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By Patrick O'Brian. 2005
An incomplete, final installment of the Aubrey/Maturin seafaring adventure series features three printed chapters and a facsimile of the manuscript,…
which includes details about Jack Aubrey's post-promotion mission to the South Africa station and a duel between Stephen Maturin and an impertinent officer. Some strong language. 2005.By Penny Vincenzi. 2009
Jonathan is a surgeon returning from a liaison with his mistress, Abi, and Georgia is an actress going to an…
audition along with her agent Linda. Toby and Barney are on their way to a stag party, Mary is going to the airport to meet her first love, farmer William watches the drama unfold across the hill, and Emma is also a surgeon. One heartbeat in time, and all their lives will be totally transformed. Descriptions of sex and violence and strong language. 2009.By Nicholas Sparks. 2011
Oriental, North Carolina. As high school seniors from different sides of the tracks, Dawson and Amanda had a doomed romance.…
Twenty-five years later they return home when Tuck, an old man important to both of them, dies--and leaves behind a letter describing his own life's magical love. Bestseller. 2011.By LaVyrle Spencer. 1984
Theresa, twenty-five, is looking forward to Christmas. Her brother Jeff will be home on leave, and the entire family will…
be together, so why does Jeff have to bring his friend Brian? Christmas is for families. But Brian has no family, and, besides, Jeff wants him to meet Theresa. Brian might be just what she needs to overcome the feelings about her generously endowed figure that make her so unsure of herself. Some strong language and descriptions of sex. 2006, c1984.By Jodi Picoult. 1992
Each character tells his or her side of the story about Jane leaving her husband, Oliver, in San Diego, and…
taking along their teenaged daughter, Rebecca. Driving east toward Jane's brother Joley's place, Jane and Rebecca follow directions that Joley posts along the way. Later Sam enters the picture, and Oliver uses his oceanographic research skills to track his family down. Some strong language and descriptions of sex and violence. 1992.By Bernard Cornwell. 2000
It is 1805 and Sharpe is on his way home to join the newly formed Green Jackets. His voyage home…
should be a period of rest, but his ship is riven with treachery and threatened by the Revenant, a French sea-raider that is terrorising British shipping in the Indian Ocean. Betrayed and defeated, Sharpe is imprisoned on the Ile de France, doomed to rot there until the war ends - until an unlikely ally secures his escape onto a British warship that is hunting the Revenant. Sequel to "Sharpe's fortress" (DC28409). 2000. (Richard Sharpe ; 4)In 1722, after arriving with her brother at the family's Jamaican plantation where she is to be married off, sixteen-year-old…
Nancy Kington escapes with her slave friend, Minerva Sharpe, and together they become pirates traveling the world in search of treasure. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2003.By Michael Crichton. 2009
The Caribbean, 1665. Port Royal, Jamaica is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. For Captain Charles…
Hunter, there's a living to be made, and gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking. Word in port is that the galleon El Trinidad is awaiting repairs in a nearby, heavily fortified, harbour. Hunter assembles a crew of ruffians to infiltrate the enemy island and commandeer El Trinidad, along with its fortune in gold. The raid is as perilous as the bloodiest tales of island legend and Hunter will lose more than one man before he even sets foot on foreign shores, where dense jungle and the firepower of Spanish infantry stand between him and the treasure. Violence and some descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 2009.By Fern Michaels. 1981
After Jill Barton is left standing at the altar, she gets in her car and heads north, ending up at…
an artists' colony in New England. There she meets Aggie Beaumont, who helps her heal, and Logan Matthews, the owner, who steals her heart. Some descriptions of sex. c1981.By Joanne Kennedy. 2010
Nate Shawcross is perfectly content to spend his days training wild horses. But when beautiful graduate student Charlie Banks unexpectedly…
shows up for a seminar on horse communication, sparks fly. Nate needs to stay focused if he's going to save his ranch from foreclosure, but he can't help being distracted by the brainy and sexy Charlie. Descriptions of sex, some strong language. 2010.By Kevin Armstrong. 2002
Short stories set in the Pacific islands, detailing the shift between sea and land, indigenous cultures and the Western seafaring…
world. Each story unveils protagonists who err in their search for self and home. "The cane field" uncovers the myriad ways a mother's love can be destroyed by political and cultural clashes; "The woman of his choice" depicts Faero, a young Waro Indian caught between the world he knows and the woman he desires. Some strong language. 2002.By John Boyne. 2009
1789. 14-year-old John Turnstile, arrested as a pickpocket, is offered a choice of jail or ship duty, and becomes Captain…
Bligh's servant aboard The Bounty. The infamous Bligh, a shrewd navigator and devoted husband and father, often antagonizes his crew with his moodiness and rigid adherence to duty, loyalty, and honour. After six months on Tahiti, second-in-command Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny, forcing Bligh and 18 loyal crew members into a 23-foot launch with only a compass and meagre rations. For senior high readers. Some strong language, some descriptions of violence, and some descriptions of sex. c2009.By Katie Fforde. 1999
When Julia breaks off her engagement to boringly safe Oscar, she decides to go for a complete change of life,…
as cook on a narrow boat. But even afloat, Julia's past catches up with her and she must contend with not only Oscar and his awful mother but also the arrival of the enigmatic Fergus. 1999.By Danielle Steel, Eveline Charlès. 2010
La famille de Coco est bien connue à Hollywood : sa mère Florence écrit des romans à succès et sa…
soeur Jane est une célèbre productrice de films. Coco, quant à elle, a préféré s'éloigner à Bolinas, au bord de l'océan, et gagne sa vie en promenant des chiens. Quand Jane lui demande de garder sa maison, tout est bouleversé en quelques jours par l'irruption de Leslie Baxter, un acteur. Livre comportant des passages de nature sexuelle et du langage grossier. 2010. Titre uniforme: One day at a time.By Beck Anderson. 2013
When Kelly Reynolds' husband died, he left her - the awkward, cautious one - to raise their two young boys.…
She's pieced herself back together, barely. Now she takes refuge in her routine: running her kids around and running the trails near her Idaho home. Two years after her husband's death, a chance encounter on a run brings Andrew into her life. But Andrew is Andy Pettigrew, the famous actor. Kelly hates risk, and a love affair with someone like Andy is certainly tempting fate. 2013.By Fern Michaels. 1999
After her parents' deaths, Kristine married her boyfriend, Logan, and followed him around the world during his military career. Now…
she and their three children have returned to her Virginia family home, where Logan will soon join them. Then he disappears - with the millions Kristine inherited. 1999.By Jessica Hart. 2009
Top tycoon Tom Maddison is used to calling the shots - until his convenient marriage falls through. But rather than…
waste his honeymoon he'll take his boardroom to the beach and bring his oh-so-sensible PA Imogen on a tropical business trip! 2009.By Patrick O'Brian. 1978
Commissioned to rescue Governor Bligh of Bounty fame, Captain Jack Aubrey and his friend and surgeon, Stephen Maturin, sail the…
Leopard to Australia with a hold full of convicts. Among them is a beautiful and dangerous spy - and a treacherous disease which decimates the crew. Sequel to "Mauritius command" . Followed by "The fortune of war" .1998. (Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin novels ; 5)By James V Hart, J. M Barrie. 2005
The youth of notorious villain Captain Hook, from his days at Eton. When he arrives at the famous school, James…
(the future Hook) has never known his mother and barely knows his father, so he channels his loneliness and rage into plotting revenge against sadistic classmates. At last, he escapes to the high seas, but he unwittingly boards a slave ship that reveals horrifying brutality and family secrets. Some strong language. Grades 5-8 and older readers. 2005.By Fern Michaels. 2004
Self-sufficient FBI agent Quinn Star left the bureau after a thwarted affair with her boss. When the same man asks…
her to return and guard the first lady, Quinn uncovers a plot to undermine the president. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. 2004.