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Colin Woodard
They became heroes in the eyes of the people and, in this, their untold story, their glorious Republic lives again. | | |
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Anne Rice
Lestat has risen from his long sleep as a modern day rock star, and makes public his story of boyhood in eighteenth-century France and initiation into ... | | |
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Richard Zacks
Traces the career of buccaneer William Kidd, a New York sea captain hired to chase pirates, from his early voyages through his death on the gallows, and discusses the role played by Robert Culliford, a mutineer, in Kidd's downfall. | | |
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Douglas J. Preston
Every expedition mounted to uncover $2 billion worth of pirate treasure off the coast ofMaine has failed violently, and even modern technology will not protect ... | | |
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Kara Louise
Beginning two days before the double wedding of Darcy and Bingley to the Bennett sisters, a continuation of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" finds Darcy's gift of a copy of the "Kama Sutra" to Bingley causing quite a stir. | | |
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David Cordingly
A revisionist history of the golden age of piracy draws on original archive records to provide a realistic study of pirates and their lives that refutes many of the myths about the era. | | |
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Donald G. Shomette
A DAZZLING ARRAY OF SWASHBUCKLING PIRATES, PICAROONS, AND SEA ROVERS PITTED AGAINST THE OFTEN FECKLESS REPRESENTATIVES OF AN OUTPOST GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY IN THE CHESAPEAKE BAY REGION. | | |
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Michael Crichton
English Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians sail from colonial Jamaica to infiltate a Spanish-controlled port, commandeering the galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle. | | |
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Anne Rice
Follows the three-century life of Lestat, from his boyhood in eighteenth-century France to his contemporary career as rock star and vampire. | | |
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Daniel Defoe
Considered the major source of information about piracy in the early 18th century, this fascinating history by the author of Robinson Crusoe profiles the deeds of Edward (Blackbeard) Teach, Captain Kidd, Anne Bonny, others. | | |
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Laurie R. King
Sent to Lisbon and Morocco, where a British movie studio is filming a remake of The Pirates of Penzance, Mary Russell investigates a series of crimes targeting the production and confronts a high-stakes situation when actual pirates ... | | |
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Richard Sanders
" As he explodes many accepted myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier. 16 pp. of photos. Maps. From the Hardcover edition. | | |
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Richard Zacks
Describes the 1805 secret mission, reluctantly sanctioned by Thomas Jefferson and led by William Eaton, to stop the Barbary pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, revealing how a ragtag group of men, aided by a band of ... | | |
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Arthur Koestler
A first paperback edition of the seminal work of twentieth-century literature is a sobering portrait of totalitarianism that follows the harrowing experiences ... | | |
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Bram Stoker
The story of English solicitor Jonathan Harker and his strange new client, Transylvanian aristocrat Count Dracula, this is the classic work of Victorian gothic ... | | |
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George Choundas
An entertaining and comprehensive guide to pirate language explores the uniquevernacular of English-speaking pirates in a reference that includes information ... | | |
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Helen Hollick
... Acorne gives Johnny Depp's Jack Sparrow a run for his money" Sharon Penman "
Sea Witch gives us everything we want in a grand pirate adventure ... | | |
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Robert Louis Stevenson
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate ... | | |
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Benerson Little
Not simple retellings of the tried and true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on how pirating tactics of the 1500s through 1800s to give the reader a view of how pirates functioned through history. | | |
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Charlaine Harris
Cocktail waitress Sookie Stackhouse turns sleuth to investigate a mysterious sniper who has set his sights on the local changeling population, especially when ... | | |
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Twenty-eight firsthand memoirs and contemporary reports of some of history's most infamous pirates covers the sixteenth-century Caribbean buccaneers through more recent periods and includes profiles of such figures as Blackbeard, Captain ... | | |
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Powers, Tim
On Stranger Tides is Tim Powers's great Disneyland ride through pirates,
puppeteers, treasure, and thrill a minute action that carries on from page one.
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Ted Bell
in this heart-pounding nautical action adventure, intrepid British intelligence operative Alex Hawke must thwart a secret, deadly alliance between China and France before they annihilate everyone and everything in their headlong rush ... | | |
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Charlaine Harris
When her boyfriend Bill, a vampire who has been rather distracted of late, disappears,Sookie journeys to Mississippi to find her beloved, who has gotten ... | | |
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Terry Breverton
About the Author Terry Breverton is the author of fourteen books, including Black Bart Roberts: The Greatest Pirate of Them All (pb), Admiral Sir Henry Morgan ... | | |
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