Author: James Churches
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976270409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"SOS: The Pirates have taken America! They SACKED Liberty and stole the presidency, DISEMBOWELED Kyoto's treaty on global warming, BURNED DOWN the Court of Earthly Justice, PILLAGED the public treasury and gave the money to their pirate friends, LOOTED billions of $$'s for a worthless missile defense system, took a holiday and ignored the worst terrorist threat in American history, EVISCERATED the public forests, water and air, INVENTED the reasons to start a disgraceful war, MOCKED and RIDICULED the world community. And they've got the BALLS to run for reelection? Aye, mateys! That's why we call 'em PIRATES!"--Page 4 of cover.
Pirates of the Potomac Or The Squid
Author: James Churches
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976270409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"SOS: The Pirates have taken America! They SACKED Liberty and stole the presidency, DISEMBOWELED Kyoto's treaty on global warming, BURNED DOWN the Court of Earthly Justice, PILLAGED the public treasury and gave the money to their pirate friends, LOOTED billions of $$'s for a worthless missile defense system, took a holiday and ignored the worst terrorist threat in American history, EVISCERATED the public forests, water and air, INVENTED the reasons to start a disgraceful war, MOCKED and RIDICULED the world community. And they've got the BALLS to run for reelection? Aye, mateys! That's why we call 'em PIRATES!"--Page 4 of cover.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976270409
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
"SOS: The Pirates have taken America! They SACKED Liberty and stole the presidency, DISEMBOWELED Kyoto's treaty on global warming, BURNED DOWN the Court of Earthly Justice, PILLAGED the public treasury and gave the money to their pirate friends, LOOTED billions of $$'s for a worthless missile defense system, took a holiday and ignored the worst terrorist threat in American history, EVISCERATED the public forests, water and air, INVENTED the reasons to start a disgraceful war, MOCKED and RIDICULED the world community. And they've got the BALLS to run for reelection? Aye, mateys! That's why we call 'em PIRATES!"--Page 4 of cover.
My Name Is Resolute
Author: Nancy E. Turner
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250036585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
One of Book Riot's top 100 Must-Read Books of American Historical Fiction! Nancy Turner burst onto the literary scene with her hugely popular novels These Is My Words, Sarah's Quilt, and The Star Garden. Now, Turner has written the novel she was born to write, this exciting and heartfelt story of a woman struggling to find herself during the tumultuous years preceding the American Revolution. The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica, and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find her way in a society that is quick to judge a young woman without a family. As the seeds of rebellion against England grow, Resolute is torn between following the rules and breaking free. Resolute's talent at the loom places her at the center of an incredible web of secrecy that helped drive the American Revolution. Heart-wrenching, brilliantly written, and packed to the brim with adventure, My Name is Resolute is destined to be an instant classic.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250036585
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
One of Book Riot's top 100 Must-Read Books of American Historical Fiction! Nancy Turner burst onto the literary scene with her hugely popular novels These Is My Words, Sarah's Quilt, and The Star Garden. Now, Turner has written the novel she was born to write, this exciting and heartfelt story of a woman struggling to find herself during the tumultuous years preceding the American Revolution. The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica, and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving. When Resolute finds herself alone in Lexington, Massachusetts, she struggles to find her way in a society that is quick to judge a young woman without a family. As the seeds of rebellion against England grow, Resolute is torn between following the rules and breaking free. Resolute's talent at the loom places her at the center of an incredible web of secrecy that helped drive the American Revolution. Heart-wrenching, brilliantly written, and packed to the brim with adventure, My Name is Resolute is destined to be an instant classic.
Seraglio
Author: Janet Wallach
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780385490467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Transporting readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, biographer and Middle East expert Janet Wallach brilliantly re-imagines the life of Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine, in her first novel "Seraglio. At the age of thirteen, when en route from France to her home in Martinique, Aimee Dubucq is kidnapped by Algerian pirates. Blonde and blue-eyed, the genteel young girl is a valuable commodity, and she is soon placed in service in the Seraglio - the Ottoman Sultan's private world - in Topkapi Palace. As Dubucq, renamed Nakshidil ("embroidered on the heart") discovers the erotic secrets that win favor of kings and deftly learns the affairs of the empire, she struggles to retain her former identity, including her Catholic faith. Overtime Nakshidil becomes the intimate of several powerful sultans: wife to one, lover and confidante to another, and adoptive mother to a third. Her life often treads the tenuous line between sumptuous pleasures and mere survival until her final years when she is awarded control of the harem as the valide, mother of the Sultan. With phenomenal research and a mesmerizing voice, Janet Wallach provides a powerful and passionate glimpse of East-West history through one woman's distinctly European eyes.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780385490467
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Transporting readers to the menacing yet majestic world of eighteenth-century Turkey, biographer and Middle East expert Janet Wallach brilliantly re-imagines the life of Aimee Dubucq, cousin of Empress Josephine, in her first novel "Seraglio. At the age of thirteen, when en route from France to her home in Martinique, Aimee Dubucq is kidnapped by Algerian pirates. Blonde and blue-eyed, the genteel young girl is a valuable commodity, and she is soon placed in service in the Seraglio - the Ottoman Sultan's private world - in Topkapi Palace. As Dubucq, renamed Nakshidil ("embroidered on the heart") discovers the erotic secrets that win favor of kings and deftly learns the affairs of the empire, she struggles to retain her former identity, including her Catholic faith. Overtime Nakshidil becomes the intimate of several powerful sultans: wife to one, lover and confidante to another, and adoptive mother to a third. Her life often treads the tenuous line between sumptuous pleasures and mere survival until her final years when she is awarded control of the harem as the valide, mother of the Sultan. With phenomenal research and a mesmerizing voice, Janet Wallach provides a powerful and passionate glimpse of East-West history through one woman's distinctly European eyes.
Naval Science 2
Author: Richard R. Hobbs
Publisher: Naval Inst Press
ISBN: 9781591143666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
A Textbook on Maritime History, Leadership, and Nautical Sciences for the NJROTC Student
Publisher: Naval Inst Press
ISBN: 9781591143666
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
A Textbook on Maritime History, Leadership, and Nautical Sciences for the NJROTC Student
The Men All Singing
Author: John Frye
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915442645
Category : Menhaden fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780915442645
Category : Menhaden fisheries
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
The Mad Ones
Author: Kait Kerrigan
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
ISBN: 0573708290
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... 18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly’s killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision. Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?
Publisher: Concord Theatricals
ISBN: 0573708290
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 91
Book Description
Mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved... 18-year-old Samantha Brown sits in a hand-me-down car with the keys clutched in her hand. Caught between a yearning for the unknown and feeling bound by expectation, she telescopes back to a time before her world had fallen apart. As she relives her senior year, we meet Sam’s well-intentioned helicopter mother Bev and her high school sweetheart of a boyfriend Adam, but it’s her painfully alive best friend Kelly that haunts her. Kelly was everything Sam is not – impetuous and daring. She pushed Sam to break rules and do the unexpected. When Kelly’s killed in a car wreck, Sam loses not only her best friend but also the part of herself that was learning to be brave. Now, Sam has to make a decision. Will she follow her mother’s dreams for her, or will she summon the courage to drive away from her friends and family into a future she can’t imagine?
On Wilder Seas
Author: Nikki Marmery
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781004005468
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
April 1579. When two ships meet off the Pacific coast of New Spain, an enslaved woman seizes the chance to escape. But Maria has unwittingly joined Francis Drake's circumnavigation voyage as he sets sail on a secret detour into the far north. Sailing into the unknown on the Golden Hind, a lone woman among eighty men, Maria will be tested to the very limits of her endurance. It will take all her wits to survive - and courage to cut the ties that bind her to Drake to pursue her own journey. How far will Maria go to be truly free? Inspired by a true story, this is the tale of one woman's uncharted voyage to freedom.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781004005468
Category : Large type books
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
April 1579. When two ships meet off the Pacific coast of New Spain, an enslaved woman seizes the chance to escape. But Maria has unwittingly joined Francis Drake's circumnavigation voyage as he sets sail on a secret detour into the far north. Sailing into the unknown on the Golden Hind, a lone woman among eighty men, Maria will be tested to the very limits of her endurance. It will take all her wits to survive - and courage to cut the ties that bind her to Drake to pursue her own journey. How far will Maria go to be truly free? Inspired by a true story, this is the tale of one woman's uncharted voyage to freedom.
Angelfish
Author: Michael Walrath
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1608440893
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
ISBN: 1608440893
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Forest and Stream
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 536
Book Description
Atlantic Naturalist
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description