After Stanley Lambchop goes flat once again, he uses his flatness to help win a sailboat race and to rescue a classmate from a collapsed building.

A man sailing solo in the Indian Ocean capsizes and tries to survive the rest of his journey in a life raft.

"A chilling tale of murder unfolds during a fierce September hurricane on the Maine coast in this haunting story of two deaths mysteriously bound together by the long reach of time. As Hurricane Ivan bears down on the coast, the crew of the Maine Wind retrieves the body of a young woman from the sea. Who is she and how did she die? The search for the woman's identity thrusts Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont into an investigation on Apparition Island...

"The Herons are home in Skandia, but the usually peaceful country is in danger. The Temujai--ruthless warriors from the Eastern Steppes--have never given up on their ambition to claim Skandia for their own...and now they're on the move. Hal and his crew will have to brave the treacherous icy river and rapids to stop them, no matter the cost"--

Dreaming of adventure, city mouse Gavin and his buddy Matthew join a crew of Ship Mice ready to set sail, just as young Chester bursts in, pleading for help. Stowing away on a boat, the gang heads for Dream Island to defend Chester's family of mice against Winston the White Weasel and his wicked weasel clan. But is their courage enough?

On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood. After ten years of silence between the sisters, Marnie is called back to the South Carolina Lowcountry by Diana's ex-husband, Quinn. His young son has returned from a sailing...

"Something feels amiss about the group of seven friends who charter Maine Wind for the last cruise of the season that turns deadly when one of them is lost overboard. While making for home port, homocide detective Brie Beaumont investigates a case that becomes more enigmatic at every turn. As she drills down through layers of hatred, mistrust, and deception, old crimes come to light, and tensions ratchet up with each passing hour. When a storm looms...

"After six months on leave in Maine, Homicide Detective Brie Beaumont returns home to Minnesota to make decisions about her life and career within the Minneapolis Police Department. But her partner's death still haunts her, and she soon reqlizes that, to be whole again, she must solve the case of Detective Phil Thatcher's murder--a case that went cold eighteen months ago. But threatening letters, a shadowy characater, and a shooting on the North Shore...

A smart, sophisticated page literary page-turner about a young family who escape suburbia for a yearlong sailing trip that upends all of their lives.