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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Japanese submarines carrying biological weapons, headed for the West coast of the U.S. at the end of World War II, never make their target. But someone knows where they are, and it is up to the Pitts to stop them.
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 22
Language
English
Description
It is the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades -- an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. Nothing else in any other nation's naval arsenal even comes close. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype is missing -- and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time, ships have started vanishing mid-ocean, usually never to be found again, but when they are, sometimes bodies are found aboard...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Paris, a physicist dies after performing a lab experiment for a beautiful visitor. In the jungles of Malaysia, a mysterious buyer purchases deadly cavitation technology. In Vancouver, a small research submarine is leased for use in the water off New Guinea. And in Tokyo, an intelligence agent tries to understand what it all means.
Author
Series
Alexander Hawke thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
596 p. : map ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While sailing in the Caribbean, young Alex Hawke witnesses an act of unspeakable horror as modern-day pirates brutally murder his parents. It is a tragedy that will haunt him forever, and shape his destiny. As a direct descendant of a legendary English privateer, Lord Alexander Hawke is skilled in the ways of sea combat -- and one of England's most decorated naval heroes. Now, Hawke returns to the Caribbean on a secret mission for the American government....
Author
Series
World War II novels volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
343 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In late 1944, America's naval forces face what seems an insurmountable threat from Japan: immense Yamato-class battleships, which dwarf every other ship at sea. Built in secrecy, these ships seem invincible, and lay waste to any challengers. American military intelligence knows of two such ships, but there is rumored to be a third, a newly-built aircraft carrier, ready to launch from Japan's heavily-defended and mined Inland Sea. Such a ship would...
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Series
Isaac Bell volume 13
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
387 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles--only to discover something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Winchester Factory wasn't looking to take weapons, they wanted to leave something in the shipping crates: a radio transmitter, set to summon a fleet of dreaded German U-boats. Someone is trying to keep American supplies from reaching British shores, and if Bell...
Author
Series
Hannah Bryson volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
403 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Brilliant marine architect Hannah Bryson has been given the job of a lifetime. A U.S. maritime museum has just acquired the decommissioned Soviet submarine Silent Thunder for public exhibition. Itś Hannahś job to make sure that every single inch of the legendary nuclear attack sub is safe for the thousands of visitors anticipated. Enlisting the aid of her brother, Connor, they examine the enormous vessel and delve into its long---and lethal---history....
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 audio discs (1 hr., 40 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Era el año 1866, y el océano pacifico estaba aterrorizado por monstruo marino. El gobierno americano envía a bordo del buque de guerra Abraham Lincoln al especialista en vida marina Pierre Aronnax a que investigue este hecho. Cuando esta nave es hundida por esta misteriosa criatura, el Profesor Aronnax y otros dos supervivientes descubren que no era un monstruo, sino un maravilloso submarino, El Nautilus, comandado por el enigmático Capitán Nemo....
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.), maps (chiefly col.) ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Purports to be the journal of Zoticus de Lesseps, written on an ill-fated 1863 voyage accompanying Captain Nemo to explore the mysteries of the deep sea.
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