Ahoy, mateys! Th' books here is fine fer adults, but parents should look 'em over before decidin' whether ta share 'em with th' sprats.

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The Pirate Affair
by author22@aol.com.

Rated "R" by the author. Pirate Adventure, ghosts, and lots of bawdy comedy characterize this story, which was strongly influenced by the writings of Thorne Smith (Topper) — but first and foremost it is a thrilling adventure story set in the 18th century. Real-life pirates, including Blackbeard, Mary Read and Anne Bonny, make an appearance, but the two central characters are ghosts — one a teenage boy hustler and the other a lesbian.

Author22 Publishing. ISBN: 189218303X. Paperback. 300 pages. December 1, 1996. Usually ships within 24 hours.

Rum, Sodomy and the Lash: Piracy, Sexuality, and Masculine Identity
by Hans Turley.

Turley gives us the pirate tradition in a refreshingly vivid and informed historical frame. He does not, as some recent pop philosophers have, merely appropriate this complicated and obscure realm of masculinity to posit as some kind of ahistorical arcadia. Instead, peppering his account with the thrilling vocabulary of original pirate narratives, Turley brilliantly offers the pirate example as a prism through which our current agonizing over narrative and gender can be usefully refracted. Scholarhship this lively, impassioned, and deeply informed is all too rare.

New York Univ Pr. ISBN: 081478223X. Hardcover. 184 pages. April 1999. Usually ships within 2-3 days.

Sodomy and the Pirate Tradition: English Sea Rovers in the Seventeenth-Century Caribbean
by Barry R. Burg.

Title tells all. No "action photos", thank goodness!

New York Univ Pr. ISBN: 0814712355. Hardcover Reprint edition. April 1995. Usually ships within 24 hours..