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2007 Audie Award Finalist for Solo Narration—Male Ernest Hemingway's most beloved and popular novel, this Pulitzer Prize–winning American classic follows a Cuban fisherman’s elemental struggle with a giant marlin in a timeless story of courage, resilience, loss, and personal triumph. The...

Nach zwanzig Jahren kehrt Hanna in die Kleinstadt in den USA zurück, in der sie ein Jahr als Austauschschülerin an der Highschool verbracht hat. Sie ist hier, weil ihre beste Freundin Amber heiratet. Hanna soll helfen, die Hochzeitsfeier zu organisieren und das obwohl sie von Hochzeiten eigentlich nicht viel hält. Was die ganze Sache allerdings erträglicher macht, ist die Tatsache, dass ihr Jugendschwarm Kyle Crawford ihr helfen soll. Und gegen eine Sommertändelei hat Hanna ganz und gar nichts einzuwenden. Kyle Crawford kehrt nur zögerlich in seine kleine Heimatstadt an der Ostküste zurück.

Eine Nacht voller Magie, ein Jahr voller Sehnsucht - als Olivia Stockton nach Carolina Creek kommt, plant sie weder Wurzeln zu schlagen noch sich zu verlieben. Doch Josh Crawford, der seine mysteriöse Blind-Date-Partnerin nicht vergessen kann, stellt ihre Welt auf den Kopf und zeigt ihr, dass manchmal das Unerwartete am schönsten ist. Olivia Stockton hatte niemals vor sich zu verlieben – weder in Josh Crawford noch in die Merry Hall Plantage und auch nicht in den kleinen Ort Carolina Creek. Trotzdem ist genau das passiert.

Zwei Welten prallen aufeinander: Eine Designerin im kreativen Loch auf der Suche nach Ruhe, ein Cowboy mit großen Plänen. Doch statt Ruhe findet sie einen störrischen Cowboy, der ihr Herz schneller schlagen lässt. Für Robin Parker ist klar, dass sie nicht in New York bleiben kann. Die Merry Hall Plantage an der Küste North Carolinas erscheint ihr wie der perfekte Rückzugsort, wo sie zur Ruhe kommen kann und an neuen kreativen Projekten arbeiten kann. Cody Oakley will gerade nichts anderes, als sich seine eigene Pferdezucht und damit eine eigene Existenz aufzubauen.

Brought to you by Penguin. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2021 & THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2021 Mahmood Mattan is a fixture in Cardiff's Tiger Bay, 1952, which bustles with Somali and West Indian sailors, Maltese businessmen and Jewish families. He is a father, chancer, some-time petty thief. He...

A Nominee for the 2020 Edgar Allan Poe Awards NATIONAL BESTSELLER "A fiery tour de force… I could not put this book down. It truly was terrifying and unutterably beautiful." –Alison Borden, The Denver Post From the best-selling author of The Dog Stars, the story of two college students on a...

In Ernest Hemingway's masterful novella, The Old Man and the Sea, join Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman, on his epic struggle against nature's fury and his own inner demons. A timeless tale of resilience, determination, and the enduring bond between man and the sea.

The "wonderful first novel about life, love, and lobster fishing" (USA Today) from the #1 bestselling writer, Elizabeth Gilbert's Stern Men debuted to phenomenal critical attention. Now, Penguin is publishing a new edition of Gilbert's wise and charming novel for the millions of readers who...

A classical epic told from the point of view as modern warriors would see it. What happens when the war’s over, but the world didn’t survive? Communications are down. Food, fuel, and ammunition are low, and there’s no one to watch your back besides your demons. Continue with Hank and Doc on their odyssey from Russia back to their homes in California. Are the cannibals, giants, ghosts, and goddesses real? Or are they just flames from the fire in an insane man’s mind? The bombs have been dropped, the Earth has been set ablaze, and intruders are desecrating the home front

Santiago es un viejo pescador cubano que ya lleva ochenta y cuatro días sin coger un solo pescado. Sólo tiene un amigo, el joven Manolin su aprendiz, a quien sus padres sin embargo fuerzan a que dejen de ir con el viejo Santiago porque dicen: ya no tiene suerte.Sin embargo Manolin sigue ayudando a su amigo Santiago todos los días cuando llega de su infructuosa pesca.En el día que hace ochenta y cinco Santiago sale con su pequeño esquife y se adentra en el mar, alejándose de las aguas costeras.

For the four fraught, mysterious days of her doomed maiden voyage in 1912, the Titanic sails towards New York, glittering with luxury, freighted with millionaires and hopefuls. In her labyrinthine passageways the last, secret hours of a small group of passengers are played out, their fate sealed in prose of startling, sublime beauty, as Beryl Bainbridge's haunting masterpiece moves inexorably to its known and terrible end.

Clive Cussler's fifth Oregon Files novel, Plague Ship, pits Juan Cabrillo against a deadly adversary. In a Norwegian glacier during World War Two a Nazi officer makes an extraordinary discovery - the most legendary ship of all time . . . Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon...

This audiobook is about a lieutenant in the US Navy who renounces his loyalty in front of a judge and is sentenced to live out his years on naval ships and to never be informed about his country again since he said he never wants to hear about it in front of the judge. This becomes extremely difficult for him, and he ultimately becomes very patriotic.

War is brewing between England and France. Impressed into the Royal Navy, Lieutenant Merrick, against all odds, advanced through the ranks to become an officer, but he is not a gentleman. A man with a tainted past from a traitorous family, cast down by King George—a stain no man can remove. Merrick’s thrust into the role of captain, when the HMS Boudica is attacked by pirates off the coast of Nova Scotia. On a captured enemy vessel, he discovers a king’s ransom in treasure and a woman chained in the hold from a passenger ship that mysteriously disappeared at sea.

In 1798, the British Royal Navy withdrew from the Mediterranean to combat the threat of invasion at home. In their absence, rumors abound of a French Army gathering in the south of France under General Napoleon Bonaparte, and of a large fleet gathering to transport them. Alexander Clay and his ship, Titan, are sent to the Mediterranean to investigate. Clay verifies the troubling rumors but is unable to learn where the French fleet and the army will be heading.

“Men Against the Sea” is the second novel in “The Bounty Trilogy”, a series of novels that describe the voyage, mutiny, and subsequent adventures of the officers and crew of HMS Bounty during its voyage from Spithead on the English Channel to Tahiti in the South Pacific.

An uproariously funny collection of sea tales from the coauthor of Mutiny on the Bounty—a cult classic available in print again for the first time in this century. In Portsmouth, by the fireside of the Cheerful Tortoise taproom, British seamen regale themselves with tales of seafaring...

En route to the Galapagos Islands for a deep-sea diving trip with a group of international college students under his care, marine biologist Chris Black leaves his research vessel for a single night to enjoy dinner with friends. When he returns, the ship has vanished. With crew and passengers on board. Modern-day pirates hijacked the boat, hoping to collect a lucrative ransom. Amidst the storm of the century, indomitable Chris Black chases the pirates from island to island, fighting back to save the students under his care in a battle royal aboard the pirates' mysterious flagship.

Peculiar happenings aboard the schooner Helen B. Jackson when one night during a storm, the small crew found themselves diminished by one. Somebody had gone overboard, and it was surmised that it was one of the twin Benton brothers. But oddly enough, it seemed that the 'presence' of the missing twin continued to exist on board during the following weeks. For example, one extra set of silverware was found to be used after each meal, but nobody claimed to be using them.

Jesse McDermitt has returned to the Florida Keys. But things in the islands are different now. The locals are worried, but nobody can explain why. A sense of foreboding hangs in the humid July air. One of the locals, an investment banker, is waiting tables at the Rusty Anchor Bar and Grill. He seems a shell of the man he used to be—a hollow man whose fortune and wife are gone. Something very sinister is going on—Jesse smells it. He’s usually very good at rooting out the source of a problem, but is stumped this time.