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1) The Sea-wolf
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This gripping saga of the sea demonstrates Jack London's gift for expressing complex ideas with compelling action. A clash of two opposing views of morality is brought to life in the ruthless Wolf Larsen, a strong believer in the survival of the fittest, and Humphrey Van Weyden, a civilized man who is shocked by the cruelty of Larsen's nature.
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1997. Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In Pennsylvania she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family and locate his vanished teenage daughter. The SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra-- a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss believes the SEAL's experience with time travel, and his knowledge of the future, has triggered this violence. She...
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"Discovering that there is a serial killer on board the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, disgraced Navy SEAL sniper Finn finds suspicion falling on him as a newcomer and must expose the real killer while searching for redemption"--
"A ninety-thousand-ton aircraft carrier. Six thousand men on board. A killer in their midst. And the disgraced Navy SEAL who will track him down . . . The high-octane debut thriller from the New York Times bestselling writing team...
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In the early nineteenth century, Bryan Lankford is sent to America aboard a dragon-powered ship, sealing his fate and opening the doors to a dangerous new world where he becomes a Sword Master and falls for the beautiful Anastasia, whom he must protect from a dark power that could destroy them all.
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Wheel of time volume 5
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In this sequel to the phenomenal New York Times bestseller The Shadow Rising, Robert Jordan again plunges us into his extraordinarily rich, totally unforgettable world: ...Into the forbidden city of Rhuidean, where Rand al'Thor, now the Dragon Reborn, must conceal his present endeavor from all about him, even Egwene and Moiraine. ...Into the Amyrlin's study in the White Tower, where the Amyrlin, Elaida do Avriny a'Roihan, is weaving new plans. ...Into...
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 13
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In 1856, a British clipper ship sinks after a storm while transporting convicts to an Australian penal colony. After horrible carnage on a raft, the pitiful survivors, among them Betsy Fletcher and Jess Dorsett, are washed up on a solitary island, where they discover an immense source of diamonds and found a powerful and welthy dynasty. One hundred forty years later, Maeve Fletcher, one of their descendants, is stranded on an island in Antarctica...
10) Antarctica
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Emperor penguins, Weddell Seals, Ad�elie penguins, and other creatures of Antarctica wonder if the new visitors, who arrive in noisy helicopters and metal ships, will be friends, or harbingers of destruction.
11) Ghost canoe
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After a sailing ship breaks up on the rocks off Washington's storm-tossed Cape Flattery, Nathan McAllister, the fourteen-year-old son of the lighthouse keeper, refuses to believe the authorities, who say there were no survivors. Unexplained footprints on a desolate beach, a theft at the trading post, and glimpses of a wild "hairy man" convince Nathan that someone is hiding in the remote sea caves along the coast. With his new friend, Lighthouse George,...
12) Black notice
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Summary: Kay Scarpetta careens across international borders in this case that begins when a cargo ship arrives from Belgium at Richmond's Deep Water Terminal. The ship is carrying a locked, sealed container holding the decomposed remains of a stowaway and Kay performs the autopsy.
13) Iceberg
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 3
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Just seventy-two hours ago, Dirk Pitt was lying in the hot California sun with a beautiful woman, a Scotch-rocks in one hand, but an urgent call from Admiral James Sandecker, his commander at the National Underwater and Marine Agency (NUMA), brings Pitt out of the warm Pacific breezes and straight into a North Atlantic deep freeze. The reason: the dis- covery of a long-missing luxury yacht, en route to a secret White House rendezvous, frozen solid...
14) Vorpal blade
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Looking glass (John Ringo) volume 2
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Several years after an experiment that opened a gateway from central Florida into other dimensions, Doc Weaver, adapts an alien star drive to a nuclear submarine and creates humanity's first warp-capable star ship. The goal of Capt. Steven Blankemeier and Cmdr. Clay White of the Alliance Space Ship's is to scout out worlds contaminated by the alien Dreen.
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A vacation cruise to the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden turns into a nightmare when the ship is attacked and captured by a band of Somali pirates. A rescue mission ends in failure, and the decks are covered in blood. Unless the pirates are paid a $200 million mansion, they threaten to execute all their hostages. Al Qaeda information indicates a far more dangerous conspiracy is afoot. Grafton and Carmellini, along with CIA and Navy SEAL operatives, mount...
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Ex-cop Gina Ryan traded in her Smith & Wesson to follow a dream. Now she's creating decadent desserts aboard a luxury cruise ship in the Caribbean. But a gorgeous passenger is about to send her perfect world up in smoke...;.
Trace O'Halloran is a hard-edged navy SEAL, under strict orders to take some high seas R & R. There's a shipload of women in bikinis eager to help him unwind, so why can't he take his mind off the stubborn pastry chef with an...
17) Empire rising
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Trident deception volume 2
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"Xiang Li Cheng, the President of the People's Republic of China, has both a problem and a plan. The problem is that the limited supply of oil available to China is threatening to derail his country's economic growth and prosperity. But to secure access to those resources, he must contend with powerful U.S. Navy and the Pacific Fleet. After a decades-long largely secret military build up, Cheng sets his plan in motion by suddenly invading Taiwan...
18) Exit plan
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Jerry Mitchell novels volume 3
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Jerry Mitchell is on exercises off the coast of Pakistan when his submarine, the USS Michigan, is ordered to a rendezvous off the Iranian coast. Once there, disembarked SEALs---experts in seaborne commando operations---are to extract two Iranian nationals who have sensitive information on Iran's nuclear weapons program.
19) From the depths
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2007
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Dr. Christine Myers, a forensic scientist with the CIA, has investigated some of the most heinous crimes.
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From the very first hand axe to the ubiquitous credit card, each item has a story to tell; together they relate the larger history of mankind. Handsomely designed, with more than 150 color photographs throughout the text, "A History of the World in 100 Objects" is a gorgeous reading book and makes a great gift for anyone interested in history.