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Die Künstlerin Finja Harms lebt bereits seit ihrer Geburt auf der grünen Nordseeinsel Spiekeroog. Lukas ist nur unfreiwillig als Vertretung auf der Insel und wünscht sich nichts sehnlicher, als endlich zu seinem normalen Leben zurückkehren zu können. Zuerst kann er mit Finjas freiherziger Art nicht viel anfangen, doch schon bald fasziniert sie ihn immer mehr. Unerwartet erhält Lukas doch noch die Möglichkeit, nach Hause und zu seinem alten Job zurückzukehren. Kann er Finja und die Insel verlassen?

Dans un village des Caraïbes, la légende d’un trésor disparu vient bouleverser l’existence de la famille Otero. À la recherche du butin du capitaine Henry Morgan, dont le navire aurait échoué dans les environs trois cents ans plus tôt, les explorateurs se succèdent. Tous, dont l’ambitieux Severo Bracamonte, vont croiser le chemin de Serena Otero, l’héritière de la plantation de cannes à sucre qui rêve à d’autres horizons.

A gripping testament to human endurance and the indifference of nature, The Open Boat by Stephen Crane captures the harrowing true story of survival at sea after the wreck of the steamer Commodore. Based on Crane’s own near-death experience, this masterpiece of American naturalism follows four men—the captain, the cook, the correspondent, and the oiler—as they struggle against exhaustion, hunger, and the merciless power of the ocean in a tiny dinghy adrift off the Florida coast.

Während der Französischen Revolution wird Marineleutnant Robert Surcouf zum Helden: In Toulon gerät er in Gefangenschaft königstreuer Bürger, die sich gegen die Revolutionäre gewendet haben. Sie übergeben die Stadt den Engländern, doch Robert gelingt die Flucht. Verfolgt vom berüchtigten Captain Horatio Nelson schlägt er sich bis zu Napoleons Truppen durch. Gemeinsam zwingen sie die englische Flotte zum Rückzug. Dem Vater von Roberts großer Liebe Marie-Cathérine ist das aber nicht genug: Marie soll den Sohn eines reichen Reeders heiraten.

Für Amora, Prinzessin des Königreichs Visidia, ist der wichtigste Moment ihres Lebens gekommen: Um den Thron zu besteigen, soll sie beweisen, dass sie die gefährliche Seelenmagie gemeistert hat. Doch als die Demonstration ihrer Kräfte fürchterlich schiefgeht, muss Amora fliehen. Der attraktive, mysteriöse Pirat Bastian hilft ihr und sie schließen einen Pakt, auch wenn er ihr etwas zu verschweigen scheint. Auf ihrer Mission, das Vertrauen ihres Volkes zurückzugewinnen und ihren Anspruch auf den Thron zu beweisen, muss Amora jedoch schnell feststellen, dass sie ihr Königreich nicht so gut kennt.

When Ensign Bluemage Honor Renn is rescued from the wreckage of her first naval post, she expects death or disgrace. Instead, she wakes aboard the Touchstone, a mythic vessel whispered of in dockside ballads and royal war rooms alike. With a crew of misfits. A mysterious, elven captain. And a mission tied to the Dreadwall, the crumbling barrier that has kept the Overland and Nethersea from open war for a hundred years. But the tragedy that sank her last ship didn’t just take lives―it left something behind.

When Tom Sullivan returns to the quiet village of Sandpiper Shore, Emma can hardly believe her eyes. She hasn't seen him since they played Romeo and Juliet in their school play – a lifetime ago, before real heartbreak, and long before she ever imagined life as a widow. The last thing she wants is to relive the past, especially with someone who once made her teenage heart flutter. But when Emma agrees to put on a charity pantomime to raise money for the air ambulance service that helped her late husband, she's thrown firmly back into Tom's path.

A standalone story in Kevin J. Anderson’s Terra Incognita universe. What happens when a close-minded prester is confronted with a mythical creature that his faith will not let him believe in?

BENEATH THE CALM SURFACE A DEADLY TERROR AWAITS. In the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest, two fishermen are the first to feel the heat. Then a young girl, playing innocently by the seashore--before dying an agonizing death. Now the media have a story. Reporters, scientists, and government...

If you like Hornblower and Sharpe, you will love this all-action nautical page-turner from much loved author G.S.Beard. You'll feel as if you are in the midst of the action! 'If you like sea stories, you will enjoy this, and even if you think you don't but enjoy things like Sharpe, it might just...

“The history is thoroughly researched, the fiction inventive, the style at once easygoing and rapid. … This is a marvelous and richly enjoyable novel, and the intended series to follow promises to do for the American Navy and the Marines what C.S. Forester and Patrick O’Brian did for the...

From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years. “They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young...

Angel Sands is a traditional seaside resort of bed and breakfasts, cottages to let and teashops. And with the best views of the tiny beach and surrounding coastline is Paradise House, home to the Baxter girls - or the Sisters of Whimsy as they're known locally. With their mother taking time out...

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Constant patrols have pushed the crew of the HMS Ulysses beyond the limits of endurance. And now they must be put...

The nineteenth novel in Julian Stockwin's acclaimed Captain Kydd series. 1808. Parted from his new bride, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is called away to join the Northern Expedition to Sweden, now Britain's only ally in the Baltic. Following the sudden declaration of war by Russia and with the...

Unputdownable naval action from the master of the sea story. 'In Stockwin's hands the sea story will continue to entrance readers across the world' (Guardian) November 1807. Captain Sir Thomas Kydd must sail to Lisbon to aid the Portuguese Royal Family's evacuation in the face of Napoleon's...

‘Delightfully romantic and touching.’ Phillipa Ashley on Sunrise at Butterfly Cove A season for change…? Beth Reynolds loved growing up close to Eleanor’s Emporium – a bric-a-brac shop full of wonders on Lavender Bay. Devastated to learn that Eleanor has died, she returns home from...

Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by...

SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal. Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century...

In Gideon Defoe’s fifth Pirates! adventure, the dashing Pirate Captain and his intrepid crew encounter perhaps the most swashbuckling poets in history: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley’s fiancée, Mary Godwin. While visiting the shores of Lake Geneva to restore their...