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Emme has spent her life avoiding anything to do with pirates. But the fates are cruel, and now a hidden sickness leads her to partner with pirates for the one thing that can save her - a cure on an island none are certain exists.

Coral Amherst is the middle child of a wealthy family, with fingers throughout the politics and laws of the magical Dalebloods and the Republic they lead. Skill and connections alike have propelled her to the highest ranks of the Republic’s Navy. Now, duty inexorably drags her into a mission to learn the fate of a long-lost magical city, once home to many of the people the Dalebloods rule. Storms of dark magic drove the Seablood from their ancient city and to the shores of the Republic—and those same storms now assail the Republic itself!

The inspiration for the 2006 Warner Bros. film, Poseidon, Paul Gallico's The Poseidon Adventure is an intense and dramatic story about a gigantic ocean liner and its unimaginable final journey. When a rogue wave capsizes the luxury cruise ship, a small group of survivors find themselves unlikely...

Haven Ambrose, eine der führenden Meeresarchäologinnen, ist in das sonnige Städtchen Positano gekommen, um die mysteriösen Schiffswracks an der Amalfiküste zu untersuchen. Nach Havens Ankunft beginnen jedoch seltsame Unglücke die Stadt heimzusuchen. Bei der Suche nach dem Schatz entdeckt Haven eine Erzählung über uralte Magie und eine Frau, die durch die legendäre Kraft der Stregheria, der Macht des Ozeans, ihren Geliebten und ihr Dorf retten wollte. Haven muss den Fluch von Amalfi lösen, bevor alles zerstört wird.

Set ten years after the events in Prince of the Blood, this book is a remarkable adventure of mystery and magic. In Amos Trask's ship, Prince Nicholas and Squire Harry set sail for a friendly visit to Uncle Martin in Crydee. But while the two are guests in Crydee, disaster strikes. Nicholas...

In the year 1689, a cabal of Barbary galley slaves, including one “Half-Cocked Jack” Shaftoe, devises a daring plan to win freedom and fortune. A great adventure ensues that will place the intrepid band at odds with the mighty and the mad, with alchemists, Jesuits, great navies, pirate queens, and vengeful despots across vast oceans and around the globe.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Mermaid and Mrs Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar, read by Juliet Stevenson. This voyage is special. It will change everything… One September evening in 1785, the merchant Jonah Hancock hears urgent knocking on his front door. One of his captains...

The powerful narcotic syncophine, commonly known as Flare, comes from only one source: the oil of the gargantuan whale-like beasts that swim the dust sea of Nullaqua. It was John Newhouse’s addiction to the substance that made him a dealer and forced him to move to this airless, inhospitable planet. But when the all-powerful galactic Confederacy declares Flare illegal, the needs of Newhouse and his clientele leave the desperate off-worlder no choice but to sign on as an able seaman aboard a dustwhaler and hunt the giant creatures himself.

On Stranger Tides follows the exploits of John Chandagnac, who travels to the new world after the death of his puppeteer father to confront his uncle, who has apparently made off with the family fortune. During the voyage, he befriends Beth Hurwood and her father, Benjamin Hurwood, an Oxford professor. Before they arrive at their destination, their ship is waylaid by Blackbeard and his band of pirates.

When Auster, a young member of the Roth crime family, meets a deckhand named Paj that he's been sent to rob on behalf of his infamous uncle, his world is turned upside down.

Siete pronti per una nuova scorpacciata di violenza nel medievaleggiante Regno di Taglia? Al largo delle coste di Romagma, il crudele Blasco da Grama riunisce la sua temibile Combriccola del Balera. I pirati del Maladriatico navigano a vista, fra maledizioni, leggende truculente e abbordaggi epici. Le loro scorrettissime avventure sono raccontate da un testimone di estrema sfiducia: il nostromo Arraffaello Draghetti, che descriverà il tutto nel suo disgustoso diario di abbordo. Conosciuti anche come fratelli grimdark, Luca Mazza e Jack Sensolini sono i fondatori di "Ignoranza Eroica".

Il libro primo delle avventure di Elynn Respiro di Onda, la coraggiosa figlia di Atlantide, che in questa storia si troverà ad affrontare il crudele dio della pioggia, colpevole di aver rubato il sole e di custodirlo gelosamente nella sua dimora fra le nuvole.Speravo di incontrare un branco di delfini, creature che avevo incontrato solo poche volte e sempre di sfuggita. La mia curiosita nasceva dagli insegnamenti del mio maestro secondo cui, anticamente, delfini e atlantidei avevano costituito un'unica razza.

Wrongfully accused, Spar has been condemned to suffer the brutality of the guards and the conditions on Devil’s Island. But they haven’t broken his will, and now, escaping, he has one mission in life: revenge. Spar’s out to kill the man who put him into the devil’s hands. But he’ll have to take on a gallery of rogues who are as treacherous as the waters of the Caribbean.

Time is a very fluid thing, no one really has a grasp on it other than maybe how to measure it. As the maestro of the Day by Day Armageddon Universe, I have the latitude of being in control of that time. I can adjust the slider either direction, moving the timeline back and forth along the continuum. This is one of the perks of creation, the benefit in constructing something (albeit small) from nothing. Sort of makes you wonder what the maestro of the universe is up to, no? You have again stumbled upon a ticket with service through the apocalyptic wastes, but this time the train is a little bit older, a little more beat up, and maybe a little wiser. Keep your doors locked.

A Swedish freighter is on a special mission to locate and survey a number of wrecks after the First World War. The first on their list was torpedoed exactly one year to the day, and this proves to be no coincidence when the commander is suddenly tormented by an impossible Morse code transmission from beyond the grave.

A smoking cigar is seen in the fog, but not the man behind it. Could it be the final smoke of Charlie Devereux? The crew aboard the Königen Teresa recall this ghostly story as they themselves plough into fog across the Mid-Atlantic.