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1) The passage
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Dan Lenson faces the most challenging trials in his career as he must find a missing submarine, aid civilians stranded in shark infested waters and deal with a traitor on board the ship.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The author describes how, after working as a humanitarian around the world, he realized that he could do nothing to stop violence or prevent people from becoming refugees and soon joined the elite Navy SEALs, where he drew on his humanitarian training as he battled injustice.
4) China Sea
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Dan Lenson, career Navyman, takes his ship Gaddis east to operate against modern pirates preying on commercial shipping in the South China Sea and is beset by a mutinous crew, a murderous shipmate, and an approaching typhoon.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
At the height of the Vietnam War, Brian Holcomb, an ambitious young naval officer, discovers serious problems aboard the guided missile ship on which he is serving--problems which make the ship vulnerable to a potentially deadly air assault by the North Vietnamese, and which her captain seems unwilling or unable to address.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times -bestselling author and Navy SEAL "describes his adventurous life in a manner that many teen boys will find inspirational" ( VOYA ). In this adaptation of his bestselling book, The Heart and the Fist , Eric speaks directly to teen readers, interweaving memoir and intimate second-person narratives that ask the reader to put themselves in the shoes of himself and others. Readers will share in Eric's evolution from average kid to...
10) The gulf
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1990
Language
English
Description
A U.S. destroyer is hit by an Iranian missile in the Persian Gulf. A conflict seems inevitable.
11) Battleship
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
During a routine naval drill around Pearl Harbor, Lieutenant Alex Hopper and the crew of the USS "John Paul Jones" are sent to investigate an ominous vessel and find an armada of alien ships.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eric Greitens shares his life journey from being an average kid to working to make a difference in the world's trouble spots and joining the Navy SEALS to protect the weak, and encourages readers to reflect on the power of choice and acts of courage.
14) Cuba
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An arms-control conference in Paris sets in motion a dangerous series of events that puts the future of Cuba and the United States at risk.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In January 1940, navy nurse Dorothy Still eagerly anticipated her new assignment at a military hospital in the Philippines. Her first year abroad was an adventure. She dated sailors, attended dances and watched the sparkling evening lights from her balcony. But as 1941 progressed, signs of war became imminent. Military wives and children were shipped home to the states, and the sailors increased their daily drills. When Pearl Harbor was attacked,...
Author
Series
Publisher
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this mystery from an Edgar Award–winning author, Peter Duluth deals with a case of mistaken identities and murder in World War II San Francisco.
Patrick Quentin, best known for the Peter Duluth puzzle mysteries, also penned outstanding detective novels from the 1930s through the 1960s under other pseudonyms, including Q. Patrick and Jonathan Stagge. Anthony Boucher wrote: "Quentin is particularly noted for the enviable polish and grace which...
18) Annapolis
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Jake Huard, a shipbuilder's son, takes the first step toward realizing his dream of being a Naval officer by getting accepted to Annapolis, but once inside the Academy he faces challenges he never expected--most posed by his tough superior officer who is determined to make Huard prove his worth.
Author
Publisher
The Kent State University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A US Naval Aviator's odyssey through pivotal moments in 20th-century history The rise of Adolf Hitler, America's Great Depression in the heartland, the bombing of Pearl Harbor, American life following World War II, the Korean War, America's development of atomic weapons in the Cold War age, the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and the Mariel boatlift. Captain Allen Brady not only witnessed all of these events but...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Unbroken comes an unforgettable tale of courage from America's 'forgotten war' in Korea, by the New York Times bestselling author of A Higher Call. Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country. An African American...
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