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On the afternoon of January 16, 1942, three men boarded a TBD Devastator aircraft - a low-wing, single-engine torpedo-bomber - for an antisubmarine patrol flight. Although it was to be a relatively short flight, they became lost...

Kunet, a young human pearl diver from a small coastal fishing village, seeks to prove himself. Yet when the gods of sea and sky clash, it wreaks havoc on those caught between. In the wake of catastrophe, he finds himself adrift with an unexpected companion. Torn from their homes and everything they once knew, two strangers must now work together to survive, even as an unlikely relationship blossoms between them.

On the very last week of the summer in 1953, Lizzie and her friends make an exciting discovery on the beach behind her cottage. There was a huge, stump of a tree washed onto shore by a late summer storm! They name their discovery "The Raft". They can't wait to spend a wild week of fun adventures on the lake—but only if they can keep their newfound treasure a secret from prying eyes and their parents.

Clark Whitaker needs a break. His kids are driving him batty, his marriage has hit a rough patch, and his job as a children's book author and illustrator is a creative nightmare. It's enough to make any self-respecting man walk headlong into traffic. Fortunately for Clark, he's about to get gobsmacked with perspective when he wakes up one morning to discover ... he's a penguin!

On Day Zero, the collapse of civilization was as instantaneous as it was inevitable. A mysterious and oppressive movement rose to power in the aftermath, forcing people into isolated communes run like regimes. Kayle Jenner finds himself trapped on a remote beach, and all that remains of his life before is the vague and haunting vision of his son. In his relentless search for his son, Kayle will discover more than just his lost past. He will discover the truth behind Day Zero - a truth that makes both fools and gods of men.

As the captain of a schooner catering to the elite on the Caribbean Seas, Sebastian Stark does his best to avoid any human encounters. Interacting with people isn't his thing, and he prefers the company of a bottle of vodka, a shot glass, and maybe a whore. There's no doubt he's hiding from a checkered past, but he does well keeping everything to himself...until the night his schooner capsizes, and he's stuck on a life raft with one of the passengers. Raine's young, she's cute, and Bastian would probably be into her if he wasn't suffering from alcohol withdrawal.  

"Such realistic brilliance you can see a whole civilisation in it" - The Times "Simply amazing science fiction that will have me grabbing book two" - Goodreads Reviewer, 5 stars "one of the best scifi concepts out there" - Amazon Reviewer, 5 stars Stephen Baxter's highly acclaimed first novel...

Professor Savannah Selbourne lives on The Raft. The isolated country that was once Great Britain has been free of germs for decades. The plagues are over, the vermin that caused them are extinct. Every billboard brandishes the government's slogan: with sterility comes liberty! But did the poison ever really go away? Savannah's new job gives her the opportunity to discover the truth, yet revealing that truth could put her on the wrong side of those in power. How deep will she bury the lies for the sake of her wife and the child they yearn for? One thing she is sure of: the poison is toxic.

Juan initiates the journey, selling lies to convince the others to join him on the raft. Senator Spinelli manipulates the emotions of Cuban American dreamers for self-enrichment and power. With his strategy-savvy Chief of Staff Terri Turner, President Winslow risks the pinnacle of success to change the future. Fidel Castro is a double-dealing despot who will burn the house down around himself in revenge for the exodus. Their collective desperation is woven into a complicated yet beautiful imbroglio of faith, dreams, and desire that, in the end, will unite or destroy them all.

Kon-Tiki is the record of an astonishing adventure—a journey of 4,300 nautical miles across the Pacific Ocean by raft. Intrigued by Polynesian folklore, biologist Thor Heyerdahl suspected that the South Sea Islands had been settled by an ancient race from thousands of miles to the east, led by a mythical hero, Kon-Tiki. He decided to prove his theory by duplicating the legendary voyage.

Atlantis existed long ago. The faction from our legends loved Earthlings. They departed, forgetting about Earth as we changed. Millenniums pass as humanity advances to something seen as useful. A new faction of Atlanteans decides our inferior species needs indoctrination and our planet is now theirs. They open portals to flood the oceans, raising the sea to apocalyptic levels to cleanse what they deem are undesirables. Zack is riding a rented jet ski in Florida when the apocalypse happens. He saves a damsel in distress, discovers freaky sea monsters, and establishes a raft city…

Starting at the present day and moving back in time, the novel is told in the voices of three women: 15-year-old part-black Rayona, searching for a way to find herself; her American-Indian mother, Christine, consumed by tenderness and resentment toward those she loves; and the fierce and mysterious Ida, mother and grandmother, whose haunting secrets, betrayals, and dreams echo through the years, braiding together the strands of the shared past - and their future.

“A rousing adventure yarn full of danger and heart and humor.” —Richard Russo An instant classic for fans of Jane Smiley and Kitchens of the Great Midwest: when two hardscrabble young boys think they’ve committed a crime, they flee into the Northwoods of Wisconsin. Will the adults trying...

When Charlie loses Ozzie, his best and only friend, the last thing he expects is to find Emmy. A lonely misfit like Charlie and Ozzie, she’s never had a friend and has no clue about finding one. And like the boys and their island, she has a secret. The course of these rough-edged kids building a raft together, will never be smooth. But slowly discovering clues to the mystery of Ozzie’s death — why was he out there alone? They may just discover themselves.

What if, one day, Europe was to crack along the length of the Pyrenees, separating the Iberian peninsula? In Saramago's lovely fable, the new island is sent spinning, like a great stone raft, towards the Azores. While the authorities panic and tourists and investors flee, three men, two women and a dog are drawn together by portents that burden them with a bemusing sense of responsibility.

Includes the story “The Monkey”—now a major motion picture! The #1 New York Times bestseller—a mesmerizing treasury of short stories by Stephen King. An eerie-looking child’s toy harbors an unimaginable evil. A supermarket is unexpectedly the place where humanity makes its last stand...

Anything goes aboard the Raft. The ramshackled, mosquito fleet has no law or authority. The Raft's ships clog the waterways of the Puget Sound, exploiting a loophole in the tax code to thumb their noses at the Government. But even aboard the Raft, the murder of a young girl cannot go unpunished. It must fall on someone's shoulders to find justice, and that someone, it seems, is Maggie. Maggie Straight is a Magistrate, a judge for hire, a private policewoman and nanny to the ragtag band of criminals, hippies and burnouts that populate the Raft. She's the only authority the Raft respects. But...

A canyon. A raft. And a whole lot of splashes, snacks, and scriptural discoveries. When Ricky, Ray, and Rusty hop aboard a raft for the ride of their lives down the Colorado River, they expect adventure. What they don’t expect? Flood fossils, whirlpool wipeouts, and chipmunk stowaways! With their cheerful Uncle Dean steering the raft and Aunt Pat guiding them through God’s Word, the boys begin to realize something: the Grand Canyon isn’t just awesome—it’s evidence. Evidence that the Bible’s story of a global flood is true, and that God’s fingerprints are all over this massive ...

They survived the storm. They won't survive what came back from the water. Jess is filming the perfect luxury vacation in the Florida Keys for her followers—a private yacht, a handsome boyfriend, and an endless turquoise sea. But when a freak storm capsizes their vessel, the idyllic dream becomes a desperate nightmare. Adrift on a tiny life raft, the six survivors are pushed to the brink by dehydration, exposure, and their own fracturing sanity. But the horrors of the open ocean are nothing compared to what's in it. When one of their own is lost to the waves and then miraculously returned...

In June 2007, Erin McKittrick and her husband, Hig, embarked on a 4,000-mile expedition from Seattle to the Aleutian Islands, traveling solely by human power. This is the story of their unprecedented trek along the northwestern edge of the Pacific Ocean-a year-long journey through some of the most rugged terrain in the world - and their encounters with rain, wind, blizzards, bears, and their own emotional and spiritual demons.