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161) The Boy in the Bush
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Jack Grant arrives in Western Australia in 1882, having been expelled from his public school and then sent down from an agricultural college. He experiences hunting, farming, gold mining, fights and his first love of women. His character is forged by the Australian landscape and its hard, no-nonsense people. From the young boy emerges a tough Lawrentian hero. (Goodreads)
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Excerpt: "I feel, then, that I may with confidence ask the reader who loves ships for themselves, or is fascinated by history, or is specially, interested in the rise of our Indian Empire, to follow me in the following pages, while the story of these old East Indiamen is narrated. In a little while we shall have passed entirely from the last of all surviving ocean-going sailing ships, but during the whole of their period none have left their mark...
164) The Titanic Secret
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Published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic
A covert operation with catastrophic global consequences collides with fate in this ingeniously inventive novel of conspiracy, subterfuge, and murder unfurling against a factual, tragic, and heart-stopping moment in history.
THE TITANIC SECRET
April 1912: Shortly after midnight on Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin, mere yards from the British Embassy, an English spy is...
165) Niño Pez
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A Niño Pez lo abandonaron a su suerte en un pantano, cerca del mar, y desde entonces vive en una caja de cartón. Trabaja en la lonja, al servicio de las burdas mujeronas del puerto, entre carcasas de crustáceos desbullados y restos de pescado podrido.
Su vida da un vuelco el día en que, creyendo haber cometido un crimen, se ve forzado a embarcar de polizón en un barco de arrastre tripulado por un delirante hatajo de freaks y renegados: John,...
166) Strange Eden
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Everything familiar to Eliza has been ripped away. Even worse, the cruel deed was done by her own hands.
Nassau, Bahamas, 1791...
Eliza Sharpe, recently wed to a mysterious and brooding soldier, departs for the West Indies with him to begin their new life. Once there, she realizes their marital arrangement is ill-fated and that she has made a disastrous choice. Charles, the man she finds herself bound to, is nothing short of a monster.
On...
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Crew's Ship Affairs is the third book in the stand-alone Blue-Collar Romance novels series, written by
Bob Ojala.
The previous two books, A Tugboater's Life and The Tugboater Family revolved around the
drama and romances of the Great Lakes sailors working in the tough and dangerous Marine
Construction business..
This third novel continues with many of the same endearing characters, with a new character, Bob
Evers, continuing to tell...
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The Blockade Runners (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages). An English translation was published in 1874. The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in...
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Commander Peter Wake, of the U.S. Navy's Office of Naval Intelligence, is in New York City in 1886, where he meets two intense young men who will dramatically influence his life: Theodore Roosevelt and José Martí. Presented with a secret coded message, he deciphers it for Roosevelt, and soon wishes he hadn't.
Returning to Washington, he is assigned to follow up on the secret message and uncover the extent of Cuban revolutionary activities between...
171) Contes De Mer
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Sept histoires de mer sinistres qui vous feront vraiment flipper.
Environ soixante-quinze de la planète sont recouvertes d'eau, et quatre-vingt-dix-sept se trouvent dans la mer. Les habitants de provinces maritimes vous diront que c'est une histoire pour chaque vague qui s'est jamais échoué sur le rivage.
Ici sont sept d'entre eux.
«Dans l'Obscurité et les Profondeurs», offre un récit très obsédant du devoir de convoi de la Seconde Guerre...
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Politics, love, and war swirl around Captain Peter Wake (USN) in Havana when the USS Maine explodes on a quiet evening in February 1898. Working with Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt in the tense prewar days, carrying out a perilous espionage mission inside Cuba, and leading a disastrous raid on the Cuban coast, Wake is in the middle of it all.
The Popular Fiction silver medalist in the 2017 Florida Book Awards, this is the first...
174) Tide of War
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When the tide of war is on the rise, telling friend from foe is a dangerous proposition. It's 1794, and newly promoted Captain Nathan Peake is dispatched to the Caribbean to take command of the British navy's latest frigate, the 32-gun Unicorn, a ship with a tragic history of mutiny and murder. Indeed, her previous captain was found washed up in New Orleans with his throat cut, and the men who did it are still at large. But Peake has greater problems...
175) An Affair of Honor
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At the beginning of this fifth novel in Robert N. Macomber's award-winning Honor series, it is December 1873 and Lt. Peter Wake is the executive officer of the USS Omaha on dreary patrol in the West Indies. Lonely for his family, he is looking forward to returning home to Pensacola in a few months and rekindling his troubled marriage with Linda. But fate has other plans for Wake. He runs afoul of the Royal Navy in Antigua and a beautiful French woman...
176) The Honored Dead
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Cmdr. Peter Wake, Office of Naval Intelligence, is in French Indochina in 1883 on a secret mission for President Chester Arthur. The novel opens with Wake aboard a riverboat on the Mekong River. The mission sounded simple in Washington: deliver the American president's reply to a confidential naval offer from the king of Cambodia, while clandestinely assessing the region's political and military situation. Wake figures it will take two more weeks...
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In the middle of a moonless night on a deserted beach east of Havana three men lash inner tubes together to make a flimsy raft they slide into the surf. Desperate to escape a society gone wrong, they risk an incredible journey across the more than ninety miles of treacherous waters that separate the island of Cuba from the Florida Keys.
In this powerful and lyrical novel, J. Joaquin Fraxedas has crafted an epic story of three courageous men, men...
178) The Assassin's Honor
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In December of 1892 a little-known event changed world history, and its influence can be seen in headlines today. This 12th novel in the award-winning Honor series is woven around that event.
Commander Peter Wake, U.S.N., is finally happy. In command of a newly commissioned light cruiser in the Caribbean, he is back at sea where all real sailors belong. All his years of espionage in the more sordid corners of the world are over. Ashore, he has the...
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Excerpt: "Jack looked up from the book he had been reading. "Father," he asked, "what was a buccaneer? Cousin Fred says buccaneers and pirates were the same thing, and Jim says they were not, and in this story they speak of pirates and buccaneers both." "Fred and Jim are both wrong and both right," replied Mr. Bickford. "Buccaneers were pirates, but pirates were not necessarily buccaneers. But nowadays the two are often confused and writers of stories...
180) Hijas del sur
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Una conmovedora novela protagonizada por tres inolvidables mujeres sureñas en los duros años que precedieron a la Gran Depresión.
En la Carolina del Sur de 1924, apenas recuperada de una terrible plaga que ha devastado tanto la tierra como la economía, entre pantanos infestados de caimanes y plantaciones de tabaco, tres mujeres muy distintas unirán sus destinos para luchar contra las injusticias cotidianas que atenazan sus vidas.
Gertrude, blanca...
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