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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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"Expertly researched narrative abounds with fascinating lore . . . this flamboyant re-creation of the distant past . . . is another genre triumph." -Kirkus Reviews
When Norse raiders slaughtered his family and abducted his sister, Corban Loosestrife set out on an odyssey that took him across half the world, from the Viking fortress of Jorvik to the wild and desolate shores of Vinland in the New World. Now Corban struggles to make a new life alone...
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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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Catty Atkins, Sailorman is a novel written by Clarence Budington Kelland, first published in 1921. Clarence Budington Kelland was an American author known for his humorous and heartwarming stories. Excerpt: "It seems as if Catty and I have a lot of luck, and this summer we had more than usual, for Mr. Browning, who lived in New York, and was interested in all kinds of businesses, invited us to go for a cruise on his yacht. He was out to our town to...
5) SS Misery
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Un libro sobre la supervivencia de la mente humana.
Dos hombres perdidos en el mar tienen que enfrentar la lucha de estar solos y a la deriva. Al principio se llevan bien, pero apenas aparece un regalo misterioso, las cosas empiezan a ir cuesta abajo.
Una novela que describe las condiciones en las que todos somos susceptibles. Un libro que muestra los límites de los humanos cuando enfrentamos la extinción personal.
Cuando Severo y Maximiliano...
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"A deadly, dangerous, beautiful nightmare." — Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author of We Begin at the End
For readers of Rachel Hawkins and We Were Never Here comes a searing vacation thriller set on a remote island in Thailand following two mysterious women, a charismatic group of expats, and the one murder poised to bring their paradise crashing down.
Welcome to paradise. We
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"La aventura de Juan Sebastián Elcano después de la primera vuelta al mundo"
Elcano recibía, en 1522, el derecho a usar un escudo de armas con el lema "Primus circumdedisti me". Carlos I se lo otorgaba tras culminar la primera circunnavegación a la tierra. Esa gesta, que generó no pocas tensiones con Portugal, lo convirtió en uno de los marinos más respetados del reino. Recompensado también con una generosa pensión, no iba, sin embargo, a...
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El 10 de agosto de 1519 partía del sevillano muelle de las Mulas una flota compuesta por cinco naves (la Trinidad, la San Antonio, la Concepción, la Victoria y la Santiago) dirigida por el experimentado navegante portugués Fernando de Magallanes, que había tenido el empeño y la tenacidad de hacer realidad su proyecto para buscar un paso entre el Atlántico y el mar del Sur. Tras permanecer cuarenta días en la desembocadura del Guadalquivir,...
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The World Turtle Is a brief overview of the historical turtle that is found between lands in all of mythology. The world was full of beheadings from South America to the western countries an elephant in Hinduism. A war was walking the earth and arrows were piercing the shell. A tribe's daughter is thrown from the top of a pyramid with her heart ripped from her chest, The Aztecs holding a still beating heart up for the sun to please the gods. China...
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Joseph Conrad's literary prowess reaches its zenith in "Lord Jim," an extraordinary novel that beckons readers into the turbulent seas of human morality, redemption, and the elusive quest for honor. Set against a backdrop of seafaring adventure and the exotic locales of the East, this masterpiece unfolds with a narrative cadence that echoes the ebb and flow of the tides, immersing readers in a story that transcends time.
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To escape Puritan England, naturalist Edward Popple signs on to be a ship's doctor on a journey across the Indian Ocean, and his daughter, Rosamund, stows away to accompany him. But a wreck leaves them stranded on an island off the coast of Africa.
Amid the lush vegetation, the birds and the sea turtles, father and daughter set about exploring, Edward passionately studying the island's horticulture and Rosamund wandering about to discover its mysteries....
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Fresh talent CJ Hauser makes her literary debut with The From-Aways, an irreverent story of family, love, friendship, and lobsters, in the tradition of J. Courtney Sullivan's Maine and Richard Russo's Empire Falls.
Two women come to Maine in search of family, and find more love, heartbreak, and friendship, than they'd ever imagined one little fishing town could hold.
When Leah, a young New York reporter, meets Henry, she falls in love with everything...
13) Beyond the Sea
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A novel from the 2023 Booker Prize winning author of Prophet Song
"Beyond the Sea is frightening but beautiful." --M John Harrison, The Guardian
The haunting story of two men stranded at sea pushing against their physical and mental limits to stay alive
Based partly on true events, Paul Lynch's haunting and sublime novel Beyond the Sea tells the story of two South American fishermen, Bolivar and Hector, who go to sea before a catastrophic storm....
14) Exiles: A Novel
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With Exiles, Ron Hansen tells the story of a notorious shipwreck that prompted Gerard Manley Hopkins to break years of "elected silence" with an outpouring of dazzling poetry.
In December 1875 the steamship Deutschland left Bremen, bound for England and then America. On board were five young nuns who, exiled by Bismarck's laws against Catholic religious orders, were going to begin their lives anew in Missouri. Early one morning, the ship ran aground...
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"Moby-Dick Reversed: A Whale's Humorous Account" is an inventive and humorous retelling of Herman Melville's classic "Moby-Dick." This novella, the second in the "Laughter Lines" series, offers a fresh and comedic perspective by narrating the tale from the whale's point of view.Our protagonist, a witty and articulate whale, takes readers through a rollicking journey beneath the waves, offering hilarious insights into human behavior, maritime adventures,...
16) The Sabre Dragon
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After being duped by an unscrupulous treasure hunter, historian Ingrid Torsten is determined not to allow anyone to muscle in on her latest discovery. She uncovers the mysterious past of a little known pirate named Lewis Scot. After she discovers that Scot had hidden treasure and left a cryptic message leading to it, she decides to look for the treasure herself with the help of a local sea captain. When the unscrupulous treasure hunter learns of her...
17) The North Line
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In Matt Riordan's debut novel, a college student in need of quick money finds work on an Alaskan fishing boat in the unforgiving Bering Sea.
"The North Line is a ruggedly erudite story that combines the best of the individualism of Jack London with the introspective ruminations of Raymond Carver . . . not to be missed."
-S.A. Cosby New York Times bestselling author of All the Sinners Bleed
"A frightening story of tough men pushed to the brink....
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The only life Princess Odele Malabella knows is a lavish one. Years of tragedy killed off her family members one by one until she and her long-lost cousin, Maisie, uncovered a murderous fiend and set the kingdom of Thalassar to rights. With the weight of her ex-engagement off her shoulders, Odele has plans. Plans to travel the seven sea kingdoms and find adventures. Plans that don't include marriage, ruling, or responsibilities.Only, royal life is...
19) Deliverance
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Could she be making a huge mistake? As the battle rages on the enigmatic island of Halcyon, Reagan and Connor's courage is unwavering. Determined to escape the clutches of their formidable enemy, they rally the Shepherds and the Flock for a daring plan. But as dark secrets surface and loyalties are tested, they must confront the true extent of their adversary's power. Is Elder Allen even more dangerous than they feared? And can they trust Andie, the...
20) Stormy seas
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Two thousand grueling miles volume 3
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[2022]
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210 pages ; 23 cm.
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"When Jake Zane arrives in San Francisco, a country boy in a wild and wooly city full of gold seekers, he finds himself among city folks both fair and crooked, saloons filled with ladies of the night and seamen off the 800 ships abandoned in the harbor. Soon, he's crosswise with the Wallaby's, San Francisco's most dangerous Sydney Duck gang. Luckily, he has one friend, Lord Stanley-Smyth, a man of stature indebted to Jake. He soon finds himself at...
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