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1) Zoo
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As coordinated attacks by animals against humans increase and escalate, young biologist Jackson Oz and ecologist Chloe Tousignant warn world leaders that soon there will be nowhere left for humans.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
3) Bone Deep
Author
Language
English
Description
Ford journeys to a region of Central Florida where they confront a cutthroat subculture of black-marketers and a ruthless multibillion-dollar phosphate industry that hides murder victims among its bone remains.
4) Night moves
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 20
Pub. Date
c2013
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 .
5) Night vision
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
x, 351 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a local teen from a trailer park being targeted by powerful developers witnesses their hired gun committing a murder, her only hope for survival falls in the hands of Doc Ford and Tomlinson, who undertake a search through the underground in the hopes of finding her first.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Tired of living on a failing farm and suffering oppressive poverty, bored housewife Dellarobia Turnbow, on the way to meet a potential lover, is detoured by a miraculous event on the Appalachian mountainside that ignites a media and religious firestorm that changes her life forever.
7) Havana storm
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"While investigating a toxic outbreak in the Caribbean Sea that may ultimately threaten the United States, Pitt unwittingly becomes involved in something even more dangerous--a post-Castro power struggle for the control of Cuba. Meanwhile, Pitt's children, marine engineer Dirk and oceanographer Summer, are on an investigation of their own, chasing an Aztec stone that may reveal the whereabouts of a vast historical Aztec treasure. The problem is, that...
8) Black widow
Author
Language
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.
Author
Series
A Doc Ford novel volume 25
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
"Murder, sunken treasure, and pirates both ancient and modern send Doc Ford on a nightmare quest in the thrilling new novel in the New York Times-bestselling series. Marine biologist Doc Ford has been known to help his friends out of jams occasionally, but he's never faced a situation like this. His old pal Carl Fitzpatrick has been chasing sunken wrecks most of his life, but now he's run afoul of the Florida Division of Historical Resources. Its...
Author
Series
Alex Carter volume 01
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Targeted by aggressive locals attempting to sabotage her research on a Montana endangered wildlife sanctuary, biologist Alex Carter reports evidence of an injured person to indifferent authorities before uncovering the activities of a serial killer.
11) Arctic drift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a series of unexplained deaths and international hostilities occur in the wake of a breakthrough discovery to reverse global warming, NUMA director Dirk Pitt and his children investigate a mysterious silvery mineral with links to a fabled Northwest Passage expedition.
12) Treasure of Khan
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an oil survey team is abducted after a suspicious accident, Dirk Pitt follows leads to Mongolia, where he learns about a megalomaniac's plot to supply oil to China and to undermine global oil markets.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
258 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a #1 IndieNext pick, a gorgeous and pulse-pounding new novel set in the wild Scottish Highlands. Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team of biologists tasked with reintroducing fourteen gray wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but Aggie, too, unmade by the terrible secrets that drove the sisters out of Alaska....
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
649 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In May 1940, as the German army blitzes Europe and Parisians flee their city, the chief curator of the Mu¿Łe de l'ArÌŒme 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...
16) Celtic Empire
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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...
17) Salt River
Author
Series
Doc Ford volume 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marine biologist and former government agent Doc Ford is sure he's beyond the point of being surprised by his longtime pal Tomlinson's madcap tales of his misspent youth. But he's stunned anew when avowed bachelor Tomlinson reveals that as a younger man strapped for cash, he'd unwittingly fathered multiple children via for-profit sperm bank donations. Thanks to genealogy websites, Tomlinson's now-grown offspring have tracked him down, seeking answers...
18) The devil's sea
Author
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Fearless adventurer Dirk Pitt must unravel a historical mystery of epic importance in the latest novel in the beloved New York Times bestselling series created by the "grand master of adventure" Clive Cussler. In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine...
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Jasmine Lopez loves exploring the coral reefs around Fiji where her marine biologist parents are stationed, and though young, she is already a certified scuba diver, a fact that her ten-year-old brother Arjun seems to resent; in fact he seems to believe he already knows everything about diving, and certainly does not want help from his older sister--until his overconfidence and defiance leads them both into a confrontation with a reef...