29 Best Sea Stories, Fiction Books
Sea Stories, Fiction is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Sea Stories, Fiction audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 29 Sea Stories, Fiction audiobooks below.
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Shogun
- By: James Clavell
- Narrator: Ralph Lister
- Length: 53 hours 33 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.4(17856 ratings)
4.4(17856 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell After Englishman John BlackthorneThe classic epic novel of feudal Japan that captured the heart of a culture and the imagination of the world, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen–Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin, Blackthorne must negotiate not only a foreign people, with unknown customs and language, but also his own definitions of morality, truth, and freedom. As internal political strife and a clash of cultures lead to seemingly inevitable conflict, Blackthorne’s loyalty and strength of character are tested by both passion and loss, and he is torn between two worlds that will each be forever changed.
Powerful and engrossing, capturing both the rich pageantry and stark realities of life in feudal Japan, Shogun is a critically acclaimed powerhouse of a book. Heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat action melds seamlessly with intricate historical detail and raw human emotion. Endlessly compelling, this sweeping saga captivated the world to become not only one of the best-selling novels of all time but also one of the highest-rated television miniseries, as well as inspiring a nationwide surge of interest in the culture of Japan. Shakespearean in both scope and depth, Shogun is, as the New York Times put it, “…not only something you read–you live it.” Provocative, absorbing, and endlessly fascinating, there is only one: Shogun.
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Deep Strike
- By: Rick Campbell
- Narrator: Michael Kramer
- Length: 10 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 16, 2021
- Language: English
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4.33(180 ratings)
4.33(180 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDIn Rick Campbell’s next action-packed thriller Deep Strike, the U.S. Atlantic fleet is in a race to stop a rogue Russian submarine–funded by ISIS–en route to launch a missile attack against the east coast of the U.S. AIn Rick Campbell’s next action-packed thriller Deep Strike, the U.S. Atlantic fleet is in a race to stop a rogue Russian submarine–funded by ISIS–en route to launch a missile attack against the east coast of the U.S.
A shoulder-launched missile attack on a convoy of vehicles leaving the U.N. headquarters in New York kills several diplomats, including the American ambassador. Security footage reveals that the killer behind the attack is a disgraced former special forces operative, Mark Alperi. But before U.S. intelligence operatives can catch up with him, Alperi is already onto the next phase of his plan.
With funding from the nearly shattered ISIS, Alperi plans an attack on the U.S. that will be more devastating than 9/11. He bribes a desperate Russian submarine commander with access to an expensive experimental drug for his daughter who is suffering from a rare disease. In exchange, the Russian commander will take his submarine to the Atlantic Ocean and launch a salvo of missiles at various targets along the East Coast of the United States. The commander lies to his crew that it’s a secret mission, with dummy missiles, for a training exercise. At the same time, unbeknownst to the commander, Alperi has arranged for four of the missile warheads to be replaced with four surplus nuclear warheads and arms them.
When the Russian submarine sinks the U.S. sub that is tracking it, the U.S. military is alarmed. When Intelligence uncovers Alperi’s plot, though, it becomes a race against time–find the Russian sub and sink it before it can launch a devastating nuclear attack.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin’s Press
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Tai-Pan
- By: James Clavell
- Narrator: Gildart Jackson
- Length: 32 hours 11 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.29(44622 ratings)
4.29(44622 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell “There can only be one Tai-Pan.” Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings toThe sweeping epic novel of the founding of Hong Kong, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
“There can only be one Tai-Pan.”
Dirk Struan rose from humble beginnings to build Struan & Company, also known as the Noble House, into the world’s largest Far East trading company. He is now the Tai-Pan–Supreme Leader–of all Tai-Pans in China. Along the way, however, he made a powerful enemy. Tyler Brock, Struan’s rival from their early opium-smuggling days, also heads a large trading fleet, second in size only to Struan’s. But it is not only silks and spices that drive their mutual companies’ wealth–the opium trade is still booming. War between England and China might be over, but the hostilities remain. Struan and Brock come to control much of England’s trade with China yet neither can control their desires or their hatred of each other. Over the years, their two families will cross paths, threatening to rip both apart, with reverberations that will echo across the generations.
Struan must fight to save his company and his family, or risk seeing everything he has created destroyed at the hands of his sworn enemy. Ambition, political intrigue, and love and lust weave their way throughout the novel the New York Times called, “grand entertainment…packed with action…with blood and sin, treachery and conspiracy, sex and murder.” East and West come together in an opulent and intricately plotted narrative. A tour-de-force of historical fiction, rich in detail yet eminently readable, Tai-Pan will stay with you long after the final page.
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Treason
- By: Rick Campbell
- Narrator: Michael Kramer
- Length: 9 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: March 19, 2019
- Language: English
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4.27(290 ratings)
4.27(290 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDIn Rick Campbell’s newest thriller, a military coup in Russia leads to a swift invasion of former Soviet territories–while the U.S. has been rendered powerless to respond. In Russia, the military is anxious to assert its militaryIn Rick Campbell’s newest thriller, a military coup in Russia leads to a swift invasion of former Soviet territories–while the U.S. has been rendered powerless to respond.
In Russia, the military is anxious to assert its military strength and regain its role as a superpower. The Russian President refuses to greenlight a bold plan to disable American strategic nuclear capability and retake Ukraine and the Baltic States, fearing the potential consequences of involving nuclear weapons. But the generals won’t have it and at the first opportunity, they overthrow the president in a military coup. Then they use a narrow window to initiate their bold plan–the Zolotov option–which will render all of America’s B2 bombers and ballistic missiles useless. With the U.S. off the board, they swiftly invade Ukraine with an overwhelming force, an invading Army that even NATO can’t hope to resist.
Now, it’s game on. Without their primary weapons, the U.S. has to find a way to fight back on multiple fronts. If they’re to have any chance, they’ll have to overcome the malware that has grounded their ballistic missiles and planes, as well as secretly land a SEAL team to help rescue the imprisoned Russian President, and help retake control from the forces that are driving Europe into a continental war.
Rick Campbell, one of the finest young military thriller writers, returns with his biggest and boldest audiobook to date.
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Overthrow
- By: David Poyer
- Narrator: Gary Galone
- Length: 15 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: March 18, 2021
- Language: English
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4.27(244 ratings)
4.27(244 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDAdmiral Lenson leads Operation Rupture, the invasion of South China, in a bid to finally end the war and restore peace. Meanwhile, Captain Cheryl Staurulakis fights to take a radical new “super ship” to sea, even though its power andAdmiral Lenson leads Operation Rupture, the invasion of South China, in a bid to finally end the war and restore peace. Meanwhile, Captain Cheryl Staurulakis fights to take a radical new “super ship” to sea, even though its power and capability may introduce more risk than reward. In Washington, Dan’s wife Blair conducts secret negotiations with a rebellious faction in Beijing, hoping to bring an end to the war, but her plans may be foiled by those who want outright revenge on China, not peace with them. In western China, Teddy Oberg’s guerrilla band grows into a major insurgency, and the former SEAL master chief embraces his new role as an Islamic resistance leader. Sergeant Hector Ramos raises the flag of freedom in Taiwan while fighting his own personal demons, and in Seattle, Dan’s daughter, Nan Lenson, fights to save the world from a dangerous new epidemic. But as the Allies plot an endgame to the war, the complicated dance of global warfare, on land and at sea, will finally trigger the nuclear Armageddon the entire world has feared for nearly a century.
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Noble House
- By: James Clavell
- Narrator: Ralph Lister
- Length: 54 hours 43 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.26(35809 ratings)
4.26(35809 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe epic novel of espionage, betrayal and turbulence in 1960s Hong Kong by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell Taking place over the course of an eventful week in 1963 Hong Kong,The epic novel of espionage, betrayal and turbulence in 1960s Hong Kong by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
Taking place over the course of an eventful week in 1963 Hong Kong, James Clavell’s Noble House is a masterfully woven novel of true suspense.
Ian Dunross, the current tai-pan of the illustrious yet financially troubled Struan empire, is racing to undo the damage his predecessor left behind and to once again stand on stable ground. And he’ll do whatever it takes–including striking a hard-fought deal with an American millionaire. But his rival, Quillan Gornt, has other plans. Suddenly caught in a dubious plot involving Soviet spies, Hong Kong’s criminal underground, and the hostile takeover of his company, Dunross holds nothing back in the fight for the Noble House.
Espionage, mayhem, and high-stakes betrayals make Noble House Clavell’s most prolific and imaginatively crafted narrative in the Asian Saga.
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Empire Rising
- By: Rick Campbell
- Narrator: Jeff Gurner
- Length: 13 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: February 24, 2015
- Language: English
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4.2(638 ratings)
4.2(638 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDXiang Li Cheng, the President of the People’s Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan in Rick Campbell’s thrilling Empire Rising. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail hisXiang Li Cheng, the President of the People’s Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan in Rick Campbell’s thrilling Empire Rising. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail his country’s economic growth and prosperity. But to secure access to those resources, he must contend with powerful U.S. Navy and the Pacific Fleet.
After a decades-long largely secret military build up, Cheng sets his plan in motion by suddenly invading Taiwan and drawing the Pacific Fleet in to its defense. With a faster, larger fleet with more capable long range missiles, China is able to surprise and quickly overwhelm the American fast attack fleet, all but wiping out the U.S. forces on deployment. Then China turns to its real objective – invasion and expansion across Asia, starting with the four main Islands of Japan.
While the Atlantic Fleet surges westward to defend its allies and respond to the destruction of their counterparts, it falls to an unlikely alliance of three people to stop this incursion and prevent World War III. National Security Advisor Christine O’Connor has critical information, but she’s trapped in Beijing; Captain Murray Wilson, C.O. of the submarine USS Georgia must somehow infiltrate the Chinese submarine blockade; and Navy SEAL Jake Harrison must lead a strike team into the most hostile of territories with only hours to implement the most daring plan ever.
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Ice Station Nautilus
- By: Rick Campbell
- Narrator: Michael Kramer
- Length: 9 hours 16 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: June 28, 2016
- Language: English
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4.19(468 ratings)
4.19(468 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USDRussia’s new ballistic missile submarine, Yuriy Dolgorukiy, is being deployed on its first patrol while America’s newest fast attack submarine, North Dakota, is assigned to trail it and collect intel. As the Russian submarine heads underRussia’s new ballistic missile submarine, Yuriy Dolgorukiy, is being deployed on its first patrol while America’s newest fast attack submarine, North Dakota, is assigned to trail it and collect intel. As the Russian submarine heads under the polar ice cap, its sonar readings reveal the trailing American sub and cause the Russians to begin a radical, evasive maneuver. This, however, fails and the submarines collide, resulting in damage that sends both to the bottom.
The Americans immediately set up a rescue mission, sending a new submarine and a SEAL team to establish an ice camp—Ice Station Nautilus—and stage a rescue. The Russians also send men and material, ostensibly to rescue their own men, but the Russian Special Forces team is also there to take the American base camp and the American sub, leaving no survivors or traces of their actions. As the men in North Dakota struggle to survive, the SEAL team battles for possession of the submarine.
Rick Campbell’s Ice Station Nautilus is an epic battle above and below the ice, Special Forces against SEALs, submarine against submarine, with survival on the line.
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Blackmail
- By: Rick Campbell
- Narrator: Michael Kramer
- Length: 10 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: July 11, 2017
- Language: English
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4.19(432 ratings)
4.19(432 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“As in Tom Clancy’s technothrillers, the war maneuvers feel authentic and are described in stellar detail.” —Booklist on Blackmail In Rick Campbell’s new thriller Blackmail, a bold military and political strike by the“As in Tom Clancy’s technothrillers, the war maneuvers feel authentic and are described in stellar detail.” —Booklist on Blackmail
In Rick Campbell’s new thriller Blackmail, a bold military and political strike by the Russian government leaves the U.S. reeling, crippled and vulnerable, with only a desperate long shot chance to avoid a devastating world war.
The U.S. aircraft carrier patrolling the Western Pacific Ocean is severely damaged by a surprise salvo of cruise missiles. While the Russian government officially apologizes, claiming it was the result of fire control accident during a training exercise, it was instead a calculated provocation. With the U.S. Pacific fleet already severely under strength, the Russian President decides that the US response is a clear indication of their weakness, militarily and politically, and initiates a bold plan.
Political unrest is spreading through the Eastern European states. The Russian Northern Fleet moves swiftly in the Mediterranean Sea, the Russian army is moving west to the border, and Russian Baltic and Black Sea Fleets are mobilized. In one bold strike, the Russian army moves to reoccupy a large number of the industrialized areas of the former USSR, while blockading the vital sea passages through which the world’s oil and natural gas transit. To make matters worse, Russia’s Special Forces have wired every major oil and natural gas pipeline with explosives. If the U.S. makes one move to thwart Russia, they’ll destroy them all. The U.S. is risking disaster if it acts, but the alternative is quite possibly worse. Torn between the unthinkable and the impossible, the only possible move–to launch an attack on all fronts, simultaneously.
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King Rat
- By: James Clavell
- Narrator: Simon Vance
- Length: 15 hours 55 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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4.17(31945 ratings)
4.17(31945 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDThe epic novel of war, savagery, and survival in a Japanese POW camp by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiersThe epic novel of war, savagery, and survival in a Japanese POW camp by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
Japanese POW camp Changi, Singapore: hell on earth for the soldiers contained within its barbed wire walls. Officers and enlisted men, all prisoners together, yet the old hierarchies and rivalries survive. An American corporal, known as the King, has used his personality and wiles to facilitate trading with guards and locals to get needed food, supplies, even information into the camp. The imprisoned upper-class officers have never had to do things for themselves, and now they are reduced to wearing rags while the King’s clean shirt, gained through guts and moxie, seems like luxury in comparison. In the camp, everything has its price and everything is for sale. But trading is illegal–and the King has made a formidable enemy. Robin Grey, the provost marshal, hates the King and all he represents. Grey, though he grew up modestly, fervently believes in the British class system: everyone should know their place, and he knows the King’s place is at the bottom.
The King does have a friend in Peter Marlowe, who, though wary of the King and himself a product of the British system, finds himself drawn to the charismatic man who just might be the only one who can save them from both the inhumanity of the prison camp but also from themselves. Powerful and engrossing, King Rat artfully weaves the author’s own World War II prison camp experiences into a compelling narrative of survival amidst the grim realities of war and what men can do when pushed to the edge. A taut masterwork of World War II historical fiction by bestselling author James Clavell.
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Violent Peace
- By: David Poyer
- Narrator: Gary Galone
- Length: 13 hours 48 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 17, 2020
- Language: English
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4.1(134 ratings)
4.1(134 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn the next installment of David Poyer’s critically-acclaimed series about war with China, mutual exhaustion after a massive nuclear exchange is giving way to a Violent Peace. While Admiral Dan Lenson motorcycles across a post-Armageddon U.S.In the next installment of David Poyer’s critically-acclaimed series about war with China, mutual exhaustion after a massive nuclear exchange is giving way to a Violent Peace. While Admiral Dan Lenson motorcycles across a post-Armageddon U.S. in search of his missing daughter, his wife Blair Titus lands in a spookily deserted, riot-torn Beijing to negotiate the reunification of Taiwan with the rest of China, and try to create a democratic government. But a CIA-sponsored Islamic insurgency in Xianjiang province is hurtling out of control. Andres Korzenowski, a young case officer, must decide whether ex-SEAL Master Chief Teddy Oberg–now the leader of a ruthless jihad–should be extracted, left in place, or terminated. Meanwhile, Captain Cheryl Staurulakis and USS Savo Island are recalled to sea, to forestall a Russian fleet intent on grabbing a resource-rich Manchuria. The violent and equivocal termination of the war between China and the Allies has brought not peace, but dangerous realignments in the endless game of great power chess. Will the end of one world war simply be the signal for the beginning of another?
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Arctic Sea
- By: David Poyer
- Narrator: Gary Galone
- Length: 15 hours 2 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: December 02, 2021
- Language: English
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4.09(97 ratings)
4.09(97 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDIn 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 seemsIn 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. Back in Washington, Blair Titus is running Jim Yangerhans’s campaign for president, while Dan’s daughter Nan battles disease in a radiation-soaked Midwest. But when Moscow plans to test the Apocalyps, a nuclear-powered citykiller torpedo, in the Arctic Sea, Dan is sucked into a perilous covert mission. Will a barely victorious America survive dangerous new threats… both from without and within?
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Rogue Wave
- By: Boyd Morrison
- Narrator: Pete Cross
- Length: 10 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 19, 2019
- Language: English
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4.07(1573 ratings)
4.07(1573 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDA minor seismic disturbance in a remote section of the Pacific causes barely a ripple of concern for Kai Tanaka, acting director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu. But when an airliner en route from L.A. to Sydney vanishes in theA minor seismic disturbance in a remote section of the Pacific causes barely a ripple of concern for Kai Tanaka, acting director of the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Honolulu. But when an airliner en route from L.A. to Sydney vanishes in the same location, Kai is the first to realize that a mysterious explosion has unleashed a series of massive waves destined to obliterate Hawaii. In just one hour, Kai will lose all he has ever known–including his wife and daughter–unless he can save them from nature’s most destructive force.
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The Sea-Wolf
- By: Jack London
- Narrator: Noah Michael Levine
- Length: 10 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: October 11, 2022
- Language: English
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4.05(22062 ratings)
4.05(22062 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USD“Humphrey Van Weyden is a smart, domesticated man. He enjoys reading and critiquing literature in his free time. So when he finds himself a survivor of a ferryboat accident and at the complete mercy of a tyrannical schooner captain, his life“Humphrey Van Weyden is a smart, domesticated man. He enjoys reading and critiquing literature in his free time. So when he finds himself a survivor of a ferryboat accident and at the complete mercy of a tyrannical schooner captain, his life is turned upside down. Exploring themes of ambition, courage, and survival, this 1904 classic adventure novel features an antagonist based on a sailor Jack London once knew.”
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The Sea-Wolf
- By: Jack London
- Narrator: Stuart Whitman
- Length: 2 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2013
- Language: English
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4.05(22062 ratings)
4.05(22062 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0015.95 USDTorn by a quirk of fate from his life as a dilettante and intellectual, Humphrey van Weydon finds himself at the whim of the ruthless Wolf Larsen. The two men–one youthful, idealistic, and upper-class while the other ruthless, dangerous,Torn by a quirk of fate from his life as a dilettante and intellectual, Humphrey van Weydon finds himself at the whim of the ruthless Wolf Larsen. The two men–one youthful, idealistic, and upper-class while the other ruthless, dangerous, self-taught, and self-determined–inevitably become adversaries. As he does in Call of the Wild and White Fang, Jack London dramatizes in this story the violent encounter between safe, genteel comfort and a brutal set of circumstances.
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The Voyage
- By: Philip Caputo
- Narrator: Jim Frangione
- Length: 18 hours 56 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.04(387 ratings)
4.04(387 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDOn a June morning in the century’s infancy, Cyrus Braithwaite–without explanation–orders his three teenage sons to sail from their Maine home and not return until September. The three boys and a friend board theOn a June morning in the century’s infancy, Cyrus Braithwaite–without explanation–orders his three teenage sons to sail from their Maine home and not return until September. The three boys and a friend board the Braithwaites’s forty-six-foot schooner and begin a perilous journey down the East Coast, bound for the Florida Keys. A storm abruptly ends their passage, leaving them stranded in Cuba, but when they telegraph their father for help, he does not respond. After their ordeal is over, no one in the family ever again mentions the voyage.
Now, almost a century later, Cyrus’s great-granddaughter Sybil is determined to know the hidden heart of the story: Why did Cyrus send his sons to sea? Why was their mother in a Boston hospital? What role was played in the drama by Lockwood Braithwaite, the enigmatic child of Cyrus’s first marriage? Sybil’s discoveries will change the way she thinks about herself, her family, and the America whose ideals the Braithwaites once embodied.
The author of A Rumor of War–acclaimed as one of the great books about Vietnam–here gives us a rich and gripping tale of adventure, courage, and the persisting effects of long-held secrets. The Voyage is a powerful novel about a family whose ways and deeds were once a template for the nation.
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The French Prize
- By: James L. Nelson
- Narrator: John Lee
- Length: 11 hours 24 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4.03(85 ratings)
4.03(85 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAcclaimed, award-winning author James L. Nelson–praised as “a master of both his period and the English language” by Patrick O’Brian–returns to the world of sea and sail in The French Prize. Jack Biddlecomb has much toAcclaimed, award-winning author James L. Nelson–praised as “a master of both his period and the English language” by Patrick O’Brian–returns to the world of sea and sail in The French Prize.
Jack Biddlecomb has much to live up to, being as he is the eldest son of the esteemed Captain Isaac Biddlecomb, wealthy merchant captain, leading light of the War for American Independence, and newly minted congressman. Jack finds himself off to a promising start, however, when he’s given command of the merchant vessel Abigail bound from Philadelphia for Barbados.
But even before the dock lines are cast off, the voyage, which should have been routine, begins to look like a stormy passage indeed. Jack is saddled with two passengers, one as unpleasant as he is highborn, the other a confidant of the Abigail’s owner who cannot help meddling in the running of the ship. What’s more, with the French making prizes of American merchantmen, Abigail’s owner has armed the ship and instructed Jack to fight if need be, thrusting the first-time captain and his small crew into a naval war for which they are totally unprepared.
What Jack does not know, but soon begins to suspect, is that he is being used as part of a bigger plot, one that will have repercussions on an international scale.
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Morgan’s Run
- By: Colleen McCullough
- Narrator: Tim Curry
- Length: 6 hours 49 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.98(3800 ratings)
3.98(3800 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDColleen McCullough captivated millions with her beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds. Now she takes readers to the birth of modern Australia with a breathtaking saga brimming with drama, history, and passion.Following the disappearance ofColleen McCullough captivated millions with her beloved worldwide bestseller The Thorn Birds. Now she takes readers to the birth of modern Australia with a breathtaking saga brimming with drama, history, and passion.
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Following the disappearance of his only son and the death of his beloved wife, Richard Morgan is falsely imprisoned and exiled to the penal colonies of eighteenth-century Australia. His life is shattered but Morgan refuses to surrender, overcoming all obstacles to find unexpected contentment and happiness in the harsh early days of Australia’s settlement.
From England’s shores to Botany Bay and the rugged frontier of a hostile new world, Morgan’s Run is the epic tale of love lost and found, and the man whose strength and character helped settle a country and define its future. -
Sideswiped
- By: Lia Riley
- Narrator: Brittany Uomoleale
- Length: 8 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 30, 2015
- Language: English
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3.89(423 ratings)
3.89(423 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.98 USDOne of those books I wish I could read for the first time again . . . It’s beautiful, heart-wrenching, and something that everyone needs to read for themselves.” -BooksbyMigs.com on Upside Down It was only meant to last the summer . .One of those books I wish I could read for the first time again . . . It’s beautiful, heart-wrenching, and something that everyone needs to read for themselves.” -BooksbyMigs.com on Upside Down... Read moreIt was only meant to last the summer . . .
Talia Stolfi has seen more than her share of loss in her twenty-one years. But then fate brought her Bran Lockhart, and her dark world was suddenly and spectacularly illuminated. So if being with Bran means leaving her colorless SoCal life for rugged and wild Australia, then that’s what she’ll do. But as much as Talia longs to give herself over completely to a new beginning, the fears of her past are still lurking in the shadows.
Bran Lockhart knows that living without the beautiful girl who stole his heart will be torment, so he’ll take whatever time with her he can. But even though she has packed up her life in California and is back in his arms for the time being, she can’t stay forever. And the remaining time they have together is ticking by way too fast. Though fate seems determined to tear them apart, they won’t give up without a fight-because while time may have limits, their love is infinite . . .
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Gai-Jin
- By: James Clavell
- Narrator: John Lee
- Length: 50 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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3.89(12410 ratings)
3.89(12410 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe dynamic epic novel of political upheaval and societal change in late 1800s Japan, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell This epic novel by master writer James Clavell, looselyThe dynamic epic novel of political upheaval and societal change in late 1800s Japan, by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
This epic novel by master writer James Clavell, loosely based on the Namamugi Incident and Anglo-Satsuma War that took place in the late 1800s, is a richly researched, panoramic view of Japan’s budding relationship with the Western powers, its sweeping societal changes, and the political upheaval that followed.
As Malcolm Struan, the son of Culum and Tess Struan, and a small band of Westerners travel down the Tokaido road, they are attacked by two Satsuma samurai, who mortally wound John Canterbury and seriously injure Malcolm, who then finds reprieve in the merchant village of Yokohama after a narrow escape facilitated by the unscathed Angelique.
Angelique Richaud, Malcolm’s penniless but beautiful French companion, is thrown into a world of political intrigue, fierce devotion, unstable family dynamics, blackmail, and secrets as the trading houses battle for supremacy.
With a cast of dynamic and fully recognized characters, Gai-Jin spins a tale of passionate love affairs, devastating loss, intense power struggles, and the fight to survive and thrive in a hostile new land that will leave readers longing for another foray into Clavell’s extraordinary Asian Saga.
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
- By: Jules Verne
- Narrator: George Newbern
- Length: 10 hours 9 minutes
- Publisher: Public Domain
- Publish date: December 25, 2018
- Language: English
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3.89(182 ratings)
3.89(182 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.007.99 USDProfessor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the monster turns out to be the Nautilus, a giantProfessor Aronnax, his faithful servant, Conseil, and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land, begin an extremely hazardous voyage to rid the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. However, the monster turns out to be the Nautilus, a giant submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, by whom they are soon held captive. So begins not only one of the great adventure classics but also a truly fantastic voyage from the lost city of Atlantis to the South Pole.
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Whirlwind
- By: James Clavell
- Narrator: Derek Perkins
- Length: 52 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.85(6335 ratings)
3.85(6335 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.95 USDThe gripping epic novel of the 1979 Iranian Revolution by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions finally explode, and the Iranian peopleThe gripping epic novel of the 1979 Iranian Revolution by the #1 New York Times bestselling author and unparalleled master of historical fiction, James Clavell
Tehran, Iran 1979: Simmering religious tensions finally explode, and the Iranian people rise up against the Shah. The country, once secular, is now thrown back into an orthodoxy that threatens to tear it apart. The United States and Russia go on high alert, with warships heading to the Middle East. The region becomes a powder keg, waiting to explode. Caught up in the revolution are a British helicopter company and its pilots. The oil fields of Iran need helicopters to ferry workers and administrators, and when the main US aviation company pulls out of Iran fearing what might come next, S-G Helicopters steps in to fill the void. Soon they realize that they, too, must leave or risk losing all their machines to whomever takes control of the country. The company risks bankruptcy if that happens–which would ruin Andrew Gallavan and reveal that the company is actually owned by a secret Hong Kong-based consortium: Noble House, controlled by the Struan family. Caught in between is his son, Scot, a pilot in Iran who must help save his father’s company, but also the other pilots and their families. In a risky move, the pilots concoct a plan to get their choppers out of Iran. But will they be able to escape a country crumbling around them before it’s too late?
A rich panoply of characters brings to life the events of forty years ago, events that even now have ramifications throughout the Middle East and beyond. Fast-paced and full of action and intrigue, Whirlwind is an intricately plotted and detailed tale of war, love, and the ingenuity of the human spirit, told by James Clavell, the unparalleled master of historical fiction.
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Sail
- By: James Patterson
- Narrator: Dylan Baker
- Length: 7 hours 50 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 09, 2008
- Language: English
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3.82(24824 ratings)
3.82(24824 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.98 USDSince the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port,Since the death of her husband, Anne Dunne and her three children have struggled in every way. In a last ditch effort to save the family, Anne plans an elaborate sailing vacation to bring everyone together once again. But only an hour out of port, everything is going wrong. The teenage daughter, Carrie, is planning to drown herself. The teenage son, Mark, is high on drugs and ten-year-old Ernie is nearly catatonic. This is the worst vacation ever.
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Anne manages to pull things together bit by bit, but just as they begin feeling like a family again, something catastrophic happens. Survival may be the least of their concerns.
Written with the blistering pace and shocking twists that only James Patterson can master, SAIL takes “Lost” and “Survivor” to a new level of terror. -
Goliath
- By: Steve Alten
- Narrator: Christopher Kipiniak
- Length: 14 hours 46 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2016
- Language: English
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3.81(869 ratings)
3.81(869 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDTerrorism. Acts of oppression. The threat of nuclear war. What if one madman aboard a vessel could end these fears forever? Commander Rochelle “Rocky” Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when theTerrorism. Acts of oppression. The threat of nuclear war. What if one madman aboard a vessel could end these fears forever?
Commander Rochelle “Rocky” Jackson is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the “unsinkable” naval vessel and its entire fleet are attacked from the depths and sunk. As Rocky struggles to stay alive, a monstrous mechanical steel stingray surfaces, plowing through the seas it now commands.
The US Navy-designed Goliath is a futuristic nuclear stealth submarine in the shape of a stingray. Simon Covah, a brilliant scientist whose entire family were the victims of terrorism, has hijacked the sub. Believing violence is a disease, Covah aims to use the Goliath and its cache of nuclear weapons to dictate policy to the world regarding the removal of oppressive regimes and nuclear weapons.
Could the threat of violence forge a lasting peace?
But there is another player in this life-and-death chess match: unbeknownst to Covah and the Goliath crew, the Goliath‘s biochemical computer brain has become self-aware–and it’s developing its own agenda.
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Mr. Midshipman Easy
- By: Frederick Marryat
- Narrator: Michael Healy
- Length: 14 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2014
- Language: English
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3.79(1 ratings)
3.79(1 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDAt fourteen the unworldly, idealistic Jack Easy leaves the luxury of his father’s estate in England and sails into a world of action and adventure aboard the sloop of war HMS Harpy. At first Jack finds it hard to stomach the discipline ofAt fourteen the unworldly, idealistic Jack Easy leaves the luxury of his father’s estate in England and sails into a world of action and adventure aboard the sloop of war HMS Harpy. At first Jack finds it hard to stomach the discipline of naval life and, with his mischievous sense of humor, is always getting himself into scrapes. But soon he is bravely taming a band of mutinous seamen, outwitting a wily and murderous Sicilian nobleman, and breathing the smell of gunpowder and raw steel as the Harpy chases Spanish ships on the Mediterranean.
This neglected 1836 classic is both a rousing adventure story and a profound coming-of-age tale written with great skill and humor.
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A Salty Piece of Land
- By: Jimmy Buffett
- Narrator: James Fouhey
- Length: 14 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: June 07, 2022
- Language: English
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3.72(5032 ratings)
3.72(5032 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0031.99 USDIt’s not on any chart, but the tropical island of Cayo Loco is the perfect place to run away from all your problems. Waking from a ganja buzz on the beach in Tulum, Tully can’t believe his eyes when a 142-foot schooner emerges out of theIt’s not on any chart, but the tropical island of Cayo Loco is the perfect place to run away from all your problems. Waking from a ganja buzz on the beach in Tulum, Tully can’t believe his eyes when a 142-foot schooner emerges out of the ocean mist. At its helm is Cleopatra Highbourne, the eccentric 101-year-old sea captain who will take him to a lighthouse on a salty piece of land that will change his life forever.... Read moreFrom a lovely sunset sail in Punta Margarita to a wild spring-break foam party in San Pedro, Tully encounters an assortment of treasure hunters, rock stars, sailors, seaplane pilots, pirates, and even a ghost or two.
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The End of the Ocean
- By: Maja Lunde
- Narrator: Jane Copland
- Length: 9 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: January 14, 2020
- Language: English
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3.7(2890 ratings)
3.7(2890 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.004.99 USDFrom the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, aFrom the author of the number-one international bestseller The History of Bees, a captivating story of the power of nature and the human spirit that explores the threat of a devastating worldwide drought, witnessed through the lives of a father, a daughter, and a woman who will risk her life to save the future.
In 2019, seventy-year-old Signe sets sail alone on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. Signe is haunted by memories of the love of her life, whom she’ll meet again soon.
In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken Southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, they discover an ancient sailboat in a dried-out garden, miles away from the nearest shore. Signe’s sailboat.
As David and Lou discover Signe’s personal effects, her long ago journey becomes inexorably linked to their own.
An evocative tale of the search for love and connection, The End of the Ocean is a profoundly moving father daughter story of survival and a clarion call for climate action.
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A Christmas by the Sea
- By: Melody Carlson
- Narrator: Emily Durante
- Length: 4 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: November 06, 2018
- Language: English
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3.7(3075 ratings)
3.7(3075 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDWhen Wendy Harper inherits her family’s beach-side cottage in Seaside, Maine, she sees it as a way to finally pay off the debts that have mounted since her husband died. But before it can be sold, the neglected property must be renovated. SheWhen Wendy Harper inherits her family’s beach-side cottage in Seaside, Maine, she sees it as a way to finally pay off the debts that have mounted since her husband died. But before it can be sold, the neglected property must be renovated. She and her twelve-year-old son Jackson move in–temporarily, she reminds him–in order to do the work themselves, even though Christmas is coming. The charming town, along with local craftsman Caleb Colton, pulls on both Wendy and Jackson, who even registers himself for school in a bid to get his mom to move them there permanently. Wendy knows that the most responsible thing to do is to sell the cottage and return to Ohio, but the lure of the sea is hard to resist.
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Upside Down
- By: Lia Riley
- Narrator: Brittany Uomoleale
- Length: 8 hours 39 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: May 12, 2015
- Language: English
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3.68(1286 ratings)
3.68(1286 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.98 USDIn this sweet new adult romance, sparks fly between a carefree California girl and a brooding Australian surfer–but will they fall head over heels in the Land Down Under?If you never get lost, you’ll never be found . .... Read moreIn this sweet new adult romance, sparks fly between a carefree California girl and a brooding Australian surfer–but will they fall head over heels in the Land Down Under?
If you never get lost, you’ll never be found . . .
Twenty-one-year-old Natalia Stolfi is saying good-bye to the past–and turning her life upside down with a trip to the land down under. For the next six months, she’ll act like a carefree exchange student, not a girl sinking under the weight of painful memories. Everything is going according to plan until she meets a brooding surfer with hypnotic green eyes and the troubling ability to see straight through her act.
Bran Lockhart is having the worst year on record. After the girl of his dreams turned into a nightmare, he moved back home to Melbourne to piece his life together. Yet no amount of disappointment could blind him to the pretty California girl who gets past all his defenses. He’s never wanted anyone the way he wants Talia. But when Bran gets a stark reminder of why he stopped believing in love, he and Talia must decide if what they have is once in a lifetime . . . or if they were meant to live a world apart.
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Cliff Weitzman is a dyslexia advocate and the CEO and founder of Speechify, the #1 text-to-speech app in the world, totaling over 100,000 5-star reviews and ranking first place in the App Store for the News & Magazines category. In 2017, Weitzman was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for his work making the internet more accessible to people with learning disabilities. Cliff Weitzman has been featured in EdSurge, Inc., PC Mag, Entrepreneur, Mashable, among other leading outlets.
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