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On the 50th anniversary of one of the most important blockbusters of all time, a menace surfaces. When strange happenings begin to occur, the first logical conclusion is that a shark is responsible. Evidence suggests a crocodile but the public thinks otherwise. History will repeat itself but not in the way anyone expected. A mysterious predatory creature is claiming its territory and the town must come together to stop it.

William Dandurand tells the stories his grandfather told him. Treasure stories about seekers of fortune who sometimes found lost treasures—or sometimes go mad.

In Book 18 of The Jerry McNeal Series, Mr. Bigsby, the spirit who’s been seeking April’s assistance, is back and insisting she drop everything to help save his wife before it’s too late. The wife is leaving on a cruise in two days and Mr. Bigsby fears the man will successfully swindle her out of her inheritance. While Jerry’s former boss, Seltzer, and his wife, June, are slated to be on the same cruise, the spirit insists April go along to make sure his wife isn’t duped by the man suspected of catfishing her.

Aboard the Mariner's Dream, the atmosphere was thick with the scent of salt and decay, a haunting reminder of the world that had been left behind. The vessel, once a proud cruise liner, now served as a floating fortress for the few survivors who dared to call it home.

На долю Зельды Марш выпало немало горестей и жизненных испытаний. Рано лишившись матери, она воспитывалась у тетки, строгие порядки и правила которой совсем не нравились юной девушке. У Зельды была мечта – она хотела стать великой актрисой, поэтому в один из дней попросту убежала из ненавистного ей дома. Совершив немало ошибок на пути к достижению своей цели, девушка несмотря ни на что смогла добиться успеха став в конечном итоге мудрой, самодостаточной, независимой женщиной.

Jane’s future, the desperate dreams she’s locked in her heart for so long, rest on faraway shores, but being ashore comes with its own challenges; ones that force Jane and Bennett to change their identities, yet again. But, in a life of piracy, grudges are often long-held and blood-tainted. Jane couldn’t have known that when pirates crossed long ago set their vengeful gazes upon her. She isn’t the same woman she was when she climbed aboard Sneaky Lass a lifetime ago. Watching her hopes of beginning a new and lawful life deflate like sails on a windless sea is not who she is anymore.

Friedrich Gerstäcker (1816 - 1872) verbrachte einen guten Teil seines Lebens in den Vereinigten Staaten. Literarisch gilt er als Vorläufer Karl Mays - seine Geschichten und Romane waren äußerst populär und trugen nicht unwesentlich zur Auswanderungswelle jener Zeit bei. Diese Sammlung von drei Geschichten zeigt, warum der so wandelbare Autor seinerzeit so beliebt war: Die Geschichte Germelshausen erzählt von dem rätselhaften Mädchen, in das sich ein junger Wanderer verliebt. Es wohnt in einem noch rätselhafteren Ort...

В 1760 году Гийом Лежантиль, астроном короля Людовика XV, отправляется в плавание к берегам Индии, чтобы наблюдать редкое астрономическое явление — транзит Венеры, с помощью которого надеется вычислить расстояние от Земли до Солнца. Капризы судьбы превратили обычно простое и недолгое путешествие в невероятное приключение длиной в одиннадцать лет. 250 лет спустя парижский агент по недвижимости Ксавье Лемерсье находит в проданной им квартире не востребованный прежними хозяевами ящик, в котором обнаруживает принадлежавший Лежантилю телескоп.

Un viaggio terrificante, dove il mare diventa il teatro di orrori senza nome. Naufragio nell'ignoto racconta la storia di un gruppo di sopravvissuti che si trova a dover lottare contro forze oscure, mostri marini e creature immonde. Un'esperienza audio mozzafiato, arricchita da musiche e sound design, che trascinerà l'ascoltatore nel cuore del racconto. William Hope Hodgson, scrittore inglese vissuto tra il 1877 e il 1918, è stato uno dei pionieri del genere weird e horror.

Wenn einen das Leben zu neuen Ufern trägt, wartet das Glück oft schon am Horizont: Mit leeren Konten sitzengelassen, bleibt Tammy nichts anderes übrig, als zu ihrer Mutter nach Usedom zu ziehen. Doch um ihre innere Mitte wiederzuerlangen, findet sie in der kleinen Wohnung einfach keine Ruhe. Für ihre Yogastunden nutzt sie daher heimlich ein Musterhaus, zu dem ihr die befreundete Maklerin Mirjam den Schlüssel gibt. Nick wurde von seiner Frau vor die Tür gesetzt, aber ein Hotel kommt für ihn nicht infrage. Stattdessen zieht er sich ins Musterhaus seiner Baufirma zurück.

South Sea Tales (1911) is a collection of short stories written by Jack London. Most stories are set in island communities, like those of Hawaii, or are set aboard a ship. Contents: The House of Mapuhi / The Whale Tooth / Mauki / "Yah! Yah! Yah!" / The Heathen / The Terrible Solomons / The Inevitable White Man / The Seed of McCoy

It's easy to become invisible in the Florida Keys. Mac Travis was doing his best to keep a low profile: diving, fishing, and enough salvage work to pay his bills. It's a good life until he discovers something while spearfishing that could change the pristine Keys forever.

Billy Budd, a handsome sailor working on a British naval ship in the eighteenth century, is falsely accused of mutiny against the ship’s captain by the master-at-arms, John Claggart. Billy, who unfortunately obtains a speech impediment, is overcome by the accusation and unable to verbally defend himself against Claggart’s unfounded hate for him. Instead, he lashes out at Claggart, much to his own demise. An instant classic once published, Billy Budd is a tragic tale that has been adapted into film, plays and even an opera. This audiobook edition is narrated by the talented Christopher Ragland.

El corazón de las tinieblas es una novela corta, intensa y perturbadora escrita por Joseph Conrad. Aunque en la superficie relata un viaje fluvial por el Congo durante la era del colonialismo europeo, en su fondo más profundo es un viaje al alma humana. Esta obra se convierte, leída desde la óptica del desarrollo personal, en una parábola sobre la confrontación con nuestras sombras, la fragilidad de la moral y la importancia de cultivar la conciencia interior.

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire and Captain Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia—and into a hornet’s nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh—aka Captain Bligh, late of HMS Bounty. And when Bligh tries to enlist them in his bid to regain office, the dragon and his captain are caught in the middle of a political power struggle.

Recalled home from the West Indies, Lieutenant James Merriman is promoted to the rank of Post Captain and given command of the frigate "Lord Stevenage." It is known that the French are amassing an army and a fleet to invade Ireland and join with Irish rebels. If it succeeds, then England will be ringed by enemy countries under the control of Napoleon Bonaparte, and only the navy stands between France and England.

In these little sketches [1899] of a few out of the innumerable multitude of ways in which the sea has spoken to me during my long acquaintance with it, I have tried with ’prentice hand to reproduce for shore-dwellers some of the things it has told me.

Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers (1870) de Jules Verne est un roman d’aventures qui raconte le voyage épique du professeur Pierre Aronnax, de son fidèle serviteur Conseil et du harponneur Ned Land, capturés par le capitaine Nemo à bord du Nautilus, un sous-marin révolutionnaire. À travers ce voyage sous-marin, ils sondent les mystères des océans, découvrent des espèces marines inconnues et affrontent des dangers inimaginables.

Beneath the still blue waters off Key Largo, a woman dives into a dazzling array of color. But behind the shimmering schools of fish, somewhere in the shadows of the reef, a death trap awaits. In minutes one life will be expertly, brutally taken, and another plunged into a mean season of fury, obsession, and revenge.

Nox has been steadily working as a quartermaster for the rebellion for years. They don’t ask for much in return, except for one crucial thing — that their ex, the noble Lord Bastian, stays as far away from them as possible. To say things ended poorly between them is an understatement . . . and it’s the only relationship Nox has never quite recovered from. But now the rules have changed. Siobhan, the rebel leader, has emerged from hiding to tell Nox that Bastian’s involvement in the rebellion has been discovered, and he’s being taken captive.