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"A captivating, atmospheric return to historical fiction that is every bit as convincing and engrossing as Martin's landmark Mary Reilly. In 1872 the American merchant vessel Mary Celeste was discovered adrift off the coast of Spain. Her cargo was intact and there was no sign of struggle, but the crew was gone. They were never found. This maritime mystery lies at the center of an intricate narrative branching through the highest levels of late-...
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From the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future. In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives....
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In the early 1950's, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England, At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table" - - as far from the Captain's Table as can be -- with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Seuz Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like...
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Tide child volume 2
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2020
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-- A brilliantly imagined epic fantasy of honor, glory, and warfare, -- New York Times "The Bone Ships The Tide Child TrilogyThe Bone Ships Call of the Bone Ships The Bone Ship's Wake For more from RJ Barker, check out: The Wounded KingdomAge of Assassins Blood of Assassins King of Assassins
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Bloody Jack adventures volume 1
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Reduced to begging and thievery in the streets of London, a thirteen-year-old orphan disguises herself as a boy and connives her way onto a British warship set for high sea adventure in search of pirates.
12) Deep blue
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Sinclair sisters trilogy volume 3
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"Sexy romance sizzles" in the third novel featuring adventure-seeking sisters from the New York Times bestselling author of Desert Heat (Publishers Weekly).
For reporter Hope Sinclair, writing about the recovery of a sunken Spanish treasure off Pleasure Island should be her big break. Yet Hope can't help feeling she's been hand-picked for this job for all the wrong reasons. Someone wants Hope out of New York—and...
For reporter Hope Sinclair, writing about the recovery of a sunken Spanish treasure off Pleasure Island should be her big break. Yet Hope can't help feeling she's been hand-picked for this job for all the wrong reasons. Someone wants Hope out of New York—and...
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A little more than a century from now, our world has been utterly transformed. After years of slowly overtaking the continent, rising floodwaters have obliterated America's great coastal cities and then its heartland, leaving nothing but an archipelago of mountaintop colonies surrounded by a deep expanse of open water. Stubbornly independent Myra and her precocious seven-year-old daughter, Pearl, fish from their small boat, the Bird, visiting dry...
14) Air bound
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When Airiana Ridell is kidnapped and help hostage on a ship by a sinister group that wants to exploit her special abilities, her only hope of escape is Maxim Prakenskii, a mysterious man who hides dangerous secrets of his own.
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Pretty hairdresser Delaney Shaw has returned home to Truly, Idaho, for the reading of her stepfather's will, which stipulates that, if she wants to collect her inheritance, Delaney must remain in town for an entire year. And she must have nothing to do with sexy Nick Allegrezza. Unfortunately, Nick is as irresistible as ever and Delaney must truly decide if he is truly, madly the man of her heart.