Sea Adventures

When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akina, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands....

Written in 1952, this hugely successful novella confirmed Hemingway's power and presence in the literary world and played a large part in his winning the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature....

One of the many engineers that keep Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. Then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the first exciting adventure in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam....

Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, she’s survived backstabbing rogues, vengeful merchant princes, several husbands, and one actual demon....

Mark Helprin, New York Times bestselling author of Winter’s Tale and A Soldier of the Great War, returns with a fast-paced, beautifully written novel about the majesty of the sea; a life dedicated to duty, honor, and country; and the gift of falling in love....

Quartered in a crumbling Portuguese fort, Richard Sharpe and his men are attacked by an elite French unit, led by an old enemy of Sharpe’s, and suffer heavy losses....

Crash Dive: The Complete Series puts together for the first time all six episodes in Craig DiLouie's highly acclaimed historical military fiction series: Crash Dive, Silent Running, Battle Stations, Contact!, Hara-Kiri, and Over the Hill....

Shaking off this label, a shy and lonely 17-year-old, Horatio Hornblower, embarks on a memorable career in Nelson's navy on HMS Justinian....

When Wynn and Jack decide to canoe the Maskwa River in Northern Canada, they anticipate long days of leisurely paddling and picking blueberries and nights of stargazing and reading paperback Westerns. But a wildfire making its way across the forest adds unexpected urgency to the journey....

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Deadly Education comes the sixth volume of the Temeraire series, as Will Laurence and Temeraire are exiled to Australia in the ever expanding war between Napoleon and Britain.

I met him, the man of my dreams. On the worst day of my life. Catching my boyfriend out was bad. Coming out of the club in a daze, I stumbled upon a situation which was worse. Much worse. And it would have been deadly, too. If he wasn’t there to save me....

Its famous opening line, "Call me Ishmael", dramatic in its stark simplicity, begins an epic that is widely regarded as the greatest novel ever written by an American....

It's not on any chart, but the tropical island of Cayo Loco is the perfect place to run away from all your problems. Waking from a ganja buzz on the beach in Tulum, Tully can't believe his eyes when a 142-foot schooner emerges out of the ocean mist. At its helm is Cleopatra Highbourne....

Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction....

Critically acclaimed, perennial New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell (Agincourt, The Fort, the Saxon Tales) makes real history come alive in his breathtaking historical fiction.

The time is World War II. The place is a brutal prison camp deep in Japanese-occupied territory....

Hundreds of feet beneath the ocean's surface, a graveyard waits. Years ago, the SS Arcadia vanished without a trace during a routine voyage. Though a strange, garbled emergency message was broadcast, neither the ship nor any of its crew could be found....

Harsh, realistic, yet with one of the most subtle and moving relationships in the Hemingway oeuvre, To Have and Have Not is literary high adventure at its finest....

Having now paid his dues as midshipman, Horatio Hornblower returns as a newly promoted Lieutenant, in the second instalment of C.S. Forester's beloved naval series....

A convoy of 37 merchant ships is ploughing through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas during the most critical days of World War II, when the German submarines had the upper hand and Allied shipping was suffering heavy losses....

The outcast youth Ishmael, succumbing to wanderlust during a dreary New England autumn, signs up for passage aboard a whaling ship....

Only 27 years old, Horatio Hornblower has distinguished himself as a capable and intrepid officer in the Royal Navy. On a reconnaissance mission with the Hotspur, a three-masted frigate under his command, Hornblower and his crew narrowly avoid capture by their French adversaries....

Horatio Hornblower sails South American waters and comes face to face with a mad revolutionary....

The Dunnes have set off on a 10-day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together. But just when things start to take a turn for the better, disaster strikes....

Dee Donovan is used to living up to her reputation as the ‘wild’ twin. She finally has an opportunity to prove everyone, especially her father wrong. She just needs her sister's business partner Jem to play along with her outrageous plan. Secure a business deal by faking it as her boyfriend in Greece. The catch? Jem and Dee are not that close. In fact, Dee can’t put her finger on it, but Jem seems to really dislike her!

After Liza Maclean's cruel husband decides to do away with her, she finds herself tied up and left to die on a rock in the middle of the sea. All hope seems lost until she is unexpectedly saved… by pirates. Alec Rankin's name is legend among the Western Isles. He and his crew have carved a reputation as bloodthirsty and ruthless. But when he rescues the distraught lady from certain death, Alec's life takes an unexpected turn.

In a last-ditch effort to retake control of the seas, a coalition of desperate pirates launch an offensive against the might of the British Navy. In the aftermath, the survivors would find themselves shipwrecked on a strange island and they are not alone. Here there be monsters, the kind not seen for billions of years and they're hungry.

The letter arrives: Ondine’s final assignment in her teaching program that will finally—finally—secure her future on the Isle of Mardona. The process has been difficult due to her father’s Neridian bloodline, but also the legacy her mother left in the wake of her death. But this final step will put all of that in the past where it belongs, and Ondine will settle into her place on the Isle. But there’s a problem. She has been assigned to teach at Regiatus: an underwater school in deep Neridia. Not only is Neridia dangerous—especially for Ondine—but her assignment throws her plans into chaos.

Irlanda 1973, un bambino viene trovato sulla spiaggia di un villaggio di pescatori. Il pescatore Ambros Bonnar si offre di accoglierlo nella propria famiglia, che comprende la moglie Christine, il figlio Declan, la sorella e l'anziano padre di Christine. Le fortune della famiglia vanno e vengono nel corso degli anni, mentre la vorace economia globale e la pesca commerciale modernizzata devastano il loro stile di vita.

On the 50th anniversary of one of the most important blockbusters of all time, a menace surfaces. When strange happenings begin to occur, the first logical conclusion is that a shark is responsible. Evidence suggests a crocodile but the public thinks otherwise. History will repeat itself but not in the way anyone expected. A mysterious predatory creature is claiming its territory and the town must come together to stop it.

Früh am Morgen bei Niedrigwasser fährt er mit Pferd und Kutsche los, um sich den Unterhalt für den Tag zu verdienen, ein Leben von der Hand in den Mund. Als der amerikanische Regisseur Edgar Acheson in der Stadt eintrifft, wird Thomas' vermeintlich einfaches Leben erschüttert. Er bekommt eine Ahnung von der großen, weiten Welt, davon, was da draußen auf ihn warten könnte, und schließt Freundschaft mit dem Mann, der in jeder Hinsicht anders ist als er.

Aboard the Mariner's Dream, the atmosphere was thick with the scent of salt and decay, a haunting reminder of the world that had been left behind. The vessel, once a proud cruise liner, now served as a floating fortress for the few survivors who dared to call it home.

На долю Зельды Марш выпало немало горестей и жизненных испытаний. Рано лишившись матери, она воспитывалась у тетки, строгие порядки и правила которой совсем не нравились юной девушке. У Зельды была мечта – она хотела стать великой актрисой, поэтому в один из дней попросту убежала из ненавистного ей дома. Совершив немало ошибок на пути к достижению своей цели, девушка несмотря ни на что смогла добиться успеха став в конечном итоге мудрой, самодостаточной, независимой женщиной.

18. Jahrhundert: Ein junger Abenteurer aus reichem Hause kauft sich auf einem britischen Schiff ein, um zu einer kleinen Insel in der Nähe von St. Vincent zu gelangen. Er ist einer goldenen Inka-Maske auf der Spur, die ein Konquistador dort versteckt haben soll. Da das goldene Zeitalter der Piraterie vorbei und kein Schiff unter spanischer Flagge am Horizont zu sehen ist, fühlt er sich in der Karibik einigermaßen sicher.