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Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's Adrift chronicled one of the most astounding voyages of the century and one of the great sea adventures of all time. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is now an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived for more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized.

It’s the early 1970s, and a young British family is attempting to sail around the world when catastrophe strikes.The Robertsons have sold everything they own to embark on this trip. But their epic odyssey soon turns into a desperate fight for their lives in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Dougal and Lyn, their teenage son Douglas, 12-year-old twins Sandy and Neil, and young hitchhiker Robin find themselves hundreds of miles from land, with few supplies, no radio contact, and surrounded by sharks. Drifting in the vast emptiness, they must rely on their instincts and harness the elements to...

Over the years, humans have grown used to their position within the empire, serving as soldiers and spacers for alien masters as well as building a place in the universe for themselves. But now, in the aftermath of a violent interstellar war that shattered the power of the Alphans, humanity has rediscovered its pride.

A story of tragedy at sea where every desperate act meant life or death The small ship making the Liverpool-to-New York trip in the early months of 1856 carried mail, crates of dry goods, and more than one hundred passengers, mostly Irish emigrants. Suddenly an iceberg tore the ship asunder and...

Giant turtles, impossible ships, and tidal rivers ridden by a Drowned girl in search of a family in the latest in the bestselling Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire. “Nadya’s story reads like a fairy tale, thanks to narrator Barrie Kreinik, whose...

Davenport: I thought I found where I belonged with my husband and wife. Everything was perfect until we lost her on the same day our son came into this world. Together, we tried to stay strong and focused on bringing her dream to life, but maybe it's finally time for us to follow our own dreams.

Emma Turner has spent eight years running, hiding, dodging…limiting her short stays to big cities where she could easily get lost in the crowd. But when she steps onto Tempest Island, something changes. The tiny island speaks to her in ways no other place ever has, and tempts her into breaking the life rules she established long ago to keep herself safe. Instead of taking a couple days off and then moving on, as originally planned, she applies for a job at the Island Surf Shop, despite the risky fact that she’s horribly attracted to the owner.

There is a time to weep and a time to mourn. For the CSV Lion of Judah, that time has not yet come. The war with the League of Sol ended in victory for the Terran Coalition. Major General David Cohen and his crew conclude their three-month goodwill cruise with one final FTL jump. But instead of returning home in a blaze of glory, the wormhole collapses and hurls them more than four million lightyears into the unknown.

Rani Shah is everything I can't have—too young, too sweet, too innocent. Not to mention, she's my late wife's sister and my son's nanny. So when she asked me to kiss her, I should have refused. When she begged me to touch her, I could have turned her down. When she coaxed me to take the one thing she's never given away—her virginity—a better man would have walked away. Should have, could have, would have... But I didn't.

Daniel Briggs, fresh out of the Marine Corps, wakes up in Defuniak Springs, FL, hungover and confused, with no memory of the night before. A powerful local family finds him, intent on repaying the previous night's encounter. How will the former Marine ward off his attackers, deal with his demons, and avoid being blamed for a young girl's death?

Binge listen. Keep the lights on. Lock your doors. A mutating plague has killed two thirds of the world's population. Society has collapsed. And Mike Crenshaw is adrift. From the world of The Traveler Series comes a new cast of characters, new obstacles, and the same devastating, world-altering virus which plunges society into the depth of a dystopian hell. Adrift begins six months after The Scourge takes hold.

In the heart of an Atlantic superstorm, the Tahila fights to stay afloat. Amid the chaos, the ship’s collision-avoidance system blares a warning. Radar shows no ship. No signal. No lights. Just a strange silhouette beneath the waves. A searchlight is focussed into the raging sea and the crew spot something impossible: the slanted roof of a house with glass windows and solid walls… adrift in the open ocean more than a thousand miles from land. Lightning flashes – and behind one of the windows, a woman is staring out, her eyes wide with a silent plea.

Ess wakes up alone on a sailboat in the remote Pacific Northwest with no memory of who she is or how she got there. She finds a note, but it’s more warning than comfort: Start over. Don’t make yourself known. Don’t look back. Ess must have answers. She sails over a turbulent ocean to a town hundreds of miles away that, she hopes, might offer insight. The chilling clues she uncovers point to a desperate attempt at erasing her former life. But why? And someone is watching her … someone who knows she must never learn her truth.

Kari Sharpe never expected to return to Maine. Law school and the Navy JAG Corps pulled her out of the dead-end Maine promised for her future. But Kari’s past turns out to be hard to escape. When her last living relative spirals out of control, Kari gives up everything to save him. Leaving her position as partner in a prestigious Manhattan law firm, Kari struggles to build a new law practice in Maine. Unfortunately, her name means nothing in Portland—nothing good. The Sharpe family curse is a shackle she can’t shake as she grapples with her brother’s addiction.

It’s the day of the great Pontypandy Canoe Race, and Ben and Hannah will be racing each other to the Harbour. Hannah is determined to win and sets off quickly, with Ben not far behind. Mandy and Norman meanwhile are distributing posters to ensure there will be a big crowd at the finish line to watch them cross the line. But Hannah and Ben don’t appear at the finish line when they should, and darkness is falling. Something is wrong - and Fireman Sam, Elvis and Penny are quickly on the case.

I moved to Sunrise Island to rescue my family’s abandoned orchard, but my biggest challenge is Kieran Walsh. One look at my leaky cabin and the feisty bartender tells me I live with him now. Who am I to argue? Kieran’s my perfect opposite: flamboyant, chaotic, drop-dead gorgeous. And he’s always frickin’ smiling. I’m falling hard. But will he be here to catch me?

Titan Valentino has been offered a job they can’t refuse. Tai, a gender-neutral courtesan, receives a scandalous proposition: seduce an actor’s virgin fiancée. The money is enough to pay off Tai’s crushing medical debt, a tantalizing prospect. Too bad Aisha Malik isn’t the easy target they expect. A standoffish historian who hates to be touched, she’s laser-focused on her career, and completely unaware that her marriage has been arranged behind her back. This could be the one instance where Tai’s charm and charisma fail them. Then an accidental heist throws them together as partners in crime.

Why America's sons are underachieving, and what we can do about it. Something is happening to boys today. From kindergarten to college, American boys are, on average, less resilient and less ambitious than they were a mere twenty years ago. The gender gap in college attendance and graduation...

One mistake. One viral video. One ruined career. That's all it takes for the world to turn on me: Hollywood's former golden boy. Now I'm hiding out in a rundown bungalow on Dreamwood Isle, praying the paparazzi won't track me down. I need safety. Solitude. Anonymity. What I get instead is Finn: the son of my bungalow landlord, charming, adorably clumsy — and the one man alive who doesn't care that I'm River Wolfe, fallen angel of the big screen. Which only makes me want him more.

A comic tragedy for anyone flailing in the sea of their own inadequacy. Sony Radio Award winners Geoff Lloyd and Annabel Port steer a life-raft through the choppy waters of being a functional human. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.