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Pirates

Nonfiction

The Age of Piracy; a History by Robert Carse. 910.45 C23

Blackbeard: America's Most Notorious Pirate by Angus Konstam. 921 BLACKBEA

Captain Kidd and the War Against the Pirates by Robert C. Ritchie. 364.135 R51c

Dangerous Waters: Modern Piracy and Terror on the High Seas by John S. Burnett. 910.45 B934d

The End of Barbary Terror: America's 1815 War Against the Pirates of North Africa by Frederick C. Leiner.  973.47

Expedition Whydah: The Story of the World's First Excavation of a Pirate Treasure Ship and the  Man Who Found Her by Barry Clifford. 974.492 C612e

Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero by John G. Cummins. 942.055092 D789c

A General History of the Robberies & Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates by Charles Johnson. 910.45 J63g

In Pirate Waters by Richard Wheeler. 973.5 W56i

Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801-1805 by Joseph Wheelan. 973.47 W56j

Patriotic Fire: Andrew Jackson and Jean Laffite at the Battle of New Orleans by Winston Groom. 973.5239 G899p

Pillaging the Empire: Piracy in the Americas, 1500-1750 by Kris E. Lane. 364.164097 L242p

The Pirate Coast by Charles Dalrymple Belgrave. 955.04B411p

The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines, and the Secret Mission of 1805 by Richard Zacks.  973.47 Z12p

The Pirate Hunter: The True Story of Captain Kidd by Richard Zacks. 910.45 Z12p

The Pirates Laffite: The Treacherous World of the Corsairs of the Gulf by William C. Davis. 976. 3050922 D299p

The Pirates by Douglas Botting. 910.453 B659p

Pirates: Adventurers of the High Seas by David Marley. 910.45 M343p

The Pirates: Authentic Narratives of the Lives, Exploits, and Executions of the World's Most Infamous Buccaneers; Including Contemporary Eyewitness Accounts, Documents, Trial Transcripts, and Letters by Charles Ellms. 364.164 El59p 1996

Pirates!: Brigands, Buccaneers, and Privateers in Fact, Fiction, and Legend by Jan Rogozinski. 910. 45 R635p

Pirates: Terror on the High Seas, from the Caribbean to the South China Sea edited by David Cordingly.  910.45 P664p

Raiders and Rebels: The Golden Age of Piracy by Frank Sherry. 364.164 Sh57r

The Return to Treasure Island and the Search for Captain Kidd by Barry Clifford. 910.916523 C612r

The Sack of Panama: Sir Henry Morgan's Adventures on the Spanish Main by Peter Earle. 972.875Ea75s

The Sea Dogs: Privateers, Plunder and Piracy in the Elizabethan Age by Neville Williams. 942.055W674s

The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580 by R. Samuel Bawlf. 910.92 D789b

Sir Francis Drake: the Queen's Pirate by Harry Kelsey. 942.055092 D789k

Sir Francis Drake by John Sugden. 942.055092D789s

Sir Francis Drake by Peter Whitfield. 942.055092 D789w

Under the Black Flag: The romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates by David Cordingly. 910.45 C812u

Victory in Tripoli: How America's war with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Built a Nation by Joshua London. 973.47 L846v

Villains of All Nations: Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age by Marcus Buford Rediker. 910.45 R248v

Fiction

The Blackbirder by James L. Nelson.

The Captain's Vengeance: An Alan Lewrie Naval Adventure by Dewey Lambdin.

Cassandra, Lost by Joann C. Scott.

The Confusion by Neal Stephenson.

Cutter's Island: Caesar in Captivity by Vincent Panella.

Dark Watch by Clive Cussler.

Fan Tan by Marlon Brando.

Fortunes of War by Mel Keegan.

Frenchman's Creek by Daphne Du Maurier.

A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Arthur Warren Hughes.

The Island by Peter Benchley.

The King of Pirates by Daniel Defoe.

Kingston By Starlight: A Novel by Christopher John Farley.

Mad Morgan by Kerry Newcomb.

Once a Pirate by Susan Grant.

The Pirates!: In an Adventure with Ahab by Gideon Defoe.

The Pirates!: In an Adventure with Scientists by Gideon Defoe.

The Pirate's Daughter: A Novel of Adventure by Robert Girardi.

The Privateer by Josephine Tey.

The Pyrates by George MacDonald Fraser.

Ramage & the Saracens by Dudley Pope.

The Requiem Shark: A Novel by Nicholas Griffin

Sea Star: The Private Life of Anne Bonny, Pirate Queen by Pamela Jekel.

The Sweet Trade by Elizabeth Garrett.

The Wrong Doyle by Robert Girardi.