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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Caribbean, 1665. A remote colony of the English Crown, the island of Jamaica holds out against the vast supremacy of the Spanish empire. Port Royal, its capital, is a cutthroat town of taverns, grog shops, and bawdy houses. In this steamy climate there's a living to be made, a living that can end swiftly by disease -- or by dagger. For Captain Charles Hunter, gold in Spanish hands is gold for the taking, and the law of the land rests with those...
Publisher
Columbia
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of Captain Richard Phillips and the 2009 hijacking by Somali pirates of the US-flagged MV Maersk Alabama, which was the first American cargo ship to be hijacked in two hundred years.
"This is an intense and complicated story, and the film doesn't rush it. It lets it unfold and build, methodically."--San Francisco Chronicle.
"The piercingly realistic Captain Phillips will exceed your expectations."--Los Angeles Times.
"The...
Author
Publisher
Portfolio/Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning journalists Matthew Campbell and Kit Chellel, the gripping, true-crime story of a notorious maritime hijacking at the heart of a massive conspiracy-and the unsolved murder that threatened to unravel it all. In July 2011, the oil tanker Brillante Virtuoso was drifting through the treacherous Gulf of Aden when a crew of pirates attacked and set her ablaze in a devastating explosion. But when David Mockett, a maritime surveyor working...
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013].
Language
English
Description
The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked and taken hostage by Somali pirates. The pirates pick the ship's cook as interpreter, to engage in escalating negotiations and ransom demands with their company CEO and authorities.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
There's exciting news in the land of Care-a-Lot! The Care Bear Cousins have returned. They make sure that the Share Cloud is always full of the Care hearts that Care-a-Lot needs. When the cousins' ship is stolen the Care Bears and Cousins use their caring skills to retrieve the ship, save the Share Cloud, and collect the lost Care Hearts.
8) The catch
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Passing as a man while working at sea for a security company she discovers is part of a gunrunning operation, Vanessa Michael Munroe escapes a pirate attack and agrees to help find her crewmates only to discover that the hijackers were seeking the ship captain under her care.
Vanessa Michael Munroe has a reputation for getting things done-- but her work has left her with blood on her hands and a soul stained with guilt. Fleeing to Djibouti, Africa,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken-the men say-by baffling lights that circled the ship....
13) Those in peril
Author
Language
English
Description
An adventure set in the violent world of modern piracy and terrorism follows the kidnapping of an oil heiress's daughter for a multi-billion-dollar ransom and the efforts of Cross Bow Security head Hector Cross to secure her release.
Series
Dirk Pitt adventure volume 26
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director, Dirk Pitt, discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait....
15) Condor's fury
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a NUMA training mission in the Caribbean, Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala catch a distress call from a nearby freighter. Leaping into action, they locate a damaged vessel and a dead captain clutching a shotgun. While searching the freighter for clues, Kurt and Joe are ambushed by crew members who seem terrified and disoriented, almost brainwashed. The trawler they were hauling has vanished, taken--the men say--by baffling lights that circled the ship....
16) America
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
When the public launching of the country's most sophisticated nuclear submarine is followed by a violent hijacking, only Admiral Jake Grafton stands between the deadly cargo and its intended target: the nation's capital.
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
A computer specialist with a grudge hijacks a cruise ship.
A young woman and her boyfriend set out on a luxurious Caribbean cruise liner, but their trip to paradise turns deadly when a lunatic computer genius takes over the boat and sets it on a course for destruction.
20) Outlaw
Author
Series
Robin Monarch volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"While conducting top-secret negotiations aboard a tanker in the South China Sea, the U.S. Secretary of State and the foreign ministers of China and India are kidnapped, and the tanker they are on is hijacked. The "Sons of Prophecy" take responsibility and issue an ultimatum: If their demands are not met in seven days, the three will be beheaded live on the Internet. With the presidential election in only eight days, sitting President Sands, about...
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