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101) Today's embrace
Author
Series
East of the sun volume 3
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Evy Varley's marriage to Rogan Chantry is all she had hoped it would be-until she finds out that she is pregnant with a honeymoon baby. Fearing that Rogan wont allow her to travel while she is expecting, Evy plots to keep her pregnancy secret in order to accompany him to South Africa. Her thoughts are not only for her husband, but Evy is determined to travel to Bulawayo, the new mission station of Dr. Jakob van Buren-the one man who can help Evy to...
102) Mallory on board
Author
Series
Mallory McDonald books volume 7
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Despite her fears of being a "third wheel," Mallory goes on a cruise for the wedding of the mother and father of her two best friends.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
Author
Series
Nantucket Legacy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the...
105) A cloud in a jar
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
It’s just after midnight on Walton Wharf West, but there’s no time for sleeping―adventure awaits! Get dressed, grab your oars, let’s not delay. Lou Dozens is here, and we’re sailing to Firelight Bay! In this modern, young, bold, and inventive adventure, Lou drags her more cautious friend on a daring voyage across the sea. Though their destination is a glorious land of year-round summers, long slides, and picnics a hundred yards wide, the...
106) The burning island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Eliza Grayling, born in Sydney when the colony itself was still an infant, has lived there all her thirty-two years. Too tall, too stern-too old, now-for marriage, she lives by herself, looking in on her reclusive father in case he has injured himself while drunk. There is a shadow in his past, she knows. Something obsessive. Something to do with a man who bested him thirty-three years ago. Then Srinivas, another figure from that dark past, offers...
107) The forbidden orchid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
"In 1861, Elodie sails from her home in England to China to help her father search for a rare and valuable orchid"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Description
"Inspired by the history of the British "brideships," this captivating historical debut tells the story of one woman's coming-of-age and search of independence--for readers of Suzanne Desrochers's Bride of New France. Tomorrow we would dock in Victoria on the northwest coast of North America, about as far away from my home as I could imagine. Like pebbles tossed upon the beach, we would scatter, trying to make our way as best we could. Most of us...
109) Merrywinds
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Description
With no suitors in their nearby small village, Patience O'Connor and Gwenneth Hume set sail on the Merrywinds to find new lives in America. Along the way, Gwenneth takes over the galley when the cook comes down with scurvy and Patience acts as nurse to the cook and their seasick shipmates. They stop at an exotic island for water and fruit, survive a violent storm, and witness a hanging and a burial at sea before they arrive at Nouvelle Orleans. Merrywinds...
110) Love at sea
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Event planner Olivia gets a game-changing opportunity to organize a major event on a luxury Caribbean cruise, hosted by her best friend, cooking and wellness star, Alexandra. Olivia meets her match in the charming Tony, who is on a trial run as Cruise Director, but they must work together to make the cruise go off without a hitch, for the sake of their careers and friendships.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
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Description
SUMMARY : A dark past. An impossible journey. The will to survive. How far you would you go for love? Franny Stone is determined to go to the end of the earth, following the last of the Arctic terns on what may be their final migration to Antarctica. As animal populations plummet and commercial fishing faces prohibition, Franny talks her way onto one of the few remaining boats heading south. But as she and the eccentric crew travel further from shore...
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