- Location(s): Ireland
- Genre(s): Historical, Fiction
- Era(s): 16th Century
A thrilling historical adventure, inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, channels the natural beauty and brutality of sixteenth-century Ireland. Seen through the eyes of an unforgettable heroine, the infamous Irish sea captain and folk heroine who risked everything...
The Pirate Queen and the Half-Plucked Chicken
- Location(s): Caribbean
- Genre(s): Young Adult, Adventure
- Era(s): Modern day
Whilst cleaning out a drawer, Charlie and Lizzie find a treasure map which has remained hidden for centuries. But the secret gets out, and they arrive in the Caribbean with their shady adversaries, who will stop at nothing, hot...
- Location(s): Madagascar
- Genre(s): Historical
- Era(s): 18th century
When fourteen-year-old Nathan’s father dies, leaving him penniless, Tamo, the son of a famous pirate, invites him and his sister Maud on a fabulous and dangerous trip to Madagascar.
- Location(s): Pompeii
- Genre(s): Children, Adventure
- Era(s): 79AD
It is AD 79 and Mount Vesuvius has erupted, destroying Pompeii. Among the thousands of people huddled in refugee camps along the bay of Naples are Flavia Gemina and her friends, Jonathan the Jewish boy, Nubia the African slave-girl,...
The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World
- Location(s): Somalia
- Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs
- Era(s): Contemporary
The first close-up look at the hidden world of Somali pirates by a young journalist who dared to make his way into their remote havens and spent a year infiltrating their lives. For centuries, stories of pirates have captured...
- Location(s): Los Angeles
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
An original, imaginative, and hilarious debut novel about love, anxiety, and sea creatures, from the author of So Sad Today. Lucy has been writing her dissertation about Sappho for thirteen years when she and Jamie break up. After she...
The Pit and the Passion: Murder at the Ghost Hotel
- Location(s): Longboat Key
- Genre(s): Fiction, Mystery
- Era(s): Contemporary
At midnight, in the darkness of a deserted hotel, comes a scream and a splash. Eighty-five years later, workmen uncover a skeleton in an old elevator shaft. Who is it, and how did it get there? To find out,...
- Location(s): West Virginia
- Genre(s): Romance
- Era(s): Modern
Fleeing professional scandal and a broken engagement, veterinarian Hannah Linden abandons Chicago for the mountain town of Sanctuary, West Virginia, hoping to put her troubles with men and the media behind her. But when she encounters world-famous chef Adam...
- Location(s): Göttingen
- Genre(s): Fiction, Horror, In Translation
- Era(s): Contemporary
In the summer of 2020, as Germany slowly emerges from lockdown, a young Japanese woman studying in Göttingen waits at the train station to meet an old friend. Nomiya died a decade earlier in the Tōhoku tsunami, but he...
- Location(s): West Ireland
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Welcome to Ballycove, the home of Corrigan Mills… Set against the backdrop of the beautiful Irish countryside the famed Corrigan Mills are run by the seemingly perfect Corrigan family, but every family has its secrets, and they don’t always...
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