Ship Lands

September is a girl who longs for adventure. When she is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard, well, of course she accepts. (Mightn’t you?) But Fairyland is in turmoil, and it will take one 12-year-old girl, a book-loving dragon, and a strange and almost human boy named Saturday to vanquish an evil Marquess and restore order.

Now in paperback, from a “multi-faceted, medium-hopping, culture skewering performer” (SPIN), this is a journey through the world of Patton Oswalt, best known for his roles in film (Big Fan and Ratatouille) and television (The King of Queens and The United States of Tara), but also beloved...

Samantha Moon figures her daughter’s birthday will be nice and normal—not the start of a magical apocalypse. Amid the chaos of her life, Sam has learned to appreciate the quiet moments. She’s one of the few people who doesn’t mind a long day at the office. So when Paxton’s fourteenth birthday arrives, she expects something simple—cute, innocent, and filled with unicorn-themed decorations. An actual unicorn, though? Not so much. What’s an immortal, psychic vampire to do when a creature of legend crashes into her backyard? Sam has no idea. But it quickly becomes clear that the ...

For fans of The Wager and Mutiny on the Bounty comes a thrilling true tale of power, obsession, and betrayal at the edge of the world. In 1808, an American merchant ship happened upon an uncharted island in the South Pacific and unwittingly solved the biggest nautical mystery of the era: the...

Plunge into the harrowing medical history of maritime survival, where human frailty battles the unforgiving open ocean. Perfect for an absorbing daily commute, this immersive narrative exposes the terrifying reality of falling ill thousands of miles from the nearest port. Discover a brutal era...

They have SPY SHIPS, and we have SPY SHIPS, but what happens when one of ours goes missing? Adrian McLellan gets the assignment to find it before the Russians but discovers much more than he expected. All seventy-five crew are dead with one exception, and the exception wants $10 million for the mission papers he stole.

At last, Charles travels to his father's home land and learns of his inheritance. Charles encounters numerous problems and replaces the General Manager at the wine distillery, and sets about making the necessary changes and improvements to the distillery, and looks for land to begin a vineyard. Charles aids the local police by tracking down bandits, and assists the local police in a shootout with bank robbers. Charles makes a number of friends, and develops a reputation which ultimately makes him very popular. Charles ventures out of town to purchase horses and is shocked when he encounters...

A mysterious - and smoking hot - man arrived in my lab today, he could burn everything down and I would dutifully hand him the matches. Cleo has worked hard to be taken seriously, not an easy feat when you’re a young female science professor but she’s managed to pull it off with flying colors. When her classroom is invaded by sexy and mysterious William though, she can’t seem to hold her ground and tell him to leave. There’s just something about William, the professor visiting from Sweden - or so she thinks - has her feeling more like a teenaged girl than a strong independent career...

This book series (The DePriest Gang) includes research on the evolution of the DePriest family in America: Volume 1 (c 1650-1750) starts with Robert DePriest, French Huguenot, who immigrated before 1689 and his children with a wealth of information about early Virginia. Copies of original documents are included and data were obtained from Parish documents, Tax lists, Processioning Lists, War records, Censuses, Maps, Comparison tables, and more. Documentation includes not only the DePriests and their descendants but also neighbors as well as conspirators and Revolutionary soldiers. This ...

Historical novel based in Ireland and Spain during the period from 1640 to 1923. It tells the story of the Moore family who are part of the landed gentry while being Catholic. Follow the trials and tragedies of four generations as they navigate their way through turbulent Irish history, family and religious allegiances, while walking the fine line between sworn loyalty to the King and sympathy to growing Irish Nationalism.

This was supposed to be a bit of fun, but she can’t get this sexy bad boy out of her head! Lynn meets Tom, a mechanic who drinks at the Australian pub when she works to pay her way through university. When they meet sparks fly, but she is shocked when things become serious. This was supposed to be just a bit of fun after all. The two of them are inseparable and all those walls she put up to protect her heart don’t seem to be doing their job anymore. He is closer than she is ready for and it is driving her crazy. So crazy that when he says he is actually an alien who has taken on human ...

Thirteen-year-old Brandon, Amy, and their family are on a cruise to Bermuda when hurricane-force winds sink their ship. Brandon and Amy escape into a life raft. Brandon needs to use his wits to keep himself and his sister safe until they are rescued by The City of Benares—an evacuee ship with children fleeing from the Germans during WWII. They seem to have gone back in time! Although their situation is confusing and seems like a dream, not all is terrible when Brandon meets the beautiful Eleanor, who is going to New York to escape the London bombings.

Once upon a time, in a galaxy so far, a spaceship zoomed through the twinkling stars. It swirled and twirled, then took a nosedive, and landed on a planet, not knowing where they'd arrive. The kids looked around, feeling a bit perplexed, for this planet was strange, unlike anything they'd expect.

Set in the eighteen eighties, Sean Murphy walks away from the drudgery of his life as a tenant farmer in Ireland's County Kerry and walks towards the shipyards of Belfast. It is here he learns of New Zealand and the freedoms he never knew existed until now. With the dream of owning his own farm, Sean sets out on the perilous journey that would eventually take him to Middle River at Mokau where, as the deck-hand on the SS Cardiff, he would meet and eventually marry the beautiful Gwyneth Thomas. But meanwhile, Sean cannot and will not forget the beautiful Chinese girl, Moonyeen Wu who is also...

When a business associate of Thyri’s father hires The Adventurers to locate couriers who disappeared while transporting three antique Swarovski vases, the team travels to Luxembourg to investigate. Thyri, Travis, Adam, and Savannah take on the case of a long, bitter rivalry between families with the strange history of stealing vases from each other. In Europe, Travis and Adam head to France to investigate, while Thyri and Savannah stay in Luxembourg City to sleuth for clues. Unfortunately, the women are attacked and pursued. The men, meanwhile, get a lead on the vases and make plans to ...

John Valliant's essay about the sinking of the Fantome, a Caribbean pleasure cruiser, during Hurricane Mitch in 1998, and the subsequent lawsuit. The disaster was the Atlantic’s worst sailing accident in over forty years.

September is a girl who longs for adventure. When she is invited to Fairyland by a Green Wind and a Leopard, well, of course she accepts. (Mightn’t you?) But Fairyland is in turmoil, and it will take one 12-year-old girl, a book-loving dragon, and a strange and almost human boy named Saturday to vanquish an evil Marquess and restore order.

James Stone has failed to save the Sagan on his own. Will he have better luck saving Cromorna? Even though he’s joined on the Romulus by Sagan volunteers and an ancient War Master, will they be enough to defeat the regiments of Black and White Hussars?