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“maria staal”

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  • Fiction Builder!

    Outlining and Plotting your Novel in Three Constructive Steps

    by Eva Kattz, Maria Staal ...
    Are you always getting stuck in the middle when writing a story? Are those endless rewrites giving you a headache? Or are you struggling to put all your different story ideas together? In Fiction Builder! Eva Kattz and Maria Staal show you a way out of the most common writer traps and put the fun back into writing.Now a developmental editor and a cosy mystery writer respectively, Eva and Maria ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • More Stories of Time Zones and Containers

    by Maria Staal ...
    A chemical spill out of a container and a collision with another ship - the adventures of life on the high seas continue in 'More Stories of Time Zones and Containers'.A collection of 16 previously untold short stories 'More Stories' is a fitting sequel to 'Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day'. The authors recalls further adventures on board the Serenity River, FTK Kowloon and ... Read more

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  • Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day

    by Maria Staal ...
    Deadly pirate attacks and a near collision with an oil tanker are just two of the dangers faced by the crews of today's container ships. 'Time Zones, Containers and Three Square Meals a Day', is the story of life on the high seas, where real adventures still exist.The author recounts her adventures on the container ship 'MV Serenity River' in this entertaining narrative travelogue. An unusual trip ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Try the Morgue

    A Novel

    by Eva Maria Staal ...
    From a real-life female gunrunner comes this international bestseller and unforgettable literary debut.Ten years ago, “Eva Maria Staal” kept a gun in her purse. It was a present from her boss, Jimmy Liu, the international arms dealer extraordinaire with a taste for high-class male escorts. Together, Jimmy and his devoted assistant traveled the world’s most dangerous hotspots, closing deals with ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

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  • Miracle In The Bering Sea

    by Bruce Bouley ...
    Follow the adventures of Elliot, Makya aboard the fishing vessel Northern Lights. As deckhands they venture into unknown dangers in the Bering Sea as they search for the most sort after Alaskan King and Opilio crab. Working 20-hour shifts, contending with flaring tempers, they try to beat the odds of surviving a million square miles of the most deadliest sea in the world. ... Read more

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  • Seconds To Disaster. Europe Edition

    by Ray Ronan ...
    As with the Air France Flight 447 tragedy, much of the time air crashes are a confluence of events; a cascade of bad luck, bad decisions, inappropriate airline company policy, the failure of aviation regulators, and sometimes insufficient training, or various combinations of all five.But why?Seconds to Disaster will demonstrate that part of that bad luck is often aided by the airline industry's ... Read more

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  • My Arizona Adventures

    The Recollections of Thomas Dudley Sanders: Miner, Freighter and Rancher in Arizona Territory

    by Al Bates ...
    My Arizona Adventures is the true first-person account of an authentic American pioneer. When Tom Sanders came to Arizonas central highlands there was nothing there; there were no roads, no towns, no law, and no protection from marauding Indians. There was nothing there but opportunities for the strong, resolute and lucky.The year was 1863, Arizona had just become a separate Territory and its vast ... Read more

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  • The Captains' Airline

    On Approach to Disaster

    by Captain Art Samson ...
    Naval Aviator Brad Morehouse finds himself relegated to the flight engineer seat of a commercial 727 following a tragic accident during the Blue Angel’s triumphant homecoming in 1983. From the lowest notch on the totem pole he watches the downward spiral of Omega Airlines as one crew blunder after another threatens to force the once proud captains’ airlines into extinction. Accidents were a ... Read more

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    Deadly Adventures and Disasters at Sea

    by Evan L. Balkan ...
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  • Nights of Ice

    True Stories of Disaster and Survival on Alaska's High Seas

    by Spike Walker ...
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  • Taking the Sea: Perilous Waters, Sunken Ships, and the True Story of the Legendary Wrecker Captains

    by Dennis Powers ...
    "Kirkus Reviews" summarized: "Maritime historian Powers ("Treasure Ship" and others) offers a series of vignettes from the golden age of American marine salvage. It extended from the end of the Civil War to the decade following World War I. Sail was merging with steam, wooden hulls with iron ones, but as the nation expanded westward in the wake of the Forty-Niners, the burgeoning demand for ... Read more

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