Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Virginia

Presents information about the anatomy, diet, habitats and behavior of sharks.

Shark

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Steven Callahan

Massachusetts

Seventy-Six Days Lost at Sea

ANEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER: The riveting account of a harrowing month spent stranded at sea??--??an incredible story of one man's struggle and bravery.



Steven Callahan shares his dramatic tale of survival at sea in this undeniable seafaring classic. His engrossing firsthand account reveals how he survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. "Utterly absorbing" (Newsweek),Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.

Adrift

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#coloringbook #adultcoloring #sealife #ocean #mindfulness #art

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Wisconsin

Beautiful Illustrations of Underwater Creatures to Color and Create 

Waterlife A Mindful Coloring Book

Colorado

A Surprising Exploration into the Wonder of Consciousness

"An investigation of the emotional and physical world of the octopus"--

The Soul of an Octopus

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Melvin Berger

Gilda Berger

South Carolina

A Book about Whales and Dolphins

An introduction to whales and dolphins provides facts about their environment, eating habits, and survival instincts.

Splash!

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Missouri

Working the Sea

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Famous tales of the sea

Along the Clipper Way

#paperback #childrens #picturebook #illustrated #educational #nature #ocean #earth 

Nebraska

Planet Earth 

Arielle Taitano Lowe

West Virginia

Ocean Mother tells the story of a young woman's decision to heal herself, her family, and her home. The poet gives voice to her experience as a CHamoru girl raised in the Pacific Island of Guåhan (Guam), located in Micronesia. Weaving together narratives of family, environment, Indigenous identity, decolonial love, and her CHamoru culture, the poet goes on a journey inward and overseas. She explores the relationships between culture and identity, colonialism and inherited trauma, sense of place and generational healing.

Ocean Mother

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Colum McCann

California

A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book Review called “an emotional tour de force.” Now McCann demonstrates once again why he is one of the most acclaimed and essential authors of his generation with a soaring novel that spans continents, leaps centuries, and unites a cast of deftly rendered characters, both real and imagined. Newfoundland, 1919. Two aviators—Jack Alcock and Arthur Brown—set course for Ireland as they attempt the first nonstop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, placing their trust in a modified bomber to heal the wounds of the Great War. Dublin, 1845 and ’46. On an international lecture tour in support of his subversive autobiography, Frederick Douglass finds the Irish people sympathetic to the abolitionist cause—despite the fact that, as famine ravages the countryside, the poor suffer from hardships that are astonishing even to an American slave. New York, 1998. Leaving behind a young wife and newborn child, Senator George Mitchell departs for Belfast, where it has fallen to him, the son of an Irish-American father and a Lebanese mother, to shepherd Northern Ireland’s notoriously bitter and volatile peace talks to an uncertain conclusion. These three iconic crossings are connected by a series of remarkable women whose personal stories are caught up in the swells of history. Beginning with Irish housemaid Lily Duggan, who crosses paths with Frederick Douglass, the novel follows her daughter and granddaughter, Emily and Lottie, and culminates in the present-day story of Hannah Carson, in whom all the hopes and failures of previous generations live on. From the loughs of Ireland to the flatlands of Missouri and the windswept coast of Newfoundland, their journeys mirror the progress and shape of history. They each learn that even the most unassuming moments of grace have a way of rippling through time, space, and memory. The most mature work yet from an incomparable storyteller, TransAtlantic is a profound meditation on identity and history in a wide world that grows somehow smaller and more wondrous with each passing year. Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. “A dazzlingly talented author’s latest high-wire act . . . Reminiscent of the finest work of Michael Ondaatje and Michael Cunningham, TransAtlantic is Colum McCann’s most penetrating novel yet.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “One of the greatest pleasures of TransAtlantic is how provisional it makes history feel, how intimate, and intensely real. . . . Here is the uncanny thing McCann finds again and again about the miraculous: that it is inseparable from the everyday.”—The Boston Globe “Ingenious . . . The intricate connections [McCann] has crafted between the stories of his women and our men [seem] written in air, in water, and—given that his subject is the confluence of Irish and American history—in blood.”—Esquire “Another sweeping, beautifully constructed tapestry of life . . . Reading McCann is a rare joy.”—The Seattle Times “Entrancing . . . McCann folds his epic meticulously into this relatively slim volume like an accordion; each pleat holds music—elation and sorrow.”—The Denver Post

TransAtlantic

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New York

I’m The Biggest Thing In The Ocean 

Susan Casey

Please note that this is a paperback ARC, not a finished hardcover 

Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean

From New York Times bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world deep beneath the seas, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of terror and wonder, an unknown realm of fiendish creatures and deadly peril. Not until very recently did the technology exist to explore the ocean's depths, and we still know vastly more about the universe than we do about the realms the encompass 75% of the Earth and 99% of its life. Now cutting-edge submersibles allow scientists and explorers to dive down miles below the surface. We are just beginning to understand this strange and exotic world, a place where life began in superheated volcanic vents, and which houses otherworldly creatures who life in total darkness under crushing pressure. Susan Casey is our premier chronicler of the aquatic world. For THE UNDERWORLD she traversed the globe, diving with fearless scientists to the deepest places on the planet, interviewing the marine biologists, geologists, environmental scientists and adventurers who are bringing us knowledge of this unseen world. Through her unique and lyrical form of participatory journalism Casey brings us a first-hand picture of the wonder and beauty of the deep. She gives us a fascinating history of oceanic exploration, from the myths and legends of the ancient world, to storied shipwrecks we can now reach on the bottom, to the first intrepid submarine and bathysphere pilots, to the biologists who are just beginning to understand the mind-blowing complexity and ecological importance of the quadrillions of creatures who live in realms long thought to be devoid of life. The more she learned the more she saw how vital the deep is to the future of the planet, and how much of a threat its under from mining and oil companies who are also exploring its depths. THE UNDERWORLD is Susan Casey's most beautiful and thrilling book yet, a gorgeous evocation of the natural world and a powerful call to arms.

The Underworld

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Rachel Griffin

Dust jacket back page is bent. Edges have some damage. Please see photos. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Illinois

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Nature of Witches and Wild is the Witch comes a lush romantic fantasy about forbidden love, the choices we make, and the pull between duty and desire.

Tana Fairchild's fate has never been in question. Her life has been planned out since the moment she was born: she is to marry the governor's son, Landon, and secure an unprecedented alliance between the witches of her island home and the mainlanders who see her very existence as a threat.

Tana's coven has appeased those who fear their power for years by releasing most of their magic into the ocean during the full moon. But when Tana misses the midnight ritual--a fatal mistake--there is no one she can turn to for help...until she meets Wolfe.

Wolfe claims he is from a coven that practices dark magic, making him one of the only people who can help her. But he refuses to let Tana's power rush into the sea, and instead teaches her his forbidden magic. A magic that makes her feel powerful. Alive.

As the sea grows more violent, her coven loses control of the currents, a danger that could destroy the alliance as well as her island. Tana will have to choose between love and duty, between loyalty to her people and loyalty to her heart. Marrying Landon would secure peace for her coven but losing Wolfe and his wild magic could cost her everything else.

Bring Me Your Midnight

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Kentucky

Men Against the Sea 

The Perfect Storm

#hardcover #discarded #librarybook #1969 #ocean #nationalgeographic #photos

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Connecticut

World Beneath the Sea

Jonathan White

Peter Matthiessen

Texas

The Science and Spirit of the Ocean

A global journey through the science and wonder of the oceans

Tides

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#hardcover #nautical #ships #sea #ocean #maritime

Washington

Science

Elements of their Design, Construction and Operation

Modern Ships

Marcus Pfister

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Michigan

The most beautiful fish in the entire ocean discovers the real value of personal beauty and friendship.

The Rainbow Fish

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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor.

Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery.

What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanation. It is a spaceship of phenomenal dimensions, apparently undamaged by its fall from the sky. And, most startling, it appears to be at least three hundred years old...

Four American scientists are summoned in great secrecy to the South Pacific to investigate a giant spacecraft at least three hundred years old

Sphere

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Osha Gray Davidson

The Green Sea Turtle and the Fate of the Ocean

"Gives readers a startling perspective on the fate of the planet by taking them through time and tides on the back of a sea turtle, whose every species is today endangered or threatened." --Natural Resources Defense Council's OnEarth

Fire in the Turtle House

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S. A. Bodeen

Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters, but the real terror begins when the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft.

The Raft

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Erika Marks

Two trade paperbacks, good reading condition, Pages clean and tight but yellowing due to age/paper quality, minor overall reading and handling wear, spine creases, reminder marks, remains of price stickers. Just average used books that have been read a few times but still have several reads left in them.

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

This romance novel-by-the-sea is a perfect beach read. As students, Liv, Sam and Whit bonded while investigating the Patriot, a schooner that disappeared in 1812 with Aaron Burr's daughter Theodosia aboard. But as the mysterious ship drew them together, love would bring them even closer - and ultimately tear them apart.

Lot of 2 Books by Erika Marks The Last Treasure & The Mermaid Collector 

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Kenji Inoue

Kimitake Yoshioka

Slight damage, see pictures for condition

The hit comedy manga comes to print by popular demand! Swimsuits! Ramen! Dumb jokes! Beer! Uncomfortable nudity! A SISTER’S WRATH Nanaka is left fuming after she learns that Chisa lied to her about traveling to Okinawa. Suspecting Iori of seducing her sister during the trip, the frighteningly overprotective Nanaka plots how to make Iori come clean. Meanwhile, Iori finds his resolve floundering in the face of Sakurako’s relentless love attack. Will he make it out of this in one piece?

Grand Blue Dreaming Volume 18

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There are some annotations in the first 1/3 of the book. 

Alaska

A yearlong adventure through the world's oceans with Philip Hoare, the award-winning author of The Whale

In colorful prose and lively line drawings, Hoare sets out to rediscover the sea and its islands, birds, and beasts. Starting at his home on the shores of Britain's Southampton Water and moving in ever widening circles--like the migration patterns of whales--Hoare explores London, the Isle of Wight, the Azores, Sri Lanka, Tasmania, and New Zealand.

As Hoare brilliantly weaves together literary and natural history, we encounter memorable people as well as the dolphins, whales, and other creatures above and below the water (even one species formerly believed to  be extinct).

Echoing the fine tradition of W. G. Sebald, but in a voice all Hoare's own, The Sea Inside is bursting with an endless series of delights and revelations from the ever-changing sea.

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