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1) Sea monsters
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How big is a giant squid? What is a dragon-fish? How do deep-sea creatures find food? What do scientists think some mythical sea monsters might really be? It's Jack and Annie's very own guide to the strange creatures of the sea including ; Sea monster legends ; giant pacific octopuses ; prehistoric sea monsters ; deep-sea exploration and much more.
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The men on board HMS Terror have every expectation of triumph. As part of the 1845 Franklin Expedition, the first steam-powered vessels ever to search for the legendary Northwest Passage, they are as scientifically supported an enterprise as has ever set forth. As they enter a second summer in the Arctic Circle without a thaw, though, they are stranded in a nightmarish landscape of encroaching ice and darkness. Endlessly cold, with diminishing rations,...
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[2008]
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"In the wake of a wildly disastrous affair, Willie Upton arrives on the doorstep of her ancestral home in Templeton, New York, where her hippie-turned-born-again-Baptist mom, Vi, still lives. Willie expects to be able to hide in the place that has been home to her family for generations, but the monster's death changes the fabric of the quiet, picture-perfect town her ancestors founded. Even further, Willie learns that the story her mother had always...
7) Luca
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[2021]
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Set in a seaside town on the Italian Riviera, a young boy experiences an unforgettable summer. Luca shares his amazing adventures with his newfound friend Alberto, but their fun is threatened by a deeply held secret: they're sea monsters from another world just below the water's surface.
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Princess in Black volume 4
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2016.
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A sleepy Princess in Black takes a much-needed vacation and rides her bicycle to the seaside, where she plans to nap in a hammock, but her peace is disrupted by a roaring sea monster.
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9) Stargazer
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Land of Elyon volume 5
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Twelve-year-old Alexa and her companions unwittingly lead Abaddon, now in the form of an enormous, horrible sea monster, to the secret community known as the Five Stone Pillars when they go to bring the people living there home.
10) Deep Trouble II
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 58
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Billy Deep and his sister are spending another summer with their uncle in the Caribbean. While swimming they notice that the fish seem to be growing into monster-sized sea creatures.
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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.
12) The water horse
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In 1930, on the coast of Scotland, eight-year-old Kirstie finds a large egg which hatches into an unusual sea creature, and as he grows her family must decide what to do with him.
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Narwhal and Jelly volume 8
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[2023]
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"Dive into new stories that are sure to fright and delight! Narwhal loves Halloween--it's a great excuse to dress up in a spooky and silly costume, like a ghost, a mermaid, a banana, or maybe even Marlow the Mustachioed Moose. It's a skeleTON of fun! Jelly isn't dressing up, though--he's a little scared of this time of year, and would prefer to hunker down in a hidey-hole until Halloween is over. But when a scary sea monster makes an appearance and...
15) The Loch
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Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 1
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When a near-death experience forces memories Zachary Wallace buried after a near-drowning as a child to surface, he realizes he holds the key to unlocking the mystery of the Loch Ness monster, but as his memories drive him to madness, he searches for anything that can help him reclaim his life and career.
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A uge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Aronnax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Aronnax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Aronnax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive -...
17) Sea monster!
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Kingdom of Wrenly volume 3
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When a legendary sea monster starts making waves in the Sea of Wrenly, Prince Lucas and his friend Clara travel to the Island of Primlox seeking information that might help them calm the beast.
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Jake Pentecost, son of Stacker Pentecost, reunites with Mako Mori to lead a new generation of Jaeger pilots, including rival Lambert and fifteen year old hacker Amara, against a new Kaiju threat.
"...adroit and enjoyable."--New York Times
"DeKnight shows he can pilot a CGI fight sequence as well as his predecessor..."--New York Daily News
19) Vostok
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Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 2
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[2015]
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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...
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