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An open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea. Using only a sextant and nautical maps to chart his progress, he is forced to rely on ocean currents to carry him into a shipping lane in hopes of hailing a passing vessel. But with the sun unrelenting, sharks circling, and his meager supplies dwindling, the ever-resourceful sailor soon finds himself staring his mortality in the...

Kaitlyn's future looks perfect. Her boyfriend, Greg, is handsome, witty, and has his uncle's law practice practically in his back pocket. But when a tragic accident takes the life of someone close to her, it also takes away Kaitlyn's peace of mind. In an effort to comfort Kaitlyn, her best friend plans a Caribbean vacation. But relaxation soon gives way to intrigue and danger as their cruise ship is thrown into turmoil and they are forced to abandon...

A spirited young maid on board the Titanic captures the attentions of two men including a kindhearted sailor and an enigmatic Chicago millionaire and barely escapes with her life before witnessing media scorn targeting her famous designer mistress.

His journey back to Spain interrupted by shipwreck, loss of memory, and a stay in a forbidding French monastery, thirteen-year-old Felix finally continues his travels in the company of a mysterious boy--whom he has rescued from hanging!

"Annie y Jack se embarcan en una aventura emocionante, terrible y triste cuando la casa del árbol los lleva a la cubierta del Titanic. ¿Habrá also que puedan hacer para ayudar en el trágico desenlace de la historia? ¿Serán capaces de salvar la vida de alguien? ¿Y la de ellos mismos?"--Back cover.

A dramatic account of the ill-fated 19th-century naval expedition to the North Pole cites the contributions of German cartographer August Petermann, New York Herald owner James Gordon Bennett and famed naval officer George Washington De Long in the team's efforts to survive brutal environmental conditions.

"In the tradition of Erik Larson's Dead Wake comes The Last Voyage of the Andrea Doria, about the sinking of the glamorous Italian ocean liner, including never-before-seen photos of the wreck today. In 1956, a stunned world watched as the famous Italian ocean liner Andrea Doria sank after being struck by a Swedish vessel off the coast of Nantucket. Unlike the Titanic, this sinking played out in real time across radios and televisions, the first disaster...

Among the legion of books that emerged from the Titanic craze precipitated by James Cameron's 1997 film, Titanic Survivor towered above the rest due to its unique authenticity and wrenching firsthand account of that unforgettable tragedy. Violet Jessop spent her entire career--and fully half her life--at sea. She served as a stewardess for first-class passengers aboard the Titanic, and was a nurse on the ill-fated hospital ship Britannic when it struck...

Jack Byron and Tobias Barrow are two of the crew of the H.M.S. Wager, shipwrecked on the desolate coast of Chile in the 1740s.

A sailor finds himself trapped on a remote South Pacific island where a mad doctor conducts gruesome experiments in evolution.