To observe the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic on April 15, 2012, the DALNET consortium has created a new digital project called "Titanic, 100 years: 1912-2012." The project features contemporary 1912 news accounts of the disaster from newspapers around the world and is open access to anyone that would like to use it. Click the link below to view this resource.
http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/titanic/
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The watch that ends the night: voices from the Titanic (Allan Wolf) - FICTION WOLF: Recreates the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, a beautiful young Lebanese refugee finding first love, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Captain Smith, and others including the iceberg itself. Check Availability |
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Fateful (Claudia Gray) - YA FICTION GRAY: When seventeen-year-old Tess Davies, a ladies' maid, meets handsome Alec Marlow aboard the RMS Titanic, she quickly becomes entangled in the dark secrets of his past, but her growing love puts her in mortal peril even before fate steps in. Check Availability |
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Titanic Sinks! (Barry Denenberg) - J 910.9163 DENENBERG: Presents the true story of the building and launching of the Titanic and offers a "you are there" feeling when the steamship struck an iceberg and sank on her maiden voyage. Check Availability |
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The Sinking of the Titanic (Matt Doeden) -YA GRAPHIC DOEDEN: Heathcliff and Catherine love each other passionately, even obsessively, but class differences and their own jealous natures keep them apart. Check Availability |
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| Lost Voices from the Titanic: The Definitive Oral History (Nick Barratt) - 910.9163 BARRATT:
In narrating the definitive history of the famous ship, Barratt draws from never before seen archive material and eyewitness accounts by participants at every stage of the Titanic’s life. These long-lost voices bring new life to those heartbreaking moments on the fateful Sunday night when families were torn apart and the legend of the Titanic was cemented in our collective imagination. Check Availability |
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The Last Days of the Titanic: Photographs and Moments of the Tragic Maiden Voyage (Edward Eugene O'Donnell) - OVERSIZE 910.9163 ODONNELL: In the same year (1985) that the wreck of the "Titanic" was found in the North Atlantic, a cache of photographs, including images of the "Titanic's" voyage, was uncovered in a Dublin basement by Irish Jesuit archivist O'Donnell. All the product of a single photographer, Francis ("Father") Browne, this collection contains the sole visual chronicle of the "Titanic's" passage from Southampton to Ireland (where Browne disembarked), and then to its doom at the bottom of the Atlantic. Check Availability |
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On Board the Titanic: What It Was Like When the Great Liner Sank (Shelley Tanaka) - J 910.9163 TANAKA: Seventeen-year-old Jack Thayer explores the Titanic and forms a brief friendship with another passenger before experiencing the wreck of the giant ocean liner. Check Availability |
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Titanic Survivor : The Newly Discovered Memoirs of Violet Jessop Who Survived Both the Titanic and Britannic Disasters (Violet Jessup) - 910.9163 JESSUP: A unique autobiography for those who want to know how it really felt, a story that could be told only by a Titanic Survivor. Check Availability |
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Robert Ballard : Oceanographer Who Discovered the Titanic(Christine M. Hill) - J BIOGRAPHY BALLARD: A biography which covers the life and professional work of the man whose numerous missions to study the ocean floor led to the discovery of the wreck of the Titanic. Check Availability |
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Building the Titanic : An Epic Tale of the Creation of History's Most Famous Ocean Liner (Rod Green) - OVERSIZE 623.8243: The sinking of the Titanic is one of the most tragic events in seafaring history, but its construction remains one of the greatest achievements of human engineering. Here is the first detailed account of the creation of this "grand hotel of the high seas"-the amazing story of how the ship was designed and constructed, and why, nearly 100 years later, its legend continues to fascinate us. Check Availability |