A...B...Sea

Sabrena's father has always claimed their family is descended from the legendary sailor Sinbad. But when the sea calls Sabrena to a whole new world, she'll have to fight to claim her own story. From the author of the acclaimed A Bit of Earth, this reimagining of the classic characters from One Thousand and One Nights is perfect for fans of The Last Mapmaker and Ma鎙naland.Any other story would begin with "once upon a time." But Sabrena's story is different. "Fulfilling all my worst fears," her mother says, "you were born by the sea." And it's true that the sea has always seemed to call to Sabrena. Her father reminds her that they are, of course, descended from the legendary sailor Sinbad. So it's basically qadr--fate--that Sabrena has an affinity toward the sea.Even so, Sabrena has had a truly ordinary life: trying to be an exemplary daughter, meeting all of her parents' high expectations. Despite, maybe, wanting something more interesting for herself. At least she can escape into the f

`I am already looking forward to my next trip to Butterfly Cove!' - Rachel's Random Reads (top 500 Amazon reviewer) A second chance by the sea?

Carbonate platforms provide a high-resolution record of sea-level fluctuations, paleoclimatic change, paleoceanographic circulation patterns, and biological evolution, yet the influence of tectonic de

A latest entry in the series set in the Victorian steampunk world of The Secrets of the Fire Sea finds a young Jack Keats forced by a bank robbery gone wrong into service with the Royal Aerostatical N

From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034--and the p

From the award-winning author of Native Speaker and On Such a Full Sea, an exuberant, provocative story about a young American life transformed by an unusual Asian adventure – and about the human capa

Award-winning author Caryl Phillips presents a biographical novel of the life of Jean Rhys, the author of Wide Sargasso Sea, which she wrote as a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre. Caryl Philli

This book offers an assessment of China’s assertive foreign policy behavior with a special focus on Chinese policies in the South China Sea (SCS). By providing a detailed account of the events in the

One of the most unique crime series ever continues with a missing persons investigation. Cal McGill is the sea detective: an oceanographer and one-of-a-kind investigator who uses hi

Hundreds of miles off the Korean coast in the East Sea lies Dokdo, a small group of tiny volcanic islets sheltering a rich but fragile ecosystem. This rugged, lonely outpost, which constitutes the cou

A special edition of this bestselling pirate adventure with a super-shiny red foiled cover. Ten little pirates sailing out to sea, looking for adventure, happy as can be. Are they hunting treasure? Ar

Colonel Mulberry Sellers is a mad scientist who invents such things as a Cursing Phonograph, which stores up profanity to use when you're out with sailors at sea. This tale borders on science fiction

In Sea Creatures, a riveting domestic drama by Susanna Daniel, a mother must make the unthinkable choice between her husband and her son. When Georgia Qullian returns to her hometown of Miami, her tod

Valéry’s Graveyard is in two parts. The first part presents the French text of Paul Valéry’s poem Le Cimetière marin (The Graveyard by the Sea) and a facing English translation, followed by a descript

Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fictiongenre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Jour

The Bhel Sea: A brackish haven for opportunists, lined with coral and bones after centuries of conflict. Korsar pirates hold it with a bloody grasp from their keep on the volcanic island of Ashenborg

In 1997 Michael Flecker investigated a shipwreck in the north Java sea. The wreck comprised the remains of a mid 10th-century ship with its cargo of thousands of ceramic and non-ceramic artefacts.

Although never named as such, the landscape of Sanremo was a constant visual source for Calvino's fiction. In its recognizable pattern of sea-city-hills, it appears in sixteen works written over a per

William Sydney Graham (1918-1986) was born in Greenock, Scotland, ‘beside the sugar house quays’ – a setting open to the sea. He remained a Celt, moving from Scotland to Cornwall whe

Hetta Coffey is a sassy Texan with a snazzy yacht, and she’s not afraid to use it!She’s living aboard her forty-five foot boat in Mexico’s spectacular Sea of Cortez, taking work where she can get it a

This story is based on one found on a papyrus scroll of hieroglyphs from the nineteenth century B.C., Egypt. It tells the tale of a voyage on the Red Sea to a mysterious and enchanted land of riches l

- In the dead of night, on the dark waters of the Baltic Sea, a cargo ship is hijacked.- In the Atlantic Ocean, a small flotilla of Russian warships is dispatched to re-take her.- In a quiet tavern i

Stripped of her fortune and rejected by her fiance+a7's family, Eliza is made into an indentured servant and sent to accompany a spoiled girl on a sea voyage, but she is captured by a buccaneer who mi

It's a puzzle and a play set!Kids will love discovering the deep blue sea! 6 chunky soft foam pieces can be used as a puzzle or can stand up on their own and be used as a playset. Soft foam pieces sta

A hypothetical city is the sum of those things which can be said of it: giant and autumnal, a palimpsest of competing histories and traditions bounded by high black mountains and an excrement sea, the

A thrilling exploration of the science and history of the deep sea.Full of mystery and danger, the deep sea has long been a symbol of the great unknown. In this dramatic and thrilling account, acclaim

A visceral and sonic world of teeth and tornadoes, Sea Sharp’s The Swagger of Dorothy Gale explores a Midwestern past muddied by L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz fantasy and the realities of

'She's done for...' The crew aboard a ramshackle steamer faces a treacherous storm in this gripping tale, inspired by Conrad's own time at sea. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Clas

“Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great tribulation; not because any man's troubles are a delectable joy, but because to perceive y

An 8x8 storybook based on the deep-sea adventures of the Octonauts! As they travel through deep, dark waters, the Octonauts find themselves in a battle with a colossal squid! The squid is determined t

"When Penelope the Fox drops her heart into the sea, she's swept off on a perilous journey dodging sharks and royal cat-guards, until a cartwheeling chicken leads her to the land of lost things"--

Pearl is an ordinary girl who has an extraordinary secret: She is a real sea princess, and this series about her brings together all the essential elements that fill many a young girl's imagination--p

PANAMA captures the sweep of this country's tumultuous history. Moving from pivotal events in Panama's past to the American withdrawal in 1999, this is the action-filled saga of a man and a nation sea

San Timoteo Canyon, known locally as "the canyon," has always been a major thoroughfare for the area. Once a favorite passage for desert tribes traveling to the sea to trade their wares, it

A family is holidaying in a little cottage near the sea. It should be an idyllic time, but the eldest daughter is furiously unhappy with her father's new wife, and finds her incredibly irritating. She

Exotic illustrations from one of the most prized natural history books of all time depict 583 color images of shells, fish, starfish, coral, plants, and other forms of sea life. Selected from a rare a

The poems in this collection, representing work from the decade 1980?1990, range from evocations of common objects?a sea shell or a twisted nail?to explorations of an inner world of memory and imagina

In the spring of 1988, on a small Scottish island battered into stark beauty by the motion of the sea, Eva Crawford turns eighteen and learns a disturbing fact that shatters the comfort and stability

Please see free book catalogs at www urls: tiny.cc/traditional or tiny.cc/simplified. DESCRIPTION: A picture book translated into Traditional Chinese with Hanyu Pinyin. Contents and illustrations are based on a book by Beatrix Potter. (Greyscale B&W) OTHER PAPERBACK VERSIONS AVAILABLE: 01 Traditional Chinese (B&W ISBN:978-1505871432; COLOR ISBN:978-1503294356); 02 Traditional Chinese Zhuyin Fuhao (B&W ISBN:978-1505871449; COLOR ISBN:978-1503294363); 03 Traditional Chinese Tongyong Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505871456; COLOR ISBN:978-1503294370); 04 Traditional Chinese Hanyu Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505871463; COLOR ISBN:978-1503294387); 05 Simplified Chinese Hanyu Pinyin (B&W ISBN:978-1505871470; COLOR ISBN:978-1503294394); 06 Simplified Chinese (B&W ISBN:978-1505871487; COLOR ISBN:978-1503294400); 07 Traditional Chinese Zhuyin Fuhao with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1505871500; COLOR ISBN:978-1503294417); 08 Traditional Chinese Tongyong Pinyin with IPA (B&W ISBN:978-1

Wealthy Evan Cole thought his wife was lost at sea until he spotted her one-of-a-kind wedding ring in a New York City pawn shop. The detective agency he hired to find her was about to make a positive