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Based on the stories of swashbuckling action and below-decks intrigue by C.S. Forester. Includes The Duel, The Fire Ships, The Duchess and the Devil, The Wrong War, The Mutiny, Retribution, Loyalty, and Duty. Repackaged.

In "Duty" we find Horatio taking a wife, and then off to sea he goes again. This time in search of a missing ship. Once again he must best Napoleon's fleet and army. Horatio returns to England finding good and bad news.

Loyalty: Peacetime (1807) Hornblower forced to make a living at the gaming tables and caught up in a budding romance with his landlady's daughter, Maria. Hornblower goes on a reconnaissance mission that uncovers French perfidy, leading to renewed war. Complications arise when he ...

"In an instant, everything was swept away. On August 30, 2003, Robert Rogers, his wife, Melissa, and their four children were driving home from a wedding when they were caught in a flash flood. As Robert was swept away by the strong current, he could only hope his family would su...

C.S. Forester's swashbuckling hero returns in two new stories. In "Mutiny," Hornblower must deal with a brutal captain losing his sanity, while "Retribution" finds him stuck with the captain's incompetent replacement for a crucial attack.

In "Loyalty" we find Horatio dealing with spies and a French port that is well fortified. His capture doesn't keep him and the crew from completing their mission and saving the British Fleet once again.

Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic wars, the story of Horatio Hornblower, the legendary sea-faring hero, follows the raw recruit as he battles the French, evades capture, and rises through the ranks of the King's Navy.

Twenty-four previously published essays spanning a variety of life experiences. Rabih Alameddine discusses living in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS crisis, his love of soccer, and working in an English pub-themed diner in "How to Bartend."Strong language, some violen...

It tells a humorous and moving story of the evolving relationship between crime novelist Victor and his cello-playing son Zack. When Zack is dumped by his girlfriend and Victor is dumped by Zack's mother on the same day, the two men grieve and briefly console one another before h...

"Reeling from her parents' tragic death, teenaged Billie is uprooted from her native Austin, Texas to live in Liberal, Kansas--which despite its name, is not politically, or socially, liberal. Her new guardian is her godfather Adam, "a gay, film geek stuck inside a jock's body--a...

Billy-Ray Belcourt's debut memoir opens with a tender letter to his kokum and memories of his early life in the hamlet of Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation. From there, it expands to encompass the big and broken world around him, in all its complexity and contr...

From the novelist the New York Times compares to Paul Bowles, Evelyn Waugh and Ian McEwan, an evocative new work of literary suspense Adrift in Cambodia and eager to side-step a life of quiet desperation as a small-town teacher, 28-year-old Englishman Robert Grieve decide...