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      By Fisher-Alaniz, Karen
       2011., Sourcebooks Edition: eBook ed.    Summary Note: On his 81st birthday, without explanation, Karen Alaniz's father placed two weathered notebooks on her lap. Inside were more than 400 pages of letters he'd written to his parents during WWII. She began reading them, and the more she read, the more she discovered about the man she never knew and the secret role he played in WWII. They began to meet for lunch every week, for her to ask him questions, and him to provide the answers. And with painful memories now at the forefront of his thoughts, her father began to suffer, making their meetings as much about healing as discovery.
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      By Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
       2010., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: 910.41 W853h   Edition: 1st ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: A portrait of the legendary sea commander traces his rapid rise from an uneducated childhood in mid-nineteenth-century Nova Scotia to the leader of ships that experienced high-danger adventures, including the first documented solo journey around the world.
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      By Birch, Carol, 1951-
       2011., Doubleday Call No: Fic Bir   Edition: 1st U.S. ed.    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling venture falls short of expectations, the crew begins to regard the dragon--seething with feral power in its cage--as bad luck.
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      By Bough, Frank  Du Bois, Bruno  Chittenden, John
       2019., 97, Sony Call No: DVD 797.124092 H749m    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "In 1989, the Whitbread Round the World Race was considered to be the most dangerous sailing competition on earth. hen 26-year-old Tracy Edwards wanted to participate, she was met with resistance and sexism - no team would take her. Left with no other choice, she started an all-female crew, one who would not only take on the vast and foreboding ocean, but also the doubts and attacks from their male competitors and press. In this incredible true story, watch Edwards ad her crew attempt to turn the impossible into reality as they take on fifty-foot waves, icebergs and all of the dangers of the great and powerful sea. MAIDEN is a stunning, emotional film that is "a cause for celebration"!"--.
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      By Moshfegh, Ottessa
       2019., Penguin Books Call No: Fic Mos    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation--he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.
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      By Melville, Herman, 1819-1891
       c2012., Duke Classics Connect to this eBook title Summary Note: The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for the savage white whale, Ishmael questions all aspects of life. The story is woven in complex, lyrical language and uses many theatrical forms, such as stage direction and soliloquy. It is considered the exemplar of American Romanticism, and one of the greatest American novels of all time.
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      By Murray, Jeanette
       2013., Sourcebooks Casablanca Edition: eBook ed.    Series Title: Semper Fi   Volume: bk.2.Summary Note: Some Rules Are Meant To Be Broken He's Ruled by Loyalty... Every man knows that you don't date your best friend's little sister, but Captain Jeremy Phillips can't seem to be convince Madison O'Shay to stay away. And he can't convince himself to stop thinking about her, either. She's Ruled by Love... Madison knows exactly what she wants...and whom. But she won't give up her career in the Navy for any man, not even Jeremy. They're both about to learn that in the game of love, it's all about breaking the rules. Praise for The Officer Says I Do: Rich in detail about life on a military base...warm, sweet, and just spicy enough.?Mary Margret Daughtridge, bestselling author of SEALed Forever Issues of patriotism, commitment...and conformity entwine with eroticism and romance for an exciting read.?Publishers Weekly Fun to read...entertaining, thanks to Murray's insights into the attraction of opposites.?Booklist.
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      By Ghosh, Amitav  Jhaveri, Sanjiv
       2011., Brilliance Audio Call No: CD Fic Gho    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: The Ibis, loaded with a cargo of indentured servants, is in the grip of a cyclone in the Bay of Bengal. The storm also threatens the clipper ship Anahita, groaning with a large consignment of opium. And the Redruth, a nursery ship, carries Fitcher Penrose, a horticulturist determined to track down the priceless treasures of China that are hidden in plain sight. All will converge in Canton's Fanqui-Town, a powder keg awaiting a spark to ignite the Opium Wars.
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      By Ghosh, Amitav  Gigante, Phil  Brilliance Audio (Firm)
       2008., Brilliance Audio Call No: CD Fic Gho    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: "At the heart of this vibrant saga is an immense ship, the Ibis. Its destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean, its purpose to fight China's vicious nineteenth-century Opium Wars. As for the crew, they are a motley array of sailors and stowaways, coolies and convicts. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners, from a bankrupt Raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship brothers. An unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races, and generations. The vast sweep of this historical adventure embraces the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the crowded backstreets of Canton. But it is the panorama of characters, whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, that makes Sea of Poppies so breathtakingly alive-- a masterpiece from one of the world's finest novelists"--Summary from publisher's web site.
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      By Montgomery, Sy
       2024., National Geographic Call No: NEW 594.56 M757s    Availability:0 of 1     At Your Library Summary Note: This book reveals new science and remarkable discoveries about the octopus, one of nature's most elusive and intelligent animals.
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      By Pomade, Rita
       2019., Miroland (Guernica) Call No: QWF Bio P784s    Availability:1 of 1     At Your Library Series Title: MiroLand imprint   Volume: 19.Summary Note: "Seeker: A Sea Odyssey begins as a fairy tale dream of finding Shangri la, and transforms along the way because of unrealistic expectations and a disintegrating marriage. It's a story about venturing into an unknown and more exciting life, and the heartbreak and growth that comes with the risks. The adventure lasts six years, from the building of the Santa Rita to her sale to a drug dealer in Spain in the summer of 1986. Our live-aboard home takes us to Hong Kong, the Philippines, Borneo, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, India, Yemen, the Sudan, Egypt, Israel, Cyprus, Turkey, Rhodes, Greece, Italy, and Spain. And in relation to all that I had experienced, what I decide when offered by my ex-husband and best friend the possibility of sailing with him again thirty years later."--
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      By Jensen, Carsten
       2020. Click to access digital title.     Summary Note: Explore the wondrous sea and the oddities of human nature in this international bestselling, thrilling epic novel of a Danish port town. Hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation; there are cannibals here, shrunken heads, prophetic dreams, and miraculous survivals. The result is a brilliant seafaring novel, a gripping saga encompassing industrial growth, the years of expansion and exploration, the crucible of the first half of the twentieth century, and most of all, the sea. Called "one of the most exciting authors in Nordic literature" by Henning Mankell, Carsten Jensen has worked as a literary critic and a journalist, reporting from China, Cambodia, Latin America, the Pacific Islands, and Afghanistan. He lives in Copenhagen and Marstal.