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Language
English
Description
"Based on years of original research and new reporting, two acclaimed authors deliver the riveting and emotionally wrenching full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history: the sinking of the USS Indianapolis during World War II--and the fifty-year fight to exonerate the captain after a wrongful court martial."--Provided by publisher.
462) Drawn by the current
Author
Series
Windy City saga volume 3
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A birthday excursion turns deadly when the SS Eastland capsizes with Olive Pierce and her best friend on board. Hundreds perish during the accident, and it's only when Olive herself barely escapes that she discovers her friend is among the victims. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Olive returns to her work at a Chicago insurance agency and is immersed in the countless investigations related to the accident. But with so many missing, there are few...
463) La carta esférica
Author
Publisher
Debolsillo
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Cazadores de naufragios en busca del fantasma de un barco perdido en el Mediterráneo, problemas de latitud y longitud cuyo secreto yace oculto en antiguos derroteros y cartas náuticas, museos navales, bibliotecas... Nunca el mar y la Historia, la ciencia de la navegación, la aventura y el misterio se habían combinado de un modo tan extraordinario en una novela, como en La carta esférica. De Melville a Stevenson y Conrad, de Homero a Patrick...
464) Robinson Crusoe
Author
Series
Publisher
Zeta Bolsillo
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
Español
Description
Presents an adaptation with illustrations in comic-strip style of the classic story of an Englishman shipwrecked for almost thirty years on a small isolated island where, using wit and industry, he manages to build life anew.
Publisher
Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Using the latest marine survey techniques, HD photography, and underwater communications, National Geographic reveals one of the oldest intact shipwrecks in the world, which will transform understanding of 17th century trading. In the tradition of Jacques Cousteau, journey on an amazing expedition, conquering the unfamiliar, inaccessible waters of the Baltic Sea, to reveal one of the most technologically advanced trading ships of that time and cast...
466) No moon
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Nursemaid Louisa Gardener still blames herself for the drowning of her two-year-old brother almost ten years earlier, and so she dreads having to accompany the family she works for as they travel to New York on the Titanic.
467) Aboard the Titanic
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young readers rediscover the story of the largest and most luxurious ship ever built, The Titanic. Featuring historical imagery, first-hand accounts, and lively text"--
469) Terrific
Author
Publisher
Michael di Capua Books/Hyperion
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Nothing seems to go right for Eugene, even when he wins a free trip to Bermuda, but while he is stranded on a tiny, deserted island after being shipwrecked, a broken-winged parrot tells him how to build a boat so that they can both be rescued.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
In 1912, orphaned Irish street musician Jonathan Harker accidentally stows away on the Titanic, where he is befriended by Wallace Hartley, called "the bravest man in the world" for playing violin with the band as the Titanic sank. Includes historical note.
Series
Publisher
Vanguard Latino
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Español
Description
A young boy drifts onto a tropical island when his boat sinks in the ocean. He learns the value of friendship when he is thrown together with other survivors: a sneaky parrot, two cats and a lazy dog, with whom he must work to survive in the wilderness.
"El barco donde viaja nuestro joven amigo Robinson se hunde en el oceano. El joven es arrastrado por la corriente hasta la playa. Al despertar descubre que los restos del barco donde viajaba tambien...
Publisher
Janson Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In an effort to win control of the Marshall Islands gateway to the Japanese empire, U.S. aircraft bombarded Japanese ships in the lagoon at Kwajalein for weeks. Later, this lagoon became the graveyard for WWII era airplanes and shipwrecks.
Author
Series
Cornwall novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"Set in 1820s Cornwall, this Regency romance evokes the captivating worlds and delicious dramas of Jane Austen, Daphne DuMaurier, and Winston Graham. Raised on the sprawling and rugged Wyndcliff Estate near the dangerous coast of South Cornwall, Evelyn Bray lives with her grandfather, a once-wealthy man reduced to the post of steward. Evelyn is still grieving her father's death and her mother's abandonment when a passing ship is dashed against the...
477) Hippie chick
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
After her sailboat capsizes, fifteen-year-old Lolly Emmerson is rescued by manatees and taken to a mangrove key in the Everglades, where she forms a bond with her aquatic companions while struggling to survive.
479) Ghost galleon: the discovery and archaeology of the San Juanillo on the shores of Baja California
Author
Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
480) Beautiful wild
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Vida Hazzard can see her future: aboard the heralded "Millionaire's Ship of the West," she'll charm the young scion Fitzhugh Farrar, resulting in a proposal of marriage. But Vida didn't plan on Fitz's best friend Sal, a rough-around-the-edges boy with a talent for getting under her skin. Nor did she anticipate a hurricane dashing their ship to pieces, along with her dreams. Stranded on an island with both Fitz and Sal, Vida is torn between the life...
