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601) Life #6: A Novel
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Critically acclaimed author Diana Wagman brings us the suspenseful and emotionally exhilarating story of a woman facing death today, as well as thirty years ago. Fiona's marriage is crumbling, and she has recently been diagnosed with breast cancer. Caught up in a wave of memories as she faces her own mortality, Fiona recalls the previous times in her life when she nearly died, including a fateful boat trip with her former boyfriend, Luc. Fleeing her...
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A New Captain's First Patrol Turns into a Fight for Their LivesYoung Coast Guard Lieutenant Haley Reardon has not even gotten her feet on the ground on her new patrol boat command when she finds herself and her crew supporting a dangerous covert mission. They must insert and retrieve a Defense Intelligence Agency operations team trying to seize a transnational criminal syndicate boss from a small Caribbean island controlled by a front company of the...
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What can be done to stop madness from sweeping the world when political indecision is the norm? When the nation's leaders lack the backbone to stand up to them, what can stop an enemy that knows no rules? Charity. Charity Styles is a former Olympian and U.S. Army helicopter pilot. Captured and tortured by terrorists in Afghanistan after the opening blows of the War on Terror, Charity has a score to settle. Now working for the Department of Homeland...
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Becca Book 3, "The Voyage To The Holy Land," was another wonderful continuation of the adventurous voyages of Becca the Red, and his Viking ship and crew of Fifty. However, in this saga, Becca encountered trials that should have by all rights destroyed him and his men but instead, divine intervention snatched them out of certain disasters. Becca still had a lot more to learn and especially about himself and his shortcomings. Thankfully, Cheese-slicer,...
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Un récit qui se lit et se vit à la première personne, au cœur de l'action.
Les gens ordinaires n'ont rien à raconter, n'est-ce pas? Eh bien, Miguel ne le croit pas, pas une seconde. Journaliste rennais, il obtient de réaliser un reportage sur les gens de mer, non pour en relater le folklore, mais pour en partager le quotidien, les écouter. Peut-être parviendra-t-il à comprendre ce qui fait le sel d'une vie o la mer a toujours le premier...
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Irma, Jesse McDermitt has rebuilt his island in the Content Keys far better than it was before the storm. The task was enormous, but so was his need to make things better. Unbeknownst to Jesse, an environmentally conscious woman from his past has stumbled onto a drug manufacturing cartel in Virginia while working on a pollution mitigation problem. The cartel responds by sending someone to murder people Jesse cares for....
607) 180 Degrees Magnetic
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It started as a bet in a tropical casino poker parlor and ended as the adventure of the lifetime for two novice sailors. Pat Taylor and Tracy Palmer never dreamed when they set out on a boat-buying mission that they'd end up with a magnificent vessel like The Lady Anne, a two-year-old Clarriage Sixty-Eight worth three million dollars. But that's what happened and when they set out on their maiden voyage, the odyssey that awaited them was both wonderful...
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The Rescue, A Romance of the Shallows (1920) is one of Joseph Conrad's works contained in what is now sometimes called the Lingard Trilogy, a group of novels based on Conrad's experience as mate on the steamer Vidar. Although it was the last of the three novels to be published, after Almayer's Folly (1895) and An Outcast of the Islands (1896), the events related in the novel precede those. The story follows Captain Tom Lingard, the recurring protagonist...
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Adrian Marlowe is a dolphin-shifter who can shift into a dragon, a new and dangerous development to his shifter abilities. Now he's gone from wealthy CEO to man on a mission: Figure out how to tame the dragon before it destroys him. Landing the job as the new project manager in charge of the interior design of Waterscape's new underwater hotel is Reese Briden's dream job come true. Until she meets the sexy CEO and escaping the sexual tension that...
610) The Rogue's Prize
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No one believes she'd be a good pirate. She'll show them!
He's a pirate hunter on a mission to redeem himself.
An unlikely alliance may be the key to the ultimate prize...
Captain Henry Guffald is no ordinary sea captain. As a member of Nelson's Tea, he regularly takes on dangerous missions under the guise of a British naval officer in an effort to stop Napoleon's reign of terror, domestically and abroad. And this time, he's been ordered to sail...
611) Lean Season
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Lonny hesitated, trembling. "Y-you mean it's just trying to scare us?"
Handlebar tweaked his nose. "That's right."
The fire returned to the young man's eyes - almost. He looked around the shattered dock, at the riddled corpse and the oily, bloody water, at the spitting power lines and the dead lights, the peeling boardwalk on the shore.
He shook his head. "No, it's not. It-it doesn't pretend, like you. It's gonna kill us, that's all." He stepped...
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Obsolete Coast Guard patrol boat Kauai is upgraded with black budget funds by the Director of National Intelligence. Her new mission? Respond quickly and covertly for sensitive missions the Navy cannot handle in southern Florida, the Bahamas, and the Caribbean. Enjoy Books 1 - 3, plus a bonus short story prequel with a savings of over 25%!Book 1 - Dagger Quest: An obsolete patrol boat is all that stands between the world and nuclear annihilation....
613) Dark Hunt
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An ex-girlfriend ... A stolen freighter ... A hero caught in the middle
When an old flame approaches commercial diver Ryan Weller to help locate a hijacked freighter missing off the coast of Haiti, he has no idea that hunting for the stolen ship will lead him again into harm's way.
Captured by Syrian extremists hellbent on revenge, the missing vessel cruises across the Caribbean Sea with a single purpose, striking a catastrophic blow against...
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Extrait : "Lorsque le vent s'est élevé avec trop de violence et que la mer a grossi de manière à empêcher le navire de continuer sa route au milieu des lames dont le choc pourrait l'endommager, on met à la cape, sous une voile que l'on présente obliquement au vent. Dans cette position, le bâtiment, conservant très peu de vitesse, dérive en cédant plutt à l'impression de chaque vague, qu'en y résistant..."
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INCLUDES BONUS SCENE NOT AVAILABLE IN INDIVIDUAL BOOKS Award-winner, The White Sails Series is where icy winter storms, opportunistic mercenaries, uncharted lands, and a colourful crew of sailors are all lashed together by an epic love story. This complete collection includes all four books in the series. Discerning Grace. London Town, 1826. Society life is stifling enough for Grace Baxter without worrying about finding true love or happiness. Enlisting...
616) The Pleasant and Surprisin Adventures of Robert Drury, During His Fifteen Years' Captivity on The
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The Pleasant and Surprizing Adventures of Robert Drury, during His Fifteen Years' Captivity on the Island of Madagascar is a remarkable and true story of survival and adventure. It was first published in 1729 and is an autobiographical account of Robert Drury, an Englishman who found himself stranded on the island of Madagascar and spent fifteen years living among the native people. The narrative begins with Robert Drury's account of being shipwrecked...
617) A Red Banner to Fly
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In the final days of the Genpei War, a court lady, now a Buddhist nun, sits on an undecorated ship with her tiny grandson, the rightful emperor of Japan. They have fled the revolting Minamoto clan across mountains and seas, taking this final stand at what will be known as the battle of Dan-no-ura. Now, with nowhere left to flee, they face treachery too. This award-winning short story has been honored in multiple contests and is offered here by itself...
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A young "come-far-away" from the Canadian mainland takes his first professional job in the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador in the early 1970s. He experiences many unique moments and people on this exotic island off the northeastern coast of North America. He consequently attracts others from his alma mater to join him creating some unusual things to happen in Newfoundland.
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A mysterious stranger arrives at Martha's Vineyard. One of the family's own receives a life-altering diagnosis. This is a Christmas nobody at the Katama Lodge will ever forget.
After the recent death of her father, Maggie aches to have a family of her own- but soon learns that the world she so craved will not be hers so easily. While other women in their twenties get pregnant on the fly, she finds herself cursed with a body she no longer understands.
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620) Pelaio
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Extrait : "La céleste Providence qui, dans ses décrets éternels, m'avait sans doute condamné à être marin, me fit naître dans la patrie des Duguay-Trouin et des Surcouf, entre le rocher sur lequel était adossée la cabane de mes parents et le rivage que baigne la rade de Saint-Servan. L'auteur de mes jours, Mathurin Flou, pauvre pêcheur s'il en fut jamais, ne salua pas mon avènement au monde avec ces transports de joie que, depuis Abraham...
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