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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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From one of the bestselling science fiction authors of all time comes this heart-stopping far future novel of an asteroid on a collision course with Earth. A century into the future, technology has solved most of the problems that have plagued our time. However, a new problem is on the horizon-one greater than humanity has ever faced. A massive asteroid is racing toward the earth, and its impact could destroy all life on the planet. Immediately after...
9) Plague ship
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During WW2 a Nazi officer discovers a legendary ship. Sixty years later Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon - a state-of-the-art military vessel disguised as a total wreck - reap the terrible rewards of this find. They encounter a cruise ship full of dead and dying, and as Cabrillo attempts a rescue, the liner erupts into a fireball. As Cabrillo probes deeper into this mystery he finds a cult obsessed with the end of the world. This discovery...
10) Those in peril
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Hazel Bannock, the heir to a major oil producer, calls on Hector Cross to help when her nineteen-year-old daughter is taken from her private yacht in the Indian Ocean by pirates wanting ransom.
13) Burn: a novel
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Newly wealthy after winning the lottery, Jenner Redwine is taken hostage by a menacing stranger during a charity cruise on a luxury liner, endangering both Jenner's life and the life of her ally and confidante, shy heiress Sydney Hazlett.
14) Black wind
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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.
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The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease -- or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those...
17) The grim grotto
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Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
18) Voodoo Planet
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This short novel, Voodoo Planet, features Dane Thorson, a young man fortunate enough to land a job on the Free Trader ship, the "Solar Queen." Plying their trade among the stars, Free Traders visit planets--known and unknown--in search of profit. (Another novel featuring Dane Thorson, Plague Ship, is also available.) In Voodoo Planet, Captain Gaelic and the ship's medic, Tau, are invited to Khatka, a world settled by African refugees, to held unravel...
19) Birds of Prey
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Cutting himself loose from the Seattle police force, semi-retirement takes Beau on a cruise, where the ex-wife of on-board conference speaker Dr. Harrison Featherman disappears.
20) Valhalla rising
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It is July 2003. In the middle of its maiden voyage, the luxury cruise ship Emerald Dolphin suddenly catches fire and sinks. What caused it? Why didn't the alarms go off? Was the fire connected to the revolutionary new engines powering the ship? NUMA special projects director Dirk Pitt races to rescue the passengers and investigate the disaster but he has no idea of the bizarre events that are about to engulf him.
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