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Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"It was called "The Titanic of the South." The luxury steamship sank in 1838 with Savannah's elite on board; through time, their fates were forgotten--until the wreck was found, and now their story is finally being told in this breathtaking novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis. When Savannah history professor Everly Winthrop is asked to guest-curate a new museum collection focusing on artifacts recovered from the...
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Language
English
Description
Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in.
“Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says.
“I am the Lord,” the man whispers.
So begins Mitch Albom’s most beguiling and inspiring novel yet.
Albom has written of heaven in the celebrated number one bestsellers The Five People You Meet...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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With everyone believing he died in a plane crash, Chicago celebrity Charles James re-evaluates his life after narrowly escaping death and decides to walk from Chicago to California, where he hopes to rekindle his relationship with his ex-wife.
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Series
Language
English
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Some say the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king, and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. So how can Sam and Remi Fargo resist? Clues and whispers lead them on a hunt from the Solomons to Australia to Japan, and what they find at the end...
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Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
Author
Series
I survived volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old George Calder can't believe his luck -- he and his little sister, Phoebe, are on the famous Titanic, crossing the ocean with their Aunt Daisy. The ship is full of exciting places to explore, but when George ventures into the first class storage cabin, a terrible boom shakes the entire boat. Suddenly, water is everywhere, and George's life changes forever. Lauren Tarshis brings history's most exciting and terrifying events to life in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : ill. (some col.), col. map ; 22 x 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides answers to many questions about the Titanic, including how big the Titanic was, what it was like to travel in first class, how the Titanic sank, where the Titanic is now, and more.
Author
Series
Lake Erie Quadrangle shipwreck volume 2
Publisher
Erie County Historical Society & Museums
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
xvii, 181 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Joy Candellaro used to love Christmas more than any other time of the year. Now, recently divorced and estranged from her sister, she can't summon the old enthusiasm for celebrating. So without telling anyone, she buys a ticket and boards a plane bound for the rural Northwest. Yet Joy's best-laid plans go terribly awry. The plane crashes deep in the darkness of a forest. Amid the towering trees, Joy makes a bold and desperate decision to leave her...
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Language
English
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Recounts the ill-fated nineteenth-century naval expedition to the North Pole under the leadership of George Washington De Long that resulted in the sinking of the USS Jeannette and the crew's epic struggle for survival in the harsh and unforgiving Arctic environment.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs, NR, (approximately 300 mins. or 5 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + no index guide.
Language
English
Description
Survivor interviews, photos, newsreel footage, and personal written accounts document the journey of the Titanic from inception and building to the discovery of the wreckage in 1985 by Robert Ballard; John Chatterton and Richie Kohler from "Deep sea detectives" discover new evidence at the shipwreck site that points to the possibility that a design flaw sank the Titanic.
17) Shipwrecks
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Raintree
Pub. Date
c2013
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. ; ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Shipwrecks examines the hunt for shipwrecks and the valuable treasures they hold, whether that be gold and jewels, or important artifacts that offer us a window on to the past. Part of the Treasure Hunters series, "Shipwrecks" offers a cross curricular mix of science & technology and history, with a fun, dramatic approach. "Shipwrecks" covered in the book include the Tudor Warship the Mary Rose, the Spanish Galleon La Nuestra Senora de Atocha, American...
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Language
English
Description
"When her fiance's private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, everyone assumes Allison Carpenter is dead. But Maggie, Allison's mother back home in Owl Creek, Maine, refuses to believe them. Maggie knows her daughter--or she used to, anyway. For the past two years, the two women have been estranged, and while Maggie doesn't know anything about Ally's life now--not even why she was on a private plane to begin with--she still believes in her girl's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
