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The courages Captain Peter Blood is the valiant hero of this adventure-filled tale set on the high seas.

2) Deep as the sky, red as the sea: a novel

Author

Chang-Eppig, Rita

Pub. Date

2023.

Language

English

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A Good Morning America Buzz Pick

For readers of Outlawed, Piranesi, and The Night Tiger, a dazzling historical novel about a legendary Chinese pirate queen, her fight to save her fleet from the forces allied against them, and the dangerous price of power.
As Recommended By
The TODAY Show * Washington Post * Goodreads * LitHub * Real Simple * Time * Popsugar...

3) Frenchman's creek

Author

du Maurier, Daphne

Language

English

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This "highly personalized adventure, ultra-romantic" story from the author of Rebecca tells the tale of a woman looking for adventure, only to find it in the arms a rebellious criminal (New York Times). Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside with her restlessness and thirst for adventure as her only guides. Eventually Dona lands in remote Navron,...

4) Cinnamon and gunpowder

Author

Brown, Eli

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub. Date

2013

Language

English

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Eli Brown's Cinnamon and Gunpowder is a gripping adventure, a seaborne romance, and a twist on the tale of Scheherazade—with the best food ever served aboard a pirate's ship.

The year is 1819, and the renowned chef Owen Wedgwood has been kidnapped by the ruthless pirate Mad Hannah Mabbot. He will be spared, she tells him, as long as he puts exquisite food in front of her every Sunday without fail.
To appease the red-haired

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5) Ransome's quest

Author

Dacus, Kaye

Series

Ransome trilogy volume 3

Language

English

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This fast-paced, engaging end to the Ransome Trilogy follows a tale of love and danger on the Caribbean Sea in the early 1800s. Captain William Ransome is searching for his sister, Charlotte, who has been captured by Salvadore, the infamous "Robin Hood of the West Indies." When word comes that his wife, Julia, has been kidnapped by the evil pirate, Shaw, Captain Ransome and his crew frantically search the horizon for the two women he loves. After...

6) Pirate king: a novel of suspense featuring Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes

Author

King, Laurie R

Series

Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mysteries volume 11

Language

English

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “An engaging romp guaranteed to please . . . perfectly written in the style of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.”—USA Today

In England’s young silent-film industry, the megalomaniacal Randolph Fflytte is king. But rumors of criminal activities swirl around his popular movie studio. At the request of Scotland Yard, Mary Russell travels undercover to the set of Fflytte’s...

7) The Black Lung captain

Author

Wooding, Chris

Series

Tales of the Ketty Jay volume 2

Publisher

Spectra/Ballantine Books

Pub. Date

c2010

Language

English

8) Shadow captain

Author

Reynolds, Alastair

Series

Revenger novels volume 2

Publisher

Orbit

Pub. Date

2019.

Language

English

9) The only life that mattered: the short and merry lives of Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Calico Jack Rackam

Author

Nelson, James L

Language

English

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2023 Favorites That Deserve Some Love

Fed up with an outlaw existence, Calico Jack Rackam swears off the pirate life, until he meets Anne Bonny, a woman who would as soon stab a man as give him a good tumble-that is, unless he's a pirate. Soon Jack finds himself out on the high seas, with Anne by his side and his men spoiling for action.

10) The adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: a novel

Author

Chakraborty, Shannon

Series

Amina al-Sirafi novels volume 1

Language

English

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"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised–Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." — R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War

"An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina's adventures are the reason to read fantasy." — Ava Reid, internationally bestselling author of

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11) Nightchaser

Author

Bouchet, Amanda

Series

Nightchaser novels volume 1
Endeavor

Language

English

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Fans of Firefly and Star Wars can't help but fall for this sexy new paranormal romance from the author of the USA Today bestselling fantasy, THE KINGMAKER CHRONICLES. The galaxy's most wanted captain must trust her life to a charming and mysterious rogue if she doesn't want to see her latest mission go up in smoke...

Tess Bailey: the galaxy's Most Wanted.

Captain Tess Bailey and her ragtag crew are on the run, pursued

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12) The African equation

Author

Khadra, Yasmina

Language

English

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Kurt Krausmann, a recently bereaved Frankfurt doctor, is persuaded to join his friend, wealthy benefactor Hans Makkenroth, on a humanitarian mission to the Comoros. The journey helps him begin to confront his loss, but soon misfortune strikes again: the boat he and Hans are travelling in is hijacked in the Gulf of Aden and the men are taken hostage. Held in a remote hideout, the prisoners suffer harsh conditions and the brutality of their guards;...

13) Master of furies

Author

Feist, Raymond E

Series

Firemane saga volume 3

Language

English

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Book - Hardback, eBook

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Hughes, Richard Arthur Warren

From King of Ashes to Queen of Storms, it's all built up to this-the thrilling conclusion to legendary New York Times bestselling author Raymond E. Feist's epic Firemane saga. War has swept across Marquensas. Ruthless raiders have massacred the inhabitants of Beran's Hill, including Gwen, the beloved 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...

14) A high wind in Jamaica

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English

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Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a crew of down-at-the-heel pirates. A tale of seduction and betrayal, of accommodation and manipulation, of weird humor...

15) Captain in calico

Author

Fraser, George MacDonald

Language

English

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George MacDonald Fraser was famed for his legendary Flashman series, featuring the incorrigible knave Harry Flashman. In the colorful standalone novel Captain in Calico, which has never been published, Fraser introduces another real-life anti-hero: Captain John Rackham, called "Calico Jack," an illustrious eighteenth-century pirate who marauded the Caribbean seas.On a tranquil evening in the Bahamas, Calico Jack, long wanted on counts of piracy, makes...

16) A pirate's life for tea: a cozy fantasy with ships abound

Author

Thorne, Rebecca

Series

Tomes and tea novel volume 2

Publisher

[publisher not identified]

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

17) Fan-Tan

Author

Brando, Marlon

Publisher

Knopf

Pub. Date

2005

Language

English

18) Pirate latitudes: a novel

Author

Crichton, Michael

Series

Michael Chrichton standalone novel volume 24

Language

English

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"Michael Crichton presents a story about pirates in the New World"--Provided by publisher. The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad, " guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.

19) The least likely bride

Author

Feather, Jane

Series

Brides trilogy (Jane Feather) volume 3
Wheeler large print book

Pub. Date

c2000

Language

English

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20) Jester's fortune

Author

Lambdin, Dewey

Series

Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 8

Language

English

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Book - Paperback, eBook

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