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Blood Eye

Giles Kristian · 448 pages

Ocean and ShipsComing of AgeAdventureViolent
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One Piece, Volume 01: Romance Dawn

Eiichiro Oda · 209 pages

Monkey D. Luffy, who can stretch his body like rubber, is searching for a treasure called One Piece that was hidden by the pirate Gold Roger. that legend says will make whoever finds it the king of pirates. He runs into a bounty hunter named Roronoa Zoro and a pirate thief named Nami, rescues a town from a corrupt Marine Captain, and prepares for a fight with a clown pirate.

Treasure HuntOcean and ShipsComing of AgeQuest Narrative
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The Last Kingdom

Bernard Cornwell · 474 pages

Coming of AgeAdventureViolentOcean and Ships
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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi

Shannon Chakraborty · 307 pages

"A thrilling, transportative adventure that is everything promised–Chakraborty's storytelling is fantasy at its best." -- R.F. Kuang, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Babel and The Poppy War "An exhilarating, propulsive adventure, stitched from the threads of real history, Amina’s adventures are the reason to read fantasy." -- Ava Reid, internationally bestselling author of Juniper & Thorn

Ocean and ShipsTreasure HuntQuest NarrativeFirst Person Narrator
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Odinn's Child

Tim Severin · 400 pages

Ocean and ShipsComing of AgeAdventureFirst Person Narrator
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Odin's Wolves

Giles Kristian, Dzhailc Kristian

Ocean and ShipsSoldiers and WarfareAdventureViolent
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The Fall

Ryan Cahill · 95 pages

Quest NarrativeComing of AgeAdventureSoldiers and Warfare
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What the River Knows

Isabel Ibañez · 404 pages

Treasure HuntQuest NarrativeAdventureOcean and Ships
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I Pledge Allegiance

Chris Lynch · 183 pages

Best friends Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck all sign up for military service during the Vietnam War. Though in different branches, they swear to look after each other. Morris, stationed off the coast of Vietnam on the USS Boston, is in grave danger when the ship is attacked. Still, he is determined to keep his friends safe.

Ocean and ShipsComing of AgeSeries StarterHistorical Fiction
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Kidnapped

Robert Louis Stevenson · 278 pages

KIDNAPPED is an adventure story that has become the model for any thriller of escape and suspense. Set in 1751, the flight of David Balfour and Alan Breck across the Highlands of Scotland is based on real events. Though he wrote the book to make money, while living as an invalid in Bournemouth. Stevenson was proud of it; he inscribed a presentation copy with the couplet. Here is the one sound

Ocean and ShipsComing of AgeQuest NarrativeAdventure
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City of Thieves

David Benioff · 286 pages

From the critically acclaimed author of The 25th Hour, a captivating novel about war, courage, survival — and a remarkable friendship that ripples across a lifetime. During the Nazis’ brutal siege of Leningrad, Lev Beniov is arrested for looting and thrown into the same cell as a handsome deserter named Kolya. Instead of being executed, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives b

Coming of AgeQuest NarrativeSoldiers and WarfareAdventure
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The Warded Man

Peter V. Brett · 416 pages

The time has come to stand against the night.As darkness falls each night, the corelings rise--demons who well up from the ground like hellish steam, taking on fearsome form and substance. Sand demons. Wood demons. Wind demons. Flame demons. And gigantic rock demons, the deadliest of all. They possess supernatural strength and powers and burn with a consuming hatred of humanity. For hundreds of ye

Quest NarrativeAdventureComing of AgeSoldiers and Warfare
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Daughter of the Siren Queen

Tricia Levenseller · 364 pages

Alosa's mission is finally complete. Not only has she recovered all three pieces of the map to a legendary hidden treasure, but the pirates who originally took her captive are now prisoners on her ship. Still unfairly attractive and unexpectedly loyal, first mate Riden is a constant distraction, but now he's under her orders.

Treasure HuntOcean and ShipsQuest NarrativeAdventure
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Gregor the Overlander

Suzanne Collins · 311 pages

Coming of AgeQuest NarrativeSoldiers and WarfareAdventure
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Sahara

Clive Cussler · 572 pages

1996, Egypt. Searching for a treasure on the Nile, DIRK PITT thwarts the attempted assassination of a beautiful U.N. scientist investigating a disease that is driving thousands of North Africans into madness, cannibalism, and death. The suspected cause of the raging epidemic is vast, unprecedented pollution that threatens to extinguish all life in the world's seas. Racing to save the world from en

Treasure HuntOcean and ShipsQuest NarrativeAdventure
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Go Saddle the Sea

Joan Aiken · 357 pages

In 1821, an orphaned twelve-year-old boy runs away from his unhappy home in Spain to England where he tries to find his father's family.

Quest NarrativeComing of AgeAdventureOcean and Ships
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Midshipman Bolitho

Alexander Kent · 303 pages

Ocean and ShipsComing of AgeAdventureSoldiers and Warfare
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Silver

Andrew Motion · 404 pages

July, 1802. In the marshy eastern reaches of the Thames lies the Hispaniola, an inn kept by Jim Hawkins and his son. Young Jim spends his days roaming the mist-shrouded estuaries, running errands for his father and listening to his stories in the taproom; tales of adventures on the high seas, of curses, murder and revenge, black spots and buried treasure - and of a man with a wooden leg. Late one

Treasure HuntOcean and ShipsAdventureHistorical Fiction
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Kydd

Julian Stockwin · 272 pages

High adventure with a sophisticated story arc. It's fiction but the characters are placed in accurate historical context during the long naval war between Britain and France around the turn of the 19th Century. The two main protagonists, Tom Kydd and Renzi have as different backgrounds as could be. Simple Kydd, a poor wig maker and cultured Renzi on the run from his noble, rich family. Both are pr

Ocean and ShipsComing of AgeSoldiers and WarfareAdventure
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To Kill a Kingdom

Alexandra Christo · 344 pages

Ocean and ShipsTreasure HuntQuest NarrativeAdventure
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The Icebound Land

John Flanagan · 266 pages

Kidnapped after the fierce battle with Lord Morgarath, Will and Evanlyn are bound for Skandia as captives aboard a fearsome wolfship. Halt has sworn to rescue Will, and he will do anything to keep his promise-–even defy his King. Expelled from the Rangers he has served so loyally, Halt is joined by Will's friend Horace as he travels toward Skandia. On their way, they are challenged constantly by f

Quest NarrativeComing of AgeOcean and ShipsAdventure
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The Coming Storm

Rob Kidd · 134 pages

Adventure-seeking teenager Jack Sparrow has assembled a motley crew and their goal is to locate and procure the legendary Sword of Cortes.

Treasure HuntOcean and ShipsQuest NarrativeAdventure
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The Hobbit

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien · 292 pages

Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit, is a peaceful sort who lives in a cozy hole in the Shire, a place where adventures are uncommon - and rather unwanted. So when the wizard Gandalf whisks him away on a treasure-hunting expedition with a troop of rowdy dwarves, he's not entirely thrilled. Encountering ruthless trolls, beastly orcs, gigantic spiders, and hungry wolves, Bilbo discovers within himself astonis

Treasure HuntComing of AgeQuest NarrativeSoldiers and Warfare
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