Seduction on the high seas is the order of the day in this swashbuckling pirate adventure where the legendary pirate is the beautiful Lady Anne and her captive a handsome Royal Naval officer.
This quintessential high-seas adventure deserves to be experienced again or for the first time; either way, it is an American epic that's surprisingly humorous and modern.
Mazie Maguire is in prison for killing her husband, but she insists she's innocent. When a tornado hits, Mazie escapes and so begins a wild, hilarious adventure of a lifetime.
Jon Krakauer's thrilling personal story of the 1996 ascent of Mount Everest and the furious natural disaster that claimed lives and devastated survivors is a must-read for the armchair adventurer.
Everyday eBook catches up with Wallace, whose journey deep into the heart of the Amazon to find the last uncontacted tribe brought him a lot more than simple adventure.
About This Book: Oprah's Book Club 2.0 selection. A powerful, blazingly honest memoir: the story of an eleven-hundred-mile solo hike that broke down a young woman reeling from catastrophe—and built her back up again. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her [...]
Author Rachel Hartman joins us to discuss her debut fantasy novel, Seraphina, in which dragons take human form -- but struggle with human emotion.
For his latest solo outing, Child shifts the tomb-raiders-battle-ancient-evil story from the clichés of the genre.
Philip Pullman’s series, His Dark Materials -- comprised of The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife, and The Amber Spyglass -- is already hailed as a young adult classic, a mere fourteen years after the first book was published, and with good reason.
When I look back at all the King books I’ve read -- and believe me, I’ve read many -- there is one moment, one scene, if you will, that most strongly stands out in my memory. It is a moment from The Talisman.
When Andrée and his two companions embarked on their journey, the North Pole was one of the last great, uncharted destinations. And, alas, it was destined to stay largely uncharted until a sealing vessel discovered Andrée's remains thirty-three years later.
In the mix of fear and fascination following the death of Kim Jong-il, there still beats the human heart of desire and longing for survival, a world captured in Adam Johnson's beautiful, disturbing new novel, The Orphan Master’s Son.
So, you may ask yourself, why would I want to read a book about a U-boat, especially one that is filled with a bunch of dead Nazis? What if I told you that the boat was found only sixty miles off the coast of New Jersey and while the crew had been Nazi, they were really just boys? Sent on a blind suicide mission, these barely young men were under the direction of a demented leadership hell-bent on fighting a lost war until the last soldiers and sailors had fallen. Not enough?
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