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“john fleming wilson”

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  • The Closed Door

    Restored Classics to Go Edition

    by John Fleming Wilson ...
    In rain-soaked San Francisco, Gorham begins a haunting confession about the wreck of the Shearwater and the hidden passions that led to it. He overturns the accepted story of Captain Harry Owen, revealing a man whose outward respectability masked a lifelong devotion to Kitty Melrose, the woman he could never forget. What looked like a model marriage to Sheila McTodd was, in truth, a second choice ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

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  • A High Wind in Jamaica. Illustrated

    by Richard Hughes ...
    First published in 1929, A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes is a haunting and darkly whimsical novel that subverts the traditional adventure story. Set in the 19th century, the tale follows a group of British children who are sent home from their plantation in Jamaica after a hurricane—only to fall into the hands of pirates on the high seas. What begins as an adventure quickly turns into ... Read more

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  • Fishing Adventures on the Newfoundland Banks 1860

    by W V Wells ...
    A good description of a trip on the Rhody Carter out of Marblehead Massachusetts to the Grand Banks in search of Cod during the mid nineteenth century. ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Gentleman Overboard

    by Herbert Clyde Lewis ...
    Gentleman Overboard, first published in 1937, is a novella about a man (a Wall Street banker) who accidentally slips overboard while on a freighter-cruise ship bound from Honolulu to Panama City. The book moves back and forth between the thoughts of the man in the water as he comes to terms with his inevitable fate, and that of the ship's crew and fellow passengers, who search first the ship, then ... Read more

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  • Bright and Distant Shores

    A Novel

    by Dominic Smith ...
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos comes a sweeping historical novel set amid the skyscrapers of 1890s Chicago and the far-flung islands of the South Pacific.In the waning years of the nineteenth century there was a hunger for tribal artifacts, spawning collecting voyages from museums and collectors around the globe. In 1897, one such collector, a ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Best American Mystery & Thriller Short Stories

    American Short Stories for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults

    by Oldiees Publishing, O. Henry, Frank R. Stockton ...
    Timeless collection of selected American mystery & thriller short stories.Finding time for reading can often be a difficult task for many people with hectic and busy schedules. Committing oneself to a novel often involves a major investment of time and daily distractions, and tasks interfere with the ability to complete a novel in a timely fashion. Short stories are designed to be read in one ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Open Boat

    Stories

    by Stephen Crane ...
    Though best known for The Red Badge of Courage, his classic novel of men at war, in his tragically brief life and career Stephen Crane produced a wealth of stories—among them "The Monster," "The Upturned Face," "The Open Boat," and the title story—that stand among the most acclaimed and enduring in the history of American fiction.This superb volume collects stories of unique power and variety in ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Sunrise on Running Water

    by Barbara Hambly ...
    The evil vampire Lord Napier Sandridge seeks to flee the vengeful sister of his most recent victim, a young man named Lionel Paxton. The sister, Alexandra, has proven so persistent that Lord Napier decides he's better off leaving England entirely, so he takes his light-proof coffin and boards the largest luxury vessel he can find to cross to America: the RMS Titanic. As a vampire, he feels fairly ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Youth

    by Joseph Conrad ...
    Charles Marlow embarks on his first seafaring journey to the East as a young man on board the Judea, a barque headed towards Bangkok under the command of Captain John Beard. The Judea sets sail on a journey that is meant to take about 150 days, but bad luck and danger follow the vessel wherever she goes.“Youth” is a semi-autobiographical short story based on author Joseph Conrad’s own experiences ... Read more

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  • N by E

    by Rockwell Kent ...
    A classic tale of seafaring, shipwreck, and survival, reprinted from Wesleyan University Press's 1978 facsimile of the original.When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item. Little wonder, for ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Voice in the Night

    by William Hope Hodgson ...
    William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918) was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his poems were published during his lifetime. He also attracted some notice as a photographer ... Read more

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  • The Forty Fathom Bank and Other Stories

    by Les Galloway, Jerome Gold ...
    Called "stunning and suspenseful" (Andrea Barrett, Outside), and "exquisitely detailed" (Alan Cheuse, NPR), The Forty Fathom Bank is a gripping novella of adventure and desperation in the tradition of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. This acclaimed cult classic tells the story of two men seeking riches on a late-season fishing trip off the coast of San Francisco. When a storm hits and the engine ... Read more

    $8.99 USD