Books tagged: schooner

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Assateague Rum Runners    by Nelson Lynch
Price: Free! 4280 words. Published on July 13, 2011. .

A fiction story of rum and scotch being unloaded to Assateague Island during prohibition. The schooner anchored offshore and the whiskey was brought to shore by small boats. A storm approached and the ocean becomes nasty. Also love in the Valley of Kings plus a soldier waits as a scimitar is being sharpened.
CAPTURED...! Based on the True Story of the Crew ofthe Ill-Fated Schooner, 'Nightingale'    by Richard G TOMKIES
Price: $5.99 USD. 45940 words. Published on September 1, 2011. .

Based on the true story of a schooner bound for North Queensland in 1864 wih a load of sawn lumber and wrecked in a cyclone. The crew escape in a crude boat built from the lumber, but are eventually captured by a tribe of wild Aborigines.Enslaved, all except the Captain survive their harsh treatment. Befriended by a small tribe of friendly pygmies who assist them to eventully escape to freedom.
The Black Rose    by Richard Corwin
Price: Free! 4520 words. Published on September 22, 2011. .

A comming of age sailing experience from Hawaii to China for Dick Chandler who finds himself caught up in a trip of intrigue. This short story is available only on e-readers and will appear in print in Caribbean Bones, Tales Forgotten,a collection of short stories to be released in 2012.
Tempest of the Timber    by K. H. Kettenhoven
Price: $2.99 USD. 98050 words. Published on February 29, 2012. .

Most lumberjacks wanted what came in bottles and corsets in the nearest lumber town saloon, but Matthias Timmermann wanted out of the logging camps and into the arms of Annabella, a beautiful German girl working in a boarding house. On October 8, 1871, there was more than desire burning. The people of Peshtigo and the Sugar Bushes ran for the rivers and creeks trying to outrun the fire storm.