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Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Pennsylvania

Enriched Classics offer readers accessible editions of great works of literature enhanced by helpful notes and commentary. Each book includes educational tools alongside the text, enabling students and readers alike to gain a deeper and more developed understanding of the writer and their work. Billy Budd, Sailor has been called the best short novel ever written. In his brilliantly condensed prose, Herman Melville fashions a legal parable in which reason and intellect prove incapable of preserving innocence in the face of evil. For all those who feel themselves threatened by a hostile and inflexible environment, there is special significance in this haunting story of a handsome sailor who becomes a victim of man’s intransigence. Enriched Classics enhance your engagement by introducing and explaining the historical and cultural significance of the work, the author’s personal history, and what impact this book had on subsequent scholarship. Each book includes discussion questions that help clarify and reinforce major themes and reading recommendations for further research. Read with confidence.

Billy Budd, Sailor 

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Dani Pettrey

When an accident claims the life of an oil-rig worker on the first drilling platform off the North Carolina coast, Coast Guard investigators Rissi Dawson and Mason Rogers are sent to take the case. Tensions surrounding the oil rig are high and the death has everyone on edge. Environmental activists are threatening to do whatever it takes to stop the structure from being completed, while rumors are being whispered about ancient curses surrounding this part of the ocean. Mounting evidence shows the death may not have been an accident at all. Was he killed by one of the activists or, perhaps more frighteningly, a member of his own crew? Rissi and Mason have to sort through not only a plethora of suspects, but also their own past and attraction to each other. Just as the case seems like it'll break open, worse news arrives. A tropical storm has turned their way and soon they're cut off from any rescue--and right where the killer wants them. It's a race to discover his identity before he eliminates the threat they pose.

The Crushing Depths

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Debbie Macomber

A Novel

Includes an excerpt from Window on the bay.

Cottage by the Sea

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#paperback #noraroberts #romance #drama #mystery #fiction #love #sea

Michigan

Sea Swept 

Erich Hoyt

Florida

Introduces fifty strange animals from the sea.

Weird Sea Creatures

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David Bell, Master and Captain of the annibal, is one of Gann's most mem-able characters, an embittered idealist ho is staking all that remains of his treer on the success of this voyage. apt. Bell loves the ways of sail and all the once sleek old barquentine is still eautiful to him. The paying passengers e another thing ...
Harry Hutton and Ethel Peacock hate le ship, yet they are has-beens, too.
The Reverend Butterfield, chasing pri-ite devils, and Oliver Wiggins, with a evy of South Sea maidens to regret, are stlessly aware of slow progress.
Mr. and Mrs: Morris, fleeing the past, je buoyantly hopeful that the Cannibal ill deposit them in a shining new world.
But the final passenger has no interest the ship at all. She is Charlotte King, woman of quiet beauty with a disturb-gly unquiet past. The story of Charlotte ing is a novel in itself-an engrossing orld of its own within the framework f this book.
Gann introduces these people with im-eccable artistry, and the voyage of the annibal becomes an intensely moving ory of heroism and disaster, with a cli-lax that is in every way inevitable and ight. It is Gann's finest novel-a tremendous reading experience. 

From 1956 

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Washington

Twilight for the Gods - 1956

Amitav Ghosh

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Iowa

The first in an epic trilogy, Sea of Poppies is "a remarkably rich saga . . . which has plenty of action and adventure à la Dumas, but moments also of Tolstoyan penetration--and a drop or two of Dickensian sentiment" (The Observer [London]). At the heart of this vibrant saga is a vast ship, the Ibis. Her destiny is a tumultuous voyage across the Indian Ocean shortly before the outbreak of the Opium Wars in China. In a time of colonial upheaval, fate has thrown together a diverse cast of Indians and Westerners on board, from a bankrupt raja to a widowed tribeswoman, from a mulatto American freedman to a free-spirited French orphan. As their old family ties are washed away, they, like their historical counterparts, come to view themselves as jahaj-bhais, or ship-brothers. The vast sweep of this historical adventure spans the lush poppy fields of the Ganges, the rolling high seas, and the exotic backstreets of Canton. With a panorama of characters whose diaspora encapsulates the vexed colonial history of the East itself, Sea of Poppies is "a storm-tossed adventure worthy of Sir Walter Scott" (Vogue).

Sea of Poppies

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Wisconsin

Way Down Deep in the Deep Blue Sea

Sea Shapes

#ocean #environmebt #wild #sea #tides #blue #

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Seashells and the Fate of the Oceans

A compelling history of seashells and the animals that make them, revealing what they have to tell us about nature, our changing oceans, and ourselves.

The Sound of the Sea

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California

Naval history magazine

Iain Lawrence

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There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall, England, lived a community who prayed for shipwrecks, a community who lured storm-tossed ships to crash upon the sharp rocks of their shore. They fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors' tools and trinkets became decorations for their homes. Most never questioned their murderous way of life.

Then, upon that pirates' shore crashed the ship The Isle of Skye. And the youngest of its crew members, 14-year-old John Spencer, survived the wreck. But would he escape the wreckers? This is his harrowing tale.

The Wreckers

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Sebastian Junger

New York

A True Story of Men Against the Sea

A real-life thriller that leaves us with the taste of salt on our tongues and a terror of the deep.

The Perfect Storm

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Rachel Greenlaw

New Hampshire

For fans of Fable by Adrienne Young or To Kill a Kingdom by Alexandra Christo, this romantasy debut is filled with sirens and mysterious magic, swoony romance and cutthroat betrayal. This world of sea and storm runs deep with bargains and blood. On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. Mira's job is to rescue survivors, if there are any. After all, she never feels the cold of the frigid ocean waters and the waves seem to sing to her soul. But the people of Rosevear never admit the truth: that they set the beacons themselves to lure ships into the rocks. When the Council watch lays a trap to put an end to the wrecking, they arrest Mira's father. Desperate to save him from the noose, Mira strikes a deal with an enigmatic wreck survivor guarding layers of secrets behind his captivating eyes, and sets off to find something her mother has left her, a family secret buried deep in the sea. With just nine days to find what she needs to rescue her father, all Mira knows for certain is this: The sea gives. The sea takes. And it's up to her to do what she must to save the ones she loves.

Compass and Blade

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Laura Brooke Robson

Louisiana

In this seafaring fantasy, a soft-spoken and empathic teen must chart her own course to rescue the ruthless pirate who raised her

If there's one thing Thea Fowler has learned from her mother, it's that the only way for a woman to survive in a man's world is to make herself strong, invulnerable even. Strength, after all, is how Clementine Fowler survived after her world was washed away by ash and lava and became one of the most notorious pirates the world has ever known.
 
Unfortunately, Thea has inherited none of her mother's ruthlessness and grit.
 
After a lifetime of being told she is a disappointment, Thea longs to escape life under her mother's thumb. And when she falls for a handsome sailor named Bauer, she thinks she's found her chance at a new life. But it's not long before first love leads to first betrayal, and Thea learns that there's more than one way to be strong.
 

The Sea Knows My Name

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#paperback #fiction #adventure #discovery #travel #sea #surviving #sailboats #ocean #sailing 

Massachusetts

The Wanderer

Missouri

A true story of courage & survival

Five Against the Sea

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Eyes on nature sea creatures 

Susan Wiggs

Susan Wiggs 2 book bundle - 

The Ocean Between Us
Marrying Daisy Bellamy

After years of following her navy officer husband on assignment around the world with their three children, Grace Bennett realizes that she's left something behind--herself.

Steve Bennett can't understand the unraveling of his wife's heart. He wants to set things right, but when a secret from his past is revealed just as he's sent out to sea, their already-strained relationship is pushed to the edge. Now, with plenty of space to ponder the true distance between them, Grace begins to reinvent herself.

Just as her new self is coming to terms with her family life, the unthinkable happens. A disaster aboard Steve's ship shatters Grace's world and all she can do is gather her children around and wait for news to come, good or bad. A navy wife's worst nightmare collides with the cold truth that life's biggest chances can slip away while you're busy looking for guarantees.



Susan Wiggs 2-book paperback bundle

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The Sapphire Sea

Steve Alten

Georgia

Paleo-biologist Jonas Taylor once dared to enter the perilous Marianas Trench, where the Megalodon shark has spawned since the dawn of time, and now that the monster is terrorizing the California coast, he must return to fight his ultimate battle. By the author of Meg.

The Trench

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Some wear on dust jacket and cover corners. Appears to have been a library book at one point. #hardcover #nonfiction #ocean #sea #islands #coasts #reef

North Dakota

The Sea and Its Thresholds

A voyage through the mind of a writer with a passion for the sea dives into lyrical explanations of a watery world with sections on charts, islands, reefs, wrecks, fishing, and pirates

The Great Deep

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Rick Riordan

Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana’s parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family she’s got left is her older brother, Dev, also a student at HP. Ana’s freshman year culminates with the class’s weekend trial at sea, the details of which have been kept secret. She only hopes she has what it’ll take to succeed. All her worries are blown out of the water when, on the bus ride to the ship, Ana and her schoolmates witness a terrible tragedy that will change the trajectory of their lives.

But wait, there’s more. The professor accompanying them informs Ana that their rival school, Land Institute, and Harding-Pencroft have been fighting a cold war for a hundred and fifty years. Now that cold war has been turned up to a full boil, and the freshmen are in danger of becoming fish food. In a race against deadly enemies, Ana will make amazing friends and astounding discoveries about her heritage as she puts her leadership skills to the test for the first time

Minnesota

In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.

Daughter of the Deep

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Alistair MacLean

From a bestselling master of maritime and adventure tales comes this collection of short stories about the sea--stories that span his more than 30 years as a writer. An old seaman braves a brutal storm to save his family; a jewel smuggler risks all for his gems; a captain tempts fate with his prized gold watch. These are just some of the characters that make this a landmark treasury for lovers of the sea.

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