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Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Tori, Marvin, and Noah would rather be anywhere else than on the seventh grade class field trip to Raven Island prison...But when the three of them stumble upon a dead body in the woods, miss the last ferry back home, and then have to spend the night on Raven Island, they find that they need each other now more than ever"--
Author
Series
Island of Mure novels volume 5
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Entrancing...a great escape for any reader."--USA Today (four stars) New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan brings us a delightful summer novel that will sweep you away to the remote Scottish island of Mure, where two very different weddings are about to take place On the little Scottish island of Mure-halfway between Scotland and Norway-Flora MacKenzie and her fiancé Joel are planning the smallest of "sweetheart weddings," a high summer...
Author
Series
The Broadmoor legacy volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"When cholera strikes Rochester, New York, in the spring of 1899, the members of the Broadmoor family flee to their castle home in the Thousand Islands. But Amanda Broadmoor, who has always held a special compassion for the less fortunate, resolves to remain in Rochester with Dr. Blake Carstead, working to help control the spread of the dreaded disease. However, much more than Amanda's health hangs in the balance. Mishandling of the family fortune...
86) The humming room
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Roo Fanshaw is sent to live with an uncle she never knew in a largely uninhabited mansion on Cough Rock Island and discovers a wild river boy, an invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a hidden garden.
Author
Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 2
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
On an island off the coast of Maine, where children ride lobster boats to school, Piper worries that too much good luck can sometimes equal bad luck.
88) Hatchet Island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An eerie, windswept island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappearance in Hatchet Island, the next thriller in Paul Doiron's bestselling Mike Bowditch series. A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to a research station far off the coast. Stacey spent summers interning on the island, a sanctuary for endangered...
90) The weekenders
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends...
Author
Series
Bridal Veil Island romances volume 3
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"Recently jilted and accused of theft, governess Callie DeBoyer is tempted by the African mission field. Would she be following God's call or deserting her life and love?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Fear Street. Relaunch volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Despite her friend's warning, Rachel is excited to attend Brendan Fear's birthday party at his family's estate on mysterious Fear Island, but soon someone introduces a game of murder and all of the guests are in danger.
93) The split
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you... 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...
Pub. Date
[2014], c2014
Language
English
Description
Some say the Spratly Islands, located right in the middle of the South China Sea, could be the site of the world's next major conflict. Eric Campbell takes us on a dangerous journey through these Islands claimed by no fewer than six countries, all fighting over the undersea oil fields.
Pub. Date
[1946]
Language
English
Description
The U.S. military began Operation Crossroads, the first postwar nuclear test series, at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1946. For these tests, more than 90 ships were arranged in a lagoon in order to measure the damage caused by nuclear weapons. These tests, which led to the development of more powerful atomic weapons, also led to increased cold war tensions with the Soviet Union.
97) Orphan Island
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: on that day, each year, when a boat appears from the mist upon the ocean carrying one young child to join them-and taking the eldest one away, never to be seen...
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers, a novel inspired by the true story of Malaga Island, an isolated island off the coast of Maine that became one of the first racially integrated towns in the Northeast. In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discover an island where they can make a life together. Over a century later, the Honeys' descendants and a diverse group of neighbors are desperately poor, isolated,...
99) The end
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 13
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Coral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: wondrously diverse, deeply interconnected, and critically imperiled. They sustain entire ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. But corals across the planet are in the middle of an unprecedented die-off, beset by warming oceans, pollution, human damage, and their own devastating pandemic. Even under stress, they are out-of-this world gorgeous, sending out warning flares in fluorescent bursts of yellow,...
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