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1. The last odyssey: a thriller

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Author:
Rollins, James, 1961-
Series:
Sigma Force novel volume 15
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English
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4.5 stars
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For eons, the city of Troy--whose legendary fall was detailed in Homer's Iliad--was believed to be myth, until archaeologists in the nineteenth century uncovered its ancient walls buried beneath the sands. In the frozen tundra of Greenland, a group of modern-day researchers stumble on a shocking find: a medieval ship buried a half-mile below the ice. The ship's hold contains a collection of even older artifacts--tools of war--dating back to the Bronze...

2. Last night in the OR: a transplant surgeon's odyssey

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Shaw, Bud
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English
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"The 1980s marked a revolution in the field of organ transplants, and Bud Shaw, M.D., who studied under Tom Starzl in Pittsburgh, was on the front lines. Now retired from active practice, Dr. Shaw relays gripping moments of anguish and elation, frustration and reward, despair and hope in his struggle to save patients. He reveals harshly intimate moments of his medical career: telling a patient's husband that his wife has died during surgery; struggling...

3. Incredible tale; the odyssey of the average American in the last half century

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Author:
Johnson, Gerald W. (Gerald White), 1890-1980
Publisher:
Harper
Pub. Date:
[1950]
Language:
English
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4. A Last Days Odyssey

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Author:
Abrahamsen, Gary D.
Publisher:
Trilogy Christian Publishing
Pub. Date:
2022
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English
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In "such a time as this," Almighty God shall cause more to happen on this earth in the tiniest of time frames than has been since the very beginning of time. Are we ready? These are not days as anyone has known. Are these days going to pass so that "normal" life would surely resume? Or would these days upend everybody's lives to dramatic and astonishing conclusions? The Father positioned His "little ones" on high alert. The Father now placed them...

5. Last Odyssey

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Ubiquity Records
Pub. Date:
2012
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English
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6. The Odyssey

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Author:
Homer
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Townsend Library
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Lexile measure:
830L
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English
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"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...

7. The Iliad

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Author:
Homer
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Barnes and Noble classics
Tantor unabridged classics
Everyman's library volume 60
Penguin classics
Lexile measure:
1330L
Language:
English
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5 stars
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Homer's Iliad describes the final year of the Trojan War, a legendary conflict between an alliance of Greek cities and the city of Troy in Anatolia.; The greatest literary landmark of classical antiquity masterfully rendered by the most celebrated translator of our time. When Emily Wilson's translation of The Odyssey appeared in 2017--revealing the ancient poem in a contemporary idiom that "combines intellectual authority with addictive readability"...

8. The Aeneid

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Virgil
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Dover Thrift Editions
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English
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"A fresh and faithful translation of Vergil's Aeneid restores the epic's spare language and fast pace and sheds new light on one of the cornerstone narratives of the west. For two thousand years, the epic tale of Aeneas' dramatic flight from Troy, his doomed love affair with Dido, his descent into the underworld, and the bloody story behind the establishment of Rome has electrified audiences around the world. In Vergil's telling, Aeneas' heroic journey...

9. State of wonder: a novel

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Author:
Patchett, Ann
Lexile measure:
990L
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English
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A researcher at a pharmaceutical company, Marina Singh journeys into the heart of the Amazonian delta to check on a field team that has been silent for two years--a dangerous assignment that forces Marina to confront the ghosts of her past.

10. The last of the Mohicans

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Author:
Cooper, James Fenimore, 1789-1851
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Oxford world's classics
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Lexile measure:
1210L
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English
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Set in 1757, during the American colonial wars between the English and French, this second of Cooper's five tales shows both camps united in dispossessing the native Indians and concentrates on the adventures of three men on their way to join the besieged Fort William Henry on Lake George.

11. Dreams from my father: a story of race and inheritance

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Author:
Obama, Barack
Lexile measure:
910L
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English
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Now adapted for young adults, the #1 New York times best-selling memoir offers an intimate look at Barack Obama's early days, tracing the future 44th president's odyssey through family, race, and identity. The son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. Obama retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of...

12. Terminator salvation

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English
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The future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynets operations, where they uncover the terrible secret behind the possible annihilation...

13. The waste lands

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Author:
King, Stephen, 1947-
Series:
Dark tower volume 3
Lexile measure:
840L
Language:
English
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4 stars
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Roland, the Last Gunslinger, and his companions--Eddie Dean and Susannah--cross the desert of damnation, drawing ever closer to the Dark Tower, a legion of fiendish foes, and revelations that could alter the world.

14. All the pretty horses

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Author:
McCarthy, Cormac, 1933-2023
Series:
Border trilogy volume 1
Lexile measure:
940L
Language:
English
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Cut off from the life of ranching he has come to love by his grandfather's death, John Grady Cole flees to Mexico, where he and his two companions embark on a rugged and cruelly idyllic adventure.

15. Rough crossings: Britain, the slaves, and the American Revolution

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Schama, Simon
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English
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Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and served the King would be emancipated, tens of thousands of slaves -- Americans who clung to the sentimental notion of British freedom -- escaped from farms, plantations and cities to try to reach the British...

16. Air-borne: the hidden history of the life we breathe

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Author:
Zimmer, Carl, 1966-
Pub. Date:
2025
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English
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"Every day we draw in two thousand gallons of air—and thousands of living things. From the ground to the stratosphere, the air teems with invisible life. This last great biological frontier remains so mysterious that it took over two years for scientists to finally agree that the COVID pandemic was caused by an airborne virus. In Air-Borne, award-winning New York Times columnist and author Carl Zimmer leads us on an odyssey through the living atmosphere...

17. The oceans and the stars: a sea story, a war story, a love story : the seven battles and mutiny of Athena, Patrol Coastal Ship 15

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Author:
Helprin, Mark
Publisher:
The Overlook Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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"A Navy captain near the end of a decorated career, Stephen Rensselaer is disciplined, intelligent, and determined to always do what's right. In defending the development of a new variant of warship, he makes an enemy of the president of the United States, who assigns him to command the doomed line's only prototype--Athena, Patrol Coastal 15--with the intent to humiliate a man who should have been an admiral. Rather than resign, Rensselaer takes the...

18. The last ship: the complete fourth season

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Publisher:
Warner Bros. Pictures
Pub. Date:
[2018]
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English
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Based on William Brinkley's popular novel, it chronicles a global catastrophe that nearly decimates the world's population. Because of its positioning, the Navy destroyer U.S.S. Nathan James avoided falling victim to the devastating tragedy. But now the crew and its captain must confront the reality of their new existence in a world where they may be among the few remaining survivors.

19. A walk in the park: the true story of a spectacular misadventure in the Grand Canyon

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Author:
Fedarko, Kevin
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English
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"From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of the epic adventure tale The Emerald Mile comes the most dramatic and deeply moving account ever of walking the Grand Canyon, a highly dangerous, life-changing 750-mile trek. The Grand Canyonis an American treasure, visited by more than 6 million people a year, many of whom are rendered speechless by its vast beauty, mystery, and complexity. Now, in A Walk in the Park, author Kevin Fedarko...

20. The call of the wild

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Author:
London, Jack, 1876-1916
Series:
Scholastic classics
Classic literature
100 greatest masterpieces of American literature
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Lexile measure:
1120L
Language:
English
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"There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. The domesticated life of a powerful St. Bernard-Shepherd mix named Buck is quickly turned on end when he is stolen away from his master and put to work as a sled dog in Alaska. His once life of luxury turns into a life of survival...
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