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The Riddle of the Sands is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television. The novel "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain". It was a...
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In 1848, a motley crew of Danish sailors sets sail from the small island town of Marstal to fight the Germans. Not all of them return-and those who do will never be the same. Among them is the daredevil Laurids Madsen, who promptly escapes again into the anonymity of the high seas. This is also the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War and about...
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Written in clear, nontechnical language and enhanced with illustrations, this book traces the evolution of the sailig ship over the course of 6,000 years - from ancient times to the end of the nineteenth century. It provides detailed coverage of ships from ancient Egypt and Crete (4000-1000 B.C.); Phoenician, Greek and Roman ships; and Eurpoean, Asian, and American ships from the Middle ages to modern times.
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The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
5) Ghosting
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Dr. Jack Scales, a prominent neurosurgeon, is at the peak of his career. To celebrate, he decides to make up for lost time and buys a sailing yacht christened Slow Dance, for a family cruise to Bermuda. But, the family is strained: Jack's wife Arlen is secretly considering leaving the marriage; Rick, their bipolar twenty-year-old son, may need to be committed to a group home; Haley, a rebellious teenager, would rather be anywhere but trapped on a...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
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First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A little boy builds a ship to honor his late grandfather and sets sail for the magical place where ocean meets sky from his grandfather's stories"--Publisher.
10) Arrow's flight
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The offshore novels volume 1
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ECW Press
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English
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Crime and adventure on the high seas
Jared Kane is a West Coast commercial fisherman whose life has been plagued by bad luck and blackout drinking. When he inherits Arrow, an old 46-foot wooden sailboat, he sees a chance for redemption. With his friend from prison, Danny MacLean, Jared plans an offshore voyage, sailing from Vancouver down the Pacific Coast to California and out into the South Pacific.
But that bad luck rears its
...11) Sailor Bear
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1996, c1992
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1st U.S. paperback ed.
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English
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Lost and lonely, a little bear embarks on a rather perilous sailing venture, but winds up with his heart's desires realized.
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DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
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Fourth edition, revised edition.
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English
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An illustrated, step-by-step guide to sailing, reviewing the parts of the boat, equipment, controls, and other basics; and discussing dinghy sailing, cruiser sailing, navigation, weather, practical boat care, and safety.
14) The book of love
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Henry is an introverted architect. After the death of his wife in a car accident, he sets out to help Millie, a homeless teen, to build a raft to sail across the Atlantic.
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Preparing to watch the Famouse Fjord Race, mouseking Geronimo Stiltonord, a family member from the ancient far north, is dragged onto a boat, despite his lack of sailing skills, before learning that the dragons are preparing for another attack.
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Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
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U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"The Herons are home in Skandia, but the usually peaceful country is in danger. The Temujai--ruthless warriors from the Eastern Steppes--have never given up on their ambition to claim Skandia for their own...and now they're on the move. Hal and his crew will have to brave the treacherous icy river and rapids to stop them, no matter the cost"--Amazon.com.
17) We the children
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
19) Keeper
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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On the night of the blue moon when mermaids are said to gather on a sandbar in the Gulf of Mexico, ten-year-old Keeper sets out in a small boat, with her dog BD and a seagull named Captain, determined to find her mother, a mermaid, as Keeper has always believed, who left long ago to return to the sea.
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First American edition.
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English
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In the great depths surrounding the Lofoten islands in Norway lives the infamous Greenland shark. At twenty-six feet in length and weighing more than a ton, it is truly a beast to behold. But the shark is not just known for its size alone: its meat contains a toxin that, when consumed, has been known to make people drunk and hallucinatory. Shark Drunk is the true story of two friends, the author and the eccentric artist Hugo Aasjord, as they embark...
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