“Robby Run is even better the second time around, with exciting battles (and sex) and wicked humor. I enjoyed it tremendously." —Broos Campbell, author of the Matty Graves seriesIn the first novel of a thrilling new trilogy, author Sutton Stern covers untrodden ground: the U.S. Navy’s rapid rise in power and prestige during the decades before the Civil War. Robby Run takes us to the action-packed Rio de la Plata region of South America for a rich ...

"Robby Run is even better the second time around, with exciting battles (and sex) and wicked humor. I enjoyed it tremendously." --Broos Campbell, author of the Matty Graves series.In the first novel of a thrilling new trilogy, author Sutton Stern covers untrodden ground: the U.S. Navy's rapid rise in power and prestige during the decades before the Civil War. Robby Run takes us to the action-packed Rio de la Plata region of South America f...

‘Captivate, kill or destroy the whole force of the enemy’ was the order given to the American soldiers.THE FORT is the blistering novel from worldwide bestseller Bernard Cornwell.Summer 1779.Seven hundred and fifty British soldiers and three small ships of the Royal Navy. Their orders: to build a fort above a harbour to create a base from which to control the New England seaboard.Forty-one American ships and over nine hundred men. Their orders: to expel the ...

The first novel in award-winning historian James L. Haley’s brilliant adventure series featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of N...

The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the build up to the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain after the Revolution—the War of 1812.At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven Putnam, late of the Battle of Tripoli, is dispatched to Charleston to ...

Kidnapped at the age of 11 from his home in Benin, Africa, Olaudah Equiano spent the next 11 years as a slave in England, the U.S., and the West Indies, until he was able to buy his freedom. His autobiography, published in 1789, was a bestseller in its own time. Cameron has modernized and shortened it while remaining true to the spirit of the original. It's a gripping story of adventure, betrayal, cruelty, and courage. In searing scenes, Equiano describes the savagery of his capture, the a...

Master storyteller and Newbery Medalist Avi shows exactly how personal politics can be in this “nail-biting thriller” (Publishers Weekly) set during the Revolutionary War following a young girl who becomes a spy for the American forces—now with a brand-new look just in time for America’s 250th birthday!In 1776, young Sophia Calderwood witnesses the execution of Nathan Hale in New York City, which is newly occupied by the British army. Sophia is horrified b...

Ben leaves a happy ship, the Faithful, to join a most unhappy ship, the Hawk, under Captain Sharp who is suffering from syphilis but will not admit it. Ben, who is only 15, is asked to serve as acting surgeon's mate on a ship with no surgeon. He is faced with 'lubbers', an alcoholic second lieutenant, an insane midshipman and tropical fevers. He is shanghaied aboard a slaver, escapes and later is taken with ten of his crew aboard a Spanish pirate ship. He manages to capture the pirate ship...

Written by Robert Jordan–the acclaimed author the Wheel of Time® fantasy series–writing as Reagan O’Neal, these are gripping tales of love and bravery in America’s tumultuous past.This discounted ebook bundle includes: The Fallon Blood, The Fallon Pride, The Fallon LegacyThis historical novel series chronicles the lives of the Fallon men as they encounter adventure, forbidden love and American history—from Michael Fallon, an indentured servant who ...

This is a rags-to-riches story set in the turmoil of the eighteenth century, when the only way for ordinary folk to advance was to fight.Simon Pearce, born in poverty on the Isles of Scilly in Cornwall, England, takes his family on a swashbuckling journey that begins with the worst peacetime shipwreck in Royal Naval history, on 22nd October 1707, when five ships were lost on the Isles of Scilly. He was brought up into a family of smugglers, but a twist of fate enables him to rise t...

THE GRIPPING NOVEL BASED ON A TRUE STORY OF SLAVERYIn 1839, fifty-three African slaves staged a bloody mutiny on board the Amistad, a Spanish slave ship from Cuba. Their success was short-lived as the slaver was intercepted by the American Navy and towed to Connecticut where the slaves were held for deportation. But instead of sending them back to Cuba, the fledgling Abolitionist movement forced a series of trials, culminating in their defence in the Supreme Court by former Presiden...

An uneasy truce is broken by the British, who refuse to believe that the might of the British Empire can be bested by their former colony. They begin building a road across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, where Mexico is at its narrowest. This will enable them to bring in colonial troops from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic to attack the United States along the undefended Gulf coast.When the Americans attack the road, the war bogs down in futile jungle warfare. Only a brilliant plan ...