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Author
Series
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 members of the NUMA Special Assignments Team are called in to investigate after ships are destroyed near the Azores and they find themselves entangled in the ambitions of an African dictator who may have developed a weapon with extraordinary power.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Bill François' Eloquence of the Sardine is a charming narrative nonfiction book about the secret lives of fishes. If we listen to the ocean, what do we hear? What can it teach us? How can it change us? Written by a marine scientist (and winner of French eloquence competitions), this work of narrative non-fiction blends Bill François' personal story with that of sea creatures to create an original and exciting work. In poetic prose, he describes...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
The latest chapter in The Numa Files series by authors Clive Cussler and Graham Brown. A NUMA vessel is attacked on the Indian Ocean by a mysterious swarm of black particles. What is found later is a smoldering husk of the ship. Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are sent to investigate and lead to the most audacious scheme they have ever known.
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 8
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on a case involving a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic.
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Kurt and Joe tangle with the most determined enemy they{u2019}ve ever encountered when a ruthless powerbroker schemes to build a new Egyptian empire as glorious as those of the Pharaohs. Part of his plan rests on the manipulation of a newly discovered aquifer beneath the Sahara, but an even more devastating weapon at his disposal may threaten the entire world: a plant extract known as the black mist, discovered in the City of the Dead and rumored...
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Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
When a scientist discovers a possible way to tap an unlimited energy source using machines that cause massive earthquakes, Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their NUMA teammates race against time to locate the scientist's machines and to prevent catastrophic disasters.
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Language
English
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"NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental...
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English
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"After an explosion in the Gulf of Mexico destroys three oil rigs trying to revive a dying field, Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Projects Team are tapped by the President of the United States to find out what's gone wrong. The trail leads them to a brilliant billionaire in the alternative energy field. Her goal is the end of the oil age; her company has spent billions developing the worlds' most advanced fuel-cell systems. But is she an environmental...
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Language
English
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An alarming rise in the world's sea levels--much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt--sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea, however, is even worse than they imagined: a diabolical plan to upset the Pacific balance of power--and in the process displace as many as a billion people. A rare alloy unlike...
15) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Series
Language
English
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Description
When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn't trust either version of his recollection. Determined to know the truth, he begins to search for answers, and soon finds himself descending into a shadowy world of state-sponsored...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A freighter carrying top-secret computers of unparalleled capability disappears in the Western Pacific. While searching for a lost treasure that once belonged to the famous Chinese pirate queen, Ching Shih, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are redirected to look for the missing vessel. Discovering that the sinking of the ship is just part of an intricate web of deception, they find themselves in the middle of a cyber-war between rival groups of hackers,...
19) Medusa
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 8
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Clive Cussler and Paul Kemprecos present the eighth NUMA File novel. Kurt Austin and his National Underwater and Marine Agency Special Projects team return, squaring off with the elusive and dangerous Pyramid Triad organization of China in a race to acquire the antidote for a bizarre pandemic viral disease. The Triad wants the virus and the cure in order to hold the world hostage; only NUMA stands in the way of its apocalyptic machination.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In Lethal Tides, Catherine Musemeche weaves together science, biography, and military history in the compelling story of an unsung woman who had a dramatic effect on the U.S. Navy's success against Japan in WWII, creating an intelligence-gathering juggernaut based on the new science of oceanography. When World War II began, the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping strategy to reach Japan. Anticipating tides, planning for coral reefs,...
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