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"After a practice in June 2018, a Thai soccer coach took a dozen of his young players to explore a famous but flood-prone cave. It was one of the boys birthday, but neither he nor the dozen resurfaced. Worried parents and rescuers flocked to the mouth of a cave that seemed to have swallowed the boys without a trace. Ranging in age from eleven to sixteen, the boys were all members of the Wild Boars soccer team. When water unexpectedly inundated the...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Since the days of Cortés, rumors have circulated about a lost city of immense wealth hidden somewhere in the Honduran interior, called the White City or the Lost City of the Monkey God. In 1940 journalist Theodore Morde returned from the rainforest with hundreds of artifacts and an electrifying story of having found the Lost City-- but then committed suicide without revealing its location. In 2012 Preston joined a team of scientists using classified...
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The spectacular, true story of a scrappy teenager from New York's Lower East Side who stowed away on the Roaring Twenties' most remarkable feat of science and daring: an expedition to Antarctica. It was 1928: a time of illicit booze, of Gatsby and Babe Ruth, of freewheeling fun. The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market. What better moment to launch an expedition to Antarctica, the planet's final frontier? This...
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Series
Language
English
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"After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight sensation and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name--and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she's used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the more unsettling when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help. The small town of Neapolis is being torn apart by a devastating...
Author
Publisher
Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
233 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami's hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free spirits and avid sailors couldn't anticipate that less than two weeks into their voyage, they would sail directly into one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history. They found themselves battling pounding rain, waves...
Author
Series
Drifter chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Black Apple International Publishing House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
443 pages : black & white illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A modern Kerouacian misadventure following the path of true events. Greg's gut-wrenching and incredibly accurate look into the psyche of an adolescent take us on a harrowing journey, from suburban Long Island, to rehabs around the country, to the gnarliest 'therapeutic boarding school' you've ever heard of. His tale of underground survival on the streets and other extreme institutions that many at-risk youth are sent to is filled with descriptions...
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Publisher
Nomad Press, a division of Nomad Communications
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
940L
Physical Desc
124 pages : maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The crew of the Betsey didn't realize that not all of them would make it home to Maine from Cuba ... What happened to the 1845 Expedition to the Arctic? Did Captain Franklin and his men perish in the cold, or did they resort to horrible measures to stay alive? ... Mary Read didn't let being a woman keep her from becoming one of the most feared crew members aboard a pirate ship ... Two ships wreck on the same small island at the same time. Can the...