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1221) Ramage & the guillotine
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Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla. English forces, under Lord Nelson, are all but paralyzed-not knowing the size, strength, or time of the foreign onslaught. In a daring spy scheme to protect British shores, Ramage is chosen to plumb the secrets of the French, and the penalty for failure is the guillotine.
1222) Cross current
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Seychelle Sullivan novels volume 2
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From Publishers WeeklySalvage boat captain and sometime sleuth Seychelle Sullivan returns in Kling's follow-up to her well-received debut, Surface Tension, this time to aid a frightened Haitian waif named Solange. Seychelle-who's plying the South Florida waters on her tugboat, the Gorda, with her mechanic cum lover, B.J.-discovers the girl on a swamped boat and makes saving her, both from danger and from immigration officials, a personal crusade....
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The coral reef in this book is like a marine nursery, teeming with mamas and babies! In the age-old way of kids and fish, children will count and clap to the rhythm of "Over in the Meadow" while pufferfish "puff", gruntfish "grunt" and seahorses "flutter". The colorful art is fresh and fun-constructed entirely from polymer clay-and invites young fingers to fashion fishy forms
1224) Rules of war
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MEET JACK STEEL - GENTLEMAN, SOLDIER, HERO.
In the early eighteenth century, the British army led by John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, were the leaders of a wide-ranging and very successful alliance. Jack Steel, maverick gentleman, superb soldier, was in the middle of any fight.
Ramilles 1706. One of the great victories of the British army, a signal battle honour for the regiments who were there. But for Captain Steel, standing at the head of...
1225) Ramage & the renegades
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Nelson's crews are standing down and Ramage is on leave when he receives secret Admiralty orders to inspect the small island of Trinidade off the coast of Brazil. Reaching the island, Ramage and the crew of the Calypso fetch up in a battle to free several captive merchant ships-and a beautiful woman passenger-as they cross swords with blood-thirsty pirates.
1226) False Cargo
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Insurance investigator Brent Calloway may be too hard-boiled to crack a smile, but he'll go to any length to crack a case. As tough, terse and tireless as insurance man Edward G. Robinson in Double Indemnity, Calloway's about to go to extremes to see to it that one ship makes it safely from Hawaii to the mainland. Going undercover and posing as ruthless killer Spike O'Brien, Calloway quickly discovers that on this ship nothing is what it seems, and...
1227) Highliners
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Alaskan fishermen volume 1
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Highliners are the elite of the fishing world, the skippers and crews who make the biggest catches-salmon, king crab, halibut, shrimp-and deliver them first to the bustling canneries of Kodiak and Dutch Harbor. For these men-and for their women-the safe eight-hour day does not exist. It never will. Some fishermen get rich, many die broke. But they find a special joy in their work that can never be matched by the easier world of the landsman. No matter...
1228) Wrecker
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A powerful debut exploring the dark side of Cornwall – the wrecking and the drowned sailors – where poverty drove villagers to dark deeds…
Shipwrecks are part of life in the remote village of Porthmorvoren, Cornwall. And as the sea washes the bodies of the drowned onto the beach, it also brings treasures: barrels of liquor, exotic fruit, the chance to lift a fine pair of boots from a corpse, maybe even a jewel or two.
When, after a fierce...
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Le danger rencontré en Sicile pourrait-il suivre Livia et finalement la rattraper?
Livia, la fille d'un fonctionnaire romain établi à Pompéi, est fiancée à un jeune centurion en garnison à Carthage. La vie lui paraît joyeuse et heureuse dans une ville prospère et bien ordonnée. Mais alors que la sécurité que lui offre son père, ainsi que les projets d'alliances qui semblent lui assurer un avenir de femme comblée, l'occasion d'un voyage...
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Histoires maritimes
Onze récits de mer réunis par Edouard Corbière et publiés en 1834, peu après les Pilotes de l'Iroise et le Négrier, remarqués par la critique en 1832.
Un ouvrage rassemblant des contes qui ont un thème commun: la mer et la navigation!
EXTRAIT DE LE ROI-MATELOT
Aussitt qu'ils virent Pique-à-Terre à la cte, ils allèrent le chercher en dansant chica et en battant des entrechats à la sauvage. Comme ce jour-là précisément...
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Non, Pierre n'aime pas les ragots, d'ailleurs il refuse de les écouter, quoique... pour l'objet de son désir il ferait bien une exception!
Dans un petit port breton se languit un voilier, réceptacle de vieilles rancœurs. Pierre, doux rêveur se morfond dans la ville. Il rêve de voyages, d'aventures...
Au cours d'une errance, sur la cte, il découvre ce mystérieux bateau dont il s'entiche. Malgré les ragots des villageois qui donnent une aura...
1232) Ramage & the freebooters
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The lieutenant is summoned by the Admiralty and given command of the brig, Triton. But like the rest of the Navy, Triton's crew has mutinied. Sympathizing with some of their complaints, Ramage also knows that if he fails to deliver three sealed dispatches to admirals off Brest and Cadiz, and in the Caribbean, he will become a convenient scapegoat.
1233) Raise the Titanic!
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 4
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On orders from the Pentagon, marine explorer Dirk Pitt must salvage crucial material from the world's most infamous maritime disaster in this novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element—and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms,...
The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element—and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms,...
1234) Ramage's mutiny
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The vicious mutineers aboard the British ship Jocasta had surrendered their vessel to Spain. Sailing aboard the frigate Calypso, Captain Lord Ramage receives Admiralty orders to recover her by any means.
1236) Over the wine-dark sea
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Menedemos, the young dashing sea captain, and his helper, the scholarly Sostratos, are sea-traders from the Greek island of Rhodes. Fearless sailors, they will travel any distance to make a profit or to search for rich treasures. While they trade in fineries such as wine and silk (and even, to the chagrin of many, peacocks), they live in dangerous times with pirates, thieves and barbarians. As if avoiding death by the hands of these miscreants isn't...
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Billy Stuart series volume 3
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"In this illustrated novel for middle-grade readers, Billy Stuart and his loyal Scout group have inadvertently traveled through time and have to cross an ocean full of danger."--
1238) The inshore squadron
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Continues the adventures of Richard Bolitho, this time during the Battle of Copenhagen where Lord Nelson leads the British to victory over the Danish fleet.
1239) Billy Budd, KGB
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While 'Moby Dick' is Herman Melville's best known book, 'Billy Budd, Sailor' is considered by many to be his greatest work.
Billy, a foundling from Bristol, has an innocence, good looks and a natural charisma that make him popular with the crew. His only physical defect is a stutter which grows worse when under intense emotion. He arouses the antagonism of the ship's master-at-arms, John Claggart. Claggart, while not unattractive, seems somehow defective...
1240) Ramage's challenge
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Admiralty spies are hunting for British officers and allies trapped on the mainland, among them Ramage's first love, Gianna, the Marchesa di Volterra. Ramage returns to the Tuscan coast, where Bonaparte holds a group of hostages for an unknown fate.
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