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61) The Piazza Tales
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The Piazza Tales (1856) is a collection of short stories by American writer Herman Melville. Before publication, five of its six stories appeared in Putnam's Monthly during a period of productivity with which Melville sought to achieve popular success as a writer of literary fiction. After the failure of his novels Moby-Dick (1851) and Pierre: or, The Ambiguities (1852), Melville struggled to find a publisher who would accept his work, and contemporary...
62) Peter Simple
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Peter Simple (1834) is a novel by Frederick Marryat. Inspired by the author's experience as a captain in the Royal Navy, Peter Simple is a tale of bravery, foolishness, and the manifold reasons for men to take to the high seas. Frequently funny, often profound, Marryat's novel is an underappreciated classic of nineteenth century fiction. "If I cannot narrate a life of adventurous and daring exploits, fortunately I have no heavy crimes to confess:...
63) Devil's harbor
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"With heart-stopping thrills, a Walter White-esque villain, and a fascinating hero, Alex Gilly's Devil's Harbor is a thriller unlike any you have read before Nick Finn and his partner and brother-in-law, Diego Jimenez, are used to rough water. As Marine Interdiction Agents for Customs and Border Protection, the two hunt drug smugglers, human traffickers, and other criminals who hide in the vastness of the waters surrounding southern California. One...
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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...
65) The Mariner
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In The Mariner Taleb Alrefai turns a spotlight on Kuwait's pearl-fishing history in an enthralling fictional re-telling of that fateful day, 19 February 1979, when the country's famous dhow shipmaster Captain Al-Najdi is lost at sea in a treacherous storm. In between fishing for seabream with two friends, the retired mariner looks back on how the sea has been calling him since childhood, on the punishing work of pearl-divers, and how he became a captain...
66) Mv Sea Dragon
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Sea Devil Three continues where Sea Devil Two left off. The Sea Dragon continues to ply coastal ports with their marketing wares -- and making a huge profit. This, alone, tends to encourage the coastal pirates to kill the crew and take the ship with its riches. There are two attempts to take the Sea Dragon, which failed. The first occurred before the Sea Dragon went into Taiwan to pick up the relief force. The second occurred as the Sea Dragon accepted...
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Excerpt from THE SMUGGLERS OF THE CLONE BY S. R. CROCKETT: "'Rise, Robin, rise! The partans are on the sands!' The crying at our little window raised me out of a sound sleep, for I had been out seeing the Myreside lasses late the night before, and was far from being wake-rife at two by the clock on a February morning. It was the first time the summons had come to me, for I was then but young. Hitherto it was my brother John who had answered the raising...
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Locked in a place beyond time, only the truth can set Titanic's Master free. Haunted by his final voyage, Captain Smith's spirit relives his past: the ships he sailed, the women he loved, his rise from obscurity to become one of the world's finest mariners. A lucky man: until time and coincidence turn against him. The seas are calm, but other forces are at work. Fire threatens from below and ice lies ahead. Amongst the passengers, WT Stead – journalist...
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William Seafarer, the new helmsman on an old trading galleon, embarks on a mysterious voyage filled with pirates, sorcerers and sea monsters. He discovers that the secretive captain holds a treasure map encoded with ancient, mystical symbols. This lively nautical fantasy lifts up time-venerated heroic themes as seen through the eyes of a wise, courageous Seafarer. Come aboard!
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Excerpt: "On the afternoon of this same day of Tuesday, October 31, Helga having gone to her cabin, I stepped on deck to smoke a pipe-for my pipe was in my pocket when I ran to the lifeboat, and Captain Bunting had given me a square of tobacco to cut up. We had dined at one. During the course of the meal Helga and I had said but very little, willing that the Captain should have the labour of talking. Nor did he spare us. His tongue, as sailors say,...
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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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Sometimes all we need is bursts of short stories that can take us to a different world in times of uncertainty and despair, even if just for a little bit of escapism. In this book, we get to read short stories from different genres and different authors' backgrounds, giving us a chance to explore new tastes in storytelling from modern Emirati setting, fantasy, science fiction, and modern Western settings, and many more. Join us on a journey of exploring...
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Excerpt: "In the year 1851 there dwelt on the banks of the river Thames a retired tailor, whom I will call John Sloper, out of regard to the feelings of his posterity, if such there be. This man had for many years carried on a flourishing trade in the east end of London. Having got together as much money as he might suppose would supply his daily needs, he built himself a villa near the pleasant little town of Erith. His house overlooked the water;...
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Julio Verne fue un genio, posiblemente el más grande novelista de ciencia ficción y aventuras de la literatura universal. No hay niño, adolescente o adulto que no conozca sus historias, ya sea por su lectura, por sus adaptaciones al cine, a los cómics o al teatro.
Referirnos a este autor francés es hablar de imaginación, creatividad, acción trepidante, diversión y entretenimiento, ilusión, ciencia, visión adelantada a su tiempo y trama...
75) The Last Hit
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A group of pirates, a crew impossible of our days and our seas, take part on an operation in the mid of Mediterranean. A mysterious character seemed calculated all good while police, coasters guards and anti-drugs departments are ready to stop these criminals traffics active since much time. The story, covered by a sad humor, is heavy and with deads. Anyway, the real trophy is unknown yet.
76) Siempre el norte
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Mikel Larramendi tiene 27 años y es de Hondarribia, una pequeña población de Guipúzcoa, antaño eminentemente pesquera, de la que siempre ha renegado. Ha terminado recientemente su doctorado sobre la ballena de los vascos, tras sus estudios en Ciencias del Mar, y es reclutado como parte de una expedición científica que partirá de Terranova hasta el Ártico canadiense. El fin de dicho viaje es estudiar la influencia del deshielo en el desplazamiento...
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Ships at anchor reared their tall masts, here and there; and the broad stream was enlivened and colored by junks and boats of all sizes and vivid hues, propelled on the screw principle by a great scull at the stern, with projecting handles for the crew to work; and at times a gorgeous mandarin boat, with two great glaring eyes set in the bows, came flying, rowed with forty paddles by an armed crew, whose shields hung on the gunwale and flashed fire...
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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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Excerpt: "I will pass by all the explanations concerning the reasons of my going to sea, as I do not desire to forfeit your kind patience by letting this story stand. Enough if I say that after I had been fairly well grounded in English, arithmetic and the like, which plain education I have never wearied of improving by reading everything good that came in my way, I was bound apprentice to a respectable man named Joshua Cox, of Whitby, and[2] served...
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When a strange convoy from the Central state of Idria appears to break a military truce, Commander Bryce Jenkins of the Kavarian Navy can't resist the call to serve his country and captain the Felnought submarine.
But his good friend and down to earth second man, Lieutenant Lachlan Chase, suspects there is something more to the strange happenings going on board the recently relaunched submarine. An inconvenient suspicion that plays on the mind of...