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1) Jaws
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With the 1974 publication of the novel Jaws and the release a year later of the film based on the book, an American cultural phenomenon was born. Today, the remarkable bestseller by Peter Benchley still towers as a thrilling classic of suspense, drama, and the eternal conflicts of man against nature ... and man against himself. As the movie continues to broadcast all over the world, entire generations may know the Jaws story only through its cinematic...
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"In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa's family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from...
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A prehistoric shark surfaces off California and proceeds to wreck havoc. Sixty feet long, it is a member of a species living in the ocean depths for the last 100,000 years. Jonas Taylor, a paleontologist and deep-sea submariner, tries to capture it for an aquarium.
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Blackstone Publishing
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English
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"Sharks are as timid as rabbits." So says a superintendent of the Coast Guard, dismissing the possibility that a shark could be the culprit in an unprecedented fatal attack on a swimmer at the Jersey Shore.
It's July 1916, a time when little is known about ocean creatures, and swimming in the sea is a relatively new pastime. Americans up and down the East Coast are shocked and mystified by the swimmer's death. Little do they know that this is only...
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In this spoof of The three little pigs, Mama tells her three little fish that it's time to seek their fortunes. Jim builds a house of seaweed and Tim builds a house of sand, but it's up to Kim to find the house that will stop the big bad shark's munching and crunching.
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"Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She's bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana...
7) The trench
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Kensington Books
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[1999]
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English
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Master of suspense Steve Alten always takes readers to the edge with his non-stop, adrenaline-charged novels. Now, in The Trench, Alten shows just how deep fear can run when you don't know what lurks beneath the surface…
Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth, scalpel-sharp. For the first time, the captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more…
On the other side of the world, in the silent depths of the ocean, lies...
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MEG ; 4
Publisher
Variance
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[2009]
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English
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David Taylor, the twenty-one-year-old son of Jonas Taylor, agrees to escort two of Angel's litter to Dubai, where a royal prince is building the largest aquarium in the world, unaware that he is being set up to lead an expedition into the dangerous Panthalassa ocean hidden beneath the Philippine Sea Plate.
10) Shark wars
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[2011]
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English
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Gray is already bigger than all the other sharks in his clan, or shiver. He can't stop growing, and when his hunger gets him into trouble, he's banished from the reef with his best friend Barkley. Their hunt for food forces them to journey deep into Goblin Shiver territory, where they have no choice but to join the shiver. They'll help fight against rival sharks in return for training, protection, and food. But who can Gray and Barkley trust when...
11) Mega shark
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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Ari's dad is a Marine Biologist and has invited Ari, Zeke and Jez to a trip out to sea to track dolphins for his research. Ari and his friends are totally stoked, but there is something lurking deep beneath the water that might derail the entire day. Before they know it, Ari must find a way to save his dad and friends from danger without becoming prey himself.
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Mermicorn Island ; 4
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Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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"The best time of the year has arrived-- Mermicorn Island's annual costume contest. Lucky loves designing ever more elaborate costumes for his Fintastic Four, in the hopes of finally taking home the grand prize. But when a fierce-looking shark crashes the ball, everyone swims for cover." -- provided by publisher.
14) Shark vs. train
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English
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A shark and a train compete in a series of contests on a seesaw, in hot air balloons, bowling, shooting baskets, playing hide-and-seek, and more.
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2023.
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"Ten-year-old Julia loves the mysteries of the ocean and marine biology, just like her scientist mother. Her family is spending the summer on a remote island where her mom is searching for the elusive Greenland shark...Determined to prove that the shark is real, Julia sets off on a quest to find it herself, armed with a set of coordinates, a compass, and her trusty rain jacket. She soon realizes that there are some journeys you shouldn't go on alone....
16) MEGA
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Severed Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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"There is something in the deep. Something large. Something hungry. Something prehistoric. And Team Grendel must find it, fight it, and kill it. Kinsey Thorne, the first female US Navy SEAL candidate has hit rock bottom. Having washed out of the Navy, she turned to every drink and drug she could get her hands on. Until her father and cousins, all ex-Navy SEALS themselves, offer her a way back into the life: as part of a private, elite combat Team...
17) Shark beach
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St. Martin's Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"Rick and Corinne Scully and their kids have visited Florida's Captiva Island many times. This year, they've brought along their best friends, who can't wait to finally experience the place the Scullys call Paradise on Earth.But this vacation is turning out to be a lot different than planned. The Scullys never expected the rowdy college spring-breakers renting the house next door, or a hurricane that would sweep through the Gulf Coast, or the century-old...
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MEG ; 3
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2004.
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English
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Eighteen years after a Megalodon shark escapes the Tanaka Lagoon to return to the Mariana Trench, former adventurer Jonas Taylor is recruited to appear on a new survival series at sea, a job with unexpected deadly challenges.
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