books by Jan Needle

books by Jan Needle

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Jan Needle

A Fine Boy for Killing (The Sea Officer William Bentley Novels)

Jan Needle

McBooks Press, 2000

Savage, bloody, and great!
Younq William Bentley, a midshipman on a RN frigate in dock waiting for orders, is gulled by his vicious uncle, Capt.Swift, into a false sense of ideals, command, and justice. Swift's iron-fisted reputation precedes him and the few hands that man the boat are ...

The Wicked Trade (The Sea Officer William Bentley Novels)

Jan Needle

McBooks Press, 2001

Another excellent historical novel by Jan Needle
Read my review of "A Fine Boy for Killing," as the comments all apply to this work as well. This is the second novel in the William Bentley naval fiction series, though on an entirely different tack. As in the first novel of the series, Jan Needle has presented us ...

Bram Stoker's "Dracula"

Jan Needle, Bram Stoker

Walker Books Ltd, 2004

Must read for all horror fans
First let me say that I wanted to review the unabridged version and couldnt find it on Amazon. Bram Stoker's books was writtten in the late 1800's so some of the text my require a look into the dictionary. It is by no means unreadable. I think even a young teen would ...

Undertaker's Wind (Will Bentley)

Jan Needle

Broadsides Press, 2006

Undertaker's Wind
Boy!! What an adventure. I have enjoyed his adventures and am looking forward to the next one.

The Spithead Nymph (The Sea Officer William Bentley Novels)

Jan Needle

McBooks Press, 2004

Spithead Nymph by Jan Needle
Good read, fast paced and as historically accurate as possible within a fictional book. Needle portrays life in the British Navy more accurately than some other authors of the same genre who downplay some of the harsher aspects of life aboard a royal man of war. I ...

The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
Victor Hugo

Walker Books Ltd, 2006

This title is set in Paris in 1492. Hideously deformed, deaf and near blind, the hunchback Quasimodo lives in the Notre-Dame bell tower. Beneath him in the square, the beautiful gypsy Esmeralda dances for the crowds. The pious, misogynistic archdeacon Frollo watches from his cell. As his desire turns to obsession, so the story marches inexorably ...

Moby-Dick

Herman Melville

Candlewick, 2006

Beautiful book with many "helps"; abridged well
I bought this book for my kids, after reading about it in (I think) the Wall Street Journal. I'm in the middle of reading the unabridged book, and I unexpectedly found this book a wonderful supplement for me as well, with a map of the Pequod's journey, diagrams of ...

El Buscapleitos
Jan Needle

Turtleback Books Distributed by Demco Media, 2000

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Dracula

Bram Stoker, Jan Needle

Walker Books Ltd, 2007

"For the dead travel fast"
Surprisingly "Denn die Toten reiten schnell" or "For the dead travel fast" is more than an opening line to this tale of love in the dangerous moon light. After watching several Drac movies and a few Nosferatu's, I pretty much though I had a handle on the genera. ...