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Captain from Connecticut
Historical fiction about the American sailing navy during the War of 1812. Captain Josiah Peabody and his crew are assigned to run the British blockage and manage to get the better of the superior British navy. A gripping sea adventure by a master of the genre.
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Mr. Midshipman Hornblower
Volume One of the enormously popular Horatio Hornblower Saga. Seventeen year old Horatio joins the British Navy as a midshipmen to fight against Napoleon and his tyranny of Europe. Duels, imprisonment, shipwrecked sailors, naval battles – this is where it all begins.
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Lieutenant Hornblower
Hornblower has advanced from a midshipmen to the rank of a junior lieutenant in Volume 2 of the Hornblower saga. Hornblower and other junior officers must take command of the ship when their disturbed captain falls through a hatch and is seriously injured. Shore invasions of the West Indies, an escaped Spanish crew, and Hornblower's court martial make this another exciting Hornblower read.
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Hornblower and the Hotspur
In Volume 3, Hornblower gets married and takes his first command as Master and Commander of the HMS Hotspur to further thwart the ambitions of Napoleon. The exploits that have brought him praise and notice contrast with his concerns about his new wife and mother-in-law.
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Captain Horatio Hornblower
8 weeks a New York Times bestseller. The first three novels written about the shy, self-doubting, but outwardly implacable Hornblower who is a Captain in the British navy and is swept up in a whirlwind of naval action, a secret mission to support a revolution, capture, imprisonment, romance thwarted and romance discovered.
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Commodore Hornblower
In Volume 9, Captain Hornblower is promoted to Commodore and is off on a new adventure to the Baltic. Raids, assignations, a siege, an attempted assassination by a member of his crew, and typhus make this another great Hornblower adventure.
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The Good Shepherd
18 weeks a New York Times bestseller. Commander Krause escorts a beleaguered convoy across the North Atlantic during WWII. Exhausted beyond measure, he must make continuous and critical decisions as he leads his small force against frightfully competent and relentless U-boats. A superlative study of grace under pressure amidst the technical challenge of anti-submarine warfare.
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The Ship
Historical fiction based on true events that tells the compelling and insightful story about a British light cruiser in World War 2 struggling against overwhelming odds to get a vital convoy of supplies through to the British in Malta.
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Say, Darling
14 weeks a New York Times bestseller. An Indiana author packs up his family and moves 900 miles (by car in a heat wave with four children) to take up residence in Connecticut where he will commute to New York City to work with the team who will transform his book into a musical comedy.
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Lord Vanity
An actor living in Venice stabs a man of higher rank and is condemned to a life as a galley slave. Eventually freed, he travels across continents and dons many guises as he struggles to find himself.
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The King's Cavalier
19 weeks a New York Times bestseller. A young Frenchman and a young Englishwoman are caught in the wild plots and counterplots surrounding the Bourbon conspiracy against Francis I in 16th century France.
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Tap Roots
22 weeks a New York Times bestseller. By mid-19th century, the Dabney family can mock fate and attempt the unthinkable. They secede from Mississippi, organize an independent republic, and wage war against the might and millions of the Confederacy.
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