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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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Bloody Jack adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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1120L
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Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates. Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor...
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Captain Caleb Frobisher, hedonistic youngest son of a seafaring dynasty, wants to be taken seriously. Seizing the next leg of the covert mission his brothers are pursuing, he acts decisively and effectively in securing the mission's objectives. But responsibility has taken root, and he remains in the jungle to ensure the mission's ultimate goal. Katherine Fortescue fled a life of poverty and came to Freetown as a governess, only to be kidnapped and...
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Captive series volume 3
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English
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The fragile bonds of newfound love between a sea captain and a defiant stowaway create stormy passions, hidden dangers and treachery.
6) Lord Jim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 24
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1040L
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This compact novel, completed in 1900, as with so many of the great novels of the time, is at its baseline a book of the sea. An English boy in a simple town has dreams bigger than the outdoors and embarks at an early age into the sailor's life. The waters he travels reward him with the ability to explore the human spirit, while Joseph Conrad launches the story into both an exercise of his technical prowess and a delicately crafted picture of a character...
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Canaan trilogy volume 01
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Forty-year-old Julia Bechtel, unambitious and vaguely unhappy in her marriage, finds herself restless after surviving a boating accident off the coast of Maine that kills nine people, and strangely connected to the other survivors: a divorced lobsterman and a young woman made mute by the trauma.
8) The siren
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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680L
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"'You must never do anything that might expose our secret. This means that, in general, you cannot form close bonds with humans. You can speak to us, and you can always commune with the Ocean, but you are deadly to humans. You are, essentially, a weapon. A very beautiful weapon. I won't lie to you, it can be a lonely existence, but once you are done, you get to live. All you have to give, for now, is obedience and time. . .' The same speech has been...
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Widely known as the lord of the privateers, Royd Frobisher expects to execute the final stage of the rescue mission his brothers have begun. What he does not expect is to be pressured into taking Isobel Carmichael - his childhood sweetheart, former handfasted bride and current business partner - with him. A force of nature, Isobel has a mission of her own: to find and bring a young cousin safely home. And along the way, she hopes to rid herself of...
10) A curse of gold
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Touch of gold volume 2
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2020.
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English
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When Dionysus issues a challenge to destroy Kora and her kingdom, the princess with the golden touch sets out to find the tricky god and confront him on the mysterious disappearing island of Jipper.
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Mr. Midshipman Easy (1836) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author's experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Mr. Midshipman Easy is a tale of bravery, foolishness, and the manifold reasons for men to take to the high seas. Frequently funny, often profound, Marryat's novel is an underappreciated classic of nineteenth century fiction that has been adapted twice for British cinema.
"'Then, father, all I have to say is, that I swear...
13) Piazza tales
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The Piazza Tales (1856) is a collection of short stories by American writer Herman Melville. Before publication, five of its six stories appeared in Putnam's Monthly during a period of productivity with which Melville sought to achieve popular success as a writer of literary fiction. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work, and contemporary...
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Wharf by the Docks" (A Novel) by Florence Warden. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature....
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The Riddle of the Sands is a 1903 novel by Erskine Childers. The book, which enjoyed immense popularity in the years before World War I, is an early example of the espionage novel and was extremely influential in the genre of spy fiction. It has been made into feature-length films for both cinema and television. The novel "owes a lot to the wonderful adventure novels of writers like Rider Haggard, that were a staple of Victorian Britain". It was a...
17) Captive embraces
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Captive series volume 2
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English
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Proud and beautiful Sirena Cordez once commanded her own ship, battling pirates to avenge her sister's brutal death. But Sirena's life as the Sea Siren ends when she meets Regan van der Rys. Handsome, ruthless, and as fearless as she, Regan is the only man who can possess her, body and soul.
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The Toilers of the Sea tells of the reclusive Guernsey fisherman Gilliatt, who salvages the engines of a wrecked ship by performing great feats of engineering, matching wits with sea and storm, and doing battle with a great sea monster - all to win the hand of a shipowner's daughter.
19) A single rose
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Shaye Burke struggles to maintain self-control while on a two-week hunt for buried treasure in the Caribbean with Samson and Noah VanBaar, but she ends up finding something more valuable than gold in Noah.
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2023
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Last autumn, Laura's death shocked the Montgomery Family to the core. Her daughter, Isabella, turns to Laura's diaries for comfort. What she finds there-- a story that unfolded between the autumn of 1995 and spring of 1996, intrigues her with things that had never been heard before. Her mother's old employer, Franklin Butler, had threatened Laura to be silent about his criminal activity. Meanwhile, Laura's husband, Steve, has just re-opened his auto...
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