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1) Havoc
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
While trying to avoid insurgent armies in the Central African Republic, geologist Philip Mercer uncovers nuclear secrets and aids Center for Disease Control employee Cali Stowe in her investigation into a village with a high rate of cancer and birth defects.
2) Spartan gold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Husband and wife treasure hunting team Sam and Remi Fargo find a World War II U-boat in the swamps in Maryland and end up being pursued by a Russian Persian millionaire who will stop at nothing to get his hands on a bottle the Fargos now hold which was part of Napoleon's Lost Cellar.
3) The innocent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
America's best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sixty-two-year-old Ellis Hock's family has abandoned him, he and hopes to rekindle his youthful happiness in Malawi where he taught school forty years earlier, but in Malawi he finds the old school in ruins and the people apathetic.
5) Lost empire
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sam and Remi Fargo, the husband-and-wife treasure-hunting team, come upon a relic that belongs to a lost Confederate ship while scuba diving in Tanzania, but their discovery conflicts with Mexico's ruling party, the Mexica Tenochca, who wants to find the artifact and prevent a secret from destroying the party.
6) The kingdom
Author
Series
Publisher
Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Husband-and-wife team Sam and Remi Fargo are contacted by a Texas oil baron who wants them to help search for her father and the missing investigator she already sent looking for him, and the Fargos agree, sending them on a journey through Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China.
7) Moby Dick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"A masterpiece of storytelling, this epic saga pits Ahab, a brooding and fantastical sea captain, against the great white whale that crippled him. In telling the tale of Ahab's passion for revenge and the fateful voyage that ensued, Melville produced far more than the narrative of a hair-raising journey; Moby-Dick is a tale for the ages that sounds the deepest depths of the human soul. Interspersed with graphic sketches of life aboard a whaling vessel,...
9) Lunatics
Author
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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Formats
Description
One of the authors is a bestselling Pulitzer Prize-winning humorist. The other is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor. Together, they form the League of Comic Justice, battling evildoers in the name of... Okay, we made that line up. What they do form is a writing team of pure comic genius, and they will have you laughing like idiots. One character, Philip Horkman is a happy man, the owner of a pet store called The Wine Shop, and on...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a NUMA research vessel is suddenly destroyed by a malevolent black substance originally mistaken for an oil spill, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala pursue an investigation in the Indian Ocean, where they discover a plot targeting millions of victims.
11) On borrowed time
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Richard Kilmer's fiancée, Jennifer Ryan, disappears after Richard loses control of his car and the car rolls, and after neither Richard nor the police can find her, he finds that no one in his life will confirm her existence and all traces of her have disappeared.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their teammates on the NUMA Special Assignments team get caught up in the ambitions of an African dictator when they are sent in to investigate the scene on the Eastern Atlantic near Azores where a Japanese cargo ship inexplicably burst into flames and attempt to decipher what the incident has to do with the disappearance of a top scientist from Geneva.
13) Black light
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
Description
Bob Lee Swagger, who served as a Marine sniper in Vietnam, has forsaken violence, retiring to the Arizona desert with his wife and child. However, when questions are raised about the murder of Swagger's dad in a shoot-out forty years ago, he is drawn once again into a life-threatening nightmare.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Disgraced primate behaviorist Dr. Sara Pollard agrees to join an anti-whaling expedition on the ship Black Anemone to record the Japanese killing of whales only to have her ship be attacked by an intelligent whale.
15) Young Fredle
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fredle, a young mouse cast out of his home, faces dangers and predators outside, makes some important discoveries and allies, and learns the meaning of freedom as he struggles to return home.
16) The cat's table
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Michael, now an adult, recalls the three-week long sea voyage he took as a boy in the early 1950s to meet his mother. During the trip across the Indian Ocean the boy meets a variety of characters on board.
17) Treasure Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a pirate's fortune as well as great danger.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume no. 4
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Flat Stanley lets his new friend Nick use him for a snowboard, but strong winds interrupt their fun, sending Stanley and Nick on an arctic Canadian adventure.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
To pull off their latest mission, Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must survive a devastating new weapon unleashed in thirteenth-century China ... a daring rescue in the snowbound mountains along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border ... a woman gone missing in the jungles of northern Thailand and Myanmar ... for Cabrillo and company, all of these events will come together -- leading to the greatest threat against US security that the country has ever...
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