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  Jaws: Book 1

  Jaws

  by Peter Benchley

  "Relentless terror." The Philadelphia Inquirer. The classic, blockbuster thriller of man-eating terror that inspired the Steven Spielberg movie and made millions of beachgoers afraid to go into the water. Experience the thrill of helpless horror again -- or for the first time! From the Paperback edition.
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  Shark Life: True Stories About Sharks & the Sea

  by Peter Benchley, Karen Wojtyla

  In this riveting true adventure and informative guide to the sea, master storyteller Peter Benchley draws on more than four decades of diving experience to bring us face to face with the array of sharks and other marine animals he and his family have encountered, almost always on purpose—but sometimes by accident. In direct and accessible prose, Peter sets the record straight about the many types of sharks... (more)
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  The Search

  by Nora Roberts

  Talented search and rescue dog trainer Fiona Bristow escaped the clutches of a serial killer several years before, but not before he murdered her fiance and her beloved dog. She has retreated to a cabin in the wilderness and is wary of forming bonds with anyone, but handsome newcomer and talented carpenter Simon has an unruly puppy to train and soon man and dog charm their way into Fiona's life. But just when she... (more)
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  Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

  How the Sex-Drugs-And-Rock-'N'-Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

  by Peter Biskind

  When the low-budget biker movie Easy Rider shocked Hollywood with its success in 1969, a new Hollywood era was born. This was an age when talented young filmmakers such as Scorsese, Coppola and Spielberg, along with a new breed of actors, including De Niro, Pacino and Nicholson, became the powerful figures who would make such modern classics as The Godfather, Chinatown, Taxi Driver and Jaws. Easy Riders, Raging... (more)
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  Meg: Book 4

  Hell's Aquarium

  by Steve Alten

  The Philippine Sea Plate... the deepest, most unexplored realm on the planet. Hidden beneath its ancient crust lies the remains of the Panthalassa, an ocean that dates back 220 million years. Vast and isolated, the Panthalassa in inhabited by nightmarish species of sea creatures long believed extinct. Tanaka Institute, Monterey, CA.: Angel, the recaptured 76 foot, 100,000 pound Megalodon, has birthed a... (more)
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  Close to Shore

  The Terrifying Shark Attacks of 1916

  by Mike Capuzzo

  Combining rich historical detail and a harrowing, pulse-pounding narrative, Close to Shore brilliantly re-creates the summer of 1916, when a rogue Great White shark attacked swimmers along the New Jersey shore, triggering mass hysteria and launching the most extensive shark hunt in history. During the summer before the United States entered World War I, when ocean swimming was just becoming popular and... (more)
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  The Wave

  In Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks and Giants of the Ocean

  by Susan Casey

  A riveting and rollicking tour-de-force about the terrifying power of nature's most deadly phenomena — colossal waves — and the scientists and super surfers who are obsessed with them. The New York Times bestselling author of The Devil's Teeth probes the dramatic convergence of baffling gargantuan waves that pummel oil rigs and sink massive ships, the extreme surfers willing to stare down death in order to... (more)
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  In Harm's Way

  The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors

  by Doug Stanton

  Now available for the first time in trade paperback, the bestselling account of America’s worst naval disaster—and of the heroism of the men who, against all odds, survived On July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis was torpedoed in the South Pacific by a Japanese submarine. An estimated three hundred men were killed upon impact; close to nine hundred sailors were cast into the Pacific Ocean, where they struggled... (more)
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  In the Slick of the Cricket: The True Story Behind the JAWS Epic

  by Russell Drumm

  In his forty years of charter-boat fishing off the shores of Long Island, Frank Mundus, captain of the Cricket II , has hauled in more terrifying multiton, multifanged great white sharks than anyone around. Unwittingly playing Ishmael to the Cricket's Ahab, local newspaperman Russell Drumm set out to accompany Mundus on what would be the captain's final voyage into the deep before hanging up his reel and retiring... (more)