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1) Serpent
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin, leader of a National Underwater & Marine Agency (NUMA) team, rescues marine archaeologist Nina Kirov off the coast of Morocco and becomes the target of Don Halcon, Texas industrialist. Halcon's scheme of carving a new nation out of the southwestern U.S. and Mexico hinges on Nina's discovery of an antiquity in the remains of the sunken Andrea Doria.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Formats
Description
Underwater divers Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala battle a secret Spanish brotherhood which is plotting to regain Spanish territory taken by the U.S. The action ranges from the decks of a sunken passenger liner in the Atlantic to an underwater Mayan temple. By the author of Flood Tide.
3) Blue gold
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin, leader of a courageous National Underwater Marine Association exploration team, must attempt to stop an eco-extortionist's plan to control the world's fresh-water supply.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pocket Books
Language
English
Description
An investigation into the sudden deaths of a pod of gray whales leads National Underwater & Marine Agency leader Kurt Austin to the Mexican coast, where someone tries to put him and his mini-sub permanently out of commission. Meanwhile, in South America's lush hills, a specially assigned NUMA(R) team discovers a murdered body--a member of a mysterious local tribe, who live like ghosts beyond a five-part waterfall the locals call the Hand of God, and...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Serpent, Clive Cussler introduced a hero for the new millennium in Kurt Austin, the leader of NUMA's Special Assignments Team. In previous encounters, Austin and his colleague Joe Zavala have battled eco-extortionists and mad empire builders, but they have never faced a menace like the one before them now. In the heart of the old Soviet Union, a mining tycoon has proclaimed himself czar of Russia. Claiming Romanov ancestry and backed by billions...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
A confrontation between a radical environmentalist group and a Danish cruiser has forced Austin and colleague Joe Zavala to come to the rescue of a shipful of trapped men, but when the two investigate further, they discover that something far more sinister is at work.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the last few years, Cussler's Numa Files novels, written with Paul Kemprecos, have only grown more popular-and more eagerly anticipated. "Cussler's multitude of fans arrive at the table expecting a roiling stew of seafaring adventure, exotic travel destinations, cutting-edge science and a splash of romance. In White Death, they will find their expectations extravagantly fulfilled" (Publishers Weekly). And they will find them fulfilled again in...
8) Polar shift
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Language
English
Description
Austin, Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team certainly have faced dire situations before, but never have they encountered anything like this. This time, they must stop the charismatic leader of an anti-globalization group who plans to create a polar shift to give the world's industrialized nations a small jolt, then reverse the shift back again. The only problem is, it cannot be reversed. Once the shift starts, there is nothing...
10) The navigator
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Someone has killed for a statue stolen from the Baghdad Museum years ago, and the NUMA team must find why.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
Years ago, an ancient Phoenician statue known as the Navigator was stolen from the Baghdad Museum, and there are men who would do anything to get their hands on it. What's so special about this statue? Austin wonders. The search for answers will take the NUMA team on an astonishing odyssey through time and space, one that encompasses no less than the lost treasures of King Solomon, a mysterious packet of documents personally encoded by Thomas Jefferson,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the blue medusa mysteriously disappears and a bathysphere harboring Joe Zavala is attacked by an underwater vehicle, Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on the case.
13) Devil's gate
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
When a Japanese cargo ship bursts into flames, a gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster--and then the pirates' boat explodes. Kurt Austin and the rest of the NUMA team rush in to investigate, only to find themselves at the center of an audacious plan to extort the world's major nations.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical...
15) The storm
Author
Series
NUMA files volume 10
Wheeler large print hardcover
Kurt Austin adventures volume 10
Kurt Austin adventure) volume 10
Wheeler large print hardcover
Kurt Austin adventures volume 10
Kurt Austin adventure) volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate the smoldering hulk of a NUMA research vessel in the Indian Ocean and soon uncover an audacious scheme to permanently alter the weather on a global scale, killing millions.
16) Zero hour
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
It is called zero point energy, and it really exists - a state of energy contained in all matter everywhere, and thus all but unlimited. Nobody has ever found a way to tap into it, however - until one scientist discovers a way. Or at least he thinks he has. The problem is, his machines also cause great earthquakes, even fissures in tectonic plates. One machine is buried deep underground; the other is submerged in a vast ocean trench. If Kurt Austin...
18) Ghost ship
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler, the grand master of adventure. When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn't trust either version of his recollection. Determined...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The dazzling new novel in the #1 New York Times-bestselling series from Clive Cussler, the grand master of adventure. When Kurt Austin is injured attempting to rescue the passengers and crew from a sinking yacht, he wakes with fragmented and conflicted memories. Did he see an old friend and her children drown, or was the yacht abandoned when he came aboard? For reasons he cannot explain, Kurt doesn't trust either version of his recollection. Determined...
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