The Sea-wolf
When Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself sailing to Japan aboard the Ghost, he has to face weeks of brutality at the hands of Captain Wolf Larsen, until he decides to take desperate measures to save himself and the rest of the crew.
FIC
year: 2009
copies: 25
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 1020
subjects: sealers (persons), sealing ships, ship captains, arctic regions, survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, seafaring life [X], sea stories, shipwrecks [X], london, jack, american literature, fiction, allegories, adventure stories, seafaring life fiction, sea stories, adventure fiction
Everlasting
In 1855, seventeen-year-old Camille sets out from San Francisco, California, on her last sea voyage before entering a loveless marriage, but when her father's ship is destroyed, she and a friend embark on a cross-Australian quest to find her long-lost mother who holds a map to a magical stone.
FIC
year: 2010
copies: 4
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 790
subjects: seafaring life [X], supernatural, shipwrecks [X], fathers and daughters, adventure and adventurers, australia
A Brave Vessel
Describes the fates of the 153 passengers bound for the colony in Jamestown, Virginia, after a hurricane stranded them for nearly a year on uninhabited Bermuda, based on the journal records kept by castaway and English gentleman, William Strachey.
910.91
year: 2009
copies: 2
call number/section: 910.91
lexile:
subjects: strachey, william, shakespeare, william, shipwrecks [X], seafaring life [X], jamestown (va.), virginia, bermuda islands, great britain
The Adventures Of John Blake
John Blake and his mysterious ship are doomed to sail between centuries and when he meets a shipwrecked girl named Serena he promises to help get her back to her time, but first they must stop the sinister and powerful Dahlberg Corporation.
FIC
year: 2017
copies: 49
call number/section: FIC
lexile:
subjects: corporations, pirates, seafaring life [X], time travel, adventure and adventurers, adventure stories, adventure fiction, science fiction, shipwrecks [X], adventure stories, graphic novels