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1) The Ebb-Tide
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Language
English
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Published in 1894, the year of Stevenson's death, this novel tells of three unscrupulous men entrusted to deliver a cargo of champagne aboard a ship whose crew has died of smallpox. The three embark on a drunken voyage, only to discover an island whose sole European inhabitant, Attwater, has amassed a fortune in pearls.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In Paris, a graduate student in a secret laboratory reveals a powerful new technology to a beautiful and mysterious woman. A few hours later, the student is drugged and dumped in a river. Radical environmental terrorists are launching a fanatical campaign--and the very future of the world they seek to protect may be at stake. Only MIT scientist and federal agent John Kenner can stop the deadly plot before the terrifying consequences are realized--and...
4) The sea wolf
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
An epic of action-filled excitement. Rescued from drowning, a pampered gentlleman awakes in a special kind of hell. He's aboard the Ghost, a sealing schooner outbound for months of hunting. Wolf Larson, the devilish captain, a feindish crew, the cruel sea, and unlikely love make this tale immortal.
5) Island fire
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A man in love is nothing but a fool. Mitchell Williams is convinced of it. Many of San Francisco's loveliest women have led the handsome shipping magnate to bed, but none will lead him to the altar. All of Mitch's firm convictions are stripped away when he is shanghaied by an enemy and shipwrecked in the South Pacific. Espri, his island rescuer, is worlds away from the calculating beauties he has known, and as innocent and gentle as she is seductive....
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
In 1897, a Chicago insurance magnate and collector of tribal artifacts sponsors an expedition into the South Seas to commemorate the completion of his company's new skyscraper. The ship is to bring back an array of Melanesian weaponry and handicrafts, and also several natives. Caught up in this scheme are two orphans: Owen Graves, an itinerant trader from Chicago's South Side, and Argus Niu, a mission houseboy who longs to be reunited with his sister....
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