Sea Adventures

From Brandon Sanderson—author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War—comes a new hefty novella, Dawnshard. Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, this tale (like Edgedancer before it) gives often-overshadowed...

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....

2007 Audie Award Finalist for Solo Narration—Male The last novel Ernest Hemingway saw published, The Old Man and the Sea has proved itself to be one of the most enduring works of American fiction. It is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal: a relentless...

A powerful new thriller by the master of adventure fiction, Storm Tide is an epic story of nautical adventure and a battle for freedom by the master of adventure fiction....

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....

From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the second installment in the world-renownedSharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege of Seringapatam. "The greatest writer of historical adventures today." —Washington Post...

Bennett Sharp is on the run. Wanted for piracy, she fears neither God nor death nor man. Except Priest Farrell....

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

A series of bizarre occurrences suddenly plague the island of Cielo Nublado. A dead whale washes ashore riddled with enormous bite marks. A fishing charter is reported missing, jet skiers vanish, and a yacht is found mysteriously ravaged after some kind of enormous impact. Chief of Police Nico...

The year is 1794. Free from jail, John Pearce is not free from the smugglers whose boat he stole....

Widely regarded as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe is one of the most popular and influential adventure stories of all time....

'Paints a vivid picture of life aboard the mighty ship-of-the-line' - Daily Express 1811. The Adriatic, the 'French Lake', is now the most valuable territory Napoleon Bonaparte possesses. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd finds his glorious return to England cut short when the Admiralty summons him to...

Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater....

September 1804: England stands alone against France and the fleets of Spain, anticipating invasion....

Unputdownable naval action from the master of the sea story. 'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' (Guardian) November 1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd must sail to Lisbon to aid the Portuguese Royal Family's evacuation in the face of Napoleon's...

Bengtsson's hero, Red Orm-canny - courageous and above all lucky - is only a boy when he is abducted from his Danish home by the Vikings....

The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the dust sea of Nullaqua....

Can old flames reignite under the hot Italian sun? When the destination wedding agency Sophie works for merges with an adventure travel company to create unique ceremonies for outdoor enthusiasts, Sophie is horrified to discover her gruff ex-boyfriend Andreas works there.

Octa, the son of a mighty Saxon warlord, stands in the shield wall for the first time, eager to make a name for himself. But instead of the promised battle glory, fear overpowers him and he flees the battle, causing the death of his cousin and bringing shame to his family.

From one of the best writers in American literature, a classic novel about smuggling, intrigue, and love. To Have and Have Not is the dramatic story of Harry Morgan, an honest man who is forced into running contraband between Cuba and Key West as a means of keeping his crumbling family...

The very first Alan Lewrie naval adventure in this classic series is now back in print! 1780: Seventeen-year-old Alan Lewrie is a brash, rebellious young libertine. So much so that his callous father believes a bit of navy discipline will turn the boy around. Fresh aboard the tall-masted Ariadne...

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves, including one “Half-Cocked Jack” Shaftoe, devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune...

Sworn off romance, instead the love of Blue's life is the beautiful Isle of Siskin. Her home from birth, her community and now her job with the wildly successful podcast Only on Siskin. Her life is full and her future is set.

‘Delightfully romantic and touching.’ Phillipa Ashley on Sunrise at Butterfly Cove A season for change…? Beth Reynolds loved growing up close to Eleanor’s Emporium – a bric-a-brac shop full of wonders on Lavender Bay. Devastated to learn that Eleanor has died, she returns home from...

Private investigator Dan Armstrong is no stranger to working with criminals, but when he’s approached for help by Bianca Moretti, he’s on high alert. Bianca is intelligent and beautiful, and Dan likes her, but he also once sent her to prison…

The Viking raiders' devastation has been halted once more by the shields of Mercia as opposed to Wessex. But their whereabouts are unknown. King Wiglaf of Mercia is keen to ensure the Viking raiders are swept from his shared border with Wessex but these Viking ships are quick and difficult to track and Icel is once more deployed with Ealdorman Ælfstan warriors to do his King's bidding. However, Icel's quest is beset with many more obstacles and it's not all about the seax and shield. Worrying news from home overshadows Icel's every deadly encounter.

“Manuscript Found in a Bottle” by Edgar Allan Poe is a haunting tale of maritime terror, mystery, and the unknown. First published in 1833, this classic short story follows a doomed narrator who survives a violent storm only to find himself aboard a ghostly ship crewed by silent, ancient...

Narrated by Ishmael, the novel follows the whaling ship Pequod as it sails under the command of Captain Ahab—a man consumed by his relentless pursuit of a massive white sperm whale that once destroyed his leg. What begins as a maritime voyage unfolds into a profound exploration of obsession, fate, nature, and the limits of human will.

Bloody Nick Turnhouse has returned from Mauritius to Bombay, where he is welcomed with orders received from London by the overland route. He is to frighten the Spanish by showing himself in a powerful ship of war off Manila and then along the Pacific coast of South America, lands which have not...

The year is 1798 and it is known that Napoleon is putting a fleet and army together to attack Egypt, from where he might be able to threaten and even attack India to join with Tipu Sahib the ruler of Mysore, a known ally of the French. A British fleet under Admiral Nelson is hoping to intercept him but there is no word of their progress. Merriman has been ordered to take the Treasury Agent Mr Grahame to Bombay where their orders are to help The East India Company protect their shipping from pirates and also to find out how far Tipu’s naval building has progressed.

Die junge Kolonie Sydney droht an einer Hungersnot zu scheitern. Nur die Second Fleet kann sie noch retten. Das Warten zermürbt John und Daniel, die, um dem Hungertod zu entgehen, einen Plan schmieden. Indessen machen sich Daniels große Liebe Maja und ihr Vertrauter Pater Benedikt auf den Weg in das ferne Australien. Auch Lorelie, versucht eine Möglichkeit zu finden, ihren Verlobten John Timberland endlich wieder zu sehen.

In Key West, the water remembers everything. Lena Cruz lives between the dock and the stage. By day, she works the decks of a charter boat. By night, she sings in a historic hotel on Duval Street. Her life is measured by tides, routines, and things left unsaid—until one ordinary day on the water leaves a feeling that won’t settle. She doesn’t investigate. She doesn’t accuse. She pays attention. As quiet decisions ripple outward, Lena must decide what it means to do the right thing when the truth can’t be proven and silence feels safer than speaking.

Nicht jeder wird lebend in den Hafen zurückkehren ... Rachel Prince hätte nie gedacht, dass ihre Flucht vor Liebeskummer sie auf eine Kreuzfahrt voller dunkler Geheimnisse und gefährlicher Verwicklungen führen würde. Während die ahnungslosen Passagiere miteinander plaudern, lauert Gefahr an Deck. Nach dem mysteriösen Tod eines Passagiers wird Rachels Versuch, ihre neue Freundin zu beschützen, zu einem Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Verdächtige Gestalten lauern an jeder Ecke, und Rachel steht vor der entscheidenden Frage: Kann sie die Wahrheit auf einem Schiff voller Täuschungen aufdecken?

Kurz nachdem sich Emmas Mann von ihr trennt, erbt sie von ihrer Großtante Beth ein kleines Cottage in dem beschaulichen Fischerdörfchen Port Isaac. Will lebt sehr zurückgezogen und verdient sich das Nötige als Handwerker. Als er Emma das erste Mal trifft, sprühen die Funken. Er erkennt, dass er sich den Schatten seiner Vergangenheit endlich stellen muss. Jedes Buch der Reihe ist in sich abgeschlossen und kann unabhängig von den anderen gelesen werden.

Quand la fougue se heurte aux vagues du réel, il suffit d'un grain pour faire chavirer tout un monde. Ici, un naufrage—peut-être d'un navire, peut-être d'une vie—met à nu ce qu'on croyait enfoui: les silences, les élans, les pertes et ce qui surnage malgré tout. Entre houle et accalmies, se dessine une traversée où l'on mesure le prix des choix, ce qu'il faut abandonner pour continuer, et la force têtue de l'espérance.