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Anne Bonny's Wake

Author : Dick Elam

Publisher : BrownBooks.ORM

Page : 238 pages

File Size : 33,80 MB

Release : 2016-11-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1612549551

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This 1980s Carolina coast thriller “channels all the danger, intrigue, and thrills of a pirate’s life at sea for a twentieth-century criminal mystery” (Forward Reviews). On an old sailboat named for his departed wife—as well as a legendary pirate—criminal justice professor Hershel Barstow is saying his final goodbye with a trip through the North Carolina Intercoastal Waterway. He expects his solo trip aboard the Anne Bonny to be a quiet one. Then the mysterious and seductive Maggie Adelaide Moore appears in the water and climbs aboard. His reluctant offer to help the distressed woman soon brings trouble, entangling Hershel with a dangerous drug cartel. Now Hershel needs to call on old friends from his CIA days to stay safe and riddle out Maggie's mysterious past. In the weathered Anne Bonny, enemies could be lurking behind every river bend. Now Hershel must navigate his way through deadly waters on a quest for truth, safety, and justice.



Kingston by Starlight

Author : Christopher John Farley

Publisher : Crown

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 12,97 MB

Release : 2005-06-28

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0307238407

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Irish-born Anne Bonny is only a teenager when she is left destitute by her mother’s death. Abandoned by her father, she seems destined to be forgotten by the world. But Anne chooses to seek her fortune in the lush tropics of the colonial West Indies, where she passes herself off as a young man named Bonn. She finds work as a ship’s hand, sailing under the command of Calico Jack Rackam, a notorious and charismatic pirate with a bounty on his head. Calico Jack has his heart set on raiding the Madrid Galleon, the richest ship in the Caribbean, which sails from Kingston laden with Cuban gold and Jamaican rum. Bonn is entranced by the sea and by the ship’s violent crew, which includes a mysterious swordfighter named Read, who, it turns out, has a secret life of his own. Calico Jack soon discovers Bonn’s and Read’s true identities, but it is only when the three pirates are captured that their darkest secrets begin to surface. In the shadow of the gallows, a strange twist of fate reveals a shocking betrayal that may save Bonn from death, while permanently changing everything she has known about her past and the world around her. Gorgeously written and full of mystery, intrigue, and startling revelations about gender, race, history, and the human heart, Kingston by Starlight is a once-in-a-lifetime read.



On Stranger Tides

Author : Tim Powers

Publisher : Harper Collins

Page : 336 pages

File Size : 12,28 MB

Release : 2011-04-26

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 0062091360

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“Powers writes action and adventure that Indiana Jones could only dream of.” —Washington Post “Tim Powers is a brilliant writer.” —William Gibson The remarkable Tim Powers—who ingeniously married the John Le Carrè spy novel to the otherworldly in his critically acclaimed Declare—brings us pirate adventure with a dazzling difference. On Stranger Tides features Blackbeard, ghosts, voodoo, zombies, the fable Fountain of Youth…and more swashbuckling action than you could shake a cutlass at, as reluctant buccaneer John Shandy braves all manner of peril, natural and supernatural, to rescue his ensorcelled love. Nominated for the Locus and World Fantasy Awards, On Stranger Tides is the book that inspired the motion picture Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides—non-stop, breathtaking fiction from the genius imagination that conceived Last Call, Expiration Date, and Three Days to Never.



The Natural, Moral, and Political History of Jamaica, and the Territories thereon Depending

Author : James Knight

Publisher : University of Virginia Press

Page : 740 pages

File Size : 30,52 MB

Release : 2021-05-19

Category : History

ISBN : 0813945577

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Between 1737 and 1746, James Knight—a merchant, planter, and sometime Crown official and legislator in Jamaica—wrote a massive two-volume history of the island. The first volume provided a narrative of the colony’s development up to the mid-1740s, while the second offered a broad survey of most aspects of Jamaican life as it had developed by the third and fourth decades of the eighteenth century. Completed not long before his death in the winter of 1746–47 and held in the British Library, this work is now published for the first time. Well researched and intelligently critical, Knight’s work is not only the most comprehensive account of Jamaica’s ninety years as an English colony ever written; it is also one of the best representations of the provincial mentality as it had emerged in colonial British America between the founding of Virginia and 1750. Expertly edited and introduced by renowned scholar Jack Greene, this volume represents a colonial Caribbean history unique in its contemporary perspective, detail, and scope.



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Page : 672 pages

File Size : 13,60 MB

Release : 1924

Category : Books

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The Mullah's Storm

Author : Tom Young

Publisher : Penguin

Page : 197 pages

File Size : 40,48 MB

Release : 2010-09-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1101443200

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From the author of The Hunters and Sand and Fire..."Fans of Clancy, Coonts, and Dale Brown need to add Young to their must-read lists." (Booklist) A transport plane carrying a high-ranking Taliban prisoner is shot down in a blizzard over Afghanistan's mountainous Hindu Kush. The storm makes rescue impossible, and for two people-navigator Michael Parson and a female Army interpreter, Sergeant Gold-a battle for survival begins against not only the hazards of nature, but the treacheries of man: the Taliban stalking them, the villagers whose loyalties are unknown, and a prisoner who would very much like the three of them to be caught. "One of the most exciting new thriller talents in years."--Vince Flynn



The Pirate Encyclopedia

Author : Arne Zuidhoek

Publisher : BRILL

Page : 900 pages

File Size : 39,10 MB

Release : 2022-07-18

Category : History

ISBN : 9004515674

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The Pirate Encyclopedia, as the essential companion for scholars, students, and a general audience intrigued by tales and facts, offers the most complete body of data available on the legitimacy of more than 7.000 adventurers as subjects of investigation.



Mary Read

Author : Frank Shay

Publisher : Sicpress.com

Page : 194 pages

File Size : 11,65 MB

Release : 2013-08-17

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ISBN : 9780615867410

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Written in 1934, Shay based his work of the life of famed pirate Mary Read on the available histories. In this delightful novel she is depicted as a fetching pirate wench who roams the Romantic Carribees, despoiling shipping and taking lovers. Read lived disguised as a boy by her mother, from an early age, as an adult she proved herself in the military, and aboard ships. When a West Indies bound ship that she was on was taken by pirates, she was forced her to join them. In 1720 she joined pirate John "Calico Jack" Rackham and his companion, the female pirate Anne Bonny. The rest as they say, is history.





Charlie, Are You Daydreaming Again?

Author : Stefanie Heyden

Publisher : Hogrefe Publishing GmbH

Page : 240 pages

File Size : 39,12 MB

Release : 2024-03-25

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1616766352

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An exciting and supportive storybook for daydreamy children and their parents It's not easy being a 10-year-old rabbit girl. Charlie's parents and her strict teacher, Mrs. Lynx, are constantly finding fault with her: "Pay attention! Stop daydreaming!" Just as well she has a second life as a famous pirate that she can escape to when things get too much. In her fantasy world, she experiences amazing adventures and fights against her enemy (who looks surprisingly similar to her teacher). Luckily, Charlie has her best friends at her side: the hardworking and slightly shy duck Muriel and the cuddly bear Frida, who would love to be a ballerina. Charlie is struggling with endless homework, exams, bad grades and her forgetfulness. But then one day in the Lost Forest she meets an unusual forest dweller who knows the value of daydreaming and lets her in on an ancient secret ... A book to be read by or to daydreamy elementary school children who would like to learn: how to concentrate better when learning at home and at school, why dreaming is also valuable, how to discover their own strengths, how to be better organized and forget less. A story about school, friendship, and family relationships that is thought provoking and invites conversations between children and parents. The book is also ideal for reading in class.