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Sous les vagues (Carré blanc)
By Meritxell Martí. 2021
Un jeune garçon se baigne dans la mer avec une bouée rouge. Un garçon vient le rejoindre à la nage…
et il l'invite à retourner sur la plage, pour jouer avec les autres enfants. Toutefois, Marc veut continuer à flotter où il est. Alors qu'il est seul et que plus personne ne le regarde, il disparaît sous l'eau et se transforme en poisson. Il fonce dans les profondeurs de la mer et découvre une épave au centre de laquelle il y a un trésor. Soudain, sa mère, étendue sur la plage, regarde au loin et ne voit plus qu'une bouée vide. Elle plonge à l'eau pour retrouver son fils. Ce dernier réapparaît avec un précieux collier autour du cou. Encore inquiète, sa mère le ramène sur la plage. On découvre alors que ce jeune garçon est paraplégique et l'enfant qui était venu voir Marc à la nage décide de laisser sa partie de ballon pour venir discuter avec lui. [SDMMia et la mer (Carré blanc)
By Jaime Gamboa. 2020
"Tous les soirs avant de dormir, le père de Mia lui raconte la mer... Des histoires peuplées de poissons extraordinaires,…
de vagues exceptionnelles, de marins aventuriers, de pêcheurs valeureux, de moments magiques et de mille autres choses que peuvent contenir la mer et ses mystères. Mia ne se lasse pas de ses histoires qui nourrissent toujours un peu plus, jour après jour, son grand rêve de voir cette infinie étendue bleutée. Malgré le manque de temps, le travail toujours plus difficile et les sous toujours plus rares, elle sait qu'un jour son père l'y conduira... Ce qu'elle ne sait pas, c'est que, pour son père, ce sera aussi un grand moment."--BANQLe guerrier massaï
By Laurent Pinabel. 2021
"Voici l'histoire d'une statue de bois rapportée d'Afrique et de l'enfant qui fut envoûté par celle-ci. C'est aussi l'histoire d'un…
héritage, de la soif du voyage et de la découverte du monde."--Quatrième de couvertureIron Tide Rising (The Map to Everywhere #4)
By Carrie Ryan, John Parke Davis. 2018
Magical worlds and incredible creatures fill the pages of this epic, action-packed finale of the Map to Everywhere series, from…
John Parke Davis and New York Times bestselling author Carrie Ryan!Intrepid travelers Fin and Marrill have shared countless thrilling and treacherous adventures on the magical waters of the Pirate Stream. But neither could have expected that their final adventure would force them to team up with their oldest enemy: the evil wizard Serth! With the fate of the Stream and all their friends hanging in the balance, can they challenge the most frightening power they've ever come up against? Find out in this mind-blowing conclusion to the Map to Everywhere series!The Pirates of Ersatz
By Murray Leinster. 2015
Bron Hoddan never wanted to be a pirate, but he was born into a family of pirates, who expected him…
to join the family business. Bron stows away on a space ship and runs away from home. But even though he has never committed an act of space piracy, he'll soon learn it's not that easy to leave his family's legacy behind. A wild, funny science fiction romp that will leave you smiling long after you've turned the final page.The Sea Captain's Wife
By Beth Powning. 2010
Azuba Galloway, daughter of a shipwright, sees ships leaving for foreign ports from her bustling town on the Bay of…
Fundy and dreams of seeing the world. When she marries Nathaniel Bradstock, a veteran sea captain, she believes she will sail at his side. But when she becomes pregnant she is forced to stay behind. Her father has built the couple a gabled house overlooking the bay, but the gift cannot shelter her from the loneliness of living without her husband. When Azuba becomes embroiled in scandal, Nathaniel is forced to take her and their daughter, Carrie, aboard his ship. They set sail for London with bitter hearts. Their voyage is ill-fated, beset with ferocious storms and unforeseen obstacles that test Azuba's compassion, courage and love. Alone in a male world, surrounded by the splendour and the terror of the open seas, she must face her fears and fight to keep her family together.The Pirate Super Pack # 1
By Howard Pyle. 2015
Collected here in this omnibus edition are five of the greatest Pirate novels ever written, as well as a number…
of wonderful short stories. You'll go in search of adventure with 'Treasure Island' by Robert Louis Stevenson, 'Captain Blood' by Rafael Sabatini, and the 'Ghost Pirates' by William Hope Hodgson. Authors include James Fenimore Cooper, Howard Pyle, Lucretia Parker, Murray Leinster and many others. This is the swashbuckling pirate anthology you've been waiting for. Over 800 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 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.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!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!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.Pirate's Passage
By William Gilkerson. 2006
Nova Scotia, 1952. Not exactly the place you'd expect to run into pirates. But an old mariner, his boat driven…
ashore in a gale, brings with him enough stories about buccaneers and their lore to make it seem that he must have had firsthand experience of the pirate life. But how is that possible? Captain Charles Johnson's uncanny knowledge of seamanship's dark side fuels the imagination of the young boy he befriends, setting the boy on his own journey of mysterious adventure.Healer
By Peter Dickinson. 2015
To save his friend, a daring young boy infiltrates a healing center If it weren't for the migraines, Barry would…
be an ordinary boy. When a crushing headaches strikes him during the school day, he goes to the nurse's office to beg for aspirin. He is waiting for her help when a chubby-faced six-year-old girl puts her hands on his neck. Heat flows through them, and when it stops, the headache is gone. Her name is Pinkie, and she has the power to heal. When her stepfather uses her ability to found a highly profitable healing center, Barry fears the gentle little girl is being exploited. On the outside, Barry is just a scared, sickly teenager. But inside he is Bear--and Bear is afraid of nothing. To save his friend, he infiltrates the healing center, where he will find that those who plan to cure the world's ills also know something about causing pain. This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Peter Dickinson including rare images from the author's collection.Bajo bandero negra
By L. Ronald Hubbard. 2013
Mucho antes de que el capitán Jack Sparrow provocara un infierno con Piratas del Caribe, Tom Bristol navegó a los…
infiernos y regresó bajo bandera negra. Ha estado a las órdenes del látigo del cruel capitán. Ha sido acusado de asesinato. Y lo han abandonado para que muera en una isla desierta. Pero su suerte está a punto de cambiar. Junto con una mujer intrépida y una astuta tripulación, iza una bandera pirata propia, dispuesto a hacer el amor y la guerra en los mares.The Defiant
By Lily Padula, M. Quint. 2015
On a field trip to see famed privateer Francisco Ventana's once-sunken ship, the Defiant, six kids from San Francisco's Greenly…
School-a last-chance refuge for orphans, troublemakers, and misfits-find themselves stranded at the center of a storm unlike any other. By the time the clouds have cleared, and the strange pink flashes have faded from the sky, the Defiant is out on the open sea, San Francisco ablaze behind it. What follows is an adventure that will change the classmates' lives forever-a journey across a dangerous ocean in search of a new home, with only their instincts and each other to rely on. Can they master the ship? Can they work together, and defend themselves against the unexpected adversaries they encounter on the way? Will they ever find land? You'll have to join their voyage to find out.A remarkable debut in the tradition of Gulliver's Travels and Lord of the Flies, The Defiant creates a world that's all its own-thrilling and wholly original, filled with strange energies and superstitious survivors, and dozens of moments you won't soon forget.Loot of the Shanung
By L. Ron Hubbard. 2013
Stop the presses! One hundred thousand dollar reward offered for the return of George Harley Rockham! That's more than enough…
to turn Shanghai newspaperman Jimmy Vance's head. Throw in the gorgeous dame who's offering the reward--Rockham's daughter Virginia--and he might lose his head altogether. As fast-talking as Jimmy Stewart in The Philadelphia Story, Vance jumps at the chance . . . the money . . . and the girl.But as Jimmy quickly discovers, there are several billion reasons to watch his back. Because that's how much Rockham is worth, and there are some very hard cases out there willing to kill to separate the old man from his money.Next thing Jimmy knows, Virginia's tied to a chair, and he's got a couple of guns pointed at his head. But it'll take more than a little rope and a couple of firearms to keep this reporter down. The truth is tied to the mysterious fate of a steamship named Shanung--and what Jimmy finds could be the biggest story of his life . . . if he lives to tell it. In the issue of Smashing Novels where this story first appeared the editor wrote: "Loot of the Shanung is a soul-stirring tale of the China Sea, a story of modern piracy set in the Far East. L. Ron Hubbard wrote it. He knows China. He has been there. He traveled through the country and met the people and observed their customs. Smashing Novels will have other stories from him--stories of far-off places and little known people. He knows of what he writes."The Fires Beneath the Sea
By Lydia Millet. 2011
Cara's mother has disappeared. Her father isn't talking about it. Her big brother Max is hiding behind his iPod, and…
her genius little brother Jackson is busy studying the creatures he collects from the beach. But when a watery specter begins to haunt the family's Cape Cod home, Cara and her brothers realize that their scientist mother may not be who they thought she was-and that the world has much stranger, much older inhabitants than they had imagined.With help from Cara's best friend Hayley, the three embark on a quest that will lead them from the Cape's hidden, ancient places to a shipwreck at the bottom of the sea. They're soon on the front lines of an ancient battle between good and evil, with the terrifying "pouring man" close on their heels.Packed with memorable characters and thrilling imagery, Lydia Millet weaves a page-turning adventure even as she brings the seaside world of Cape Cod to magical life. The first in a series of books about the Sykes children, The Fires Beneath the Sea is a rip-cracking middle-grade novel that will make perfect beach reading-for readers of any age!Lydia Millet is the author of six previous novels, including My Happy Life, which won the 2003 PEN-USA Award for Fiction, and Oh Pure and Radiant Heart, which was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clarke Award. Her short story collection Love in Infant Monkeys was a 2010 Pulitzer Prize finalist.Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens
By J. M. Barrie, Arthur Rackham. 2008
Before he flew away to Neverland, the little boy who wouldn't grow up dwelt in the heart of London, with…
birds and fairies as his companions. This whimsical romp introduces Peter Pan, who discovered the magic of everyday existence amid the trees and flowers of Kensington Gardens--the very place where J. M. Barrie met the children who inspired his classic stories.Acclaimed by the Times of London as "one of the most charming books ever written," Barrie's fantasy was published in 1907 with 50 stunning color illustrations by Arthur Rackham. This magnificent keepsake edition features all of Rackham's winsome images of Peter's adventures. Readers of all ages will delight in following the exuberant child as he sets sail in a boat built by thrushes from an island in the Serpentine to the enchanted Kensington Gardens, where fairies dance to the music of his pan-pipes and teach him to fly.Inky Odds
By L. Ron Hubbard. 2008
Step back in time with this thrilling tale. Bat Conroy of World Press is the best news correspondent covering the…
Japanese invasion of China. But now it's his legendary reputation of getting the story first that's under serious attack. No matter how fast he files his war pieces, Bat ends up being scooped by Perry Lane of International Service, a reporter he's never seen near the fighting (or anywhere, for that matter). When the biggest story of the war comes Bat's way, he's given an ultimatum: outwit Lane and somehow get his story in first or be blackballed from ever working as a reporter again. Before his boss can fire him, Bat sets out to track down his enterprising competitor, little knowing that the real identity of the mysterious newshound is uncomfortably close to home! "Riveting cliff-hanger action." --Midwest Book ReviewUnder the Black Ensign
By L. Ron Hubbard. 2007
Riveting, historical accounts of daredevils, pilots and brutal madmen... Tom Bristol's career as first mate of the Maryland bark Randolph…
abruptly ends during shore leave when he is press-ganged into serving aboard the British HMS Terror.Toil under the cruel whip of England is merciless: Crew members are treated as little more than chattel--barely fed, made to work past the brink of exhaustion and kept in line with a cat-o'-nine-tails. Fate finally smiles on young Bristol when the vessel is overtaken by pirates and he gladly turns coat and joins them.Yet Tom's new pirate mates desert him quickly after he's found guilty of killing a mutinous pirate and unwittingly harboring a woman on board. Marooned on a deserted island, Tom has nothing but a small supply of water, a gun and just enough bullets to kill himself. But Tom dreams up a devious plan that will return him to the high seas and make his past adventures pale compared to what he has in store for his many enemies. . . . "Beats any Pirates of the Caribbean story you will find."--Associated Content* A National Indie Excellence Award Winner