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1) Phantom Sun
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (97 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), map.
Language
English
Description
After an unknown aircraft crashes in Antarctica near a science facility, Shadow Squadron is deployed to recover the device. But when Russian special forces intervene, Cross gets caught between the mission's objective and the civilian scientists' safety.
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
"The largest known meteorite has been discovered, entombed in the earth for millions of years on a frigid, desolate island off the southern tip of Chile. At four thousand tons, this treasure seems impossible to move, a nightmare of physics requiring incredible human ingenuity. New York billionaire Palmer Lloyd is determined to have this incredible find for his new museum. Stocking a cargo ship with the finest scientists and engineers, he builds a...
Author
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her notorious, hilarious, volatile, talented, troubled, and agoraphobic mother goes missing, teenage Bee begins a trip that takes her to the ends of the Earth to find her. Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she is a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she is a disgrace; to design mavens, she is a revolutionary architect, and to 15-year-old Bee, she is a best friend and, simply,...
Author
Series
Maximum Ride volume 4
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
Author
Publisher
Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2015].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A female P.I. comes into conflict with a ruthless gangster just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in a domed Argentinian colony in Antarctica." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on an island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, but a tragic accident suspends further investigation. In the present, Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon team, chasing the remanants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumble upon a shocking revelation. His efforts to untangle the mystery lead first to that island, and then much farther back, to an ancient Chinese...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist: Antarctica.
Author
Series
Hardy boys mystery stories volume 65
Pub. Date
1981
Physical Desc
177 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Their search for an Easter Island idol takes the Hardy boys to Easter Island and on to investigate the theft of government material in Antarctica.
9) Whiteout
Author
Series
Survival instincts volume 1
Publisher
Sourcebooks Casablanca
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
494 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Angel Smith is finally ready to leave Antarctica for a second chance at life. But on what was meant to be her last day, the remote research station she's been calling home is attacked. Hunted and scared, she and irritatingly gorgeous glaciologist Ford Cooper barely make it out with their lives...only to realize that in a place this remote, there's nowhere left to run. Isolated with no power, no way to contact the outside world, and a madman on their...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
"In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous...and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world...
11) Waiting for mama
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Language
English
Description
The author captures the icy beauty of Antarctica and the wonders of a penguin family that thrives there.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A curmudgeonly but charming old woman, her estranged grandson, and a colony of penguins proves it's never too late to be the person you want to be in this rich, heartwarming story from the acclaimed author of Ellie and the Harpmaker. Eighty-five-year-old Veronica McCreedy is estranged from her family and wants to find a worthwhile cause to leave her fortune to. When she sees a documentary about penguins being studied in Antarctica, she tells the...
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 40
Pub. Date
2008
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.
Author
Series
Dino-Mike! volume 7
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
To find the evil Mr. Bones, the young dino tracker, Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, follow a trail of fossils to an ancient dinosaur graveyard. The dino fossils Mr. Bones thought were in Australia are actually in Antarctica! But make no bones about it-- this villain still intends to cover every continent with his reborn dinosaur followers...
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Definitive ed.
Physical Desc
xxv, 186 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
A large scale and much publicized expedition to Antarctica is about to take place. While excitement runs high in the scientific community over this expedition, one geologist tries his hardest to stop the trip from ever happening. This is because William Dyer has been to Antarctica on an expedition before, and knows of the unspeakable horrors that lie in its frigid terrain. Dyer goes into explaining that during his last trip, he and another small group...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Cotton Malone knows that his father died when his submarine sunk in the north Atlantic in 1971, but not much else. Using his government contacts to discover the details behind his father's demise, he learns that the sub was on a highly classified mission. Now he must find the lost manuscript from the Charlemagne's tomb which points to an Aryan civilization in Antarctica in order tho answer the questions surround his fathers death.
17) Forsaken
Author
Series
Publisher
Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
With the discovery of another human-alien hybrid, this time in a Mexican temple, the Unit 51 paramilitary team must not waver in its mission to destroy the first creature of this kind that eluded them in Antarctica.
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
252 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From Kevin Brockmeier, one of this generation's most inventive young writers, comes a striking new novel about death, life, and the mysterious place in between. The City is inhabited by those who have departed Earth but are still remembered by the living. They will reside in this afterlife until they are completely forgotten. But the City is shrinking, and the residents clearing out. Some of the holdouts, like Luka Sims, who produces the City's only...
19) The sign
Author
Language
English
Description
In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A magical, intoxicating debut novel, both intimate and epic, that intertwines the past, present, and future of two lovers bound by the passing of great comets overhead and a coterie of remarkable ancestors. Roisin and François are immediately drawn to each other when they meet at a remote research base on the frozen ice sheets of Antarctica. At first glance, the pair could not be more different. Older by a few years, Roisin, a daughter of Ireland...