Just after its crew rescues an alchemist named Radley Timmons from a ship’s wreckage, the occasionally piratical Wayward Grace is pursued through a magical storm by the Anglican Navy, and the company ends up stranded on an island ringed...
Ship captains
- Author:de Beaumont, EonSummary:
- Author:Conrad, JosephSummary:
The Nan-Shan was on her way from the southward to the treaty port of Fuchau with cargo 200 Chinese coolies on board. Observing the steady fall of the barometer, Captain acWhirr thought: There's some durty weather knocking about. But...
- Author:Morrow, JamesSummary:
God is dead. Died and fell into the sea. That's what Raphael, a despondent angel with luminous white wings and a blinking halo, tells Anthony Van Horne on his fiftieth birthday. Soon, Van Horne is charged with captaining the supertanker...
- Author:Novik, NaomiSummary:
A dazzling blend of military history, high-flying fantasy, and edge-of-your-seat adventure, Naomi Novik's Temeraire novels, set in an alternate Napoleonic era in which intelligent dragons have been harnessed as weapons of war, are more...
- Author:Butler, PaulSummary:
The Widow’s Fire explores the shadow side of Jane Austen’s final novel Persuasion, disrupting its happy ending and throwing moral certainties off balance. We join the action close to the moment when Austen draws away...
- Author:Barrett, AndreaSummary:
In 1885 Erasmus Darwin Wells embarks an expedition to the Arctic to search for the explorer, John Franklin. Erasmus' fears of failure seem to be realized when the voyage threatens to turn violent.
- Author:Conrad, JosephSummary:
This edition of Conrad's classic 1912 short story reprints the authoritative text of the 1924 Doubleday Edition together with five critical essays - all newly commissioned - that read "The Secret Sharer" from five...
- Author:Zárate, José LuisSummary:
A reimagining of Dracula's voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
She was in the wrong place... Fiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. While visiting a...
- Author:Bartlett, Robert A.Summary:
Each year, thousands of people visit Bob Bartlett’s boyhood home located in Brigus, Newfoundland and Labrador, to catch a glimpse of this famous sealing captain’s amazing life. Hawthorne Cottage has been designated a National Historic...
- Author:Lambdin, DeweySummary:
The year 1807 starts out badly for Captain Alan Lewrie, Royal Navy. In The King's Marauder, his frigate HMS Reliant has a new captain, he's living at his father's estate at Anglesgreen, among spiteful neighbors and family, and he's...
- Author:Turtledove, HarrySummary:
Soon after their successful return to Rhodes, cousins Menedemos and Sostratos find that Greece is a dangerous place after the death of Alexander. Various factions fight and vie for power, and the neutrality of Rhodes itself is...
- Author:Laurens, StephanieSummary:
To prove his worth, Caleb Frobisher, hedonistic son of a seafaring dynasty, joins a covert mission his brothers have been pursuing at Freetown, where he helps complete the mission's next stage. He stays on to rescue captives--among...
- Author:Wiggs, SusanSummary:
An awkward misfit and a temperamental sea captain sail from Boston to Rio de Janeiro aboard the Swan. It soon becomes clear to the ship's motley crew that the tides of attraction flow between the two.
- Author:Barker, R. J.Summary:
A brilliantly imagined saga of honor, glory, and warfare, The Bone Ships is the epic laugh of a new fantasy from David Gemmell Award-nominated RJ Barker. Two nations at war. A prize beyond compare. For generations, the fleets of the...
- Author:Schellman, KatharineSummary:
London 1815. Though newly-widowed Lily Adler is returning to a society that frowns on independent women, she is determined to create a meaningful life for herself even without a husband. She's no stranger to the glittering world of...
- Author:Butcher, JimSummary:
Jim Butcher, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Dresden Files and the Codex Alera novels, conjures up a new series set in a fantastic world of noble families, steam-powered technology, and magic-wielding warriors...
... - Author:Parker, Natalie C.Summary:
In this epic conclusion to the Seafire trilogy, which Booklist Aric Athair is dead. But the fight for the Bullet Seas is far from over. Caledonia's nemesis, Lir--the one responsible for destroying her family--has seized control of...
- Author:Parker, Natalie C.Summary:
"One of the year's most anticipated new fantasies."--Entertainment WeeklyThe first in a heart-stopping trilogy that recalls the undeniable feminine power of Wonder Woman and the powder-keg action of Mad Max: Fury Road,...
- Author:Bartlett, Robert A.Summary:
Sails Over Ice picks up where The Log of Bob Bartlett left off.
Between the years 1925–1933, Captain Bob Bartlett and the Morrissey explored coastal Greenland and much of Northern Canada, harvesting scientific...