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|  | | Barbados Bound; Book 1 of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventures
Portsmouth, England,1760. Patricia Kelley, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Barbadian sugarcane planter, falls from her imagined place in the world when her absent father unexpectedly dies. Raised in a Wiltshire boarding school sixteen-year-old Patricia embarks on a desperate crossing on a merchantman bound for Barbados, where she was born, in a brash attempt to claim an unlikely inheritance. Aboard a merchantman under contract with the British Navy to deliver gunpowder to the West Indian forts, young Patricia finds herself pulled between two worlds -- and two identities -- as she charts her own course for survival in the war-torn 18th century.
Formerly published as i>Star-Crossed/i> (Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers), Barbados Bound is the adult edition (though still suitable for older teens)
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Fictional memoir of a boy growing up in West Virginia, who wants to be a rock star.
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This short story is absurdist fiction, a noir thriller about a shooter in an urban hospital in the American West. First in a trilogy by L.S. Collison
Nurse noir fiction set in the American Wild West -- a dystopian near-future when nurses are armed with handguns for self protection and fear rules the night. The author imagines a night shift in a Denver hospital where a crazed shooter is on the loose. Don't worry, the doctors and nurses are all packing heat. All but one, that is...
| |  | | Looking for Redfeather
Three runaway teens meet up by chance on the road and go looking for Ramie's missing father. A coming-of-age on the road, but it ain't Jack Kerouac's road trip!
| |  | | Looking for Redfeather
Three runaway American teens meet up by chance out West and go on the road in a borrowed car, each on their own quest. LaRoux is trying to get to Austin to the Break-Out Blues Festival, Chas is running from a tragedy back home in Maryland, and Ramie is looking for Redfeather, his Apache father he never knew. It ain't Jack Kerouac's road trip! fiction/Ya/coming-of-age/road trip
Now an audiobook read by Aaron Landon!
| |  | | Nurse Kit Carson's Knife & Gun Club; the first five episodes
Set in America's New Wild West, this medical thriller features Kit Carson, a single mom nurse, who joins the Vigilantes for Healthcare Justice to fight against armed crazies, a crooked sheriff, and the greed of the corporate hospital. Drama and trauma on the night shift in five episodes.
In the vein of Samuel Shem's The House of God and B.P. Reiter's The Saturday Night Knife & Gun Club, Collison writes a medical thriller from a nurse's point of view, with gun locked & loaded and tongue firmly in cheek.
| |  | | Rhode Island Rendezvous -- Book 3 of Patricia MacPherson Series
Newport, Rhode Island: 1765. The Seven Years War is over but unrest in the American colonies is heating up over the Stamp Act. Patricia, disguised as Patrick, becomes embroiled.
Maintaining her disguise as a young man, Patricia is finding success as Patrick MacPherson. Formerly a surgeon's mate in His Mjesty's Navy, Patrick has lately been employed aboard the colonial merchant schooner Andromeda, smuggling molasses into Rhode Island. Late October, amidst riots against the newly imposed Stamp Act, she leaves Newport bound for the West Indies on her first run as Andromeda's master. In Havana a chance meeting with a former enemy presents unexpected opportunities while an encounter with a British frigate and an old lover threatens her liberty -- and her life. | |  | | Star-Crossed
Patricia Kelley, an orphaned British teen, stows away on a ship bound for Barbados during the Seven Years War, in a brash attempt to claim her father's estate.
Star-Crossed is the first book in a trilogy of historical adventure novels featuring a teenaged young woman who chooses to dress like a man in order to survive. | |  | | Surgeon's Mate; Book 2 of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventures
Patricia passes as Patrick, a surgeon's mate aboard a frigate in the Royal Navy, mid-18th century. Book two of the Patricia MacPherson Nautical Adventure Series.
Patrick MacPherson is a qualified surgeon's mate -- but she's not the man he claims to be.
Using a dead man's identity, youn Patricia Kelley MacPherson is making her way as Patrick MacPherson, surgeon's mate aboard His Majest's frigate Richmond. She's become adept at bleeding, blistering, and amputation limgs, but if her cover is blown she'l lose both her livelihood and her berth aboard the frigate. The ship's gunner alone knows her secret -- or does someone else aboard suspect that Patrick MacPherson is not the man he claims to be?
Surgeon't Mate, book two of the Patr | |  | | Water Ghosts
Fifteen-year-old James McCafferty is an unwilling sailor aboard a traditional Chinese junk, operated as adventure-therapy for troubled teens. Once at sea, James believes the ship is being taken over by the spirits of courtiers who fled the Imperial palace during the Ming Dynasty, more than 600 years ago, and sailing to its doom.
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">Brief synopsis/b>: Fifteen-year-old James McCafferty is forced to take part in a summer adventure sail for at-risk youths. He finds himself onboard a rickety old junk with three adults and six other resentful teens f |
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The Eternal Soldier
by Peter Jessop
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 In the waning days of World War II, a man lies injured in a London hospital, shrouded in mystery and confusion. He is an American serviceman, stripped of his identity and memories, save for the name John, and plagued by vivid visions of battles that |
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