Catalog Search Results
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Nick Drake heads an environmental group and becomes irate when he loses key funding. He sets out after his enemies and detractors, working to instill a public state of fear about global warming. Takes readers around the world to Iceland, Antarctica, Arizona, the Solomon Islands, Paris, and Los Angeles.
3) Life of Pi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Pi Patel, the son of a zookeeper, has a fervent love of stories and practices not only his native Hinduism but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family and their zoo animals emigrate from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship. The ship sinks and Pi finds himeself in a lifeboat, his only companions a hyena, an orangutan, a wounded zebra and a 450-pound Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi. Can Pi and...
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 12
Language
English
Description
"Hired to search for a collection of paintings worth half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon soon find themselves in much deeper waters. The vicious leader of a Filipino insurgency is not only using them to finance his attacks, he has stumbled upon one of the most lethal secrets of World War II: a Japanese-developed drug, designed, but never used, to turn soldiers into super-warriors. To stop him, the Oregon must not only...
Author
Series
Richard Mariner adventure volume 29
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Richard Mariner is in California to oversee the arrival of his container ship and join Nic Greenbaum aboard his yacht for a race. However storm with the potential to cause devastation overwhelms them Richard is forced into unprecedented action.
6) The raft
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters. Fighting for her life, the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft, and that's when the real terror begins.
7) Dragon
Author
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 10
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Adventurer Dirk Pitt matches wits with a group of Japanese nationalist extremists out to establish a new empire as he races against time to recover an atomic bomb lost in the Pacific aboard a B-29 during World War II.
Author
Series
World War II volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After America is drawn into World War II, Hank McCallum finds himself on the USS Yorktown, an aircraft carrier in the Pacific, separated from his brother Theo, in constant danger from torpedoes, and just learning about the prejudice and segregation that plague his new friend from Tonga, Bradford.
10) Ascension
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to explain its existence. When Harold Tunmore, a scientist of mysterious phenomena, is contacted by a shadowy organization to help investigate, he has no idea what he is getting into as he and his team set out for the mountain. The higher Harold's team ascends, the less things make sense. Time moves differently,...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
As a child, Merrow Shawe believes she is born of the sea: strong, joyous, and wild. Her beloved home is Horseshoe Cliff, a small farm on the coast of Northern California where she spends her days exploring fog-cloaked bluffs, swimming in the cove, and basking in the light of golden sunsets as her father entertains her with fantastical stories. It is an enchanting childhood, but it is not without hardship—the mystery of Merrow’s mother’s death...
12) Trial by fire
Author
Series
WWII volume 8
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Based on a true story--P.T. Deutermann's Trial by Fire is a dramatic WWII novel of attack, survival, and triumph on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. March 19, 1945: The war in the Pacific approaches its apocalyptic climax. The largest wartime armada ever assembled, Task Force 58, is closing in on Okinawa; once taken, it will finally put American B-29 bombers in range of the home islands of Japan--and victory. At the heart of the fleet are...
In MNLINK
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by East Central Regional Library can be requested from other MNLINK libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request