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1) Superior
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Shortly after his arrival up at the family cottage on Lake Superior, Stan Goobash watches in horror as a mammoth sinkhole opens in the middle of the lake. Moments later, the greatest of all the Great Lakes is nothing more than a memory. Like others, Stan is drawn across the dry lakebed to the circular chasm that has swallowed one tenth of the world's supply of surface freshwater. An avid skydiver, Stan quickly formulates a plan to get to the bottom...
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Gayle has mommy issues. Her mom left when she was eight, abandoning her in the hands of a drunk and unstable father. Oh, and her mom was also a mermaid.Sander has daddy issues. His dad is the CEO of KrakenGo, the largest renewable fuel company on the planet. Oh, and he's also destroying the planet.When Gayle and Sander find themselves on an environmental pirate ship, bound for the four corners of the earth to pillage and plunder what's left of the...
3) Sailor
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Submarines are dangerous war machines. They are dangerous to the enemy and to the crew. When one goes to the bottom of the sea, never to return, it is a national tragedy. When one is attacked, all hands are involved. When a crew of 140 is attack and one survives, it is a different story. This is the story of that one man.
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Thomas Riesen präsentiert sein neues Buch "Der Taubemann". Er lädt uns ein, mit ihm auf eine Reise durch vier Kurzgeschichten zu gehen. Unser Leben ist ständig in Bewegung und in den Geschichten geht es darum, wie wir mit diesen Veränderungen umgehen.
Der Autor erzählt von vier Helden, die sich mutig ihren Herausforderungen stellen. In zwei Fällen suchen sie die Veränderung selbst, in zwei Fällen werden sie vom Schicksal vorgegeben. Im wirklichen...
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Matthew Digby, a writer of popular adventure novels, is camped out on the Northern Atlantic coast of the Dominican Republic, hoping to find insights into the main character of his new novel about a salvage operation gone awry.Digby enlists the aid of a local spear fisherman to take him out beyond the reef, hoping for a sensory experience that will rid him of his writer's block.The experience turns out to be far more intense than Digby expected, and...
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The Net of death...The blue waters around Isla Roca Partida are a paradise for divers - but they can also be a deathtrap for helpless sea creatures. In their latest SOS adventure, twins Alena and Tyler Worthy - along with their friend Xochitl - track a pair of magnificent giant manta rays from Mexico's Sea of Cortez to the islands off the coast of Baja California. Save Our Seas Foundation satellites have spotted a deadly drift net near one of the...
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Whoa. You have found The Secret of the Bermuda Triangle, the great American adventure novel, which was named Finalist at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and was named Winner at the Texas Association of Authors Book Awards, a contest open to international submissions.This adventure is the first book of the unintended Trilogy of Light. The story stands alone and connects to the other two books by a theme: we all have genius, inner light, but we...
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Walk on Water is a three part look, from the microcosm of surfing, into the schism between the forces of professionalism on the credibility of amateurism that engulfed all culture in the early 1970's.Part two follows two young friends whose mode of operation can be summed up as Billy with the spirit of a hermit and Jake the archetype pirate. It is a one year slice of life on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii; post-Vietnam for Billy, post escaping...
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Cover FlapNo one will ever know what Colonel Lunsford was thinking. Perhaps he was angered that his well trained war horse had stopped still and was nudging playfully at the lass. He drew his sabre from its sheath in a long practiced swoop of his arm, a swoop which would end when the blade slashed flesh and the blood gushed.Daniel could not believe his eyes when he saw the glint of the sabre, the very sabre that Daniel had handed back to this officer...
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Caribbean dive guide Gage Hoase woos and wins a beautiful dive guest, then sends her packing. All is good until Gabi returns, with happily-ever-after in mind. Now Gage has to figure a way to let her down gently before she offs him in his sleep.A Tale From Blacktip Island by award-nominated novelist Tim W. Jackson
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Live the life of a pirate during the golden age of piracy!
It's 1715 and Spain rules the Caribbean. Young Abigail Margaret Mary Pennyworth isn't happy leaving her friends in England for the New World, but she has no say in where her missionary family goes as the Pennyworths set off for America.
Not long before the end of the three-month voyage, their merchant ship is captured by Spanish pirates, and Abby is separated from her family and...
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Five shipwrecked passengers fight panic, thirst, and the sea itself One minute, sailor Joseph Curtain is in his bunk. The next, he is submerged in the ocean. A German torpedo has struck the Aurora, and she is sinking fast. Curtain makes his way to a lifeboat and guides the survivors aboard. There are only six of them, and when the submarine's machine gun rakes the side of their boat, the number dwindles to five. Alongside Curtain are three men of...
13) I Am the Sea
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The tale of a man pushed to the brink of madness- for lovers of Edgar Allen Poe and Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse 1870. Apprentice lighthouseman James Meakes joins two others at the remote offshore rock of Ripsaw Reef... as a replacement for a keeper whose death there remains unexplained.Meakes' suspicions grow as he accustoms himself to his new vertical world. He finds clues and obscure messages... is there a secret fourth occupant sharing the space,...
14) Blacktip Island
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Inadvertent embezzler Blake Calloway high-tails it to the Caribbean, a step ahead of the Feds and desperate to restart life as an anonymous divemaster in a tropical paradise. On Blacktip Island, though, Blake quickly discovers "tropics" doesn't mean "paradise," and rookie boat hands stick out like a reef at low tide.The locals are quirky: a landlord who swears he's Fletcher Christian reincarnated, a boss who likes fish better than people, a sloshed...
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Trapped on shore, a captain fights desperately for a place on a ship Once, Marius believes, the world was wide and the sea was infinite. Adventure and profit awaited any man bold enough to step aboard a ship and cast his lot with the open ocean. But those days are gone. After a long and undistinguished career, Marius's reputation suffers an irreparable blow during the dark days of World War II when he refuses to go down with a sinking ship. It...
16) Stolen
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Devon, England, 1633: Lizbet Warren's parents are captured by Barbary Corsairs and carried off to the slave markets in Morocco. Desperate to help them, Lizbet sets out for London with the only other survivor of the raid, the red-haired orphan, Elinor. The unlikely pair are soon separated, and Lizbet is arrested for vagrancy. Rescued from a public whipping by a mysterious French privateer, Jean Vallée, she is taken to his Manor House in Dorchester,...
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In October 1851, the bustling harbors of Gloucester, Massachusetts marked the onset of a promising venture as the American fishing fleet set sail towards the bountiful mackerel run in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. However, as they neared the waters off Prince Edward Island, Canada, an unanticipated hurricane engulfed them in a tempest of terror and despair, obliterating over 200 schooners and vessels. The calamity claimed the lives of over 100...
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Jack and Joey are best buds . . . until they both fall for Chrissy. Then betrayal assumes a friend's smile on a tropical island where friendship is fleeting and the truth depends on who's telling the story.Also included is the short-short story The Gulf: Who are you when the thing you've prepped for hits and you react in a way you never dreamed? A way you despise?Two Tales From Blacktip Island by award-nominated novelist Tim W. Jackson.
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"What news do you bring from London?" Betty Cromwell asked him. "Anything that may prove dangerous to my Ollie?""Shouldn't think so," he said in a calming tone, "so long as he stays clear of Pym and his rabble rousers.""But he is with Pym now, at a political rally in Cambridge."Daniel stood, turned, and threw his hosters over his shoulder as he strode out of the back door and into the sunshine. "I'm borrowing a horse."She dropped to her knees to beseech...
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Following the events of the Glass Empires, Age of the Third Arcon, and Populla's Shadow, and Dawn of the Sun Panther, the Pinnacle of the Winged Serpent follows the exploits of four ships; seeking to make their mark on the coasts of the Greater Continent, and beyond. In these seafaring tales of danger and intrigue, many will succumb to shadow, while others might survive. In the voyage of the Serpent Spine, a young boy will embark on an unexpected...
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