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Author
Publisher
B & H Pub. Group
Description
Life hasn't been easy for Jeanne Bettencourt, a widow approaching thirty and struggling to provide for her eight-year-old daughter. But hope arrives in the form of the Helena Rose, a steamboat she unexpectedly inherits from a distant relative. Jeanne looks forward to a renewed livelihood on the mighty Mississippi, until news comes of another heir, a tough man named Clint Hardin--and a clause in the will that says claimants of the estate must live...
2) Titanic: the story of the great White Star Line trio ; the Olympic, the Titanic and the Britannic
Author
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
1987
3) Seabird
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
1975
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A carved ivory gull is the mascot for four generations of seafarers aboard a whaler, a clipper ship, a steamer, and an airplane.
Author
Publisher
Amber Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
The great era of the steam warship was from the mid-1860s to the mid-1940s-an 80-year period in which a huge variety of large ships was built, ever-greater in size, fire-power, and technical sophistication. Capital ships were the most expensive and destructive weaponry prior to the atomic bomb, and their development can be traced decade by decade.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A village comes to life when a Mississippi River steamboat arrives and unloads its goods. Go back in time to a sleepy Mississippi River town The townfolk of a small village on the banks of the upper Mississippi come vividly alive at the sound of a whistle and the holler of "Ste-e-e-e-eamboat a-comin'!" The incoming vessel is filled with passengers and cargo, and at a rapid speed, things are unloaded and loaded - but before you know it, the village...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2011
Description
Fannie is traveling west to uncover the truth behind a family secret. Samuel is on a mission to atone for past failures that still haunt him. Their meeting aboard a steamboat headed to Montana sparks an unlikely attraction. Will the end of their journey bring the end of their relationship-- or is it just the beginning?
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Marie-Grace can't wait to begin her journey up the Mississippi River with her father. The steamboat they're traveling on is the biggest and fanciest boat Marie-Grace has ever seen. It's crowded with all sorts of interesting passengers, including Wilhelmina Newman, a girl her age. Wilhelmina is traveling alone, and she's carrying a secret in one of her trunks--clues to hidden Gold Rush treasure. Marie-Grace and Wilhelmina have to unravel the clues...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Description
From the Publisher: A gripping, groundbreaking biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism. Founder of a dynasty, builder of the original Grand Central, creator of an impossibly vast fortune, Cornelius "Commodore" Vanderbilt is an American icon. Humbly born on Staten Island during George Washington's presidency, he rose from boatman to builder of the nation's largest fleet of steamships to lord of a railroad...
Publisher
DSSP Inc
Pub. Date
©2003
Description
"The General: Buster Keaton plays Johnny Gray, a Southern train engineer who has his eyes set on the lovely Anabelle Lee (Marion Mack). As war breaks out between the North and the South, Johnny enlists to win Anabelle's heart, and he is made engineer of his own locomotive, The General. When Union spies steal his train and put the life of Annabelle in danger, Johnny takes matters into his own hands. Steamboat Bill Jr.: Set on the banks of the Mississippi...
13) Dead water
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Nineteenth-century New Orleans is a blazing hotbed of scorching politics and personal vendettas. And it's into this fire that Benjamin January falls when he is hired to follow Oliver Weems, a bank official who has absconded with $100,000 in gold and securities. But it's more than just a job for January. The missing money is vital to the survival of the school for freed slaves that he and his wife Rose have founded.
Following the suspected embezzler...
Publisher
Paramount DVD
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's reverend was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on a long difficult journey, without any comfort. Rose grows...
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