Lewis, Leigh
Summary: "A collection of fact-filled profiles, poetry, and illustrations of women pirates who made their mark on the high seas. Each profile includes an original poem presented against a backdrop of full-color art by illustrator Sara Woolley Gomez. The profile is followed by information about the real life and times of these daring women"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 LEWLevenseller, Tricia
Summary: "My father's ships will be at the sirens' mercy. We will be the ones to reach the island first and claim its treasure for ourselves. 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. Riden, still unfairly attractive, is a constant distraction,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LEVFeign, Larry
Summary: South China coast, 1801: Sold as a child to a floating brothel, 26-year-old Yang has finally bought her freedom, only to be kidnapped by a brutal pirate gang and forced to marry their leader.Dragged through stormy seas and lawless bandit havens, Yang must stay scrappy to survive. She embeds herself in the dark business of piracy, carving out her role against the resistance of powerful pirate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Feign 2021Lee, Tony
Summary: When Ireland suffers under the rule of Henry VIII, Grace O'Malley takes to the seas after her husband's murder and gains a reputation as the Pirate Queen of Ireland and confronts Queen Elizabeth I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Candlewick Press 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 OMADuncombe, Laura Sook
Summary: Pirates are an enduring popular subject, depicted often in songs, stories, and Halloween costumes. Yet the truth about pirate women--who they were, why they went to sea, and what their lives were really like--is seldom a part of the conversation. In this Seven Seas history of the world's female buccaneers, A Pirate's Life for She tells the story of 16 women who through the ages sailed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chicago Review Press Incorporated 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 920 DUNChakraborty, S. A.
Summary: "The first book of "a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory--and write her own legend ... Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean's most notorious pirates, she's survived...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHAYolen, Jane.
Summary: Brief biographies of women pirates from around the world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Charlesbridge 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J Around YolenLevenseller, Tricia
Summary: Alosa is the daughter of the Siren Queen, and her 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. Now Alosa and her crew are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC 2018
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Summary: "The most powerful pirate in history was a woman who was born into poverty in Guangzhou, China, in the early 1800s. When pirates attacked her town and the captain took a liking to her, she saw a way out. Zheng Yi Sao agreed to marry him only if she got an equal share of his business. When her husband died six years later, she took command of the fleet. Over the next decade, the pirate queen...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE BECChang-Eppig, Rita
Summary: "When Shek Yeung sees a Portuguese sailor slay her husband, a feared pirate, she knows she must act swiftly or die. Instead of mourning, Shek Yeung launches a new plan: immediately marrying her husband's second-in-command, and agreeing to bear him a son and heir, in order to retain power over her half of the fleet. But as Shek Yeung vies for control over the army she knows she was born to lead,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC CHANaifeh, Ted.
Summary: Polly is caught between the prim-and-proper boarding school set she's grown up with and the legendary legacy of the Pirate Queen that she never knew she was a part of! But which is the cruel, cold world and which is the care-free paradise? And does it even matter when there's a dashing pirate prince involved?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oni Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NaifehMaxwell, Robin
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAXKlausmann, Ulrike.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Rose Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 KLABrown, Eli
Summary: In 1819, kidnapped chef Owen Wedgwood transforms meager shipboard supplies into sumptuous meals at the behest of his kidnapper, pirate queen Mad Hannah Mabbot, while she pushes her exhausted crew to track down a deadly privateer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2013
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Summary: "In Boston, as the Golden Age of Piracy comes to a bloody close, Hannah Masury - bound out to service at a waterfront inn since childhood - is ready to take her life into her own hands. When a man is hanged for piracy in the town square and whispers of a treasure in the Caribbean spread, Hannah is forced to flee for her life, disguising herself as a cabin boy in the pitiless crew of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC HOWDrake, David
Summary: "The truce between Cinnabar and the Alliance is holding, and the Republic of Cinnabar Navy is able to explore regions of the galaxy without the explorers being swept up in great power conflict. The Far Traveller is probing sponge space to open routes for Cinnabar traders--and for RCN warships if war breaks out again. But besides astrogation, the Far Traveller is to survey and catalog life forms...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DRALindsey, Johanna.
Summary: After her mother's death, Gabrielle Brooks sets sail to the Caribbean in search of her father, discovers he has become a pirate, and spends three happy years sailing with him. His decision that she should return to London to find a proper husband leads to intrigue, scandal, and Gabrielle's passionate quest for revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC LINFreveletti, Jamie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe 2010
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC FRESummary: Step back in time and sort fact from fiction and discover the magic of the real Pirates of the Caribbean investigating the stories of Blackbeard, Sir Henry Morgan, Captain Kidd, including the notorious women Pirates, Anne Bonny and Mary Read.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cobra Entertainment LLC. 2006
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Lari, Zahra
Summary: "After watching an ice-skating movie, young Zahra sets her mind to learn how to ice skate even though her family and friends doubt her abilities. After all, she's too old to learn, the rink is too cold, and figure skaters don't look like her... not yet at least! Illustrated with Sara Alfageeh's energetic lines and colors that pop right off the page, we follow Zahra's story as she glides across...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2024
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Summary: Covers three hundred years of maritime history in search of women pirates, captains, seafarers, and explorers who broke new ground in the male-dominated maritime world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.45 CORGlover, Sarah
Summary: "In her first cookbook, Sarah Glover showed the world how liberating, satisfying, and easy it is to cook beautiful healthy food outdoors. Now she brings kids of all ages into the mix, proving that they too can take part in collecting, preparing, and cooking campfire meals the whole family can enjoy. Glover's simple yet elegant meals are inspired by the land and the sea: fish and ears of corn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Prestel Verlag 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5083 GLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5083 GLOOda, Eiichirō
Summary: As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber ... at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years later, Luffy sets off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world ... Luffy and team must figure out a way to get their ship, the Merry Go, to sail up - the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viz Media 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Captain Jack Sparrow finds the winds of ill-fortune blowing even more strongly when deadly ghost pirates led by his old nemesis, the terrifying Captain Salazar, escape from the Devil's Triangle, determined to kill every pirate at sea. His only hope of survival lies in seeking out the legendary Trident of Poseidon, a powerful artifact that bestows upon its possessor total control over the seas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017