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Stowaway / by Anderson, John David,1975-;
Ages 8-12.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Human-alien encounters; Kidnapping; Scientists; Fathers and sons; Space ships; Pirates;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The Wager : a tale of shipwreck, mutiny and murder / by Grann, David,author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing 2500 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes. But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they had a very different story to tell. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes--they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous captain and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang. The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound. Most powerfully, he unearths the deeper meaning of the events, showing that it was not only the Wager's captain and crew who were on trial--it was the very idea of empire"--
Subjects: Wager (Ship); Mutiny; Shipwreck victims; Shipwreck victims; Shipwrecks;
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Halo 4 : the essential visual guide / by Hedges, Zöe.;
Characters -- Factions -- Weapons -- Vehicles -- Equipment -- Armor -- Ships -- Locations.LSC
Subjects: Halo (Game); Video games.;
© 2013., DK Pub.,
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The crimson spy / by Quinn, Jordan.; McPhillips, Robert.;
While caring for a rare phoenix, an unexpected gift, Prince Lucas and Lady Clara investigate a missing royal ship that brings rumors of pirates.Ages 5-9.
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Princes; Phoenix (Mythical bird); Ships; Pirates; King and rulers;
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Endurance : Shackleton's incredible voyage / by Lansing, Alfred,author.; Hurley, Frank,1885-1962,photographer.; Philbrick, Nathaniel,writer of introduction.;
"Bound for Antarctica, where polar explorer Ernest Shackleton planned to cross on foot the last uncharted continent, the Endurance set sail from England in August 1914. In January 1915, after battling its way for six weeks through a thousand miles of pack ice and now only a day's sail short of its destination, the Endurance became locked in an island of ice. For ten months the ice-moored Endurance drifted northwest before it was finally crushed. But for Shackleton and his crew of twenty-seven men the ordeal had barely begun. It would end only after a near-miraculous journey by Shackleton and a skeleton crew through over 850 miles of the South Atlantic's heaviest seas to the closest outpost of civilization. This astonishing tale of survival by Shackleton and all twenty-seven of his men for over a year on the ice-bound Antarctic seas, as Time magazine put it, "defined heroism." Alfred Lansing's brilliantly narrated book has long been acknowledged as the definitive account of the Endurance's fateful trip"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922; Endurance (Ship); Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition (1914-1917);
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Over my dead body / by Archer, Jeffrey,1940-author.;
In London, the Metropolitan Police have set up a new Unsolved Murders Unit a cold case squad to catch the criminals nobody else can. Four victims. Four cases. All killers poised to strike again. Only Warwick's genius for deductive reasoning, his fierce intelligence and his occasionally rash bravery combined with that of ex-undercover operative Ross Hogan, reluctantly brought in from the cold can bring the criminals to justice, and put his nemesis behind bars.
Subjects: Psychological fiction.; Great Britain. Metropolitan Police Office; Art dealers; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Cruise ships;
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Shackleton : a biography / by Fiennes, Ranulph,Sir,1944-author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.In 1915, Sir Ernest Shackleton's attempt to traverse the Antarctic was cut short when his ship, Endurance, became trapped in ice. The disaster left Shackleton and his men alone at the frozen South Pole, fighting for their lives. Their survival and escape is the most famous adventure in history. 'Shackleton' is a new account of the adventurer, his life and his incredible leadership under the most extreme of circumstances. Please Note: The following title was included in a previous Bestseller list; libraries may need to re-order.
Subjects: Biographies.; Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir, 1874-1922.; Endurance (Ship); Explorers;
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Trapped in the Death Star / by Siglain, Michael.; Pilot Studio.;
Junior reader: Kindergarten-Grade 2.LSC
Subjects: Science fiction.; Star Wars fiction.; Movie novels.; Vader, Darth (Fictitious character); Solo, Han (Fictitious character); Skywalker, Luke (Fictitious character); Space ships; Space warfare;
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Oceans of fate : peace and peril aboard the steamship Empress of Asia / by Black, Dan,1957-author.; Delgado, James P.,writer of foreword.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The remarkable story of how one ship -- doomed by war -- intersected lives and crossed into history. Completed in 1913 for Canadian Pacific, the Empress of Asia plied the oceans for nearly thirty years. Built for peacetime travel, she saw wartime service as an armed merchant cruiser and troopship before Japanese dive bombers destroyed her off Singapore in 1942. Through the Roaring Twenties and Great Depression, she brought continents and people together, delivering mail and multi-million-dollar consignments of silk. As a luxurious passenger liner, she was a "Greyhound of the Pacific," encountering enormous storms and smashing transpacific speed records. From stokehold to bridge, steerage to first-class staterooms, she steamed with a kaleidoscope of lives, including courageous and recalcitrant crew, immigrants and refugees seeking a better life or relief from disaster, drug smugglers and weapons dealers, and the idle and not-so idle rich. This is the dramatic story of how one ship -- and the lives of her passengers and crew -- intersected during a tumultuous period of world history, culminating in her destruction off Singapore at the height of the Second World War"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Empress of Asia (Steamship); Armed merchant ships; Merchant marine; Ocean liners; Passenger ships; World War, 1914-1918;
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Clive Cussler's Dark vector [text (large print)] : a novel from the NUMA files / by Brown, Graham,1969-author.; Cussler, Clive,creator.;
PREVIOUS BOOK IN SERIES: FAST ICE, ISBN 9780593395615. Kurt Austin and his NUMA team must unravel a new mystery in the 19th thriller in the 'NUMA Files' series.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Large type books.; Novels.; Austin, Kurt (Fictitious character); National Underwater and Marine Agency; Cargo ships; Cyberterrorism; Hackers; Marine scientists;
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