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Rogues, navigators and subalterns voyage from wilderness to casbah.
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Adair, Cherry On Thin Ice Determined to win this year's Iditarod race across Alaska, Lily Munroe matches skills with her chief competitor, Derek Wright, unaware that Derek is a counter-terrorism agent assigned to protect Lily in the wake of suspicious accidents threatening her life. 2004 Adult Fiction Book ADAIR |
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Conrad, Joseph Lord Jim Lord Jim is a classic story of one man's tragic failure and eventual redemption, told under the circumstances of high adventure at the margins of the known world which made Conrad's work so immediately popular. But it is also the book in which its author, through a brilliant adaptation of his stylistic apparatus to his obsessive moral, psychological and political concerns, laid the groundwork for the modern novel as we know it. 2000 Adult Fiction Book CONRAD |
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Defoe, Daniel Robinson Crusoe During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's, an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island. 1992 Children's Fiction Book DEFOE |
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Dumas, Alexandre The Count of Monte Cristo Edmund Dantès, betrayed by his enemies and unjustly convicted of aiding the exiled Napoleon, escapes after fourteen years imprisonment in the Château d'If and embarks on a carefully crafted plot to seek his revenge. 2002 Adult Fiction Book DUMAS |
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Fleming, Ian Octopussy And The Living Daylights Two James Bond adventures in exotic foreign parts. 2004 Adult Fiction Book FLEMING |
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Forester, C. S. Mr. Midshipman Hornblower The inauspicious beginnings of Midshipman Hornblower and his spectacular rise to Lieutenant are described in this novel of adventure on the high seas. 1950 Adult Fiction Book FORESTER |
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Kaye, M. M. The Far Pavilions A panoramic novel of nineteenth-century British India centers on the love between an Englishman raised as a Hindu, and rejected by both sides, and an Indian princess torn between her heritage and the man she loves. 1997 Adult Fiction Book KAYE |
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Le Carre, John The Constant Gardener The young and beautiful Tessa Quayle has been murdered on the shores of Lake Turkana. Her putative African lover has disappeared, and her husband, Justin, a career diplomat and amateur gardener, sets out on a personal odyssey in pursuit of the killers and their motive. 2001 Adult Fiction Book LE CARRE |
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O'Brian, Patrick The Golden Ocean In the England of 1740, an Irish parson's gentle son signs up as midshipman on Anson's famous expedition to circumnavigate the globe. In the adventures that follow he grows to become a leader of men, rich and famous. 1994 Adult Fiction Book O'BRIAN |
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Perez-Reverte, Arturo Captain Alatriste Wounded seventeenth-century Spanish soldier Alatriste works as a swordsman-for-hire in Madrid, but when his latest job takes an unexpectedly deadly turn, he realizes he is in the employ of one of the Spanish Inquisition's most dangerous figures. 2005 Adult Fiction Book PEREZ-REV |
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Poyer, David Black Storm On the eve of America's invasion of Iraq, Lieutenant Commander Dan Lenson is ordered to prevent Saddam Hussein's threatened retaliation, but he and his recon team discover that destroying Iraq's weapons cache could unleash a greater terror. 2002 Adult Fiction Book POYER |
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Stevenson, Robert Louis Kidnapped A seventeen-year-old orphan is kidnapped by his villainous uncle, but later escapes and becomes involved in the struggle of the Scottish Highlanders against English rule. Classic novel for adults as well as children. 1952 Children's Fiction Book STEVENSON |
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Verne, Jules, 1828-1905. Around the World in Eighty Days 1994 Adult Fiction Book |
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