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By Craig Shaw Gardner, Clay Griffith, Trina Robbins, Nancy Kilpatrick, Len Kody, David Michelinie, Will Murray, Mike Oliveri, Martin A. Powell, Ed Rhoades, Dan Wickline, Jim Alexander, David Bishop, Martin Powell, Mike Bullock, Ron Fortier, Steven Grant, Susan Griffith, C. J. Henderson. 2007
Nearly five centuries ago, pirates took the life of merchant ship captain Christopher Standish. In the heat of the battle…
aboard the ship, Standish's son was knocked overboard to wash ashore on a remote beach. After stumbling upon the body of his father's killer, young Standish swore an oath on the murderer's skull to devote his life, and the lives of his sons and their sons, to the destruction of piracy, greed, cruelty and injustice. To the outside world, this man, seemingly immortal, has always worn the mask. As the legend grew, it transcended the life of any one mortal. And that legend became The Phantom!By Hugh Montgomery. 2002
Narrated in stirring verse that demands to be read aloud, this epic adventure, full of atmospheric line illustrations, will appeal…
to all children and adults who love a thrilling story, memorably told. Things happen here in Plymouth in the winter, And of such things you'd surely never learn. So take your seat and listen while I tell you Of Bruno and his ship, The Arctic Tern. . . . Treason, treachery, and treasure - here is a classic seafaring tale that sweeps across the centuries and sails to different lands, from Spain to the southwest of England. At its heart is Bruno, the skipper of The Arctic Tern, who has been cursed to a life of eternal wandering after succumbing to a moment of greed and betrayal some thousand years ago. Bruno's quest for release brings him to the court of the King of Spain and into battle with an ancient adversary, the villainous pirate Mad Dog Morgan. Can Bruno and his crew set right the wrongs of the past and present? Will good triumph over evil? Can the captain of The Arctic Tern ever find the redemption that he seeks?By Steve Alten. 2004
Eighteen years have passed since Angel, the Megalodon shark, broke free of the Tanaka Lagoon and returned to the Mariana…
Trench. Jonas Taylor, adventurer, has become Jonas Taylor, middle-aged father of two, overwhelmed by a mountain of bills and the daily strife of raising a family. But life is about to change. A Hollywood television producer wants Jonas to join his new survival series, Daredevils. For the next six weeks, two teams of crazy daredevils on a South Pacific Ocean voyage, aboard a replica of a Spanish galleon, will try to outperform one another in front of the cameras. Jonas needs the money, and the job seems easy enough--doing color commentary. But behind the scenes, someone else is pulling the strings. And before it's over, Jonas, Terry, and Mac will again come face to face with the most dangerous creature ever to stalk the Earth.By Ted Bell. 2008
Nick and Kate come to the aid of their father who is engaged in a war of espionage with German…
U-boat that are circling the islands. The information they provide to Winston Churchill is vital as he tries to warn England of the Nazi invasion.By John Casey. 1989
A classic tale of a man, a boat, and a storm, Spartina is the lyrical and compassionate story of Dick…
Pierce, a commercial fisherman along the shores of Rhode Island's Narragansett Bay. A kind, sensitive, family man, he is also prone to irascible outbursts against the people he must work for, now that he can no longer make his living from the sea. Pierce's one great passion, a fifty-foot fishing boat called Spartina, lies unfinished in his back yard. Determined to get the funds he needs to buy her engine, he finds himself taking a foolish, dangerous risk. But his real test comes when he must weather a storm at sea in order to keep his dream alive. Moving and poetic, Spartina is a masterly story of one man's ongoing struggle to find his place in the world. Winner of the 1989 National Book AwardBy Bill Becker. 2007
Sailing ESCAPE to Guam, is a story about a fictitious family of five in a sailboat named "ESCAPE" from California…
to Guam. They stopped at Hawaii, Marshall Islands, Ponape along the way. They were headed for Guam, when dramatic things happen to the family. Brian, the husband, father and captain is rendered comatose by an accident, some 300 miles east of Guam. His wife, Sharon, who was proficient in domestic duties, didn't have a clue about sailing the boat. Alan, the oldest son, to whom the captaincy of ESCAPE should have fallen, was possessed with a changing hormone mix that interfered with his rational thinking. Steve, the twelve-year-old son and his eleven-year-old sister, Kelly, were determined to sail the boat to a harbor in Guam or at least close enough to land to get help for their ailing father. A maturing process takes place as the children meet each of the challenges presented to them. Though they endured many hardships and surprises, the two young children remained determined to succeed.By Bernard Cornwell. 1993
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.By Clive Cussler, Jack Dubrul. 2008
An exhilarating new adventure in the New York Times-bestselling Oregon Files series. "Readers will burn up the pages following the…
blazing action and daring exploits of these men and women and their amazing machines" (Publishers Weekly). For four novels, Clive Cussler has charted the exploits of the Oregon, a covert ship completely dilapidated on the outside but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it-and now Cussler sends the Oregon on its most extraordinary mission yet. The crew has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf when they come across a cruise ship adrift at sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and, as Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate-and as perilous-as any he has ever known and pitted against a cult with monstrously lethal plans for the human race... plans he may already be too late to stop. Plague Ship is a high-stakes, high-seas journey that proves once again that Cussler is "just about the best storyteller in the business" (New York Post).By Natalie Babbitt. 2007
YES JACK PLANK started out to be a pirate His shipmates all liked him and their ship…
the Avarice was certainly very beautiful But after a while it was clear that he wasn t much good at plundering He just didn t have the knack for it So what to do Jack did the only thing he could do--he went ashore to look for another line of work The town was called Salt-wash on the coast of the Caribbean Sea and he had a lot of helpful advice from the people in Mrs DelFresno s boardinghouse Somehow though each career he looked into seemed to have something wrong with it And every night at dinner in the boardinghouse he tried to explain why For who would want to work where there be a troll or the danger of getting a crab caught in your beard Or what about a music-loving crocodile There were other things too that ran against every suggestion and took the wind out of his sails At last Jack decided he wouldn t be good at anything onshore and would have to go back to sea pirate or not But sometimes as you probably know already things work out very nicely when you least expect itBy Rob Kidd. 2006
From the book: Before the Black Pearl, there was a teenage stowaway named Jack Sparrow ... Captain Jack Sparrow's ship,…
the Barnacle, and its up-till-now unshakable crew have suddenly fallen under a sinister spell. While continuing their quest for the storied Sword of Cortes, the crew suddenly finds itself entranced by an ethereal song. As a result, each of them attempts to take the Barnacle in a different direction-- and away from the Sword's supposed location. Only Jack seems unaffected by the strange song, but can he both subdue his crew and defeat the mysterious force behind the dark spell?By Tracie Peterson. 2006
By Patrick O'Brian. 1995
A novel about the sea, telling the tale of the Wager, an ill-fated ship on Anson's expedition round the world.…
She is driven onto rocks off the coast of Chile, and sinks. The survivors fall into trouble of every kind, including mutiny and bloodshed, before being led northwards to safety by a band of stony and depraved Indians. 1997.By Clive Cussler. 2004
A Luftwaffe ace, a Nazi war criminal, a beautiful and untrustworthy brunette, and a deadly billion-dollar cargo become the objects…
of a desperate search as Dirk Pitt matches wits with the elusive leader of an international smuggling ring. 2004.In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old…
Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2003.By Iain Lawrence. 1999
Set in eighteenth-century England, sixteen-year-old John sets out on his father's schooner to sail from Kent to London. The schooner…
was a smugglers' vessel once, and a mysterious gentleman has warned him that it will bring trouble and death. But the ship looks clever and quick, and John is too charmed by it to heed the advice. Grades 5-8. Sequel to "The wreckers." Followed by "The buccaneers." 1999.By Kevin Armstrong. 2002
Short stories set in the Pacific islands, detailing the shift between sea and land, indigenous cultures and the Western seafaring…
world. Each story unveils protagonists who err in their search for self and home. "The cane field" uncovers the myriad ways a mother's love can be destroyed by political and cultural clashes; "The woman of his choice" depicts Faero, a young Waro Indian caught between the world he knows and the woman he desires. Some strong language. 2002.By Patrick O'Brian. 2005
An incomplete, final installment of the Aubrey/Maturin seafaring adventure series features three printed chapters and a facsimile of the manuscript,…
which includes details about Jack Aubrey's post-promotion mission to the South Africa station and a duel between Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer. Some strong language. 2005.By Michael Dimercurio. 2005
During NATO exercises, the French Navy unveils Le Vigilant, a nuclear submarine so advanced that it can elude any radar…
system in the water. But France's maritime marvel is about to become its own worst enemy. A band of Algerian terrorists has hijacked Le Vigilant. They mean to wipe Paris and every major French city off the face of the earthand then turn their missiles against the great Satans of the United States and Russia. Despite the French Navy's protests, two NATO subs are called into action: the USS Hampton, captained by veteran sub warrior Burke Dillinger, and the USS Texas, commanded by iron-willed Peter Vornado. Paris is being evacuated. Time is running out. And the coming conflict will pit the ultimate in technological weaponry against pure courage, skill, and determination....By William Bedford. 2001
Daniel loves being out at sea. He is desperate to go fishing with his dad but for two years his…
dad has made excuses to leave him behind. There is only one way to find out why, and it could get him into a lot of trouble. Grades 2-4. 2001.By Robert Louis Stevenson, Janice Greene. 1999
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her…
son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger. Adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's work, published in 1883. For junior and senior high readers. 1999.