A Pearl in the Storm: How I Found My Heart in the Middle of the Ocean

By Tori Murden McClure

"In the top, i do know I rowed around the Atlantic to discover my center, yet firstly, I wasn't conscious that it was once missing."

In June 1998, Tori McClure all started rowing around the Atlantic Ocean solo in a twenty-three-foot plywood boat without motor or sail. inside days she misplaced all communique with shore yet made up our minds to forge forward -- no longer realizing that 1998 might turn into the worst typhoon season on list within the North Atlantic. whilst she used to be approximately killed via a chain of violent storms, Tori used to be pressured to sign for aid and head domestic in what felt like shame. yet then her existence replaced in unforeseen methods. She used to be employed by way of Muhammad Ali, who advised her she didn't want to be often called the girl who "almost" rowed around the Atlantic. And at thirty-five, Tori fell in love.

A Pearl within the Storm is Tori's exciting precise tale of excessive event -- and of her own quest to find that embracing her personal humanity used to be extra vital than superhuman feats.

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Dangerous Work: Diary of an Arctic Adventure

By Arthur Conan Doyle

In 1880 a tender scientific scholar named Arthur Conan Doyle embarked upon the “first genuine remarkable experience” of his existence, taking a berth as ship’s health practitioner on an Arctic whaler, the Hope. The voyage took him to unknown areas, showered him with dramatic and unforeseen stories, and plunged him into harmful paintings at the ice floes of the Arctic seas. He verified himself, overcame the hardships, and, as he wrote later, “came of age at eighty levels north latitude.”

Conan Doyle’s time within the Arctic supplied strong gas for his becoming objectives as a author. With a ghost tale set within the Arctic wastes that he wrote presently after his go back, he proven himself as a promising younger author. A next journal article laying out attainable routes to the North Pole gained him the honor of Arctic explorers. And he may name upon his shipboard reports repeatedly within the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, who used to be brought in 1887’s A research in Scarlet.
 
Out of sight for greater than a century was once a diary that Conan Doyle stored whereas aboard the whaler. Dangerous paintings: Diary of an Arctic experience makes this account to be had for the 1st time in a stunning facsimile variation that reproduces Conan Doyle’s pc pages in his personal stylish hand, observed by means of his copious illustrations. With humor and charm, Conan Doyle offers a vibrant account of a long-vanished lifestyle at sea. His cautious detailing of the event of arctic whaling is equivalent elements attention-grabbing and alarming, revealing the darkish workings of the later days of the British whaling undefined. as well as the facsimile and annotated transcript of the diary, the quantity comprises images of the Hope, its captain, and a tender Conan Doyle on deck with its officials; nonfiction items through Doyle approximately his studies; and of his stories encouraged via the journey.
 
To the top of his lifestyles, Conan Doyle could glance again in this adventure with awe: “You stand at the very breaking point of the unknown,” he declared, “and each duck that you simply shoot bears pebbles in its gizzard which come from a land which the maps recognize now not. It used to be a wierd and engaging bankruptcy of my life.” purely now can the legion of Conan Doyle fanatics learn and revel in that chapter.

A detailed constrained, numbered version of the clothbound publication is usually on hand. furthermore, a text-only ebook version is published as Dangerous paintings: Diary of an Arctic experience, Text-only Edition.

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Golden Fox

By Wilbur Smith

"Fascinating...Stunning...Seduction and betrayal. Politics and treachery. Wilbur Smith's THE GOLDEN FOX combines those components and extra with the sweetness and violence of the African continent.... Compelling."
THE unfastened LANCE-STAR (Fredericksburg, VA)
The Courtney relations blood has long term hot--as scorching because the ardour and turmoil boiling in war-torn South Africa. while considered one of their very own succumbs to the worst form of evil, these ties are positioned to the final word test.
Isabella Courtney, miraculous daughter of South Africa's ambassador to England, is passionately keen about Ramon, the Marques de Santiago y Machado--also referred to as the Golden Fox, one of many world's so much ruthless terrorists. whilst she secretly bears his baby, Ramon kidnaps the boy and persuades robust, but reluctant, Isabella to betray South Africa and her loved family...until the reality ultimately comes out, and the explosive Courtneys rally to her aspect and strike again with a raging vengance....

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Babel Codex (Rogue Angel, Book 43.5)

By Alex Archer, Mel Odom

During this electrifying new novella, heroine Annja Creed uncovers one more certainly one of history's monsters.

From the previous testomony comes a brand new danger...

Fighting skeletons in Addis Ababa isn't in Annja's agreement. particularly while they're "entertainment" rigged via an obnoxious radio DJ throughout the filming of the television convey she hosts, Chasing History's Monsters. however the unintentional discovery of an old clay brick turns the prank into lethal peril for the intrepid archaeologist.

If Annja's slump is correct, the brick is simply the 1st key to a better discovery: the Tower of Babel. Now, with Joan of Arc's sword in hand and killers at her heels, she needs to race around the heart East to resolve the puzzle first. Enemies and allies will face off opposed to every one other--and themselves. to outlive, Annja must defeat them all...because finally there will be just one winner.

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PopCo

By Scarlett Thomas

PopCo tells the tale of Alice Butler-a subversively clever lady in our commercial-soaked global who grows from recluse orphan to burgeoning vigilante, buttressed by means of secret, codes, math, and the feel her grandparents gave her that she may swap the area.

Alice-slight introvert, crossword compositor- works at PopCo, a globally profitable and a bit of sinister toy corporation. Lured by means of their CEO to a proposal Camp out at the moors, PopCo's creatives needs to invent the final word product for teenage ladies. in the meantime, Alice gets weird and wonderful, encrypted messages she suspects relate to her grandfather's interpreting of a centuries-old manuscript that many-including her long-disappeared father-believe ends up in buried treasure. Its key, she's certain, is engraved at the necklace she's been donning given that she was once ten. utilizing the abilities she realized from her grandparents and educating us features of cryptanalysis, Alice discovers the resource of those creepy codes. Will this lead her to the mysterious treasure or one other, much more conscientiously guarded mystery?

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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd

By Jim Fergus

One Thousand White Women is the tale of might Dodd and a colourful meeting of pioneer ladies who, below the auspices of the U.S. executive, go back and forth to the western prairies in 1875 to intermarry one of the Cheyenne Indians. The covert and debatable "Brides for Indians" software, introduced through the management of Ulysses S. furnish, is meant to aid assimilate the Indians into the white man's international. towards that finish may perhaps and her buddies embark upon the journey in their lifetime. Jim Fergus has so vividly depicted the yank West that it really is as though those diaries are a pill in time.

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The Doomsday Key: A Sigma Force Novel

By James Rollins

James Rollins, the New York Times bestselling grasp of nail-biting suspense and historic secret, combines state of the art biotechnology with a centuries-old mystery in an apocalyptic tale that unearths the place humankind is actually headed

The Doomsday Key

At Princeton collage, a famed geneticist dies within a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is located useless in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outdoors a purple go camp. the 3 murders on 3 continents undergo a scary connection: all of the sufferers are marked by means of a Druidic pagan go burned into their flesh.

The weird and wonderful murders thrust Commander grey Pierce and Sigma strength right into a race opposed to time to resolve a riddle going again centuries, to a ghastly crime opposed to humanity hidden inside of a cryptic medieval codex. the 1st clue is chanced on within a mummified corpse buried in an English peat bog--a ugly mystery that threatens the USA and the world.

Aided via ladies from his past--one his exlover, the opposite his new partner--Gray needs to piece jointly the frightening fact. however the revelations come at a excessive price, and to avoid wasting the long run, grey must sacrifice one of many ladies at his aspect. That by myself is probably not sufficient, because the actual route to salvation is published in a dismal prophecy of doom.

Sigma strength confronts humankind's maximum possibility in an experience that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the misplaced tombs of Celtic kings. the last word nightmare is locked inside a talisman buried via a useless saint--an historic artifact referred to as the Doomsday Key.

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Hidden Deep: Book 1 of The Hidden Saga (The HiddenSaga)

By Amy Patrick

He isn't really presupposed to even consult a human, less fall in love with one...

Sixteen-year-old Ryann Carroll has simply run into the man who kept her lifestyles ten years in the past. You may well imagine she'd be at liberty to determine him back. now not precisely. She's a section underdressed (as in skinny-dipping) and he is not presupposed to exist.

After her father's affair, all Ryann wishes is to flee the kinfolk implosion fallout and discover a little peace. She additionally would not brain a primary date that did not suck, yet she's decided to not prove like her mother: weak, betrayed, destroyed. Ryann's simply moved into her grandma's apartment in rural Mississippi, an identical position the place ten years prior she grew to become misplaced within the woods in a single day and approximately died.

She's nonetheless irresistibly interested in these woods. There she encounters the boy who saved her from freezing to dying that some time past wintry weather evening and was once nowhere to be noticeable whilst rescuers arrived. he is nonetheless mysterious, yet now all grown-up and beautiful, too. And the extra she's with him, the larger the possibility he poses to Ryann's strict policy-- by no means wish an individual greater than he desires you.

Seventeen-year-old Lad is familiar with the legislation of his humans all too good: do not get careless and do not get caught.

It's allowed his race to reside undetected during this international for hundreds of thousands of years, pointed out in basic terms in mistaken and fading folklore. Lad's by no means been in a position to ignore Ryann due to the fact that that evening ten years in the past. whilst he sees her back, his fascination re-ignites and turns into a starting to be wish that tempts him to damage all of the principles. he isn't even imagined to consult a human, less fall in love with one.

And the timing is atrocious. The Assemblage is coming, the rift among the sunshine and darkish is widening. Lad can have to alternate his personal likelihood at happiness to maintain the people, in particular Ryann, blissfully ignorant and secure.

**Grab your replica this day and provides in to the Glamour of the Hidden Saga!**

THE HIDDEN SERIES:

Book 1: Hidden Deep

Book 2: Hidden Heart

Book three: Hidden Hope

The Sway-- A Hidden Saga spouse Novella

Book four: Hidden Darkness

***Fans of Cassandra Clare's Mortal tools sequence and Stephenie Meyer's Twilight Saga could be interested in Amy Patrick’s attractive, magical Hidden Saga.***

Honors for Hidden Deep:

2013 YA Finalist within the prestigious RWA Golden center romance writing contest

Winner of the Maggie Unpublished award - YA classification- Georgia Romance Writers

**If you like Paranormal Romance, city myth, and the Fae, HIDDEN DEEP is the best new learn for you!**

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Villains by Necessity

By Eve Forward

With the banishment of Evil from the geographical regions, the ultimate victory of fine is assured-unless a number of stalwart antiheroes can store the area from a significant and in all probability deadly imbalance. First novelist ahead explores the problems that come up from a surfeit of "goodness" on the planet. the result's a skewed model of the epic delusion that includes an murderer, a thief, an evil sorceress, a gloomy knight, and an implacable druid because the villains-turned-heroes who needs to repair the fragile stability of opposing forces earlier than their global disappears in a stunning flash of Goodness and lightweight. lovers of role-playing video games will realize many general conventions during this seriocomic delusion event. A candidate for fable collections in huge libraries.

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