Martel, Yann.
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MARLong, Jeff.
Summary: Separate incidents around the world bring mankind to the realization that the underworld is a vast geological labyrinth inhabited by creatures who resemble the devils and gargoyles of legend, and spurs a scientific expedition beneath the Pacific Ocean floor in search of clues to Satan's existence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONMartel, Yann.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC MartelMartel, Yann.
Summary: Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World 2006
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC MARDonohue, Meg
Summary: To find her way, she must abandon everything she loves... As a child, Merrow Shawe believes she is born of the sea: strong, joyous, and wild. Her beloved home is Horseshoe Cliff, a small farm on the coast of Northern California where she spends her days exploring fog-cloaked bluffs, swimming in the cove, and basking in the light of golden sunsets as her father entertains her with fantastical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Donohue 2019Watts, Peter.
Summary: Physically modified convicts are used in the Pacific for the exploitation of ocean-floor resources without diving equipment. But in the process they have become carriers of a microorganism that could wipe out humanity if they return to the surface.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 1999
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WATSmith, Dominic.
Summary: Chicago, 1897. An obsessive collector and insurance magnate commissions the world's tallest building. Determined to compete with Marshall Field's recent donation of $1 million to found the Field Museum, the tycoon funds a private collecting voyage into the Pacific.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIAlten, Steve.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALTJohnson, Terry Lynn
Summary: Eleven-year-old Travis and twelve-year-old Marina, separated from their families after being thrown into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Washington, battle hypothermia as they struggle to survive. Includes Coast Guard-approved cold-water survival tips.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017
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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED JOHMartel, Yann
Summary: Patel Pi is a young man living in India, his father is the owner and manager of the zoo in the city but decided to emigrate to Canada and seek a better life through the sale of animals. After complex procedures, the family begins a journey Patel that is cut short by tragedy: a terrible storm wrecks the ship they are traveling on. Pi will have to use his talents to survive while he also deals...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Destino, 2003
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA WORLD SPANISH MARBinge, Nicholas
Summary: "A mind-bending speculative thriller in which the sudden appearance of a mountain in the middle of the Pacific Ocean leads a group of scientists to a series of jaw-dropping revelations that challenge the notion of what it means to be human. An enormous snow-covered mountain has appeared in the Pacific Ocean. No one knows when exactly it showed up, precisely how big it might be, or how to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Riverhead Books 2023
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Summary: When the leader of a militant communist insurgency in the Philippines escapes capture from the U.S. government with almost supernatural ease, it's up to Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to catch him. Tracing the Filipino insurgent through his drug lord allies, Cabrillo learns his new adversary has his eye on an addictive chemical compound developed during World War II that can turn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: A 17th Century Italian knight recounts his adventures during a siege in the Thirty Years' War and afterwards in naval espionage against the British. In between, he describes the salons of Paris, lessons in fencing and reasons of state, and gives his thoughts on writing love letters and on blasphemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Brace & Co. 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ECOMartel, Yann.
Summary: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy names Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listerners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HighBridge 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MARMartel, Yann.
Summary: After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship in the Pacific, one solitary lifeboat remains, carrying a hyena, a zebra, a female orangutan, a Bengal tiger, and a 16-year-old Indian boy named Pi. His story is a dazzling work of imagination that will delight and astound listeners in equal measure. It is a triumph of storytelling and a tale that will as one character puts it, make you believe in God.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2001
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAR1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MAR
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MartelCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MARVerne, Jules
Summary: During the Civil War, five Union soldiers and a dog quietly escape from the clutches of the Confederate Army at Richmond, Virginia by hot air balloon. Their intention was to simply drift safely over to the Union lines and rejoin their own troops. Instead, while aloft, they were caught in a high wind and whisked hundreds of miles out to sea. The men carried no provisions for survival and had no...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 0201
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC VERDeutermann, P. T. (Peter T.)
Summary: "Based on a true story--P.T. Deutermann's Trial by Fire is a dramatic WWII novel of attack, survival, and triumph on board an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. March 19, 1945: The war in the Pacific approaches its apocalyptic climax. The largest wartime armada ever assembled, Task Force 58, is closing in on Okinawa; once taken, it will finally put American B-29 bombers in range of the home...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUBodeen, S. A. (Stephanie A.)
Summary: Robbie's last-minute flight to the Midway Atoll proves to be a nightmare when the plane goes down in shark-infested waters, but the real terror begins when the co-pilot Max pulls her onto the raft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feiwel and Friends 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC BODNewman, T. J.
Summary: When Flight 1421 crashes into the ocean six minutes after take-off, the surviving passengers believe they are the lucky ones until the plane starts to sink to the ocean floor, trapping them inside, and they must wait to be rescued as both air and time run out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NEWKraus, Daniel
Summary: "Jay Gardiner has given himself a fool's errand--to find the remains of his deceased father in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Monastery Beach. He knows it's a long shot, but Jay feels it's the only way for him to lift the weight of guilt he has carried since his dad's death by suicide the previous year. The dive begins well enough, but the sudden appearance of a giant squid puts Jay in very...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MTV Entertainment Books 2023
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Summary: As they hunt for a bunch of paintings worth a walloping half a billion dollars, Juan Cabrillo and the crew aboard the Oregon chance upon a much bigger problem. A Filipino rebel leader is not only using them to finance the insurgency but has discovered a drug developed yet never used by the Japanese during World War II that makes mega warriors of ordinary soldiers. Not so far-fetched given the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2017
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CUSCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Cussler 2017Deutermann, Peter T.
Summary: "A gripping and authentic World War II naval adventure by a master storyteller The Hooligans fictionalizes the little-known but remarkable exploits of "The Hooligan Navy" that fought in the Pacific theatre of World War II. Loosely-organized in fast moving squadrons, PT (patrol torpedo) boats were the pesky nemesis of the formidable Japanese navy, dubbed "the mosquito fleet" and "devil boats"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEUMichener, James A (James Albert)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan 1986
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICFerrari, Alessandro
Summary: A graphic novel adaptation of the tale of Moana, "a spirited teenager who loves the ocean, yet ... is forbidden to travel beyond the reef that surrounds her island home of Motunui"--Publisher marketing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2021