Steve Alten
1) Vostok
Author
Series
Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 2
Language
English
Description
East Antarctica: The coldest, most desolate location on Earth. Two-and-a-half miles below the ice cap is Vostok, a six thousand square mile liquid lake, over a thousand feet deep, left untouched for more than 15 million years. Now, marine biologist Zachary Wallace and two other scientists aboard a submersible tethered to a laser will journey 13,000 feet beneath the ice into this unexplored realm to discover Mesozoic life forms long believed extinct...
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Cedar Fort
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
September Eleventh . . . war in Iraq . . . turmoil in the Middle East . . . an impending war with Iran. They have one thing in common: oil. And the world is running out.
The Shell Game is a thrilling novel that faces the end of oil and the next big attack on American soil. This fictional tale resonates with chilling facts from real-life informants in the oil industry and the U.S. government, piecing together the terrifying truth about a nation...
3) Meg
Author
Series
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On a top-secret dive into the Pacific Ocean's deepest canyon, Jonas Taylor found himself face-to-face with the largest and most ferocious predator in the history of the animal kingdom. The sole survivor of the mission, Taylor is haunted by what he's sure he saw but still can't prove exists-Carcharodon megalodon, the massive mother of the great white shark. The average prehistoric Meg weighs in at twenty tons and could tear apart a Tyrannosaurus...
4) The trench
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Master of suspense Steve Alten always takes readers to the edge with his non-stop, adrenaline-charged novels. Now, in The Trench, Alten shows just how deep fear can run when you don't know what lurks beneath the surface…
Its appetite is ravenous. Its teeth, scalpel-sharp. For the first time, the captive twenty-ton Megalodon shark has tasted human blood, and it wants more…
On the other side of the world, in the silent depths of the ocean, lies...
Author
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
On the brink of a disaster that could end all human life on Earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun joins a team of scientists in Antarctica on a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to mine a rare ore that can provide for Earth's long-term energy needs. But as he and the rest of the team train under the ice shelf in preparation for the long journey, trouble erupts. Before they embark, Eisenbraun finds himself the odd man out and is put into cold sleep against...
6) Domain
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object wasn't an asteroid …For thirty-two years, archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice). Julius believes that certain mysterious sites: the Great Pyramid of Giza, Stonehenge, the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau, the temple...
7) Sharkman
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Kwan Wilson, seventeen, was a basketball star until he crashed his car, killing his mother and paralyzing himself from the waist down, and now, while living with his grandmother in Delray Beach, Florida, he gets an internship at a genetics laboratory where shark stem cells are being tested on rats to cure cancer and spinal injuries, and can't resist injecting himself.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor/Tom Doherty
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
A dazzling look at Mayan mythology incarnate from New York Times bestselling author Steve Alten… For two thousand years, the Mayan Calendar has prophesied the end of mankind on a date equating to December 21st, 2012. As that day approaches, greed, corruption, economic collapse, and violence seem to be pushing our species to the predicted brink of disaster. But there is another doomsday threat looming in our near future, a very real threat that can...
10) The Loch
Author
Series
Loch novels (Steve Alten) volume 1
Publisher
Tsunami Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
12) Generations
Author
Series
MEG volume 6
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Dubai : An impossibility is being taken to the Middle East. The transport vessel Tonga is carrying a liopleurodon to the City of Gold. But while investors gawk at the prehistoric creature, any even more dangerous creature is beginning to stir. The megalodon shark that Jonas Taylor worked so hard to capture is coming out of it's drug-induced stupor and refuses to be contained. Now both ancient creatures, older than mankind itself, are loose in the...
13) MEG: 01
Author
Publisher
Viper Press, an imprint of A&M Publishing
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Language
English
Description
All New Revised and Expanded! Includes Meg: Origins. Carcharodon megalodon apex predator of all time, the most fearsome creature that ever lived a 70-foot, 60,000 pound Great White Shark. Hundreds of 7-inch serrated teeth filled jaws that could swallow an elephant whole. It could sense its prey miles away, inhaling its scent as it registered the beat of its fluttering heart, and if you ever came close enough to see the monster..it was already too...
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this fifth installment of the New York Times bestselling MEG series, Nighstalkers picks up where MEG: Hell's Aquarium left off. Bela and Lizzy, the dominant Megalodon siblings from Angel's brood, have escaped the Tanaka Institute to roam the Salish Sea in British Columbia. While Jonas Taylor and his friend Mac attempt to either recapture or kill the "sisters," Jonas's son, David, embarks on his own adventure, motivated by revenge. Having witnessed...
15) The meg
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping an attack by what he claims was a 70-foot shark, Jonas Taylor must confront his fears to save those trapped in a sunken submersible.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Jonas Taylor leads a research team on an exploratory dive into the deepest depths of the ocean. Their voyage spirals into chaos when a malevolent mining operation threatens their mission and forces them into a high-stakes battle for survival. Pitted against colossal, prehistoric sharks and relentless environmental plunderers, they must outrun, outsmart and outswim their merciless predators.
17) The meg
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Expert rescue diver Jonas Taylor teams up with an oceanographer's daughter to rescue people trapped in a sunken submersible after they're attacked by a giant prehistoric shark.