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Dr. Peter Blood is arrested and sentenced to hang for treating a wounded rebel. Instead of death, he is sent to Barbados as a slave. When the Spanish attack the port city of Bridgetown, he and his fellow slaves capture the Spanish ship and set out to sea, where he becomes the notorious pirate, Captain Blood.
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Jane Marple murder mysteries volume 14
Miss Marple mystery volume 14
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 14
Miss Marple mystery volume 10
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Miss Marple mystery volume 14
Jane Marple murder mystery volume 14
Miss Marple mystery volume 10
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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Miss Marple, enjoying a well-earned rest on the Caribbean Island of St. Honore, far from her busy life in the village of St. Mary Mead, meets Major Palgrave. He tells her the strange story of a suspected double murderer. Just as Major Palgrave is about to show the murderer's picture to her, he looks over her shoulder, appears startled, and changes the subject. The next morning, a servant finds him dead in his room. As rumors begin to circulate, Miss...
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It is two years since Thomas Paine Kydd was spirited away in the night to serve his country aboard the old line-of-battle ship "Duke William." Now, together with his high-born friend Nicholas Renzi and other crew members from the ill-fated Artemis, Tom is a shipwrecked sailor back in the land of his birth.
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A night of desire, a lifetime of passion?
Ally Sloan's flattered when a gorgeous stranger seeks her out. Single again, after years in a loveless marriage, a heady night of desire is just what she needs to boost her confidence and remind her that life can be passionate. Off to the Bahamas the following day, Ally tells herself she's relieved not to be seeing Raul again-she is older than he is, after all! But more than one surprise awaits her in the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed.
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Ethan Gage adventures volume 5
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While in the Caribbean, swashbuckling hero Ethan Gage and his new wife, Astiza, embark on a desperate search to find the lost treasure of Montezuma, which plunges them into the center of a bloody slave revolt.
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Luz had nightheat, the sensuous quality in a woman that makes men ache with desire. Nick loved and lusted for her the first time he saw her. But, what he didn't know was that Luz had secrets-that beneath the glamour and sex appeal was a woman determined to turn her back on wealth and challenge a corrupt political system. Even if doing so meant her life.
Nick started out dirt poor-as a child, he survived the war-torn frozen hell of the siege of Leningrad...
10) Saving grace
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Katie Connell is a high-strung attorney whose sloppy drinking habits and stunted love life collide hilariously in a doomed celebrity case in Dallas. When she flees Texas for the Caribbean, Katie escapes professional humiliation, a broken heart, and a wicked Bloody Mary habit, but she trades one set of problems for another when she begins to investigate the suspicious deaths of her parents on the island of St. Marcos. She's bewitched by the voodoo...
11) Still Summer
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Twenty years after a shared childhood marked by their considerable popularity, Tracy, Olivia, and Holly reunite on a luxury Caribbean cruise during which a chance mistake triggers a series of devastating events that puts their survival in jeopardy.
12) Dead man's walk
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The island couldn't be more charming with its stretches of white beaches, crystalline lagoons, and exotic bikini-clad beauties. But with three dead bodies and a voodoo priest, I had a hard time concentrating on sightseeing. It seemed superstitious to me, since nobody could solve the puzzling cause of their deaths. So with the assistance of my own lovely native doll, I had my work cut out for me-and that was simply managing to evade the long voodoo...
13) Bay of souls
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Becoming involved with new faculty member Lara, who claims to be possessed, professor Michael Ahern journeys to Lara's native island of St. Trinity, where he is enmeshed in a smuggling scheme.
15) Escapade
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When her father dies, heiress Amanda Todd inherits a nearly bankrupt newspaper that she's determined to bring back from the dead. But controlling interest lies with mysterious millionaire Joshua Lawson, a man even more stubborn than he is handsome. So she heads off to Josh's Caribbean estate to show him how she can save the failing business. Sparks fly as Amanda and Josh butt heads; she's never been so attracted to any man before, let alone one whose...
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Two couples intersect in unexpectedly passionate and volatile ways during a luxurious week-long Caribbean vacation, including Dorothy and George, who are taking a first journey abroad together after fifty years of marriage, and Jan and Annemieke, whose union is coming to an end due to illness and incompatibility.
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A shipboard romance and mystery starring Elaine Zimmerman, a bored divorcee. On the boat she discovers someone is planning to murder one of the friends taking the cruise with her and she unmasks the killer. In the process she finds love with fellow passenger Sam Peck, rich, handsome and sophisticated.
18) Deceived
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"Bold, earthy sensuality..."
—Library Journal
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Golden-haired Aurora Kimberly possesses only one passion—to live a simple life on the lush island paradise bequeathed to her family by the English Crown. Now her peace is about to be threatened by the appearance of Valerian Hawkesworth, Duke of Farminster, who has arrived to claim his own prize—an heiress promised to him in a marriage contract....
—Library Journal
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Golden-haired Aurora Kimberly possesses only one passion—to live a simple life on the lush island paradise bequeathed to her family by the English Crown. Now her peace is about to be threatened by the appearance of Valerian Hawkesworth, Duke of Farminster, who has arrived to claim his own prize—an heiress promised to him in a marriage contract....
19) Diver's paradise
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"After 25 years on the job, Detective Roscoe Conklin trades his badge for a pair of shorts and sandals and moves to Bonaire, a small island nestled in the southern Caribbean. But the warm water, palm trees, and sunsets are derailed when his long-time police-buddy and friend back home is murdered. Conklin dusts off a few markers and calls his old department, trolling for information. It's slow going, but no surprise there; after all, it's an active...
20) Windward passage
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In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly- completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to unravel a mystery that rapidly widens from death at sea...
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