Arctic Sea

In the aftermath of a world war with China, Admiral Dan Lenson is assigned to set up a US Navy base on the rugged North Slope of Alaska, in response to Russian seabed claims that reach nearly to the US coast. Yet the current administration seems oddly reluctant to confront Russian aggression. At the same time, the International Criminal Court is accusing Dan of a war crime.  

She is hired as a seamstress. She must survive an arctic expedition. And she does it all to save her son. Inspired by the incredible true story of Ada Blackjack. Alaska, 1921: Ada Blackjack’s six-year-old son Bennett is dying of tuberculosis in a Nome orphanage. When an arctic expedition...

First Prize Winner in Published NonFiction, WriterCon 2025. Finalist, 2025 Self-Publishing Review Book Awards The author graduates from an elite university and enters the submarine service in the mid-1980s when rhetoric between the US and USSR threatens to turn the Cold War hot. He encounters an unforgiving world where submarines hunt each other unseen and unheralded in the ocean depths and in which minor mistakes can result in catastrophe. On four classified missions to the Mediterranean Sea, the North Atlantic, the Barents Sea, and the North Pole, he gradually and painfully learns the ...

When an arctic freeze locks the Olympic Peninsula in ice, something enormous comes down from the mountains—and begins feeding along the coast. Sixty-two-year-old crab fisherman Walt Brannock knows the waters around Morrow’s Reach better than anyone. But when his steel crab traps are crushed, bait cages ripped from their welds, and twenty-inch footprints emerge from the freezing surf, Walt realizes something has claimed the estuary. Fish and Wildlife warden Nell Calder expects a rational explanation. Instead, she discovers impossible tracks, unidentified hair, shattered animal remains, ...

From “one of America’s smartest and most charming writers” (NPR), an archaeological romp through the entire history of humankind—and through all five senses—from tropical Polynesian islands to forbidding arctic ice floes, and everywhere in between. Whether it’s the mighty pyramids of...

Arctic Red has been named Military Thriller of the Year for 2025 by BestThrillers Book Awards. The Arctic is no longer frozen—it's on fire and Greenland is the target. In the chilling aftermath of the Sea of Red series, the United States faces its most treacherous enemy yet: a resurgent Russia hell-bent on controlling the Arctic’s strategic frontier. As ice melts, tensions ignite. Lieutenant Commander Jessie “Swagger” Hampton is back in the cockpit of his F-35, now flying combat missions over the world’s newest battlefield. His wife, Lieutenant Commander Sarah “Danger” Freeman...

A sweeping account of how the Arctic became the next arena of global conflict as the great powers battle over trade routes, resources, and military dominance from Greenland to Siberia—by award-winning Financial Times journalist Rana Foroohar. As polar ice melts and new sea routes open, the...

They thought the cold would kill whatever was on that plane. They were wrong. When a distress signal crackles through the radio, Bram Keller and his small crew at a remote Arctic station are ordered to respond. What they find isn't wreckage—it's a massacre. The pilots are dead… but still...

Two brothers fight for survival in icy waters! For fans of Dewey Lambdin, Patrick O’Brian, Nicholas Monsarrat, C.S. Forester and Max Hennessy. The worst journey in the world…1941. Twin brothers Romulus and Remus Hutchinson have been serving in a range of challenging environments as the naval threat intensifies, but none more so than the icy waters of the Arctic. Following the trauma of the death of a family member in a Luftwaffe bombing raid on Liverpool, the twins are battling with their grief as they fight to survive in the face of the most ruthless of enemies and the harshest of climates.

From the acclaimed author of Children of Ash and Elm, an intimate, continent-spanning human journey through the Viking world. For centuries, Vikings have been stereotyped as brutish and violent pillagers. But now, based on the latest archaeological research, preeminent scholar Neil Price reveals...

Calvin and Pudge Discover the Real Story of Unicorns Through History History believed in unicorns. Should we? Were unicorns ever real? Not the glittering kind from fairy tales — but something far older… and far more fascinating. In this children’s historical adventure book, Calvin and Pudge follow the legend of the unicorn across thousands of years. From prehistoric giants that may have walked alongside early humans, to ancient civilizations carving one-horned beasts into clay seals, to Greek historians, medieval kings, Arctic narwhals, and modern science — the mystery unfolds layer...

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Constant patrols have pushed the crew of the HMS Ulysses beyond the limits of endurance. And now they must be put...

Between 1941 and 1945, more than eight hundred shiploads of supplies were delivered to the Soviet Union protected by allied naval forces. Each journey was a battle against the elements, with turbulent seas, extreme cold, and the constant dread of torpedoes. These Arctic convoys have been mythologized as defenseless vessels at the mercy of deadly U-boats—but was this really the case?

In The Arctic, Klaus Dodds and Mark Nuttall offer concise answers to the myriad questions that arise when looking at the circumpolar North. They focus on its peoples, politics, environment, resource development, and conservation to provide critical information about how changes there can, and will, affect our entire globe and all of its inhabitants. Dodds and Nuttall explore how the Arctic's importance has grown over time, the region's role during the Cold War, indigenous communities and their history, and the past and future of the Arctic's governance.

Setting out from New Bedford in 1878, the crew of the Esther is confident the sea will be theirs: in addition to cruising the Pacific for whale, they intend to hunt the teeming northern grounds before the ice closes. But as they sail to their final destination in the Chukchi Sea, where their captain Arnold Lovejoy has an urgent directive of his own to attend to, their encounters with the natural world become more brutal, harrowing, ghostly, and strange.

Something beneath the Arctic ice is hunting. When three people vanish from Kestrel Inlet, search-and-rescue specialist Nora Vale leaves her vacation for a remote station trapped in polar night. The crew has found no bodies. Only broken ice, abandoned equipment, and reports of a blue light moving beneath the frozen sea. Then Nora sees the light herself. It circles below her feet. The ice begins to soften. Something huge rises from the black water. A violent storm has cut off the station. The runway is failing. Every journey onto the ice gives the creature another chance to feed. With time ...

Now a major Netflix film co-written by and starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Game of Thrones) The harrowing, amazing, and often amusing personal account of two mismatched Arctic explorers who banded together to keep themselves sane on an historic expedition gone horribly wrong Ejnar Mikkelsen was...

In September 1854, the American steamship SS Arctic was one of the great symbols of transatlantic progress. Fast, elegant, and celebrated, she represented the confidence of a new age of steam, commerce, and modern travel. Then, in thick fog off Newfoundland, she collided with the French steamer Vesta and began to die. What followed turned a maritime disaster into a moral scandal. As Arctic slowly filled and the hope of reaching land faded, the structures that should have preserved order began to break apart. The lifeboats were mishandled. Discipline faltered. Fear spread. And when the final...

Shortly after his death in 1957, The New York Times obituary of Peter Freuchen noted that except for Richard E. Byrd, and despite his foreign beginnings, Freuchen was perhaps better known to more people in the United States than any other explorer of our time. During his lifetime Freuchen's remarkable adventures, related in his books, magazine articles, and films, made him a legend. In 1910, Freuchen and his friend and business partner, Knud Rasmussen, the renowned polar explorer, founded Thule—a Greenland Inuit trading post and village only 800 miles from the North Pole.

Jimmy Roberts' favourite sport to watch is Robot Races, where drivers and their high-tech robot vehicles compete. When the races' founder announces a special version of the competition just for children, Jimmy and his robot, Cabbie, were thrilled to qualify. After surviving the canyon and jungle stages, the racers are whisked off to the Arctic, where not everyone is playing fair. Will Horace and Zoom put Jimmy's chances of winning on ice?