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"Samuel Pipps is the greatest detective of his day--but now he's a prisoner, accused of an unknown crime by one of the world's most powerful men. Along with his faithful sidekick Arent Hayes, they're sailing back to Amsterdam from the East Indies, where he'll stand trial. But no sooner are they out to sea than devilry begins to blight the voyage"--
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The British crown has placed a price on Jacky's head, so she returns to the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston to lay low. But the safe haven doesn't last—a school outing goes awry as Jacky and her classmates are abducted and forced into the hold of the Bloodhound, a ship bound for the slave markets on the Barbary Coast. All of Jacky's ingenuity, determination, and plain old good luck will be put to the test as she rallies her delicate...
6) Djibouti
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Dara Barr, documentary filmmaker, is at the top of her game. She's covered the rape of Bosnian women, neo-Nazi white supremacists, and post-Katrina New Orleans, and has won awards for all three. Now, looking for a bigger challenge, Dara and her right-hand-man, Xavier LeBo, a six-foot-six, seventy-two-year-old African American seafarer, head to Djibouti, on the Horn of Africa, to film modern-day pirates hijacking merchant ships. They learn soon enough...
8) The siren
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Forced to work as a Siren and lure strangers to their deaths after being rescued from drowning by the Ocean, Kahlen falls in love with a human and defies the rules of her service in order to follow her heart.
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2011
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In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy boards a ship bound for England, and at mealtimes is seated at the "cat's table" with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, "bursting all over the place like freed mercury." But there are other diversions: one man talks to them about jazz...
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A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fanatical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...
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Wild robot volume 3
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2023.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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"Roz must take an under-the-ocean journey to save her island from a mysterious poison tide"--|cProvided by publisher.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 14
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Simon & Schuster
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c1997
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511 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Dirk Pitt faces one of his most formidable foes--a madman bent on killing hundreds of innocent men, women, and children with a catastrophic surge of mass destruction.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 11
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Simon & Schuster
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c1992
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541 p. : 25 cm.
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With the mastery that has made each of his books a major bestseller, Cussler ties together the disappearance of a Confederate ironclad in 1865, a British aviatrix who vanished in 1931, and the 1995 mission of Dirk Pitt to find the remains of a Pharaoh's funeral barge buried at the bottom of the Nile. The result is Pitt's most gripping and action-packed adventure ever.
14) Moby Dick
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Ishmael seeks a thrilling adventure, so he joins the crew of a whaling ship. The captain of his ship, Captain Ahab, is crazed with revenge for a white whale called Moby Dick, who ripped off his leg. Join Ishmael and his mates on a rousing journey at sea and discover how one man survives the battle between a determined hunter and a high-spirited animal!
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Oregon files volume 3
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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 are...
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Oregon files volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
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The Oregon, a clandestine spy ship completely dilapidated on the outside, but on the inside packed with sophisticated weaponry and intelligence-gathering equipment. Captained by the rakish, one-legged Juan Cabrillo and manned by a crew of former military and spy personnel, it is a private enterprise, available for any government agency that can afford it - and now Cussler sends the Oregon on its most extraordinary mission yet. The crew has just completed...
17) Storm of sharks
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Wereworld volume 5
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Viking, published by Penguin Group
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[2013]
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IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 16
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454 p.
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Young werewolf Drew Ferran's battle against the evil Catlords, who seek to oppress the kingdom, takes to the high seas.
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EDC Publishing
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2010.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations ; 26 cm.
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Have you ever wondered how deep the sea is? Pipkin the penguin wants to know just that. Join him and some underwater friends on an incredible journey to find out.
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Oregon files volume 6
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IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
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Corsairs are pirates, and pirates come in many different varieties. There are the pirates who fought off the Barbary Coast in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the contemporary pirates who infest the waters of Africa and Asia, and the pirates . . . who look like something else. When the U.S. secretary of stateś plane crashes while bringing her to a summit meeting in Libya, the CIA, distrusting the Libyans, hire Juan Cabrillo to...
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Their captain's insane vision of a Northwest Passage has kept the crewmen of HMS Terror trapped in Arctic ice for two years without a thaw. But the real threat to their survival isn't the ever-shifting landscape of white, the provisions that have turned to poison, or the ship slowly buckling in the grip of the frozen ocean. The real threat is whatever is out in the frigid darkness, stalking their ship, snatching and brutally killing their fellow seamen....
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