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  • Spice and the Devil's Cave : The Pirate Tale

    (With Over 25 Illustrations)

    by Agnes Danforth Hewes ...
    Series series Classic Novels
    Spice and the Devil's Cave is a book by Agnes Hewes that was published in 1930. This piece of historical fiction is a retroactive winner of the Newbery Honor award. The setting is Lisbon, Portugal in the late 1490s, as Vasco de Gama, Bartholomew Diaz, and Ferdinand Magellan discuss their plans to find the elusive sea route around the Cape of Good Hope, which would enable Portugal to access the ... Read more

    $0.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spice and the Devil's Cave

    by Agnes Danforth Hewes, Lynd Ward ...
    Spice and the Devil's Cave, Ferdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and other fifteenth-century adventurers spring to life in this thrilling tale of the competition between Portugal and the Venetian Republic to discover an all-sea trade route leading to the spices of India. In the Lisbon workshop of banker and navigation enthusiast Abel Zakuto, a group of intrepid explorers gather to discuss the ... Read more

    $2.78 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spice and the Devil's Cave

    by Agnes Danforth Hewes ...
    When young Red Magill sets sail from Portugal in the early 16th century, he carries more than just dreams of adventure—he bears the weight of a dangerous mission that could reshape the spice trade forever. The treacherous waters around the Cape of Good Hope, known ominously as the Devil's Cave, have claimed countless ships and brave souls. But Red must navigate these deadly seas to reach the ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Spice and the Devil's Cave

    by Agnes Danforth Hewes ...
    Illustrated by Lynd Ward ...
    "Lively and colorful overall, and allows readers to enter into a fascinating, highly volatile era." — The Emerald City Book ReviewFerdinand Magellan, Vasco da Gama, and other fifteenth-century adventurers spring to life in this thrilling tale of the competition between Portugal and the Venetian Republic to discover an all-sea trade route leading to the spices of India. In the Lisbon workshop of ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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    How I Survived Five Years in the Canadian Bush

    by Thomas Osborne ...
    The view 16-year-old Thomas Osborne first had of Muskoka was at night, trudging alone with his even younger brother along unmarked primitive roads to find their luckless father who, in 1875, had decided to make a new start for his beleaguered family on some "free land" in the bush east of the pioneer village of Huntsville, Ontario. The miracle is that Thomas lived to tell the tale.For the next ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Sarah's Key

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    by Tatiana de Rosnay ...
    **Now a major motion picture!From beloved international sensation and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tatiana de Rosnay come's her celebrated novel Sarah's Key.**Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Vel' d'Hiv' roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Titanic #1: Unsinkable

    by Gordon Korman ...
    Series Book 1 - Titanic
    The ultimate action/adventure trilogy begins, with #1 bestselling author Gordon Korman plunging readers into the heart of the Titanic. The Titanic is meant to be unsinkable, but as it begins its maiden voyage, there's plenty of danger waiting for four of its young passengers. Paddy is a stowaway, escaping a deadly past. Sophie's mother is delivered to the ship by police - after she and Sophie have ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Call It Courage

    by Armstrong Sperry ...
    Maftu was afraid of the sea. It had taken his mother when he was a baby, and it seemed to him that the sea gods sought vengeance at having been cheated of Mafatu. So, though he was the son of the Great Chief of Hikueru, a race of Polynesians who worshipped courage, and he was named Stout Heart, he feared and avoided tha sea, till everyone branded him a coward. When he could no longer bear their ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

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  • The Apprentices

    by Maile Meloy ...
    Illustrated by Ian Schoenherr ...
    Series Book 2 - The Apothecary Series
    Two years have passed since Janie Scott last saw Benjamin Burrows, the mysterious apothecary’s defiant son who stole her heart. On the other side of the world, Benjamin and his father are treating the sick and wounded in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.But Benjamin has also been experimenting with a magical new formula that allows him to communicate with Janie across the globe. When Benjamin ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • On Thin Ice (Infinity Ring Secrets #3)

    by E. W. Clarke ...
    Series Book 3 - Infinity Ring Secrets
    Secret adventures from the world of Infinity Ring. Only in e-book! Only 99 cents!Lulu and her brother, Eddie, don't always see eye to eye. But when an expedition to the South Pole goes terribly wrong, they know they must work together to survive the frozen landscape. It's up to them to locate the diary of a fallen Hystorian . . . before it falls into the wrong hands!INFINITY RING SECRETS is a ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD

  • We Give a Squid a Wedgie

    by C. Alexander London ...
    Illustrated by Jonny Duddle ...
    Series Book 3 - An Accidental Adventure
    If Oliver and Celia Navel had any hopes this year would be less life-threatening than the last, their hopes are quickly shattered…along with their television set. When a strange scientist warns them that their mother is—yet again—in peril, it’s off to the Pacific Ocean they go. But navigating stormy seas proves easy compared to tackling a Kraken—an enormous squid—and the twins think they might ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Little Jane Silver

    A Little Jane Silver Adventure

    by Adira Rotstein ...
    Series Book 1 - A Little Jane Silver Adventure
    Meet Little Jane Silver, the twelve year-old granddaughter of notorious Treasure Island pirate Long John Silver. Growing up on the Pieces of Eight, the pirate ship of her parents, Captains Bonnie Mary Bright and Long John Silver II, Little Jane is increasingly frustrated with being thrust below decks whenever any real pirating action takes place.Desperate to be taken seriously as a member of the ... Read more

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