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English
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"It's 1745. Betrayed, kidnapped, and stranded in the Caribbean, Irish beauty Jaidyn Donelly realizes her only hope for making money - and gaining a passage north - is with her luscious body. Irresistible client Connor O'Driscoll has other plans for Jaidyn, though, offering her passage to the Carolinas in exchange for a voyage filled with delicious sin. But their intoxicating passion forces Connor to hide a dangerous truth that his arrival in Georgetown...
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English
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The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier? This...
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is the perfect partner for the classroom and for history-loving...
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Publisher
Seaforth Publishing, a division of Pen & Sword Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Before the advent of the jet age, ocean liners were the principal means of transport around the globe, and carried migrants and business people, soldiers and administrators, families and lone travelers to every corner of the world. Though the ocean liner was born on the North Atlantic it soon spread to all the other oceans and in this new book the author addresses this huge global story. The account begins with Brunel's Great Eastern and the early...
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Publisher
Words & Pictures
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Join the Pilgrims on their perilous journey across the ocean, as they start a new life in North America. This stunning book marks the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower's voyage, with edge-to-edge illustrated scenes, interspersed with detailed maps, inventories and cutaways, along with engaging, narrative text to make this a history book to treasure and pour over time and again.
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Series
Seafarers volume 4
Publisher
Time-Life Books
Pub. Date
©1978.
Language
English
Description
Text and photographs describe the great passenger liners that traveled between the United States and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century.
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Publisher
Hill and Wang
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The story of 58,000-mile, around-the-world cruise of the Confederacy's last ship afloat. Launched secretly from England in October, 1864, the CSS Shenandoah became the Confederacy's second most successful merchant raider, but--after rounding Africa's Cape of Good Hope, stopping long enough in Australia to cause a diplomatic crisis, and navigating the ice floes of Siberia's Sea of Okhotsk, the Bering Sea, and the Arctic Ocean--Captain Waddell learned...
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Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The Titanic has one of the most famous stories of an ocean liner in modern history. Its tragic end in the Atlantic Ocean in 1912 affected many lives. This book examines what it was like to be a passenger on that fateful journey, man, woman, or child; rich or poor; young or old, and ways each tried to survive the night that the Titanic sank." --
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Publisher
DK Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Spans five thousand years of the ocean's history to tell the stories of the courageous individuals who sailed the seas for trade, to conquer new lands, and to explore the unknown, from the early Polynesians to the first circumnavigations by the Portuguese and the British.