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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead, larger threats loom. The Chinese Emperor has charged...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury - bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood - is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
Author
Series
Crimson Sails volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Evelyn is a witch with a perfect storm of impulses: terrible taste in bed partners, sticky fingers, and a lust for danger. After she steals from her vampire ex and falls through a portal to another realm, she's fished out of the waters by a band of seafarers and their telekinetic captain. She's immediately given a choice--join their group or die. Bowen has no memory of his life before he became one of the Cŵn Annwn. He and his pirate crew are bound...
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2023].
Language
English
Description
"Celebrate Halloween with Nickelodeon's Santiago of the Seas in this spooky board book! It's Halloween night, and Santiago and his pirate friends are ready to celebrate! But can they face their biggest fears to retrieve the legendary Treasure Treats from La Isla Misteriosa? This board book with sturdy pages is full of Halloween tricks and treats for fans of Nickelodeon's Santiago of the Seas ages 0 to 3!"--Amazon.com.
8) Dual memory
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Antonio Moro lost everything to the Leviathan League. Now he's alone in a city on an Arctic island fighting the ruthless, global pirates with the chance to be the artist he always wanted to be. Unfortunately, he thinks it's a cover story for his real purpose-spying on sympathizers. When things look bleak, he discovers an unusual ally. His new personal assistant program, Par Augustus. It's insolent, extroverted, moody, and a not-quite-legal nascent...
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"What happens when a pirate, hoping for a parrot, stumbles upon a bird of a duller plumage? Pirate doesn't know that Penguin is a penguin. But any bird can sit on a shoulder and squawk 'shiver me timbers'...right? Laugh along with Pirate and Penguin in this high seas tale of mistaken identity and find out whether they'll find friendship before somebody walks the plank." --
Author
Series
Winter sea volume 1
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Mary Firth is a Stormsinger: a woman whose voice can still hurricanes and shatter armadas. Faced with servitude to pirate lord Silvanus Lirr, Mary offers her skills to his arch-rival in exchange for protection - and, more importantly, his help sending Lirr to a watery grave. But her new ally has a vendetta of his own, and Mary's dreams are dark and full of ghistings, spectral creatures who inhabit the ancient forests of her homeland and the figureheads...
12) Lightningborn
Author
Series
Storm dragons volume 1
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In a world in the clouds where only the rich own dragons, a poor boy named Remy finds a wild baby dragon -- believed to be extinct -- and becomes the focus of an evil pirate's vengeance. Remy spends his days trying to survive the mean streets of Cutthroat Wedge -- one of the many islands floating in the gravitational pull of the magical Maelstrom raging below. But his life changes forever when a violent storm brings a baby dragon to his doorstep,...
Author
Publisher
Random House Grupo Editorial
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
Todo pasó en los noventa: no solo se acabó el petróleo, sino que de los pozos agotados--y al mismo tiempo de las grandes concentraciones de basura en los océanos--creció la maraña, una forma de vida nueva, capaz de digerir el plástico y tóxica para los seres humanos. Esta gran pandemia casi destruyó la civilización; peor: a medida que avanzó el siglo xxi, la humanidad aprendió a sobrevivir en un mundo ya no globalizado. Un mundo de provincias...
14) Sea of gold
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Fish -- nicknamed for his skill as a swimmer -- never intended to become a pirate. For starters, he's just a kid from a poor farming family, and second, he absolutely hates to fight. But after his parents send him to work as a courier, one of his deliveries is stolen, and as Fish hurries to get it back, he's captured by a ship of scalawags. And the mysterious package? It's the key to locating the Chain of Chuacar, a legendary treasure....
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
Amina al-Sirafi ha sobrevivido a traiciones, a príncipes vengativos, a varios maridos y a un auténtico demonio para retirarse pacíficamente con su familia a una vida de devoción y maternidad, alejada de cualquier cuestión sobrenatural. Sin embargo, cuando le ofrecen un encargo que ningún bandido podría rechazar, aprovecha la oportunidad de vivir una última aventura con su antigua tripulación; una hazaña que la convertirá en leyenda y le...
16) Sinner's Isle
Author
Publisher
Joy Revolution
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Rosalinda is trapped on Sinner's Isle, an island filled with young women like her--Majestics, beautiful witches loathed by society for their dangerous magic yet revered by powerful men who want to use them. For years, she has been kept under the watchful, calculating eye of Doña Lucia. Now eighteen, Rosa will be the prized commodity at this year's Offering, a fiesta for the wealthy to engage in drink, damsels, and debauchery. That is why she must...
Author
Series
Daughter of the pirate king volume 3
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Vengeance finds itself in a fight to save the world when it accidentally awakens the King of the Undersea who can control the dead.
You can't be afraid of the dark when you're the monster lurking in the shadows. As an assassin working for the pirate queen, Sorinda is surprised when Alosa's next task for her is not to kill a new target, but to captain a handpicked crew on a rescue mission. Unfortunately, her sailing master is Kearan....
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury--bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood--is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the notorious pirate Edward "Ned" Low. To earn the freedom to choose...
19) Airlock
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this high-interest accessible novel for teen readers, nonbinary teen Brick must rescue the crew of the spaceship they snuck onto when it is taken over by pirates."--
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