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1) Black flags, blue waters: the epic history of America's most notorious pirates

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"Set against the backdrop of the Age of Exploration, Black Flags, Blue Waters reveals the dramatic and surprising history of American piracy's 'Golden Age'--spanning the late 1600s through the early 1700s--when lawless pirates plied the coastal waters of North America and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

2) The bloody black flag: a Spider John mystery

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Goble, Steve

Series

Spider John mysteries volume 1

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"1722--aboard a pirate ship off the American Colonial Coast. Spider John Rush never wanted to be a pirate, but it had happened and he'd learned to survive in the world of cut and thrust, fight or die. He and his friend Ezra knew that death could come at any moment, from grapeshot or storm winds or the end of a noose. But when Ezra is murdered in cold blood by a shipmate, Spider vows revenge. On a ship where every man is a killer many times over, how...

3) Bloody Jack: being an account of the curious adventures of Mary "Jacky" Faber, Ship's Boy

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Meyer, L. A. (Louis A.)

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Bloody Jack adventures volume 1

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Life as a ship's boy aboard HMS Dolphin is a dream come true for Jacky Faber. Gone are the days of scavenging for food and fighting for survival on the streets of eighteenth-century London. Instead, Jacky is becoming a skilled and respected sailor as the crew pursues pirates on the high seas. There's only one problem: Jacky is a girl. And she will have to use every bit of her spirit, wit, and courage to keep the crew from discovering her secret. This...

4) Born to be hanged: the epic story of the gentlemen pirates who raided the South Seas, rescued a princess, and stole a fortune

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Thomson, Keith

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Publisher Annotation: A riveting account of the roguish acts of the first pirates to raid the Pacific-a crusade that ended in a sensational trial back in England. 384pp., 50K

5) Captain Blood

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Sabatini, Rafael

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Penguin classics

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Peter Blood, a physician and English gentleman, turned pirate out of a rankling sense of injustice. Barely escaping the gallows after his arrest for treating wounded rebels, Blood is enslaved on a Barbados plantation. When he escapes, no ship sailing the Spanish Main is safe from Blood and his men.

6) Chesapeake Bay privateers in the Revolution

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Szaltis, Leonard

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"During the American Revolution, the Eastern Shore was filled with both Patriots and Loyalists. Both sides attacked the other using privateers--pirates to their enemies. These enterprising locals plundered and pillaged, and motivated by profit, some even fought for both sides. The Chesapeake Bay was the site of one of the last and bloodiest naval battles of the Revolution, and privateers were instrumental in the eventual American victory in the war....

7) Cinnamon and gunpowder

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Brown, Eli

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In 1819, kidnapped chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals at the behest of his kidnapper, pirate queen Mad Hannah Mabbot, while she pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.

8) Colonial Virginia's war against piracy: the governor & the buccaneer

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Moss, Jeremy R

9) Daughter of the pirate king

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Levenseller, Tricia

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Daughter of the pirate king volume 1

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Sent on a mission to retrieve an ancient hidden map-the key to a legendary treasure trove-seventeen-year-old pirate captain Alosa deliberately allows herself to be captured by her enemies, giving her the perfect opportunity to search their ship. More than a match for the ruthless pirate crew, Alosa has only one thing standing between her and the map: her captor, the unexpectedly clever and unfairly attractive first mate Riden. But not to worry, for...

10) Destiny's Captive

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Jenkins, Beverly

Series

Destiny romances (Beverly Jenkins) volume 3

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In national bestselling author Beverly Jenkins' Destiny series, the Yates men play hard and live hard. And when they find that special woman, they fall hard . . .

Noah Yates fully believes in the joys of a happy family and a good wife. But that's not the life for him. No, he would much rather sail the wild seas in search of adventure, not tied down. But then the unthinkable happens . . . he finds himself literally tied down. To a bed. By

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11) Empire of blue water: Captain Morgan's great pirate army, the epic battle for the Americas, and the Catas

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Talty, Stephan

12) Enemies of all: the rise and fall of the golden age of piracy

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Blakemore, Richard

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"The pirates that exist in our imagination are not just any pirates. Violent sea-raiding has occurred in most parts of the world throughout history, but our popular stereotype of pirates has been defined by one historical moment: the period from the 1660s to the 1730s, the so-called 'golden age of piracy.' A groundbreaking history of pirates, Enemies of all combines narrative adventure with deeply researched analysis, engrossing readers in the rise...

13) Enemy of all mankind: a true story of piracy, power, and history's first global manhunt

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Johnson, Steven

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"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...

14) A general history of the pyrates

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Defoe, Daniel

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Discusses pirates such as Avery, Martel, Teach (Blackbeard), Stede Bonnet, Edward England, Charles Vane, John Rackam, Mary Read, Anne Bonny, Howel Davis, Bartholomew Roberts, Thomas Anstis, Worley, George Lowther, Edward Low, John Evans, John Phillips, Francis Spriggs, John Smith, Mission, Tew, William Kid, John Bowen, Halsey, Thomas White, Thomas Howard, David Williams, Samuel Burgess, Nathaniel North, Condent, Bellamy, Lewis, Cornelius, William...

15) The gigantic book of pirate stories

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Over the years, thousands of tales, both true and fantastic, have been told about the dastardly thievery of pirates, and their rum-drunk exploits and high-seas violence never fail to delight. Compiled here are more than 100 of the very best pirate yarns ever created on history's most debaucherous scalawags. The stories, songs, and verses include writing by Daniel Defoe, Mark Twain, Joseph Conrad, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and...

16) The golden age of piracy: the truth behind pirate myths

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Little, Benerson

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18) How to survive in the age of pirates: a handy guide to swashbuckling adventures, avoiding deadly diseases, and escaping ruthless renegades of the high seas

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Boyer, Crispin

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National Geographic kids

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"Set sail into this imaginative series from National Geographic Kids that gives young readers all the know-how they need to survive any time period"-- Provided by publisher.

19) The last pirate of New York: a ghost ship, a killer, and the birth of a gangster nation

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Cohen, Rich

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Documents the story of underworld legend Albert Hicks, chronicling his mid-nineteenth-century crime spree and the plot gone wrong that culminated in an onboard massacre and manhunt in 1860 Coney Island. "The story of Albert Hicks, the most notorious criminal on the New York waterfront, unfolded in the course of three bloody months in the summer before the Civil War. There was a massacre, a flight, a manhunt, and a trial, all of which kept the nation...

20) The Other Miss Bridgerton

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Quinn, Julia

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Rokesby series volume 3

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There were Bridgertons before the eight alphabetically named siblings. In the third of the Bridgerton Prequel series, we go back to where it all began. . . from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn

She was in the wrong place...

Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her

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