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61) Drac's in love!
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"Mavis books a monster cruise for the family to cheer her dad up. But she gets more than she bargained for when Drac falls in love with the ship's captain, Ericka. Is there a love connection brewing on the high seas? Mavis is going to keep a close eye on this romance!"--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
2017.
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"Seven years ago Atagaris set off on a voyage to the Mariana Trench to film a "mockumentary" bringing to life ancient sea creatures of legend. It was lost at sea with all hands. Some have called it a hoax; others have called it a maritime tragedy. Now, a new crew has been assembled. But this time they're not out to entertain. Some seek to validate their life's work. Some seek the greatest hunt of all. Some seek the truth. But for the ambitious young...
63) Bitter Moon
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[2003]
Description
Story of two very different couples whose wild dreams, outrageous fantasies and sexy realities collide one fateful night on a vacation cruise.
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Who Discovered America? calls into question our understanding of how the American continents were settled, shedding new light on the well-known "discoveries" of European explorers, including Christopher Columbus. Menzies offers a revolutionary new alternative to the "Beringia" theory of how humans crossed a land bridge connecting Asia and North America during the last Ice Age, and provides a wealth of staggering claims, that hold fascinating and astonishing...
65) Float plan
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Since the loss of her fiance, Anna has been shipwrecked by grief. When a reminder goes off about a trip they were supposed to take together, Anna impulsively goes to sea in their sailboat, intending to complete the voyage alone. After a treacherous night's sail she realizes she can't do it by herself and hires Keane, a professional sailor, to help. Keane is also struggling with a very different future than the one he had planned. As romance rises...
66) Sea wife
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2020.
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.Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her anemic dissertation when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. The couple are novice sailors, but Michael persuades Juliet to say yes. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two, Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four-foot sailboat awaits them - a boat that Michael has christened the Juliet.
The initial result is...
67) Star of the Sea
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Pub. Date
c2002
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In the bitter winter of 1847, leaving an Ireland torn by famine and injustice, the Star of the Sea sets sail for New York. On board are hundreds of refugees, some of them optimistic, many more of them desperate. Among them are a maid with a devastating secret, the bankrupt Lord Merridith accompanied by his wife and children-and a killer stalking the decks, hungry for the vengeance that will bring absolution. This journey will see many lives end, while...
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the most remarkable feat of science and daring of the Jazz Age.
It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier?
Everyone wanted in on the adventure....
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I survived volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Boarding the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George explores the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink, in chapter-book format.
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Once upon a Tim volume 3
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Tim and his friends travel by land and sea, collecting treasure and defeating monsters as they go.
73) Tricky business
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Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
A tropical storm hits a casino boat off the coast of Florida changing the lives of a quirky set of passengers.
74) The plover
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2014.
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Declan O Donnell has left Oregon aboard his boat, the Plover, to escape the life that's so troubled him on land. He sets course west into the Pacific in search of solitude. Instead, he finds a crew, each in search of something themselves, and what at first seems a lonely sea voyage becomes a rapturous, heartfelt celebration of life's surprising paths, planned and unplanned.
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2022.
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"Atlantic Ocean, 1926: Voyaging from Southampton to New York, self-reliant Jane is determined to prove herself a worthy investigator on the stately ship - even awkwardly going undercover as the fashionable wife of her magnetic partner, Mr. Redvers Dibble. Few details are known about the rumored German spy the duo have been tasked with identifying among fellow passengers, but new troubles unfold once wealthy newlywed Vanessa FitzSimmons announces the...
77) Lifeboat 12
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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In 1940, a group of British children, their escorts, and some sailors struggle to survive in a lifeboat when the ship taking them to safety in Canada is torpedoed. Includes historical notes.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Every Sunday, Grandpa waited for me in his room, and I took my place at the foot of the bed. There were days when Grandpa wanted to talk, and days when we sat in silence. Then one day, Grandpa began telling me stories about his life at sea—tales of love and adventure and danger on the ocean waves. And that’s when I learned who my grandpa really was.
80) The cannibals
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Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Tom Tin and his friend Midgely--with assorted juvenile criminals--escape the ship taking them to serve their terms in Australia and head for a Pacific island, forgetting Tom's father's warnings about headhunters and cannibals.