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"A new novel from Lisa See, the New York Times bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Korean island of Jeju, are best friends that come from very different backgrounds. When they are old enough, they begin working in the sea with their village's all-female diving collective, led by Young-sook's mother. As the girls take...
3) Ritual
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Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
[2008]
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English
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The author of "The Devil of Nanking" delivers a taut, chilling tale of clandestine occult practices, New Age medicine, and the drug underground, set in a hypermodern urban landscape challenged by colliding immigrant cultures.
4) Below
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Pub. Date
2013
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English
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Professional diver Will Sturman and brilliant and beautiful oceanographer Valerie Martell must stop a school of voracious sea creatures before they devastate the world's oceans.
5) The chamber
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Emily Bestler Books, Atria
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Publisher Annotation: Six experienced saturation divers are locked inside a hyperbaric chamber. Calm and professional, they know that rapid decompression would be fatal and so they work in shifts, breathing helium, and surviving in hot, close quarters. Then one of them is found dead in his bunk. With four days of decompression to go before the locked hatch to the chamber can be safely opened, the group must watch one another’s backs at all times....
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[2018]
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English
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Much to the dismay of her Greek family, Zanna Krykos makes a living as a lawyer in Tarpon Springs, Florida. When her friend Lucy needs legal advice about the business she inherited upon her father's passing, she ends up asking Zanna to run the business instead so she can focus on her medical career. Nico Kalos is a Greek diver who has worked on sponging boats in the Aegean Sea since the age of 14, giving him a vast knowledge of the trade. When he...
7) The Pearl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence."--Pub.desc.
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Berkeley and her best friend, Garth, live on an old cruise ship, scavenging for supplies from the drowned cities left behind on the ocean floor after the sea swallowed up all the land. They think they've seen every kind of aquatic creature, but they never expected to find sea monsters... After awakening a Hydra, Berkeley and Garth are sent to live on a submarine, where they study and hunt sea monsters. But the Hydra wants revenge on their home ship--and...
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Elemental origins volume 1
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Intellectually Promiscuous Press
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Everything you thought you knew about mermaids is wrong. Life for a high school kid in Saltford should be simple and straightforward - for 17-year-old Targa MacAuley, it's anything but. Navigating life with a supernatural mother is tricky enough, but dealing with the feelings of guilt that she's never been able to 'change', and confusion that she doesn't seem to be attracted to boys (or girls for that matter), Targa feels like she's got more demons...
10) In too deep
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Dive team investigations volume 2
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Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"When the Carrington dive team discovers an encrypted laptop with connection to an open murder case, detective Adam Campbell turns to the only person he can trust--but what they find may require a choice between loyalty and the truth"--
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2023.
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English
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A commercial jetliner crashes into the Pacific Ocean and sinks to the bottom with passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their only chance at survival is an elite rescue team on the surface led by professional diver Chris Kent--Shannon's mother and Will's soon-to-be ex-wife--who must work together with...
12) The passenger
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1980, PASS CHRISTIAN, MISSISSIPPI: It is three in the morning when Bobby Western zips the jacket of his wetsuit and plunges from the boat deck into darkness. His divelight illuminates the sunken jet, nine bodies still buckled in their seats, hair floating, eyes devoid of speculation. Missing from the crash site are the pilot's flightbag, the plane's black box, and the tenth passenger. But how? A collateral witness to machinations that can only bring...
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Tiller Galloway thrillers volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1996.
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English
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Kokila
Pub. Date
©2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Oceans of Possibilities" 2022 Summer Reading Picture Books & Chapter Books
AAPI Heritage Reading List for Kids & Teens
AAPI Heritage Reading List for Kids & Teens
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"Dayeon wants to be a haenyeo just like Grandma. The h]aenyeo dive off the coast of Jeju Island to pluck treasures from the sea–generations of Korean women have done so for centuries. To Dayeon, the haenyeo are as strong and graceful as mermaids . . . [So] when Grandma suits up for her next dive, Dayeon grabs her suit, flippers, and goggles. A scary memory of the sea keeps Dayeon clinging to the shore, but with Grandma’s guidance, Dayeon comes...
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Underwater Investigation Unit volume 1
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English
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"Coming from scandalous Florida treasure hunters and drug smugglers, Sloan McPherson is forging her own path, for herself and for her daughter, out from under her family's shadow. An auxiliary officer for Lauderdale Shores PD, she's the go-to diver for evidence recovery. Then Sloan finds a fresh kill floating in a canal--a woman whose murky history collides with Sloan's. Their troubling ties are making Sloan less a potential witness than a suspect....
16) La perla negra
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Editorial Noguer
Pub. Date
c1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Español
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In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is the pearl's owner.
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Western Australia, 1886. After months at sea, a slow boat makes its passage from London to the shores of Bannin Bay. The sea is a shocking blue, and gulls float above battered mangrove jetties. From the deck, young Eliza Brightwell and her family eye their strange new home. Here is an unforgiving land where fortune sits patiently at the bottom of the ocean. A land where pearl shells bloom to the size of soup plates. Where men are coaxed into unthinkable...
18) Deep blue
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Series
Beck Easton adventures volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
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English
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"The long-awaited, daring, and magnificent novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad. Manhattan Beach opens in Brooklyn during the Great Depression. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to the house of Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn...
20) Bermuda Schwartz
Author
Series
Zachary Chasteen mysteries volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English