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1) In ascension
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English
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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...
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Pub. Date
2022.
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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"--
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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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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 22
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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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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 21
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English
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NUMA director Dirk Pitt searches for the connections among newly discovered Roman artifacts, the rise of a fundamentalist movement, and the existence of a mysterious long-lost "manifest," which, if discovered again, may change the history of the world.
6) Cannery Row
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English
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Unburdened by the material necessities of the more fortunate, the denizens of Cannery Row discover rewards unknown in more traditional society. Henry the painter sorts through junk lots for pieces of wood to incorporate into the boat he is building, while the girls from Dora Flood's bordello venture out now and then to enjoy a bit of sunshine. Lee Chong stocks his grocery with almost anything a man could want, and Doc, a young marine biologist who...
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Turtle Beach volume 2
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English
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"Sparks fly when Molly Prince's puppy Ursula constantly disrupts the beachfront area where new-in-town marine biologist Max Miller is studying sea turtles. Max and Molly are instantly attracted to each other, but Molly dismisses Max out-of-hand and Max refuses to take Molly seriously in her job as the aquarium's mermaid. But when Ursula reveals her unique ability to sniff out sea turtle nests, she might bring these two opposites close enough to help...
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Doc Ford novels volume 19
Pub. Date
[2012]
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English
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Sneaking an underwater look at a notorious Russian black marketeer's fancy yacht, Doc Ford emerges to discover that the marketeer's private island has been taken over by environmental extremists who threaten to kill a hostage every hour until their demands are met.
10) Night moves
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Series
Doc Ford novels volume 20
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Unsure if he or his friend Tomlinson was the target of a recent murder attempt, Doc Ford continues investigating a near-poisoning, a plane crash, and an explosion off Sanibel Island.
11) Bone Deep
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Series
Doc Ford novels volume 21
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2014?]
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English
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 24
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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Doc Ford novels volume 9
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Doc Ford investigates a tragedy that claims the life of his close friend, diver Janet Mueller, he uncovers dark rumors about the case involving everything from fraud to smuggling to murder.
14) Black Widow
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Series
Doc Ford novels volume 15
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
Entreated by his goddaughter to help pay off a blackmailer who videotaped her bachelorette party and then threatened to expose her debauchery, Doc Ford reluctantly agrees and then finds himself in danger when the extortionist releases the tape anyway.
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 27
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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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...
16) Odessa Sea
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Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 24
Publisher
Books on Tape
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English
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Dirk Pitt—“oceanography’s answer to Indiana Jones”*—responds to a Mayday signal from a deserted ship and gets drawn towards a deadly Cold War secret in this thriller in Clive Cussler’s #1 New York Times-bestselling series.
Dirk Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to an urgent...
Dirk Pitt, the director of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, is on the Black Sea, helping to locate a lost Ottoman shipwreck, when he responds to an urgent...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 25
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English
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"Clive Cussler, 'The Grand Master of Adventure,' sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. An attack...
18) Monterey Bay
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Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
Description
"In 1940, fifteen year-old Margot Fiske arrives on the shores of Monterey Bay with her eccentric entrepreneur father. Margot has been her father's apprentice all over the world, until an accident in Monterey's tide pools drives them apart and plunges her head-first into the mayhem of John Steinbeck's Cannery Row... Alternating between past and present, Monterey Bay explores histories both imagined and actual to create an unforgettable portrait of...
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Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-four-year-old marine biologist Kyra Winthrop remembers nothing about the diving accident that left her with a complex form of memory loss. With only brief flashes of the last few years of her life, her world has narrowed to a few close friendships on the island where she lives with her devoted husband, Jacob. But all is not what it seems. Kyra begins to have visions--or are they memories?--of a rocky marriage, broken promises, and cryptic...
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Pub. Date
2019
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English
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A century apart, NUMA Director Dirk Pitt and legendary detective Isaac Bell team up to unlock the truth about a famous maritime disaster. In the present day, Pitt makes a daring water rescue from inside an antiquated submersible. He also finds a document left behind by Bell that re-opens a historical mystery. In 1911, Bell investigates a tragedy at Colorado's Little Angel Mine, in which nine people died. This leads to a larger puzzle centered on byzanium,...
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