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"With a cottage on the fjord, a boat, and his beautiful girlfriend, Sølvi, Scot Harvath's got everything he could possibly want. But leaving his favorite Oslo café, Harvath watches as a ghost climbs out of a taxi--a man he killed years ago, halfway around the world. How is he still alive? And what is he doing in Norway? In a race against time that will take him high above the Arctic Circle, Harvath will be tested in ways he has never imagined and...
42) Horizon
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Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
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When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle. Horizon is the debut middle grade novel for Scott Westerfeld.
44) Icebound
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A tidal wave breaks loose the ice under which a team of scientists has planted sixty powerful explosive charges that will detonate at midnight, and one of the team is "an assassin with a mission of his own."--Jacket.
45) Switchers
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Switchers trilogy volume 1
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When freakish weather grips the Arctic regions and moves southward, Tess and her strange companion save the world from disaster through their ability to switch into animal forms.
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"After her mother dies, twelve-year-old Talia McQuinn goes to the Arctic with her father, a whale researcher. Over the course of one summer, and through several unlikely friendships, Talia learns that stories have the power to connect us, to provide hope, and to pull us out of the darkness"--
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Covert-One series volume 7
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"On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers discover the wreckage of a mysterious aircraft, which the Russian Federation admits is a Soviet strategic bomber that disappeared more than fifty years ago while carrying two metric tons of weaponized anthrax. Desperate to prevent a political firestorm, the U.S. president dispatches a Covert-One team led by Lieutenant Colonel Jon Smith to the crash site. But others have reached the frigid, windswept...
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"While researching the Arctic for a school project, Robin discovers that something is heating the glaciers--and it's not just global warming. With Batman's help, Robin discovers that the evil Rā's al Ghūl is behind the environmental disruption. The Dynamic Duo head to the Arctic to stop his evil plan and prevent an ecological disaster"-Unedited summary from book.
51) Hunter
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A skilled tracker must take down a science experiment gone wrong in the Alaskan wilderness in this thriller from the bestselling author of Dark Visions.
In an experiment to extend human life, scientists accidentally tap into the deepest recesses of the human mind and unleash a force that might well be a terrible curse. For in their desire to use a power they did not understand, they unintentionally unleash a force that will spell the end of Mankind...
52) La conspiración
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"En los últimos años, la NASA se había convertido en una increíble esponja financiera de fondos públicos, además de llegar a ser vista como un organismo espejo de la incompetencia. Los quince mil millones de dólares invertidos anualmente en su funcionamiento era uno de los argumentos del presidenciable senador Sexton para arremeter contra el presidente de turno. Pero qué sucedería si dicha organización hubiera realizado un descubrimiento...
53) Arctic gambit
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Jerry Mitchell novels volume 6
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"Jerry Mitchell, now the commodore of submarine Development Squadron Five, is dismayed when USS Toledo is reported missing in Arctic waters, close to Russian territory. The vessel is captained by his former shipmate and close friend, Lenny Berg. Eager to investigate, Jerry convinces the Navy to redirect one of his squadron's boats to find out what happened."--Amazon
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In 1871, nineteen men, women, and children, voyaging on the Arctic explorer USS Polaris found themselves cast adrift on an ice floe as their ship began to founder. Based on one of the most remarkable events in polar history, Afterlands tells the haunting story of this small society of castaways -- a white and a black American, five Germans, a Dane, a Swede, an Englishman, and two Inuit families -- and the harrowing six months they spend marooned in...
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House of Winslow volume 36
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"Mallory Anne Winslow, daughter of missionaries in Africa, follows God's call to carry the Gospel to the Lapps in the Arctic. But her work is interrupted when Norway is invaded by the Germans"--Provided by publisher.
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The nuclear submarine "Dolphin" has impossible orders: Sail beneath the ice floes of the Arctic Ocean to locate and rescue the men of research station Zebra, gutted by fire and drifting with the ice pack somewhere within the Arctic Circle. But the orders can't prepare the crew for what they'll find if their mission is successful -- that the fire at Ice Station Zebra was sabotage and one of the survivors is a killer...
58) The balloonist
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In 1897, three men, a scientist, a journalist, and an adventurer, set off in a hot-air balloon hoping to be the first men to land on the North Pole, as Major Gustav Crispin, the scientist, contemplates their situation and remembers his love affair with the exasperating Luisa.
60) Arctic attack
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"While researching the Arctic for a school project, Robin discovers that something is heating the glaciers--and it's not just global warming. With Batman's help, Robin discovers that the evil Rā's al Ghūl is behind the environmental disruption. The Dynamic Duo head to the Arctic to stop his evil plan and prevent an ecological disaster"-Unedited summary from book.