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1) The Sea Wolf
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Jack London's 1904 novel "The Sea Wolf" is the story of Humphrey van Weyden, an effete gentleman, who finds himself shipwrecked when the San Francisco ferry his is aboard collides with another ship in the fog. Adrift in the bay, Humphrey is rescued by Wolf Larsen, the brutish captain of a seal-hunting schooner, the "Ghost". However, his relief in being saved is short-lived, for he is soon put to work, essentially enslaved as a cabin boy forced to...
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Five Weeks in a Balloon is not only the first installment in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaires series, but also the first of Verne's works to earn him widespread popularity as a writer of science fiction and adventure novels.
Following his invention of an ingenious new air balloon capable of long-distance flight, Dr. Samuel Fergusson embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with his trusted servant, Joe, and loyal friend, Dick Kennedy....
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The apocalyptic history of humanity over the next 500 years was revealed to the author, a longtime member of the distinguished Planetary Society, by a mysterious alien messenger sent from the deep future. This thrilling novel of adventure, romance, exploration and existential war is set both on Earth and across the entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy. The novel contains new physics and formulas. It has a dramatic and suspenseful climax with an optimistic...
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Many proclaimed the glory of Fauxbook as the titan of the new generation. With a click came the certainty of friendship, love, and support. A post could deliver the illusion of power to the impotent. Fauxbook was a household name that came with so much control it was impossible to fail...or so everyone thought. It all started with the bomb that killed its founder. Malicious? That's what many thought. And the case? Solved, wrapped up with the killer...
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En 2111, los europeos habían construido una gigantesca presa que iba desde Gibraltar al norte de África.
De esta manera, se consiguió desecar el mar Mediterráneo, que pasó a llamarse Valle del Nuevo Mediterráneo.
En este inmenso valle prodigaba la agricultura y las industrias, y vivían millones de personas. Sin embargo, un técnico sismógrafo, se dio cuenta de que en pocas semanas habría un gigantesco terremoto en la zona de Gibraltar que...
8) Well #9
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Behind every light switch is a coal miner. Inside every car engine is a roustabout and mud logger. Our smartphones charge on coal, our vehicles drink gas and oil given up by our prehistoric ancestors and pumped from the ground by people we never meet.
Meanwhile, there are Dani and Cap Pellegrin, Mr. John, Robert Brooks, Allen and Mora and Jacob. They are just as human in their feelings, just as American, yet somehow hidden, forgotten if we ever knew...
9) Engulfed
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My story isn't the beginning or the middle. It is the end of the end. It was over before it could ever really begin. A tale of nothing and everything. The world stopped in a heartbeat. We were given a mere forty-eight hours. If that. It seemed cruel. Suddenly next-day delivery meant nothing, but getting ourselves to our family the next day meant everything. Those who weren't within driving distance of their family didn't have a hope in hell of returning...
10) Uprooted
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It was a warm spring evening in the country home where Beth and Marie shared their lives with dogs, cats, cows, chickens, and many beautiful birds flittering in the trees. Beth sat under a huge oak tree and relaxed after chores were done, animals fed, and the evening light fading. Marie had left that morning with her brother to visit family up north. Beth was planning to catch up at home, with HAM radio operators, spend some quality time fishing in...
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Once a celebrated Naval officer, John Rowland has fallen from grace. After slipping into alcoholism, Roland is dismissed from the Navy and shamed. Having lost everything, Rowland now works as a deckhand on the Titan, operating deck machinery and keeping watch. However, Rowland is just as shocked and horrified as the civilian passengers when the mighty ocean liner collides with an iceberg, beginning the ship's slow sink to ruin. As the Titan sinks,...
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"In this thoughtful, mesmerizing tale with echoes of Station Eleven, the author of An Uncommon Education follows a group of survivors thrown together in the aftermath of two major earthquakes that strike San Francisco within an hour of each other--an achingly beautiful and lyrical novel about the power of nature, the resilience of the human spirit, and the enduring strength of love. On Valentine's Day, two major earthquakes strike San Francisco within...
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Based on true events, this compelling survival story by award-winning novelist Jane Kirkpatrick is full of grit and endurance. Beset by storms, bad timing, and desperate decisions, 8 women, 17 children, and one man must outlast winter in the middle of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in 1844.
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The United Nations is a very important international organization. Around the world this agency's staff and volunteers are working to provide children with access to medical treatment and education. Have you ever wondered how this important work gets done? How do organizations like UNICEF help? What kinds of problems do they have to solve? Read How Do They Help? UNICEF to learn more about many people who help in your community and around the world....
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Based on a true story
The hurricane of 1900, America's worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage--except six-year-old Hester, who miraculously survived. Oleander City is the tale of this little girl and the volatile collision between the American Red Cross, the Ku Klux Klan, and one of the most famous boxing matches in...
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An unmissable novel of love, disaster, heartbreak, and unexpected happy endings, by the bestselling British author of Maybe One Day.
"When I was twenty-six-years-old my world, was literally turned upside down and inside out, like a coat pocket being excavated for loose change. It was terrible, and frightening, and it taught me a lot of things I never wanted to know."
Elena Godwin has scrimped and saved for a relaxing dream holiday in Mexico with her...
19) 470
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Climate scientists tell us that some level of climate change is now baked in. So what will life be like in this climate-changed world?
In 2031, Zanna is housesitting a beachside house in Byron Bay, living the kind of life that inspires gloating selfies. She isn't thinking about climate change, it's just something in the background squeezing her life choices. She has much more immediate concerns, like whether she should let her parents meet her new...
20) Clocking Out
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Stories include:1:11 Epistaxis-Actual vampires don't need fangs in order to feed.2:22 Starlight, Starbright-An astronaut defies orders not to return to Earth, but he does anyway…with dire consequences.3:33 Rescue-Two detectives go in search of thirteen missing children and the person responsible for their disappearances.4:44 Forecast-A bizarre weather phenomenon envelopes a city.5:55 Firewood-He was warned about going into the...
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