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1) Moby Dick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Retells the story of the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him
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English
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The story of the ill-fated voyage of a whaling ship led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in search of the white whale that had crippled him.
AA masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick...
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English
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Married for twenty years to Edward Berry, Lyddie is used to the trials of being a whaler's wife in the Cape Cod village of Satucket, Massachusetts-running their house herself during her husband's long absences at sea, living with the daily uncertainty that Edward will simply not return. And when her worst fear is realized, she finds herself doubly cursed. She is overwhelmed by grief, and her property and rights are now legally in the hands of her...
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English
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Following an incident with an escaped tiger, nineteenth-century London street urchin Jaffy Brown goes to work for Mr. Charles Jamrach, the famed importer of exotic animals, alongside Tim, a good but sometimes spitefully competitive boy. Mr. Jamrach recruits the two boys to capture a fabled dragon during the course of a three-year whaling expedition to the Dutch East Indies. They succeed in catching the reptilian beast, but when the ship's whaling...
7) Water sky
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A boy who goes to Barrow, Alaska, to live with friends of his father for awhile learns the importance of whaling to the Eskimo culture
Author
Series
Thomas Martindale mystery volume 2
Publisher
Sunstone Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
10) The killing bay
Author
Series
Faroes volume 2
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When a group of international activists arrive on the FaroeIslands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensionsbetween islanders and protestors run high. And when awoman is found viciously murdered only hours after a violentconfrontation, the circumstances seem purposely designed toincrease animosity between the two sides. As English DI Jan Reyna and local detective Hjalti Hentzeinvestigate, it becomes increasingly...
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