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From New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, now available in paperback—bestselling historical novelist Bernard Cornwell brings life to one of the most spectacular naval battles in history with SHARPE’S TRAFALGAR. ""The greatest writer of historical adventures today.""...

Lucy awakens in her ex-lover’s room in the middle of the night with her hands around his throat. Horrified, she flees to her sister’s house on the coast of New South Wales, hoping Jess can help explain the vivid dreams that preceded the attack – but her sister is nowhere to be found. As Lucy waits for her return, she starts to unearth strange rumours about Jess’s town. Tales of numerous missing men, spread over decades. A baby abandoned in a sea-swept cave. Whispers of women’s voices on the waves. All the while, her dreams start to feel closer than ever…

A doomed German submarine descends into madness and supernatural terror after recovering a mysterious ivory carving from the body of a dead sailor. H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Temple” is a haunting tale of isolation, obsession, and ancient horrors waiting beneath the sea...

The fiercely independent daughter of famous adventurers, she grew up travelling the world on the environmental flagship The Watch. So when Harriet's ship sinks in Antarctica and she has to be rescued by Commander Per Amundsen, an infuriatingly capable Norwegian naval officer and living breathing action hero, her world is turned upside down. Per thinks Harriet is an accident waiting to happen; Harriet thinks Per is a control freak. But when Harriet realises that Per is the only one who can help her fund the new ship she desperately wants, she is forced to cooperate with him.

Ein mysteriöser Todesfall sorgt im idyllischen Greetsiel für Schlagzeilen. In der Seniorenresidenz „Haus Friesenglück" wird eine ältere Dame leblos in der Badewanne aufgefunden. Ein Föhn lag im Wasser, und schnell diagnostiziert der Arzt des Hauses Selbstmord. Doch es gibt viele Unstimmigkeiten, Fenna Stern und Tammo Anders von der Kripo Greetsiel ermitteln. Schon bald finden sie heraus: Es war nicht der erste rätselhafte Tod im „Friesenglück" ... Immer mehr Indizien deuten auf Mord, doch wer hat ein Motiv?

Als Sophie ihren Mann und ihren Sohn bei einem Bootsunglück verliert, scheint auch ihr Lebensmut zu sterben. Doch die leidenschaftliche Schwimmerin gibt nicht auf: Sie beschließt, im Rahmen der »Ocean’s Seven Challenge« sieben Meeresstraßen zu durchschwimmen. Was als abenteuerliche Idee beginnt, wird zu einem unerbittlichen Kampf gegen ihre inneren Dämonen und gegen die harte Realität auf hoher See: eiskaltes Wasser, meterhohe Wellen, giftige Quallen. Sophie schwimmt und schwimmt – getrieben von Emotionen, die sich im Laufe der Zeit wandeln: Schmerz, Zorn und Hoffnung.

On the storm-lashed island of Guernsey, one man risks everything to salvage a wrecked steamship from the sea. A haunting portrait of obsession, solitude, and the brutal beauty of nature. In Victor Hugo's hands, the ocean becomes both enemy and witness as Gilliatt battles tides, machinery, and fate itself for the chance to earn love and redemption.

From the mid-1650s through the 1660s, Henry Morgan, a pirate and outlaw of legendary viciousness, ruled the Spanish Main. He ravaged the coasts of Cuba and America, striking terror wherever he went. Morgan was obsessive. He had two driving ambitions: to possess the beautiful woman called La...

Narra la travesía del barco ballenero Pequod, comandado por el capitán Ahab, junto a Ismael y el arponero Queequeg en la obsesiva y autodestructiva persecución de un gran cachalote blanco. Demonio del mar o símbolo de la belleza, Moby Dick es el personaje principal de una historia fascinante de aventuras, en las que se mezclan el bien y el mal.

Schauplatz Lübecker Bucht. Am Morgen nach der Lesung wird Molly Bleck zu einem rätselhaften Mordfall gerufen. Das Opfer ist der Gast, der nicht erschienen war. Hatte er sich in Frederikas Netz verfangen?

En La isla misteriosa se aprecia la admiración de su autor por la ciencia aplicada, tan presente en toda su obra, sintetizándola a través de uno de sus personajes que encierra en sí mismo el conocimiento y la capacidad de adaptación al medio del hombre: el ingeniero Cyrus Smith. Dicho personaje, dotado con un amplio conocimiento general, articula la historia y la hace verosímil. El libro forma parte de una trilogía que además componen Veinte mil leguas de viaje submarino y Los hijos del capitán Grant.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Though the war with Russia is drawing towards its close, James Rutherford, the captain of the steam gunboat Spartan, has much to occupy him. A war-fuelled growth in piracy that seems almost impossible to combat effectively and word of a new, enemy...

Plunge into a tense military technothriller where cat-and-mouse naval strategy decides the fate of a world on the brink. Perfect for turning a daily commute into an adrenaline-fueled escape, this gripping audio experience traps you inside the steel tubes of an international undersea task force...

The twenty-fifth title in Dewey Lambdin's beloved series of historical naval adventure. Lewrie loses his ship and his command when he receives news that Vigilance must return to England to be decommissioned and turned over to the dockyards for a complete refit. Lewrie is grounded, put on...

In Thailand, two men hire a pair of international pirates to smuggle them, a small team of mercenaries, and some equipment aboard a freighter at a Russian port. It's frighteningly easy, and the ship sails east, toward the western coast of North America. In Washington, D.C., a CIA analyst has...

As the Titanic and her passengers sank slowly into the Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg late in the evening of April 14, 1912, a nearby ship looked on. Second Officer Herbert Stone, in charge of the midnight watch on the SS Californian sitting idly a few miles north, saw the distress...

On the outer banks of the Carolinas in 1941, fishermen and a few lonely sailors constitute the human population. Dominating the rough yet beautiful landscape is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, run for generations by the Thurlow family. But Josh Thurlow, the lighthouse keeper's son, has...

SAILS ON THE HORIZON Dientes de Diablo, 1797 With his first historical high-seas adventure chronicling the exploits of Naval Commander Charles Edgemont, Jay Worrall sets sail in the rousing tradition of C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian. The year is 1797. Napoleon Buonaparte is racking up...

Now an AMC+ original miniseries event starring Colin Farrell and Jack O'Connell! A nineteenth-century whaling ship sets sail for the Arctic with a killer aboard in this dark, sharp, and highly original tale that grips like a thriller One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the...

The world begins to suffer an escalating and sensational series of natural disasters, and two marine biologists begin to develop a theory that the cause lies in the oceans, where an entity know as the Yrr has developed a massive network of single-cell organisms. It is wreaking havoc in order to prevent humankind from destroying the Earth's ecological balance forever. The Americans, under the ruthless General Judith Lee, take a more pragmatic approach than the scientists, seeking to wipe out the being of the deep.