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1) Lightship
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1st ed.
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Lightships once served where lighthouses could not be built. They helped to guide sailors safely through the fog.
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"From New York Times bestselling author of the "twisty-mystery" (Vulture) novel In a Dark, Dark Wood, comes The Woman in Cabin 10, an equally suspenseful and haunting novel from Ruth Ware--this time, set at sea. In this tightly wound, enthralling story reminiscent of Agatha Christie's works, Lo Blacklock, a journalist who writes for a travel magazine, has just been given the assignment of a lifetime: a week on a luxury cruise with only a handful of...
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Magnus Chase and the gods of Asgard volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
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Magnus and his friends set sail for the farthest borders of Jotunheim and Niflheim in pursuit of Asgard's greatest threat, Loki's demonic ship full of zombies.
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Oregon files volume 5
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The crew has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate - and as perilous - as any he has ever known, and...
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"The ordeal of the whaleship Essex was an event as mythic in the nineteenth century as the Titanic disaster was in the twentieth. Nathaniel Philbrick now restores this story - which inspired the climactic scene in Herman Melville's Moby Dick - to its rightful place in American history" -- Dust jacket.
In 1819, the 238-ton Essex set sail from Nantucket on a routine voyage for whales. Fifteen months later, the unthinkable happened: in the farthest...
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"Distinctive characterizations" in this sci-fi fantasy "contribute to an exciting coming-of-age story with a strong message about the evils of prejudice" (Booklist).
Prisoners of a war they barely remember, Fremont's Children must find a way to survive in a world that abhors their very nature. Or they must discover a way to leave it . . .
Brenda Cooper's Fremont's Children series launches with her award-winning novel The Silver Ship and...
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This trade edition of Moby-Dick is a reduced version of the Arion Press Moby-Dick, which was published in 1979 in a limited edition of 250 copies and has been hailed as a modern masterpiece of bookmaking. It was hand set under the supervision of one of America's finest book designers and printers. The initial letters that begin each chapter were designed especially for this book and christened "Leviathan." The illustrations, of places, creatures,...
15) Rip tide
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Dark life novels (Kat Falls) volume 2
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Ty discovers an entire township chained to a sunken submarine, its inhabitants condemned to an icy underwater grave. It's only the first clue to a mystery that has claimed hundreds of lives and stands to claim two more -- - lives very precious to Ty and his Topsider ally, Gemma.
17) The grim grotto
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A series of unfortunate events volume 11
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Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
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Emily Windsnap volume 6
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Ghost ships, lost world of Atlantis and trying to save the ships passengers puts Emily in danger of being lost to her own world.
19) Boat
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A history of the development and uses of boats, ships, and rafts, from birch-bark canoes to luxury liners.
20) I'm mighty!
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1st ed.
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A little tugboat shows how he can bring big ships into the harbor even though he is small.
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