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2) The cay
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English
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
3) La promesa
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Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity.
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English
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"Former war correspondent Lukas Landon is alone, trapped under 150-feet of water in an overturned shrimp trawler at the bottom of the ocean. The only thing keeping him alive is an air bubble in the ship's bow. But the water level is rising, and time is running out. Landon doesn't know if he will survive . . . or if he even deserves to. After years of covering bloody battles in Afghanistan and Iraq, Landon's once promising life took a steep nosedive....
Author
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It is 1912. Against all odds, the Titanic is sinking. As desperate hands emerge from the icy water, a few lucky row boats float in the darkness. On the boats are four survivors. Reg, a handsome young steward working in the first-class dining room; Annie, an Irishwoman travelling to America with her children; Juliet, a titled English lady who is pregnant and unmarried, and George, a troubled American millionaire. In the wake of the tragedy, each...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a dog's journey back to her family. Sophie Tucker, a three-year-old Australian blue heeler, goes overboard into the predator infested waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and Sophie's heartbroken family has given her up for lost; little do they know that Sophie swam six miles to an isolated nature preserve called St. Bees, where she survived unassisted for five months by living off the land. The story of her survival and rescue is...
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English
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After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan, and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A well-tailored vehicle for Woodley to showcase her grit and her hippie-dippie appeal."--Richard Roeper.
"Woodley has a gift for conjoining inner strength and vulnerability until the two are all but indistinguishable."--Los Angeles Times.
"The result is a film that will draw you into an absorbing tale of two lovers forced to test their mettle to the limit in a high-stakes, high-seas adventure."--Toronto Star.
Based on the true story of survival,...
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Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
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Description
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's ADRIFT chronicled one of the most astounding voyages of the century and one of the great sea adventures of all time. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, ADRIFT is now an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived for more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after...
12) Escape
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Series
Island (Gordon Korman) volume 3
Language
English
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It was bad enough that Luke, Lyssa, Will, J.J., Ian, and Charla are stuck alone on the island. Now they have company--bad company. Also, Will is seriously injured and needs help immediately. Before, escape was something the kids could only hope for. Now it's a matter of life and death.
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English
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"As World War II draws to a close, refugees try to escape the war's final dangers, only to find themselves aboard a ship with a target on its hull"--
World War II is drawing to a close in East Prussia and thousands of refugees are on a desperate trek toward freedom, many with something to hide. Among them are Joana, Emilia, and Florian, whose paths converge en route to the ship that promises salvation, the Wilhelm Gustloff. Forced by circumstance...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
Description
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.
Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
Español
Description
"...El 28 de febrero de 1955 el destructor Caldas, que viajaba de Estados Unidos a Colombia, sufrió un accidente. Con la finalidad de rescatar a los náufragos, las fuerzas norteamericanas del canal de Panamá peinaron la zona cercana al siniestro. Después de cuatro días de búsqueda no encontraron ningún y se desistió de la búsqueda. Una semana más tarde apareció Luis Alejandro Velasco, quien después de pasar logró llegar a tierra en las...
17) The requin
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
There's terror in paradise when Jaelyn and Kyle arrive at a remote seaside villa in Vietnam for a romantic getaway. A torrential storm descends, reducing the villa to little more than a raft and sweeping the young couple out to sea. Suddenly, another danger appears a school of great white sharks. With her injured husband watching helplessly, Jaelyn must battle the deadly predators alone in this tense thriller that rides an unrelenting wave of fear....
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English
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"In May 1942, Admiral Jack Fletcher's Task Force 17 closed in for the war's first major clash with the Japanese Navy. The Neosho, a vitally important tanker capable of holding more than 140,000 barrels of fuel, was ordered away from the impending battle. Minimally armed, she was escorted by a destroyer, the Sims. As the Battle of the Coral Sea raged two hundred miles away, the ships were attacked by Japanese dive bombers. Both crews fought valiantly,...
20) Sea wife
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Juliet is failing to juggle motherhood and her stalled-out dissertation on confessional poetry when her husband, Michael, informs her that he wants to leave his job and buy a sailboat. With their two kids - Sybil, age seven, and George, age two - Juliet and Michael set off for Panama, where their forty-four foot sailboat awaits them. The initial result is transformative; the marriage is given a gust of energy, Juliet emerges from her depression,...
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