This book details the life of several pirates of the early and mid 1800's. Captain Kidd, Morgan, and the infamous Blackbeard. If you like pirate stories and legends, this book is for you. You will find few books as detailed and beautifully illustrated as this book. It is truly a gem for collectors.
Trapped in the dreary Angels Academy for Young Maidens by her tyrant father, 17-year-old Artemesia Blastside (Art to her friends) dreams of the seafaring life she once led with her mother, a notorious pirate, killed six years before by an untimely cannonblast. Unaware that her memories of glamorous characters and high adventure are not what they seem, she seizes her chance to escape. Now she's off in search of her mother's old crew, her heart set on the High Seas, the Blue Indies of the Caribbea...
Something is amiss in the city of Calibas ... That is the warning Fox and his Shavid companions are given when they find themselves in this strange place with its mad ruler. While Fox has spent months on the road now, learning everything he can about his gifts and powers as a Cartomancer, there is something in the air of Calibas that will test him further than ever before. A curious magic that lives and breathes, dangerous and illusive. Dropped suddenly into the world of political intrigue, wit...
When modern day pirates attack their boat, killing her stepfather, seriously injuring her mother, and taking most of their supplies, fourteen-year-old Libby has to nurse her mother, get the crippled boat running, and find the right course to safety.
The Kingdom is dying...The Darkness is coming...the balance between Order and Chaos is rapidly shifting and the world is falling towards evil and horror, and all the misery that Chaos will bring. But there is hope...Pardigan's had enough, he's only 12, but he's breaking into the home of one of Freya's richest merchants...and he's doing it tonight...A burglary that will change their lives forever sets four friends upon a quest, a race against time, to locate three magical objects and complete an...
Immortal Plunder (Pirates of Felicity, #1)
by Kelly St. Clare
There are three types of people in the Exosian Realm—males, females, and pirates.I’m a pirate. One with six overprotective fathers for a crew. And if I’m telling the honest truth, not just the pirate truth, having so many fathers is working pretty well for me so far.When I’m caught eavesdropping on the pirates of Malice, they retaliate with violence, and my fathers become set on revenge. But simple payback cascades into shattering misfortune.Unexplainable magical happenings and impossible creatu...
Darkness will rise ... and the nightmares will come.It’s a race against time for Fox and his companions as they find themselves in the middle of Neil’s desert rebellion. But for once, their magical gifts may not be enough to save them, and Fox’s own story may finally be their undoing. Never before has so much been at stake for Fox and Lai, and the bonds that hold their entire group of friends together. But darkness is rising, and they are the one hope of light to burn it away.
In a world fueled by magic harvested from whales, Annie Fairfax is heiress to its most eminent whaling company, until her fiance betrays her and takes over. Forced into hiding, Annie must place her trust in a young renegade captain who promises to restore her to power if she helps him find the legendary underwater city of the whalers' ancient enemies, the deadly finfolk—but he's keeping secrets too.
Hell’s exit appears once a day.My very life—and the key to escaping Davy Jones’ Locker—rests in figuring out Mutinous Cannon’s sinister plan.He needs my crew in hell.We have to figure out why before time runs out.But Plank is sinking into an abyss where none of us can follow, Mutinous’ presence has rocked my fathers to their very cores, and now I find myself unable to ignore the heat mounting within me.. . . Yet giving in to my feelings for one will hurt another.I can’t lose my fathers, my crew,...
The Ghost of the Wicked Crow (The Lost Zenith, #1)
by Scott R. Welvaert
"Things forgotten can be remembered, and some stories are meant to be told."The world outside Thicca Valley is so much bigger than Fox had ever imagined. And much, much stranger. Now, alongside his closest friends and allies both new and old, Fox has set out to repay a debt, and help restore the Pirate God Farran to his former glory. But there are more curiosities waiting around every corner than even Fox’s Cartomancy may be able to handle. With the looming threat of a mysterious darkness, and t...
The second book in a heart-stopping trilogy that follows the captain of an all-female ship intent on taking down a vicious warlord's powerful fleet. Caledonia may have lost her crew, but she's not done fighting yet. After nearly dying at the hand of a powerful foe, Caledonia is pulled from the sea and nursed back to health by a crew of former Bullets that call themselves Blades. The Blades escaped Aric Athair's clutches and now live a nomadic existence, ready to disappear at a moment's notice s...