Author: Bren Yarbrough Bruhn
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557091179
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 266
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Delilah Delacroix is quite literally at the end of her rope when she meets Captain James Stirling, an 18th Century pirate that has somehow managed to travel through time to the 20th Century.Upon the death of her loveable, but free-spending uncle, Delilah discovers she is near bankruptcy and stands to lose her only source of income, the run-down Key West art gallery he left her. She has no money for her college tuition, and her husband is leaving her for a MAN. Certain that nothing short of suicide could be a possible solution, she decides to do the deed on Halloween night, during the biggest celebration on the island. James appears in the nick of time, and thwarts Delilah's plan. In the space of less than 24 hours, "Smiling Jim," turns her life upside down and gives her a new reason to live... and the courage to love again.
Author: Tony Cliff
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1626726965
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 178
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Lovable ne'er-do-well Delilah Dirk is an adventurer for the 19th century. She has traveled to Japan, Indonesia, France, and even the New World. Using the skills she's picked up on the way, Delilah's adventures continue as she plots to rob a rich and corrupt Sultan in Constantinople. With the aid of her flying boat and her newfound friend, Selim, she evades the Sultan's guards, leaves angry pirates in the dust, and fights her way through the countryside. For Delilah, one adventure leads to the next in this thrilling and funny installment in her exciting life. Tony Cliff's Delilah Dirk and the Turkish Lieutenant is a great pick for any reader looking for a smart and foolhardy heroine...and globetrotting adventures. A Publishers Weekly Best Children's Book of 2013 A Kirkus Reviews Best Teen Book of 2013
Author: Jordan Morris
Publisher: First Second
ISBN: 1250846471
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Based on the smash-hit audio serial, Bubble is a hilarious high-energy graphic novel with a satirical take on the “gig economy.” Built and maintained by corporate benevolence, the city of Fairhaven is a literal bubble of safety and order (and amazing coffee) in the midst of the Brush, a harsh alien wilderness ruled by monstrous Imps and rogue bands of humans. Humans like Morgan, who’s Brush-born and Bubble-raised and fully capable of fending off an Imp attack during her morning jog. She’s got a great routine going—she has a chill day job, she recreationally kills the occasional Imp, then she takes that Imp home for her roommate and BFF, Annie, to transform into drugs as a side hustle. But cracks appear in her tidy life when one of those Imps nearly murders a delivery guy in her apartment, accidentally transforming him into a Brush-powered mutant in the process. And when Morgan’s company launches Huntr, a gig economy app for Imp extermination, she finds herself press-ganged into kicking her stabby side job up to the next level as she battles a parade of monsters and monstrously Brush-turned citizens, from a living hipster beard to a book club hive mind.
Author: Michael Cristian
Publisher: Austin Macauley Publishers
ISBN: 1398457671
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Epic adventure on the high seas! A young British aristocrat abandons his life of wealth and privilege in exchange for vengeance! Michael d’ Argentan’s world is turned upside down when he learns about the brutal death of his beloved parents at the hands of the infamous Barbary Pirates! With a burning and passionate desire to avenge them he sets off on a desperate quest to search them out. Along the way he joins the Bandaliers who are at war with the Barbaries. Honor, life and even love are at stake in his daring journey. A master swordsman, from one fight to another, nothing will stop him from fulfilling his mission. The Barbary Pirates...the world’s most feared pirates of all time...UNTIL NOW!
Author: Damon Norko
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0557714990
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 388
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The "War Between the Sexes" is over . . . the men won. There have been casualties. There have been scars. There have been secrets . . . Enter Forrest Baxter: The "mystery man." Is he just acting weird? Or has he stumbled onto a real mystery? Follow Forrest as he unwinds the truth of his strange alternate world, rediscovering love along the way.
Author: Jessica Sherry
Publisher: Jessica Sherry
ISBN: 0996294171
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 407
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What’re ten seconds compared to a lifetime? Bookstore manager and amateur detective Delilah Duffy knows better than most that disaster strikes in seconds. When Beach Read’s Happily Ever After Book Bash ends in fiery destruction, everything she’s worked for burns with it—her home, business, and relationship with Sam. But when Beach Read’s owner offers her two weeks to find the culprit to ensure his insurance claim, Delilah knows this is her last chance to rebuild her treasured bookstore and get her life back. So, pregnant and brokenhearted, Delilah directs her anger toward what she’s good at—solving mysteries. Hot on the trail of an arsonist while her nemesis is on hers, Delilah partners with her investigative journalist uncle Clark Duffy to piece together clues, confront suspects, and fight for the truth with more at stake than ever before. Will she solve the case before the pyromaniac strikes again? Or will all her island dreams end in an inferno? ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “I was intrigued to see what was going to happen next, and how the whole mystery would play out and the culprit revealed. I never guessed the ending at all!” ⭐⭐⭐⭐ “…a suspenseful and captivating novel that will keep readers enthralled until the final page.”
Author: B. R. Burg
Publisher: NYU Press
ISBN: 0814712355
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Explores the sexual world of the one of the most fabled and romanticized character in history--the pirate Pirates are among the most heavily romanticized and fabled characters in history. From Bluebeard to Captain Hook, they have been the subject of countless movies, books, children's tales, even a world-famous amusement park ride. In Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition, historian B. R. Burg investigates the social and sexual world of these sea rovers, a tightly bound brotherhood of men engaged in almost constant warfare. What, he asks, did these men, often on the high seas for years at a time, do for sexual fulfillment? Buccaneer sexuality differed widely from that of other all- male institutions such as prisons, for it existed not within a regimented structure of rule, regulations, and oppressive supervision, but instead operated in a society in which widespread toleration of homosexuality was the norm and conditions encouraged its practice. In his new introduction, Burg discusses the initial response to the book when it was published in 1983 and how our perspectives on all-male societies have since changed.
Author: Neal Shusterman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780812538724
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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A collection of 10 stories filled with suspense and humor.
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Publisher: Pirates, Pearls & Paradise
ISBN: 160461661X
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Author: Kevin Hearne
Publisher: Del Rey
ISBN: 1524797812
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 379
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This princess can shave herself! The hilarious bestselling authors of Kill the Farm Boy and No Country for Old Gnomes are back with a new adventure in the irreverent world of Pell. Once upon a time, a princess slept in a magical tower cloaked in thorns and roses. When she woke, she found no Prince Charming, only a surfeit of hair and grotesquely long fingernails—which was, honestly, better than some creep who acted without consent. She cut off her long braids and used them to escape. But she kept the beard because it made a great disguise. This is not a story about finding true love’s kiss—it's a story about finding yourself. On a pirate ship. Where you belong. But these are no ordinary pirates aboard The Puffy Peach, serving under Filthy Lucre, the one-eyed parrot pirate captain. First there’s Vic, a swole and misogynistic centaur on a mission to expunge himself of the magic that causes him to conjure tea and dainty cupcakes in response to stress. Then there’s Tempest, who’s determined to become the first dryad lawyer—preferably before she takes her ultimate form as a man-eating tree. They’re joined by Alobartalus, an awkward and unelfly elf who longs to meet his hero, the Sn’archivist who is said to take dictation directly from the gods of Pell. Throw in some mystery meat and a dastardly capitalist plot, and you’ve got one Pell of an adventure on the high seas! In this new escapade set in the magical land of Pell, Delilah S. Dawson and Kevin Hearne lovingly skewer the tropes of fairy tales and create a new kind of fantasy: generous, gently humorous, and inclusive. There might also be otters.
