Scott Brick
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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When Dirk Pitt races to save the victims of the sinking of the cruise ship Emerald Dolphin, he has no idea that he will soon be confronted by an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient. He will tread upon territory previously known only to legend.
2) Typhoon
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Captain MacWhirr cannot fathom anything outside the facts of his own life. His first mate, Mr. Jukes, is the perfect contrast as an imaginative man prone to speaking in figurative language. Though they are opposites, MacWhirr and Jukes respect each other and run a tight ship, until the crew notices the barometer predicting a serve storm. Jukes and the crew suggest alternate paths to MacWhirr, but he is unconvinced. Since MacWhirr has not experienced...
3) Typhoon fury
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Oregon files volume 12
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English
Description
When the leader of a militant communist insurgency in the Philippines escapes capture from the U.S. government with almost supernatural ease, it's up to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to catch him. Tracing the Filipino insurgent through his drug lord allies, Cabrillo learns his new adversary has his eye on an addictive chemical compound developed during World War II that can turn civilians into supersoldiers. And he's not the only one. An...
4) Mirage
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Oregon files volume 9
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English
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In October 1943, a U.S. destroyer supposedly vanished, the result of a Navy experiment with electromagnetic radiation. The story was considered a hoax--but now Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon colleagues aren't so sure. There is talk of a new weapon soon to be auctioned, something very dangerous to America's interests, and the rumors link it to the great inventor Nikola Tesla, who was working with the Navy when he died in 1943. Was he responsible for...
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Oregon files volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Juan Cabrillo and his crew intercept a mayday from a defenseless boat under fire off the African coast, saving the beautiful Sloane Macintyre, who is looking for a submerged ship loaded with a fortune in diamonds.
6) Corsair
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Oregon files volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
Description
When the U.S. Secretary of State's plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA hires Juan Cabrillo to search for her. The crew locates the plane, but the Secretary of State has vanished. But what does it all have to do with a two-hundred-year-old naval battle and the ancient Islamic scrolls the Libyans seem so determined to find? The search for answers leads Cabrillo into another pitched battle at sea, this time against...
7) Plague ship
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Oregon files volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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The crew of the Oregon has just completed a top secret mission against Iran in the Persian Gulf, when they come across a cruise ship adrift in the sea. Hundreds of bodies litter its deck, and as ship captain Cabrillo tries to determine what happened, explosions rack the length of the ship. Barely able to escape with his own life and that of the liner's sole survivor, Cabrillo finds himself plunged into a mystery as intricate--and as perilous--as any...
8) Dark watch
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Oregon files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 20
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English
Description
Juan Cabrillo and his motley crew aboard the clandestine spy ship Oregon have made a very comfortable and very dangerous living working for high-powered Western interests. But their newest clients have come from the Far East to ask for Cabrillo's special brand of assistance: a consortium of Japanese shipping magnates whose fortunes are being threatened by brutal pirates trolling the waters of Southeast Asia. Normally, such attacks on the high seas...
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"Louis L'Amour's long-lost first novel, faithfully completed by his son, takes readers on a voyage into danger and violence on the high seas. Fate is a ship. As the shadows of World War II gather, the SS Lichenfield is westbound across the Pacific carrying eighty thousand barrels of highly explosive naphtha. The cargo alone makes the journey perilous, with the entire crew aware that one careless moment could lead to disaster. But yet another sort...
10) The storm
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NUMA files volume 10
Kurt Austin adventures volume 10
Wheeler large print hardcover
Kurt Austin adventure) volume 10
Kurt Austin adventures volume 10
Wheeler large print hardcover
Kurt Austin adventure) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a NUMA research vessel is suddenly and brutally destroyed by a malevolent black substance originally mistaken for an oil spill, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala pursue an investigation in the Indian Ocean, where they discover an audacious plot targeting millions of victims.
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Terra incognita volume 2
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English
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"After terrible atrocities by both sides, the religious war between Tierra and Uraba has spread and intensified, irreparably dividing the known world. What startes as a series of skirmishes has erupted into a full-blowm crusade. Now that the Uraban leader, Soldan-Shah Omra, has captured the ruined city of Ishalem, his construction teams discover a priceless ancient map in an underground vault - a map that can guide brave explorers to the mysterious...