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3) Submarines
Author
Series
Publisher
Amicus
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Photographs and text provide information about submarines, explaining what they are, looking at different types of submarines, and discussing how they are used.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
In Paris, a young physicist performs an oceanographic experiment-then dies mysteriously after a romantic tryst with a beautiful stranger. In the jungles of Malaysia, powerful hypersonic cavitation technology-capable of toppling mountains with sound-is purchased by a private interest for an unspecified purpose. In Vancouver, a businessman leases a small research submarine for use in the waters of New Guinea. In Tokyo, in Los Angeles, in Antarctica,
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
The enemy from within . . . Iranian-born British Commando Major Ray Kerman was a rising star in the SAS -- until he abruptly switched loyalties while on a mission in the Middle East. Fanatically determined to employ his brilliant talents and training in the destruction of those he once swore to protect, he is now General Ravi Rashood, leader of the world's most vicious terrorist organization -- and he has found his ultimate weapon: Barracuda 945....
10) Silent thunder
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Marine architect Hannah Bryson, working with her brother Connor to inspect the decommissioned Soviet submarine "Silent Thunder" and ready it to be used as a maritime museum, sets her sights on revenge when Connor is killed and she learns they have been used as bait by the CIA and former Russian crew member Nicholas Kirov to trap a Soviet crime lord who believes the vessel holds the secret to the whereabouts of a priceless artifact.
11) H.M.S. Unseen
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan is very concerned when the H.M.S. Unseen, one of four diesel-electric submarines owned by the Royal Navy, vanishes, and a year later his fears are realized when the sub, modified into a dangerous anti-aircraft weapon, makes a reappearance in the control of a terrorist spy.
13) Poseidon's arrow
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure) volume 22
Language
English
Description
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.
16) U.S.S. Seawolf
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
When Admiral Arnold Morgan, the President's National Security Adviser, learns that the Chinese army has developed a submarine that has the capability to launch a nuclear missile across the Pacific Ocean, he sends out America's most lethal weapon, a 9,000 ton submarine, to destroy the threat.
Author
Language
English
Description
On a brutally cold night in February 1864, all seemed calm off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina. But beneath the placid surface of the sea, a Confederate submarine named the H. L. Hunley was about to attack the USS Housatonic, the Union Navy's largest warship. The sub plunged a 135-pound torpedo into the Houstonic's stern, sinking it within three minutes, and becoming the first submarine to sink a ship in battle. Lieutenant George Dixon and...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the "H. L. Hunley," the Confederate submarine that in 1864 became the first to ever sink an enemy ship but lay missing on the ocean floor for more than a century, describing its creation, its discovery, skeletons and objects found onboard, and facial reconstructions of several crew members by forensic anthropologists.
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