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1) Water bound
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Miraculously, Lev Prakenskii was saved from the swirling currents of the ocean by a beautiful stranger. Although he has no memory of who he is or why he seems to possess the instincts of a trained killer. He knows that he fears for his life & for the life of his unexpected savior. Soon tantalizing secrets will engulf them both in a whirl pool of dizzying passion & danger.
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"A commercial jetliner crashes into the Pacific Ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent--Shannon's mother and Will's soon-to-be ex-wife--who must work together with...
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"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
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Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that had always belonged to men. She becomes the first female diver, the...
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"Commercial deep-sea diver Solvig has a secret. She wants to be one of the first human beings to colonize Mars, and she's one of a hundred people shortlisted by the Mars Project to do just that. But to fulfil her ambition, she'll have to leave behind everything she's ever known-for the rest of her life. As the prospect of heading to space becomes more real, thirty-seven-year-old Solvig is forced to define who she really is. Will she come clean to...
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When buried secrets surface, she's caught in a criminal's crosshairs. Aquarium employee Olivia Smith isn't sure why someone wants her dead--but Marine Corps pilot Brady Johnson knows a secret that could explain it. Brady vowed he'd tell no one that Olivia's husband had been on the run from his own mob family before he died, but he also promised he'd keep Olivia safe. With danger running deep, they'll have to work fast to stay alive.
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[2020]
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Conocidas por su espíritu independiente y su tenaz voluntad, las haenyeo -mujeres buceadoras de la isla surcoreana de Jeju- constituyen uno de los principales símbolos culturales de este país asiático. Fascinada por esta sociedad matriarcal, Lisa See nos brinda una hermosa y reflexiva novela sobre los lazos de amistad de dos jóvenes haenyeo -Kim Young-sook y Han Mi-ja- y las poderosas fuerzas, tanto naturales como históricas, que las rodean:...
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