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The Hungry Horizon: Pirates of the Pacific
It’s 1679 in Port Royal, Jamaica. English sailor Tom Sheppard and two of his mates join an expedition to steal…
Deadly Secret of the Lusitania
Ivan Light’s debut novel Deadly Secret of the Lusitania joins the long shelf of books about the sinking of the…
Plunder
A teenage boy in 1685 England inherits a mysterious box that takes three keys to open. He only has one,…
HMS Prometheus
Bond delivers another fast-paced, high-impact piece of Napoleonic-era naval fiction with HMS Prometheus, eighth in his Fighting Sails series. In…
Philip Nolan
Editors' choice
The novel begins in 1807. Philip Nolan, a young lieutenant in the western territories, is caught up in Vice President…
The Perils of Command
1794. Lieutenant John Pearce, who is in temporary command of HMS Flirt, due to his captain Henry Digby being wounded,…
Unto the Breach (The John Paul Jones Saga, Volume 1)
In the first volume of a series intent on dramatizing the life of the “father” of the American Navy, John…
The Funny Thing About War
The Funny Thing About War, Al Campo’s big, warm-hearted, and often quite funny debut novel, centers on twenty-two-year-old Chris Columbo,…
Rush Oh!
Australians may be familiar with the shore whaling enterprises that operated in Twofold Bay, New South Wales, until the early…
Five Guns Blazing
“Convict’s daughter, Laetitia Beedham, is set on an epic journey from the back streets of London, through transportation to Barbados…
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