sailors

Two sisters, Scarlett and Tella, leave their cruel father to attend Caraval--a faraway once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show--and, along the way, Tella is kidnapped and Scarlett is aided by a mysterious sailor and finds herself enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic.

Selly's plans to follow her father to the north seas are dashed when a handsome stranger with tell-tale magician's marks on his arm boards her ship and presents her with a dangerous mission--to sail to the Isles of the Gods so he can complete a mysterious ritual.

"The Indestructible Tom Crean reveals the incredible true stories of Crean's adventures on the Discovery, Terra Nova, and Endurance expeditions. When the Endurance becomes trapped in the frozen sea and sinks, it is up to Crean and several others to go for help"--Provided by publisher.

"In this variation on the traditional sea shanty 'What Do You Do with,' a ship's crew of sailors must content with mythical sea creatures, including a kraken, a sea serpent, and a giant turtle"--OCLC.

When a rough sailor named Ishmael delivers news of his father's death, Josiah, who longs to be at sea, and his dog Zeke embark on an adventure to uncover the secrets of the Pequod at the mysterious Arch of Bone.

Two shipwrecked sailors float on the remains of their ship and endure a series of misfortunes from rain to a whale with tuna breath, with one sailor reminding his grumpy companion that things could always be worse.

Sailor Old Robert lives a solitary existence until some performing cats come into his life.

Includes nine short sories by Herman Melville as well as notes on the texts, a chronology of Herman Melville, and a bibliography.

Documents the true story of a U.S. Navy destroyer that inspired the writings of John Ford and Herman Wouk, drawing on the journals and other writings of five shipmates who witnessed the Anzio attacks and D-Day invasion.

Tells the incredible true story of Frank Williams, a radarman in Britain's Royal Air Force, and Judy, a purebred pointer, who met as prisoners of war during World War II. Judy, who became the war's only official canine POW, was a fiercely loyal dog who sensed danger-warning her fellow prisoners of imminent attacks and, later, protecting them from brutal beatings. Frank and Judy's friendship, an unbreakable bond forged in the worst circumstances, is one of the great recently uncovered stories of World War II.