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41) Night vision
Author
Series
Doc Ford novels volume 18
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
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When a Guatemalan teen--believed to have mystical powers and who lives in a Florida trailer park 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.
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
Series
Hardy Boys adventures volume 21
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Frank and Joe are off to the Florida Keys to work alongside Lookout Shark Lab's Dr. E. Ella Edwards, one of the world's foremost marine biologists. On their first evening, Dr. Edwards paddleboards out to check on a lemon shark nursery. But after a sudden squall rolls in, she doesn't return, and the next day her board washes up with a shark bite taken out of it. The Hardys volunteer to help the search and rescue efforts as panic sparks a rift in Lookout...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"The Great White Shark Scientist is the latest ocean adventure from the venerable team of Sy Montgomery and Keith Ellenbogen. In it, they follow Dr. Greg Skomal, biologist and head of the Massachusetts Shark Research Program, as he strives to better understand the habits and habitats of Great Whites in order to save this amazing, if maligned, creature of the deep." --
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.
48) Black widow
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[p2008]
Language
English
Description
Entreated by his goddaughter to help pay off a blackmailer who videotaped her bachelorette party and then threatened to expose her debauchery, Doc Ford reluctantly agrees and then finds himself in danger when the extortionist releases the tape anyway.
49) Monterey Bay
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A novel set around the creation of the world-famous Monterey Bay Aquarium and the last days of Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" follows the 1940 arrival of fifteen-year-old artist Margot Fiske and her father, who embarks on a controversial project.
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Series
Language
English
Description
Clive Cussler, "The Grand Master of Adventure," sends his intrepid heroes Dirk Pitt and Al Giordino on their wildest, boldest mission into the ancient world, unlocking extraordinary secrets and solving hideous crimes. Another fabulous read from the most beloved series from the #1 New York Times-bestselling author. The murders of a team of United Nations scientists in El Salvador. . . A deadly collision in the waterways off the city of Detroit. . ....
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English
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Rachel Carson, founder of the modern environmental movement, began work on her seminal book Silent Spring in the late 1950s, when a dizzying array of synthetic pesticides had come into use. Leading this chemical onslaught was the insecticide DDT. Effective against crop pests as well as insects that transmitted human diseases such as typhus and malaria, DDT had at first appeared safe. But as its use expanded, alarming reports surfaced of collateral...
54) In ascension
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Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"An astonishing novel about a young microbiologist investigating an unfathomable deep vent in the ocean floor, leading her on a journey that will encompass the full trajectory of the cosmos and the passage of a single human life. Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, traveling the globe to study...
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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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
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This book is a scientific thriller that exposes the dark side of SeaWorld, America's most beloved marine mammal park. It centers on the battle with the multimillion-dollar marine park industry over the controversial and even lethal ramifications of keeping killer whales in captivity. Following the story of marine biologist and animal advocate at the Humane Society of the United States, Naomi Rose, the author tells the story of the two-decade fight...
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