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"One minute, twenty-four-year-old Sophie Hansa is in a San Francisco alley trying to save the life of the aunt she has never known. The next, she finds herself flung into the warm and salty waters of an unfamiliar world. Glowing moths fall to the waves around her, and the sleek bodies of unseen fish glide against her submerged ankles. The world is Stormwrack, a series of island nations with a variety of cultures and economies--and a language different...

"Drew Ferran--the rightful king of Lyssia--continues his battles with the evil Catlords who seek to oppress his kingdom. As the war spreads, Drew and his allies take the fight to the White Sea. But just as many terrors await them on the water as on land, with pirates and scoundrels abounding and a host of marine Werelords emerging to take sides in the war that threatens to destroy the Seven Realms. Can the return of Count Vega the Sharklord turn the...

Goblins shatter the enchanted conch shell .So the Ocean Fairies must find the shells and their animal friends!

Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.

He was a British merchant, manufacturer, insurer, and spy, but Daniel Defoe eventually found his true calling as a writerand his masterful fiction has endeared him to readers all over the world. A prolific author who published over 500 novels, travel guides, pamphlets, and journals, he was best known for his 1719 adventure novel Robinson Crusoe. Soon after the enormous success ofRobinson Crusoe, Defoe wrote this compelling account of high-seas drama...

When the tide of war is on the rise, telling friend from foe is a dangerous proposition. It's 1794, and newly promoted Captain Nathan Peake is dispatched to the Caribbean to take command of the British navy's latest frigate, the 32-gun Unicorn, a ship with a tragic history of mutiny and murder. Indeed, her previous captain was found washed up in New Orleans with his throat cut, and the men who did it are still at large. But Peake has greater problems...

Professor Arronax and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.

The Caribbean, 1665. Pirate captain Charles Hunter, with backing from a powerful ally, assembles a crew of ruffians to take the Spanish galleon, "El Trinidad," guarded by the bloodthirsty Cazalla, a favorite commander of the Spanish king himself.