Maritime Adventure

Around the time of the Sandinista Revolution in Nicaragua, the U.S.-flagged merchant ship S.S. Del Oro departs Tacoma, Wash. bound for ports in Central and South America. Some unmarked crates in one of the holds are to be delivered to the Del Oro's first stop after the U.S.: Nicaragua. The narrator, Oiler on the 8-12 watch in the engine room, had promised to smuggle a parrot from South America back to his girlfriend in Seattle, risking prison to impress a beautiful woman. Against a backdrop of the collapsing dictatorship of Anastasio Somoza in Nicaragua, read how a merchant seaman combs ...

As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home 17-year-old Fable has ever known. It s been four years since the night she watched her mother drown during an unforgiving storm. The next day, her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive, she must keep to herself, learn to trust no one and rely on the unique skills her mother taught her. The only thing that keeps her going is the goal of getting off the island, finding her father and demanding her rightful place beside him and his crew.

Captain John Powell Mills voyages across the oceans entrusted with conducting emigrants to new worlds, but with a mind gradually losing its hold on reality and an increasing dependence on alcohol. His passengers and crew are threatened with disaster. Based on a true story.

“Elizabethan Commando.”—The New York Times Young John Forrester never knew his father, a man who left his family and his home in England in search of the treasure of El Dorado…and disappeared. But when he receives news that his father is still alive and being held prisoner in Spain, John is thrust on a mission to save him…but he must save England first. From the author of John Treegate’s Musket—the gripping historical fiction novel set during the American Revolutionary War—comes another thrilling tale set during the daring raid on the Spanish Fleet in Cadiz in 1587… an ...

Wer sich unvorbereitet auf die britische Hauptstadt einlässt, den überfordert sie häufig, wie eine launische Diva, dem entgehen die geheimen und oft auch die offensichtlichen Reize einer gereiften Schönheit mit hohen Ansprüchen. Wir führen Sie vom Banker-Viertel Canary Wharf in den betagten aber neu erstrahlenden Kew Garden, in die versteckte Londoner Botanik, auf einen roten Doppeldeckerbus und zum Hunderennen.

Get ready for a thrilling ocean adventure! Captain Evan Silva and his crew are on a routine fishing trip when they haul in something incredible - a mysterious creature with tentacles and human-like fingers! Dubbed Noodles, this bizarre being quickly becomes the captain's unlikely friend. But their excitement turns to terror when the legendary ghost ship, the Flying Dutchman, appears on the horizon, its cannons blazing. As they desperately try to outrun the phantom vessel, Captain Silva must unravel the chilling mystery: why is the ghost ship hunting them, and what eerie fate awaits if ...