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1) Dark watch
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 3
Language
English
Description
Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas...
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 9
Language
English
Description
At the outset of his career with the FBI, Alex Cross is instructed to track down a band of kidnappers who are snatching people and possibly selling them into slavery, a case that is complicated by a terrible threat to Cross's own family.
Author
Series
Curse of the Jolly Stone trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important new friends and enemies.
Author
Series
Ballantyne novels volume prequel
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The son of a wealthy plantation owner and a doting mother, Mungo St John is accustomed to the ... luxuries his privilege has afforded him. That is until he returns from university to discover his family ruined, his inheritance stolen, and his childhood sweetheart Camilla taken by the conniving Chester Marion. Fuelled by anger, and love, Mungo swears vengeance and devotes his life to saving Camilla--and destroying Chester. Camilla, trapped in New...
8) African Town
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story of the last Africans brought illegally to the United States on the Clotilda in 1860.
1859. The transatlantic slave trade has been banned for more than fifty years, and the South is facing the threat of a civil war. Timothy Maeher resents the government interference in his right to make a living. Making a bet that he can smuggle enslaved Africans into the United States without being caught, he commissions the Clotilda, and brings...
Author
Series
Trailblazer books volume 5
Pub. Date
c1992
Language
English
Description
In the 1860s two African boys are taken captive and mistakenly left in the care of David Livingstone, whom they accompany on his quest to find a way to stop the slave trade and to open the interior of Africa to missionaries.
10) Jade star
Author
Series
Star quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
1999, c2002
Language
English
Description
Saint Morris meets Juliana DePres, then four years later being sold as a slave girl. He saves her and sends her home to Maui but she is an outcast now. He marries her and takes her to San Fancisco--now their adventure begins....
Author
Series
Sacred Hunger volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Irish fiddler Sullivan escapes from prison after being implicated in the loss of Erasmus Kemp's slave ship, only to reencounter his nemesis in a struggle that pits Kemp's desire for wealth against Sullivan's advocacy for the disadvantaged.
Author
Series
Alex Cross novels volume 9
Pub. Date
p2003
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross battles the most ruthless and powerful killer he has ever encountered--a predator known only as the Wolf.
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