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Summary: "Under the Banner of King Death explores the sub-culture and resistance of eighteenth-century pirates, telling the tales of John Gwin, an African American fugitive from bondage in South Carolina; Ruben Dekker, a common seaman from Amsterdam; and Mark/Mary Reed, an American woman who dressed as a man and went to sea"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 LESRussell, Sean
Summary: While on route to the Caribbean to meddle with French shipping to the colonies, Captain Charles Hayden must deal with two dilemmas when the HMS Themis first rescues a suspicious pair of Spanish castaways whose origins and agenda are suspect, and then stumbles across a crippled slave ship. Upon arriving at the Barbados station, he finds himself under the command of the impetuous and foolhardy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSShearer, Eleanor
Summary: "Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ShearerDonati, Sara
Summary: Hannah Bonner and her half-brother Luke spend a year searching the Caribbean Islands for Luke's wife Jennett. They find her but then have to travel to Pensacola to claim the baby Jennett had to surrender to a stranger to keep him safe. The family who has the baby is a very rich and powerful Creole family. New Orleans is on the brink of war and everything goes wrong for the Bonners, until they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2006
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC DONLambdin, Dewey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Stephen Maturin tries to turn Napoleon's secret link to the Islamic world against the emperor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Co. 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRPope, Dudley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POPStuart, V. A.
Summary: 1857: war is raging in China and from India comes the alarming news of a sepoy mutiny which threatens thousands of British lives in the Bengal Presidency. This is especially alarming news to Commander Phillip Horatio Hazard, for two of his sisters are in India. Anxious for their safety, as well as that of his fellow countrymen, Hazard boards the HMS Shannon, bound for Calcutta. Closely based on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUJames, Tania
Summary: "Abbas is just seventeen years old when he leaves his family to serve in the court of Tipu Sultan, a volatile and unpredictable ruler. An inspired woodcarver, Abbas is apprenticed to a master toy maker in order to build a massive tiger automaton, a gift to celebrate the return of the Sultan's sons from British captivity. Working alongside the legendary French clockmaker Monsieur du Leze, Abbas...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023
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Summary: With the Sepoy Mutiny still threatening British lives in India, Commander Phillip Hazard volunteers to accompany a special army force to rescue the besieged British garrison at Ghorabad. Hazard and the men of the Shannon's Naval Brigade are put under the command of Colonel Cockayne, a cavalry officer whose own wife and daughter are among those caught in the siege.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUStuart, V. A.
Summary: The Crimean War is at its peak as the winter of 1854 sets in, and Commander Phillip Hazard of the 31-gun, steam-screw frigate Trojan is sent to bring troop reinforcements from Constantinople to Eupatoria. On the way, he must handle an overbearing young nobleman with a taste for blood and the pitiless power of a raging storm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUStuart, V. A.
Summary: To break the stalemate in the Crimea, the British must search for unlikely help among the self-reliant mountain people of Circassia. Commander Phillip Hazard of HMS Huntress is dispatched with a select handful of his crew to seek out the guerrilla leader Serfir Pasha and win him over as an ally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUStuart, V. A.
Summary: The Crimean War rages on, and determined to break the stalemate, the British decide to send a spy into Odessa. And who better for this perilous mission than Captain Phillip Hazard, newly promoted to command of the steam-powered Huntress and fluent in Russian? Hazard bravely takes on the task, but saddled with a surly first lieutenant whose previous captain died mysteriously and with his crew...
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STUCornwell, Bernard
Summary: "If any man can do the impossible it's Richard Sharpe...and the impossible is exactly what the formidable Captain Sharpe is asked to do when he's sent on an undercover mission to a small village in the Spanish countryside, far behind enemy lines. For the quiet, remote village, sitting high above the Almaraz bridge, is about to become the centre of a battle for the future of Europe. Two French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024
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Summary: The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1770, and with that, a new era of manufacturing and industry changed lives everywhere within a generation. A world filled with unrest wrestles for control over this new world order: A mother's husband is killed in a work accident due to negligence; a young woman fights to fund her school for impoverished children; a well-intentioned young man unexpectedly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2023
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Summary: "1867, Richmond, Virginia: Though she wears the same low-cut purple gown that is the uniform of all the girls who work at Worsham's gambling parlor, Arabella stands apart. It's not merely her statuesque beauty and practiced charm. Even at seventeen, Arabella possesses an unyielding grit, and a resolve to escape her background of struggle and poverty. Collis Huntington, railroad baron and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ABEWoodman, Richard
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sheridan House 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WOOO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: A swashbuckling adventure on the high seas, complete with romantic escapades from smoggy London to Sierra Leone, diplomacy, espionage, the intricacies of warfare, and imperial brinksmanship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1999
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POPPope, Dudley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2000
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Summary: The lieutenant is summoned by the Admiralty and given command of the brig, Triton. But like the rest of the Navy, Triton's crew has mutinied. Sympathizing with some of their complaints, Ramage also knows that if he fails to deliver three sealed dispatches to admirals off Brest and Cadiz, and in the Caribbean, he will become a convenient scapegoat.
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2000
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2001
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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2001