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1) The tempest
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Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with discussion questions, role-playing scenarios, and other study activities.
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"A story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The narrative reveals the deeper meaning of theevents on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire"--
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"The lost twin sons of the old merchant Egeon--both named Antipholus--find themselves in Ephesus, without either one even knowing of the other's existence. Meanwhile, Egeon has arrived in search of the son he thinks is still alive--and has been sentenced to death for the "crime" of being from Syracuse. To add to the confusion, the two Antipholuses have twin servants, both named Dromio. As the four men unwittingly encounter each other, the play is...
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After a deadly ship explosion, nine people, adrift in a raft, struggle to survive at sea and pull a strange man from the sea who claims to be the Lord.
Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves and pull him in. The man, strange and quiet, claims to be the Lord. Is the man who he claims to be? What actually caused the...
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On the maiden voyage of the greatest ship ever built, the Titanic, Edwina Winfield was returning from her engagement trip to England with her fiance, her parents and five siblings. In one fatal, unforgettable night, Edwina instantly becomes a woman mourning the loss of the man she loved, and mother to her five brothers and sisters. Her struggles to keep the family together go on for twelve long years, but as each child sets at sail at last, to Hollywood,...
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It was the autumn of 1628, and the Batavia, the Dutch East India Company's flagship, was loaded with a king's ransom in gold, silver, and gems for her maiden voyage to Java. The Batavia was the pride of the Company's fleet, a tangible symbol of the world's richest and most powerful commercial monopoly. She set sail with great fanfare, but the Batavia and her gold would never reach Java, for the Company had also sent along a new employee, Jeronimus...
7) The tempest
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This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
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After being shipwrecked on an island as a little girl, Rosella grows up learning to talk and sing with a family of loving animals: the red panda Sagi, the peacock Azul and the baby elephant Tika. But when Prince Antonio discovers their tropical paradise, curiosity about her past leads Rosella to journey with the prince to his castle. As she and her animal friends explore civilization, they uncover an evil plot to take over the kingdom.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving memoir of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home—now in a special edition for 2022, commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the crash, featuring a new introduction by the author
“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us...
“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us...
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Canaan trilogy volume 1
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What comes after the moment that forever changes your life? This question haunts Julia Bechtel, Noah Prine, and Kim Collela, the only survivors of a terrible boating accident that claims the lives of nine other people off the coast of Maine. Julia, a 40-year-old wife and mother, has always taken the path of least resistance. Feeling strangely connected to Noah, the divorced, brooding lobsterman who helped save her life, Julia begins to explore the...
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In a mythical African land, some shipwrecked and uniquely talented passengers stage a grand gala to entertain themselves and their captor, the great chieftain Talou. In performance after bizarre performance-starring, among others, a zither-playing worm, a marksman who can peel an egg at fifty yards, a railway car that rolls on calves' lungs, and fabulous machines that paint, weave, and compose music-Raymond Roussel demonstrates why it is that André...
16) The bird escaped
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"A first novel by the sister of Rumer Godden, this combines a superb, imagist style with a story of intense interrelationship among the crew of a ship which set sail out of Liverpool in 1941. There was Jackman, the chief cook, and Prince, the steward, both former employees of the Hotel Metropole. And there was also young Sebastian Craik. Craik carries such an intense hatred of Jackman that it influences all his actions, makes him determined to solve...
17) Dead calm
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"Joe and Rae Ingham do the right thing and rescue the half-delirious sole survivor of a crippled schooner. But soon the stranger will plunge the unwary pair into an intense battle of cat and mouse. And life and death."--Container.
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"Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes - a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she leftNew York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her - and her gilded passengers...
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Get swept away in island adventure as you enjoy all 26 episodes ofthis beloved family classic! The only survivors of a violent shipwreck, theRobinsons wash ashore on a strange and fantastic tropical island. Theiradventures lead to amazing discoveries, tantalizing surprises and hiddendangers as they battle pirates, wild animals and Mother Nature at her mostvicious! The whole family will be riveted as the stories of each unforgettableepisode unfold....
20) The isle
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Set in 1846 on a remote island off the west coast of Scotland, a heavy storm causes a merchant ship to sink. The film opens with its three survivors rowing through a think early morning mist, lost and disorientated. The find an island with four sole residents, an old harbor man, a farmer, his niece, and a young mad woman. The people are reluctant to help the sailors back to the mainland. Once rested, the three men are desperate to return home, but...
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