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In seafaring literature, no fictional sailor's story can match this true, real-life adventure. Before the Wind is the memoir of early nineteenth-century sea captain Charles Tyng- from his childhood and love affair with the sea to his rise through the ranks to captain and ship owner in the tea and sugar trade. Before the Wind takes listeners on a trip around the world- from visits to Lord Byron in Italy and King Kamehameha in Hawaii to Napoleon's prison...
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A guide for racing yachtsman that is as useful today as when it was first published. Teaching the fundamentals of the start line, beating to windward, rounding a mark, wind abeam, before the wind. This book is a wonderful collection of anecdotes, tactics and case studies.
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Survival! volume 4
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IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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While spreading flames threaten to cut off all possibility of escape from the Chicago fire of 1871, twelve-year-old Nate attempts to save a wealthy young girl and to return home safely.
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Craig Campbell is all set for a relaxing weekend break on a Scottish island, when he meets a group of motorbike fanatics. They invite him to join them for some drinks in the pub, but the evening is spent with a fractious group of people that contains one very divisive influence.
When one of them is murdered, Craig begins an investigation that reveals jealousy, greed, scandal and more. Due to a storm the island is isolated from the mainland and with...
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STONER TO SEEKER: VOLUME I: THE PHOTOGRAPHS is my impression of two of the most fascinating countries in Asia.
Bangladesh is a brand-new country and I was there just a few months after they won their hard fought independence from Pakistan. I have photographed students, small businessmen, fishermen and villagers showing how they realize their hopes and dreams for this verdant paradise.
Kathmandu, Nepal is the last stop on the overland Hippie Trail...
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There was a planet once, called Earth. Its people, scattered like seeds before the wind, came to rest on Agaron...The Star Law of the planet Agaron has never been questioned, until one day when Bardek arrives in the city of Bar-Geda. His premature birth under the dreaded Dark Star had doomed him to be banished to the marshlands, but he found himself drawn like a magnet to the glittering Temple of the White Star. There he found a girl trapped in crystal....
9) The run
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A respected senator from Georgia, Will Lee has aspirations of more.
But a cruel stroke of fate thrusts him onto the national stage well before he expects, and long before he's ready, for a national campaign.
The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous -- and deadly -- than Will and his intelligent, strikingly beautiful wife, Kate, an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine.
A courageous and principled...
10) Reaper's Moon
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Dirk d'Argent is a man of many talents, swordsmanship chief among them. Upon reaching manhood he wandered the Seven Kingdoms of Epigaea plying his sabre in the service of merchants and generals eager to hire him. Then, over a nice meal in the city of Velport, he pauses for an evening of reflection. Up until now Dirk drifted before the wind, traveling as he would wherever fortune nudged him. Though rich with experience, his life begins to feel empty....
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The cornerstones of the DKG Brotherhood are Gavin Gatling, Kufa Siamkwari and Dominic L'Estrange. At the height of the bush war, (Chimurenga II), without a word to his wife Leocardia, Kufa absconds over the border one night to join the Comrades only to return years later to die in the arms of his beloved. After years of procrastinating, Gavin finally agrees to adopt a child called Topaz Nyasha, but he does so on the proviso that no one ever discovers...
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Ideology played a momentous role in modern Japanese history. Not only did the elite of imperial Japan (1890-1945) work hard to influence the people to "yield as the grasses before the wind," but historians of modern Japan later identified these efforts as one of the underlying pathologies of World War II. Available for the first time in paperback, this study examines how this ideology evolved. Carol Gluck argues that the process of formulating and...
13) Midnight Honor
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Weeping from the wild splendor of the moors to the battlefields of a land divided, Marsha Canham weaves an unforgettable novel of Jacobite Scotland - of a man bound by honor - and of the woman fated to both desire and defy him.
Powerful, brave, irresistibly seductive, Angus Moy, chief of Clan Chattan, was everything Lady Anne could desire in a husband and a lover. But that was before the winds of war tore through her homeland.
While Angus was pledged...
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Excerpt: "I had passed from the deck, where I slept, to the cabin in too great a hurry to notice the weather. Now, reaching the poop, I stood a moment or two to look around, being in my way as concerned about the direction of the wind as Vanderdecken himself. It still blew fresh, but the heavens lay open among the clouds that had thickened their bulk into great drooping shining bosoms, as though indeed the crystalline blue under which they sailed...
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It Happened on St. John is a love letter to one of the world's loveliest and most unique communities in one of the world's loveliest and most unique places. Known locally as Love City, St. John is the smallest and most undeveloped of the three main islands of the United States Virgin Islands. The events in Wilson Roberts' most recent novel take place months before Hurricanes Irma and Maria ripped through the Caribbean with fearsome winds and tides,...
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Book 1 - The Reluctant Detective
Craig Campbell's quiet life as an insurance investigator is suddenly disrupted, when Ann Kilpatrick asks him to find her son's killer. At first, he doesn't believe he can help, but reluctantly agrees.
Before long he is plunged into a world of corruption, deceit and greed. His journey takes him from the underbelly of Glaswegian society to the rural idyll of a millionaire's mansion.
Along the way, a death close to home...
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Blackbird trilogy (Heather Graham) volume 2
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"Over a century after Jack, a new Ripper is on the loose. Following in the footsteps of notorious serial murderer Jack the Ripper, a killer is stalking the streets of London. The self-dubbed Ripper King strikes at night, leaving a trail of eviscerated bodies in his wake. Fresh off a case with potential ties to the recent rash of killings, FBI agents Della Hamilton and Mason Carter are all too familiar with a slayer set to rule with a lethal fist....
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"Vivi loves science--and experimenting! In this Level 3 I Can Read! title, Vivi volunteers to help with the clean-up efforts at the beach after a big storm hits her town. But why does the beach look so different than before? Vivi and her friends will have to ask a lot of questions, learn about erosion, and conduct experiments to find out! The Loves Science books introduce readers to girls who love science, as well as basic concepts of science, technology,...
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Kira Duval was part of a special forces team that got caught in an ambush--leaving only two wounded survivors: herself and Weapons Sergeant Garret Fleming. Losing her team was traumatic, and in the chaotic aftermath, as the Army moved them from hospital to hospital, she lost Garret too. But she never lost her secret yearning for him. Finally, she gave up trying to track him down back in the States. But as she settles in at Bar C cattle ranch in Wyoming,...