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21) The weekenders
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
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
Publisher
Riverhead Hardcover
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of a particular...
23) Dawnshard
Author
Series
Stormlight archive volume 5
Language
English
Description
When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani Kholin must send an expedition to make sure the island hasn't fallen into enemy hands. Knights Radiant who fly too near find their Stormlight suddenly drained, so the voyage must be by sea. Shipowner Rysn Ftori lost the use of her legs but gained the companionship of Chiri-Chiri, a Stormlight-ingesting winged larkin, a species once...
Author
Series
Mure volume 4
Language
English
Description
On the tiny, beautiful, and remote island of Mure, halfway between Scotland and Norway, a new hotel opening is a big event. New mother Flora MacKenzie and her brother Fintan are working themselves half to death to get it ready in time for Christmas. The new hotel's impressive kitchens throw together two unlikely new friends: Isla Gregor is the hardworking young girl who has been a waitress in the island's cafe, dreaming of a bigger, better life now...
26) The island
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
While walking on the beach Beth Anderson stumbles upon a human skull that then disappears, and it is only when a body washes up on shore that people believe her story, especially Keith Henson, a stranger who follows her every move.
27) The lighthouse
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mystery volume 13
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Author
Series
Todd Ingram novel volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Navy Lieutenant Commander Todd Ingram fights the Japanese during the Battles of Cape Esperance and the Santa Cruz Islands, while his girlfriend Helen is trapped on Mindanao.
29) The lost island
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 3
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable security.
30) Shutter Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his partner, Chuck Aule, come to Shutter Island's Ashecliffe Hospital in search of an escaped mental patient, but unveil a nightmare world of CIA drug trials and repressive mind control.
31) Deep water
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Responding to a rescue call in the Indian Ocean, Captain Daniel Tengky discovers a mortally injured man and his traumatized wife. Jake and Virginie had put all their money into a yacht, planning to explore the high seas together. On the beaches of Amarante, they became entangled with a motley crew of expat sailors. When Tengky arrives, she confesses: "It's all my fault. I killed them." Now it's up to Danial to determine just how much truth there is...
32) The killing bay
Author
Series
Faroes novel volume 2
Publisher
Titan Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a group of international activists arrive on the Faroe Islands, intent on stopping the traditional whale hunts, tensions between islanders and protestors run high. And when a woman is found viciously murdered only hours after a violent confrontation, the circumstances seem purposely designed to increase animosity between the two sides. As English DI Jan Reyna and local detective Hjalti Hentze investigate, it becomes increasingly clear that the...
Author
Series
Meg Langslow mystery volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meg and her boyfriend Michael's romantic Monhegan Island getaway is overshadowed by a hurricane that maroons everyone there, including Meg's intrusive family, and a murder in which her father is named the chief suspect.
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery,...
37) Face the fire
Author
Series
Three Sisters Island trilogy volume 3
Language
English
Description
The new owner of the island's only hotel, Sam has returned to Three Sisters with hopes of winning back Mia's affections. But Mia needs his help to face her greatest challenge, and the deadline for breaking a centuries-old curse draws near.
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"An alien ship rests over Water Island. For five years the people of the US Virgin Islands have lived with the Ynaa, a race of superadvanced aliens on a research mission they will not fully disclose. They are benevolent in many ways but meet any act of aggression with disproportional wrath. This has led to a strained relationship between the Ynaa and the local Virgin Islanders and a peace that cannot last. A year after the death of a young boy at...
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