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1) The Sea-Wolf
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Pub. Date
℗2000
Language
English
Description
At the center of this exciting sea adventure, lies the battle between Humphrey Van Weyden and Wolf Larsen -- the battle to determine who is the fittest to survive ; a battle for life, love and one man's soul.
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 13
Language
English
Description
"Nearly two thousand years ago, an Eastern emperor charged a small group with safeguarding secrets powerful enough to change the history of mankind. They went down in legend as the Nine Unknown Men--and now two rival factions of their descendants are fighting a mighty battle. Both sides think they are saving the world, but their tactics could very well bring about the end of humankind. Soon, Juan Cabrillo and his team of expert operatives aboard the...
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Series
Duke's sons volume 2
Language
English
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Description
A proper English wife, or the freedom of the sea? Lord James Gresham is the fifth son of the Duke of Langford, a captain in the Royal Navy, and at a loss for what to do next. He's made his fortune; perhaps now he should find a proper wife and set up his nursery. But the sea calls to him, while his search for a wife leaves him uninspired. And then, a dark beauty with a heart for revenge is swept into his life. He can't have both, but he won't give...
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Series
Signal airship volume 1
Publisher
Tor, a Tom Doherty Associates book
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Robyn Bennis's THE GUNS ABOVE is an adventurous military fantasy debut about a nation's first female airship captain.
They say it's not the fall that kills you.
For Josette Dupre, the Corps' first female airship captain, it might just be a bullet in the back.
On top of patrolling the front lines, she must also contend with a crew who doubts her expertise, a new airship that is an untested deathtrap, and the foppish aristocrat Lord Bernat,...
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Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2008], c2007
Language
English
Description
Relates the story of a young and inexperienced sea captain whose first command finds him with a ship becalmed in tropical seas and a crew smitten with fever. As he wrestles with his conscience and with the sense of isolation that his position imposes, the captain crosses the "shadow-line" between youth and adulthood.
7) Hellburner
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 16
Language
English
Description
When Juan Cabrillo fails to capture the leader of Mexico's most dangerous drug cartel and loses an Oregon crew member in the process, he's determined to get revenge. Little does he know that the explosion he just narrowly escaped was merely the latest flash of violence from a machine of war that has existed for decades, dating from the bloodiest episode in Armenia's history. Cabrillo's Corporation of mercenaries may have finally met its match in...
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Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
With Over 100 Million Copies Sold, Victoria Holt is the Queen of Gothic Romance I shall be back, he said When? Perhaps sooner than you think. He took my face in his hands and looked at me; I thought he was going to kiss me, but he seemed to change his mind and suddenly, he was gone and I was alone in the autumn-scented garden. Dark Secrets. Lost Treasure. Delicious Scandal. Anna Brett fears she's doomed to be a governess to an English family for the...
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Series
Highland Guard novels volume 2
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Erik MacSorley is an unrivaled seafarer who has never encountered a woman he could not win--until he drags a wet, half-naked 'nursemaid' out of the waters off the Irish coast. Ellie's ordinary appearance belies the truth: She is in fact Lady Elayne de Burgh, the spirited daughter of the most powerful noble in Ireland. Worse, this irresistible woman is determined to prove herself immune to Erik's charms--a challenge he cannot resist. Her captor may...
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Language
English
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In the compelling second book in her popular new series B.J. Hoff offers readers an even closer look at the Amish community of Riverhaven and the people who live and love and work there. Secrets, treachery and persecution are only a few of the challenges that test young Amish widow Rachel Brenneman's faith and her love for forbidden "outsider" Irish-American riverboat captain Jeremiah Gant. Meanwhile Gant's own hopes and dreams are dealt a life-changing...
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Series
Tides of magic volume 1
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
A debut female-led swashbuckling fantasy following powerful sorceress and sea captain Marquese Enid d'Tancreville as she is forced on the run where she meets a vast cast of characters perfect for fans of Patrick O'Brian's beloved Master and Commander series. Despite her powerful magic, Marquese Enid d'Tancreville must flee her homeland to escape death at the hands of the Theocratic Revolution. When a Theocratic warship overtakes the ship bringing...
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English
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Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers' hideaway tucked inside a cave. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain's bed... Known to society as a rascal and...
16) Stormbreak
Author
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Aric Athair is dead, but the fight for the Bullet Seas is far from over. Caledonia's nemesis, Lir has seized control of the warlord's army. She and her crew flee to Cloudbreak to prepare for an all-out war. As defecting soldiers begin to show up in droves to join their fight, it seems like the tides might be turning-- until a surprise attack decimates the growing rebellion. Now Caledonia is forced to make an unlikely and unsteady alliance with a new...
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English
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If Melville had never written Moby Dick, his place in world literature would be assured by his short tales. "Billy Budd, Sailor," his last work, is the masterpiece in which he delivers the final summation in his "quarrel with God." It is a brilliant study of the tragic clash between social authority and individual freedom, human justice and abstract good. Melville also explores this theme in "Bartelby the Scrivener,"...
18) Moby Dick
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Series
Language
English
Description
A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
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Series
Language
English
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Captain Caleb Frobisher, hedonistic youngest son of a seafaring dynasty, wants to be taken seriously. Seizing the next leg of the covert mission his brothers are pursuing, he acts decisively and effectively in securing the mission's objectives. But responsibility has taken root, and he remains in the jungle to ensure the mission's ultimate goal. Katherine Fortescue fled a life of poverty and came to Freetown as a governess, only to be kidnapped and...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
A daring and magnificent account of Iceland's most famous female sea captain who constantly fought for women's rights and equality--and who also solved one of the country's most notorious robberies. Many people may have heard the old sailing superstition that having women onboard a ship was bad luck. Thus, the sea remains in popular knowledge a male realm. When we think of examples of daring sea captains, swashbuckling pirates, or wise fishermen,...
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