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A new captain must lead his crew to safety and face his own internal struggles as he works to overcome disrespect, insanity, and coming-of-age all while sailing on an unforgiving sea.
There is an invisible line that divides life into a before and after-adolescence and adulthood. The unnamed narrator of The Shadow Line is painfully aware of this, but is unsure where the line lies in his life. He recalls a number of rash decisions he has made, some...
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In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
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"Set on a secluded island off the British coast, The Women of Pearl Island is a moving and evocative story of family secrets, natural wonders and a mystery spanning decades. When Tartelin answers an ad for a personal assistant, she doesn't know what to expect from her new employer, Marianne, an eccentric elderly woman. Marianne lives on a remote island that her family has owned for generations, and for decades her only companions have been butterflies...
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IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
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Harvey Cheyne is the over-indulged son of a millionaire. When he falls overboard from an ocean liner he is rescued by a Portuguese fisherman and, initially against his will, joins the crew of the We're Here for a summer. Through the medium of an exciting adventure story, Captains Courageous (1897) deals with a boy who, like Mowgli in The Jungle Book , is thrown into an entirely alien environment. The supersitious, magical world of the sea and the...
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This masterly character study of human transformation, written by Joseph Conrad (1857–1924) during the First World War, chronicles a youth's passage into manhood upon becoming the commander of his first ship. In this poignant tale of maturation, Conrad explores the initiation of this transitional occurrence and delivers a portrait of physical and psychic exile; sensory disorientation; and the final crossover toward a new identity. With realism born...
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2014
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A woman embarks on a perilous journey of deception and desire that takes her from eighteenth-century Charleston to England in this sweeping historical romance.
Bragen Alexander has spent years searching for the one whose lies about a crime could send Bragen to the gallows. But not until he encounters the fierce beauty Nichole Heatherton does finding that man become a possibility. If Nichole leads Bragen to Bodine, her ex-fiancé,...
Bragen Alexander has spent years searching for the one whose lies about a crime could send Bragen to the gallows. But not until he encounters the fierce beauty Nichole Heatherton does finding that man become a possibility. If Nichole leads Bragen to Bodine, her ex-fiancé,...
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My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.--- Mark Twain* Revised for 2018. Nearly twice the size, many more mysteries and excitement added!Fifteen year old Peter Stewart lives with his mother and grandfather in a coastal Georgia town during the mid 1800's. He has always dreamed of becoming a fisherman like his father was. Peter grew up believing his father was lost at sea twelve years earlier....
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*Shortlisted for the Katie Fforde Debut Romantic Novel Award 2019!* When Lottie's Gran dies she leaves one last request; save Greenley Theatre. Faced with a decaying building, a mayor who most definitely isn't on board with the project and a group of actors who just can't get along, Lottie has her hands full, but with best friend Sid by her side she knows she can do it somehow. But the arrival of Jeremy, a hotshot London developer who sweeps Lottie...
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"When you're on a three-and-a-half month voyage around the world, you ought to be able to sit and consider the sea." Will Post, a celebrated and sometimes controversial columnist, is a professor on the MV Explorer's Semester at Sea program, sailing around the world teaching the ups and downs of travel writing, while navigating the discomfort of three months at sea, as well as the uncomfortable truths that many of their stops bring up-poverty, colonialism,...
10) Training Ship
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1975: Six-year old Jake lives near the Massachusetts Maritime Academy in Buzzards Bay, a poor kid who wistfully watches the cadets. Will he put his thoughts into action? Written by an alumnus with a revisionist recollection of the Academy's last all-male European training cruise. A fictional remembrance of cadet life, hijinks, experiences, and unexpected adventures. Might the cadets find it necessary to sail the T/S Bay State themselves? Training...
11) Boy: A Novel
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To escape a brutal life on the Liverpool docks, a boy runs away to sea Arthur Fearon is nearly thirteen, and in the eyes of the law, that makes him a man. He wants to study to become a chemist, but his family cannot afford for him to continue school. The thought of a life working the docks makes Fearon break down in front of his classmates, but there is no time to cry. This boy has to get to work. The docks are hellish, and Fearon's first day is...
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"Elizabethan Commando."-The New York Times "Delightful reading for adults and thrilling fare for teenagers."-Los Angeles Times Young John Forrester never knew his father, a man who left his family and his home in England in search of the treasure of El Dorado…and disappeared.But when he receives news that his father is still alive and being held prisoner in Spain, John is thrust on a mission to save him…but he must save England first."Singeing...
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While spending the summer in the Hamptons, sixteen-year-old Mia is disappointed that her cousin Corinne has grown so distant, but when she meets the irresistible and adventurous boy next door, everything changes for the better.
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2020
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Dawn Elisabeth Brightside has been running from her past for twenty-two years and two months, precisely. So when she is offered a bed in St Jude's Hostel for the Homeless, it means so much more than just a roof over her head. But with St Jude's threatened with closure, Dawn worries that everything is about to crumble around her all over again. Perhaps, with a little help from her new friends, she can find a way to save this light in the darkness?...
15) The wanderer
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Cherry Wilder's The Rulers of Hylor series established a detailed and intricate fantasy world. Katya Riemann completed and polished this last Hylor novel, a tale of warring kingdoms, treacherous advisers and generational conflicts, set in a world of rich physical beauty, vibrant life and a realism leavened with occasional and startling magic.
Gael Maddoc, the child of struggling peasants, leaps at the chance when she is offered training as a kedran,...
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Tom Masters, a nineteenth century naval officer, is a round peg in a square hole. A tantalizing glimpse of a stranger leads him to jump ship on a quest to find her. His adventures, interwoven with the life of a young Robert Louis Stevenson, take Tom from the Isle of Skye to Canada. There he encounters others who have been, jettisoned by society, including Silent Owl, a Native American who becomes his soulmate. But, danger and exposure threaten Tom's...
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Charles Boardman Hawes was a Newbery Medal winning author. His swashbuckling pirate stories captivated a generation of readers. Now you can go on swashbuckling adventures, smell the salt of the ocean and the gunpowder of the pirates' cannons as you set sail on the high seas. Included here are all of Hawe's novels and a short story including The Dark Frigate, "Even So," The Mutineers, and The Great Quest. Over a quarter million words of pulse pounding,...
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In Three Sides Water, award-winning author Peter Donahue portrays the lives of three young people who seek meaning in an often violent, insensible world. Across the dramatic landscape of the Pacific Northwest's Olympic Peninsula, Donahue's characters take extraordinary actions to transcend the limitations imposed upon them. Marguerite struggles with the emotional aftermath of sexual assault amid the mysticism and untamed wilderness of the Pacific...
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The Kiss Between BreathsIn a time of upheaval, all secrets are revealed ...Isla and Taz are both trying to save the world. They don't know they are secret allies ... yet.Isla Wilson is now both Sireni and Daeveni. She alone can descend to the Smokelands to save her mermaid sisters and stop their plan to punish humanity for destroying the sea. It's simple: cross a bridge with killer ghosts, ask the Phoenix to return a "magic" map, and oh, yeah, get...
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Au moment o se formait sa personnalité, M'bemba a vécu de douloureuses épreuves qui n'ont pas manqué de faire de lui un adolescent révolté. Ses parents, n'ayant plus aucun autre lien que leurs enfants, décidèrent de se séparer formellement bien qu'ils s'étaient promis de vivre ensemble jusqu'à la mort. Il s'installa avec sa mère dans une banlieue de Deux-rives, ce qui ne l'épargna pas des péripéties lugubres. Après qu'ils eurent reçu,...
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