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Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, had a wide ranging career as a sailor and as a soldier, before settling down to practice medicine in the town of Bridgewater. The town begins to fight for the Duke of Manmouth, and though Peter wants no part in the rebellion, he tends to the wounded soldiers. Because of this he is convicted to treason, and sentenced to death by hanging. King James II, for purely financial reason, decides to sell the criminals as...
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Alexander Hawke thrillers volume 1
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ATRIA Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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417 p. : map ; 24 cm.
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A sailing trip to the Caribbean might sound great, but sixteen-year-old Rachel can't stand being trapped on a small boat with her family. She misses her best friend and feels guilty about leaving her older sister Emma, who lives in a group home. Her father is driving her crazy with his schedules and rules, her brother is miserable, and there is never anyone her own age around. Worst of all, there is nowhere to go when her parents fight. While their...
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Ethan Gage adventures volume 5
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Harper
Pub. Date
2012
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While in the Caribbean, swashbuckling hero Ethan Gage and his new wife, Astiza, embark on a desperate search to find the lost treasure of Montezuma, which plunges them into the center of a bloody slave revolt.
9) La isla
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Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
1995
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[40] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
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A young girl and her grandmother take an imaginary journey to the Caribbean island where her mother grew up and where some of her family still lives.
10) Havana storm
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 23
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"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
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Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1993
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161 p. ; 22 cm.
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Having survived being blinded and shipwrecked on a tiny Caribbean island with the old black man Timothy, twelve-year-old white Phillip is rescued and hopes to regain his sight with an operation. Alternate chapters follow the life of Timothy from his days as a young cabin boy.
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The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 3
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After two out-of-season hurricanes nearly destroy her island home, Corinne discovers that the god Huracan is angry and she, aided by friends and enemies alike, races to calm him.
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Zombie chasers volume 6
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Escaping the mainland for the Caribbean, Zack Clarke and his team search for an eccentric explorer and renowned zombie expert who may be able to cure the zombie pandemic.
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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290 pages ; 22 cm
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Deb and Chip, a couple honeymooning at a Caribbean resort, meet a marine biologist who claims to have sighted mermaids at a nearby coral reef, and join with other adventurers to protect the mermaids when the resort reveals plans to build a theme park on the reef.
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"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with anending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2004
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1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
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A seed from a mangrove tree floats on the sea until it comes to rest on the shore of a faraway lagoon where, over time, it becomes a mangrove island that shelters many birds and animals, even during a hurricane.
19) Ship of secrets
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Hardy Boys secret files volume 15
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2014.
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93 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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While on a cruise with their family, Frank and Joe investigate the theft of former pop idol Izzy's pocket watch.
20) Into the storm
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Pawtriot dogs volume 3
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Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2020]
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84 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
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"After their victory in Texas, the Pawtriots are en route back home to Washington, DC. But when a massive storm on the Atlantic Ocean rolls in, Sergeant Rico and his team take shelter on a mysterious island in the Caribbean"--
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