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Oregon files volume 13
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English
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"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...
2) Moby Dick
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English
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A young seaman joins the crew of the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Oregon files volume 7
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English
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Juan Cabrillo and the Oregon crew's search for missing NASA technology leads to a globe-trotting adventure in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington state make an exciting discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor. In the present, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite...
On December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on a small island off the coast of Washington state make an exciting discovery, only to be interrupted by news of Pearl Harbor. In the present, Cabrillo, chasing the remnants of a crashed satellite...
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Duke's sons volume 2
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English
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"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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Temeraire volume 5
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English
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As Napoleon launches an attack on Britain, Captain Will Laurence, accused of treason, escapes from his prison ship and sets out on a desperate quest to reunite with his fighting dragon, Temeraire, who has been consigned to breeding grounds in Wales.
6) Blood Alley
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Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A merchant marine captain, rescued from the Chinese Communists by local visitors, winds up transporting an entire Chinese village to Hong Kong on an ancient paddle steamer.
8) L'Atalante
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In Jean Vigo’s hands, an unassuming tale of conjugal love becomes an achingly romantic reverie of desire and hope. Jean (Jean Dasté), a barge captain, marries Juliette (Dita Parlo), an innocent country girl, and the two climb aboard Jean’s boat, the L’Atalante—otherwise populated by an earthy first mate (Michel Simon) and a multitude of mangy cats—and embark on their new life together. Both a surprisingly erotic idyll and a clear-eyed meditation...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2000]
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English
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"Tells us what life was like for the women who dared to captain ships of their own, don pirates' garb, and perform heroic and hellacious deeds on the high seas. We meet Irish raider Grace "Grania" O'Malley and female pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read, Lovelorn Susan, Ann Jane Thornton, Grace Darling and Scotswoman Betsey Miller". -- Jacket.
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The Hurst amulet volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
After a blackmailer forces her to steal an ancient onyx box from William Hurst, whom she has vowed never to see again, actress Marcail Beauchamp realizes that she must work with her former lover to save both of their families.
11) Crucible of gold
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Temeraire volume 7
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English
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"Naomi Novik's beloved series returns, with Capt. Will Laurence and his fighting dragon Temeraire once again taking to the air against the broadsides of Napoleon's forces and the friendly--and sometimes not-so-friendly--fire of British soldiers and politicians who continue to suspect them of divided loyalties, if not outright treason. For Laurence and Temeraire, put out to pasture in Australia, it seems their part in the war has come to an end just...
12) Golden Buddha
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Oregon files volume 1
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English
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In the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Oregon Files series, Chairman Juan Cabrillo and his crew are hired by the US government to free Tibet from Chinese control...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
The Corporation, a group of highly intelligent and skilled mercenaries, under the leadership of Juan Cabrillo, board a brand new ship. It's a state-of-the-art seagoing marvel with unthinkable technology at its disposal. And it's designed to look...
13) Persuasion
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English
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In this compelling love story, Anne Elliott is unhappy and unmarried twenty-seven. At the urging of her family, she broke her engagement to the man she loved eight years before because he was poor and didn't have good family connections. When they meet again, he is wealthy, a captain in the navy, and looking for a wife, but he has not forgiven Anne for her rejection and resolves not to fall in love with her again.
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Series
The Riverhaven years volume 2
Publisher
Harvest House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Rachel Brenneman, a young Amish widow, faces many challenges that test her faith, including secrets, treachery, persecution, and her love for the forbidden "outsider," Jeremiah Gant, an Irish-American riverboat captain.
15) The sea-wolf
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English
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A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas. The Sea Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. The vivid story of a gentleman scholar's rescue and subsequent ordeal at the hands of a hunting schooner's brutal captain and devious crew. It remains one of Jack London's finest achievements.
16) Sarah's choice
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Brides of Lehigh Canal volume 3
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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Description
When widowed mother Sarah Turner meets Captain Elias Brooks, she must decide whether to follow her heart where it leads or accept the proposal of a handsome, land-loving blacksmith.
17) Mighty Moby
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Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
From a Caldecott winner comes a Moby Dick inspired adventure that delivers a dynamically interactive story about a one-legged captain and the whale he pursues.
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Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
1993.
Language
English
Description
"From a distant island in the Malay Archipelago, Dr. Saunders sets sail with two intriguing characters. Money has talked the shifty Captain Nichols into whisking a young Australian, Fred Blake, over the horizon for a discreet period. But it is love, when their pearl lugger touches a remote East Indian island, that lures the luckless Fred into disaster." --Cover.
19) The guns above
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Signal airship volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
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, a gambler and shameless flirt with the military know-how of a thimble. Bernat's own secret assignment is to catalog her every...
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