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340, 14 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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To find her way, she must abandon everything she loves ... 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...
62) Oceans
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Series
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56 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
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Readers will learn about the ocean and discovering what life is like in the depths of the ocean.
64) Lethal Seas
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1 videodisc (approximately 60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A deadly recipe threatens the survival of countless creatures throughout Earth's ocean: carbon dioxide. With carbon emissions sharply rising, the silent killer is entering the seas at a staggering rate, raising the oceans' acidity. As a result, the skeletons and shells of marine creatures that form the foundation of the web of life are dissolving. Can experts crack the code of a rapidly changing ocean before it is too late?
Follows scientists who...
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xviii, 364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
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English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The First Man comes a sweeping saga involving two extraordinary--and extraordinarily different--adventurers who have only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat...alone"--
They had only one thing in common: the ambition to cross the Atlantic in a rowboat, alone. John Fairfax set off on a westward course, starting in the Canary Islands with his sights on Florida. Tom McClean...
66) Beautiful wild
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357 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Vida Hazzard can see her future: aboard the heralded "Millionaire's Ship of the West," she'll charm the young scion Fitzhugh Farrar, resulting in a proposal of marriage. But Vida didn't plan on Fitz's best friend Sal, a rough-around-the-edges boy with a talent for getting under her skin. Nor did she anticipate a hurricane dashing their ship to pieces, along with her dreams. Stranded on an island with both Fitz and Sal, Vida is torn between the life...
67) Ghosts at sea
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English
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"Engaging images accompany information about ghosts at sea. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 2 through 7"--
68) Step into liquid
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2 videodiscs (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Takes you from the terrifying monstrous waves of Oahu's North Shore to the Texas waters of the Gulf of Mexico (where waves are created by massive oil supertankers) to the shores of Ireland and Rapa Nui. Told trough the voices of legends, pros, and everyday surfers alike, it is not a film just for surfers, but for anyone with an appreciation for sport and an inkling of what it means to be "stoked."
69) Ship of fools
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497 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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The 48 first-class passengers and the 900 Spaniards in steerage on a passenger-freighter crossing from Mexico to Germany in 1931 are traveling on a voyage of life.
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English
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New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark turns up the heat in a drop-dead frightening novel about an idyllic beach community turned killer's hunting ground.
Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story on "girls who cry wolf" for the season premiere of Hourglass, television's highly rated news magazine....
74) The island
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324 pages ; 20 cm
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English
Description
"Frances finds herself on a plane to a remote village where she will do community service in exchange for staying out of juvenile detention. But an accident leaves her alone on a small island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. She has to find water and food. She has to survive. And when she is there she also has to think about the past. The things that she did before. The things that made her a monster. Nothing is easy. Survival is hard and so is...
76) Devil sharks
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English
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A pleasure cruise in Paradise leads a group of friends to a shark-infested Hell... When Alex Simmons is invited to a college reunion in the Hawaiian islands aboard the private yacht of his old pal Harry Curtis, he is not sure what to expect. The two men had a falling-out years ago over the suicide of one of their friends. Could this be Harry's way of making amends? Or is something more sinister in store? The crew sets sail and arrives at Orchid Atoll,...
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126 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
Take to the seas with marine conservationist and shark researcher Captain Aquatica and her hammerhead shark sidekick, Fin, to explore the ocean's wettest and wildest depths and get the latest facts from the field!
78) Očanos
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Series
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16 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
Español
Description
"In this book, young readers will learn what makes up an ocean, and what an ocean looks like. Utilizing colorful photographs alongside simple sentences and relevant sight words, early readers will enjoy learning about oceans, while also building confidence in their reading skills. This book also includes a page for caregivers and teachers that suggests guiding questions to help aid in reading comprehension."--
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