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101) Fire down below
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, Giroux
Pub. Date
1989
Physical Desc
[5], 313 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Traveling the high seas aboard the famous Caronia, Cunard Line ship detectives Genevieve Masefield and George Porter Dillman encounter an unusual array of tourists while tackling their latest mystery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A voyage on the S.S. Londonia from New York to England provides Samantha Parkington with a wide range of exciting new experiences and souvenirs, many of which are mounted in the book in scrapbook format.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
263 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Readers of Allen's previous ocean-liner mysteries know that nothing stops shipboard detectives Genevieve Masefield and George Porter Dillman, and established fans and new readers alike are sure to delight in this newest adventure.
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st Gallery Books trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
314 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Crossing on the Paris chronicles the experiences of three women from different generations and classes whose lives intersect on a majestic ocean liner traveling from Paris to New York"--
Author
Publisher
Bridge Water Books
Pub. Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged). : ill. (some col.) ; 21 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Annie Moore cares for her two younger brothers on board the ship sailing from Ireland to America where she becomes the first immigrant processed through Ellis Island, January 1, 1892, her fifteenth birthday.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
188 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1874, Brian Doyle records in his diary how he ran away from his home in San Francisco, joined the crew of a whaling ship, and endured storms, hostile shipmates, and being stranded in the Arctic.
108) Terrible times
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
145 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Leaving his parents, his Mad Uncle Jack, and his Even Madder Aunt Maud at home at Awful End, Eddie Dickens, along with the color-blind Lady Constance, boards the ship the Pompous Pig on a mission to America.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
436 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1889, the ship Etruria departs Liverpool, England, for New York carrying Audrey Rose Wadsworth and her crime-solving partner, Thomas, a famous escape artist, and a cold-blooded killer.--
Author
Series
Disney princess. Palace pets volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
54 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Prince Eric plans to sail to the other side of the world, Ariel and her kitten, Treasure, try to come up with a way to go with him.
111) Cruising to murder
Author
Series
Francis Meadowes mystery volume 2
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First world edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Francis Meadowes has landed himself an enviable job lecturing on the history of crime writing aboard the Golden Adventurer as it cruises down the West African coast. His fellow passengers, including opinionated retired surgeon Klaus, mischievous elderly widow Eve, flamboyant designer Sebastian, beautiful American aid worker Sadie and her tedious but extremely wealthy aunt, are an eclectic group. But is any one of them capable of murder? When one...
112) Sail away
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
The phone hasn't rung for months. Suzy Marshall is discovering that work can be sluggish for an actress over sixty--even for the star of a wildly popular 1980s TV series. So when her agent offers her the plum role of Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest in Zurich, it seems like a godsend. Until, that is, the play is abruptly cancelled under suspicious circumstances and Suzy is forced to take a job on a cruise ship to get home. Meanwhile...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
56 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Her story begins many, many years ago when her brother was torn away from her as a child. Raised alone by a witch of the woods, KristtMrn's powers of magic grew, as did her temper. Determined to find her long lost twin, she set out on a perilous journey across oceans to find him. But what she found instead was a deep-seated fear of her powers and a confrontation that would leave the fate of Christmas hanging in the balance.
Author
Publisher
Gloria Mundi
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
379 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
A message in a bottle relays an urgent plea from the long-missing Captain Grant. His ship, the Britannia, has sunk. He is alive but is being held hostage. Captain Grant's children, Mary and Robert, along with their friend and benefactor Lord Glenervan launch a rescue expedition. But where do they begin their search? The original SOS message written in three languages is partially destroyed by sea water. The remaining fragments can be interpreted several...
115) Seabird
Author
Publisher
Riverside Press
Pub. Date
©1948
Physical Desc
58 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
An ivory gull carved by Ezra Brown in 1832 brings luck to four generations of his family as they travel on the seas and in the air.
116) Persephone
Author
Series
Kydd sea adventures volume 18
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xiii, 398 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
November 1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd must sail to Lisbon to aid the Portuguese Royal Family's evacuation in the face of Napoleon's ruthless advance through Iberia. In the chaos of the threatened city an old passion is reawakened when he meets Persephone Lockwood, a beautiful and determined admiral's daughter from his past. But the Royal Family's destination is Brazil, Perspehone's England, and it seems Kydd's chance has gone again. Only later he...
Author
Series
Publisher
TouchWood Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
265 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Professor Cait Morgan and Bud Anderson have finally said 'I do'. To celebrate, they set sail on a romantic Hawaiian honeymoon cruise and, for nearly two weeks, the mystery solving newlyweds are worry-free. But then a man drops dead in the games room right in front of them and Cait and Bud can't help but lend their expertise. To the others in the games room, the sudden death of Tommy Trussler--the ship's onboard card-game tutor--appears to have been...
118) The year of the gun
Author
Series
Irregular spy volume 3
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"1912. Released from the Secret Service, Wiggins sets out for New York and his lost-lover Bela. But after an altercation on board, he finds himself among the low-life of Britain's poorest city, Dublin. Wiggins falls in with gangster Patrick O'Connell and is soon driving the boss's girlfriend around town. Molly wants O'Connell to support her Irish nationalist cause - a cause needing guns to defeat the British--and then they go to find them in America....
119) Amok
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
88 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a sweltering ocean-liner travelling from India to Europe a passenger tells his story: the tale of a doctor in the Dutch East Indies torn between his duty and the pull of his emotions; a tale of power and maddening desire, pride, shame and a headlong flight into folly."--Page 4 of cover.
"Amok is a novella by the Austrian author Stefan Zweig. First printed in the newspaper Neue Freie Presse in 1922, Amok appeared shortly afterwards in the collection...
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