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After the Flood: A Novel

Kassandra Montag - William Morrow
Format: Hardcover

An unforgettable, inventive, and riveting epic saga with the literary force and evocative imagination of Station Eleven, Zone One, and The Road, that signals the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.A little more than a century from now, the world has been utterly transformed. After years...
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Float Plan

Trish Doller - St. Martins Griffin
Format: Hardcover

* A MUST-READ FOR GOOD MORNING AMERICA, OPRAHMAG.COM, BUZZFEED, POP SUGAR, AND MORE! *. Heartbroken by the loss of her fiancé, adventurous Anna finds a second chance at love with an Irish sailor in this riveting, emotional romance.. After a reminder goes off for the Caribbean sailing trip...
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The Glass Ocean: A Novel

Beatriz Williams - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, infused with romance, that links the lives of three women across a century - two deep in the past, one in the present - to the doomed passenger liner, RMS Lusitania.May 2013Her finances...
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The Lamplighters: A Novel

Emma Stonex - Viking
Format: Hardcover

What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent.It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls...
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Life Of Pi

Charles E Stinnett

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific.The crew of the surviving vessel consists of a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg) , a female orang-utan, a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger and Pi - a 16-year-old Indian boy.The
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The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

M. L. Stedman - Scribner
Format: Hardcover

The years-long New York Times bestseller soon to be a major motion picture from Spielberg's Dreamworks that is "irresistible ... seductive ... with a high concept plot that keeps you riveted from the first page" (O, The Oprah Magazine) .After four harrowing years...
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Maiden Voyages: Magnificent Ocean Liners and the Women Who Traveled and Worked Aboard Them

Siân Evans - St. Martin's Press
Format: Hardcover

During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province of the great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were changed forever by their journeys between the Old World and the New. Some traveled for leisure, some for work; others...
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Master and Commander

Patrick O'Brian - Windsor
Format: Large print book

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin tales are widely acknowledged to be the greatest series of historical novels ever written. All eighteen books are being re-issued in hardback by HarperCollins with stunning new jackets to coincide with a new film based on the adventures and to introduce...
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The Mermaid

Christina Henry - Berkley
Format: Paperback

From the author of Lost Boy comes a beautiful historical fairy tale about a mermaid who leaves the sea, only to become the star attraction of history's greatest showman.Once there was a mermaid called Amelia who could never be content in the sea, a mermaid who longed to know all the world...
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The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock: A Novel

Imogen Hermes Gowar - Harper
Format: Hardcover

Shortlisted for the Baileys Womens Prize for Fiction * A Refinery 29 Favorite Book of the Year * A BOOKLIST Top 10 First Novels of the Year * A People Best Book of the Fall"Wonderful ... completely transporting." - Madeline Miller, New York Times bestselling author of Circe...
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The Mermaid's Daughter: A Novel

Ann Claycomb - William Morrow Paperbacks
Format: Paperback

A modern-day expansion of Hans Christian Andersen's The Little Mermaid, this unforgettable debut novel weaves a spellbinding tale of magic and the power of love as a descendent of the original mermaid fights the terrible price of saving herself from a curse that has affected generations...
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Moby Dick

Herman Melville - Harper Perennial Modern Classics; Elibron Classics series edition
Format: Book

Call me Ishmael.Thus begins one of the most famous journeys in literaturethe voyage of the whaling ship Pequod and its embattled, monomaniacal Captain Ahab. Ishmael quickly learns that the Pequods captain sails for revenge against the elusive Moby Dick, a sperm whale with a snow-white hump...
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A Night to Remember

Walter Lord - Holt Paperbacks
Format: Print book

The classic minute-by-minute account of the sinking of the Titanic, in a 50th anniversary edition with a new introduction by Nathaniel Philbrick First published in 1955, A Night to Remember remains a completely riveting account of the Titanics fatal collision and the behavior of the passengers...
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The Ocean: The Ultimate Handbook of Nautical Knowledge

Chris Dixon - Chronicle Books; Illustrated edition
Format: Hardcover

From experienced seafarers to ocean novices, for those about to ride their first wave, stand-up paddle on a dive, find a simple "one pan" galley recipe, or identify a bird that landed on the bow, The Ocean is rich with how-to advice and instruction.* Features expert consultation...
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel

Neil Gaiman - William Morrow
Format: Book

It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal...
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The Old Man and the Sea

Ernest Hemingway - Simon & Schuster Audio
Format: Audiobook

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingways most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal, a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway...
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The Pirate's Daughter

Margaret Cezair-Thompson - Unbridled Books; 1 edition
Format: Hardcover

In 1946, a storm-wrecked boat carrying Hollywood's most famous swashbuckler arrived dramatically in Jamaica, and the glamorous world of 1940s Hollywood converged with that of a small West Indian society. After a long and storied career on the silver screen, Errol Flynn spent much of the last...
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Run The Storm: A Savage Hurricane, a Brave Crew, and the Wreck of the SS El Faro

George Michelsen Foy - Thorndike Press Large Print Press
Format: Library Binding

"Here is the pitch-perfect pairing of subject and author, a gripping deconstruction of one of recent history's most terrible and vexing sea tragedies ... A meticulous forensic study that, in Foy's able hands, rises to the level of literature." --Hampton Sides"Fans...
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Sea Wife: A novel

Amity Gaige - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

For readers of Meg Wolitzer, Lionel Shriver, Kate Atkinson, and Jennifer EganFrom the highly acclaimed author of Schroder, a smart, sophisticated literary page turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a year-long sailing trip that upends all of their livesJuliet is failing to juggle...
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Shark Drunk: The Art of Catching a Large Shark from a Tiny Rubber Dinghy in a Big Ocean

Morten Andreas Strøksnes - Knopf
Format: Hardcover

Winner of the Norwegian Brage Prize 2015Winner of the Norwegian Critics' Prize for Literature 2015Winner of the Norwegian Reine Ord Prize at Lofoten International Literature Festival 2016A salty story of friendship, adventure, and the explosive life that teems beneath the ocean, for readers...
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