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Jamrach's menagerie : a novel

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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McGlue

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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The officer breaks the rules [eBook]

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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River of smoke

By Ghosh, Amitav
c2011., Adult, Viking Canada Call No: Fic Gho Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library

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River of smoke [CD]

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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Sea of poppies

By Ghosh, Amitav
2008., Viking Canada Call No: Fic Gho Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library

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Sea of poppies [CD]

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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We, the drowned [eBook]

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.