Títulos em Aventuras Marítimas

Phillip Parotti's novel chronicles the fast-paced action of a collection of American submarine chasers as they battle to reduce the German U-Boat menace in the English Channel during the last year of World War I. Lieutenant (junior grade) Ben Snow takes a commission in the United States Naval Reserve, and whips a dissolute crew into fighting shape. They then take their little submarine chaser, SC 65X, out into the English Channel to hunt for German U-boats in the midst of the worst winter in more than fifty years.

Sworn off romance, instead the love of Blue's life is the beautiful Isle of Siskin. Her home from birth, her community and now her job with the wildly successful podcast Only on Siskin. When the peace on Siskin is threatened with being destroyed forever, Blue knows she has to act. There are secrets from the past that may be able to save the future of the island, and only Blue can get to the bottom of them.

Two women disguised as men collide on a pirate ship: one set on revenge, the other escaping land and the bounty on her head. The two of them quickly find themselves in the middle of a voyage to find the world’s most dangerous weapon: the Kraken’s Fang. Even worse, their evil captain has a far more nefarious plot in mind. Can the two unravel the sea of secrets, and save the world? Or will their budding feelings for each other result in their downfall?

Haven Ambrose, eine der führenden Meeresarchäologinnen, ist in das sonnige Städtchen Positano gekommen, um die mysteriösen Schiffswracks an der Amalfiküste zu untersuchen. Nach Havens Ankunft beginnen jedoch seltsame Unglücke die Stadt heimzusuchen. Bei der Suche nach dem Schatz entdeckt Haven eine Erzählung über uralte Magie und eine Frau, die durch die legendäre Kraft der Stregheria, der Macht des Ozeans, ihren Geliebten und ihr Dorf retten wollte. Haven muss den Fluch von Amalfi lösen, bevor alles zerstört wird.

1721, Spanish Town, Jamaica. Captured, convicted, and pregnant, 23-year-old Anne Bonny faces the gallows. When writer Captain Charles Johnson enters the garrison, she strikes a deal: she’ll tell this opportunistic fool her story if he sends a doctor to her friend, Mary Read, who’s battling prison fever. Prior to their arrest, life at sea had offered Anne and Mary freedom that few women knew. Anne, born into scandal in Ireland, seeks home and elusive safety in South Carolina. Discovering the opposite, she makes a bitter bargain for emergency passage to the Bahamas.

What could be worse than sharing a kiss with your future step-sibling? When Amber receives devastating news, she goes completely out of character and kisses the kind, handsome stranger in a bar. Except... he's not going to be a stranger for long. He's about to become a very close part of her life--only not in the way she hoped. Nick didn't plan to give any woman a chance after having his heart shattered. Especially not a woman he's just met. But there's something about Amber that draws him in. Even when they both find out that his mom and her dad are newly engaged.

Dive into the heart of the sea with Moby-Dick, a timeless tale of adventure, obsession, and the relentless pursuit of the unattainable. Written by one of the greatest literary minds, this audiobook captures the riveting journey of Ishmael, a wanderer who joins the crew of the whaling ship Pequod. Led by the enigmatic and vengeful Captain Ahab, the ship's mission becomes a perilous chase for the elusive white whale, Moby Dick—a creature as mysterious as the ocean itself.

The water-covered world of the Swell has been ravaged by the incursion of the moon shards as they make their way through the endless oceans, corrupting and transforming everything in their path. With little information and no clear direction, the remaining pockets of humanity press forward to retain what life they have on the dangerous waters.

Centuries ago, the gods of earth and sea went to war and ravaged the worlds of humans. Now, the oceans have swelled and humans have made their homes on floating cities, using precious enchanted sea glass as the key to their survival.

Salt and Soil – Beginnings is a tale of love, set in the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, as two people come together to share their lives, in order to meet the demands and pleasures of their adjoining West Country estates.

1310 AD. There is a new power in the Aegean, and its ships fly the black and white of the Knights of Saint John. Thomas Schwyzer has served the black knights for as long as he can remember. He would do anything for Grandmaster Foulques and his fellow brother sergeants. They are his family. His friends. Without them he would have no place in this world. His faithful years of service have not gone unrecognized.

Long ago, Isolde ran from the Elders—despite their warnings and rules, she chose her own path. Their wrath caught up to her over the miles and waves and made her pay her debts. After killing her partner before her eyes, the Elders curse Isolde with a cruel vise: she’s trapped on the island that she used as her refuge, forced to sing a nightly song that creates maelstroms and lures men to their deaths.

Sur la côte désolée du Labrador, face au Grand Mécatina, une famille de pêcheurs mène une vie frugale et unie: le père Labarou, le fils Arthur, le cousin Gaspard, mère Hélène et Mimie. Leur existence se règle au passage du hareng, de la morue et du maquereau, et au va-et-vient saisonnier d’une goélette de cabotage. Mais sur ce rivage âpre, où la fortune des jours dépend du vent et des filets, l’équilibre peut vaciller d’un instant à l’autre.

Their passion refuses to fizzle out and burns brighter, hotter, and, frighteningly, deeper every time. Rosetta manages to convince the land-hating Alister to port. They need supplies, and the Laughing Siren still needs repairs. But land may be dangerous for them—and not just because of the bounty on his head.

Borkum, 1855: Eng aneinandergedrückt sitzen sie zum Schutz vor dem tosenden Sturm im dunklen Kirchturm, dem einzigen hohen Gebäude: Grete, ihre drei Kleinen und all die anderen Frauen und Kinder der Insel. 150 Jahre später kommt die Geologin Helen nach Borkum, um ihre Doktorarbeit über die Wanderbewegungen der ostfriesischen Inseln zu schreiben. In ihren Augen ist die Natur schön und faszinierend.

Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange.

Dans le fracas d’un coup de vent d’équinoxe, un ballon emporté au-dessus du Pacifique descend, lest jeté par-dessus bord, jusqu’à frôler les vagues. Naufragés de l’air, ses passagers—dont un certain Cyrus—sont précipités vers l’inconnu. Sur une île que nul atlas ne nomme, il faut tout réinventer. Ingéniosité, entraide et courage deviennent lois de survie, tandis que la nature, à la fois généreuse et menaçante, impose ses règles. Et bientôt, au cœur de ce monde neuf, les questions se multiplient: que cache cette terre, jusqu’où mèneront leurs explorations?

Luchs denkt, seine Geschichte wäre gelebt. Er ist Friedhofswächter und dreht da jede Nacht seine Runden – und damit scheint er auch zufrieden zu sein. Bis die 13-jährige Teresa auftaucht und er ihr Feuer leiht, ohne zu ahnen, dass er sich damit eine Suspendierung einheimst. Nach anfänglichem Ärger werden er und Teresa Freunde. Sie bringt ihm bei, Gitarre zu spielen, und erinnert ihn daran, dass er es einmal gewagt hatte, sein Leben zu leben.

New York, 1850. Two clipper ships depart on a race around Cape Horn to the boomtown of San Francisco, where the first to arrive will gain the largest profits and also win a $50,000 wager for her owner.

Parti de Bordeaux vers Montevideo et Buenos Aires, l’Eldorado emporte, dans ses flancs d’acier, un monde en réduction: ambitieux en quête d’or, exilés en mal d’oubli, innocents happés par la promesse d’une rive neuve. Sur le pont, confidences et mensonges se frôlent; dans les cabines, les cœurs se nouent, l’orgueil se cabre, la faim d’avenir allume des feux dangereux. Entre houles et escales, la mer éprouve les âmes autant que les corps, et chaque regard devient pari, chaque rencontre, détour du destin.