The Columbus story that's never been told! Son of the Sea is a swashbuckling true story of adventure and discovery as see through the eyes of Fernando Columbus, the young son of the famous explorer, who joined Columbus on his fourth and final voyage to the New World. Based on an amazing but forgotten chapter of the Columbus story, Son of the Sea offers readers a window into a time long past, when men were willing to risk everything for the promise of fame and fortune. But at its core, Son of the Sea is a story of family, and how one father and son embarked on the adventure of a lifetime, together, and lived to tell the tale.
A shipwrecked prince on a foreign shore and a young princess coming into her powers battle dark forces that would destroy her kingdom and their love.
The meat from Ocean Perch has a high oil content and shelf life is shortened by leaving the skin on. Frozen, it can be kept four to six months; fresh about ten days. With the skin on, redfish fillets have a firm flake, white flesh and a ...
Traces a father and son journey around South America in a tiny boat they built together
Both a memoir and an investigation, Swimming in a Sea of Death is David Rieff's loving tribute to his mother, the writer Susan Sontag, and her final battle with cancer.
Against the pomp and pageantry of turbulent seventeenth-century England, Elizabeth Goudge weaves the poignant tale of Lucy Walter, the proud and beautiful secret wife of Charles II. Here is a subtle portrait of a deeply good and fascinating ...
"Against the dramatic Northern Minnesota lakeshore, a son and his father reconnect thirty-five years after the father has survived the tragic wreck of a Great Lakes ore boat."--Back cover.
A young man dreams of harmony among people after he is saved from drowning by a strange boy, who is said to be the son of a pregnant African woman who had been thrown overboard during the days of the Atlantic slave trade.
A whimsical and unexpected adventure tale, Chicken of the Sea originated in the five-year-old mind of Ellison Nguyen, son of Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Viet Thanh Nguyen; father and son committed the story to the page, then enlisted ...
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, Salman Rushdie’s classic children’s novel Haroun and the Sea of Stories inhabits the same imaginative space as Gulliver’s Travels, Alice in ...
All at Sea is a remarkable story of love and loss, of how one couple changed each other’s life, and of what a sudden death can do to the people who survive.