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Author
Series
Water wheel novels volume 2
Publisher
B & H Pub. Group
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
392 p. ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Life hasn't been easy for Jeanne Bettencourt, a widow approaching thirty and struggling to provide for her eight-year-old daughter. But hope arrives in the form of the Helena Rose, a steamboat she unexpectedly inherits from a distant relative. Jeanne looks forward to a renewed livelihood on the mighty Mississippi, until news comes of another heir, a tough man named Clint Hardin--and a clause in the will that says claimants of the estate must live...
82) The ghost ship
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xvi, 476 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Barbary Coast, 1621. A mysterious vessel floats silently on the water. It is known only as the Ghost Ship. For months it has hunted pirates to liberate those enslaved by corsairs, manned by a courageous crew of mariners from Italy and France, Holland and the Canary Islands. But the bravest men on board are not who they seem. And the stakes could not be higher. If arrested, they will be hanged for their crimes. Can they survive the journey and...
Author
Series
Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first book of "a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend ... Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands,...
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 20
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
355 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. His frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he's living at his father's estate at Anglesgreen, among spiteful neighbors and family, and he's recovering from a wound suffered in the South Atlantic. At last, there's a bright spot. When fit, Admiralty awards him a new commission; not a frigate but a clumsy, slow two-decker Fourth Rate 50. Are his frigate days over for good? Lewrie's...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"IMOGEN HERMES GOWAR was awarded the Malcolm Bradbury Memorial Scholarship in 2013 to study creative writing at the Uni- versity of East Anglia. The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, her first novel, is short-listed for the 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction and the inaugural Deborah Rogers Foundation Writers Award, and was a finalist in the Mslexia First Novel Competition. Her previous stud- ies in archaeology, anthropology, and art history, and her work in...
89) Jordan's star
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
688 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
879 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the President of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
483 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Laura Rose White is one of the most gifted riverboat pilots on the Missouri River -- her late father taught her and her brother Joe everything he knew, and even named their family's riverboat after her. But in 1867, the idea of a "skirt" being a captain is unheard of. At least until Joe takes ill and dies in the middle of a trip, leaving Laura grieving and halfway upriver with a full cargo. She successfully takes charge of the crew and expertly guides...
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