Michael Prichard
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Underwater explorer and adventure magnet Dirk Pitt sets off on a whirlwind course around the world to save civilization from destruction after ancient runes are discovered in an abandoned Colorado mine and archaeologist Patricia O'Connell is almost killed to keep them secret.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Jack Ryan, the hero of "Hunt for the Red October," meets his wife in London and finds himself in the middle of a terrorist incident--someone is trying to kidnap the Prince and Princess of Wales and the newest little Prince.
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Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 6
Jack Ryan Universe volume 6
Jack Ryan novel volume 05
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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Jack Ryan Universe volume 6
Jack Ryan novel volume 05
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
More Series...
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 44
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
"When Colombian drug lords assassinate both the U.S. ambassador and the visiting head of the FBI, their actions trigger a covert response from the American government--a response that goes horribly wrong... As the newly named Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA, Jack Ryan should be privy to operations like the one in Colombia, but he's been left completely in the dark. With the help of field officer John Clark, Ryan intends to find out what's...
4) Betty Zane
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English
Description
1782 - the Ohio River settlements. The land along the Ohio River is newly settled. Indomitable men and women - Col. Zane and his family, the McCollochs, Wetzel, the "Death Wind" Indian killer, among them - have hewn a life out of the frontier wilderness, building homesteads and farms around the stockade and blockhouse of Fort Henry. All about them is the seemingly impenetrable forest, haunt of white renegades and hostile Indian tribes - the Wyandots,...
5) Sahara
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 31
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
A deadly toxic compound in the African desert is killing thousands of people and threatens to extinguish marine life in the world's seas. As Dirk Pitt crosses the Sahara, he uncovers the truth about an Australian pilot missing since 1931, and a secret held in a Confederate ironclad.
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Series
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"In the law of the gun, a man must shoot his way to innocence. At least that's how Captain McKelly of the Texas Rangers puts it to Buck Duane. On the run for killing a man to save his own skin, Duane must now infiltrate the deadly Chelsedine gang. These ruthless rustlers are running amok in Texas and it's going to take a matchless gunfighter to stop their rampage. With the legendary Rangers providing firepower, Duane has more than a fighting chance....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
He was known as Deathwind to the Ohio Valley Indians, and now Lewis Wetzel must single-handedly save Fort Henry. Armed only with his long rifle and knife, he heads out on a one-man rampage to stop the bloody border wars, to face down Chief Wingenund, and to avenge the brutal missionary massacre at Village of Peace.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 66
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
A high-level assassination attempt in Russia has the newly elected Ryan sending his most trusted eyes and ears-including antiterrorism specialist John Clark-to Moscow, for he fears the worst is yet to come. And he's right. The attempt has left the already unstable Russia vulnerable to ambitious forces in China eager to fulfill their destiny-and change the face of the world as we know it...
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 7
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Dirk Pitt is up against a sinister Asian shipping family and a Soviet plot to use the president of the United States for their own purposes through mind control.
12) Iceberg
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Crawling into the heart of an iceberg, Dirk Pitt discovers the charred remains of a lost luxury yacht, its crew, and its owner, an icelandic mining magnate. Missing is its secret, priceless cargo..."
Author
Series
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
John Shefford had found a new life with Fay Larkin. When she was charged with murder, the easy part was breaking her out of jail. After that he had the posse to worry about, violent bands of Indians, a murderous trek across a trackless waste, and a brutal passage through white water hell.
14) Dragon
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
"Japan, 1945: Two US bombers take off with atomic bombs. Only one gets through. The Pacific, 1993: A Japanese cargo ship bound for the United States is instantly, thunderously vaporized, taking with it a Norwegian vessel. Japanese fanatics have developed a chilling plan to devastate and destroy the Western powers. From the ocean depths to the discovery of cache of lost Nazi loot, Dirk Pitt is untangling a savage conspiracy and igniting a daring counterattack....
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 30
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Saving the lives of two American archaeologists who nearly drown in a sacrificial pool in the Andes Mountains, Dirk Pitt becomes unwittingly involved in a sinister crime organization that has discovered an ancient treasure.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
Language
English
Description
Dirt Pitt matches wits with a nefarious Chinese smuggler who specializes in secretly transporting illegal Chinese immigrants into countries around the world, as he tracks his quarry to a remote port in Louisiana and searches for a treasure ship that sank at the beginning of World War II.
17) The last trail
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English
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With anxiety, Mr. Sheppard, his nephew, and daughter set up camp in the gathering darkness. They were trying to reach Fort Henry before nightfall but lost their way in the shades of the forest. Their guide had mysteriously deserted them that morning. Suddenly, a band of Indians appeared at the edge of the firelight brandishing tomahawks. As quickly as they appeared, they disappeared. Moments later, a man clad in fringed buckskins silently slipped...
18) Cyclops
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 24
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
"When Dirk Pitt intercepts a rogue blimp on a deadly course, authorities find four dead men aboard. None of them, however, is the wealthy American financier who set out aboard the antique airship on an ocean treasure hunt in the Bermuda Triangle. He and his crew have disappeared, and the dead men are discovered to be Soviet cosmonauts. Meanwhile, the President of the United States is informed that a covert group of U.S. industrialists successfully...
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Major Dirk Pitt is called to Greece to investigate the sabotage of a National Underwater Marine Agency mission to find a fish with links to the prehistoric era, and discovers a web of conspiracy involving drug smuggling, a beautiful woman, and a vengeful Nazi war criminal.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Tough, cynical PI Sam Spade, a man who, as his creator explained, is "able to take care of himself in any situation, able to get the best of anybody he comes in contact with," is hired by the story's irresistible femme fatale, Brigid O'Shaughnessy, to locate the client's sister by tailing her companion. Spade's partner, Miles Archer, takes on the assignment, and quickly both he and the man he was shadowing are murdered. As Spade pursues the mystery...