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Human cargo and the birth of capitalism... Author:  Marcus Rediker Terror.  The word comes up again and again.  It was the crucial ingredient.  The piece that made everything else work.  In a remarkable historical account, historian Marcus Rediker reveals how terror was at the very root of the founding of modern capitalism.  And there was no piece of technology that was more essential in the delivery of that omnipresent terror than The Slave Ship. Former slave, Olaudah Equiano. His eye-witness account of the Middle Passage aided the abolition movement in Great Britain. Also known as Guineamen, slave ships [...]

Full Fathom Five Author: James Rollins Beneath the surface of the ocean, ancient civilizations and apocalyptic secrets lay. Above the surface, the world is on fire in Deep Fathom. Ex-Navy Seal Jack Kirkland is trying to escape his shattering past – that one space mission that cost him both his career and the love of his life. Now piloting his own ship, named Deep Fathom, and exploring the ocean floors for sunken galleons, Jack lives a sequestered life, remote even from his fellow crew mates. All that, however, is about to change with literal earth shattering consequences. Meanwhile, above the [...]

Tiger of terror... Author:  Dane Huckelbridge It was a reign of terror like no other.   Injured by a hunter and unable to capture her usual prey, she started hunting, killing and eating humans around the year 1900 in western Nepal.  Averaging about one kill a week, she would go on to kill an estimated 436 individuals in both Nepal and India before she was finally stopped.  Known as the Champawat Tiger, she still reigns as the deadliest animal in human history.  Often in vividly dreadful detail, journalist Dane Huckelbridge tells her frightening true story in No Beast So Fierce. Much [...]