In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost cartographer in the world, a German named August Petermann, believed that warm currents sustained a verdant island at the top of the world. National glory would fall to whoever could plant his flag upon its shores....

1945--Lieutenant Donovan Riggs is ready to do anything for his country, even lay down his life. WWII is drawing to an end, but before that can officially happen, trouble with his PT boat calls the sailors of "Every Storm to make an unscheduled stop at a South Pacific island. And when they make a landing ... they make an unexpected discovery. Lorraine Archer is an American teacher living and working in Australia, a job she took before the bombing of...

William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to this Classics Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry. As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a parable,...

This is a story of Jack and Rose, two people from different worlds who find each other and fall in love on the maiden voyage of the "unsinkable" R.M.S. Titanic. When the doomed luxury liner collides with an iceberg in the frigid North Atlantic, their passionate love affair becomes a race for survival.

Presents the memoirs of Violet Jessop, an ocean liner stewardess with the White Star Line who survived the sinking of the Titanic only to become a wartime nurse aboard the Britannic which also sank after hitting a mine.

In the summer of 1914, the transatlantic ocean liner carrying Grace Winter, 22 and her new husband Henry suffers a mysterious explosion. Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's. The survivors quickly realise the boat is over capacity. For any to live, some must die. As the castaways battle the elements,...

A dramatic account of the ill-fated 19th-century naval expedition to the North Pole cites the contributions of German cartographer August Petermann, New York Herald owner James Gordon Bennett and famed naval officer George Washington De Long in the team's efforts to survive brutal environmental conditions.