Frank Carlson Library

"The Pacific Ocean has been the focus of our fascination for as long as we have lived beside and on it. It covers one-third of Earth's surface -- greater than all of the planet's landmasses combined. It contains half of the world's water, hides its deepest places, and is home to some of the most dazzling creatures known to science. Big Pacific presents the Pacific Ocean and its inhabitants as you have never seen them before, blending a wealth of images...

A commercial airliner develops engine trouble while flying over the Pacific Ocean. The pilot panics, so it is up to the washed-up co-pilot to get the plane down safely. .

Experiences of three Navy flyers, H.F. Dixon, Tony Pastula, and Gene Aldrich, who spent 34 days on a rubber raft, as told by Dixon to the author.

"Thirteen year old Ben Archer has accepted a mindboggling challenge: to help restore the balance between humans and the rest of the living world. But after a near brush with death in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, things only get worse when his alien skill attracts the attention of Jeremy Michaels, a reporter from the Provincial Times. At first, slipping away to a small costal town for a summer camp seems like a good idea, but Ben's hopes of a...

A description of every major action in the Pacific during World War II: Pearl Harbor, Bataan, Corregidor, midway, Guadalcanal, new Guinea, Burma, the Philippine Sea, Leyte, Iow Jima, Okinawa, Hiroshima, and others. Individual battles are placed into the strategic patterns of war.

This is the thrilling saga of war in the air in the Pacific. Theater of Operations during World War II told from the Japanese point of view. It is the story of the men who created, led, and fought in the deadly Zero fighter plane. In their own words, Jiro Horikoshi (who designed the Zero), Masatake Okumiya (leader of many Zero squadrons), and Saburo Sakai (Japan's leading surviving fighter ace) as well as many other men, tell the inside story of developing...

Heading for a newly inherited island, the boys are shipwrecked and marooned on an atoll which has just emerged from the sea. Along with their cook, a stowaway and a girl who is fleeing her fiance, they set up their own government on the atoll. Uranium is discovered and world powers begin fighting over ownership of the island.