When Charlie-in-the-Box gets swept out to sea two days before Christmas, King Moonracer puts together a band of misfit toys to rescue him.

The story begins on Dauphin Island; an island in the mouth of Mobile Bay just about the same size as Manhattan; but light year different. The first chapter sets

Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year A revelatory tale of science, adventure, and modern myth. When the writer Donovan Hohn

Entries from the long-lost journal of Ven, a Nain youth, relate his adventures as he faces pirates and is rescued by a mermaid and a kindly sea captain who send

This book is about pirates and their treasure, and the islands visited in the Eastern Pacific Ocean. Little has been known, or written, about these early day sh