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41) Vostok
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Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 2
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English
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East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct...
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"First impressions, thank goodness, really can't be trusted! When marine biologist Holly Leonard agrees to help Parker Brant write a book on giant sea turtles, she expects a charming and charismatic charter boat captain-not the strait-laced, all-business dud who greets her. For his part, Parker is surprised to find that Dr. Leonard is not the matronly grandmother he expected but a blue-eyed beauty who's lively, fun- and a total klutz. Unfortunately,...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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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.
44) Dead silence
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Doc Ford novels volume 16
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English
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Winter in New York City: Doc Ford is at the Explorers Club. He foils an abduction attempt on a senator, but the companion in her car is snatched-- and buried alive, leading to a series of remarkable twists and revelations.
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English
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"Following a mysterious murder on an island off the coast of Vietnam, a research team convenes to study an octopus community that seems to be developing its own language and culture. Humans, AIs, and animals are swept up in the machinations of governments and corporations in this near-future thriller about the nature of intelligence."--
46) The Heat Islands
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Doc Ford novels volume 2
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English
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"Marine biologist and former secret operative Doc Ford is lazily poling his skiff along Southwest Florida's flat copper sea in search of sea anemones when he runs into the body of the most hated man on Sanibel Island: Marvin Rios. But when the community's simplest and sweetest resident is arrested for the murder, Doc heads straight into the heart of Sanibel's shady underworld to save his friend from being framed--and to save his beloved island from...
47) Calypso down
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English
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"An undersea laboratory in a violent storm, an attack imminent. Only Chris Black can save the mission gone awry. Indomitable marine biologist Chris Black arrives in Florida intending to assist young aquanauts on an internationally funded mission to Calypso, the new undersea laboratory deployed on the edge of a coral reef. But as online trolls jeopardize the integrity of the mission and mysterious attacks suggest that someone would prefer that Calypso...
48) Captiva
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Series
Doc Ford novels volume 4
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English
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An environmental war breaks out in Florida between sports fishermen and commercial fishermen who are despoiling the waters. With friends in both camps Doc Ford, a government agent turned marine biologist, prefers to stay neutral. But a man's death in the explosion of a jetty brings him into it all the same.
49) The devil's sea
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"In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director, Dirk Pitt, discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea more than sixty years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from...
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"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Musée de l'Armée is ordered to get a mysterious piece of cargo out of the country. When he arrives at the port of Le Havre and learns that his intended ship has been sunk, he places the object on a decrepit steamer that sails out under German fire. In the present day, National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt is on a diving expedition...
51) Sanibel Flats
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Doc Ford novels volume 1
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English
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After ten years of living life on the edge, it was hard for ex-CIA agent Doc Ford to get that addiction to danger out of his system. But spending each day in Florida, watching the sun melt into Dinkins Bay and the moon rise over the mangrove trees, cooking dinner for his beautiful neighbor, and dispensing advice to the locals over a cold beer lulled him into letting his guard down. Then Rafe Hollins appeared. How could Doc refuse his old friend’s...
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Hardy Boys adventures volume 21
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English
Description
"Frank and Joe are off to the Florida Keys to work alongside Lookout Shark Lab's Dr. E. Ella Edwards, one of the world's foremost marine biologists. On their first evening, Dr. Edwards paddleboards out to check on a lemon shark nursery. But after a sudden squall rolls in, she doesn't return, and the next day her board washes up with a shark bite taken out of it. The Hardys volunteer to help the search and rescue efforts as panic sparks a rift in Lookout...
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In the wake of political defeat, former mayoral candidate Ainsley St. James does something totally out of character--she has a one-night stand with a seductive stranger. Never expecting to see him again, she accepts a job covering a breaking story in Hilton Head, South Carolina--only to discover that the island's most desirable recluse is the lover she has yet to forget. Winston Coltrane can't get that incredible night, or the sexy, sophisticated...
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Sylvia Earle was only age three when she fell in love with the ocean. She dedicated her life to exploring it, studying it, and educating others about ocean conservation. As a professional female scientist whose career began in the 1960s, she faced obstacles and discrimination due to her gender. Nevertheless, this oceanographer, marine botanist, ecologist, aquanaut, and writer rose to the top of her field. This insightful volume highlights the compelling...
55) Poseidon's arrow
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English
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Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy's latest submarine technology--and he has found a way to hijack the world's supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1220L
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English
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"Follow the remarkable journey of Jeanne Villepreux-Power from her childhood in a small French village to her life as a naturalist in nineteenth century Messina, Sicily, where she conducted groundbreaking research and invented aquariums" --
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"Follow the scientists working in the Pacific Northwest to learn about the orca whale population there, as they race to save these remarkable mammals from extinction. Perfect for fans of The Great White Shark Scientist and readers looking for excellent nonfiction on this high-interest animal."--
58) Dark tide
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Pub. Date
2023.
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HL 400L
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English
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"Kai is angry when he's forced to join his new stepfather, Rick, on a research trip to Blind Bay. On a floating lab in the middle of nowhere. Rick, a marine biologist, is using sound waves to explore deep underwater caves. But they discover that the sound pulses have awakened something. Something that is now hunting them-an ancient predator from the depths of the caves. Soon the tide will turn, unleashing the creature out into the open ocean...and...
60) North of Havana
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Doc Ford novels volume 5
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English
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Florida marine biologist Doc Ford reluctantly heads to Havana to aid his ex-hippie friend Tomlinson, who strayed into Cuban waters, only to discover that Tomlinson and his female companion have mysteriously vanished and that he has become caught up in a web of revenge, revolution, and murder
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