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62) Vanishing games
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English
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"The gritty, riveting, highly anticipated sequel to the national (and international) best seller Ghostman, by the very young, critically acclaimed, and award-winning Roger Hobbs. It's just before dawn on the South China Sea when three experienced pirates open fire on a small smuggling yacht. Their target: a bag of uncut sapphires worth millions. But when one of them stumbles across an enormous treasure that wasn't on the manifest, everything goes...
63) Birds of prey
Author
Series
Courtney ; 9
Pub. Date
1997.
Language
English
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A swashbuckling tale of high seas adventures by the "New York Times" bestselling author of 26 novels. 1667: In their fighting caravel, Sir Francis Courtney and his son Hal patrol the seas near the Agulhas Cape of Southern Africa, lying in wait for one of the treasure-laden galleons of the Dutch East India Company returning from the Orient. So begins a quest for adventure and the spoils of war that sweeps these two buccaneers from the Cape of Good...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Language
English
Description
Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold. When a captured Barbary pirate saves his neck with a tall tale of a fabled mountain of gold, Quinton has his doubts. But King Charles II can't resist the chance to outstrip the Dutch with a limitless source of wealth. With the devious pirate O'Dwyer in tow, Quinton embarks on a voyage beyond the map's edge, still convinced that...
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Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
As the United States expands its Navy in earnest, Bliven Putnam-- now Captain of the sloop-of-war Rappahannock-- has come into his own as a leader and is chosen to be at the forefront of such expansion. Dispatched on a two-year tour of the Pacific, he becomes a beacon of American friendship, and influence, in the west. When a long-planned reunion with his wife is cut short by a new assignment, Clarity at last puts her foot down. If she can't keep...
67) Master of furies
Author
Series
Firemane saga ; 3
Publisher
Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Ruthless raiders have massacred the inhabitants of Beran's Hill, including Gwen, wife of Declan Smith. Hollow of heart, his hopes burned to ashes, Declan swears to track down and destroy the raiders, an ambition shared by Baron Daylon Dumarch, whose family was massacred as they fled the capital. Hava, whose gift for piracy has seen her acquire the treasure ship Borzon's Black Wake and the swift Azhante sailing vessel, Queen of Storms, and won her...
69) The blackbirder
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Series
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
In a blind rage, King James, ex-slave and now Marlowe's comrade in arms, slaughters the crew of a slave ship and makes himself the most wanted man in Virginia. The governor gives Marlowe a choice: Hunt James down and bring him back to hang or lose everything Marlowe has built for himself and his wife, Elizabeth. Marlowe sets out in pursuit of the ex-slave turned pirate, struggling to maintain control over his crew -- rough privateers who care only...
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Mercedes Lackey is the New York Times bestselling author of the Valdemar series and romantic fantasies like Beauty and the Werewolf and The Fairy Godmother. JAMES MALLORY and Lackey have collaborated on six novels. Now. these New York Times and USA Today bestselling collaborators bring romance to the fore with The House of Four Winds. The rulers of tiny, impoverished Swansgaard have twelve daughters and one son. While the prince's future is assured,...
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English
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"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury - bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood - is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
72) The pirate bride
Author
Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Those who survive the wrath of Red Robert would never guess the pirate's secret--Red Robert is a woman, masquerading as a man. Yet though the swift steel of her sword has spread her reputation to the farthest corners of the map, there is only one treasure she seeks--the blood of her lifelong nemesis...Blair Colm.
Shipwrecked on a desert isle with the handsome Logan Hagarty, she soon rediscovers her femininity in the irresistible captain's arms. But...
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Series
Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
A woman's cherished legacy becomes a pirate's obsessive quest in this spellbinding historical romance from award-winning author Meagan McKinney The London docks in 1818 are no place for a woman. But Aurora Dayne is about to embark on a new life. With her modest belongings and a unique bejeweled locket-her sole legacy from her dead father-she boards a ship bound for Jamaica. All hell breaks loose when pirates storm the gangplank, and the sheltered...
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English
Description
Hal Courtney has always lived at sea. Now a truce has been made between the warring countries and Hal is captain of his own ship; the Golden Bough. From the slave markets of Zanzibar to the pirate-riddled waters of the Indian Ocean, Hal leads his crew in and out of the waves of danger. But he soon realizes that just because the war is over, does not mean the battle is won, and the more a man achieves, the more he has to lose.
In this sweeping adventure...
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English
Description
Ancient Rome's organized crime syndicates have never been more dangerous or more cunning than in this latest adventure featuring first-century sleuth Marcus Didius Falco. In the Italian town of Ostia outside Rome, Falco appears to be enjoying a relaxing holiday. But when Helena arrives carrying a batch of past issues of the Daily Gazette with the intention of catching up on the latest scandal, Falco is forced to admit his real reason for being there....
76) The wild Irish
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
Two female titans -- perfectly matched in guts, guile, and political genius.
Elizabeth, queen of England, has taken on the mighty Spanish Armada and, in a stunning sea battle, vanquished it. But her troubles are far from over. Just across the western channel, her colony Ireland is embroiled in seething rebellion, with the island's fierce, untamed clan chieftains and their "wild Irish" followers refusing to bow to their English oppressors.
Grace...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Vuelve al universo del Cosmere con una aventura divertida y cautivadora que encantará a los fans de La princesa prometida. En su isla natal sobre un océano verde esmeralda, la única vida que Trenza conoce es sencilla, marcada por el placer de coleccionar las tazas que traen los marineros de tierras lejanas y escuchar las historias que le cuenta su amigo Charlie. Pero cuando el padre de Charlie se lo lleva en barco para buscarle esposa y sucede...
79) Pirates
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English
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While holidaying in the Caribbean, researcher Phoebe Turlow is transported back to the 18th Century and meets Duncan Rourke, a pirate smuggling arms for the American revolutionaries. Together they live many adventures, following which both are transported to the present. By the author of Yankee Wife.
80) The windflower
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Determined to aid the cause of American freedom, lovely Merry Wilding embarks on a dangerous mission to England only to fall into the hands of Devon Crandall, a pirate and mysterious British spy.
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