Invasion Year
ISBN: 9781250001979 / Angielski / Miękka / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Invasion Year is the seventeenth tale in Dewey Lambdin's smashing naval adventure series. For a fellow like Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy, who despises the French worse than the Devil hates Holy Water, it's hellish-hard to gain a reputation for saving them, not once but twice, when the French refugees from Haiti surrender to England rather than the vengeful ex-slave armies in November of 1803 The Invasion Year is the seventeenth tale in Dewey Lambdin's smashing naval adventure series. For a fellow like Captain Alan Lewrie, R... |
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90,36 zł |
Astreya, Book I: The Voyage South
ISBN: 9781611791907 / Angielski / Miękka / 406 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Astreya isn't like the other boys in his remote fishing village. When Astreya leaves home, his widowed mother gives him his father's knife, a riddling notebook, and a bracelet with a mysterious and powerful green stone. He sails south with an adventurous fishing boat skipper, hoping that in the world beyond, he can find out who his father was, what the three enigmatic gifts mean, and whether there is any value to the looks, skills and talents that have set him apart from everyone he has ever known. They voyage to a village where all the inhabitants have met a grisly end, and fearing this may...
Astreya isn't like the other boys in his remote fishing village. When Astreya leaves home, his widowed mother gives him his father's knife, a riddling...
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Dark Trader
ISBN: 9781614344520 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Structured through past and future time travels, "Dark Trader" is an adventure-love story. Sean, an archeologist, is recruited to locate and excavate a 150-year-old sailing vessel. After locating the remains, Sean and Carol experience several unexplained, hair-raising events.
Structured through past and future time travels, "Dark Trader" is an adventure-love story. Sean, an archeologist, is recruited to locate and excavate ...
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Christmas at Little Beach Street Bakery
ISBN: 9780062662996 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. It's the most wonderful time of the year... and the perfect moment to escape to a charming English village From the beloved author whose novels are "sheer indulgence from start to finish" (SOPHIE KINSELLA) comes a delightful holiday story -- funny, heartfelt, romantic and packed with recipes -- perfect for the winter months.
In the Cornish coastal village of Mount Polbearne, the Christmas season has arrived. It's a joyous time for family, friends, and feasting, as decorations sparkle along the town's winding streets and shop windows glow with festive... It's the most wonderful time of the year... and the perfect moment to escape to a charming English village From the beloved author whose n... |
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64,53 zł |
No Safe Anchorage: Flight, Exile, Loss and Hope
ISBN: 9781782797067 / Angielski / Miękka / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A glimpse of a mysterious stranger sends a sailor on a quest across the ocean...
A glimpse of a mysterious stranger sends a sailor on a quest across the ocean...
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68,88 zł |
Lusitania Lost: A Novel (Historical Fiction Book)
ISBN: 9781633536555 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Alma Brady is on the run from a New York mob boss. Desperate to escape Big Jim Hogan and his murderous gang, she joins a group of nurses bound for the Great War in Europe. Their ship is the Lusitania, the most celebrated luxury liner of 1915, with a passenger list of Broadway and Continental celebrities headed for certain doom. But even with the threat of German U-boats and the too-recent Titanic disaster, who can guess that they face dangers more horrifying than any on the war-torn battlefields across the Atlantic? Nor does Alma realize how relentlessly her past will pursue her.
Alma Brady is on the run from a New York mob boss. Desperate to escape Big Jim Hogan and his murderous gang, she joins a group of nurses bound for th...
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85,89 zł |
Astreya, Book III: The Wanderer's Curse
ISBN: 9781611791921 / Angielski / Miękka / 302 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The breathtaking conclusion of The Astreya Trilogy Lindey takes Astreya, Cam, Damon, and Arneb to Matris, only to discover that much has changed since she left home. Suspicion and distrust surround the men. Astreya and Lindey begin to resolve their difficulties, but a gossipy old man on a horse misrepresents the past, and all five must flee aboard Arneb's boat. Once outside the shelter of the hills surrounding Matris, the group discovers that the bloodthirsty Men of the Sea are searching for their navigation stones, and they think the Village where Astreya was born has them. Astreya must...
The breathtaking conclusion of The Astreya Trilogy Lindey takes Astreya, Cam, Damon, and Arneb to Matris, only to discover that much has changed since...
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79,64 zł |
The Touch of the Sea
ISBN: 9781590212080 / Angielski / Miękka / 196 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Greek myths held that Oceanus to be a massive river surrounding the land. A Titan, son of sky and earth, he was depicted as a handsome, muscular man whose torso ended in a scaled tail. As the Olympians emerged, Oceanus retreated, his domain restricted to strange and dangerous shores, the realm of sailors fortunes and worries. So, too, are the eleven tales within the pages of The Touch of the Sea: fantastical, at times eerie, with sightings of mermen, water spirits, and sea beasts (even the fabled "living island," the aspidochelone) as well as a smattering of pirates. What makes these stories...
Greek myths held that Oceanus to be a massive river surrounding the land. A Titan, son of sky and earth, he was depicted as a handsome, muscular man w...
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67,81 zł |
Moby Dick
ISBN: 9780451532282 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 624 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict.
At the heart of Moby-Dick is the powerful, unknowable sea and Captain Ahab, a brooding, one-legged fanatic who has sworn vengeance on the mammoth white whale that crippled him. Narrated by Ishmael, a wayfarer who joins the crew of Ahab s whaling ship, this is the story of that hair-raising voyage, and of the men who embraced hardship and nameless horrors as they dared to challenge God s most dreaded creation and death itself for a chance at immortality.... Herman Melville's thrilling nautical adventure a timeless allegory and an epic saga of heroic determination and conflict.
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25,62 zł |
Currents: A Novel by Dave Bricker
ISBN: 9780984300952 / Angielski / Twarda / 238 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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126,84 zł |
Barbados Bound
ISBN: 9781611792294 / Angielski / Miękka / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Portsmouth, England,1760. Patricia Kelley, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Barbadian sugarcane planter, falls from her imagined place in the world when her absent father unexpectedly dies. Raised in a Wiltshire boarding school sixteen-year-old Patricia embarks on a desperate crossing on a merchantman bound for Barbados, where she was born, in a brash attempt to claim an unlikely inheritance. Aboard a merchantman under contract with the British Navy to deliver gunpowder to the West Indian forts, young Patricia finds herself pulled between two worlds -- and two identities -- as she...
Portsmouth, England,1760. Patricia Kelley, the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Barbadian sugarcane planter, falls from her imagined place in the wo...
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94,50 zł |
The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories
ISBN: 9780062203830 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we think we know can unexpectedly reveal its darker contours. In stories that are alternately funny, persuasive, and compelling, unforgettable characters are confronted with, and battle against, the limitations of their lives. Rutherford's work has been selected by Alice Sebold for inclusion in the volume of The Best American Short Stories that she edited, and also published in Ploughshares, One Story, and... The stories in The Peripatetic Coffin and Other Stories, a collection from Ethan Rutherford, map the surprising ways in which the world we... |
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73,14 zł |
I, Nemo
ISBN: 9780786752867 / Angielski / Miękka / 285 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What if the Nautilus and its famous captain wasn t fiction?
Jonathan de Chevalier Mason has it all: A promising career designing warships for Her Majesty s Navy, a beautiful well-born wife and two children. Two of his new ironclads are sending shockwaves rippling through the navies of the British Empire s European and American rivals. But Jonathan has designed another shipa revolutionary warship so terrible that whoever possesses it will be master of the seas. And no one wants it more than the very people Jonathan works forthe British Government. But for reasons of his own, Jonathan has... What if the Nautilus and its famous captain wasn t fiction?
Jonathan de Chevalier Mason has it all: A promising career designing warships for Her ... |
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99,02 zł |
Lone Star Rising, the Voyage of the Wasp
ISBN: 9781611792355 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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85,89 zł |
The Keeper's Son
ISBN: 9781250037374 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1941, Killakeet Island of the wind-swept Outer Banks of North Carolina is home to a tiny, peaceful population of fishermen, clam stompers, oyster rakers, and a few lonely sailors of the Coast Guard. Dominating the glorious, raw beauty of the little island is the majestic Killakeet Lighthouse, which for generations has been the responsibility of one family, the Thurlows. However, Josh Thurlow, the Keeper's son, has forsworn his heritage to become the commander of the Maudie Jane, a small Coast Guard patrol boat operating off Killakeet. Josh is still tortured by guilt, seventeen... In 1941, Killakeet Island of the wind-swept Outer Banks of North Carolina is home to a tiny, peaceful population of fishermen, clam stompers, oyste... |
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98,97 zł |
Ferdinand the Fisherman: A New Tale of Moby Dick
ISBN: 9781432795733 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While working in the South Pacific in 1990 this story came to me from two sources: the first was the reverence that the Hawaiian people hold for the sea creatures, especially whales, and the second was a Portuguese fellow named Ferdinand that enjoyed my poetry. The two came together in a dream state early one morning, and Moby Dick, the most famous of all whales in literature took his rightful place as the other main character. But in this story, Moby dick is "A gentle creature, friend of man, but shy of those who live on land." Both Moby Dick and Ferdinand each suffer tragedies, Moby Dick at...
While working in the South Pacific in 1990 this story came to me from two sources: the first was the reverence that the Hawaiian people hold for the s...
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62,44 zł |
Krążownik spod Samosierry Audiobook QES
ISBN: 9788361593096 / Polski / Plastikowa Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. „Krążownik...” to trzecia książka z naszego cyklu „morskich opowieści”. Powstała w odpowiedzi na pytania czytelników po ukazaniu się zbioru opowiadań „Znaczy Kapitan”; stanowi jego kontynuację, uzupełnienie i epilog. W książce znajdują się opowiadania o tematach bardzo odmiennych od siebie. Są więc wspomnienia ze szkół morskich w Tczewie i Southampton, z rejsów na żaglowcach oraz statkach handlowych i pasażerskich, przekształconych w czasie II wojny światowej
w transportowce wojskowe, wchodzące w skład sił alianckich. Niektóre z 26 opowiadań... „Krążownik...” to trzecia książka z naszego cyklu „morskich opowieści”. Powstała w odpowiedzi na pytania czytelników po ukazaniu się z...
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Okręty zbłąkane BR
ISBN: 9788375652178 / Polski / Miękka / 244 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. To się tak tylko wydawało Białemu Kapitanowi - bohaterowi powieści OKRĘTY ZBŁĄKANE - że osiągnął już swój cel. Wystarczyła krótka prasowa wzmianka, ujrzana przypadkiem w jednym z dzienników, aby odsunął on na bok dalekosiężne syberyjskie plany i wsiadł do pierwszego pociągu zdążającego w przeciwnym kierunku. Jakże jednak usprawiedliwić obojętność i chłód?
To się tak tylko wydawało Białemu Kapitanowi - bohaterowi powieści OKRĘTY ZBŁĄKANE - że osiągnął już swój cel. Wystarczyła krótka praso...
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The Last of the Legions (1910)
ISBN: 9781447467595 / Angielski / Miękka / 164 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant work, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. It featured the first appearance of detective Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist who...
This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1910 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur ...
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The Dealings of Captain Sharkey (1925)
ISBN: 9781447467953 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1859. It was between 1876 and 1881, while studying medicine at the University of Edinburgh, that he began writing short stories, and his first piece was published in Chambers's Edinburgh Journal before he was 20. In 1887, Conan Doyle's first significant work, A Study in Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual. It featured the first appearance of detective Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist who...
This early work by Arthur Conan Doyle was originally published in 1925 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. Arthur ...
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106,03 zł |