Search Results: Returned 10 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 10
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c2005., Berkley Books Call No: Fic Cus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Cabrillo and his crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a comfortable but dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. Their newest clients are a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia.
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2002., Tor Call No: Fic Tur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: The vast tapestry of the Hellenic world unfolds in this stirring tale of two traders from the island of Rhodes, who range across the wind-blown face of the beautiful and treacherous Mediterranean in search of adventure and profits.
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2013., Thomas Nelson Call No: Fic Lad Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Series Title: Whispers on the moors Volume: bk. one.Summary Note: Darbury, England, 1814. Amelia Barrett, heiress to an estate nestled in the English moors, defies family expectations and promises to raise her dying friend's baby. She'll risk everything to keep her word -- even to the point of proposing to Graham, the child's father -- a sea captain she's never met.
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-- Whale.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.
![Moby Dick [eBook] : or, The whale](/Library/images/~imageCT101051.JPG "Moby Dick [eBook] : or, The whale")
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2003., Tor Call No: Fic Tur Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Menedemos and Sostratos, those dauntless capitalists of the third century B.C., have set sail again--this time to Phoenicia. There Menedemos will spend the summer trading, while his cousin Sostratos travels inland to the little-known country of Ioudaia, with its strange people and their even stranger religious obsessions.
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c2010., Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Pow Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "Azuba Galloway, daughter of a shipwright, sees ships leaving for foreign ports from her bustling town on the Bay of Fundy and dreams of seeing the world. When she marries Nathaniel Bradstock, a veteran sea captain, she believes she will sail at his side. But when she becomes pregnant she is forced to stay behind. Her father has built the couple a gabled house overlooking the bay, but the gift cannot shelter her from the loneliness of living without her husband. When Azuba becomes embroiled in scandal, Nathaniel is forced to take her and their daughter, Carrie, aboard his ship. They set sail for London with bitter hearts. Their voyage is ill-fated, beset with ferocious storms and unforeseen obstacles that test Azuba's compassion, courage, and love. Alone in a male world, surrounded by the splendour and the terror of the open seas, she must face her fears and fight to keep her family together."--Inside jacket.
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(2005, p1940)., Turner Entertainment Co. ; Warner Home Video Call No: DVD Fic Sea Hawk Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A dashing, patriotic pirate raids Spanish ships for England, and finds himself drawn into a conspiracy.
![The Sea Hawk [DVD] (1940). Direceted by Michael Curtiz.](/Library/images/~imageCT72353.JPG "The Sea Hawk [DVD] (1940). Direceted by Michael Curtiz.")
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2019., Adult, 107 min, Universal Pictures Home Entertainment Call No: DVD Fic Serenity (2019) Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Baker Dill is a fishing boat captain that leads tours off Plymouth Island. His quiet life is upended when Karen, his ex-wife, tracks him down to ask him for help. She begs him to save her and their son from her new husband. She requests that Dill take her husband out on a fishing expedition and leave him to the sharks.
![Serenity [DVD] (2019). Directed by Steven Knight](/Library/images/~imageCT102448.JPG "Serenity [DVD] (2019). Directed by Steven Knight")
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c2010., G.P. Putnam's Sons Call No: Fic Cus Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumbles upon a shocking revelation that leads him in search of an ancient Chinese expedition--and a curse that seems to have survived for more than five hundred years.
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2021., Adult, Alfred A. Knopf Canada Call No: Fic Pow Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: With the trial of a murderer darkening the news, the respected wife of a New Brunswick sea captain is drawn into the troubling case of a British home child. Mortified that she must purchase the beautiful teenager in a pauper auction to save her from lechery and abuse, Josephine Galloway finds herself unexpectedly the proprietor of a boarding house maintained by the sweat and tears of a curious collection of women. Among them is the English girl, Flora Salford, haunted by a missing piece of her life that she fears lost forever. Struggling to earn her place in this strange new country, Flora must decide if she can be the pillar Josephine's household desperately needs when tragedy strikes. Reconnecting with characters of Beth Powning's beloved novel, The Sea Captain's Wife, while navigating the class realities of Victorian Canada and the rise of women's suffrage,The Sister's Tale is a novel of orphans and widows, terror and hope, and the relationships that hold women together when life falls apart.
