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From a British author known for "superb" action sequences, a navel thriller set during a WWII German aerial attack on British forces (The Observer).
Crete, May 1941. Against all odds, Commander Nick Everard and his son, Jack, must survive a relentless Luftwaffe assault.
The situation is dire for British forces in the Mediterranean. Their ships, with no air cover, have to run the gauntlet of 2,000 German bombers; and can only lick their...
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Get the Summary of Scott Cook's Tokyo Express in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Tokyo Express" by Scott Cook is a World War II novel that follows the high-stakes missions of American submarine crews in the Pacific Theater. Admiral Charles A. Lockwood assigns a critical mission, Operation Switch Track, to disrupt the Japanese supply line known as the Tokyo Express. Submarine officers, including Art Turner of the...
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Get the Summary of Scott Cook's Wings of Vengeance in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Admiral Nimitz plans a counterstrike against Japan post-Pearl Harbor, with Halsey volunteering to lead a raid. At Waikiki Beach, pilots Kleiss and Best learn of their impending mission. The USS Enterprise departs, its crew anxious yet determined. A series of mishaps, including a fatal accident and a lost crew, shakes morale. Dixon's...
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This WWI thriller is "a particularly rousing brand of naval fiction . . . brimming with action, suspense, and authentic historical detail" (Booklist).
Churchill called it the finest feat of arms of the Great War . . .
After a punishing winter patrolling the Strait of Dover aboard HMS Mackerel, Nicholas Everard finds himself leading a secret mission to capture a German trawler. Little does he know it is all in preparation for the Zeebrugge...
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"Expertly researched narrative abounds with fascinating lore . . . this flamboyant re-creation of the distant past . . . is another genre triumph." -Kirkus Reviews
When Norse raiders slaughtered his family and abducted his sister, Corban Loosestrife set out on an odyssey that took him across half the world, from the Viking fortress of Jorvik to the wild and desolate shores of Vinland in the New World. Now Corban struggles to make a new life alone...
6) SS Misery
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Un libro sobre la supervivencia de la mente humana.
Dos hombres perdidos en el mar tienen que enfrentar la lucha de estar solos y a la deriva. Al principio se llevan bien, pero apenas aparece un regalo misterioso, las cosas empiezan a ir cuesta abajo.
Una novela que describe las condiciones en las que todos somos susceptibles. Un libro que muestra los límites de los humanos cuando enfrentamos la extinción personal.
Cuando Severo y Maximiliano...
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Catty Atkins, Sailorman is a novel written by Clarence Budington Kelland, first published in 1921. Clarence Budington Kelland was an American author known for his humorous and heartwarming stories. Excerpt: "It seems as if Catty and I have a lot of luck, and this summer we had more than usual, for Mr. Browning, who lived in New York, and was interested in all kinds of businesses, invited us to go for a cruise on his yacht. He was out to our town to...
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"A deadly, dangerous, beautiful nightmare." — Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End
For readers of Rachel Hawkins and We Were Never Here comes a searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a charismatic group of expats, and the one murder poised to bring their paradise crashing down.
Welcome to paradise. We
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The World Turtle Is a brief overview of the historical turtle that is found between lands in all of mythology. The world was full of beheadings from South America to the western countries an elephant in Hinduism. A war was walking the earth and arrows were piercing the shell. A tribe's daughter is thrown from the top of a pyramid with her heart ripped from her chest, The Aztecs holding a still beating heart up for the sun to please the gods. China...
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"La aventura de Juan Sebastián Elcano después de la primera vuelta al mundo"
Elcano recibía, en 1522, el derecho a usar un escudo de armas con el lema "Primus circumdedisti me". Carlos I se lo otorgaba tras culminar la primera circunnavegación a la tierra. Esa gesta, que generó no pocas tensiones con Portugal, lo convirtió en uno de los marinos más respetados del reino. Recompensado también con una generosa pensión, no iba, sin embargo, a...
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Swashbuckling historical fiction from the author of I, Claudius. Set in the Age of Exploration, The Islands of Unwisdom tells the story of the ill-fated Don Álvaro de Mendaña y Neyra, a Spanish explorer set on finding the Solomon Islands, the mythical source of King Solomon's vast wealth. Driven by greed, ambition, and lust, Don Alvaro and his wife, the beautiful and dangerous Ysabel, lead a crew of adventurers beyond the horizon in search of the...
12) La Ruta Infinita
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El 10 de agosto de 1519 partía del sevillano muelle de las Mulas una flota compuesta por cinco naves (la Trinidad, la San Antonio, la Concepción, la Victoria y la Santiago) dirigida por el experimentado navegante portugués Fernando de Magallanes, que había tenido el empeño y la tenacidad de hacer realidad su proyecto para buscar un paso entre el Atlántico y el mar del Sur. Tras permanecer cuarenta días en la desembocadura del Guadalquivir,...
13) Firespill
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An ecological hellfire threatens the west coast of North America in this international thriller from the bestselling author of the WWIII novels. In the early dawn fog off the coast of Southern Alaska, two million-ton tankers collide. Both are fully loaded: the American Kodiak with crude oil; the Russian Sakhalin with high octane. It's a nightmare scenario that becomes an international disaster of epic proportions when a single match ignites nearly...
14) Exiles: A Novel
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With Exiles, Ron Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of "elected silence" with an outpouring of dazzling poetry.
In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for England and then America. On board were five young nuns who, exiled by Bismarck's laws against Catholic religious orders, were going to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Early one morning, the ship ran aground...
15) Beyond the Sea
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A novel from the 2023 Booker Prize winning author of Prophet Song
"Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful." --M John Harrison, The Guardian
The haunting story of two men stranded at sea pushing against their physical and mental limits to stay alive
Based partly on true events, Paul Lynch's haunting and sublime novel Beyond the Sea tells the story of two South American fishermen, Bolivar and Hector, who go to sea before a catastrophic storm....
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Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From-Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine and Richard Russo's Empire Falls.
Two women come to Maine in search of family, and find more love, heartbreak, and friendship, than they'd ever imagined one little fishing town could hold.
When Leah, a young New York reporter, meets Henry, she falls in love with everything...
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Trapped undersea in a capsized shrimping trawler, a damaged former war correspondent is forced to confront a deadly secret from his past as he struggles to survive in this gripping novel of trauma, loss, love, and redemption from award-winning journalist and author of The Things They Cannot Say Kevin Sites.
Former war correspondent Lukas Landon is alone, trapped under 150-feet of water in an overturned shrimp trawler at the bottom of the ocean. The...
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Joseph Conrad's literary prowess reaches its zenith in "Lord Jim," an extraordinary novel that beckons readers into the turbulent seas of human morality, redemption, and the elusive quest for honor. Set against a backdrop of seafaring adventure and the exotic locales of the East, this masterpiece unfolds with a narrative cadence that echoes the ebb and flow of the tides, immersing readers in a story that transcends time.
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Sweet Brackish Salt is a quest novel told from the perspective of a feminized gender non-conforming seafarer who works through various myths, encounters and kinds of water – sweet, brackish and salt – to arrive at a more robust and nuanced self-understanding.
Sweet Brackish Salt is a quest novel told from the perspective of a feminized gender non-conforming seafarer who works through various myths, encounters and kinds of water – sweet, brackish...
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From a British author known for "superb" action sequences, a WWII navel thriller set during the German campaign against Scandinavia (The Observer).
Everard is returns in a new global conflict.
British Captain Nick Everard's destroyer is crippled by Nazi gunfire in the German invasion of Norway. Nothing seems able to stop the advance across Europe and the Royal Navy is in a tight situation.
Desperately attempting to repair his ship hidden...
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