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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
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HL 850L
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The most popular pirate story ever written in English, featuring one of literature's most beloved “bad guys,” Treasure Island has been happily devoured by several generations of boys-and girls-and grownups. Its unforgettable characters include: young Jim Hawkins, who finds himself owner of a map to Treasure Island, where the fabled pirate booty is buried; honest Captain Smollett, heroic Dr. Livesey, and the good-hearted but obtuse Squire Trelawney,...
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Captive series volume 4
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Fury van der Rhys, daughter of Sirena, the Sea Siren, who twenty years before had plundered the ships of the Dutch East India Company, sets sail for the coast of Africa to challenge Amalie, a gorgeous creature who shares Fury's love for a dark-eyed Spaniard.
4) Pirate king
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Sent to Lisbon and Morocco, where a British studio is creating a silent film version of "The Pirates of Penzance," Mary Russell investigates a series of crimes targeting the production and confronts a high-stakes situation when actual pirates orchestrate a hostage situation.
6) The reliance
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Convinced his pregnant wife, Charlisse, is dead, Captain Edmund Merrick sails away to drown his sorrows; but Charlisse, believing herself abandoned by her new husband, begins to battle her own insecurities as well as the vengeful pirate who holds her captive.
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"Noah Yates fully believes in the joys of a happy family and a good wife. But that's not the life for him. No, he would much rather sail the wild seas in search of adventure, not tied down. But then the unthinkable happens--he finds himself literally tied down. To a bed. By a woman. And Pilar isn't just an ordinary woman. She's descended from pirates. And after giving him one of the worst nights of his life, she steals his ship! Now Noah is on the...
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Lady Isabel Ashton gave birth to her son Frederick, the product of a pirate's violent attack, and was spurned by family and society. She clings to the hope of marrying a nobleman and returning to her privileged social class, but then her baby is kidnapped. Captain Kent Carlton, determined to win the heart and forgiveness of the woman whose purity he pirated, searches every port for Isabel. Will Kent forsake all his treasure and power for Isabel and...
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"While the Malory and Anderson families set aside longtime rivalries to hunt down a man who has abducted James and Georgina's beloved daughter from her American debutante party, Jack discovers that her captor is an alluring nobleman who would settle an old score against her father."--
10) A pirate's love
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Sailing westward toward the Caribbean sun, young Bettina Verlaine is obediently setting out to fulfill a promise made by her father - a prearranged marriage. But it is a wedding not to be... Abducted by the bold and handsome pirate, the notorious Captain Tristan, the pale-haired beauty finds herself helpless in his arms. Detesting her virile captor for enslaving her, yet held by the passionate spell he casts over her, she surrenders her innocence...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cuttthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease - or a dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those...
12) Pirate Alley
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A luxurious vacation cruise to the exotic locales of the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare for passengers and crew when their ship is suddenly attacked and captured by a band of bloodthirsty Somali pirates. An initial rescue mission ends in failure; the decks are covered in blood. Unless they are paid a ransom of $200 million dollars within seven days, the pirates threaten to execute all their hostages. But information gleaned from...
13) Those in peril
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Hector Cross novels volume 1
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English
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An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.
14) The pirate bride
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"The last time New Orleans attorney Jean-Luc Valmont saw Maribel Cordoba, a Spanish nobleman's daughter, she was an eleven-year-old orphan perched in the riggings of his privateering vessel proving herself as the best lookout on his crew. Until the day his infamy caught up with them all and innocent lives were lost. Unsure why he survived but vowing to make something of the chance he was given, Jean-Luc has buried his past life so deep that no living...
15) Robinson Crusoe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1190L
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Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...
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Richard Allen, having left England and taken up with a group of Caribbean pirates under the false identity of a Frenchman, returns home and falls in love with the married Georgina Malory, and, while trying to woo her at a masked ball, Richard meets Julia Miller, who eventually finds out his true identity but agrees to enter into a charade with him in order to avoid marrying the Earl of Manford's son.
17) Lady pirate
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Valoree, the captain of a rascally band of pirates, has the chance to inherit Ainsley Castle, but only if she is married to a nobleman and pregnant, so the members of her crew decide to help her find the perfect aristocratic husband.
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"How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global...
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Courtney novels volume 13
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Twenty years after his father's execution, Hal pursues his efforts to exact revenge, while trying to secure his fortunes and protect his growing family.
20) Savage vision
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2005.
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"When he rescues Scarlet from the hands of a vicious pirate, the chief of the Texas Cougar Clan finds himself no longer able to resist the seductive charms of this brazen beauty, succumbing to forbidden passion."--
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