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"The day I returned to Templeton steeped in disgrace, the fifty-foot corpse of a monster surfaced in Lake Glimmerglass." So begins The Monsters of Templeton, a novel spanning two centuries: part a contemporary story of a girl's search for her father, part historical novel, and part ghost story. In the wake of a disastrous love affair with her older, married archaeology professor at Stanford, brilliant Wilhelmina Cooper arrives back at the doorstep...
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A comedy on a town where hundreds of inhabitants are on anti-depressants, prescribed by Dr. Valerie Riordan. After a patient dies she asks the druggist to substitute placebos. Freed of drugs, the town comes alive with wine and song, so loud it even awakens a sea monster
5) The Loch
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Series
Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 1
Language
English
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Loch Ness holds secrets, ancient and deadly. Does a monster inhabit its depths, or is it just myth? Marine biologist Zachary Wallace knows, but the shock of his near-drowning as a child on the Loch has buried all memories of the incident. Now, a near-death experience suffered while on expedition in the Sargasso Sea has caused these long-forgotten memories to resurface. Unable to cope, his career all but over, he stumbles down a path of self-destruction...
6) Vostok
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Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 2
Language
English
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East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct...
7) Wolves
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Series
Hell divers volume 4
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Legendary Hell Diver Xavier "X" Rodriguez and his small crew battle storms, sea monsters, and cannibals as they search for a new homeland for humanity. Their mission uncovers hard truths about the war that caused the destruction of their world.
9) Dark gold
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Series
Night-Sea trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
ix, 337 p. ; 25 cm
Language
English
10) Secondhand charm
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Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 21 cm
Language
English
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On her journey to the royal university to become a doctor, fifteen-year-old Evie, wearing potent gypsy charms, learns of her monstrous inheritance
12) The bone ships
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Tide child volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
498 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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"Two nations at war. One prize beyond compare. For generations, the Hundred Isles have built their ships from the bones of ancient dragons to fight an endless war. The dragons disappeared, but the battles for supremacy persisted. Now the first dragon in centuries has been spotted in far-off waters, and both sides see a chance to shift the balance of power in their favour. Because whoever catches it will win not only glory, but the war."--Amazon.com....
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