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Dr. Ben Payne and writer Ashley Knox are the only passengers aboard a small plane they chartered in a snowstorm to get them home. The plane crashes in the Utah mountains unbeknownst to anyone. Ben and Ashley survive, but the pilot is killed. Although injured, they realize that their only hope for rescue is to make it down the mountain to help.
63) The Titanic
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c1989
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An account of the 1912 sinking during her maiden voyage of the luxurious and supposedly unsinkable Titanic, the largest ship in the world at that time.
64) The unspoken
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1898: Bound for Chicago, the freighter Jerry McGuen goes down in Lake Michigan, taking with it every man aboard. But what other fate could befall a vessel carrying the ill-gotten sarcophagus of an Egyptian sorcerer? Now: A veteran diver and 'ghost ship' expert is exploring the legendary wreck for a documentary. He dies inexplicably inside the freighter's main saloon. Then another diver is killed and panicked rumors rise like bubbles from the lake:...
66) The slave dancer
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IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
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Looking for adventure and a new life, Ishmael, the story's narrator, decides to find work on a whaling boat. On arriving at the Massachusetts harbour to begin his search, the only bed available is already half occupied by a "cannibal" named Queequeg. Although Queequeg has limited English, a friendship forms and the two men sign up for work together aboard the Pequod under the infamous Captain Ahab. Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but...
70) Valhalla Rising
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
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Confronting an extraordinary series of monsters, both human and mechanical, modern and ancient, NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt treads upon territory previously known only to legend as he investigates the sinking of a luxury cruise ship, the "Emerald Dolphin". In the high-tech adventure, the past and future collide to create a whale of a tale to equal Cussler's bestselling "Atlantis Found."
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[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 14
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Chronicles the worst disaster in U.S. naval history, describing heroism in the face of persistant shark attacks and hypothermia after the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis in the South Pacific in the final days of World War II
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 19
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A thriller on afterlife, featuring a Los Angeles crime reporter. Visiting the graves of his family, killed in a plane crash, Joe Carpenter sees men attack a woman taking pictures. It turns out the camera captures images of afterlife from the graves, a hush-hush scientific breakthrough over which people are fighting.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Inspired loosely by Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, teenaged Violet is shipped off to Maine after her brother's hospitalization, where she searches for the lost shipwreck that her great-great grandmother survived and for answers about her family's long struggle with mental illness, all while falling in love.
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Some say the bay off Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands was the site of the lost empire of the Solomon king, and that great treasure lies beneath the waters. Others say terrible things happened here, atrocities and disappearances at the hands of cannibal giants, and those who venture there do not return. So how can Sam and Remi Fargo resist? Clues and whispers lead them on a hunt from the Solomons to Australia to Japan, and what they find at the end...
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2023.
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
79) The emerald sea
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Glittering Court volume 3
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2018
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 24
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Tamsin Wright will do anything to reach the Glittering Court's top ranks and, even after a shipwreck exposes her to new cultures and beliefs, holds tight to the secret that would unravel everything if uncovered.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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The incredible true account of the most extraordinary storm of the 20th century, this is the story of a tempest born from so rare a combination of factors it was deemed "perfect" and of the doomed fishing boat with her crew of six that was helpless in the midst of a force beyond comprehension.