On the first day of her honeymoon a young woman inadvertently discovers that she's a descendant of a pod of mermaids once revered for their unrelenting disruption of the slave trade across the Atlantic. As the tensions rise between the remaining mermaids who face looming rediscovery, what role will she play in the future of her people? As technology continues to make the deep ocean more and more accessible by the decade, what will happen if myths...

A kidnapped princess sends Common Smith racing to the land of the rising sun. China, 1927. Communists and Nationalists are fighting each other, and bandits and warlords plague the country. Imperial Japan is eager to provoke a war, and when Princess Sadie, a member of the Japanese royal family, is kidnapped, her life is at stake. For if she dies, the Japanese will have the excuse they need to invade. The mission of Common Smith VC and the redoubtable...

1774. Rob Courtney has spent his whole life in a quiet trading outpost on the east coast of Africa, dreaming of a life of adventure at sea. When his grandfather Jim Courtney dies, and the mysterious Captain Cornish calls into the fort, Rob takes his chance and stows away on Marston's ship as it sails to England. Arriving in London, Rob is seduced by the charms of the big city and soon finds himself desperate and penniless. That is until the navy comes...

"La nueva maestra de la Escuela de Walkerville, no tiene miedo de arriesgarse, cometer errores y embarrarse. Cuando la clase decide ir a Hawái, los chicos piensan que les espera el descanso y surfear, pero no es así. ¡Vivirán una aventura submarina!" -- Ms. Frizzle takes the class on a trip to a Pacific Island, where the Magic School Bus provides them with individual submarines, and they learn about fish schools and the behavior of undersea...

DESTINY WAS CREATED EQUAL. A worldwide energy race divides the nations of a war-ravaged globe by the greatest and the least. From the ruins of a forgotten empire, an under-qualified pair of adolescents set out to stake their claim upon Earth's riches, convinced that destiny was created equal. "A POWERFUL READ…HE CREATED A SOUND MASTERPIECE." -William Conrad, Author of Pushed to the Edge of Survival

Hawthorne in his 'Wonder Book' has described the beautiful Greek myths and traditions, but no one has yet made similar use of the wondrous tales that gathered for more than a thousand years about the islands of the Atlantic deep. Although they are a part of the mythical period of American history, these hazy legends were altogether, disdained by the earlier historians; indeed, George Bancroft made it a matter of actual pride that the beginning of...

During the 1890s Phil Field loses his job on a fishing boat in Plymouth, Devon. He finds it difficult to get another job and drowns his sorrows in the pub. On his way home he is attacked and Enid Kelly finds him slumped on the ground in the freezing cold. They become good friends and when Phil joins the Royal Navy, they write to each other and see each other when Phil comes home on leave. Enid falls in love with Phil, but he considers her a good friend. After...

Long before Captain Jack Sparrow raised hell with the Pirates of the Caribbean, Tom Bristol sailed to hell and back Under the Black Ensign. That's where the real adventure begins. Bristol's had plenty of bad luck in his life. Press-ganged into serving aboard a British vessel, he's felt the cruel captain's lash on his back. Then, freed from his servitude by pirates, his good fortune immediately takes a bad turn . . . as the pirates accuse him of murder-and...

Deep below the surface, our world is cold, dark and content. Colors are fickle. Red disappears first as you descend, followed by the yellow of the sun. The hundred shades of blue last the longest, but eventually there is only black-and the candied ooze of the ocean floor... In Underjungle, an intelligent life form known as the yc exist in the ocean's depths, an apex predator among most fish. Long ago, this species fractured from a single group into...

I was still on the cliff overlooking the crashing waves of the ocean as it licked up the body I had just thrown over it. It was a little girl of around thirteen who had washed ashore and was the last of the sisters to perish. She had become sick with pneumonia, and as much as I wanted to care for her, she was already on her deathbed...