02558cim a2200421 i 4500 1034322612 TxAuBib 20231107120000.0 d 230623s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9798212562669 Blackstone Library CD 9798212562676 Blackstone Retail CD (OCoLC)1396543514 TxAuBib rda Helprin, Mark, author. The oceans and the stars [Audio CD] : a sea story, a war story, a love story / Mark Helprin. Unabridged. [Ashland, Oregon] : Blackstone Publishing, [2023] 17 audio discs (21 1/2 hr.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in. spw rdacontent s rdamedia sd rdacarrier Compact discs. Read by Traber Burns. A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype­––Athena, Patrol Coastal 15­­––with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride, and while supervising Athena’s fitting out in New Orleans, encounters a brilliant lawyer, Katy Farrar, with whom he falls in last-chance love. Soon thereafter, he is deployed on a mission that subjects his integrity, morality, and skill to the ultimate test and which ensures that Athena will live forever in the annals of the Navy. As in the Odyssey, Katy is the force that keeps him alive and the beacon that lights the way home through seven battles, mutiny, and court martial. In classic literary form, an enthralling new novel that extolles the virtues of living by the laws of conscience, decency, and sacrifice, The Oceans and the Stars is nothing short of a masterpiece. 20240207. United States Navy Officers Fiction. Warships United States. Women lawyers Fiction. Man-woman relationships Fiction. Fiction. Historical fiction. Audiobooks on CD. Romance fiction. Love stories. Burns, Traber, narrator. BTCLS