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  English Passengers: A Novel

  by Matthew Kneale

  In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other side of the globe. The Reverend Geoffrey Wilson believes the Garden of Eden was on the island of Tasmania. His traveling partner,... (more)
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  Aubrey-Maturin series: Book 16

  The Wine-Dark Sea (O'Brian, Patrick, Aubrey/Maturin Novels, 16.)

  by Patrick O'Brian

  At the outset of this adventure filled with disaster and delight, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin pursue an American privateer through the great South Sea. Their ship, the Surprise, is now also a privateer, the better to escape diplomatic complications from Stephen's mission, which is to ignite the revolutionary tinder of South America.
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  Brother Cadfael: Book 10

  The Pilgrim of Hate

  by Ellis Peters

  Preparing to celebrate an important anniversary for the Abbey at Shrewsbury, medieval herbalist and Benedictine monk Brother Cadfael finds himself trying to solve the murder of a Winchester knight believed to have treasonous loyalties. Reprint."
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  Brother Cadfael: Book 9

  Dead Man's Ransom

  by Ellis Peters

  The ninth novel in the mystery chronicles of Brother Cadfael finds the twelfth-century Benedictine monk and sleuth defending a young Welshman accused of murdering a sheriff from Shropshire. Reprint.
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  Sharpe's Adventures: Book 4

  Sharpe's Trafalgar

  The Battle of Trafalgar, October 21, 1805

  by Bernard Cornwell

  The year is 1805, and the Calliope , with Richard Sharpe aboard, is captured by a formidable French warship, the Revenant , which has been terrorizing British nautical traffic in the Indian Ocean. The French warship races toward the safety of its own fleet, carrying a stolen treaty that could provoke India into a new war against the British -- and render for naught all that Sharpe has bravely fought for till... (more)
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  The Sign of Four (The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library)

  by Simon Goodenough, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sherlock Holmes, who sits in a cocaine-induced haze at 221B Baker Street. His mood is only lifted by a visit from a beautiful but distressed young woman - Mary Morstan, whose father vanished ten years before. Four years later she began to receive an exquisite gift every year: a large, lustrous pearl. Now she has had an... (more)