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Adventure stories Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Fiction Lesbians Juvenile fiction Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character) Fiction Pirates Fiction Pirates Juvenile fiction Seafaring life Juvenile fiction South China Sea South China Sea FictionFabey, Michael
Summary: "Out in the Pacific Ocean, there is a war taking place. It is a 'warm war,' a shoving match between the United States, since WWII the uncontested ruler of the seas, and China, which now possesses the world's largest navy. The Chinese regard the Pacific, and especially the South China Sea, as their ocean, and they're ready to defend it. Each day the heat between the two countries increases as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 FABLee, C. B.
Summary: 1826. The legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Xiang has grown up with stories about the Dragon Fleet and its ruthless leader, a woman known only as the Dragon Queen. Desperate to set sail and explore, Xiang mainly wishes to find her father, a crew member of the Dragon Fleet. Her only memento of him is a simple but plain piece of gold jewelry. The pendant's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEELee, C.B.
Summary: "1826: The sun is setting on the golden age of piracy, and the legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more. Its ruthless leader, a woman known as the Head of the Dragon, is now only a story, like the ones Xiang has heard all her life. She desperately wants to prove her worth, especially to her mother, a shrewd businesswoman who never seems to have enough time for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Audiobooks, Call number: YA PA FIC LEEBentley, Don
Summary: Jack Ryan Jr. is in a world of trouble. When a benign surveillance operation takes a deadly turn, Jack finds himself locked in a struggle with an unseen enemy bent on destroying the Campus. The chase leads Jack to the South China Sea where a midair collision between aircraft from rival nations threatens to serve as a flash point for the entire region. As Jack frantically tries to put the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction BentleyChang-Eppig, Rita
Summary: "When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHAO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Captain Jack Aubrey of the Royal Navy and Stephen Maturin, ships surgeon and intelligence agent, return to set sail for the South China Sea on a diplomatic mission intended to prevent links between Bonaparte and the Malay Princes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRO'Brian, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC OBRPoyer, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POYO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin set sail for the South China Sea. At the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang, the stage is set for a duel of intelligence agents, pitting Stephen against the French envoys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1995
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC O'BRHenderson, Bruce B.
Summary: The true story made famous in Werner Herzog's acclaimed film "Rescue Dawn"--the incredible drama of the pilot who overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to lead a mass escape from a POW camp deep in the Laotian jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist War HendersonKahn, Lloyd
Summary: Presents a guide to homemade shelter, featuring images and ideas culled from across the globe, and includes bottle homes in the Nevada desert, tree houses on the South China Sea, and Japanese stilt houses.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shelter Publications 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 690 KAHO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: After surviving a great typhoon in the South China Sea, Captain Jack Aubrey, ship's surgeon Stephen Maturin, and the crew of the HMS Diane attempt to rebuild their ship to leave the small desert island where they have been shipwrecked.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 1991
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRFrench, Howard W.
Summary: For many years after its reform and opening in 1978, China maintained an attitude of false modesty about its ambitions. That role, reports Howard French, has been set aside. China has asserted its place among the global heavyweights, revealing its plans for pan-Asian dominance by building its navy, increasing territorial claims to areas like the South China Sea, and diplomatically bullying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 327 FREZuckerman, Jocelyn C.
Summary: "Jocelyn C. Zuckerman spent years traveling the globe, from Liberia to Indonesia, India to Brazil, reporting on the human and environmental impacts of this poorly understood plant. The result is Planet Palm, a riveting account blending history, science, politics, and food as seen through the people whose lives have been upended by this hidden ingredient. This groundbreaking work of first-rate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The New Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 633.8 ZUCSummary: Some say the Spratly Islands, located right in the middle of the South China Sea, could be the site of the world's next major conflict. Eric Campbell takes us on a dangerous journey through these Islands claimed by no fewer than six countries, all fighting over the undersea oil fields.
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2014
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Pomfret, John
Summary: "From the clipper ships that ventured to Canton hauling cargos of American ginseng to swap for Chinese tea to the US warships facing off against China's growing navy in the South China Sea, from the Yankee missionaries who brought Christianity and education to China to the Chinese who built the American West, the United States and China have always been dramatically intertwined. For more than...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 327.7305 POMDu Sautoy, Marcus
Summary: "Do you know where you should always move first in Tic Tac Toe? Understand the betting cube in backgammon? Want to know the best property in Monopoly? Did you know that the African game Mancala might have led one of its players to make an early approximation of the number pi? Or that the nigh-magical Golden Ratio can help you win at Rock Paper Scissors? Around the World in Eighty Games is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2023
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Summary: Stories that take us from the slums of Colombia to the streets of Tehran; from New York City to Iowa; from a tiny fishing village in Australia to a foundering vessel in the South China Sea--while taking us to the heart of what is means to be human.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LEGerhardt, Christina
Summary: "Low-lying island nations are least responsible for global warming, but they are already suffering its impacts severely and disproportionately. According to the International Panel on Climate Change, island nations are responsible for 0.03% of global emissions. A weave of essays, maps, poems and illustrations, Sea Change presents the impacts of and solutions to sea level rise. An essay, drawing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 304.2 GERStone, David
Summary: An assassination attempt on the rainy streets of Venice sets CIA agent Micah Dalton on a collision course with a vengeful Serbian warlord as he tries to uncover the links between an act of brutal piracy in the South China Sea, a missing CIA agent, and the real nature of an elusive hospital ship known only as The Orpheus.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STOSummary: When a Russian bomber crashes in the South China Sea, the covert special-ops soldiers of Section Twenty are reunited and sent on a mission to investigate and pursue the valuable stolen contents of the downed Russian jet across Southeast Asia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV STREbensperger, Gabriel
Summary: "A child who feels like an outsider in a world that's set against him. A boy who sings on the playground instead of playing soccer, who likes Barbies, and whose secretly favorite car is the one called Tutti Frutti. Gabriel Ebensperger shares with us his struggles with his own inadequacy, his feelings of guilt, and above all, his fear that his "difference" will be discovered. The vibrant bright...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Street Noise Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 EBENSPERGER, GABRIEL EBEKonstam, Angus.
Summary: The History of Pirates traces piracy from the seas of antiquity to the New World and beyond. Piracy flourished in the early eighteenth century, even Julius Caesar was captured by pirates-and it still exists today; boats sailing through the South China Sea are regulary attacked by modern-day buccaneers. Detailed maps bear vivd testimony to the far-ranging exploits of these capricious, sometimes...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 KONCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 910.45 KONHobbs, Roger
Summary: "It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a bag of uncut sapphires worth millions. But when one of them stumbles across an enormous treasure that wasn't on the manifest, everything goes sideways. Within minutes the other two are dead, leaving this coldblooded psychopath to claim both the sapphires and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015