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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Humankind discovers intelligent life in an octopus species with its own language and culture, and sets off a high-stakes global competition to dominate the future. Rumors begin to spread of a species of hyperintelligent, dangerous octopus that may have developed its own language and culture. Marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen, who has spent her life researching cephalopod intelligence, will do anything for the chance to study them. The transnational...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"As a young girl, Hannah Stowe was raised at the tide's edge on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, falling asleep to the sweep of the lighthouse beam. Now in her midtwenties, working as a marine biologist and sailor, Stowe draws on her professional experiences sailing tens of thousands of miles in the North Sea, North Atlantic, Mediterranean, Celtic Sea, and the Caribbean to explore the human relationship with wild waters. Why is it, she asks, that...
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English
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"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
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Publisher
Pinnacle Books, Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When an underwater flesh-eating predator terrorizes the Bahamas, turning the sea red with blood, Eric Watson and marine biologist Valerie Martell must race against time to identify this savage new species and piece together one of nature's most horrific mysteries.
"The first attack occurrs in the underwater caverns of the Bahamas. Two professional divers exploring the unknown. A monstrous flesh-ripping predator they never see coming. Now the attacks...
Author
Publisher
Touchstone
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"From bestselling author A.J. Banner comes a dazzling new novel of psychological suspense in the vein of S.J. Watson's Before I Go to Sleep and Mary Kubica's The Good Girl that questions just how much we can trust the people around us. Thirty-four-year-old marine biologist Kyra Winthrop remembers nothing about the diving accident that left her with a complex form of memory loss. With only brief flashes of the last few years of her life, her world...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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"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...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"From grief to reckoning to reflection to solace, a marine biologist shares the solo journey she tookthrough war-ravaged Eastern Europe, Israel, and beyondto find peace after her fiancé suffered a fatal attack by a box jellyfish in Thailand."--Amazon.com
Author
Publisher
Heinemann Library
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Provides a look at the work of ground-breaking conservationist, Sylvia Earle, and her work to protect oceans and ocean life, covering her inspiration, methods, findings, and the impact of her work.
Author
Series
Woods Hole quartet volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Marine biologist Cassie Boulton likes her coffee with cream and her literature with happy endings. Her favorite book is Pride and Prejudice, but Cassie has no patience when a modern-day Mr. Darcy appears in her lab.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
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.
Author
Publisher
Heyday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Marooned in Los Angeles by the pandemic, a marine biologist rediscovers the delights and wonders of the natural world in her own backyard"--
"Marooned in Los Angeles by the pandemic, a marine biologist rediscovers the delights and wonders of the natural world in her own backyard. Conservationist and marine biologist Maddalena Bearzi made her career studying the wild creatures of the deep, but when COVID-19 made landfall on the California coast...
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