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In the Remixed Classics series, authors from marginalized backgrounds reinterpret classic works through their own cultural lens to subvert the overwhelming cishet, white, and male canon - Two intrepid queer girls of color embark on a legendary treasure hunt in this YA remix of Treasure Island, flipping the script on a notoriously Euro-centric sausage-fest of a classic - 1826. The sun is setting on the golden age of piracy, and the legendary Dragon Fleet, the scourge of the South China Sea, is no more.

À presque quinze ans, Kaï O'Hara, douzième du nom, a deux ambitions : retrouver son grand-père Cerpelaï Gila – la Mangouste folle, en malais – et le fabuleux Non Shan, la goélette franche à coque noire et voiles rouges, puis enlever pour l'épouser Isabelle Margerit, la blonde fille d'un planteur français de Saigon, et sillonner en toute liberté l'immensité des mers du Sud.

Le retour de la reine du thriller historique ! Amour, piraterie et vengeance sur les mers du XVIIe siècle. Paris, 1610. La jeune Louise Reydon-Joubert arrive d'Amsterdam. Issue d'une famille de protestants, elle vient pour recevoir l'héritage d'un père qu'elle n'a jamais connu. Durant son séjour, l'assassinat d'Henri IV par Ravaillac met soudain en péril la tolérance religieuse favorisée par le roi. La Rochelle, 1620. La ville est l'un des principaux foyers du protestantisme et le symbole de la résistance à la couronne catholique.

Shannon Chakraborty, the bestselling author of The City of Brass, spins a new trilogy of magic and mayhem on the high seas in this tale of pirates and sorcerers, forbidden artifacts and ancient mysteries, in one woman's determined quest to seize a final chance at glory - and write her own legend. Amina al-Sirafi should be content.

One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. An unforgettable middle-grade novel with elements of James and the Giant Peach meets Waterworld and The Road. One morning Rafe wakes up to discover his bedroom is floating in a vast sea of water. Alone with only his dog for company, Rafe adapts to this strange new world by fishing cans of food out of the water and keeping watch. Boxes float by, as does a woman, playing her cello.

In the small hours of October 14, 1942, a German U-boat sank the passenger ferry SS Caribou in the Gulf of St. Lawrence. Of the 237 people on board, 136 perished, including 49 civilians. In Land Beyond the Sea, bestselling author Kevin Major reimagines the events of that fateful night from the perspectives of both those aboard the doomed vessel and the German U-boat commander who gave the order. With his characteristically sharp, evocative prose style, Major delivers an epic work of historical fiction, detailing a life-and-death conflict in the icy waters of the North Atlantic.

The fish aren't biting, so Kimmy and Mike head off to see if they'll have luck on the other side of the ocean. En route they encounter a hurricane, a giant squid, pirates, a merman, an iceberg and much more. Theirs is a round-the-world adventure with plenty of fun. But it's still up to their mother to find something for the pot.

A team of researchers from a nearby university have set up a research station in a fictional outport in Newfoundland, studying the strange emergence of phosphorescent tides. And Vivienne, a young assistant, accidentally captures a creature unknown to science: a kind of fish, both sentient and distinctly female. As the project supervisor and lead researcher attempt to exploit the discovery, the creature begins to waste away, and Vivian must endanger herself to save them both.