The Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel

The Voyage of the Narwhal: A Novel

Author: Andrea Barrett

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1999-09-17

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0393319504

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In 1885 Erasmus Darwin Wells embarks an expedition to the Arctic to search for the explorer, John Franklin. Erasmus' fears of failure seem to be realized when the voyage threatens to turn violent.


Servants of the Map: Stories

Servants of the Map: Stories

Author: Andrea Barrett

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2003-02-17

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 0393323579

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Spanning two centuries, an intricately woven collection of stories and novellas journeys across landscapes of yearning, awakening, loss, and unexpected discovery as the lives of extraordinary characters unfold in a borderland between science and passion.


Oceanology

Oceanology

Author: Emily Hawkins

Publisher: Candlewick Press

Published: 2009-08-25

Total Pages: 30

ISBN-13: 0763642908

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Purports to be the journal of Zoticus de Lesseps, written on an ill-fated 1863 voyage accompanying Captain Nemo to explore the mysteries of the deep sea.


Lucid Stars

Lucid Stars

Author: Andrea Barrett

Publisher: Delta

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 342

ISBN-13:

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From the 1996 National Book Award-winning author of "Ship Fever and Other Stories". What begins as a classic boy-meets-girl tale in 1955 becomes something far different when marriage and two children do not bring a family closer together. "Lucid Stars" is the moving story of how one family learns to survive by becoming a planetary system that just happens to be missing its sun.


Middle Kingdom

Middle Kingdom

Author: Andrea Barrett

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1992-03

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 0671729616

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Barrett's two previous novels won her comparisons to Gail Godwin and Anne Tyler. The Middle Kingdom--now available in trade paper--is the story of a dutiful wife in an unhappy marriage who accompanies her husband on a business trip to China. But once there she falls out of love with her husband and into love with the country and its culture.


Secret Harmonies

Secret Harmonies

Author: Andrea Barrett

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 1991-03

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 0671731378

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When childhood sweethearts Reba Dwyer and Luke Wyatt marry, they expect no surprises. But now that Luke is her husband, discord enters their lives. Secret Harmonies is utterly absorbing, moving story of what happens to this couple.


The Forms of Water

The Forms of Water

Author: Andrea Barrett

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 16

ISBN-13: 0007114915

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At the age of 80, Brendan Auberon has one wish: to see his 200 acres of wooded ridge overlooking what was Paradise Valley before the villages were drowned to provide water for Boston. When he tricks his nephew into highjacking the nursing home van and taking him there, Brendan's family thinks he's been kidnapped.


Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All

Author: Christina Thompson

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2009-07-14

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 1596911271

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"A multilayered, highly informative and insightful book that blends memoir, historical and travel narrative-vivid and meticulously researched."--San Francisco Chronicle


Ship Fever

Ship Fever

Author: Andrea Barrett

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 1996-11-17

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 0393316009

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1996 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.