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- A hope more powerful than the sea : one refugee's incredible story of love, loss, and survival / by Fleming, Melissa(Communication director),author.;
- Subjects: Refugees;
- Sea change / by White, Karen(Karen S.);
- Subjects: Love stories.; Family secrets;
- © c2012., New American Library,
- Sea / by Driver, Sarah(Children's fiction writer);
- LSC
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Adventure fiction.; Sea stories.; Brothers and sisters; Grandmothers; Women ship captains; Ships; Magic;
- The sea captain's wife : a true story of mutiny, love, and adventure at the bottom of the world / by Mazzeo, Tilar J.,author.;
- Includes bibliographical references."Summer, 1856. Nineteen-year-old Mary Ann Patten and her husband Joshua were young and ambitious. Both from New England seafaring families, they had already completed their first clipper-ship voyage around the world with Joshua as captain. If they could win a race to San Francisco that year, their dream of building a farm and a family might be within reach. It would mean freedom. And the price of that freedom was one last dangerous transit -- into the most treacherous waters in the world. As their ship, Neptune's Car, left New York Harbor and sailed down the jagged coast of South America, Joshua fell deathly ill and was confined to his bunk, delirious. With no obvious option for a new captain and heartbroken about her husband, Mary Ann stepped into the breach and convinced the crew to support her, just as they slammed into a gale that would last 18 days. Set against the backdrop of the California Gold Rush and taking us to the brink of Antarctica, this book finally gives Mary Ann Patten -- the first woman to command a merchant vessel as captain -- her due"--
- Subjects: Biographies.; Personal narratives.; Patten, Mary Anne Brown, 1837-1861.; Patten, Joshua A., 1826 or 1827-1857.; Neptune's Car (Clipper ship); Clipper ships; Merchant marine; Ocean travel.; Racing.; Sailing ships; Ship captains; Ship captains' spouses; Voyages and travels.; Women ship captains;
- Wildflowers / by Michaels, Fern.;
- Contents: Sea gypsy -- Golden lasso.
- Subjects: Love stories.; Contemporary romance;
- © c2009.,
- The North water : a novel / by McGuire, Ian.;
- Subjects: Sea stories.; Suspense fiction.;
- Sea you, sea me / by Dixon, Franklin W.; Lobdell, Scott.; Rendon, Daniel.;
- Subjects: Brothers; Fishing boats; Graphic novels.; Detective and mystery stories.;
- © c2006., Papercutz,
- The girl from everywhere / by Heilig, Heidi.;
- LSC
- Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Sea stories.; Pirates; Fathers and daughters; Time travel;
- Treachery / by Stockwin, Julian.;
- Subjects: Sea stories.; Kydd, Thomas (Fictitious character); Sailors; Seafaring life;
- © 2008., Hodder & Stoughton Ltd,
- Skull and bones / by Drake, John,1944-;
- LSC
- Subjects: Adventure fiction.; Sea stories.; Silver, Long John (Fictitious character); Captain Flint (Fictitious character); Pirates; Enemies; Treasure troves;
- © 2010., HarperCollins,
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