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Saturday, June 7, 2008

The Wreckers – Iain Lawrence

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There was once a village bred by evil. On the barren coast of Cornwall lived a community of people who prayed for shipwrecks, who lured storm-tossed ships to founder upon the sharp rocks of their shore. The villagers fed and clothed themselves with the loot salvaged from the wreckage; dead sailors' tools and trinkets became decorations for their homes. Most never questioned their murderous way of life. Then upon that pirates' shore crashed the ship the Iale of Skye. The youngest of its crew, fourteen-year-old John Spencer, survived the wreck. But would he escape the wreckers? This is his harrowing, spellbinding story.

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