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In Seahawk Hunting Rafael Semmes abandons his broken raider, the Sumter, which is penned in by the Federals near Gibraltar. In the meantime, he has the Brits build him a new ship in Liverpool. Called the 290, it is the fastest commercial raider designed for its time, and it is waiting for Semmes in the Azores. After taking command of the ship he sets out seizing and burning whalers at the rate of one a day, sails back across the North Atlantic...

When Michael Decastro gets an email from Tuki his long-gone client, the lady of ten thousand mysteries he doesnt hesitate a moment. He heads to Bangkok to find what? He doesnt know. To face what dangers? He hasnt imagined. All he knows is that shes beckoned, and he cant resist her call. And now, face-to-face with Tuki and a ruby so beautiful it has its own name, Michael must make a choice: move forward, protect Tuki, get to the bottom of her e...

When Michael Decastro gets an email from Tuki his long-gone client, the lady of ten thousand mysteries he doesnt hesitate a moment. He heads to Bangkok to find what? He doesnt know. To face what dangers? He hasnt imagined. All he knows is that shes beckoned, and he cant resist her call. And now, face-to-face with Tuki and a ruby so beautiful it has its own name, Michael must make a choice: move forward, protect Tuki, get to the bottom of her e...

Winter in a New England prep school brings term papers, wet snow, and the suicide of a young black student. Except Liberty Baker's friends are convinced she couldn't have taken her own life, and Liberty's faculty advisor, Awasha Patterson, believes them. She is desperate to believe any theory that Liberty's death was suspicious????????????????????????????????????????????????Awasha turned the girl away the night of her death. If Liberty had bee...

Winter in a New England prep school brings term papers, wet snow, and the suicide of a young black student. Except Liberty Baker's friends are convinced she couldn't have taken her own life, and Liberty's faculty advisor, Awasha Patterson, believes them. She is desperate to believe any theory that Liberty's death was suspicious????????????????????????????????????????????????Awasha turned the girl away the night of her death. If Liberty had bee...

What with one book and another, the Chesapeake has been pretty well worked over - and still there's a fascination in the skipjacks as the one U.S. fishing fleet under sail (thanks to an 1865 Maryland conservation law), in the tricky, inbred life of the islands and bay. Peffer, a young prep-school teacher, went to Tilghman Island thinking to "investigate my ancestry, " and, finding no trace of his roots, proffers instead some island lore and so...

Noelle Werlin, the beautiful wife of a rock 'n' roll legend, was never able to shake the ghosts of her past, but dying at the hands of one of those ghosts never crossed her mind.In Woods Hole on Cape Cod, Noelle grew up as Neptune de Oliveira's daughter Celestina-otherwise known as Tina the Tease. Changing her name and running away to New York as a teenager, she thought she could run away from her life of unspeakable sexual depravity on the ca...