 | Ramage & the Saracens (The Lord Ramage Novels)
Publication Date: September 1, 2002| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 17) Barbary Coast pirates—the Saraceni—are capturing slaves and terrorizing fishing villages along the coast of Sicily. Ramage and his crew are sent to track them down before they can devastate another town. ...
 |  | An Ill Wind (John Pearce)
Publication Date: December 14, 2010| Series: John Pearce 1793. John Pearce and his Pelicans are going home to freedom and intent on putting the treacherous Captain Ralph Barclay in the dock. But in the confusion of the evacuation of Toulon, as citizens try to flee the Republican Army and the guillotine, Pearce must keep his wits about him in order to survive. Through unfortunate circumstances, Pearce finds himself on a ship back to England with Captain Barclay and his lovely wife Emily. In the end, the Pelicans may think they have reached the end of their troubles but it is Emily Barclay who...
|  | Goliath
Publication Date: July 13, 2003Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the "unsinkable" naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk. As Rocky struggles to stay alive, a monstrous mechanical steel stingray surfaces, plowing through the seas it now commands. A U.S. Navy-designed futuristic nuclear stealth submarine the length of a football field in the shape of a giant stingray. Simon Covah, a brilliant scientist whose entire family were the victims of terrorism has hijacked the sub. Believing violence is a disease, C...
|  | Watching for Mermaids
Publication Date: December 21, 2011As a young boy, rounding a bend in a remote Maine cove, Dave Roper stumbled upon two mermaids.No one believed him then.No one believes him now.But he kept watching and wondering: what is imagined and what is real? And while he watched and wondered during 50 years of waterborne life – as a boy, a teen, an adult, a father – what he pulled from the sea was not another mermaid, but the mystery, possibility, romance, joy, fear, and uncertainty that mermaids represent.Based on real experiences, these 30 stories take you on that journey.Once aboard y...
|  | Ramage's Prize (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 5)
Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 5) The West Indian bases are desperate: post vessels—a vital communications link between England and the West Indies in the war against France—are mysteriously disappearing and no packets have arrived with orders in months. Were the privateers out in full force again? Had Napoleon's navy a secret new weapon? Lieutenant Lord Nicholas Ramage sets out from Jamaica to discover what treachery is threatening to throw the British navy into chaos. ...
|  | An Affair of Honor (Honor Series) (The Honor Series)
Publication Date: September 30, 2006| Series: The Honor Series (Book 5) At the beginning of this fifth novel in Robert N. Macomber's award-winning Honor Series, it's December 1873 and Lieutenant 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 enters his life in Martinique. Then he's suddenly sent off on staf...
|  | Ramage's Devil (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 13)
Publication Date: March 1, 2002| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 13) Captain Lord Ramage's honeymoon in France is interrupted by a sudden end to the Peace of Amiens. Finding themselves on unfriendly soil just hours before hostilities commence, Ramage and his bride elude the grasp of Napoleon's secret police. ...
|  | Black Swan
Publication Date: January 11, 2008When Priscilla Harradine travels back to England accompanied by the rather dull Major Sands, she has no cause to expect her journey will be anything other than uneventful. But also on board the Centaur is Charles de Bernis - a mysterious and intriguing buccaneer. Just as their friendship is beginning to blossom, a dark figure from de Bernis' past emerges to propel them into a thrilling and perilous adventure, taking them right to the heart of pirate life. ...
|  | A Sea of Troubles (John Pearce 9)
Publication Date: November 15, 2012| Series: John Pearce 9 1794. In the wake of the Glorious 1st of June, an equivocal success for the British naval fleet against the French Revolutionary forces, John Pearce has pressing matters to attend to. He has an urgent commission from Lord Hood, he must track down Midshipman Toby Burns and placate Emily who, estranged from her husband, Pearce’s enemy Captain Ralph Barclay, is now under his protection. Meanwhile, the Pearce finds himself aboard HMS Agamemnon, and in series of actions and shore raids, impresses Horatio Nelson with his bold and br...
|  | Hemingway on Fishing
Release Date: October 22, 2002From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family's summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportages were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great writings about the many kinds of fishing he did -- from trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to marlin in the Gulf Stream.In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway speaks of sitting in a café in Paris and writing about what he knew best -- and when it came time to stop, ...
|  | Superior Run
Publication Date: July 22, 2011Paul Findlay is living his dream, sailing the Great Lakes and writing about his voyages to pay the bills. When Paul gets a cryptic call for help from his old college roommate Rich Perry, the dream quickly turns into a nightmare. A sudden turn of events has Rich targeted for death by a powerful, ruthlessadversary, and only Paul is left to help him survive.They set out across Lake Superior to find safety in Canada, but Rich's enemies are closing in.A deadly game of cat-and-mouse across the greatest of the Great Lakes begins . . . and the cat has all the modern ad...
|  | King, Ship, and Sword: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure (Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures)
Release Date: January 4, 2011| Series: Alan Lewrie Naval Adventures December, 1801. The Peace of Amiens ends the long war with Napoleon Bonaparte’s France, but Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, is appalled by its consequences. What is a dashing and successful frigate captain to do with himself ashore on half-pay? And where will Lewrie twiddle his thumbs until the war begins again, as he’s sure it will? Rejoin his wife and in-laws who (mostly) despise him like the Devil hates Holy Water, on his rented farm in Surrey? Peace and domesticity are hellish hard on the rakehells! ...
|  | The Lonely Crossing of Juan Cabrera: A Novel
Publication Date: April 15, 1994In 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 willing to endure the hazards of the open sea, men caught in the mindless violence of a hurricane with noting to hang...
|  | Ramage & the Guillotine (The Lord Ramage Novels)
Publication Date: October 1, 2000| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 6) Across the English Channel, Napoleon has massed a great invasion flotilla. English forces, under Lord Nelson, are all but paralyzed—not knowing the size, strength, or time of the foreign onslaught. In a daring spy scheme to protect British shores, Ramage is chosen to plumb the secrets of the French, and the penalty for failure is the guillotine. ...
| | The Ramage Touch (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 10)
Publication Date: October 1, 2001| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 10) Post Captain Ramage is prowling the Tuscan coast and far from English aid when he encounters a daunting French invasion fleet. As the enemy gathers strength, Ramage must decide how to thwart its actions with only the frigate Calypso and a pair of bomb ketches. ...
|  | Ramage & the Drumbeat (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 2)
Publication Date: April 1, 2000| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 2) The lieutenant is ordered to proceed to Gibraltar "with all possible despatch" aboard His Majesty's ship Kathleen, to support Lord Nelson in a battle with the Spanish off Cape Trafalgar. ...
|  | Blown off Course (John Pearce 7)
Publication Date: December 14, 2011| Series: John Pearce (Book 7) Lieutenant John Pearce is in London seeking protection for his friends, the Pelicans, from a reluctant Admiralty, unaware that they have been turfed off the ship on which he left them in safety. Sitting in the tavern where he and the Pelicans were first press ganged, Pearce considers his future. Lacking funds, an occupation if he leaves naval service, or the evidence of perjury he once had to bring to justice Captain Ralph Barclay, the brute who pressed he and his companions into the Navy, his prospects are not promising. Ralp...
|  | Ramage's Diamond (The Lord Ramage Novels) (Volume 7)
Publication Date: April 1, 2001| Series: The Lord Ramage Novels (Book 7) The youngest captain in His Majesty's Navy, with a reputation for landing impossible assignments, Lord Ramage is dispatched to the Caribbean islands of Martinique and Diamond Rock. The mission seems humdrum: barricade the French within Fort Royal. But sent to sea in the Juno with a crew grown restless and undisciplined under the prior commmand of a drunk, Ramage realizes his vssel may not be up to battle with the French. ...
|  | A Dishonorable Few
Publication Date: October 15, 2011| Series: Honor It is 1869. The United States is painfully recovering from the Civil War and Lt. Peter Wake concludes the first shore duty of his career at Pensacola Naval Yard to become the executive officer of the USS Canton. Headed to turbulent Central America to deal with a former American naval officer turned renegade mercenary, Wake discovers that no one trusts anyone in that deadly part of the world—with good reason.As the action unfolds in Colombia and Panama, Wake realizes that his most dangerous adversary may be a man on his own ship, forcin...
|  | Pitcairn's Island: A Novel
Publication Date: July 14, 2003MEN AGAINST THE SEA is the epic story of the 19 loyal men who, with Captain Bligh at the helm, were set adrift in a 23-foot open launch. Their 3,600-mile voyage remains one of the greatest feats of courage and adventure in the annals of the sea. PITCAIRN's ISLAND unfolds a tale of drunkeness, betrayal, murder, and vengeance as it chronicles the fate of Christian, the mutineers, and a handful of Tahitians, who together take refuge on the loneliest island in the Pacific. ...
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