ocean travel

"A great journey... A new love... A dark secret revealed. Evreux, France, 1788: Before she is Zoey's favorite professor and the House of Night's powerful horse mistress... Lenobia is just a normal 16-year-old girl - with enough problems to last a lifetime. As the illegitimate daughter of a powerful baron, she has never quite belonged, and instead has to watch her spoiled half-sister, Cecile, get anything she wants. As if that's not enough, her remarkable beauty draws unwanted attention wherever she goes. For once, she would like to just fit in. But when fate intervenes, Lenobia suddenly finds herself surrounded by other girls, on a ship bound for New Orleans, where they will be married off to the city's richest Frenchmen. And they're not alone.... An evil bishop who is skilled in Dark magic makes the same journey. His appetite for lovely young women makes him dangerous - most of all to Lenobia, who caught his eye back in France. So she remains hidden, making secret visits to the ship's stables, where a handsome young man and his beautiful Percheron horses soon capture her attention. Will they make it to land before the bishop discovers her true identity and a powerful evil breaks loose? And will Lenobia follow her heart, even if it puts lives at risk? Find out more about one of your favorite professors in the next heart-thumping House of Night Novella"--.

His efforts to avenge his father's unjust imprisonment force fourteen-year-old Tom Tin into the streets of nineteenth-century London, but after he is convicted of murder, Tom is eventually sent to Australia where he has a surprise reunion.

Presents portraits of some of the Titanic's most notable passengers, interweaving their personal narratives with an account of the disaster as it unfolds.

Luther and Nora Krank decide to opt out of Christmas, choosing instead to set sail on a Caribbean cruise on December 25, but they learn there are consequences to pay for trying to ignore the holiday frenzy.

Sixteen-year-old Pi, having spent an idyllic childhood in India as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family to start anew in Canada, but his life takes an unexpected turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift in a lifeboat with a Bengal tiger, an orangutan, a zebra, and a hyena for company.

In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.

Presents a novel based upon actual events described in the journals of Christopher Columbus that features a young Basque adventurer named Domingo Luca, who is asked to join Columbus on his journey to the new world.

Cam Walker and his friends from the Outriders plan to combat boredom by traveling twelve miles to Blue Cave, where they hope to see the glow of phosphorous plankton and instead encounter unexpected danger.