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Sea story: a novel
By Sam Llewellyn. 1987
Multimillion-dollar yachts compete in a sailing race that lasts eight months and takes them from the United States to South…
Africa, Australia and Argentina. The competitors battle each other, their shipmates, the weather, and the sea. Strong language. c1987.Saltwater summer
By Roderick Haig-Brown. 2000
Seventeen-year-old Don Morgan has bought himself a 32-foot west coast salmon troller. Now he is free to fish the entire…
length of the BC coast. With his friend Tubby Miller, he sets off on his adventure, but things don't unfold quite as he had hoped. Don soon realizes that he has a lot to learn, not just about commercial fishing, but about growing up. For senior high readers. 1948. c2000.Santa Fe rules (Ed Eagle Novel #Bk. 1)
By Stuart Woods. 1992
While flying his private plane to Los Angeles on the day before Thanksgiving, a breakdown forces Hollywood producer Wolf Willett…
to spend the holiday in a small town. In the newspaper, he reads that his wife, his business partner and a third man -- presumed to be Wolf -- have been found dead. Some strong language. 1992.Rumpole: drôles d'affaires (Justice selon Rumpole ; #2)
By John Mortimer, William Olivier Desmond. 1990
Nous retrouvons l'ineffable avocat londonien Horace Rumpole dans quatre nouvelles histoires où l'humour, le crime et les portraits au vitriol…
se côtoient dans une folie joyeuse. 1990. (Justice selon Rumpole ; 2) Titre uniforme: Rumpole and the golden thread.Sail
By James Patterson, Howard Roughan. 2009
As Peter Carlyle waves his wife, children and brother-in-law off on a sailing holiday, all they have in mind is…
lying back and relaxing. But as a violent storm breaks out, an explosion causes the boat to vanish without a trace and the family are lost, presumed dead. Until now. When a message in a bottle is washed up on a shore, it becomes apparent that there must have been at least one survivor. Violence, strong language, and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009, c2008.Sacred stone (The oregon Files Ser. #2)
By Clive Cussler, Craig Dirgo. 2004
In the remote wastes of Greenland, a young scientist has unearthed a 50,000 year-old meteorite known as the Sacred Stone,…
which he soon discovers possesses potentially catastrophic radioactive power. The astounding find places him in the crossfire of two opposing terrorist groups who seek the stone for themselves. Caught between two militant factions bent on wholesale slaughter, Juan Cabrillo and his ship of high-tech mercenaries must fight to protect the scientist and the Sacred Stone - and prevent the outbreak of World War III. c2004.Sacred hunger
By Barry Unsworth. 1992
A tale of the mid-eighteenth-century slave trade. In 1752, William Kemp has a cargo ship built to transport slaves from…
Africa to the West Indies. Shipboard life is terrifying. The ship is becalmed, the crew and slaves sicken and die, the ship's doctor leads a mutiny, and the remaining crew and slaves find shelter on the uninhabited coast of Florida. Some violence. Booker Prize 1992.Rumpole and the Primrose Path (Rumpole mysteries)
By John Mortimer. 2003
Solving the mystery of the Primrose Path Home proves to be the first of a collection of great new cases,…
as Rumpole defies hospital and returns triumphantly to defend the innocent and the not-so-innocent. 2007. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole rests his case (Rumpole mysteries)
By John Mortimer. 2002
Horace Rumpole, one of the finest barristers ever to defend a client, weaves his way elegantly among the intricacies of…
the courtroom and the human heart, only to find that the advancing years catch up with even the most indomitable spirit. 2002. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole and the golden thread (Rumpole mysteries)
By John Mortimer. 1991
Horace Rumpole, whom the nation has taken to its collective bosom, who continues to untie the knots in the English…
law and the contradictions of the human heart in his death-defying performances on behalf of justice, is back on form in another collection of short stories. 1991. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole (Rumpole mysteries ;)
By John Mortimer. 1980
Rumpole is the oldest Junior in Chambers, a barrister who never prosecutes, is apt to quote poetry, and has a…
wife known as "She Who Must Be Obeyed". The stories in this collection were previously published as "Rumpole of the Bailey" and "The Trials of Rumpole". 1980. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole and the angel of death (Rumpole mysteries)
By John Mortimer. 1996
Six mysteries featuring Horace Rumpole. In one case, Rumpole defends an animal-rights activist who clashes with fox hunters. In another…
a doctor is accused of hastening the end of an Alzheimer's patient. And "She Who Must Be Obeyed," i.e., Hilda Rumpole, recounts his defence of a young boy charged with using a golf club to beat his father to death. 1996. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole a la carte (Rumpole mysteries)
By John Mortimer. 1990
Rumpole and the reign of terror (Rumpole mysteries)
By John Mortimer. 2007
British barrister Horace Rumpole takes on the government when he accepts the case of a Pakistani doctor accused of aiding…
Al Qaeda. He also alienates his colleagues, his wife Hilda, and other clients, while he battles his own doubts. Meanwhile Hilda writes her memoirs. c2006, 2007. (Rumpole mysteries)Rumpole of the Bailey (Rumpole mysteries)
By John Mortimer. 1978
Rough justice (Rosato And Associates Ser. #Bk. 3)
By Lisa Scottoline. 1997
Attorney Marta Richter has argued persuasively on behalf of her client, Elliot Steere, who is charged with murdering a homeless…
man. But as they wait for the verdict, arrogant millionaire Steere lets it slip that it wasn't self-defence after all. Knowing she is risking her life, Richter attempts to gather last-minute proof that Steere is guilty. Strong language and violence. c1997.Rosa's dilemma (Romance Ser.)
By Michael Underwood. 1990
Solicitor Rosa Epton has vowed never to work with Malcolm Palfrey again, yet here she was, helping him defend a…
young couple charged with malicious damage. He was elusive as she prepared the case, culminating in his non appearance on the day of the trial. Then Palfrey was discovered on a park bench with a bullet in his brain and a revolver beside him. Was it suicide or murder? 1990.Rites of passage (Sea trilogy ; #1)
By William Golding. 1980
In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to entertain his godfather…
back in England. With wit and disdain he records mounting tensions on board, as an obsequious clergyman attracts the animosity of the tyrannical captain and surly crew. Followed by "Close quarters" (DC31504). Junior and senior high. 1980 Man Booker Prize. 1980. (Sea trilogy ; 1)Rising tides (Quinn brothers trilogy. #2.)
By Nora Roberts. 1998
In Sea Swept, the three Quinn brothers returned to their home on Maryland's eastern shore to care for their adopted…
brother Seth. Because Cam and Phillip are now involved in other matters, it falls to Ethan to attend to Seth. Ethan also spends time with Grace, a longtime area resident whom he has always loved. Some strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. Followed by "Inner Harbor". (Quinn brothers trilogy ; 2) 1998.Richard Bolitho, Midshipman (Richard Bolitho novels. #1.)
By Alexander Kent. 1975
Only sixteen but already a veteran of four years in the king's navy, Richard Bolitho joins his second ship, the…
Gorgon, in 1771. Its mission - to investigate the brutal slave trade on Africa's west coast - proves much more perilous than he expected. Some descriptions of violence. Followed by "Midshipman Bolitho and the 'Avenger'. 1975. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 1)