While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious...
Sailing
- Author:AviSummary:
- Author:Jensen, CarstenSummary:
In 1848, Danish sailors set sail to fight Germans. Not all return, and those who do will never be the same, including daredevil Laurids Madsen, who escapes again to the seas. Here also is the story of a Danish town, whose inhabitants...
- Author:Fagan, CarySummary:
One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. An unforgettable middle-grade novel with elements of James and the Giant Peach meets Waterworld and The Road. One morning Rafe wakes up to discover...
- Author:HALL, JennieSummary:
We follow the fortunes of Harald from the time he is given his own thrall at the cutting of his first tooth, through his exploits as a viking adventurer, to his crowning as King of Norway. Then population pressures at home and eagerness...
- Author:Costa, Mélissa DaSummary:
« Petitesannonces.fr : Jeune homme de 26 ans, condamné par un Alzheimer précoce, souhaite prendre le large pour un ultime voyage. Recherche compagnon(ne) d'aventure pour partager avec moi ce dernier périple. »Émile n'a...
- Author:Ramsay, HopeSummary:
Jenna Fossey's life is about to change. An unexpected inheritance and the chance to meet relatives she never knew existed has her heading to the charming little town of Magnolia Harbor. But as soon as she arrives, long-buried...
- Author:Cameron, JuneSummary:
Buying Saffron, a 24-foot racing sailboat, was an act of desperation meant to help single parent June Cameron and her youngest son validate themselves. It did that and more. A friend persuaded June to race the boat, and over the next...
- Author:Saint-Onge, Danielle, Szpirglas, JeffSummary:
In this partially-illustrated early chapter book, a young girl who is fascinated by sharks gets a chance to see one in real life while taking sailing lessons.
- Author:Harvey, Brian J.Summary:
An adventure story set against the backdrop of a son trying to understand his father. After a 25-year break from boating, Brian Harvey circumnavigates Vancouver Island with his wife, his dog, and a box of documents that surfaced after...
- Author:Kenyon, LindaSummary:
After her marriage of 25 years ended badly, Linda Kenyon was determined to never put herself in the way of a broken heart again. But then she met an extraordinary man, and in an act of great courage -- or foolishness -- decided to sell...
- Author:Wehm, DarushaSummary:
Tropical adventures. A rag-tag sailing crew. Running off-grid data servers? Sounds legit. Devi Jones is an intern for Really Remote Desktop, a cloud data storage company that keeps their servers in odd places, like the bilge of a...
- Author:McKinney, SamSummary:
One man retraces the ancient voyages of Captain Vancouver alone in his sailboat in this updated edition of a classic travelogue. As Sam McKinney retraced the explorations of Captain George Vancouver and his men from Puget Sound to Queen...
- Author:Martin, FinleySummary:
Not all dreams have happy endings. Sailing in Circles, Goin' Somewhere is the funny, bittersweet memoir of a Prince Edward Island man who, over seven years, builds a classic 1930s wooden sailboat and, in 2004, attempts to...
- Author:Madsen, CindiSummary:
Josh tells himself he's the luckiest guy in the world. Living on his sailboat and taking tourists on occasional chartered trips, he's not tied down to routines and responsibilities. He even named his sailboat Solitude, because that's...
- Author:Oppenheim, Shulamith LeveySummary:
One day, a boy named Theo is called into the living room by his parents to meet "the most famous man alive." When Theo and Professor Einstein go out for a sail on Theo's small boat, the Professor unexpectedly loses his compass overboard...
- Author:Choyce, LesleySummary:
Greg is an avid sailor. On a solo trip off the rugged coast, he stumbles upon a family of desperate refugees stranded in a lifeboat. The family convinces Greg to help them, and keep their existence secret. When his plan begins to...
- Author:Tullson, DianeSummary:
Fourteen-year-old Libby didn't want to go on a year long sailing adventure with her mother and her stepfather, Duncan, and she isn't about to let them forget it. Traveling through the Red Sea, Libby causes them to be late and make a...
- Author:Wehm, DarushaSummary:
Tropical adventures. A rag-tag sailing crew. Running off-grid data servers? Sounds legit. Devi Jones is a year away from graduating with a Computer Science degree and it's internship time. But usually the ship part isn’t quite so...
- Author:Strutt, LesleySummary:
On the Edge tells the story of Emerald Lake Visser, an unhappy fourteen-year-old who came to live on her aunt and uncle's farm when she was orphaned at age five. A misfit in her community and at school, her only real friend is an...
- Author:Coulter Sanford, JanetSummary:
In 1960, Roy Boutilier and twenty-five fellow Nova Scotians set sail for Tahiti aboard the newly built replica sailing ship Bounty. The ship stayed in Tahiti for almost a year while MGM Studios filmed the epic historical drama Mutiny on...