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1) Zero hour
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When a scientist discovers a possible way to tap an unlimited energy source using machines that cause massive earthquakes, Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and their NUMA teammates race against time to locate the scientist's machines and to prevent catastrophic disasters.
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"NUMA crew leaders Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala must beat the clock to stop the world's most dazzling new technological advance from becoming mankind's last in this action-packed thriller from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. When the most advanced aircraft ever designed vanishes over the South Pacific, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala are drawn into a deadly contest to locate the fallen machine. Russia and China covet the radical...
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"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...
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NUMA files volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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7) Devil's gate
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Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
2011
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English
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A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster- when their boat explodes. What is happening in that part of the world? The NUMA(r) Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical power, and an unimaginably audacious plan...
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NUMA files volume 6
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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When the leader of an antiglobalization group plans to use the sixty-year-old findings of a Hungarian genius to create a polar shift and give the industrialized nations a jolt before reversing the effect, the NUMA Special Assignments Team must stop him.
9) The storm
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NUMA files volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When a NUMA research vessel is suddenly destroyed by a malevolent black substance originally mistaken for an oil spill, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala pursue an investigation in the Indian Ocean, where they discover a plot targeting millions of victims.
10) Ghost ship
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NUMA files volume 12
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Putnam Adult
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler, the grand master of adventure. When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflictedmemories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn't trust either version of his recollection. Determined...
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Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Philandering doesn't pay, but in Carl Hiaasen's Skinny Dip, it does provide a hilarious homicidal romp. In Hiassen's Florida wilderness realm, no bad deed is left uncompounded.
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Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Kurt Austin puts the NUMAA team on a case involving a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic.
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2004
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English
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When an enzyme capable of prolonging life is discovered deep beneath the North Atlantic, NUMA Special Assignments Team leader Kurt Austin and his colleague, Joe Zavala, investigate a killer who is targeting the enzyme's harvesters and researchers.
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Random House
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"Edith Widder grew up determined to become a marine biologist. But after complications from a surgery during college caused her to go temporarily blind, she became fascinated by light as well as the power of optimism. Her focus turned to oceanic bioluminescence, a scientific frontier in our last earthly one, and with little promise of funding or employment she took a leap into the darkness. On her first visit to the deep ocean, in an experimental...
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Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When a NUMA research vessel is suddenly destroyed by a malevolent black substance originally mistaken for an oil spill, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala pursue an investigation in the Indian Ocean, where they discover a plot targeting millions of victims.
17) Polar shift
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NUMA files volume 6
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Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2005
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English
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Kurt Austin and the NUMA Special Assignments Team face a daunting task--saving all life on Earth--when an anti-globalization group decides to send a message to the world's industrialized nations by artificially triggering a polar shift.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Years after an ancient Phoenician statue is stolen from the Baghdad museum, a series of murders sparks interest in the statue's relevance in Austin and Zavala, who lead the NUMA team on a historical investigation into the lost treasures of King Solomon.
19) Fast ice
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Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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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...
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William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"In Lethal Tides, Catherine Musemeche weaves together science, biography, and military history in the compelling story of an unsung woman who had a dramatic effect on the U.S. Navy's success against Japan in WWII, creating an intelligence-gathering juggernaut based on the new science of oceanography. When World War II began, the U.S. Navy was unprepared to enact its island-hopping strategy to reach Japan. Anticipating tides, planning for coral reefs,...
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