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The 1950s vintage ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, among them Christine Thorne, a former journalist turned Maine farmer, it's a chance to experience the bygone mid-twentieth century era of decadent luxury cruising, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones--or children, for that matter....
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2022.
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When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. She's also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. The two women say they want to travel off...
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1634: "Samuel Pipps is the greatest detective of his day...but now he's a prisoner, accused of an unknown crime by one of the world's most powerful men. Along with his faithful sidekick, Arent Hayes, they're sailing back to Amsterdam from the East Indies, where he'll stand trial. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage. Still shackled in his cell, Pipps sends Hayes to solve a mystery that connects every passenger...
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Yann Martel's imaginative and unforgettable Life of Pi is a magical reading experience, an endless blue expanse of storytelling about adventure, survival, and ultimately, faith. The precocious son of a zookeeper, 16-year-old Pi Patel is raised in Pondicherry, India, where he tries on various faiths for size, attracting "religions the way a dog attracts fleas."
Planning a move to Canada, his father packs up the family and their menagerie and they...
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"Right after the sudden death of her mother--her first and most devoted fan--and just before the launch of her high-stakes sophomore album, Greta James falls apart on stage. The footage quickly goes viral and she stops playing, her career suddenly in jeopardy--the kind of jeopardy her father, Conrad, has always predicted. Months later, Greta--still heartbroken and very much adrift--reluctantly agrees to accompany Conrad on the Alaskan cruise her parents...
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In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
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"After traveling to the seaside kingdom of Lilah's betrothed prince, Lulath, Celie and her companions are busy training griffins, enjoying wedding festivities, and finishing construction of a grand ship built from parts of the Castle. But on their maiden voyage, the Ship steers them far off course into uncharted waters"--
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Covenant Communications, Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
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When Detective Trey Shotwell agrees to attend an art auction featuring his father's work, he meets and is attracted to fellow passenger Ariah Stanton. But he has no idea that his tranquil voyage will quickly turn into a nightmare -- his father's works disappear, Ariah is nearly murdered (but another victim is not so lucky), and, in a crime eerily reminiscent of the death of Trey's mother so many years before, the young detective knows that nothing...
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2022.
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"A high-seas adventure set in a Thai-inspired fantasy world. This is the story of a young woman's struggle to unburden herself of the past and chart her own destiny in a world of secrets. As assistant to Mangkon's most celebrated mapmaker, twelve-year-old Sai plays the part of a well-bred young lady with a glittering future. In reality, her father is a conman - and in a kingdom where the status of one's ancestors dictates their social position, the...
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Franklin Watts/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014
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Uses humor in both text and illustrations to describe what it would require to launch a voyage of discovery, what shipboard life would be like, and what the rewards would be using the voyages of Columbus as an example.
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Shadow Mountain
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[2013]
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Sadie Hoffmiller has gathered her family together to enjoy an Alaskan cruise and to help plan her daughter's wedding. But when her son's birthmother shows up on the ship, relationships become complicated. And once the dead bodies start appearing, Sadie realizes more than one person on the cruise is keeping secrets.
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Covenant Communications, Inc
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[2019]
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Wedding bells are finally ringing for Jacklyn 'Jack' Wyatt and her FBI-agent fianc�e, Damon Wade. After their adventurous beginning, the happy couple finds the relative calm leading up to their big day a huge relief. Unfortunately, it seems the peace and quiet were too good to last. As they embark on their honeymoon, a week long cruise, Jack can't shake the feeling that something is off with her new husband. When she stumbles upon a secret plot--one...
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Sweetwater Books, an imprint of Cedar Fort, Inc
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[2021]
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1795- Jane Sawyer enjoyed everything India had to offer. Having lived there since the death of her parents, the beautiful country had become her home. However, when her uncle accepts a position at Oxford University, her life takes an unexpected turn. From a treacherous storm that delays their journey, to recovering at an island where she almost drowns, Jane wonders if this is a foreshadowing of hard things to come. But her thoughts begin to lighten...
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Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016
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"In one devastating night, violin prodigy Etta Spencer loses everything she knows and loves... Nicholas Carter is content with his life at sea, free from the Ironwoods-a powerful family in the Colonies-and the servitude he's known at their hands. But with the arrival of an unusual passenger on his ship comes the insistent pull of the past that he can't escape and the family that won't let him go so easily. Now the Ironwoods are searching for a stolen...
18) The real boat
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Templar Books, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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One day a paper boat leaves his little pond to begin a dangerous journey to the ocean. When he gets there, he knows he will become a real boat.
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2016]
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Ainsley's divorced mother is the director on a summer fairy tale (definitely not Disney) cruise, and nearly-thirteen-year-old Ainsley is annoyed that she is expected to spend her summer vacation helping out in hundred different ways, without much in the way of free time to chat up the cute boy playing the "Pig King"--then once the ship actually sets sail things start to go wrong, and Ainsley begins to wonder whether this fairy tale is cursed.
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Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
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2009.
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Justin Russo wins an essay contest and a free cruise on the S.S. Tipton and tries to get a date with London Tipton. Max Russo challenges Zack Martin to some hilarious challenges, and Alex Russo tries to convince her parents to let her stay on board. Bailey Pickett tells Cody Martin that a famous person is coming onboard the ship, and that person is Hannah Montana. In an effort to impress Bailey and finally win her over, he tells her that he is great...
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