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62) A swirl of ocean
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
A decade after her caregiver finds her alone on the beach, twelve-year-old Summer begins wondering where she came from, until a frightening experience in the ocean triggers dreams of a strangely familiar girl in another reality.
63) Beat to Quarters
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
A still young Hornblower is captain of the 36-gun frigate Lydia. He sets his course for Spain and Nicaragua in his ongoing quest to cut Napoleon's lines wherever he crosses them.
64) The Baltic prize
Author
Series
Kydd novels volume 19
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
1808. Parted from his new bride, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is called away to join the Northern Expedition to Sweden, now Britain's only ally in the Baltic. Following the sudden declaration of war by Russia and with the consequent threat of the czar's great fleet in St Petersburg, the expedition must defend Britain's dearly-won freedom in those waters. However Kydd finds his popular fame as a frigate captain is a poisoned chalice; in the face of jealousy...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Mark Helprin, the #1 New York Times, bestselling author of Winter's Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, presents a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in love.
A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant...
66) Dead astern
Author
Series
Windjammer mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Something feels amiss about the group of seven friends who charter Maine Wind for the last cruise of the season that turns deadly when one of them is lost overboard. While making for home port, homocide detective Brie Beaumont investigates a case that becomes more enigmatic at every turn. As she drills down through layers of hatred, mistrust, and deception, old crimes come to light, and tensions ratchet up with each passing hour. When a storm looms...
Author
Series
Windjammer mystery volume 5
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Homicide detective Brie Beaumont and Captain John DuLac go undercover to solve a complex and chilling murder case.
Lobstermen are dying on Starkhaven Island, well off the coast of Maine. Over a year and a half, four men have mysteriously disappeared from their boats. But when the Maine State Police try to investigate, the islanders, ruled by their fatalistic view of the sea, close ranks to stonewall the investigation. Brie, John, George, and retired...
Author
Series
Horatio Hornblower saga volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Presents the unfinished manuscript of Forester's historical adventure in which Hornblower, on the verge of securing his first post as captain, finds himself fighting alongside a man whom he has unintentionally helped to court-martial; and includes the author's notes regarding the novel's conclusion, as well as two additional Hornblower stories.
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 15
Pub. Date
[2004]
Formats
Description
In Hart's winning 15th outing featuring Death on Demand Mystery Bookstore owner Annie Darling (after 2003's Engaged to Die), Annie is excited about the benefit cruise she's planned that will offer food, fun and prizes as well as relief from the sultry heat of August on the Low Country island of Broward's Rock, S.C. The evening's festivities, however, are shattered when the town's favorite volunteer, Pamela Potts, falls overboard. Rescued by Annie's...
Author
Series
Windjammer mystery volume 6
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"After six months on leave in Maine, Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont returns home to Minnesota to make decisions about her life and career within the Minneapolis Police Department. But her partner's death still haunts her, and she soon reqlizes that, to be whole again, she must solve the case of Detective Phil Thatcher's murder--a case that went cold eighteen months ago. But threatening letters, a shadowy characater, and a shooting on the North Shore...
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Description
A fictional "biography" of the character of Horatio Hornblower, the British naval hero of a series of novels by C.S. Forester. This book fills in gaps of time between the novels and offers more information about incidents such as the suspicious death of Captain Sawyer of the "Renown."
Author
Series
Claude Renard mystery volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Chief Deputy Claude Renard, first introduced in Death In The Blood Moon, returns in a gripping murder mystery set in the depths of winter in Grand Marais, Minnesota.
The Northern Arts Folk School is running its annual coffin-making class titled Bury Yourself In Your Work. But when one of the students is found dead in his unfinished coffin, Chief Deputy Renard is tasked with investigating the crime. The victim, while relatively new to Grand Marais,...
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Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 23
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Dewey Lambdin is the reigning master of maritime fiction, celebrated as the heir to Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester. For over twenty years, his devoted fans have followed the adventures of Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, from his days as a midshipman to captain of his own ship and, though on somewhat dubious grounds, a baronetcy. Summer, 1809, and Captain Alan Lewrie, RN, wins fame, glory, and prize-money leading his squadron to victory over four French...
Author
Series
Shark school volume 9
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Harry Hammer looks for the lost treasure of Long Fin Silver, the greatest pirate of the deep seas, in this ninth Shark School (mis)adventure.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven Putnam, late of the Battle of Tripoli, is dispatched to Charleston to outfit and take command of a new 20-gun brig, the USS Tempest. Later, aboard the Constitution, he sails into the furious early fighting of the war. Prowling the South Atlantic in the Tempest, Bliven takes prizes and disrupts British merchant shipping,...
Author
Series
Neptune Trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In a future where climate change is out of control, genetically engineered kids struggle to survive in the ocean and race to save our world from climate change.
79) Meet Maui
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"In the ancient South Pacific world of Oceania, Moana, a born navigator, sets sail in search of a fabled island. During her incredible journey, she teams up with the legendary demi-god Maui to traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage."--Amazon.
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