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The world has fallen. Without warning, a mysterious and omnipotent force has claimed the planet for their own. There are no negotiations, no demands, no reasons given for their actions. All they have is a message: humanity has thirty days to reach the one place on Earth where they will be allowed to exist…Antarctica.
7) The sign
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In this gripping thriller, a scientific expedition in Antarctica stops for a live news feed. As the CNN journalist Gracie Logan begins her report, a massive, shimmering sphere of light suddenly appears in the sky, enveloping the ship in luminous white light before disappearing as mysteriously as it arrived--the entire event witnessed by an incredulous world audience. Meanwhile, a monk in Egypt experiences visions that seemed connected, and back in...
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Maximum Ride volume 4
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Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2008
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256 p. ; 23 cm.
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While on a mission to Antarctica to save the world from global warming, fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--are pursued by their creator, the Uber-Director, who wants to auction them off to the highest bidder.
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St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
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x, 336 p. ; 22 cm.
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Heading for Antarctica to study glaciology with her mentor, Dr. Emmett Vanderzee, Valena Walker finds herself thrust into the role of amateur sleuth when Vanderzee is arrested for the killing of a reporter, who died in Antarctica the previous winter.
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Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
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324 pages ; 25 cm
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"A brilliant and dangerous group of scientists are determined to save the world from the perils of overpopulation by releasing into the world a brutal virus. Having just arrived at the research station at the earth's southernmost tip, returning hero Hallie Leland has seven days to stop them from putting their plan into action"--
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
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290 pages ; 24 cm
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"A magical, intoxicating debut novel that imagines the future and history of two lovers who are connected by the passing of great comets overhead and by the ancestors that bind them together"--
13) The ice limit
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Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
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15 CDs (approx. 17 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.
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When a meteorite possessing secrets about human evolution is discovered in a desolate region of Chile, an expedition team sets out to recover it but finds increasing mysteries and dangerous challenges along the way.
14) The split
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2020.
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"The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer - which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear - fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's out of prison, having served a term for murder, she knows he won't give up until he finds her. But a doctor delving into the background...
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Saga Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
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419 pages ; 24 cm
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"A female P.I. comes into conflict with a ruthless gangster just as both humans and robots agitate for independence in a domed Argentinian colony in Antarctica."--Publisher.
In Argentine Antarctica, Eliana Gomez is the only female PI in Hope City-- a domed colony dependent on maintenance androids for heat, light, and survival in the icy deserts of the continent. The City produces atomic power for the mainland; local factions agitate for independence;...
16) Austral
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Gollancz
Pub. Date
2018.
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276 pages : map ; 20 cm
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The great geoengineering projects have failed. The world is still warming, sea levels are still rising, and the Antarctic Peninsula is home to Earth's newest nation, with life quickened by ecopoets spreading across valleys and fjords exposed by the retreat of the ice. Austral Morales Ferrado, a child of the last generation of ecopoets, is a husky: an edited person adapted to the unforgiving climate of the far south, feared and despised by most of...
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Houghton Mifflin Books for Children/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
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32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 24 x 29 cm
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"Sophie Scott is only nine years old, but she's going to Antarctica on an icebreaker with her dad, the ship's captain. During the voyage to Mawson Station and back, Sophie keeps a diary. She sees icebergs, penguins, seals and whales. She makes new friends, wonders at the southern lights and even becomes stranded in a blizzard!"--Jacket flap.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2024.
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326 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
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"November 1914. Clara Ketterling-Dunbar is one of twenty-eight crew members of The Resolute-a ship meant for an Antarctic expedition now marooned on ice one hundred miles from the shore of the continent. An eighteen-year-old American, Clara has told the crew she's a twenty-one-year-old Canadian. Since the war broke out, sentiment toward Americans has not been the most favorable, and Clara will be underestimated enough simply for being a woman without...
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
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308 pages ; 24 cm.
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It is only at the end of the worldamong the glacial mountains, cleaving icebergs, and frigid waters of Antarcticawhere Deb Gardner and Keller Sullivan feel at home. For the few blissful weeks they spend each year studying the habits of emperor and Adélie penguins, Deb and Keller can escape the frustrations and sorrows of their separate lives and find solace in their work and in each other. But Antarctica, like their fleeting romance, is tenuous,...
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