Viva, Frank
Summary: A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Spotlight, a division of ABDO 2016
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Summary: "It's deep winter in the Antarctic and a little penguin baby waits in the cold and snow for its mama to return from her long journey to find food. But all the while, the baby is protected and kept warm by its papa, until Mama returns with food ... and love."--Publisher's webpage
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2022
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Summary: Dr. Laura Reynolds had a job she loved and the respect of her peers. One day, it all went away. She saw the wrong thing, a colleague's mistake. And to escape, he framed her. Laura's only option is to join a secretive research project in Antarctica, where she hopes to keep practicing medicine and one day get her life back. But soon after arriving, she realizes that things aren't what they seem...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: A group of radical environmentalists struggles to find a way to save the natural beauty of Antarctica from the politicians who are fighting for control of its natural resources.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROBViva, Frank.
Summary: A boy and a mouse take a bumpy sea journey to the majestic expanses of the Antarctic, where they see the sights and meet new friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 VIVMcCaughrean, Geraldine.
Summary: Taken to Antarctica by the man she thinks of as her uncle for what she believes to be a vacation, Symone--a troubled fourteen year old--discovers that he is dangerously obsessed with seeking Symme's Hole, an opening that supposedly leads into the center of a hollow Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperTempest 2007
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Summary: In the near future, a Soviet-American geological expedition is drilling deep below the Ross Ice Shelf in the shadow of volcanic Mount Erebus. When an astouding discovery is made by the expedition, it leads to a confrontation between the two superpowers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 1991
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Summary: "Amid assignments that take the Explorer Academy recruits from the iceberg-filled waters of Antarctica to the bone-dry deserts of Argentina, Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. With Nebula agents and the elusive explorer spy still out there, his opportunity to recover his mother's world-changing formula is slipping away. But as Cruz has learned from his time...
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic 2022
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Summary: Cruz Coronado is scrambling to complete the last piece of the cipher. His opportunity to recover his mother's world-changing formula is slipping away. But as Cruz has learned: true explorers must never give up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J CD FIC TRUPatterson, James
Summary: While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2008
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Summary: "Kurt Austin races to Antarctica to stop a chilling plot that imperils the entire planet. After a former NUMA colleague disappears while researching the icebergs of Antarctica, Kurt Austin and his assistant Joe Zavala embark for the freezing edge of the world to investigate. Even as they confront perilous waters and frigid temperatures, they are also are up against a terrifying man-made...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2021
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Summary: "Flora the pig ditches the sedentary life on the farm for an adventure in Antarctica, where she escapes the knife and lives her dream of pulling a sled with a team of dogs"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt Children's Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013
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2 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC KURFranco
Summary: To find the evil Mr. Bones, the young dino tracker, Mike Evans and his best friend, Shannon, follow a trail of fossils to an ancient dinosaur graveyard. The dino fossils Mr. Bones thought were in Australia are actually in Antarctica! But make no bones about it-- this villain still intends to cover every continent with his reborn dinosaur followers...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stone Arch Books, a Capstone imprint 2016
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Summary: When a zealous group of scientists launches a plot to release a pandemic virus to end overpopulation, microbiologist Hallie Leland must battle against the elements and an increasingly tense situation at the South Pole to save the world from annihilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TABKhoury, Raymond.
Summary: In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctic stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Back in Boston, Matt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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Summary: " Do you have digestion problems due to stress? Do you have problems with authority? How many alcoholic drinks do you consume a week? Would you rather be a florist or a truck driver? These are the questions that decide who has what it takes to live at South Pole Station, a place with an average temperature of -54°F and no sunlight for six months a year. Cooper Gosling is adrift at thirty,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Publishing, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2017
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Summary: In the early days of World War II, the infamous German Luftwaffe embark upon an expedition to Antarctica, hoping to set up a military base to support their goal of world domination. Though the military outpost never comes to fruition, what the Nazis find on the icy continent indeed proves dangerous...and will have implications far into the future. In the present day, Kurt Austin and his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Audio 2021
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Summary: "Antarctica is the last unconquered continent, a murderous expanse of howling winds, blinding whiteouts and deadly crevasses. On the edge of Antarctica is Wilkes Station. Beneath Wilkes Station is the gate to hell itself..."--Back cover.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 1900
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Summary: In December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on an island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, but a tragic accident suspends further investigation. In the present, Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon team, chasing the remanants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumble upon a shocking revelation. His efforts to untangle the mystery lead first to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 2010
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Summary: "No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you... The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer - which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear - fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLPoyer, David
Summary: For thirty years, diehard David Poyer fans searched used bookstores for the few tattered surviving copies of WHITE CONTINENT. This sprawling first novel reads like a remix of ATLAS SHRUGGED and THE DOGS OF WAR. It follows a team of adventurers, mercenaries, outcasts, and entrepreneurs in a daring takeover of the last unclaimed land on earth – the terrifyingly hostile continent of Antarctica....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northampton House 1980
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Summary: As she tries to stay alive after being left on an iceberg in the Antarctic, sixteen-year-old Vicky recalls the series of events that brought her to the bottom of the world and involved her in a dangerous mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994
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Summary: Dr. Kate Warner left California for Jakarta, Indonesia to escape her past. She has yet to put her life back together, but she has made a remarkable discovery: a cure for autism. But when two children in her research study are abducted, Kate is plunged into a world of intrigue and conspiracies. She quickly learns that her work is not what it seems. Her research could rewrite everything we know...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.G. Riddle 2014
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC RIDMcCulloch, Amy
Summary: "While on a dream cruise aboard a luxury liner to Antarctica, actuary Olivia Campbell is plunged into a desperate battle for survival against a killer determined to stop the ship from reaching its final destination, soon discovering she may have booked a one-way ticket to her own death"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024