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It was a beautiful morning. Despite the ancient oracle's strange warning, Lydia set sail. She was experienced. She had done this plenty of times before. The oracle offered her a lucky talisman. Lydia took it. Now, it seems both their luck has run out. She is stuck on an island with a charm whose magic is spent. Will it ever return, or is she doomed to spend the rest of her life marooned in the middle of nowhere?

Edward “Blackbeard” Teach has a good reason for everything he does. Despite what his crewmen might say, he isn’t turning soft. When King George I issues a pardon for all pirates who give up their thieving ways within a year, Blackbeard sees his chance to have it all. He just needs to falsely repent within a year and then his comfortable future will be guaranteed. But Blackbeard has made many enemies over the years—men who are not prepared to forgive him just because of a royal decree.

There’s a storm brewing, and it's going to be a bad one, but for the crew of the Sassafras it could be the least of their worries. Their old nemeses, Murphy and his Law, are wide awake and ready to serve up a heaping helping of trouble. So grab your kukri machetes and hold on tight as you enter the Zombie Heart of Darkness.

When Finn learns that the fire which killed his family was arson, he and Mary expose a criminal enterprise which began over 50 years earlier. The trouble begins when his daughter asks Finn about her grandparents. Finn visits the ruins of his childhood home to refresh his memory. While there, Finn meets an old friend who gives him a sealed letter from Finn's father, claiming that he was killed by a fellow veteran, a man he investigated for crimes in the Vietnam War. As Finn and Mary sail to the Caribbean in pursuit of the killer, they discover an empire built on crime and corruption.

Dr. Eva Paz wants only a peaceful life on Roatan for herself and her dolphins, continuing their research in dolphin communication and educating children on the importance of caring for the reef. But when the Navy reactivates Taffy and Finn for exercises in Pearl Harbor, that all changes, for she finds Julian is there as well, and he is armed with yet another genetically modified creature. This time, it has the spirit of an actual dragon. Thankfully, Eva has her friends and her family—and Thomas—on her side. Not to mention a whole host of new friends: the members of Dragon Clan.

En este clásico de la novela histórica chilena, editado por primera vez en formato bolsillo, encontramos al héroe del Combate Naval de Iquique ese 21 de mayo con todos sus temores y dudas. Después de una investigación de años, Patricio Jara nos revela la faceta más humana de uno de los emblemas de la historia del país y descubre en este relato los aspectos más desconocidos del combate naval, del horror de su desenlace y de los días que sucedieron el histórico episodio en el puerto de la ciudad de Iquique. Un libro fundamental para entender la historia de Chile.

The Greenland Shark tells the story of Murphy and Kavanagh, the only crew on the Skalugsuak as they sail the Baltic sea. Kavanagh senses Murphy is concealing a dark past, but then he has his own secrets he is reluctant to share. Life is hard on a boat that forever stinks of urine, but when they spot the legendary Greenland Shark, both men’s secrets begin to unravel.

When detective Raymond Dehane’s covert operation goes awry, it awakens an ancient creature from its slumber deep in the Mariana Trench. Kaiju groupies Devonte Rhodes and Dr. Skylar O’Hara must work with him and the military to find a way to stop its reign of terror. Caught between fascination and horror as they witness the creature’s destructive power, the three work tirelessly to find a means of protecting what they love, even if it means killing this entirely new species.

For twenty-eight years, cruise critic Darcy Simons has followed the rules. And what did it get her? A broken heart, an unfaithful fiancé, and a pile of bills taller than her uneaten four-tiered wedding cake. Clearly, it's not blondes, but bad girls, who have more fun, and she is determined to become one of them. While Darcy is on the maiden voyage of the Ocean Starr cruise liner to write a snarky review that will earn enough money to pay off her canceled wedding, she's determined to break some rules and have a wild sexual adventure—she just needs to find the perfect man.

More than one hundred years after Columbus blundered onto Hispaniola, the West Indies are held in Spain's iron fist, and no threat to that absolute rule is tolerated. But such total control cannot last, and one threat will emerge as the most dangerous of all: the buccaneers. Camped on the shore of Hispaniola, these half-wild men eke out a living hunting the island's feral livestock. Among them, Jean-Baptiste LeBoeuf lives out his exile, content that no one in the hunters' camp is curious about his past. But when a hurricane sweeps through the Caribbean, it upends their rough existence.

In 1845, Sir John Franklin led 129 officers and men into the Arctic to try to find the Northwest Passage. None of them returned. Trapped is a novel that tells the harrowing, grueling fascinating story of the disastrous, ill-fated expedition of Sir John Franklin of 1845, which resulted in the deaths of the entire crew of 129 officers and men and the loss of the two expedition ships.

Wie weit würde man für seinen besten Freund gehen? Diese Frage muss sich Anthony Sosinski stellen, als er bemerkt, dass sein Freund und Kollege, John Aldrige, sich nicht mehr auf dem gemeinsamen Boot befindet. Aldrige ist über Bord gegangen und kämpft gegen die Wellen, sich selbst und um das blanke Überleben. Eine Geschichte über Freundschaft, Hoffnung und den Willen zu Leben.

Marc Pastor torna a sorprendre amb una novel·la que respira l’exotisme dels millors relats d’aventures. Bioko, l’illa remota del golf de Guinea que dona nom a la novel·la, l’any 1887 encara és un presidi enorme on es confinen els homes a qui es castiga sense futur. Aquí és on destinen Martí Corvo, un soldat llibertí i bevedor, amb l’esperança que serà el candidat ideal per un entorn tan cru.

This gold gleamed green in the low light. Kenneth recognized it as sinister from the moment he saw it, shortly before he and fellow soldiers took it from its place of origin. Against his better judgment, he now helps his comrades and the temperate Captain Hiram load the treasure onto their ship so they can offer it to the mercenaries they need to tip the scale in the American Revolution; only then can everyone go home. Though they escape unscathed, a great storm and swift-sailing pirate ship await them at sea.

Isaac Stanfield leaves his home to become a sailor on a merchantman, the Sweet Rose, and through ingenuity and sheer luck, finds himself in the middle of the drama and explorations that precede the departure of the Mayflower for New England in 1620. Exploration is Isaac's coming-of-age story, capturing the turbulence of the times through his observations and experiences. Suspenseful, poignant, and expertly researched, David Tory's novel brings to life an engaging cultural history of English seafaring exploration and intrigue in the early 17th century.

The marines have seized control of the Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal, but this isn’t the end of their troubles…it’s only the beginning. The Japanese bomb them by day, attack from the forbidding darkness of the jungles by night, and their ships, like hungry sharks, prowl just offshore after the sun goes down. Whoever controls the canal controls the war. The Japanese know this, so they concoct a plan to send men and equipment ashore using fast destroyers—ships that can come by night and leave before the Cactus Airforce or Admiral Fletcher’s carrier planes can stop them.

November 1907. George Dillman and Genevieve Masefield sail from Liverpool to New York on the maiden voyage of the luxurious Mauretania. Employed by the Cunard Line again as private detectives, they pose as passengers on what proves to be a very eventful crossing. Dillman is instrumental in rescuing a crew member from being washed overboard in severe weather, but he is unable to save one of the first-class passengers from the same fate.

Jim versucht, seiner Vergangenheit zu entkommen. Als Erster Offizier auf einem Pilgerschiff beging er einen schrecklichen Fehler, der ihn Ruf und Laufbahn kostete. Nach langen Reisen erreicht er die entlegene Insel Patusan im Indischen Ozean, wo er sich das Vertrauen der Einheimischen erwirbt. Als Friedensstifter wird er hoch verehrt, aus Jim wird Lord Jim. Doch dann tauchen Piraten auf, und sie scheinen zu wissen, wer er wirklich ist.

When 15-year-old Agatha's mother falls gravely ill, she is shipped off to the coast of Maine to live with her aunt, Edith Philipa Gordan, an eccentric writer who hasn't finished a novel in decades and paints birds obsessively. What begins as a dull summer immediately takes a turn toward adventure with the arrival of Edie's old beau, Horatio Macleay, and his handsome nephew. With WWII looming on the horizon, Agatha and her new group of friends race against time and across continents to complete their mission before it is too late.

It was supposed to be a simple mission. A suspected Russian spy boat is in trouble in Canadian waters. Investigate and report are the orders. But when Captain John Banks and his squad arrive, it is to find an empty vessel, and a scene of bloody mayhem. Soon they are in a fight for their lives, for there are things in the icy seas off Baffin Island, scuttling, hungry things with a taste for human flesh. They are swarming. And they are growing.