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Taken aboard the submarine Nautilus by Captain Nemo, the narrator and his companions find themselves captives on a spectacular tour of the world's oceans, and witnesses to Nemo's increasingly obsessive hatred of the surface world. Professor Pierre Aronnax was rescued from drowning by Captain Nemo, who insists that in order to protect the secret of his submarine, Aronnax must stay on board the Nautilus for the rest of his life. They explore the oceans,...
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It came from the deep
OBD Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist Fiction 2023 - Adult
OBD Husbands and Wives - ADULT
Real Horror Wears Pink
OBD Andrew Carnegie Medal Longlist Fiction 2023 - Adult
OBD Husbands and Wives - ADULT
Real Horror Wears Pink
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"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
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This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
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An anti-globalization group plans to give the worlds industrial nations a jolt by using an artificially triggered "polar shift." But the scheme goes awry when the shift cannot be reversed and the NUMA Special Assignments Team is called into action. Available in a Premium Edition.
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A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser has forced Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men, but when the two investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work.
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NUMA operative Kurt Austin takes on a madman fronting as an evironmentalist in this #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift in the polar ice caps, which could cause massive eruptions, earthquaks, and even climate changes. But then his work disappeared, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic leader of an antiglobalization group...
Sixty years ago, an eccentric Hungarian genius discovered how to artificially trigger such a shift in the polar ice caps, which could cause massive eruptions, earthquaks, and even climate changes. But then his work disappeared, or so it was thought. Now, the charismatic leader of an antiglobalization group...
8) White Death
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Hailed as a hero for the new millennium, NUMA leader Kurt Austin must protect the seas’ delicate ecosystem from a fish-farming organization with big plans for their genetically-modified product in this #1 New York Times-bestselling adventure series.
A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser leave many survivors trapped inside a sunken ship. But when the head of NUMA Special Assignments,
9) Under water
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Andrew lost volume 5
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Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot accidentally set off in Uncle Al's latest invention, a Volkswagen Beetle converted for deep sea exploration, and try to prevent the evil Soggy Bob from taking a rare ocean creature.
10) Tides of fire
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Sigma Force novels volume 17
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"To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine in the area triggers a brutal attack and sets in motion...
11) Vostok
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Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 2
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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...
12) Pacific vortex!
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 1
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Undersea adventurer Dirk Pitt faces the toughest challenge of his life when he plunges into a deadly sea zone to rescue the gigantic Starbuck, America's nuclear arsenal, while battling deep-sea assassins.
14) Shadow zone
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A discovery by submersible designer Hannah Bryson suggests a possible cause of mythical Atlantis's mysterious demise that has potentially cataclysmic consequences for the modern world.
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In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
16) The unspoken
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Hired to investigate the legendary wreck of the freighter Jerry McGuen, which sank in 1898 while carrying the ill-gotten sarcophagus of an Egyptian sorcerer, to save a documentary in progress, paranormal investigator Katya Sokolov and forensics guru Will Chan are plunged into new depths of terror.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 4
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The President's secret task force has developed an unprecedented defensive weapon that relies on an extremely rare radioactive element--and Dirk Pitt has followed a twisted trail to a secret cache of the substance. Now, racing against brutal storms, Soviet spies, and a ticking clock, Pitt begins his most thrilling mission--to raise from its watery grave the shipwreck of the century ...
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"Como en casi todas sus obras, en 20.000 leguas de viaje submarino, Julio Verne recurre a la fantasía dramática de la narración para narrarnos los secretos y maravillas del mundo subacuático, en boca del capitán Nemo, al parecer un príncipe indio que, desposeído por los ingleses, navega por los mares del mundo hundiendo barcos ingleses, esta vez en compañía de sus "invitados", el naturalista francés Aronnax, su fiel criado Consejo y el arponero...
20) In ascension
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"Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic Ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of Earth's first life forms--what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our...