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Heaven round the corner
Par Betty Neels. 1981
As soon as her training is complete, Louisa readily accepts a job which involves going to Norway. But her patient,…
Claudia Savage, does present some problems and her brother, Simon, just doesn't understand how hard the nurse is trying. 1981.Ghosts, gales and gold
Par Edward Rowe Snow. 1972
Golden lion: a novel of heroes in a time of war (The Courtneys of Africa ; #13)
Par Giles Kristian, Wilbur A Smith. 2015
Hal Courtney has always lived at sea. Now a truce has been made between the warring countries and Hal is…
captain of his own ship; the Golden Bough. From the slave markets of Zanzibar to the pirate-riddled waters of the Indian Ocean, Hal leads his crew in and out of the waves of danger. But he soon realizes that just because the war is over, does not mean the battle is won, and the more a man achieves, the more he has to lose. Sequel to "Assegai". 2015.Frigate (Frigate trilogy. #1.)
Par John Wingate. 1980
The problems of human relationships set against the stark reality of modern warfare as HMS Icarus becomes involved in a…
skirmish with a Russian submarine that was to lead to graver things. 1980.Fire down below (To the ends of the earth ; #3)
Par William Golding. 1989
Edmund Talbot is aboard a decrepit old warship, which lurches towards Australia. At sea, the hulk is charged with the…
care and protection of the lives of her colourful crew. Edward Talbot's progression towards self realisation is as turbulent as the voyage of his ship. Sequel to "Close Quarters"(DC31504). 1989. (To the ends of the earth ; 3)Fergus Crane (Far-flung adventures. #1.)
Par Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart. 2005
Nine-year-old Fergus Crane's life is filled with classes on the school ship Betty Jeanne, interesting neighbours, and helping with his…
mother's work until a mysterious box flies into his window and leads him toward adventure. Grades 2-4. 2005. (Far-flung adventures ; 1)Departure
Par Janet Stevenson. 1985
Amanda Bright, the young wife of the captain, sets out on a journey with her husband in 1851. When the…
first mate, and then her husband, become ill, Amanda must command a sullen crew across the vast north Pacific. 1985.Desolation island (Jack Aubrey ; #5)
Par Patrick O'Brian. 1978
Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the…
Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. Sequel to "Mauritius command" . Followed by "The fortune of war" .1998. (Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels ; 5)Billy Budd
Par Herman Melville. 1981
A naive, innocent sailor, Billy Budd, is cruelly antagonized and unjustly accused by his evil master-at-arms. Speechless with rage over…
the accusation, Billy strikes and kills his petty officer, forcing their captain to order his execution. 1981.Crackdown
Par Bernard Cornwell. 1990
Nick Breakspear may look like the perfect Hamlet, but he wanted nothing to do with the theatrical world inhabited by…
his father, Britain's greatest living actor. So he joined the Royal Marines and is now sailing the blue waters of the Bahamas. But dreams of paradise are shattered when he becomes swept into a small but deadly corner of a war against the drug-runners that infest the area. Caught up in a world that denies every truth he believes in, the only defence is to draw on the despised skills of his father's world and fight with reckless courage. 1990.Cross of St. George (Richard Bolitho novels. #24.)
Par Alexander Kent. 1996
Set in 1813, the Royal Navy admiral Sir Richard Bolito returns to Halifax to pursue the sea war with the…
young United States. Although he personally desires peace, the admiral is caught up in a war that neither Britain nor the United States can afford to lose. Sequel to "For my country's freedom", followed by "Sword of honour" .1996. (Richard Bolitho novels ; 24)Buccaneer: a novel (Ned Yorke Ser. #Bk. 1)
Par Dudley Pope. 1984
Ned Yorke, manager of a plantation in Barbados, loves Aurelia, the wife of a neighbouring planter. To avoid arrest by…
the Cromwellians, he flees with Aurelia. They become traders and eventually pirates. 1984.Corby Flood (Far-flung adventures. #2)
Par Chris Riddell, Paul Stewart. 2006
While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men,…
clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns, as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold. Grades 3-6. Sequel to "Fergus Crane" (DC29167). 2005. (Far-flung adventures ; 2)Cap sur l'enfer
Par Ian Slater, Gilbert LaRocque. 1978
Catherine's heart (Tales of London.)
Par Lawana Blackwell. 2002
Eighteen-year-old Catherine Rayborn is thrilled with her first taste of independence when she begins Girton College in Cambridge in 1880.…
Amidst all the excitement, however, comes the painful realization of the vast difference between true love and shallow. 2002.Caleb's kingdom
Par Essie Summers. 1996
Greta Mountford discovers that her fiance Martin has been having an affair. But before she can break her engagement, Martin…
is killed on the way home. Faced with this double grief, Greta escapes to New Zealand to run a farm while its owner, Caleb Armstrong, is away in Europe. The change of scene works its magic on Greta, but her new-found peace is shattered with the return of Caleb - for his presence is far too disturbing for comfort. 1996.Christmas gifts: Small Town Christmas Her Christmas Cowboy
Par Gail Gaymer Martin, Brenda Minton. 2011
In “Small Town Christmas”, when seven-year-old twins act up in temporary teacher Amy Carroll's class, she meets their very apologetic…
widowed father. The handsome man has his hands full - but can two mini matchmakers and holiday cheer open his heart to Christmas romance? In “Her Christmas Cowboy”, Elizabeth Harden attends a bull-riding event for her dad, where she tries – unsuccessfully - to avoid bull fighter Travis Cooper, a too-handsome heartbreaker. But could her first impression of Travis be mistaken? c2011.Christmas Eve baby (Medical Romance Ser.)
Par Caroline Anderson. 2007
Dr Lucy Tremayne's title is about to change from doctor to mother. She knows she must tell Ben Carter he's…
going to be a daddy by Christmas - but she's running out of time. Why is she stalling? Because she knows that when her secret gets out it will destroy her father. As head of A&E at St Piran Hospital, Dr Ben Carter hasn't seen Lucy since that wonderful, perfect night they shared together. He's been warned to stay away, but now, as he arrives in the picturesque Cornish village of Penhally Bay, he is determined to fight for the woman he loves, and their baby. 2007.Captain Blood (Penguin classics)
Par Rafael Sabatini. 2003
Great Britain, 1685. When physician Peter Blood is accused of treason against King James II for treating a wounded rebel,…
he is sentenced to slavery in Barbados. Once on the island he escapes to become a buccaneer--and eventually governor of Jamaica. 2003 introduction by Gary Hoppenstand. 1922, c2003."Hornblower and the Atropos": Skippering the flagship for Nelson's funeral is not Hornblower's idea of action but soon he is…
ordered to set sail for the Mediterranean in the Atropos. "The happy return": Hornblower sails the South American waters and comes face to face with a mad, messianic revolutionary. "A ship of the line": Commando raids, hurricanes at sea, the glowering menace of Napoleon's gun batteries; all these Hornblower must face as he sails his ship to the Spanish station. Sequel to "Hornblower and the Hotspur"(DC29058). 1987. (Hornblower ; 4-6)