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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
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Publisher
Council Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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Presents a comprehensive examination of German submarine captain, Johann Heinrich Fehler and his mission to transport secret plans, scientists, and materials for building atom bombs to Japan in 1945 and his decision to defy Hitler's orders by delivering his cargo to the Americans instead.
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Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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“Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."
—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat
From the author of The Ghost Ships of Archangel, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that...
—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat
From the author of The Ghost Ships of Archangel, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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New York Times Bestseller
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents,...
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents,...
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English
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The paths of two men cross aboard the pride of the British fleet, the luxury cruise liner R.M.S. Lusitania, where a small copy of the Book of Mormon sparks a friendship. But in the deep waters of the Atlantic, danger becomes certain as the crew and passengers of the Lusitania face a bitter enemy, a foolish captain, and a single torpedo.
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