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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 10
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This is the 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. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North Africa's Barbary coast routinely captured American sailors...
6) Post captain
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This tale begins with Jack Aubrey arriving home from his exploits in the Mediterranean to find England at peace following the Treaty of Amiens. He and his friend Stephen Maturin, surgeon and secret agent, begin to live the lives of country gentlemen, hunting, entertaining and enjoying more amorous adventures. Their comfortable existence, however, is cut short when Jack is overnight reduced to a pauper with enough debts to keep him in prison for life....
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2000
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It is 1777, the Year of the Hangman, and Captain Isaac Biddlecomb is bound for Philadelphia with his wife and child in the Continental brig Charlemagne.
His orders are to take command of the newly built twenty-gun frigate Falmouth and get her out to sea before she is taken by General Richard Howe's invading army.Unbeknownst to Biddlecomb, the entire British fleet stands between him and the new nation's capital. Forced to run his beloved Charlemagne...
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
[c1951]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 34
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This book is the account of a well-to-do man who serves on a minesweeper during World War Two, describing the events on the Navy ship Caine and what ultimately led the first mate, Lieutenant Maryk, a man with little schooling or experience, to take command of the vessel from Captain Queeg and the subsequent court-martial of Maryk.
10) The commodore
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1996, c1994
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For years, critics have hailed Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring adventure series as the best historical novels ever written (New York Times). With elegant language, eccentric characters, and authentic period atmosphere, the series transports you to the high seas of the Napoleonic era. After a dangerous tour of duty in the Great South Sea, Jack and Stephen return to their families in England. For Jack, the homecoming is joyful, but for Stephen, it is...
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 19
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Only twenty-seven years old, Horatio Hornblower has distinguished himself as a capable and intrepid officer in the Royal Navy. On a reconnaissance mission with the Hotspur, a three-masted frigate under his command, Hornblower and his crew narrowly avoid capture by their French adversaries, but the danger is not over. In the meantime, misgivings about his recent marriage also weigh heavily on the young officer's mind. In this 10th novel of the Hornblower...
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1990, 1988
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The Letter of Marque continues the saga of Jack Aubrey, brilliant yet disgraced officer, and Stephan Maturin, ship's surgeon and British intelligence operator. Together they sail on a desperate mission against the French, which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from the private hell of his disgrace.
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1996
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The continuing saga of the Royal Navy's Captain Jack Aubrey, now being sued by slaveholders for the ships he confiscated off Africa. At the same his wife is after him for his affair with a mistress. Things improve when he goes to sea to fight the French and captures a ship with gold.
16) The truelove
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1993, 1992
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Dispatched with his ship, the Surprise, to restore order after an attack on a British whaler in Tonga, Captain Aubrey discovers Clarissa Harvill, an escaped female convict, stowed away in the cable-tier. Reprint.
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Despondent over debts and troubles at home, Jack Aubrey is sent to the Mediterranean to join the Royal Navy's blockade of the French port of Toulon. There, he confronts an admiral he cuckholded years before, embarks on a secret mission, becomes embroiled in political conflict, and, with his friend Stephen, faces the choppiest waters of his career.
18) H.M.S. Surprise
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The third of a series of novels featuring characters, Captain Jack Aubrey, R. N., and Stephen Maturin, ship's surgeon, set in Napoleonic wars.
Jack is no sooner back in England after spiriting Stephen away from enemy clutches than he is flung in debtor's prison. The only escape lies at sea: the two friends are to accompany the king's envoy to Kampong, in present-day Cambodia. Braving the violence of Atlantic swells and predatory French squadrons,...
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Norton
Pub. Date
1977
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Ashore without a command--and on half-pay to boot--Jack Aubrey's prayers are answered when Stephen Maturin shows up with a secret mission for him. The two men have been ordered to the Cape of Good Hope. There they hope to dislodge the French garrisons on the islands of Mauritius and La Reunion.
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