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Matthew Digby, a writer of popular adventure novels, is camped out on the Northern Atlantic coast of the Dominican Republic, hoping to find insights into the main character of his new novel about a salvage operation gone awry.Digby enlists the aid of a local spear fisherman to take him out beyond the reef, hoping for a sensory experience that will rid him of his writer's block.The experience turns out to be far more intense than Digby expected, and...
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Whoa. You have found The Secret of the Bermuda Triangle, the great American adventure novel, which was named Finalist at the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and was named Winner at the Texas Association of Authors Book Awards, a contest open to international submissions.This adventure is the first book of the unintended Trilogy of Light. The story stands alone and connects to the other two books by a theme: we all have genius, inner light, but we...
3) Sailor
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Submarines are dangerous war machines. They are dangerous to the enemy and to the crew. When one goes to the bottom of the sea, never to return, it is a national tragedy. When one is attacked, all hands are involved. When a crew of 140 is attack and one survives, it is a different story. This is the story of that one man.
4) Superior
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Shortly after his arrival up at the family cottage on Lake Superior, Stan Goobash watches in horror as a mammoth sinkhole opens in the middle of the lake. Moments later, the greatest of all the Great Lakes is nothing more than a memory. Like others, Stan is drawn across the dry lakebed to the circular chasm that has swallowed one tenth of the world's supply of surface freshwater. An avid skydiver, Stan quickly formulates a plan to get to the bottom...
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La Cruz Del Corazon Rubi (The Cross of the Ruby Heart) follows the sea adventures of an old Mexican fisherman, Diego, who finds an old Spanish cross one day in the blue waters of the Sea of Cortez and discovers that the cross, although a rare and ancient treasure fashioned out of pure gold and encrusted with precious gems, is cursed and only brings tragedy and death to those who own it.
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In October 1851, the bustling harbors of Gloucester, Massachusetts marked the onset of a promising venture as the American fishing fleet set sail towards the bountiful mackerel run in the southern Gulf of St. Lawrence. However, as they neared the waters off Prince Edward Island, Canada, an unanticipated hurricane engulfed them in a tempest of terror and despair, obliterating over 200 schooners and vessels. The calamity claimed the lives of over 100...
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Jack and Joey are best buds . . . until they both fall for Chrissy. Then betrayal assumes a friend's smile on a tropical island where friendship is fleeting and the truth depends on who's telling the story.Also included is the short-short story The Gulf: Who are you when the thing you've prepped for hits and you react in a way you never dreamed? A way you despise?Two Tales From Blacktip Island by award-nominated novelist Tim W. Jackson.
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Inadvertent embezzler Blake Calloway high-tails it to the Caribbean, a step ahead of the Feds and desperate to restart life as an anonymous divemaster in a tropical paradise. On Blacktip Island, though, Blake quickly discovers "tropics" doesn't mean "paradise," and rookie boat hands stick out like a reef at low tide.The locals are quirky: a landlord who swears he's Fletcher Christian reincarnated, a boss who likes fish better than people, a sloshed...
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Live the life of a pirate during the golden age of piracy!
It's 1715 and Spain rules the Caribbean. Young Abigail Margaret Mary Pennyworth isn't happy leaving her friends in England for the New World, but she has no say in where her missionary family goes as the Pennyworths set off for America.
Not long before the end of the three-month voyage, their merchant ship is captured by Spanish pirates, and Abby is separated from her family and...
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Caribbean dive guide Gage Hoase woos and wins a beautiful dive guest, then sends her packing. All is good until Gabi returns, with happily-ever-after in mind. Now Gage has to figure a way to let her down gently before she offs him in his sleep.A Tale From Blacktip Island by award-nominated novelist Tim W. Jackson
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The year is 1989. The navy that Frank Sawyer was thrown out of wasn't the one he had joined. Twelve years after the happy go lucky sailor enlisted, they came up with a drug test for THC, a curve ball Frank just couldn't get a handle on. After three strikes, he hit the bricks with his newly minted dishonorable discharge, hell bent on going back to sea. After being shunned by the maritime unions, he answered an add in the San Francisco Chronicle that...
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Following the events of the Glass Empires, Age of the Third Arcon, and Populla's Shadow, and Dawn of the Sun Panther, the Pinnacle of the Winged Serpent follows the exploits of four ships; seeking to make their mark on the coasts of the Greater Continent, and beyond. In these seafaring tales of danger and intrigue, many will succumb to shadow, while others might survive. In the voyage of the Serpent Spine, a young boy will embark on an unexpected...
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A crow's nest view casts a surprising new light on the sinking of the Titanic.> WINNER: Pinnacle Book Achievement Award – Best Biographical Fiction"A fresh, illuminating take on a maritime disaster, An Ocean of Blame focuses on Frederick Fleet, lookout on the Titanic. With compassion and skill, Brook explores the personal and professional demons that haunted him throughout his life, dogging him from orphanage to his death." ~ Susan Crawford, Bestselling...
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Slavery. A crime against humanity and the basis for a whole economy in one of the most shameful aspects of our history is the backdrop against which Lucky Nat is painted. Based on a true and all but forgotten incident, part sea chase and part courtroom drama, it is the story of the capture, trial, and execution of Captain Nathanial Gordon, the only slaver executed for piracy using an 1820 law that declared all slavers to be pirates and if found guilty...
15) First Fury
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Book 1 of 3 in the Fury series. First Fury is based on the true story of a woman wronged. In 1848, dressed as man, anger drives Ann to sign on to the Christopher Mitchell, a whaling ship, to hunt down the man who "ruined" her. She had been convinced to leave her home in Rochester by a fellow who promised to marry her. After a short trip on the Erie Canal, he left her alone and unmarried. With no future, she decided the man who did this must pay. For...
16) Sea Legs
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A man imprisoned on a sailing vessel finds the ship sinking around him. How to escape, and even if he does, how to survive the aftermath of a shipwreck?Sea Legs is a short adventure story at sea.
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Even if Harper had realized demons are real, they never would've anticipated meeting one at a stuffy business conference. Now they're face-to-face with a flustered succubus, who says her name is Tria and wants to know why Harper can see her true form. Posed with such a quandary, what's an asexual enby to do?
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Kate and Jared, Alice and Janet, and their friends grow up in the idyllic beach town of Wave Crest. Life is good, and when Kate and her friends have finished high school, it seems as if the world is at their feet.Kate wins a scholarship to university, and her dreams of becoming a physician are about to become a reality. But tragedy and heartache strike and turn her world upside down.Join Kate and her friends as they navigate the undercurrents that...
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The year is 1838, and after more than ten years in the planning, the famous United States Exploring Expedition is set to launch into uncharted waters from the coast of Virginia. A convoy of seven ships filled with astronomers, mapmakers, naturalists, and the sailors charged with getting them around the world, the "Ex. Ex." is finally underway, with much fanfare.
Aboard the convoy as ship's linguist is Wiki Coffin. Half New Zealand Maori and half...
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Dive into the offbeat universe of Jack Fringe, where the ordinary is turned on its head, and the bizarre becomes the new normal. 'Deviates from the Norm' is a collection of short stories that blend dark humour with unexpected twists, showcasing characters that live on the fringes of society – peculiar, yet undeniably human. From a contentious battle for a church organist's senior position to the eerie silence aboard an old Navy destroyer believed...
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