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It was the end of World War II. FDR's New Deal had redefined American politics. Taxes were at an all-time high. The bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had created a fear of total annihilation. The rise of secret government agencies and sanctions on business had many watching their backs. America's sense of freedom was diminishing... and many were desperate to take that freedom back.

One of the many engineers that keep Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it's her dream to help it flourish. Then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend: an undine, a dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.

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.

По ту сторону моря Впервые на русском — роман современного ирландского классика Пола Линча, лауреата Букеровской премии 2023 года за роман «Песнь пророка», который уже называют «ирландским "1984"» и «новым "Рассказом служанки"». Боливар и Эктор отправляются рыбачить из своей южноамериканской деревушки на маленькой лодке, с трудом вмещающей двух рыбаков и холодильный ящик. Внезапно налетевший свирепый шторм уносит их далеко в Тихий океан, выводит из строя мотор, рацию и навигатор.

Despite the heavy clumsiness of her lines, the Aorai handled easily in the light breeze, and her captain ran her well in before he hove to just outside the suck of the surf. The atoll of Hikueru lay low on the water, a circle of pounded coral sand a hundred yards wide, twenty miles in circumference, and from three to five feet above high-water mark. On the bottom of the huge and glassy lagoon was much pearl shell, and from the deck of the schooner, across the slender ring of the atoll, the divers could be seen at work. But the lagoon had no entrance for even a trading schooner.

It was in the early days in Fiji, when John Starhurst arose in the mission house at Rewa Village and announced his intention of carrying the gospel throughout all Viti Levu. Now Viti Levu means the "Great Land," it being the largest island in a group composed of many large islands, to say nothing of hundreds of small ones. Here and there on the coasts, living by most precarious tenure, was a sprinkling of missionaries, traders, beche-de-mer fishers, and whaleship deserters.

The Terrible Solomons written by Jack London: There is no gainsaying that the Solomons are a hard-bitten bunch of islands. On the other hand, there are worse places in the world. But to the new chum who has no constitutional understanding of men and life in the rough, the Solomons may indeed prove terrible.

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

Labeled variously a realistic story of whaling, a romance of unusual adventure and eccentric characters, a symbolic allegory, and a drama of heroic conflict, Moby Dick is first and foremost a great story. It has both the humor and poignancy of a simple sea ballad, as well as the depth and universality of a grand odyssey.

In den Tiefen der Keltischen See, verborgen vor dem menschlichen Auge, lebt ein uraltes längst vergessenes Volk. Im Einklang mit dem Wasser spüren sie jede Veränderung, denn sie sind der wahre Puls des Meeres. Mit ihren Kräften orchestrieren sie meisterhaft das Zusammenspiel von Leben und Tod, Ebbe und Flut. Während Seefahrer sie fürchten, werden sie von Kindern vergöttert. Von Sirene bis Nixe haben sie viele Namen und unzählige Mythen erzählen ihre Geschichten. Dies ist eine weitere über das Volk der Meermenschen.

Voor Maxim is één nacht niets meer dan eenmalig het bed delen met een vrouw. Voor Julia is één nacht niets meer dan een complete verwoesting van haar toekomst. Ondanks de verschillende levens van Maxim en Julia is er ook een overeenkomst: geen van beiden is op zoek naar een relatie. Maar hoe hard ze ook hun best doen om dat te blijven volhouden, het wordt steeds moeilijker. Zal één nacht samen ervoor zorgen dat ze dichter bij elkaar komen of drijft het ze juist verder uit elkaar? Sheila Devaro schrijft feelgood boeken.

Thomas lives a slow, deliberate life with his mother in Longferry, working his grandpa’s trade as a shanker. He rises early to take his horse and cart to the grey, gloomy beach to scrape for shrimp; spending the rest of the day selling his wares, trying to wash away the salt and scum, pining for Joan Wyeth down the street and rehearsing songs on his guitar. At heart, he is a folk musician, but it remains a private dream.

1822: Taran MacNarn, verfolgt von den Schatten seiner Vergangenheit, kehrt zurück in das wilde schottische Hochland – denn der Tod seines Vaters hat ihn zum widerwilligen Oberhaupt des MacNarn-Clans gemacht. Doch nicht nur der verlorene Sohn, auch eine uralte Fehde hält Wiedereinzug in Strathnarn: Der benachbarte Kilcraig-Clan nimmt Tarans Neffen gefangen. Er kann nur eins tun, um den Jungen zu retten – er muss die Tochter des Kilcraig-Lairds heiraten. Chola ist ebenso wunderschön wie geheimnisvoll, doch für Taran ist sie nur eine Natter im Nest seiner Familie.

Whirlaway is mind and body adventure of the double-edge 80s, beyond idealism to Columbian snuff for confidence in the short term. It cost a bit but beat depression for a bit. Nature began its deep descent in the 80s. Population and trash had doubled since the 50s, along with traffic and growth. Free love or sex got risky on pesky new diseases. But the 80s still held potential for a bold player to float a bank loan on a form from the lobby display, easily submitted with personal returns. The P. O. had racks of blank tax forms. Friendly accounting services helped the numbers align.

When the death rate of sperm whales rises dramatically, a well-respected environmental activist puts together a ragtag team to hit the high seas to investigate the matter. They suspect that the deaths are due to poachers and they are all driven by a need for justice. Elsewhere, an experimental government vessel is enhancing deep sea mining equipment. They see one of these dead whales up close and personal...and are fairly certain that it wasn't poachers that killed it.

Captain Rufus “Sweet Smellin’” McGraw is not your ordinary pirate. While most cutthroats plunder gold and rum, McGraw has a more refined obsession—the world’s rarest and most intoxicating scents. And he’ll rob, swindle, or seduce anyone to get them.

Set in Cornwall, coastal erosion and flooding take on a near mythical power as the short stories in this collection weave in and out of the recent past and near future, as lives and relationships ebb and flow with the tide. From one maritime tragedy to another, the community, and three generations of women from the same family, struggle with their over-close affinity for the sea.

In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson.

Cousins at Arms offers listeners the thunder of guns and the clash of cutlasses, but at its heart it’s a thoughtful analysis of a nation’s ill-judged slide into war. This is the thirteenth Carlisle and Holbrooke novel. It continues the journey through the Seven Years War and into the period of turbulent relations between Britain and her American colonies, and ultimately to their bid for independence.

Aboard the Titanic, where opulence knows no bounds and the horizon seems limitless, two women fight for the futures they dream of, fraught with secrets that could change everything. Hannah Martin is clinging to the hope that six days on this grand ship will heal the wounds in her marriage to Charles. Beneath her poised exterior lies a desperation to mend what was shattered and conceal a secret that could upend their lives forever.