Make It Out Alive in the Ocean

Make It Out Alive in the Ocean
Author: Claudia Martin
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499434766

Ingenuity is the only hope for surviving the powerful, mysterious depths of the ocean. Readers of this innovative book will learn the STEM skills necessary for staying alive in this deadly aquatic environment. Makerspace activities allow readers to engineer their way out of real-life scenarios at sea. They�ll gain confidence in their critical thinking, creativity, and STEM abilities as they find solutions to hazardous situations. A map and supply list give readers the basics they�ll need to generate survival techniques and plans, while fact boxes satiate their curiosity about the vicious ocean environment. This high-interest book is sure to become a favorite in any library.

The Ocean Is Alive

The Ocean Is Alive
Author: Glenn Edney
Publisher:
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2016-04-11
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 9780473352608

The Ocean covers over 70 percent of our planet's surface and accounts for 97-99 percent of the liveable biosphere. She is the cradle of our existence and the heart of our blue home, a vast, living and breathing superorganism. The Ocean Is Alive is first and foremost a celebration of the Ocean in all her living splendour. It takes the reader on a fascinating and informative voyage of discovery into the blue heart our planet, from the Ocean's formation more than four billion years ago and the emergence of life deep below her surface, to the incredible diversity and exuberance we know today. But much more than this, it is a journey of discovery into Ocean consciousness: through the evolution of the senses, the emergence of sentient behaviour, and finally an intriguing exploration of what the author calls 'Ocean Mind'. In telling the Ocean's story Glenn Edney draws on his thirty years experience as an Ocean ecologist, underwater naturalist and professional diver to take us beyond the science and into the depths of what it is like to be an Ocean being. Using a combination of personal experience, stories and insights from others, along with guided visualizations, the author weaves a highly readable and thought provoking tale of an Ocean alive to itself, and alive to anyone willing to 'take the plunge'. But no contemporary story of the Ocean would be complete without investigating the current threats to the Ocean's wellbeing. In addressing these issues the author presents a compelling case for recognition of the Ocean as a living being with intrinsic value far beyond the benefits she provides humanity, and offers a new vision for our relationship with the living Ocean.

Adrift

Adrift
Author: Steven Callahan
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2002-10-17
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0547526563

Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan’s dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop capsized only six days out. “Utterly absorbing” (Newsweek), Adrift is a must-have for any adventure library.

438 Days

438 Days
Author: Jonathan Franklin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1501116290

The miraculous account of the man who survived alone and adrift at sea longer than anyone in recorded history. For fourteen months, Alvarenga survived constant shark attacks. He learned to catch fish with his bare hands. He built a fish net from a pair of empty plastic bottles. Taking apart the outboard motor, he fashioned a huge fishhook. Using fish vertebrae as needles, he stitched together his own clothes. Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival. Print run 75,000.

Make It Out Alive in the Arctic and Antarctic

Make It Out Alive in the Arctic and Antarctic
Author: Claudia Martin
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499434634

Hypothermia, dehydration, sunburn � the Arctic and Antarctic environments create deadly problems for human beings. In this interactive book, readers will encounter real-life scenarios in these harsh habitats. Makerspace activities allow readers to engineer solutions to deadly problems. A map and supply list provide readers the tools to create their survival plans, and engaging fact boxes provide them with fascinating insights to these brutal biomes. Even readers who are reluctant with STEM material will love this immersive experience in a high-interest topic. Any library will have a place for this versatile, STEM-driven book.

Make It Out Alive on a Desert Island

Make It Out Alive on a Desert Island
Author: Claudia Martin
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Total Pages: 50
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1499434715

A desert island might sound like a paradise of sunshine and buried treasure, but in real life, these environments are harsh on human beings. This intriguing book introduces readers to real-life scenarios unique to islands � and provides the tools to plan their own survival. A map and supply list give readers the base of survival plans, while Makerspace activities allow readers to exercise their critical thinking and creativity. Fact boxes provide enticing information to immerse readers in the island biome. This high-interest topic will encourage readers to engage with STEM material, making this a valuable book for any library.

Ocean's Wave

Ocean's Wave
Author: Latonya D Young
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 291
Release: 2018-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1387832948

It was Xavier's love that had saved Ocean back in Miami. But can that undying love survive the betrayal? And what does she do when her heart is pulling her in one direction and the badge is still pulling her in another?Xavier's love for Ocean runs deep. Despite her deception she's everything that he's ever wanted in a woman and nothing will stop him from having her completely. He's determined to go to the ends of the earth to not only make her happy but to also make her understand that there is no place in the world for her that will not lead her back to him.What will they do when the FBI comes knocking to take the Hawthorne crew in? But most importantly, who will Ocean choose this time, the badge or the love of her man?

Black Rose

Black Rose
Author: Elvin Dominici
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2016-10-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1365486893

Rosa Negra, Elvin Dominici's most recent work of literature, tells the harrowing ordeal of a woman who abandons her homeland to touch down on US soil. Because it dovetails with real-life events, it runs the risk of inflaming passions and generating mixed reactions from certain parties that may feel this refers to them, so much more when the lines between reality and fiction aren't clearly drawn, opening up an entire world of questions for the reader who tries to discern between one and the other. A simple novel assembled in a circular structure, the story joins Rosa Delia with her granddaughter Wendy at a moment in which life had begun to lose all meaning for the young lady. Rosa Delia's story provides a guide for the footsteps of a granddaughter who has already begun to exhibit the signs of dissonant acculturation, therefore it opens up the wound of communication in two languages, two realities, two life views seen through the lens of the process of linguistic separation...

All the Light We Cannot See

All the Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2014-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1476746605

*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris, and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel. In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the Resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge. Doerr’s “stunning sense of physical detail and gorgeous metaphors” (San Francisco Chronicle) are dazzling. Deftly interweaving the lives of Marie-Laure and Werner, he illuminates the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another. Ten years in the writing, All the Light We Cannot See is a magnificent, deeply moving novel from a writer “whose sentences never fail to thrill” (Los Angeles Times).