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“In the first nineteen months of European war, from September 1939 to March of 1941, the island nation of Britain and her allies lost, to U-boat, air, and sea attack, to mines and maritime disaster, one thousand five hundred and ninety-six merchant vessels. It was the job of the Intelligence Division of the Royal Navy to stop it, and so, on the last day of April 1941 . . .”
May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp...
May 1941. At four in the morning, a rust-streaked tramp...
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Victoria "Smokey" Simmons stands silently on deck as her father's body is lowered into the Atlantic, asking God for the strength she will need to command the Aramis alone. Not wanting to remain at sea forever, Smokey dreams of the time when she can trade her life aboard ship for a home and family. When she meets another captain, Dallas Knight, Smokey believes her dream will finally come true. But circumstances beyond their control and the schemes...
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Forge
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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Like his father before him, Robert Fallon finds his destiny is also twisted around a double-edged fate, which will mark him for life--the unbearable attraction of forbidden love and the seductive call of war.
As Captain of the Osprey, he has sailed the globe to avoid the woman he should not desire. But the rumblings of war are once again echoing across a struggling young nation and Robert must return to South Carolina.
Waiting for him is the War...
7) Mortal leap
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Recovered Books, Boiler House Press
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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Mortal Leap tells a story we all know but have never heard: what happens when you have an opportunity to take another person's identity? A wife identifies a man badly disfigured in battle as her missing husband. What happens when he decides to go along with her mistake? Mortal Leap is both adventure story and metaphysical novel.
11) The sacred land
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Forge
Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Sailing to Phoenicia, where they hope to make profitable trades and see the exotic lands, Menedemos and Sostratos hire a group of Aphrodite sailors as bodyguards and find their quest complicated by Sostratos's new brother-in-law, who has recommended an unwise investment.
12) Mary Peters
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The Macmillan Company
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1934.
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English
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The story of the daughter of a Maine sea captain, born on a merchant ship off Singapore and for fifteen years brought up and educated on her father's vessel. Her later life is spent in a little Maine village where her sterling traits come to fine fruition.
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Modern Library
Pub. Date
2002.
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English
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"Redburn charts the coming-of-age of Wellingborough Redburn, a young innocent who embarks on a crossing to Liverpool together with a roguish crew. Once in Liverpool, Redburn encounters the squalid conditions of the city and meets Harry Bolton, a bereft and damaged soul, who takes him on a tour of London that includes a scene of rococo decadence unlike anything else in Melville's fiction."--Jacket.
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Rinehart editions ; 36
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Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Pub. Date
[1965]
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English
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University of Massachusetts Press
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[1997]
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English
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This is the First Complete modern edition of The Female Marine, a fictional cross-dressing trilogy originally published between 1815 and 1818. Enormously popular among the New England readers, the tale in various versions appeared in no fewer than nineteen editions over that brief four-year span. This new edition appends three other contemporary accounts of cross-dressing and urban vice which, together with The Female Marine, provide a unique portrayal...
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