Download or read book Ship Breaker National Book Award Finalist written by Paolo Bacigalupi and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in a dark future America devastated by the forces of climate change, this thrilling bestseller and National BookFinalist is a gritty, high-stakes adventure of a teenage boy faced with conflicting loyalties. In America's flooded Gulf Coast region, oil is scarce, but loyalty is scarcer. Grounded oil tankers are being broken down for parts by crews of young people. Nailer, a teenage boy, works the light crew, scavenging for copper wiring just to make quota--and hopefully live to see another day. But when, by luck or by chance, he discovers an exquisite clipper ship beached during a recent hurricane, Nailer faces the most important decision of his life: Strip the ship for all it's worth or rescue its lone survivor, a beautiful and wealthy girl who could lead him to a better life.... In this powerful novel, Hugo and Nebula Award winning author Paolo Bacigalupi delivers a fast-paced adventure set in the vivid and raw, uncertain future of his companion novels The Drowned Cities and Tool of War. "Suzanne Collins may have put dystopian literature on the YA map with The Hunger Games...but Bacigalupi is one of the genre's masters, employing inventively terrifying details in equally imaginative story lines." —Los Angeles Times A New York Times Bestseller A Michael L. Printz Award Winner A National Book Award Finalist A VOYA 2010 Top Shelf Fiction for Middle School Readers Book A Rolling Stone 40 Best YA Novels Book Don’t miss the other books in the series: The Drowned Cities Tool of War

Download or read book Hab 12 written by Mark Wayne McGinnis and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-19 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Buckle up--this is another crazy ride!" The Scrapyard Ship sci-fi "cliff-hanger" adventures continue with HAB 12, the second book in the series: Captain Jason Reynolds faces new challenges, not only on Earth but from the far side of the universe as well. The only way to stop the Craing this time will be to square off with them on their home turf. Jason's been informed that three powerful Craing warships, having similar technology as The Lilly, will soon be en route to Earth. The Alliance must destroy the Craing's wormhole means of distant space travel to avert Earth's total annihilation. Unfortunately, there's no way to reach the Craing worlds in time, at least not through conventional means. It's up to Jason and his hand-picked assault team to traverse, by advanced phase-shifting means, through the hazardous environment of HAB 12. This is an adventure fraught with carnivores of a Jurassic Age magnitude, and a terrain so deadly that turning back may be their only hope of survival. Note from the author: Don't be surprised by cliff-hanger endings. I'll do my best to keep Scrapyard Ship as well as the Tapped In series books coming so you wont have long to wait for the next book. Enjoy!

Download or read book Scrapyard Ship written by Mark Wayne McGinnis and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-09-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scrapyard Ship (Science Fiction)"What a Ride!"Lieutenant Commander Jason Reynolds has had a string of bad luck lately-evident by the uncomfortable house arrest bracelet strapped to his right ankle. Worse yet, he's relegated to his grandfather's old house and rambling scrapyard. But It's through a bizarre turn of events that Jason is led to a subterranean chamber hundreds of feet below ground. There he discovers an advanced alien spacecraft that complicates his life further. The adventure begins... and with it new troubles for Jason. Everyone, including his raucous Navy SEAL buddies, are clamoring to fight a new alien interstellar threat. Catapulted into the Captain's chair, Jason's impetuous decision-making certainly makes for danger and excitement. At stake is the very existence of the human race. This is a full-length novel-first in the science fiction adventure series of Scrapyard Ship.

Download or read book Space Vengeance written by Mark Wayne McGinnis and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I LOVED this book!" "Great Book!" "Get Another Fix! "Fun and Great Series!" "The crazy ride continues... and never lets up!" Captain Jason Reynolds is back! In the third installment of the Scrapyard Ship sci-fi adventure series, Space Vengeance, Jason, his family, and The Lilly's crew face the impending destruction of their internal nano-devices. What's worse, what remains of the Craing fleet, some 1500 warships, is back and headed straight toward the already decimated planets within Allied space. In what looks to be a one-way suicide mission, Jason must leave Nan and Mollie behind on Earth and out of harm's way. While war rages on sixty light years from Earth, maniacal space raider Captain Stalls and hundreds of his pirated warships close in on Earth. Stalls knows exactly what he wants: to find and kill Captain Reynolds and take the beautiful Nan Reynolds for his own. Note from the author: If you've made it to this third installment, you already realize this is an ongoing series. With that said, more often than not these books have cliff-hanger endings!

Download or read book Rover s Junkyard written by Gary Boller and published by Little Hippo. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rover likes to recycle. He doesn't like throwing stuff away. He owns a junkyard where old cars and junk get trashed. What super-duper purple sparkly surprise is he making in his top seceret workshop?

Download or read book The Last Cruise written by Kate Christensen and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1950s ocean liner Queen Isabella is making her final voyage—a retro cruise from Long Beach to Hawaii and back—before heading to the scrapyard. For the guests on board, it’s a chance to experience a bygone era of decadent luxury, complete with fine dining, classic highballs, string quartets, and sophisticated jazz. Smoking is allowed but not cell phones—or children, for that matter. But this is the second decade of an uncertain new millennium, not the sunny, heedless mid-twentieth century, and certain disquieting signs of strife and malfunction above and below deck intrude on the festivities, throwing a trio of strangers together in an unexpected and startling test of character.

Download or read book Junkyard Planet written by Adam Minter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When you drop your Diet Coke can or yesterday's newspaper in the recycling bin, where does it go? Probably halfway around the world, to people and places that clean up what you don't want and turn it into something you can't wait to buy. In Junkyard Planet, Adam Minter--veteran journalist and son of an American junkyard owner--travels deep into a vast, often hidden, five-hundred-billion-dollar industry that's transforming our economy and environment. With unmatched access to and insight on the waste industry, and the explanatory gifts and an eye for detail worthy of a John McPhee or a William Langewiesche, Minter traces the export of America's junk and the massive profits that China and other rising nations earn from it. What emerges is an engaging, colorful, and sometimes troubling tale of how the way we consume and discard stuff fuels a world that recognizes value where Americans don't. Junkyard Planet reveals that Americans might need to learn a smarter way to take out the trash.

Download or read book S S United States written by Frank Braynard and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: The big ship: the story of the S.S. United States. Newport News, Va.: Mariners' Museum, 1981.

Download or read book A Man and His Ship written by Steven Ujifusa and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-06-04 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fascinating historical account…A snapshot of the American Dream culminating with this country’s mid-century greatness” (The Wall Street Journal) as a man endeavors to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner in history. The story of a great American Builder at the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America’s best naval architect. His quest to build the finest, fastest, most beautiful ocean liner of his time, the SS United States, was a topic of national fascination. When completed in 1952, the ship was hailed as a technological masterpiece at a time when “made in America” meant the best. Gibbs was an American original, on par with John Roebling of the Brooklyn Bridge and Frank Lloyd Wright of Fallingwater. Forced to drop out of Harvard following his family’s sudden financial ruin, he overcame debilitating shyness and lack of formal training to become the visionary creator of some of the finest ships in history. He spent forty years dreaming of the ship that became the SS United States. William Francis Gibbs was driven, relentless, and committed to excellence. He loved his ship, the idea of it, and the realization of it, and he devoted himself to making it the epitome of luxury travel during the triumphant post-World War II era. Biographer Steven Ujifusa brilliantly describes the way Gibbs worked and how his vision transformed an industry. A Man and His Ship is a tale of ingenuity and enterprise, a truly remarkable journey on land and sea.

Download or read book The Hidden Ship written by Mark Wayne McGinnis and published by Avenstar Productions. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Hidden Ship - BlurbI am Brian Polk, a captain in the U.S. Air Force. Was already back stateside for close to a year when all hell broke loose-otherwise I'd be dead right now-like the tens of millions of other poor soles lost. Military installations worldwide were the first targets hit. It was a reign of terror-an interstellar invasion-the beginning of the end of civilization as we knew it. The largest cities were turned to rubble. Government centers were laid to waist, then law enforcement resources were targeted. Finally, the aliens eliminated humanity's means to electronically communicate. The Earupitan's technology, their weaponry, was so remarkable and advanced that we never had a chance. But now, two years later, we're long past self-incrimination-playing the blame game. Today they walk brazenly among us-their reptilian eyes always watchful, always scrutinizing. At their discretion they drag any of us into their headquarters. Most seized never see the light of day after that. Many of us live in fear, wondering what's next for humanity. Then again, there are some amongst us who have befriended the enemy. But not me. I'm far more interested in killing them, maybe allot of them. Luckily, I possess something of theirs. Something dangerous. So in my own small way I just might make a difference-that, or die trying.

Download or read book Ships of the World written by Lincoln P. Paine and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an encyclopaedia covering 1000 of the world's best-known and significant vessels of every size and type. Each ship is described in a short essay which captures its physical characteristics, construction and history. Even fictional ships and boats, such as The African Queen are included.

Download or read book The Great Space written by Mark Wayne McGinnis and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-24 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great SpaceThey knew the day would come--the day when Earth itself would come under direct attack by the Craing. After destroying much of Jhardon and the Mau planet of Carz-Mau, an elite Vanguard fleet of seven Craing dreadnaughts, planet killers, enters Earth's orbit. Captain Jason Reynolds and the crew aboard his Caldurian ship, The Lilly, are once again pulled into action to fend off what just might be their most ruthless and powerful adversary yet. In an unanticipated turn of events, thousands of molt weevils are unleashed on Earth, swarming insectoid aliens with one intent ... kill every man, woman, and child on the surface of the planet. Nan and Mollie must utilize their own cunning and resourcefulness to stay alive long enough to be rescued.

Download or read book USS Hamilton written by Mark Wayne McGinnis and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book The Big Ship written by Frank O. Braynard and published by Turner. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Big Ship: The Story of the S.S. United States is the behind-the scenes story of one of the fastest ships in the world and one of the most luxurious passenger liners to cross the Atlantic. Follow Frank Braynard as he chronicles the life of the S.S. United States, the incredible feat of engineering that still holds the westbound speed record on the North Atlantic. --from publisher description.

Download or read book Uncle Louie s Fantastic Sea Voyage written by Jan Lööf and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A boy, his uncle, and an old man who dabbles in magic set sail for Africa and become shipwrecked in a surprising place.

Download or read book USS Hamilton written by Mark Wayne McGinnis and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-13 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: