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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire"--
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower...
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An annihilation force of invading aliens. Human civilization on the brink of extinction. Earth's only hope-seven cadets and the legendary starship they were never meant to command. No matter the cost, they will stop at nothing to survive. No matter the odds, they will fight to save their future. The distant future. Earth's Alliance forces have emerged victorious from a brutal nine-year war with the mysterious Kastazi-a vicious, highly advanced alien...
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The captain of the HMS Bounty, William Bligh, was a competent seaman, but a harsh disciplinarian. This prompts his crew to mutiny, setting him adrift in the South Pacific. The crew returns to the tropical paradise of Tahiti, while Bligh survives an astounding journey back to England. This novel is based on the incredible true story.
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It is 1797 and Thomas Kydd is now master's mate on Achilles. Kydd sails for England, but his joy at returning home is soon forgotten when he finds himself at the centre of one of the most extraordinary events in English history- the Mutiny at the Nore. Ten thousand men and scores of ships hold the country to ransom. Kydd is faced with a terrible choice. Abandon his friends and shipmates? Or join the rebellion?
7) Being Clem
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Finding Langston volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When nine-year-old Clem's father dies in the Port Chicago Disaster he is forced to navigate his family's losses and struggles in 1940's Chicago.
1944. Clem's father is away, serving as a sailor in World War II. When the family receives news that his father has died in the infamous Port Chicago explosion in San Francisco, everything begins to fall apart. Clem's mother is forced to work long, tough hours as a maid for a wealthy white family. The obstacles...
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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[2021]
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When they are separated at sea, mouse siblings Clarice and Charles Sebastian, who were taught to be careful, must now need to be bold if they are to survive--and keep their promise to find one another again.
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Mississippi Valley volume 1
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English
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"Mark Lafitte, leader of a bumbled mutiny aboard a merchant ship lost in the Gulf of Mexico, is convinced that he is a dead man when he is marooned for his sins on the swampy wilderness shore of the French Louisiana Colony. That prediction nearly comes true multiple times during his years of slavery to an isolated Indian tribe, but somehow he survives. Eventually French traders rescue him and lead him back to a dangerous little settlement along the...
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Focus on the Family
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2008, 2002.
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English
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Good-natured Billy Budd is forced into service on a British man of war on its way to fight the French. One of Billy's shipmates is appalled at Billy's innocence and the stage is set for a conspiracy, murder and a question of justice.
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Roaring Brook Press
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2013.
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IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
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GraphicAudio
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[2009]
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English
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Disgraced after being expelled from the military academy, Kylara Vatta goes home to face her family. Given one last chance to redeem herself, she is sent on a mission to take an old Vatta Transport ship to the scrap yard. However, this mundane assignment turns into the mission from hell.
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Vatta's war volume 1
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GraphicAudio
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[2009]
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English
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Disgraced after being expelled from the military academy, Kylara Vatta goes home to face her family. Given one last chance to redeem herself, she is sent on a mission to take an old Vatta Transport ship to the scrap yard. However, this mundane assignment turns into the mission from hell.
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Forge
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2008.
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English
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" ... The inspiration for that novel came from an obscure report by a US naval officer of a mutiny aboard a Soviet warship in the Baltic Sea. The Hunt for Red October actually happened, and Boris Gindin lived through every minute of it ... It was the fall of 1975, and the tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States were climbing. It seemed the two nations were headed for thermonuclear war, and it was that fear that caused most of the crewman...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
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2002.
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English
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Following their mother's death in Nantucket, Captain Goodspeed brings twelve-year-old Patience and six-year-old Tad aboard his whaling ship, where a new crew member incites a mutiny and Patience puts her mathematical ability to good use.
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