Catalog Search Results
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
A uge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Aronnax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Aronnax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Aronnax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive -...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Description
In Paris, a graduate student in a secret laboratory reveals a powerful new technology to a beautiful and mysterious woman. A few hours later, the student is drugged and dumped in a river. Radical environmental terrorists are launching a fanatical campaign--and the very future of the world they seek to protect may be at stake. Only MIT scientist and federal agent John Kenner can stop the deadly plot before the terrifying consequences are realized--and...
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
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.
5) Black Wind
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventures volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 29
Description
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.
Author
Series
Description
It is the greatest advance in American defense technology in decades - an attack submarine capable of incredible underwater speeds. There is only one problem: A key element of the prototype is missing and the man who developed it is dead. At the same time, ships have started vanishing mid-ocean, usually never to be found again, but when they are, sometimes bodies are found aboard . . . burned to a crisp. What is going on? It is up to NUMA director...
Author
Series
Isaac Bell thrillers volume 13
Isaac Bell novels volume 13
An Isaac Bell Adventure volume 13
An Isaac Bell Adventure volume Book 13
Isaac Bell novels volume 13
An Isaac Bell Adventure volume 13
An Isaac Bell Adventure volume Book 13
Description
"Detective Isaac Bell battles foreign spies, German U-boats, and an old nemesis to capture a secret technology that could alter the outcome of World War I in the latest adventure in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Clive Cussler. As New England swelters in the summer of 1914, Detective Isaac Bell is asked to investigate a cache of missing rifles--only to discover something much more sinister. Whoever broke into this Winchester Factory...
Author
Series
Description
Armed with stolen U. S. military technology, the Chinese are producing a frightening new breed of weaponry, led by the ICBM submarine Xia III--a vessel that just might be able to launch a nuclear warhead across the Pacific Ocean and take out an American West Coast city. National Security Adviser Admiral Arnold Morgan can't let that happen, and he dispatches the most stealthy hunter-killer submarine in the U. S. fleet, the 9, 000-ton ultrasecret Seawolf,...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 4
Description
The Soviets' new ballistic-missile submarine is attempting to defect to the United States, but the Soviet Atlantic fleet has been ordered to find and destroy her at all costs. Can Red October reach the U.S. safely?
11) Spartan gold
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Thousands of years ago, two superpowers of the ancient world went to war, and a treasure of immeasurable value was lost to the shadows of destiny. In 1800, while crossing the Pennine Alps with his Grand Reserve Army, Napoleon Bonaparte stumbled across a startling discovery. Unable to transport it, he created an enigmatic map on the labels of twelve bottles of rare wine. When Napoleon died, the bottles disappeared - and the treasure was lost again....
Author
Series
Jake Grafton novels volume 9
Description
When the U.S.S. America, the latest and most intricate nuclear submarine, is stolen, Admiral Jake Grafton investigates and soon learns that whoever is masterminding this operation means business when missiles are launched.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"A dynamic, gripping collection of short stories from "America's best novelist" (Denver Post), the New York Times-bestselling James Lee Burke. Harbor Lights is a story collection from one of the most popular and widely acclaimed icons of American fiction, featuring a never-before-published novella. These eight stories move from the marshlands on the Gulf of Mexico to the sweeping plains of Colorado to prisons, saloons, and trailer parks across the...
Author
Description
"Brilliant marine architect Hannah Bryson has been given a priceless opportunity. A U.S. maritime museum has just acquired the former pride of the Soviet fleet,the decommissioned submarine Silent Thunder, for public exhibition. Hannah must inspect every single inch of this legendary nuclear attack sub and design modifications that will make it safe for the thousands of expected visitors. Enlisting the aid of her brother, Connor, they examine the enormous...
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 4
Description
"While trailing a Chinese nuclear attack sub, Jerry Mitchell, the captain of USS North Dakota, is shocked to see the Chinese boat torpedo a Vietnamese merchant ship. This blatant act of aggression is the opening gambit in a war that has blindsided the U.S. and quickly embroiled all nations in the western Pacific. These nations, bound together in the newly formed Littoral Alliance, have begun a covert submarine campaign aimed at crippling China's economy...
16) Exit plan
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 3
Description
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.
17) Hawke: a novel
Author
Series
Alexander Hawke thrillers volume 1
Description
A modern-day swashbuckler and one of England's most decorated naval heroes, Lord Alexander Hawke heads for the Caribbean on a top-secret mission for the U.S. government to locate an experimental stealth submarine built by the Soviets just prior to the end of the Cold War which has fallen into the hands of an unstable government planning a preemptive strike against the U.S.
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Three members of the Trudeau Research Center scientific team are found dead at the onset of an arctic winter and the cause of death is unknown. American epidemiologist, Dr. Jessica Hanley, is called in to locate the microbe that caused the grisly deaths before it spreads. At the same time in Moscow, Admiral Rudenko searches for a submarine that has inexplicably vanished in the Norwegian fjords. Their missions converge explosively in the black of the...
19) Silent thunder
Author
Description
When her brother is killed, brilliant marine architect Hannah Bryson must discover the volatile mystery behind a decommissioned Soviet submarine, Silent Thunder, that was recently purchased by the U.S. government for use as a maritime museum. Though the U.S. government tries to warn Hannah away, she'll stop at nothing to find the ruthless mastermind behind her brother's death. Even if it means joining forces with a mysterious man who may be even more...
20) Dangerous ground
Author
Series
Jerry Mitchell novels volume 1
Description
Assigned a final mission aboard a dilapidated submarine, tyrannical commander Lowell Hardy alienates his crew by conducting an illegal search through Russian coastal waters, where they survey hidden nuclear fuel containers.