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From the corner of his eye
By Dean R Koontz. 2000
Junior Cain feels rejuvenated after pushing his beloved bride to her death, but he senses enemies in a spooky cop…
and a boy named Bartholomew. As Cain ruthlessly seeks Barty, the gifted boy uses quantum physics to overcome his blindness. Violence, some descriptions of sex, and some strong language. Bestseller. 2001, c2000.Havoc's sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie naval adventure series. #11.)
By Dewey Lambdin. 2003
English Foreign Office spies meet captain Alan Lewrie in the Caribbean and order him back into the battle for French…
colony Saint Domingue. Using bribery, diplomacy, and the fledgling American navy, Lewrie confronts his archenemy Guillaume Choundas. Sequel to "Sea of Grey"; followed by "The Captain's Vengeance". 2003.Ghosts, gales and gold
By Edward Rowe Snow. 1972
Golden lion: a novel of heroes in a time of war (The Courtneys of Africa ; #13)
By Giles Kristian, Wilbur A Smith. 2015
Hal Courtney has always lived at sea. Now a truce has been made between the warring countries and Hal is…
captain of his own ship; the Golden Bough. From the slave markets of Zanzibar to the pirate-riddled waters of the Indian Ocean, Hal leads his crew in and out of the waves of danger. But he soon realizes that just because the war is over, does not mean the battle is won, and the more a man achieves, the more he has to lose. Sequel to "Assegai". 2015.Frigate (Frigate trilogy. #1.)
By John Wingate. 1980
The problems of human relationships set against the stark reality of modern warfare as HMS Icarus becomes involved in a…
skirmish with a Russian submarine that was to lead to graver things. 1980.Fire down below (To the ends of the earth ; #3)
By William Golding. 1989
Edmund Talbot is aboard a decrepit old warship, which lurches towards Australia. At sea, the hulk is charged with the…
care and protection of the lives of her colourful crew. Edward Talbot's progression towards self realisation is as turbulent as the voyage of his ship. Sequel to "Close Quarters"(DC31504). 1989. (To the ends of the earth ; 3)Fergus Crane (Far-flung adventures. #1.)
By Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart. 2005
Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbours, and helping with his…
mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure. Grades 2-4. 2005. (Far-flung adventures ; 1)Diamond in the rough: more fun adventures with Abby Diamond
By Kristie Smith-Armand. 2010
Abby Diamond, Girl Detective, doesn't let her visual impairment stand in the way of solving the mysteries that surround her…
and Neils, Alison, Andrea, Jaxson and Glen. Now Abby and her friends have met up with children and adults who are not what they seem to be. Are the new friends really ghosts or the figment of Abby's imagination? Grades 4-7. c2010.Departure
By Janet Stevenson. 1985
Amanda Bright, the young wife of the captain, sets out on a journey with her husband in 1851. When the…
first mate, and then her husband, become ill, Amanda must command a sullen crew across the vast north Pacific. 1985.Desolation island (Jack Aubrey ; #5)
By Patrick O'Brian. 1978
Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the…
Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. Sequel to "Mauritius command" . Followed by "The fortune of war" .1998. (Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels ; 5)Billy Budd
By Herman Melville. 1981
A naive, innocent sailor, Billy Budd, is cruelly antagonized and unjustly accused by his evil master-at-arms. Speechless with rage over…
the accusation, Billy strikes and kills his petty officer, forcing their captain to order his execution. 1981.Crackdown
By Bernard Cornwell. 1990
Nick Breakspear may look like the perfect Hamlet, but he wanted nothing to do with the theatrical world inhabited by…
his father, Britain's greatest living actor. So he joined the Royal Marines and is now sailing the blue waters of the Bahamas. But dreams of paradise are shattered when he becomes swept into a small but deadly corner of a war against the drug-runners that infest the area. Caught up in a world that denies every truth he believes in, the only defence is to draw on the despised skills of his father's world and fight with reckless courage. 1990.Cross of St. George (Richard Bolitho novels. #24.)
By Alexander Kent. 1996
Set in 1813, the Royal Navy admiral Sir Richard Bolito returns to Halifax to pursue the sea war with the…
young United States. Although he personally desires peace, the admiral is caught up in a war that neither Britain nor the United States can afford to lose. Sequel to "For my country's freedom", followed by "Sword of honour" .1996. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 24)Buccaneer: a novel (Ned Yorke Ser. #Bk. 1)
By Dudley Pope. 1984
Ned Yorke, manager of a plantation in Barbados, loves Aurelia, the wife of a neighbouring planter. To avoid arrest by…
the Cromwellians, he flees with Aurelia. They become traders and eventually pirates. 1984.Coming to terms (Cover-to-cover Books)
By Rose Bevins. 2004
Gina isn't looking forward to the weekend - instead of spending it at her best friend's house, her mother's friends…
are visiting with their son, Ricky, who's blind. She'll be stuck in the house with him while the adults go to a high school reunion. How is she supposed to act around Ricky when she's never even met a blind person before? Grades 4-7. 2004.Corby Flood (Far-flung adventures. #2)
By Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart. 2006
While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men,…
clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns, as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold. Grades 3-6. Sequel to "Fergus Crane" (DC29167). 2005. (Far-flung adventures ; 2)Cap sur l'enfer
By Ian Slater, Gilbert LaRocque. 1978
Cathedral: Selected Stories
By Raymond Carver. 1993
That summer in Seattle she needed a job. She didn't have any money and the man she was going to…
marry at the end of the summer was in officers' training school, and he didn't have any money either. She'd seen something in the paper: Help wanted - Reading to blind man, and a telephone number. The short story "Cathedral" from the collection "Where I'm calling from". 1993. Uniform title: Where I'm calling from.Captain Blood (Penguin classics)
By Rafael Sabatini. 2003
Great Britain, 1685. When physician Peter Blood is accused of treason against King James II for treating a wounded rebel,…
he is sentenced to slavery in Barbados. Once on the island he escapes to become a buccaneer--and eventually governor of Jamaica. 2003 introduction by Gary Hoppenstand. 1922, c2003."Hornblower and the Atropos": Skippering the flagship for Nelson's funeral is not Hornblower's idea of action but soon he is…
ordered to set sail for the Mediterranean in the Atropos. "The happy return": Hornblower sails the South American waters and comes face to face with a mad, messianic revolutionary. "A ship of the line": Commando raids, hurricanes at sea, the glowering menace of Napoleon's gun batteries; all these Hornblower must face as he sails his ship to the Spanish station. Sequel to "Hornblower and the Hotspur"(DC29058). 1987. (Hornblower ; 4-6)