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1) Cannery row
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Language
English
Description
Steinbeck’s tough yet charming portrait of people on the margins of society, dependant on one another for both physical and emotional survival
A Penguin Classic
Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts,...
A Penguin Classic
Published in 1945, Cannery Row focuses on the acceptance of life as it is: both the exuberance of community and the loneliness of the individual. Drawing on his memories of the real inhabitants of Monterey, California, including longtime friend Ed Ricketts,...
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Language
English
Description
"Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her submarine sank to the sea floor. When she finally surfaces and returns home, her wife Miri knows that something is wrong. Barely eating and lost in her thoughts, Leah rotates between rooms in their apartment, running the taps morning and night. As Miri searches for answers, desperate to understand what happened below the water, she must face the possibility that...
Author
Language
English
Description
This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
Publisher
Viz
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"Jim, Dehdeh, and Ruka's mother locate Anglade's yacht, but neither the rogue scientist nor Umi or Ruka are on board. All that remains is a cryptic invitation to Jim. While Jim tries to figure out the game his ex-colleague is playing and Kanako dives into memories of her daughter Ruka, the strange sea-changes continue around the globe"--Back flap.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Follow the . . . journey of Jeanne Villepreux-Power from her childhood in a small French village to her life as a naturalist in nineteenth century Messina, Sicily, where she conducted groundbreaking research and invented aquariums"--
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Series
Publisher
Mason Crest
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dive to the depths with . . . MARINE BIOLOGISTS. Discover a new kind of sea creature! Save a whale from a fishing net! Swim with the dolphins, seals, and sea lions! Marine biologists simply can't do their work cooped up in a lab-they need to be out in the ocean, diving among the creatures they study. Inside, meet some world experts in marine biology and find out why they love their adventure-filled jobs. Every book in the SCIENTISTS IN ACTION! series...
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Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"Harrison Harrison, H2 to his mom, is a lonely teenager who's been terrified of the water ever since he was a toddler in California, when a huge sea creature capsized their boat, and his father vanished. One of the 'sensitives' who are attuned to the supernatural world, Harrison and his mother have just moved to the worst possible place for a boy like him: Dunnsmouth, a Lovecraftian town perched on rocks above the Atlantic, where strange things go...
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