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1) On the Beach
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The last generation, innocent victims of an accidental nuclear war, live out their last days, make plans that will never be carried out, and hope for a miracle that will not come. As the deadly rain moves closer, the world as we know it moves toward the end.
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English
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It has been six years since army nurse Jenny Bennett's heart was broken by a dashing naval officer who has abruptly reappeared in her life at the Presidio army base. Ryan is in an impossible situation. Honor bound never to reveal where he had been during those six years, he can't tell Jenny the truth or it will endanger an ongoing mission.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
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A series of events aboard a U.S. destroyer during World War II culminate in an alleged mutiny, which leads to a court martial.
Misery begins when a paranoid commander, Captain Queeg takes charge. In a matter of days he has alienated everybody -- & all on board believe Queeg to be insane. In a tense situation during a critical period of the war, Queeg loses all self-control. In the better interest of the ship & the nation, the second-in-command, Lieutenant...
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English
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As a child, Lydia Pallas became all too familiar with uncertainty when it came to the future. Now, she's finally carved out a perfect life for herself - a life of stability and order. She adores her apartment overlooking bustling Boston Harbor, and her skill with languages has landed her a secure position as a translator for the U.S. Navy. Then Alexander Banebridge, who equally attracts and aggravates Lydia, hires her to translate seemingly innocuous...
5) Leap
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Series
Breakthrough volume 2
Publisher
[CreateSpace]
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
One year ago, a remarkable breakthrough changed what it means to be human. Now from a new research center in Puerto Rico, Alison Shaw and her team are about to stun the world, again. Less than a thousand miles away, a mysterious ship is spotted off the quiet coast of Guyana. Strange circumstances attract the attention of the U.S. Navy, including naval investigators John Clay and Steve Caesare. They soon find that a Chinese crew is making mysterious...
6) Breakthrough
Author
Series
Breakthrough volume 1
Publisher
[Michael C. Grumley]
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Deep in the Caribbean ocean, a nuclear submarine is forced to suddenly abort its mission under mysterious circumstances. Strange facts begin to emerge that lead naval investigator John Clay to a small group of marine biologists who are quietly on the verge of making history. Alison Shaw and her team are preparing to translate the first two-way conversation with another animal species, but they are about to discover much more than they ever expected....
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Navy series (Debbie Macomber) volume 2
Publisher
Silhouette Books
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
NAVY BLUES, the second in Debbie Macomber's popular series of Navy romances. She needed just one night with him…Despite her ex-husband's stubbornness, Carol Kyle knew he'd be the perfect man to father the child she so desperately wanted. Yet she also realized that this strong, honorable man would never allow his child to be raised without a father. So Carol needed to plot, to plan, to maneuver, to seduce Steve into her bed one last time…And...
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Marsh Vincent, Mick McCarty, and Tommy Lewis were inseparable friends during their naval academy years, each man in love with the beautiful, unattainable Glory Hawthorne. Only Tommy wins her heart and marries Glory after graduation. Different skills set the three men on separate paths in the Navy, but they are all forever changed by the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. Glory, now Tommy's widow, is a tough Navy nurse still grieving her loss...
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Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
The survival of the human race depends on the desperate courage of the men and women on an American ship. As uncontrollable events occur, an extremely precarious arrangement is made with the women on board for the sake of safety and of human hope.
10) Punk's war
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Series
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Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Novel of a fighter pilot's experience in the era just before 9/11.
11) Navy families
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Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Navy baby: It was a night she'd never forget: two strangers coming together in a moment of intense desire. But now, sheltered Hannah Raymond is expecting the child of a rugged naval seaman she thought she'd never see again. Riley Murdock has been searching for Hannah for months--ever since that soul-shaking night of passion. Now fate has reunited them. Determined to give his child the chance he never had, Riley marries Hannah. They've created the...
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Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Spaceships from 25th century Earth pursue an enemy battle group, travelling back in time to destroy 21st century Earth. The spaceships catch up when the enemy has already arrived on 21st century Earth and battles follow. There is also a romance between two warriors, a man from the 21st century and a 25th century woman.
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Publisher
St. Martin Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
The body of a young black naval officer is found chained in the boiler of a mothballed battleship in Philadelphia. Naval investigators Dan Collins and Grace Snow discover a link to a hushed sex scandal involving a senior naval officer and a young lieutenant. The discovery puts both their lives in peril. By the author of The Edge of Honor.
14) Seas of crisis
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Series
Jeffrey Fuller novels volume 6
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Learning that the Russians are providing weapons technology to Axis forces, Captain Jeffrey Fuller infiltrates a Russian military installation in an effort to launch a nuclear strike that will force Russia to ally with the United States.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what’s right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line’s only prototype––Athena, Patrol Coastal 15––with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer...
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Series
Navy series (Debbie Macomber) volume 5
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Navy baby- It was a night she'd never forget... two strangers coming together in a moment of intense desire. But now sheltered Hannah Raymond is expecting the child of a rugged naval seaman she thought she'd never see again. Riley Murdock has been searching for Hannah for months- ever since that soul-shaking night of passion. Now fate has reunited them. Determined to give his child the chance he never had. Riley marries Hannah. They've created...
17) Into the fire
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Tom Clancy's Op-Center volume 14
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Tensions flare in Northwest Asia and Op-Center races to prevent World War III in this chilling, ripped-from-the-headlines thriller from the authors of the USA Today bestseller Out of the Ashes. When a team of assassins murder a high-ranking North Korean general and his family in their sleep, making it look like a robbery, events are set in motion that could shake the balance of world powers. Meanwhile, a U.S. naval combat ship, the USS Milwaukee,...
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Piper Reed volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After bidding goodbye to her friends Michael and Nicole, who are moving away, Piper and her sisters spend winter break with their two sets of grandparents in Piney Woods, Louisiana, where Piper learns that the best adventures are the unexpected ones.
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Piper Reed volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While her father, a Navy Chief, is on ship duty for six months, nine-year-old Piper stays busy with new neighbors, Christmas at a spaceship beach house, a trip to New Orleans, and especially the upcoming Gypsy Club pet show.
20) My red balloon
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Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy waits with both excitement and apprehension for his father to disembark from the aircraft carrier returning to port after many months at sea.