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1) Voyager
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Series
Outlander novels volume 3
Language
English
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Time-travelling Claire Randall returns to her own time, pregnant and weary, and resumes her life, but her memories of her eighteenth-century Scottish lover Jamie Fraser will not die, leading her to a desperate decision to return to him.
Author
Series
Brotherband chronicles volume 6
Language
English
Description
When a massive storm at sea blows the Brotherband crew off course to a land so far west Hal cannot recognize it from his maps, they face an unknown enemy.
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Language
English
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After drinking an elixir that bestows immortality upon him, a young Indian named Flapping Eagle spends the next seven hundred years sailing the seas with the blessing-and ultimately the burden-of living forever. Eventually, weary of the sameness of life, he journeys to the mountainous Calf Island to regain his mortality. There he meets other immortals obsessed with their own stasis and sets out to scale the island's peak, from which the mysterious...
5) Namesake
Author
Series
Fable (Adrienne Young) volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Trader. Fighter. Survivor. With the Marigold ship free of her father, Fable and its crew were set to start over. That freedom is short-lived when she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug’s scheme. In order to get to her intended destination she must help him to secure a partnership with Holland, a powerful gem trader who is more than she seems. As Fable descends deeper into a world of betrayal and deception, she learns that the secrets her mother...
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Napoleon Bonaparte continues planning for the invasion of England as the Royal Navy patrols the seas. When convoluted political machinations in England lead to the impeachment of the head of the Navy, Commander Thomas Kydd is forced to choose sides.
8) Tenacious
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"Kydd is in Halifax when Tenacious is summoned to join Horatio Nelson on an urgent reconnaissance mission. However, Bonaparte evades the British ships, sailing towards Egypt, which holds the key to the route to India."--
9) Fable
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Series
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Fable joins the young, motley crew of the Marigold to escape the island where her father abandoned her, but she quickly realizes life off the island is more dangerous than she imaged.
As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home Fable has ever known. Four years ago she watched her mother drown during a storm-- and the next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves...
10) Ship of magic
Author
Series
Liveship traders volume 1
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Bingtown is a hub of exotic trade and home to a merchant nobility famed for its liveships--rare vessels carved from wizardwood, which ripens magically into sentient awareness. Now the fortunes of one of Bingtown's oldest families rest on the newly awakened liveship Vivacia. For Althea Vestrit, the ship is her rightful legacy. For Althea's young nephew, wrenched from his religious studies and forced to serve aboard the Vivacia, the ship is a life...
11) Seafire
Author
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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Description
After her family is killed by corrupt warlord Aric Athair and his bloodthirsty army of Bullets, Caledonia Styx is left to chart her own course on the dangerous and deadly seas. She captains her ship, the Mors Navis, with a crew of girls and women just like her, whose lives have been turned upside down by Aric and his men. The crew has one misson: stay alive, and take down Aric's armed and armored fleet. But when Caledonia's best friend and second-in-command...
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Series
Soul keepers volume 2
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Harbinger is lost, sunk to the bottom of an otherworldly sea. Every soul that ever died and was protected within its hold has been lost along with it. But at least that precious cargo is out of reach of the demon Urcena and her army of soul-devouring monsters. For now. The soul keepers are broken, scattered, and barely clinging to existence without their ship or any way to collect or protect the souls of the newly dead. If they are to have any...
13) Tides of mutiny
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Series
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books/Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
©2021.
Language
English
Description
"A sixteen-year-old girl hiding as a cabin boy must fight for her place in a world that executes female sailors, all while falling for a mysterious stowaway who could destroy everything"--
14) The Baltic prize
Author
Series
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
1808. Parted from his new bride, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is called away to join the Northern Expedition to Sweden, now Britain's only ally in the Baltic. Following the sudden declaration of war by Russia and with the consequent threat of the czar's great fleet in St Petersburg, the expedition must defend Britain's dearly-won freedom in those waters. However Kydd finds his popular fame as a frigate captain is a poisoned chalice; in the face of jealousy...
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
In the eighth book of this popular series, Thomas Kydd and Nicholas Renzi return to England in 1803 after tumultuous episodes on the other side of the world to find England in peril of starvation and bankruptcy. Kydd is placed back in command of his beloved vessel, Teazer, but he barely has time to prep her for the sea when he is sent on an urgent mission. Smugglers, enemy privateers, and treacherous sea conditions await Kydd on his journey to northern...
16) Stormbreak
Author
Series
Seafire trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this epic conclusion to the Seafire trilogy, ... Caledonia Styx will risk everything--her heart, her crew, and even her life--to defeat Lir and take back the Bullet Seas once and for all"--
Aric Athair is dead, but the fight for the Bullet Seas is far from over. Caledonia's nemesis, Lir has seized control of the warlord's army. She and her crew flee to Cloudbreak to prepare for an all-out war. As defecting soldiers begin to show up in droves...
17) Inferno
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press, Inc
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
Copenhagen Harbor is on fire . . . 1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd resumes command of Tyger and is ordered to join a great armada on a desperate mission to pressure the Danish Crown Prince to turn his fleet over to Britain before Napoleon has the opportunity to seize it. On a parallel mission Nicholas Renzi-the Lord Farndon, also Kydd's best friend and brother-in-law-fails in an effort at using diplomacy to persuade the Danes to give up their fleet...
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"As the captain of a useful frigate, Kydd is claimed by the Leeward Islands station, exchanging the harsh situation in South America for the warmth and delights of the Caribbean. It's a sea change for Kydd, who revisits places and people that figured in his time as a young seaman. Some are nostalgic and pleasing, while others bring challenges of a personal nature. In Europe, Napoleon is triumphant on land, but so far away in the Caribbean, Kydd and...
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Kydd is offered a new command but that ship is still under construction, so he decides to look up one of his old naval friends and enjoy some of the pleasures of London. This is cut short when he is summoned to Portsmouth to bear witness at the trial of Sir Home Popham for his actions at Cape Town and Buenos Aires. When his personal feelings about the way his old commander was treated become public, Kydd finds himself in hot water with the Admiralty....
20) The soul keepers
Author
Series
Soul keepers volume 1
Publisher
Swoon Reads
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
After his death in a car accident, Rhett Snyder becomes a syllektor and joins the crew of the Harbinger, a ship tasked with ferrying the souls of the dead.
Rhett awakens in the afterlife after a car accident, and is recruited to join the crew of the Harbinger, a colossal seafaring vessel tasked with ferrying the souls of the dead. To where exactly, no one knows. But the crew must get the souls there, and along the way protect them from vicious soul-eating...
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