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Temeraire volume 1
Language
English
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When the HMS Reliant captures a French ship and its priceless cargo, an unhatched dragon egg, Captain Will Laurence is swept into an unexpected kinship with an extraordinary creature and joins the elite Aerial Corps as a master of the dragon Temaraire, in which role he must match wits with the powerful dragon-borne forces of Napoleon Bonaparte.
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Series
Publisher
Del Rey
Language
English
Description
Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, as an epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the dragons' ranks. Only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected and must stand as the only means of airborne defense against France's ever bolder sorties. As Bonaparte's dragons harrow Britain's ships, Temeraire and his captain, Will Laurence, take wing to Africa in search of a cure for the deadly contagion.
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Series
Temeraire volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Captain Will Laurence and his noble dragon Temeraire battle against Bonaparte's invading forces. When China discovers that their rare gift, meant for Napoleon, is now in the hands of the British forces, they demand the return of the dragon.
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Temeraire volume 8
Language
English
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From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the eighth and penultimate volume of the Temeraire series, in which Will Laurence finds himself shipwrecked in Japan with no memory of his dragon, Temeraire, or his past.
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Temeraire volume 6
Language
English
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Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, the dragon Temeraire and his friend and rider, Captain Will Laurence, are transported a prison colony in Australia and find themselves embroiled in a hornet's nest of fresh complications.
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Temeraire volume 9
Language
English
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Laurence and the dragon Temeraire pursue a defeated French army, only to discover that Napoleon has returned unharmed to Paris and that the French have stolen Temeraire and Iskierka's egg.
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Charles Edgemont stories volume 1
Publisher
Random House Trade
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
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Series
The Duke's daughters volume 4
Language
English
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Forced to rejoin London society as the heir to the Duke of Northam, Griffith Davies, to keep the matchmakers at bay, convinces Lady Della Howlett, who is as notorious as he, to pose as his fiancéa pact that leads to the unexpected.
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Series
Nathan Peake novels volume 3
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Captain Nathan Peake's adventures continue as he charts a perilous course into the dangerous waters of post-Revolutionary Paris. There, he encounters two of the most beautiful and scandalous courtesans in history and their playmate, laughingly dubbed Captain Cannon, who is about to win enduring fame as Napoleon Bonaparte. Back at the helm of the Unicorn, Peake joins Captain Horatio Nelson, another young glory-seeker, in a bid to wreck Bonaparte's...
12) Crucible of gold
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Series
Temeraire volume 7
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
Del Rey trade paperback edition.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the seventh volume of the Temeraire series, as the Napoleonic Wars bring Will Laurence and Temeraire to South America."An absorbing adventure." --Publishers Weekly (starred review)The French have invaded Spain, forged an alliance with Africa's powerful Tswana empire, and brought revolution to Brazil. Captain Will Laurence and his indefatigable fighting dragon, Temeraire, must...
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English
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"As a restless and adventurous eighteen-year-old, Richard Humphreys joined the Royal Navy submarine service. For five years during the Cold War, he served on the nuclear sub HMS Resolution. Nothing could have prepared him for life beneath the waves. He existed in a world without natural light, surrounded by 140 other men, all eating the same food, breathing the same air, smelling the same putrid smells and surviving together in some of the most forbidding...
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Temeraire volume 5
Language
English
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For Britain, conditions are grim: Napoleons resurgent forces have breached the Channel and successfully invaded English soil. Napoleons prime objective is the occupation of London. Unfortunately, the dragon Temeraire has been removed from military service and his captain, Will Laurence, has been condemned to death for treason. Separated by their own government and threatened at every turn by Napoleons forces, Laurence and Temeraire must struggle to...
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English
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From the acclaimed author of "Agent Zigzag" comes an extraordinary account of the most successful deception--and certainly the strangest--ever carried out in World War II, one that changed the prospects for an Allied victory. The purpose of the plan--code named Operation Mincemeat--was to deceive the Nazis into thinking that Allied forces were planning to attack southern Europe by way of Greece or Sardinia, rather than Sicily, as the Nazis had assumed,...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Language
English
Description
"Beset by pirates, Knights of Malta, and saboteurs, Captain Matthew Quinton sails to Africa in pursuit of a mountain of gold. When a captured Barbary pirate saves his neck with a tall tale of a fabled mountain of gold, Quinton has his doubts. But King Charles II can't resist the chance to outstrip the Dutch with a limitless source of wealth. With the devious pirate O'Dwyer in tow, Quinton embarks on a voyage beyond the map's edge, still convinced...
17) H.M.S. Surprise
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English
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"Jack Aubrey is cruising off Cape Sicie when his friend Stephen Maturin (more serenely situated in Sussex) is informed of the Board's decision regarding Aubrey's prize money, taken after victorious engagement with a Spanish squadron at Cape Santa Maria. The money, five million pieces of eight, is not, as is the custom of war, to be divided among the crews of the four victorious vessels, but is to be treated as droits of the Crown of England. Five...
Publisher
AMC Film Holdings
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, follow the British Royal Navy's perilous voyage into unchartered territory as the crew attempts to discover the Northwest Passage. Faced with treacherous conditions, limited resources, dwindling hope and fear of the unknown, the crew is pushed to the brink of extinction. Frozen, isolated and stuck at the end of the earth, it highlights all that can go wrong when a group of men, desperate to survive, struggle not only with...
19) Black powder war
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
In the wake of their adventure in China, Captain Will Laurence of His Majesty's Aerial Corps and his dragon, Temeraire, are sent on a mission to protect three valuable dragon eggs on a trip back to England from the Ottoman Empire, but the vengeful Chinese dragon Lien allies herself with Napoleon to stop them.
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