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A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined always to do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype­—Athena, Patrol Coastal 15­­—with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the new assignment in stride.

Jack O' Reilly is a 17-year-old New Englander who in 1805, sails with his parents on the Perdido Star to Cuba, his mother's birthplace, to claim the land she inherited. But for Jack, the trip that began with high hopes and the excitement of a new life, becomes a descent into violence and revenge.

In the 18th century West Indies, stories hold the ultimate power. Sailors spin yarns about pirates. Newspapers tell tales full of half-truths. Myths spread like whispered wildfire. East India Company sailor Nicholas Jerome has no patience for pirates, determined to escape his father's thieving past.

On the run from killers who hide in the shadows, Jasika has made dangerous enemies and even more dangerous friends. When her guildmaster is killed under suspicious circumstances, she wants the culprit to receive the only kind of justice she knows. The price on her head, however, has her running for her life. She takes to the seas, both to stay one step ahead of those who follow and to begin building a new life as far away from her homeland as possible.

Abenteuerlich und ergreifend. Die 15-jährige Lilly Thomson reist in den 1980er-Jahren mit Vater und Schwester Anna auf dem Trawler "Blue Star" von Flensburg aus um die halbe Welt, um nach Jamaika auszuwandern. Dabei konkurriert der Ruf des Abenteuers mit ihrem inneren Konflikt, die kranke Mutter zurücklassen zu müssen. Lilly trotzt nicht nur den Herausforderungen der langen Schiffsreise und der Enge an Bord, den Gefahren durch Piraten, Verrat und Korruption, sondern auch ihrer angeborenen Spastik und ihrem strengen Vater.

Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Captain of the Pole-Star is a collection of mystery tales about amnesia, sea voyages, shipwrecks, lost love, and heists. It includes humorous stories and fairy tales.

A doctor hires out to a whaling vessel bound for the Arctic, where the ship becomes icebound. Strange moanings are soon heard on the Polar wind, and ghostly apparitions appear out on the ice. The ship's senior officers are convinced they have something to do with the captain's mysterious past, but who can say for sure, since he appears to be slowly going insane?