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Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary
Written by Russell Hoban, Introduction by Ed Park
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590176467
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Turtle Diary

Written by Russell Hoban
Introduction by Ed Park


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $14.95

Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban’s surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without... Read more >
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Turtle Diary

Written by Russell Hoban
Introduction by Ed Park


Format: eBook, 208 pages
On Sale: June 11, 2013
Price: $14.95

Life in a city can be atomizing, isolating. And it certainly is for William G. and Neaera H., the strangers at the center of Russell Hoban’s surprisingly heartwarming novel Turtle Diary. William, a clerk at a used-book store, lives in a rooming house after a divorce that has left him without... Read more >
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The Night of the Swarm
The Night of the Swarm
Written by Robert V. S. Redick
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ISBN: 9780345508874
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The Night of the Swarm

Written by Robert V. S. Redick


Format: Trade Paperback, 720 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $16.00

“If any ambitious TV producers are looking for [a] multi-part fantasy to adapt after the success of HBO’s Game of Thrones . . . Robert Redick’s impressive Chathrand Voyage series . . . has it all.”—SFX

Robert V. S. Redick brings his acclaimed fantasy series The Chathrand Voyage to a triumphant close... Read more >
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The Night of the Swarm
The Night of the Swarm
Written by Robert V. S. Redick
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345534644
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The Night of the Swarm

Written by Robert V. S. Redick


Format: eBook, 736 pages
On Sale: February 5, 2013
Price: $9.99

“If any ambitious TV producers are looking for [a] multi-part fantasy to adapt after the success of HBO’s Game of Thrones . . . Robert Redick’s impressive Chathrand Voyage series . . . has it all.”—SFX

Robert V. S. Redick brings his acclaimed fantasy series The Chathrand Voyage to a triumphant close... Read more >
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Freya of the Seven Isles

Written by Joseph Conrad


Format: eBook
On Sale: November 6, 2012
Price: $9.00

There is a degree of bliss too intense for elation.

This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic prose—it is unusual in that it is one of... Read more >
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In Hazard

Written by Richard Hughes
Introduction by John Crowley


Format: eBook
On Sale: August 29, 2012
Price: $14.95

The Archimedes is a modern merchant steamship in tip-top condition, and in the summer of 1929 it has been picking up goods along the eastern seaboard of the United States before making a run to China. A little overloaded, perhaps—the oddly assorted cargo includes piles of old newspapers and heaps of... Read more >
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The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics
The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics
Written by Gideon Defoe
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345802903
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The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics

Written by Gideon Defoe


Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $14.95

 
In Gideon Defoe’s fifth Pirates! adventure, the dashing Pirate Captain and his intrepid crew encounter perhaps the most swashbuckling poets in history: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley’s fiancée, Mary Godwin.
 
While visiting the shores of Lake Geneva to restore their spirits and their finances, the Pirate Captain and his... Read more >
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The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics
The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics
Written by Gideon Defoe
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345802910
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The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics

Written by Gideon Defoe


Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $11.99

 
In Gideon Defoe’s fifth Pirates! adventure, the dashing Pirate Captain and his intrepid crew encounter perhaps the most swashbuckling poets in history: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley’s fiancée, Mary Godwin.
 
While visiting the shores of Lake Geneva to restore their spirits and their finances, the Pirate Captain and his... Read more >
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The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics
The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics
Written by Gideon Defoe, Read by John Lee
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780449806678
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The Pirates!: In an Adventure with the Romantics

Written by Gideon Defoe
Read by John Lee


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: August 21, 2012
Price: $14.00

 
In Gideon Defoe’s fifth Pirates! adventure, the dashing Pirate Captain and his intrepid crew encounter perhaps the most swashbuckling poets in history: Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Shelley’s fiancée, Mary Godwin.
 
While visiting the shores of Lake Geneva to restore their spirits and their finances, the Pirate Captain and his... Read more >
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Jamrach's Menagerie
Jamrach's Menagerie
Written by Carol Birch
Format: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780385534406
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Jamrach's Menagerie
A Novel
Written by Carol Birch


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $25.95


SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal.

Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy... Read more >
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Jamrach's Menagerie
Jamrach's Menagerie
Written by Carol Birch
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780385534413
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Jamrach's Menagerie
A Novel
Written by Carol Birch


Format: eBook, 304 pages
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $11.99


SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal.

Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy... Read more >
Jamrach's Menagerie
Jamrach's Menagerie
Written by Carol Birch, Read by Steve West
Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
ISBN: 9780307932396
Our Price: $22.50

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Jamrach's Menagerie
A Novel
Written by Carol Birch
Read by Steve West


Format: Unabridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: June 14, 2011
Price: $22.50


SHORTLISTED for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction

A thrilling and powerful novel about a young boy lured to sea by the promise of adventure and reward, with echoes of Great Expectations, Moby-Dick, and The Voyage of the Narwhal.

Jamrach’s Menagerie tells the story of a nineteenth-century street urchin named Jaffy... Read more >
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Tongues of Serpents
Tongues of Serpents
Written by Naomi Novik
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345496904
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Tongues of Serpents
A Novel of Temeraire
Written by Naomi Novik


Format: Paperback, 368 pages
On Sale: June 7, 2011
Price: $7.99

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire and Capt. Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia—and into a hornet’s nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh—aka Captain Bligh, late of...

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The River of Shadows
The River of Shadows
Written by Robert V. S. Redick
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345523822
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The River of Shadows

Written by Robert V. S. Redick


Format: Trade Paperback, 592 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $16.00

In the gripping sequel to Robert V. S. Redick’s acclaimed epic fantasy novels The Red Wolf Conspiracy and The Ruling Sea, the crew of the vast, ancient ship Chathrand have reached the shores of the legendary southern empire of Bali Adro. Many have died in the crossing, and the alliance of... Read more >
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The River of Shadows
The River of Shadows
Written by Robert V. S. Redick
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345523839
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The River of Shadows

Written by Robert V. S. Redick


Format: eBook, 528 pages
On Sale: April 19, 2011
Price: $11.99

In the gripping sequel to Robert V. S. Redick’s acclaimed epic fantasy novels The Red Wolf Conspiracy and The Ruling Sea, the crew of the vast, ancient ship Chathrand have reached the shores of the legendary southern empire of Bali Adro. Many have died in the crossing, and the alliance of... Read more >
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The Ruling Sea
The Ruling Sea
Written by Robert V. S. Redick
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9780345508867
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The Ruling Sea

Written by Robert V. S. Redick


Format: Paperback, 672 pages
On Sale: December 28, 2010
Price: $7.99

The plans of the dark sorcerer Arunis have been thwarted—for now. But the battle for control of the gargantuan ship Chathrand, on which hinges the fate of empires, is far from over. A small band of allies on board, bound together less by trust than by need, must scramble to fight... Read more >
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Tongues of Serpents
Tongues of Serpents
Written by Naomi Novik
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780345521750
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Tongues of Serpents
A Novel of Temeraire
Written by Naomi Novik


Format: eBook, 352 pages
On Sale: July 13, 2010
Price: $7.99

Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon’s invasion of England, Temeraire and Capt. Will Laurence have been transported to a prison colony in distant Australia—and into a hornet’s nest of fresh complications. The colony is in turmoil after the overthrow of military governor William Bligh—aka Captain Bligh, late of... Read more >
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A High Wind in Jamaica

Written by Richard Hughes
Introduction by Francine Prose


Format: eBook, 296 pages
On Sale: June 23, 2010
Price: $14.95

Richard Hughes's celebrated short novel is a masterpiece of concentrated narrative. Its dreamlike action begins among the decayed plantation houses and overwhelming natural abundance of late nineteenth-century Jamaica, before moving out onto the high seas, as Hughes tells the story of a group of children thrown upon the mercy of a... Read more >
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English Passengers
English Passengers
Written by Matthew Kneale
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307484314
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English Passengers
A Novel
Written by Matthew Kneale


Format: eBook, 464 pages
On Sale: December 10, 2008
Price: $11.99

In 1857 when Captain Illiam Quillian Kewley and his band of rum smugglers from the Isle of Man have most of their contraband confiscated by British Customs, they are forced to put their ship up for charter. The only takers are two eccentric Englishmen who want to embark for the other... Read more >
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In Hazard
In Hazard
Written by Richard Hughes, Introduction by John Crowley
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781590172728
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In Hazard

Written by Richard Hughes
Introduction by John Crowley


Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: August 12, 2008
Price: $14.95

The Archimedes is a modern merchant steamship in tip-top condition, and in the summer of 1929 it has been picking up goods along the eastern seaboard of the United States before making a run to China. A little overloaded, perhaps—the oddly assorted cargo includes piles of old newspapers and heaps of... Read more >
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Any Approaching Enemy
Any Approaching Enemy
Written by Jay Worrall
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307430656
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Any Approaching Enemy
A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars
Written by Jay Worrall


Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $9.99

With the stunning high-seas adventure Sails on the Horizon, Jay Worrall introduced a bold new hero in the rousing tradition of Jack Aubrey: Charles Edgemont, an ambitious officer in His Britannic Majesty’s navy. Raised to the rank of captain for gallantry under fire, Edgemont proved his mettle in the bruising British... Read more >
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Freya of the Seven Isles
Freya of the Seven Isles
Written by Joseph Conrad
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9781933633138
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Freya of the Seven Isles

Written by Joseph Conrad


Format: Trade Paperback, 136 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $9.00

There is a degree of bliss too intense for elation.

This little-known novella from one of the masters of the form is so unusual for Joseph Conrad's work in several respects, although not in its exotic maritime setting or its even more exotic prose—it is unusual in that it is one of... Read more >
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The Western Limit of the World
The Western Limit of the World
Written by David Masiel
Format: eBook
ISBN: 9781588365941
Our Price: $11.99
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The Western Limit of the World
A Novel
Written by David Masiel


Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $11.99

David Masiel’s first novel, 2182 Kilohertz, was one of the most greatly praised books of 2002. A riveting adventure of an unlikely hero’s quest for personal redemption in frigid arctic waters, it earned its author comparisons to such giants of nautical fiction as Melville and Conrad. Now Masiel more than meets... Read more >
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The Western Limit of the World
The Western Limit of the World
Written by David Masiel
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ISBN: 9780812971019
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The Western Limit of the World
A Novel
Written by David Masiel


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $14.95

David Masiel’s first novel, 2182 Kilohertz, was one of the most greatly praised books of 2002. A riveting adventure of an unlikely hero’s quest for personal redemption in frigid arctic waters, it earned its author comparisons to such giants of nautical fiction as Melville and Conrad. Now Masiel more than meets... Read more >
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Any Approaching Enemy
Any Approaching Enemy
Written by Jay Worrall
Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780345476494
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Any Approaching Enemy
A Novel of the Napoleonic Wars
Written by Jay Worrall


Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: February 13, 2007
Price: $13.95

With the stunning high-seas adventure Sails on the Horizon, Jay Worrall introduced a bold new hero in the rousing tradition of Jack Aubrey: Charles Edgemont, an ambitious officer in His Britannic Majesty’s navy. Raised to the rank of captain for gallantry under fire, Edgemont proved his mettle in the bruising British... Read more >
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