Books tagged: sailing ships

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The Good Harvest    by J. Paige Straley
Price: $2.99 USD. 96870 words. Published on August 14, 2011. .

It's 1814 in London, and Harold Hammonds has come a long way in his 24 years. He's second officer aboard the merchant vessel "The Good Harvest", bound for Sydney with a cargo of settlers goods, topped off with a parcel of transported convicts. It's a hell voyage, ending with a storm that wrecks them on an island off the west coast of New Zealand. Should he stay? Will he claim this grand place?
Confessions of A Bold Maiden    by Rita Meger
Price: $2.99 USD. 7560 words. Published by 53rd Street Publishing  on February 18, 2012. .

Lord Greenway, the Lord of the manor, attacks Elizabeth and she kills him. She escapes, disguised as a boy and boards the Bold Maiden, a pirate ship. Too late she realizes, Darcy the Captain is Lord Greenways son. Will she escape in time or will he discover the secret confessions of the Bold Maiden?
Dirt    by Paul Brockman
Price: $2.99 USD. 110290 words. Published on March 9, 2012. .

Jack Pepper is dead. Good for the plot, but not so good for Jack. By happy coincidence, Crum and Ampit—ambitious grinfangs of the planet Dirt—need a dead engineer. With a stolen spell, the grinfangs make sure Jack doesn’t stay dead. A win-win situation for everyone, perhaps, but Jack, far from being grateful, goes on the run when he finds out what the acquisitive pair want of him
Dirt's Champions    by Paul Brockman
Price: $2.99 USD. 102190 words. Published on March 10, 2012. .

Tasked by the Legion of the Dead to help them destroy the fell creatures that have invaded Dirt and the Netherworld, Jack Pepper must come up with a plan. Failure to stop the monstrous invasion means the end of death as we know it
Otto and the Hunt for Mal Goue    by Greg Blok
Price: $2.99 USD. 69450 words. Published on March 21, 2012. .

Otto DeGraff becomes a stowaway on a sailing ship in search of Mal Goue, the mythical artifact that turns dirt into gold. Along the way, Otto stumbles into the biggest act of treason in the history of the Dutch East India Company. Join Otto on his adventure, starting with a daring escape and ending in an epic sword duel on the deck of the Pirate King’s ship.
High Seas: The Cabin Boy    by Michele Hinton
Price: $5.95 USD. 111900 words. Published by The Seashell Books  on April 1, 2012. .

High Seas: The Cabin Boy, is a mid 18th century adventure with a hint of romance. What would you be willing to endure to escape an arranged marriage?
A Gallows Moon    by John Jones
Price: $2.99 USD. 53390 words. Published on July 14, 2012. .

A Gallows Moon continues with more adventures of Lieutenant Jack Woolf formally of the New Continental Army of the fledgling United States of America and Lieutenant Henry Howe (now Captain) formally of his Majesties Navy. Hunted for a murder he did not commit Henry with help from Jack turns to smuggling to survive. The hangman’s noose is never far away.
The Tern Schooner (Privateers & Gentlemen)    by Walter Jon Williams
Price: $4.99 USD. 122950 words. Published on October 9, 2012. .

Heir to a privateering tradition, Gideon Markham brings his schooner into the Gulf of Mexico to wage unremitting war on the British who threaten America’s freedom. Gideon must face Jean Laffite’s pirates, a mutiny, an attack by Red Stick Creeks, and a British invasion . . . none of which are as alarming as Maria-Anna de Suarez, an attractive widow with her own way of fighting the war.
The Sea-God at Sunrise    by G.L. Tysk
Price: $2.99 USD. 135350 words. Published on October 15, 2012. .

Two Japanese fisherman blown off course by a typhoon are rescued by an American whaling ship in 1841. When the ship's reclusive captain suddenly falls ill, they must help the crew unravel a secret from his past. Inspired by the true story of John Manjiro, one of the first Japanese in America.
The Brethren Prince    by Ira Smith
Price: $3.99 USD. 236300 words. Published on November 17, 2012. .

James Ketcham is sent to the Caribbean as an indentured English boy, wanting little more than a humble plantation life. But when Holy Spain purges “heretics” from its imperial lands, they destroy all that Ketcham loves. He takes up sword and sail, banding together with a crowd of the world’s misfits and castaways to achieve two simple things: glittering wealth and vengeance against Spain.