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....

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

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....

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....

From The New York Times best-selling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past 200 years....

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....

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....

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....

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....

When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, and violent death are the foreign pilots....

In this, the final Horatio Hornblower adventure, C.S. Forester throws his hero into one of the most challenging missions yet....

Two opposing groups seek a 50,000-year-old radioactive meteorite known as the Sacred Stone. Muslim extremists have stolen a nuclear device....

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....

A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic launch of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker....

A massive solar flare. A devastating global blackout. Amid the pandemonium, a ship loaded with fuel faces the ultimate threat: mutiny. The desperate captain will do anything to maintain order while he races to get his precious cargo to the safety of homeport, but time is running out....

In the final minutes of Valhalla Rising, Dirk Pitt discovered, to his shock, that he had two grown children he had never known....

The hero of Serpent and Blue Gold confronts a deadly global plot, in this breathtaking Kurt Austin adventure....

The Khao San Road, Bangkok—first stop for the hordes of rootless young Westerners traveling in Southeast Asia. On Richard's first night there, in a low-budget guest house, a fellow traveler slashes his wrists, bequeathing to Richard a meticulously drawn map to "the Beach."....

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

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....

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

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....

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....

When Elisabeth Quemener dies she leaves a small parcel with the instructions that it must only be opened by Astrid Oake. The trouble is, no one knows who Astrid Oake is… Elisabeth’s family turn to Touissants detective agency for help but, when Mila Shepherd and Carter Jackson try to track Astrid down, their frustration soon mounts. Their only clue is a photo of two young women holding the hands of a tiny child. The women are smiling but Mila is haunted by the sadness in their eyes. Is this Astrid and Elisabeth and if so, who is the child?

"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" by Jules Verne is a classic science fiction adventure novel that takes listeners on an underwater journey aboard the submarine "Nautilus". The story follows Professor Pierre Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and Canadian whaler Ned Land as they are captured by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. As they travel through the world’s oceans, they encounter extraordinary sea creatures, explore mysterious underwater landscapes, and grapple with the captain's complex motivations.

Eine Familienzusammenkunft auf hoher See – was kann da schon schief gehen? Das denkt sich Maria, als sie als Bordshop-Leiterin auf dem Kreuzfahrtschiff anheuert, dessen Kapitän ihr Bruder Lukas ist. Wenn sie beide schon zusammen in See stechen – warum dann nicht gleich die ganze Familie einladen? Während nach und nach die Verwandtschaft zusteigt, beschleicht Maria jedoch das Gefühl, dass das nicht die beste Idee war. Schließlich ging bei der letzten Zusammenkunft ein Familienmitglied über Bord.

Ein Roman voller Küstenwetter, Tiefgründigkeit und Wärme. Was passiert, wenn man beschließt, aus seinem alten Leben fortzulaufen, auf einer Fähre das Meer bis zum nächsten Ufer überquert und dort unerwartet auf einen einzigartigen Menschen trifft? Jesper ergeht es so und er erzählt diesen Roman aus seiner persönlichen Perspektive. Das Meer, der Wind, all die dort dazu gehörenden Geräusche und natürlich auch Anniken begleiten dieses Erzählen immerwährend.

In this lyrical adventure, Matías must learn the hard way what it will take to reclaim his dignity, protect his family, and free his community from a terrible scourge. Throughout it all, the sea remains witness to this intricate story of people struggling with their humanity.