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Herman Melville
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Summary: First published in 1851, this realistic account of a whaling voyage, drawing on Melville's own experience as a merchant seaman, contains within a symbolic account of the conflict between man and his...
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Herman Melville
Summary: A nineteenth-century tale of life aboard a New England whaling ship whose captain is obsessed with the pursuit of a large white whale.
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Herman Melville
(484,116)
Summary: The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they...
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Janice Clark
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Summary: a-- The OdysseyMoby Dick, The Rathbones is an ambitious, mythic, and courageous tour de force that marks the debut of a dazzling new literary voice.
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Herman Melville
(484,093)
Summary: Captain Ahab maniacally hunts the great white whale across the seven oceans.
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Call #: CD BOOK F MELVILLE
Location: Adult CD Books Fiction
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Summary: A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are...
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Kenneth Oppel
(63)
Summary: Peg, a big strapping seven-year-old lass who has caught everything else in the sea, joins the crew of the whaling ship Viper and sets out to catch herself a whale.
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Call #: E OPPEL
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Ian McGuire
(24,725)
Summary: The Volunteer, a nineteenth-century Yorkshire whaling ship, becomes the stage for a confrontation between brutal harpooner Henry Drax and ex-army surgeon Patrick Sumner, the ship's medic, during a violent, ill-fated voyage to the Arctic.
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Call #: F MCGUIRE
Location: Adult Fiction
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Chris Ould
Series:
Faroes Series - #2
(488)
Summary: "When a group of international activists arrive on the Faroe Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensions between islanders and protesters run high. And when a woman is found...
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Call #: F OULD
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David Poyer
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Summary: After a tragic accident maims her laboratory assistant, Dr. Sara Pollard's career as a primate behaviorist lies in ruins. With nothing left to lose, Pollard, descendant of a Nantucket captain whose...
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Call #: F POYER
Location: Adult Fiction
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Herman Melville
(804)
Summary: "A masterful adaptation of the timeless literary classic, faithfully and beautifully rendered by an award-winning artist. In striking black-and-white illustrations, Chaboute retells the story of the...
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Call #: GRAPHIC NOVEL MEL
Location: YA Graphic Novels
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Herman Melville
(410)
Summary: An abridged retelling of the adventures of a young seaman when he joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Call #: J F MELVILLE
Location: Juvenile Fiction
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Herman Melville
(66)
Summary: A young seaman joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod, led by the fanatical Captain Ahab in pursuit of the white whale Moby Dick.
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Call #: J F MELVILLE
Location: Juvenile Fiction
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Margi Preus
Series:
Heart Of A Samurai Series
(6,725)
Summary: In 1841, rescued by an American whaler after a terrible shipwreck leaves him and his four companions castaways on a remote island, fourteen-year-old Manjiro, who dreams of becoming a samurai, learns...
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Call #: J F PREUS
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