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1) Bloody Jack
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Bloody Jack adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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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.
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English
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Captain Kidd has gone down in history as America's most ruthless buccaneer, fabulously rich, burying dozens of treasure chests up and down the eastern seaboard.... Captain William Kidd was no career cut-throat; he was a tough, successful New York sea captain who was hired to chase pirates. In 1696, he set out on a near-impossible mission to travel in a lone ship with a mutinous crew, heading 4,000 miles round the tip of Africa to track down a handful...
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English
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Shipwrecked on the coast of North Carolina, his companions killed, Tatton Chantry is alone--and ready for action. In the Old World he fought wars, skirmishes, duels. Now, in the wilderness of America, this swashbuckling hero takes up against pirates, Spanish fortune seekers, savage Indians. Aided by a beautiful Peruvian woman, he braves the fierce challenges of the New World--always, like a true Chantry, with his expert hand on the hilt of his faithful...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Investigating the fascination pirates hold over the popular imagination, Peter Earle takes the fable of ocean-going Robin Hoods sailing under the "banner of King Death" and contrasts it with the murderous reality of robbery, torture and death and the freedom of a short, violent life on the high seas.
The Pirate Wars charts 250 years of piracy, from Cornwall to the Caribbean, from the 16th century to the hanging of the last pirate captain in Boston...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In 22nd-century Great Britain, where climate change has caused vast flooding, the piratical Reavers kidnap the Prime Minister's daughter and thirteen-year-old Lilly Melkun, an English fisher-girl, takes her seacat on a daring rescue attempt, with a mysterious talking jewel from a past computer age tucked in her belt as ransom.
Author
Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 10
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
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Still yearning to be reunited with her beloved Jaimy, Jacky Faber continues to collect intelligence for the Crown as she leads guerrilla attacks against Napoleon's forces, poses for the artist Francisco Goya, is kidnapped by the Spanish Inquisition, and travels with a gypsy caravan.
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Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 6
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Liz Carlyle, MI5's liaison with French intelligence, investigates Birmingham's New Springfield mosque, which has disturbing ties to Pakistan and terrorism. Meanwhile, UCSO in Athens, worried that its ships are being specifically targeted by pirates, wonders if there's a leak in the organization.
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Series
Piratica volume 1
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A bump on the head restores Art's memories of her mother and the exciting life they led, so the sixteen-year-old leaves Angels Academy for Young Maidens, seeks out the pirates who were her family before her mother's death, and leads them back to adventure on the high seas.
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"How did a single manhunt spark the modern era of multinational capitalism? Henry Avery was the seventeenth century's most notorious pirate. The press published wildly popular--and wildly inaccurate--reports of his nefarious adventures. The British government offered enormous bounties for his capture, alive or (preferably) dead. But Steven Johnson argues that Avery's most lasting legacy was his inadvertent triggering of a new model for the global...
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Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In work of narrative nonfiction filled with romance and high seas adventure, a historian and journalist charts the life of Sarah Kidd, who secretly aided and abetted her infamous husband, pirate Captain Kidd, from within the strictures of polite society in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century New York.
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Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventures volume 12
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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Series
Dangerous damsels volume 3
Language
English
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"Known as Agent A, Alice is the top operative within the Agency of Undercover Note Takers, a secret government intelligence group that is fortunately better at espionage than at naming itself. From managing deceptive witches to bored aristocratic ladies, nothing is beyond Alice's capabilities. She has a steely composure and a plan always up her sleeve (alongside a dagger and an embroidered handkerchief). So when rumors of an assassination plot begin...
Author
Publisher
Prometheus Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"No one present at the Battle of Cape Lopez in 1722 could have known that they were on the edge of history. Gentlemen of Fortune is a groundbreaking exploration of the figures and events surrounding this lesser-known naval battle, the outcome of which signaled a major turning point in the Atlantic slave trade and triggered a deep and lasting legacy"--
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Series
Bloody Jack adventures volume 9
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In 1807, having survived a typhoon in the East Indies, Jacky Faber makes her way to London to seek a pardon for herself and her betrothed, Jaimy Fletcher, who, posing as a highwayman, is trying to avenge her supposed death.