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41) The devil's sea
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 26
Language
English
Description
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 Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait....
42) Captiva
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
“A Doc Ford novel has more slick moves than a snake in the mangroves. In Captiva, Randy Wayne White takes us places that no other Florida mystery writer could hope to find.”—Carl Hiaasen
Randy Wayne White is acclaimed as "wildly inventive" (The San Diego Union-Tribune), "a wonderful writer" (Paul Theroux), "a fine storyteller" (Peter Matthiessen), and "the rightful heir to John D. MacDonald" (The Tampa...
Randy Wayne White is acclaimed as "wildly inventive" (The San Diego Union-Tribune), "a wonderful writer" (Paul Theroux), "a fine storyteller" (Peter Matthiessen), and "the rightful heir to John D. MacDonald" (The Tampa...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
335 pages, 32 unnumbered page of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Oceanographer and marine biologist Robert D. Ballard looks back on a long and storied life that includes accomplishments ranging from discovering new life-forms to finding the wreck of the Titanic"--
44) Black wind
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Language
English
Description
In the final days of World War II, the Japanese launch two submarines carrying a new strain of a deadly virus to the west coast of the United States, but years after the subs are lost at sea, someone plots to use their deadly cargo.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A picture book biography tells the story of Sylvia Earle's growing passion for the wonders of the sea and how her ocean exploration and advocacy have made her known around the world.
46) Trojan odyssey
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
In his first adventure since the revelation that he’s a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer’s Odysseus, if he’s going to stop a dangerous cult from reshaping the earth in their own image.
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When her parents, the great marine scientists Dr. and Dr. Quail, are killed in a tragic accident, eleven year old Fidelia Quail is racked by grief. But she is forced out of her mourning when she's kidnapped by Merrick the Monstrous, a pirate whose list of crimes stretches longer than a ribbon eel. Her task? Use her marine know-how to retrieve his treasure, lost on the ocean floor. As Fidelia and the pirates close in on the prize, with the navy hot...
48) Tampa burn
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 11
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
xi, 372 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
50) Cannery Row
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The canneries stand empty now that the sardines have abandoned the waters, but life continues on the Row. Here, are Doc, a marine biologist and community mentor; Suzy, a good-hearted newcomer gone astray; and Mack, Hazel, and all the boys working hard at not working. Here, also is the love of a man for a woman, of a writer for a place and life for more life.
52) Night vision
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 18
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
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.
53) Harrison squared
Author
Publisher
Tor/Tom Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Harrison Harrison, H2 to his mom, is a lonely teenager who's been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge sea creature capsized their boat, and his father vanished. One of the "sensitives" who are attuned to the supernatural world, Harrison and his mother have just moved to the worst possible place for a boy like him: Dunnsmouth, a Lovecraftian town perched on rocks above the Atlantic, where strange things go...
54) Under the ice
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
55 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 22 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
A first-person account of a woman marine biologist working in the oceans of the polar regions.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xx, 329 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm
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...
56) Cannery Row
Author
Language
English
Description
Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as is--both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Creating characters based on his memories of real inhabitants of Monterey, California, Steinbeck interweaves the stories of Doc, Henri, Mack, and the boys in a world where only the fittest survive.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
136 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color), portraits (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follow the remarkable journey of Jeanne Villepreux-Power from her childhood in a small French village to her life as a naturalist in nineteenth century Messina, Sicily, where she conducted groundbreaking research and invented aquariums."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume : illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The daughter of a seamstress and a cobbler, Jeanne Villepreux-Power began her career as a dressmaker, sewing beautiful gowns for the Parisian aristocracy. But her heart longed for more, and when she moved to the seaside, she became fascinated by the ocean's mysteries. She filled her pockets with seashells and specimens, and filled her notebooks with oservations about coral and crustaceans and all manner of marine life. The argonaut interested her...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"What's new in the world of octopus research is the extent to which these intelligent animals are individual personalities--able to recognize faces and interact with other individuals--all of which is an odd adaptation for an animal thought to live an asocial existence. Nature follows this new science through the story of an octopus named "Heidi" and her evolving relationship with a passionate marine biologist and his teenage daughter. Professor David...
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