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The Gods of Second Chances
By Reid Psaltis, Dan Berne. 2014
Family means everything to widowed Alaskan fisherman Ray Bancroft, raising his granddaughter with help from a multitude of gods and…
goddesses-not to mention rituals ad-libbed at sea by his half-Tlingit best friend. But statues and otter bone ceremonies aren't enough when Ray's estranged daughter returns from prison, her search for a safe harbor threatening everything he holds sacred.USS Bacalao
By J. T. McDaniel, Franco G. Rovedo. 2018
J.T. McDaniel assume o comando com a mão firme de um mestre em sua arte, criando uma representação precisa e…
fascinante da vida diária a bordo de um submarino de ataque na década de 1940. Do estaleiro do construtor em Connecticut, aos combates velozes no teatro do Pacífico, ao coração trovejante de profundidades explosivas, cada detalhe soa com autenticidade. McDaniel escreve com a precisão técnica de Tom Clancy, o ritmo de Michael DiMercurio e a compreensão humana de Edward L. Beach. Um leitor simplesmente não pode querer mais. O USS Bacalao é a história de um submarino da frota americana da classe Gato desde o pátio da Electric Boat Company na cidade de Groton de pré-guerra, em Connecticut, passando pelos primeiros treinamentos, presenciando o ataque japonês a Pearl Harbor, e atingindo o coração do Império Japonês. De Pearl Harbor a Fremantle, o pequeno barco e sua corajosa tripulação atacam um inimigo determinado e enfrentam a sua própria burocracia para levar a guerra ao inimigo. E, apesar de tudo, Lawrence Miller está lá, subindo lentamente a partir do quarto na lista de oficiais do barco, partindo para uma excursão no comando de um antigo submarino no Alasca e finalmente retornando a Bacalao como seu último oficial comandante. Uma aventura emocionante e verdadeira que encanta aqueles que admiram o mar e seus personagens.The Last Hit
By Giulio Pio Dima, Luca Tlleri. 2018
A group of pirates, a crew impossible of our days and our seas, take part on an operation in the…
mid of Mediterranean. A mysterious character seemed calculated all good while police, coasters guards and anti-drugs departments are ready to stop these criminals trafics active since much time. The story, covered by a sad humor, is heavy and with deads. Anyway the real trophy is unknown yet.The Pirates
By Morgan Robertson. 2015
She was the largest, fastest, and latest thing in seagoing destroyers, and though the specifications called for but thirty-six knots'…
speed, she had made thirty-eight on her trial trip, and later, under careful nursing by her engineers, she had increased this to forty knots an hour-five knots faster than any craft afloat-and, with a clean bottom, this speed could be depended upon at any time it was needed. She carried four twenty-one-inch torpedo tubes and a battery of six twelve-pounder, rapid-fire guns; also, she carried two large searchlights and a wireless equipment of seventy miles reach, the aërials of which stretched from the truck of her short signal mast aft to a short pole at the taffrail. Her crew was not on board, however. Newly scraped and painted in the dry dock, she had been hauled out, stored, and fueled by a navy-yard gang, and now lay at the dock, ready for sea-ready for her draft of men in the morning, and with no one on board for the night but the executive officer, who, with something on his mind, had elected to remain, while the captain and other commissioned officers went ashore for the night.The Life, Adventures, and Piracies of
By Daniel Defoe. 2012
The narrative describes the life of an Englishman, stolen from a well-to-do family as a child and raised by Gypsies…
who eventually makes his way to sea.One half of the book concerns Singleton's crossing of Africa and the later half concerns his life as a pirate in the Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. Defoe's description of piracy focuses for the most part on matters of economics and logistics, making it an intriguing if not particularly gripping read. Singleton's pirate behaves more like a merchant adventurer, perhaps Defoe's comment on the mercantilism of his day.Great Pirate Stories
By Joseph Lewis French. 2015
Set sail for adventure. Out of this past the pirate emerges as a romantic, even at times heroic, figure. This…
final niche, despite his crimes, cannot altogether be denied him. A hero he is and will remain so long as tales of the sea are told. So, have at him, in these pages! Here are seventeen tails of swashbuckling adventure full of courage and danger!Twenty Fathoms Down
By L. Ron Hubbard. 2013
Deep-sea diver Hawk Ridley is in search of a sunken Spanish galleon with a few million dollars in gold bullion…
aboard. But once Hawk and his crew's ocean journey begins, they discover a stowaway--the beautiful daughter of one of their rivals--and immediately suspect sabotage. While Hawk locates the prize wreck on a Caribbean seabed, it's not long before the competing Ocean Salvage Company shows up to claim the treasure for themselves and issue their own terms: give up the gold, or else. When Hawk refuses, little does he suspect the lengths to which his cutthroat competitors will go--or the fatal consequences of his actions.Blackbeard
By Pat Croce. 2011
Climb aboard the Queen Anne's Revenge and sail with the most notorious pirate of all time, Blackbeard! No one has…
struck terror into the hearts of men more than Edward Teach, whose big black beard gave him his name. From merchant ships to naval vessels, no target was safe from Blackbeard's bloodthirsty desire to take prizes along the Atlantic coast and Caribbean. And now, the legend of Blackbeard will rise again as a main character in the upcoming film,Pirates of the Caribbean 4: On Stranger Tides. The Disney series has already grossed over two billion dollars, and this new installment--featuring the greatest pirate of all time as Captain Jack Sparrow's nemesis--is sure to be a major blockbuster when it releases in Summer 2011. But first, bone up on the true history of this real American villain in our beautifully illustrated edition ofBlackbeard, penned by world renowned pirate expert, Pat Croce.The Pirate Super Pack # 2
By Richard Glasspoole. 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of the great Pirate novels and a number of wonderful short stories.…
You'll go in search of adventure in 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'A Brush with the Chinese' by G. A. Henty, and 'The Madman and the Pirate' by R.M. Ballantyne. Authors include Howard Pyle, W. B. Lord, Harry Collingwood, Richard Glasspoole, and many others. This is the swashbuckling pirate anthology you've been waiting for. Over 750 pages and more than 300,000 words of pulse pounding pirate adventures await you. Grab your eyepatch and set sail for adventure. For pirate lovers of all ages!The Pirate's Son
By Geraldine Mccaughrean. 1996
14-year-old Nathan dreams of fighting pirates in faraway lands. Then his father dies, leaving Nathan penniless. When Tamo, the son…
of a famous pirate, invites Nathan to join him in Madagascar it seems as if Nathan's daydreams are coming true. Nathan, his sister Maud, and Tamo seem to find adventure -- and danger -- everywhere.A Seaman's Book of Sea Stories
By Desmond Fforde. 2009
An attraction that can't be ignored. A spoilt little rich girl. A rough ex-soldier. When Callie Frobisher and Paul Mason…
are stranded after their plane crashes, the mismatched couple are forced into battling each other and their feelings... Callie has it all - rich parents, a private education, and a great job, whilst Paul is harbouring a dark and destructive secret.The trauma of the crash and the harsh media spotlight proves to be challenging for them both. Can their attraction survive when they return to reality?McSweeney's Issue 46
By Dave Eggers. 2014
In thirteen electrifying stories, our very first all-Latin-American issue takes on the crime story as a starting point, and expands…
to explore contemporary life from every angle-swinging from secret Venezuelan prisons to Uruguayan resorts to blood-drenched bedrooms in Mexico and Peru, and even, briefly, to Epcot Center and the Havana home of a Cuban transsexual named Amy Winehouse. Featuring contemporary writers from ten different countries-including Alejandro Zambra, Juan Pablo Villalobos, Andres Ressia Colino, Mariana Enriquez, and many more-McSweeney's 46 offers an essential cross-section of the troubles and temptations confronting the region today. It's crucial reading for anyone interested in the shifting topography of Latin American literature and Latin American life, and a collection of writing to rival anything we've assembled in years.The Ghost Ship
By John C. Hutcheson. 2015
Young Dick Haldane sets out on his first sea voyage aboard the S.S. Star of the North, from the deck…
Dick sees a Ghost Ship. A large fullrigged ship with white canvas sails all crimson from a last expiring gleam of the Sun's afterglow. The ship's sails were tattered and torn, with the ragged ends blowing out loose from the boltropes in the most untidy fashion, unkempt, uncared for! But when he tries to call this ghostly ship to the attention of the rest of the crew he discoveres that he alone can see it.Mabel Jones and the Doomsday Book
By Will Mabbitt. 2016
Delivering belly laughs and heart-stopping action in equal measure, this third installment of the Mabel Jones saga is an excellent…
family read-aloud.Trapped in the Noo World, Mabel Jones is determined to make the most of her time in this strange future run by animals. Her next mission: find the Doomsday Book, a guidebook used to wipe out humanity. If Mabel learns what happened to her species, there's a chance she can prevent its extinction. But an elusive creature known as Von Klaar is also after the book . . . can Mabel find it before it lands in the wrong hands? Join Mabel and her crewmates as they race Von Klaar to the sacred city of Otom. Hoomankind depends on it!From the Hardcover edition.The Needle-Watcher
By Richard Blaker. 1973
This fascinating novel reconstructs the story of Will Adams, a native of Gillingham, in Kent, England, and his voyage to…
Japan in the seventeenthcentury. His knowledge of seafaring vessels at the time causes him to be taken into the favor of the shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu and,in time,to become recognized as the founder of the Japanese navy. Adams was one of the most picturesque anddaring of Britain's maritime traders, and this depiction of him as the first Englishman to settle in what was then a hostile country is written not only with distinction but also with an imaginative grasp that takes it right out ofthe class of the ordinary historical novel. It is an epic tale of strange adventures, and it creates an atmosphere of rare and haunting quality. In its understanding of the Japanese mind it is hardly less than remarkable.Will Adams died in Japan in the spring of 1620 and is buried at Yokosuka. Every year aceremony is still held to commemorate the anniversary of his death. There is also a memorial to him at Ito,in Shizuoka Prefecture, as well as one at his birthplace in England. In view of the importance of Japan in the present world picture, this republication of Richard Blaker's splendid novel will no doubtbe a welcome event to all discerning readers.El barco - Una historia corta
By Marina García Rodríguez, Chris Ward. 2017
Para Ken, un fanático de los barcos, la imagen del supertanque Bostonian, que está atracado en el puerto de su…
ciudad antes de embarcar en el último tramo de su viaje final es demasiado importante para perdérsela. Sin embargo, el matón del colegio, Max, tiene otra perspectiva...Greater Trouble in the Lesser Antilles
By Charles Locks. 2006
Winner of the Midwest Book Award for Commercial Fiction, Greater Trouble in the Lesser Antilles is the vivid tale of…
Captain Brian, a part-time sailor/philosopher and full-time hedonistic hero in the paradisiacal Caribbean. When his friend Leif the Thief is found dead at the bottom of a cistern, the much younger, seductive Billie insists that they team up (in more ways than one) to solve the crime. Meanwhile, a federal agent and a local constable make it their business to complicate Captain Brian's carefree existence, driving him to consider leaving beautiful Flamingo Bay forever.Love, Lattes and Angel (Mutants #3)
By Sandra Cox. 2015
Some teens go to the Caribbean on spring break. Piper goes to save the world. Piper Dunn isn't who you…
would call a normal teenager. For one thing, she doesn't want anyone to know she was born with a blowhole. Even stranger, she has two love interests. Joel, a fellow dolphin-human hybrid, and Tyler, a human. It's hard to choose when a mad scientist is hot on Piper's trail. Worse, she's trapped in the Bermuda Triangle. And . . . wait for it . . . Angel, her test-tube daughter, is apparently a real-deal reincarnation. It all adds up to an impossible situation, with happy endings all but lost at sea. Unless, of course, a voodoo high priestess casts a spell or two . . .Life #6
By Diana Wagman. 2015
Critically acclaimed author Diana Wagman brings us the suspenseful and emotionally exhilarating story of a woman facing death today, as…
well as thirty years ago. Fiona's marriage is crumbling, and she has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. Caught up in a wave of memories as she faces her own mortality, Fiona recalls the previous times in her life when she nearly died, including a fateful boat trip with her former boyfriend, Luc. Fleeing her struggling marriage, Fiona rendezvous with Luc. In the process, she relives the harrowing boat trip from three decades earlier, which permanently altered her life. Now that Fiona desperately needs Luc to save her, will he be the man she remembers? Or will she discover heartbreak again?An adventurous and stirring tale inspired by Diana Wagman's own experience at sea, Life #6 explores the hope and folly of youth, how we react when we're pushed to the brink, the regrets of love lost, and the many ways we die and are renewed throughout our lives.ays we die and are renewed throughout our lives.Diana Wagman is the author of four novels and numerous short stories, essays, and reviews. Her second novel, Spontaneous, won the PEN West Award for Fiction. Her most recent novel, The Care and Feeding of Exotic Pets, was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and was reviewed by the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Wall Street Journal, among many others. She lives in Los Angeles, California.The Dagger Quick
By Brian Eames. 2011
A rousing old-fashioned adventure, The Dagger Quick is the story of twelve-year-old Christopher, a boy with a clubfoot who is…
seemingly doomed to follow in the footsteps of his father as a cooper in seventeenth-century England. Yet, Christopher longs for more. But after his mother is kidnapped and his father is murdered--and Christopher is blamed for the crime--he has no choice but to set off on a dangerous seafaring voyage with bounty hunters on his trail and his only ally an uncle he hardly knows; an uncle who is an infamous pirate and the only man ever crazy enough to steal from the equally infamous Governor of Jamaica....