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Summary: In 1940, the merchant ship Glencairn rolls and shivers in the black North Atlantic. On board, her anxious crewmen search the sky for German planes and hope they'll survive "The long voyage home."

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LON

Patrick, Denise Lewis

Summary: "What do you know about the sinking of the Titanic? What if you lived in a different time and place? What would you wear? What would you eat? How would your daily life be different? Scholastic's If You Lived... series answers all of kids' most important questions about events in American history. With a question and answer format, kid-friendly artwork, and engaging information, this series is...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic 2023

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 PAT

Lantos, Jeff

Summary: "Follow two storylines-one about the scientific discoveries that led to the creation of radar, the other about people stranded on a raft in WWII-that come together when radar finds the raft"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2024

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.54 LAN

Petersen, Kim.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Behler Publications 2010

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 797.1091 PET

Winchester, Simon.

Summary: Blending history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, science and exposition, the author of Krakatoa tells the breathtaking saga of the magnificent Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution. Until a thousand years ago, no humans ventured into the Atlantic or imagined traversing its vast infinity. But once the first daring mariners successfully...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2010

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Haywood, John

Summary: This work is a comprehensive cultural history of the Atlantic Ocean before Columbus, tracing its development from geological formation and the rise of early humans to the advancements in shipbuilding, navigation, and maritime exploration. It delves into the origins of the transatlantic slave trade and the early stages of European imperialism, offering a broad overview of the forces shaping this...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books

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Winchester, Simon.

Summary: Winchester blends history and anecdote, geography and reminiscence, and science and exposition, to relate the saga of the Atlantic Ocean, setting it against the backdrop of mankind's intellectual evolution.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Audio 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 551.46 WIN

Pipe, Jim

Summary: In the form of a diary of a passenger, describes the Titanic, including accomodations for first- through third-class passengers, the crew, the inner workings of the ship, her maiden voyage, and the events of the night the doomed ship sank.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Firefly Books 2014

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 PIP

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J910.9 PIP

Sabol, Stephanie

Summary: "For more than 100 years, people have been captivated by the disastrous sinking of the Titanic that claimed over 1,500 lives. Now young readers can find out why the great ship went down and how it was discovered seventy-five years later. At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the Royal Mail Steamer Titanic, the largest passenger steamship of this time, met its catastrophic end after crashing into an...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J 910.9163 SAB

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 SAB

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT World What Sabol

Simon, Nelson

Summary: "Nelson Simon didn't want to sign up as a last-minute crew member to transport a Norwegian schooner from Brooklyn to Bermuda. But one thing led to another, and there he was. He told himself that it would be a sort of pleasure cruise: a week in the Gulf Stream with a gourmet chef on board, some down time on a tropical island, then a quick flight home. What did it matter that he had practically...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SIMON, NELSON SIM

Lester, David

Summary: "Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who dressed as a man and went to sea"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023

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McClure Anastasia, Laura

Summary: "Next set in A TRUE BOOK series. Young readers rediscover the story of the largest and most luxurious ship ever built, The Titanic. Featuring historical imagery, first-hand accounts, and lively text"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 MCC

Son, John

Summary: "Young readers rediscover the story of the largest and most luxurious ship ever built, The Titanic. Featuring historical imagery, first-hand accounts, and text"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2023

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 SON

Burgan, Michael

Summary: "Next set in A TRUE BOOK series. Young readers rediscover the story of the largest and most luxurious ship ever built, The Titanic. Featuring historical imagery, first-hand accounts, and lively text"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic, Inc. 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 910.9163 BUR

Murphy, Brian

Summary: "The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and five lifeboats were lowered. As four lifeboats drifted into the fog and icy water, never to be heard from again, the last boat wrenched away from the sinking ship with a...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 910.9363 MUR

Evans, Siân

Summary: "In an engaging and anecdotal social history, Maiden Voyages explores how women's lives were transformed by the Golden Age of ocean liner travel between Europe and North America. During the early twentieth century, transatlantic travel was the province ofthe great ocean liners. It was an extraordinary undertaking made by many women, whose lives were transformed by their journeys between the Old...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.2 EVA

Fredeen, Charles

Summary: Details the events leading up to and following the sinking of Britain's Lusitania from the perspectives of those involved. Additional features include a bullet-point summary of the events, compelling narrative descriptions, primary source quotes and accompanying source notes, questions to spark critical thinking, sources to guide further research, historical photographs, informative captions, a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: The Child's World 2018

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 940.4 FRE

Lassieur, Allison.

Summary: "Describes the fight for survival during the sinking of the ship Titanic"--Provided by publisher.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press 2012

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LAS

Stewart, Melissa

Summary: Discusses the Titanic, including its design, how the ship sank, the passengers onboard, and why the ship's legacy lives on.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J READ-ALONG STE

Summary: For decades the wreck of the liner RMS Titanic had eluded those seeking to locate her gravesite. Many failed until Dr. Robert Ballard turned a dream into reality in 1985 when he found her remains over 12000 feet beneath the North Atlantic Ocean. Dr. Ballard tells how his missions to two lost submarines from the Cold War helped him find the debris trail of the Titanic that she left across the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV TIT

Noon, Steve.

Summary: Retells the story of the "unsinkable" liner from the start of its maiden voyage to its disastrous death and features twelve beautiful and unique illustrations with cutaway scenes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: DK 2012

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Cook, Julie

Summary: When Titanic foundered in April 1912, the world's focus was on the tragedy of the passengers who lost their lives. Ever since, in films, dramatisations, adaptations and books, the focus has mostly continued to be on the ones who died. The Titanic and the City of Widows it Left Behind focuses on another group of people - the widows and children of the crew who perished on board. Author Julie...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Pen & Sword History 2020

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Franco

Summary: Michael Evans and his paleontologist father have been invited by the mysterious time-traveling Shannon to visit the complex built around an underwater portal to the Jurassic period, but Mike uncovers a plot to steal one of the dinosaurs--and then Shannon and her trouble-making brother Jeff disappear through the portal.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2015

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRA

Johnson, Donald S.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Walker and Co. 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 398.42 JOH

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