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By Ware, Ruth2016., Penguin Random House UK Call No: MYS Fic War Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: From New York Times bestselling author of the twisty-mystery· (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful novel from Ruth Warethis time, set at sea.In this tightly wound story, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of cabins. At first, Loœs stay is nothing but pleasant: the cabins are plush, the dinner parties are sparkling, and the guests are elegant. But as the week wears on, frigid winds whip the deck, gray skies fall, and Lo witnesses what she can only describe as a nightmare: a woman being thrown overboard. The problem? All passengers remain accounted forand so, the ship sails on as if nothing has happened, despite Loœs desperate attempts to convey that something (or someone) has gone terribly, terribly wrongWith surprising twists and a setting that proves as uncomfortably claustrophobic as it is eerily beautiful, Ruth Ware offers up another intense read.
