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Gasparilla January, February 2018
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On Stranger Tides
by Tim Powers
In 1718, John Chandagnac, a bookkeeper and puppeteer, unwittingly sails into the company of Blackbeard the pirate, encounters zombie-crewed wrecks, and is caught up in a search for the Fountain of Youth.
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Frenchman's Creek
by Daphne Du Maurier
The Restoration Court knows Lady Dona St. Columb to be ripe for any folly, any outrage that will alter the tedium of her days. But there is another, secret Dona who longs for a life of honest love--and sweetness, even if it is spiced with danger. It is this Dona who flees the stews of London for remote Navron, looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods and hidden creeks. She finds there the passion her spirit craves--in the love of a daring pirate (who is also a philosopher) hunted by all Cornwall, a Frenchman who, like Dona, would gamble his life for a moment's joy.
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Blackhearts
by Nicole Castroman
A reimagining of the infamous Blackbeard the Pirate story follows the experiences of a wealthy merchant's son whose longing for a life at sea is complicated by a forbidden love affair with an impoverished orphan girl who dreams of sailing to Curaçao, her mother's birthplace.
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Barbary Station
by R. E. Stearns
Newly minted engineers Adda and Iridian, desperate for employment, hijack a colony ship in hopes of joining a famed pirate crew but instead find themselves trapped on an abandoned shipbreaking station in deep space where the station’s AI security system has gone mad, trying to kill all the residents and any ships trying to leave.
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Daughter of the Pirate King
by Tricia Levenseller
When her pirate king father learns that a legendary treasure map is hidden on an enemy ship, Alosa deliberately orchestrates her own kidnapping and meets her match in the enemy's inconveniently attractive first mate.
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Hook's Tale: Being the Account of an Unjustly Villainized Pirate Written by Himself
by John Pielmeier
A rollicking debut novel from award-winning playwright and screenwriter John Pielmeier reimagines the childhood of the much maligned Captain Hook: his quest for buried treasure, his friendship with Peter Pan, and the story behind the swashbuckling world of Neverland. The characters that our hero meets--including the terrible Doctor Uriah Slinque and a little girl named Wendy--lead him to the most difficult decision of his life: whether to submit to the temptation of eternal youth, or to embrace the responsibilities of maturity and the inevitability of his own mortality. His choice, like his story, is not what you might expect.
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The Tears of Dark Water
by Corban Addison
An FBI hostage negotiator is sent to handle a crisis at sea, after an American recreational sailor is set upon by Somali pirates. By the internationally best-selling author of A Walk Across the Sun.
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Florida Pirates: From the Southern Gulf Coast to the Keys and Beyond
by James F. Kaserman
The coast of southwest Florida, with its shallow waters, inlets, and mangrove islands provides the setting and backdrop for a variety of pirates, privateers, and independents. The history of this region and Florida as a whole is influenced largely by the illegal activities of piracy. Piracy has a long and rich tradition in this area dating from before the formation of America through the infamous prohibition era. Educators, authors, and pirate enthusiasts James and Sarah Kaserman recount the stories, legends and myths that surround piracy in Florida. Telling the tales of Anne Bonny, Calico Jack Rackham, Civil War smugglers and prohibition rum runners, the authors provide a compelling narrative of the historically dangerous waters around Southwest Florida and beyond.
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The Whydah: A Pirate Ship Feared, Wrecked, and Found
by Martin W Sandler
The true story of the captaincy, wreck and discovery of the only pirate ship ever found shares insights into what artifacts and other archaeological items recovered from the ocean floor have revealed about the mythologized pirate era of the 17th and 18th centuries. By the author of The Impossible Rescue.
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Pirate Baby
by Mary Hoffman
"Shiver me timbers," said the Captain. "It's a baby!" When the crew of pirate ship Ramshackle find a tiny baby adrift on the high seas, they are a bit flummoxed. Even more so, when they discover it's a baby girl. The adventures that follow in this rollicking tale are full of laughter and surprises, as the pirates sew nappies, make baby clothes out of pirate shirts and even a toy squid out of pirate gloves for the new arrival. The pirates won't give up their baby - not even to the women pirates who pass close by. And when a huge sea monster appears, it's baby Isla who saves the day, to become a true Pirate Baby.
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Dinosaur Pirates!
by Penny Dale
The intrepid team from Dinosaur Dig! returns as a band of prehistoric pirates in search of buried treasure who navigate their way to a desert island before being ambushed by a fearsome band of gold-snatching marauders.
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Goldenlocks and the Three Pirates
by April Jones Prince
While pirates Papa, Mama, and Baby are away from their seaworthy sloop, Goldenlocks comes aboard and makes herself useful.
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The Jolly Regina
by Kara LaReau
Patiently awaiting the return of the parents who went missing a year earlier, two sisters who avoid excitement at any cost are kidnapped by an all-female band of pirates who subject them to a high-seas romp. By the author of Ugly Fish.
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Stinky Spike and the Royal Rescue
by Peter Meisel
Stinky Spike the dog and Captain Fishbeard the pirate are thick as thieves now that Spike has proved his treasure-sniffing ability. When Spike and his crew come across a sign offering a reward for finding the Princess's lost poodle, they can hardly resist. Surely finding a fluffy royal pooch can't be very difficult? When blundering pirates are involved, things never go according to plan.
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Henry Hunter and the Cursed Pirates
by John Matthews
When a friend's parents go missing in the Caribbean, Henry and Dolf investigate the local myths and uncover a crew of cursed pirates who are still sailing despite being dead.
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The Danger Gang and the Pirates of Borneo!
by Stephen Bramucci
Resolving to prove himself in the wake of his parents' kidnapping, 12-year-old adventurer Ronald Zupan teams up with his trusty butler, a fencing nemesis and his pet cobra for a mission in the jungle of Borneo, where they confront natural dangers before entering a pirate's secret lair.
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The Pirates! Band of Misfits
After mistakenly attacking Charles Darwin's Beagle while searching for a pirate treasure, the Pirate Captain, an inept scoundrel, joins forces with the fledgling young scientist to save his brother from the evil Bishop of Oxford.
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Crossbones: Season One
Legendary pirate Blackbeard orchestrates an attack on an English vessel but has his plans thwarted by an undercover English spy whose plan is to assassinate him.
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Muppet Treasure Island
Young Jim Hawkins sets off to find missing treasure, accompanied by Captain Smollett and the evil Long John Silver.
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Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War That Changed American History
by Brian Kilmeade
A little known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors from merchant ships and held, demanding tribute payments far beyond what the new country could afford. Over the previous fifteen years, as a diplomat and then as secretary of state, Jefferson had tried to work with the Barbary states; these rogue states would show no mercy; at least not while easy money could be made by extorting the Western powers.
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Pirate
by Clive Cussler
Confronted by a determined adversary, husband-and-wife treasure hunters Sam and Remi Fargo embark on an international quest involving an 800-year-old relic and a brutal murder.
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Pirate Latitudes: A Novel
by Michael Crichton
English Captain Charles Hunter and his crew of ruffians sail from colonial Jamaica to infiltrate a Spanish-controlled island, commandeering the galleon El Trinidad and its fortune in gold after a bloody battle, but Hunter and his crew have plenty of danger and adventure ahead of them, in this 17th-century swashbuckling tale found among the late author's files after his passing.
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Treasure Island
by Robert Louis Stevenson
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, an innkeeper and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
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The Wine-Dark Sea
by Patrick O'Brian
Two privateers pursue a prize through the Great South Sea, confronting the dangers of the ocean and their own private demons as they suddenly find themselves hunted in a chase south of Cape Horn.
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