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The Old Mermaid's Tale    by Kathleen Valentine
Price: $4.99 USD. 137620 words. Published on December 9, 2009. .

Set against the background of the maritime and sea legends of the Great Lakes, The Old Mermaid's Tale weaves a love story of grand proportions - the story of Clair Wagner and the two men she loves: Pio, a handsome young fisherman and Baptiste, the mysterious Breton seafarer and musician she is fascinated by - that pays homage to the importance of stories in our lives.
Buccaneers and Bathing Huts... Tales of Pirates, Tourists, Wrecks & Recipes    by Nigel Woodhead
Price: $4.99 USD. 106030 words. Published by FishesEye Publishing on January 12, 2010. .

A humorous, gastronomic voyage down the European Atlantic coast, in search of the legacy of “day raiders”, in the widest sense of the term, through the ages: Vikings, English monarchs, pirates and corsairs, bohemians, tourists…. Then-and-now sketches of the major pirate ports, and humorous insights into present-day relations between the English, French, Spanish and Portuguese.
Gold Bars    by Conrad Brown
Price: $6.99 USD. 44220 words. Published on February 18, 2010. .

We finally have a business book for boaters. It covers all of the steps to begin chartering. He discusses the pros as well as the cons. The captain obviously has time on the water and is genuinely interested in helping his readers get started. His enthusiasm and sense of humor are obvious in this informative book. I reference it often. Want to charter? Get this book. (Captain Kenny Brown)
Craddock    by Paul Finch
Price: $2.99 USD. 64500 words. Published by Ghostwriter Publications  on December 28, 2010. .

Award-winning author, Paul Finch, introduces a new kind of detective...Major Jim Craddock – a veteran of Queen Victoria’s army in India, now working as police detective among the coal tips, cotton mills and filthy, teeming slums that covered the raped landscape of nineteenth century northern England, and specialising, of course, in the odd, the uncanny and the downright nightmarish.
The Three Great Ships of Isambard Kingdom Brunel    by Ciamar Price
Price: Free! 3180 words. Published by Ragged Angel Ltd  on January 13, 2011. .

During his career, Isambard Kingdom Brunel built three ships. Each was the largest vessel of their time when launched, and each represented a technological leap forward in ship design. These pieces were originally written for learning packs about historic engineering, and designed as a summary and introduction to the ships. Download the ebook free here.
Risk to Gain    by Mark Chisnell
Price: $3.49 USD. 48080 words. Published on April 11, 2011. .

This brand new, text-only, eBook edition of the original highly-illustrated Risk to Gain remains the classic account of Paul Cayard and Team EF's victory in sailing's 1997-98 Whitbread Race. It’s a unique insight into the lives of the crew aboard the two boats during their journey around the world, and is probably the most vivid written record of the world’s greatest ocean race ever produced.
Pressure Falling - Short Stories of Stormy Seas    by Mark Chisnell
Price: $0.99 USD. 14250 words. Published on April 11, 2011. .

These five short, non-fiction essays are compiled for the first time into the eBook, Pressure Falling - Short Stories of Stormy Seas. From a desperate account of the 1979 Fastnet tragedy - written for the thirtieth anniversary - to an entertaining and worrying look at the latest research on the phenomenon of rogue waves, this essay collection never fails to deliver.
A Doghouse Tale    by Bert Oldenhuis
Price: $4.99 USD. 213940 words. Published by bangkokbooks on April 13, 2011. .

Case Devries, a cadet midshipman at the US Merchant Marine Academy at Kings Point NY, is earning some beer money in Eugene Stein's textile warehouse on Saturday afternoons. Rosanne, Eugene's sexy little Italian secretary, picks him up from the Academy gate and drops him off each Saturday, and this leads to the inevitable - a relationship doomed to fail. Or does it?
April Operation    by Linda Hall
Price: $2.99 USD. 70950 words. Published on May 21, 2011. .

April Operation - Abortion doctor, Douglas Shanahan is shot dead at his home. On the same day the young daughter of Emma Knoll, the Shanahan Clinic manager disappears on her way home from school. Coincidence? Not in this business. With no evidence left behind in either case, Sergeant Roger Sheppard knows he is dealing with a premeditated, carefully planned homicide and kidnapping.
Spanish Castle to White Night    by Mark Chisnell
Price: $3.49 USD. 52600 words. Published on June 4, 2011. .

Mark Chisnell’s account of the 2008-09 Volvo Ocean Race is now available in this text-only, eBook edition of the original, highly-illustrated book, Spanish Castle to White Night. This is the story of an incredible race, ripping and roaring through the seven seas. It’s a tale of endurance, deprivation and adventure, a story of winners and losers, those who made it and those who did not.