Ocean Survival Stories

Liam and Phoebe, having barely escaped our exploding sun with their lives, are in stasis for the decade-long journey to the rogue planet Delphi, where they hope to meet up with the rest of the human refugees, find help for their injured parents, and pass along the devastating things they discovered on Mars: that someone destroyed their world intentionally, and that that someone might still be after them, trying to finish the job. Phoebe is carrying her own dark secret. One that finds her waking up secretly at various points in their journey, changing their path through space.

This riveting collection of adventure writing includes the work of The Perfect Storm author, Sebastian Junger. Listen as men and women battle the elements, and often each other, to stay alive, confronting sharks, savage storms, rogue waves, mountainous icebergs, starvation, and their own fear and suffering.

The great heatwave of 1916 has the East Coast in its suffocating grip. For those fleeing the city, the cool, blue Atlantic of the Jersey Shore is a promised oasis. But paradise is ripped apart when a swimmer is brutally killed in the surf. Authorities are quick to dismiss the death as a freak accident. But when the horror strikes again, relentlessly moving north, the truth becomes undeniable. A rogue shark with a taste for human flesh is hunting in the placid waters of the summer resorts. The panic that seizes the coast is nothing compared to what comes next. In a terrifying turn that ...

In the aftermath of the Civil War, Kate Randsom is plunged into a battle of her own making.Pregnant and abandoned by the man who swore to marry her, disowned by her remaining family and shunned by the community where she has lived her whole life, Kate must find a way to deal with the repercussions of her own actions. Can she build a new life on the ashes of the old.....or will she lose everything she values?

Historia o odwadze, żeglarstwie bez GPS-a i kobietach na morzu. „Samotne oceany” to pełna zdumiewających spostrzeżeń biografia Krystyny Chojnowskiej-Liskiewicz–inżynier budowy statków, jachtowym kapitanie żeglugi wielkiej, pierwszej kobiecie na świecie, która samotnie opłynęła Ziemię.

Nothing drowns out the sound of drowning.... The survivors of Titanic arrive in New York City on a rainy April morning, but being back on dry land doesn't end the terror, and for some of the passengers, the nightmares are just beginning. Having escaped her haunting past in Southampton, Meg Westmoreland knows she should be excited to start her new life in New York City as millionaire Charlie Ashton's fiancée. However, Titanic has scarred both of them, and part of her wants to escape into the night, to start her new life all over again. Meg knows she must find the strength to help Charlie ...

Ocean Child is a magical tale of one girl's adventure at sea. She runs away from a troubled home, dresses as a boy, and stows away on a ship. She is finally fulfilling her dream of sailing the ocean, but she has no idea what lies in store for her! She is discovered by the ship's captain and crew, who are actually good, decent men, and the ship sets sail. Finding that she has stowed away on a "Questing Ship", she then has an encounter with dolphins that changes her life.