The United States Coast Guard has a saying: You have to go out; you dont have to come back. I am still looking for the person who came up with that saying (Rodger D. Dewey, retired master chief boatswains mate E-9). Follow the twenty-eight years of memories of a seventeen-year-old young man from Denver, Colorado, who joined the United States Coast Guard in 1948 and made the United States Coast Guard his life. Follow the training, lessons learned, funny stories, and a true love of being a s...

Since 2004, award-winning author and historian Stan Grayson has regularly contributed stories to WoodenBoat magazine about the many yachts, small craft, designers, boat builders, and sailors who have captured his imagination. This collection of twenty articles from Grayson and the pages of WoodenBoat presents a wide-ranging and insightful account of American yachting history and some of its fascinating characters.Readers will voyage back to the early days of the f...

Asynchronous telecommuting meets the radioplay for this comedic parody of AI-narrated audiobooks.

Asynchronous telecommuting meets the radioplay for this comedic send-up of AI-narrated audiobooks.

Telecommuting meets the radioplay for this comedic send-up of AI-narrated audiobooks: spanning 56 minutes 29 seconds of one-hundred-&-seventy-something pages provided with its audio, COVID-19 fictionalization stages theater across twenty-two individuals who recorded asynchronously via devised production.

The legend and the lore surrounding the vampire runs deeper than an ocean of seething blood. We love them, fear them, are fascinated and spellbound by their undead existence. Here are thirteen stories of the most dreaded monster in all of supernatural literature.MOVING LINES - A heartsick gypsy con-artist reads the palm of a beautiful vampiress.THE NIGHT KILLERS - A squad of vampire hunters fight to protect the post-apocalyptic remnants of civilization.GROWING SHADO...

The fifteenth novel in David Poyer's acclaimed series of naval adventures featuring Dan Lenson, Tipping Point is an action-packed, utterly authentic story of duty, war, and the stress of command, by the most popular living author of American sea fiction.Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo Island, is threatened when he's called home to testify ...

A deadly new weapon hits the international arms market---and the only way to preserve the balance of power in the Mideast is to hijack the Iranian sub that carries it.United States Navy Commander and Medal of Honor winner Dan Lenson has been handed another outside-the-box assignment. TAG Charlie, an elite team of active-duty sailors, SEALs, and civilian analysts, is tasked to investigate and defuse emerging naval threats around the globe. When the Skhval-K---an unstoppable rocket t...

The Navy's most sophisticated destroyer, the USS Barrett carries a top-secret computer that can pilot an unmanned ship and send it into battle. As the weapons officer charged with its first mission Lieutenant Dan Lenson has a chance to make naval history.But when the system develops a sinister virus and a sailor takes his own life amid ugly allegations, Lenson finds himself caught in a web of betrayal. Now, on the treacherous Windward Passage between the U.S. and Cuba, he'll underg...

Introducing his famed series character, Lewis Cole, DEAD SAND by Brendan DuBois tells the tale of the mysterious murder of a teenage waitress at at beach resort in New Hampshire. Lewis Cole, a retired research analyst from the Department of Defense and a magazine columnist, travels down some mean streets indeed as he puzzles out not only the teenage girl's murder, but his own place in life after nearly being killed while working for the DoD.This work also includes an author's intro...

A US Special Forces operator and veteran of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Richard Daniels is weary of serving government officials.Ensconced deep in the Florida Everglades, Daniels flies out of his own base of operations, rescuing wealthy refugees from dangerous situations then using the funds to extract unfortunates facing the same dangers.When two shadowy government-types attempt to hire Daniels and his team, Daniels flatly refuses. Then his seaplane is impounded, a fede...

From the author of the Fall 2015 Disney movie The Finest Hours, the “thrilling and perfectly paced” (Booklist) story of the sinking and rescue of Bounty—the tall ship used in the classic 1962 movie Mutiny on the Bounty—which was caught in the path of Hurricane Sandy with sixteen aboard.On Thursday, October 25, 2012, Captain Robin Walbridge made the fateful decision to sail Bounty from New London, Connecticut, to St. Pete...