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Publisher
The Great Courses
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (27 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
If it is possible to make an individual ship fairly safe from pirate attack, why is it so difficult to eradicate the worldwide practice of piracy? Governments in the Americas and Asia have tried to eliminate entire pirate-friendly coastal settlements, but their efforts have never been truly successful. Explore the complex motivations that still attract individuals to "turn pirate."
Author
Series
Daughter of the pirate king volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Formats
Description
Alosa is the daughter of the Siren Queen, and her mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders. Now Alosa and her crew are in a deadly race with Vordan, the pirate king, to find...
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Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"When Hilary Westfield escapes Miss Pim's finishing school to join a misfit pirate crew, she embarks on an unexpectedly magical swashbuckling, plank-walking, searfaring journey"--
Author
Series
Hook's revenge volume 2
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Fresh off her victory over the Neverland crocodile, Jocelyn Hook and her pirate crew hunt for Captain Hook's hidden treasure"--
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Series
Map to everywhere volume 1
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Fin, a master thief from the pirate world of Khaznot Quay, and Marrill, also twelve, of Arizona, cross paths in the magical world of the Pirate Stream while on a quest for a mysterious map.
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Series
Roman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
161 p. : maps ; 22 cm.
Description
At a refugee camp following the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius which buried Pompeii, Flavia and her friends discover that children are disappearing and a very powerful citizen might be involved.
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Series
Jupiter pirates volume 1
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Description
"A family of space privateers becomes embroiled in a solar system-wide conspiracy, all while the three siblings compete to determine who will become the next captain of the ship when their mother steps down"--
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xi, 308 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Links multi-national organized crime syndicates and local warlords to current threats in national security and the War on Terror, and reveals the role of piracy in environmental hazards, economic problems, and jihad activities.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xxix, 175 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Seventeenth-century pirate proletariats and Madagascar royalty as avant-garde "influencers" in the evolution of Enlightenment concepts of democratic governance, a pirate tale you haven't read but should. The distinguished anthropologist, David Graeber, incendiary, revered, and missed author of Debt, Bullshit Jobs, and The Dawn of Everything (with David Wengrow), has left readers one final dazzling gem of a book. Short, sweet, utterly original.
Author
Series
Shivers! (Annabeth Bondor-Stone) volume 4
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books, a division of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
178 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
"Shivers, the pirate who's afraid of everything, battles a giant squid, discovers hidden treasures, and gets pooped on by a pigeon to save his parents from the clutches of evil"--
14) Fish
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
241 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Description
Eleven-year-old Fish, seeking a way to help his family financially, becomes a reluctant cabin boy on a pirate ship, where he soon makes friends--and enemies--and is asked to help decipher clues that might lead to a legendary treasure.
15) Lightningborn
Author
Series
Storm dragons volume 1
Publisher
Disney, Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Searching for a True Dragon in order to save humanity, one capable of intelligent thought and the ability to use magic, Princess Gem finds fate intervening in the form of Remy and his rare dragon, Storm, who are the targets of an evil pirate.
16) Beauty queens
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Description
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
351 pages ; 22 cm
Description
With memory lapses becoming more frequent from serial-concussion syndrome, a black ops specialist, Aubrey Sentro, must elude the pirates who have seized the cargo ship she's on, save the passengers and get home safely to her children.
Author
Series
Time twisters volume 2
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
151 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Abigail Adams, Pirate of the Caribbean, is a chapter book in the Time Twisters series by award-winning author Steve Sheinkin about what happens when a famous First Lady tires of life in the White House. Also check out Abraham Lincoln, Pro Wrestler! --amazon.com.
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