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41) The brink
Publisher
Well Go USA
Pub. Date
2019
Language
中文(繁體)
Description
Reckless police inspector Tung is on a mission to crack down on criminal Shing's gold smuggling scheme, yet fails to arrest him. As Tung continues his manhunt, he discovers Shing's involvement with triad boss Blackie, who hides on a casino cruise ship on the high seas. Shing has been involved in a power struggle within the smuggling ring, and is forced to kill his adopted father.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 42
Language
English
Formats
Description
The itinerant sailor Ishmael begins a voyage on the whaling ship Pequod whose captain, Ahab, wishes to exact revenge upon the whale Moby-Dick, who destroyed his last ship and took his leg. As they search for the savage white whale, Ishmael questions all aspects of life. The story is woven in complex, lyrical language and uses many theatrical forms, such as stage direction and soliloquy. It is considered the exemplar of American Romanticism,
...45) Haunted Destiny
Author
Series
Krewe of Hunters volume 18
Language
English
Description
Jackson Crow, an FBI Krewe of Hunters paranormal investigator, boards a haunted crew ship with real murders. He is joined by local agent Jude McCoy and piano man Alexi Cromwell, who find they are atrracted to each other, and the investigation.
46) A million suns
Author
Series
Across the universe trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When Elder discovers shocking news about Godspeed, he and Amy race to discover the truth behind life on the space ship. They must work together to unlock a puzzle that was set in motion hundreds of years earlier, unable to fight the romance that's growing between them and the chaos that threatens to tear them apart.
47) The sea-wolf
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
Author
Series
Jack Ryan and John Clark novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
Somewhere under the Atlantic, a Soviet sub commander has just made a fateful decision: the Red October is heading west. The Americans want it. The Russians want it back. And the most incredible chase in history is on.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of Station Eleven, a captivating novel of money, beauty, white-collar crime, ghosts, and moral compromise in which a woman disappears from a container ship off the coast of Mauritania and a massive Ponzi scheme implodes in New York, dragging countless fortunes with it"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Two years have passed since Jacen Solo, seduced by the dark side and reanointed as the brutal Sith Lord Darth Caedus, died at the hands of his twin sister, Jaina, Sword of the Jedi. For a grieving Han and Leia, the shadow of their son’s tragic downfall still looms large. But Jacen’s own bright and loving daughter, Allana, offers a ray of hope for the future as she thrives in her grandparents’ care. And when the eager, inquisitive...
52) Burn: a novel
Author
Language
English
Description
Jenner Redwine, estranged from family and friends after winning a lottery jackpot, is befriended by Sydney Hazlett, a shy, kind-hearted heiress, who invites Jenner on what she supposes is going to be a luxury cruise of balls, art auctions, and vulgar displays of wealth, but when she is kidnapped by a menacing stranger, Jenner finds herself in the most dangerous--and exhilirating adventure of her life.
53) Corby Flood
Author
Series
Far-flung adventures volume 2
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While traveling with her family aboard the S.S. Euphonia, eight-year-old Corby Flood accidentally attracts the murderous attentions of five men, clad in bowler hats, called the Brotherhood of the Clowns as she investigates the mysterious singing coming from the ship's hold.
55) Death troopers
Author
Series
Star Wars novels. Death troopers volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Imperial prison barge Purge breaks down in a distant, uninhabited part of space, its only hope appears to lie with a Star Destroyer found drifting, derelict, and seemingly abandoned. But soon after a boarding party returns from a scavenging expedition, a horrific disease breaks out and takes the lives of all but a half-dozen survivors whose only option forces them to return to the Star Destroyer--and the soulless, unstoppable dead waiting...
56) The passenger
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Crime
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
When the German submarine, U-471, collects two prisoners from a vessel located off the Icelandic coast, ordered to transport them to the base at Brest, one of the prisoners, a British submarine commander, goes rogue, setting in motion a series of shocking, brutal events that seem to be linked to the supernatural.
Author
Series
Henrie O mysteries volume 7
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When retired newspaper reporter Henrietta O'Dwyer Collins, Henrie O to her friends, receives a call for help, she discovers that love once kindled never burns to ashes. Although she refused Jimmy Lennox's marriage proposal, there is still a special place for him in her heart. She wished him well when he found happiness with Sophia Montgomery, world-famous documentary filmmaker and stepmother to the now grown heirs of a great fortune. Sophia is at...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her boyfriend leaves her for her best friend, Jade joins a semester long cruise program unaware that the two are also onboard, and when her ex-boyfriend is murdered and his new girlfriend goes missing, Jade must dig into her shipmates' lives to findthe murderer and clear her name.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author presents a thriller that takes the reader to glaciers in Iceland, volcanoes in the Antarctic, the Arizona desert, through the jungles of the Solomon Islands, the streets of Paris, and the beaches of Los Angeles.
60) The grim grotto
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
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