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81) The night singer
Author
Series
Duncker volume 1
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The scars from a family tragedy draw an estranged police detective back to her childhood home as a teenage boy's death quickly causes the past to collide with the present"--
Police detective Hannah Duncker didn't expect to return to her native land. She fled after her father's murder conviction and returned to make peace with her shame. She has a new job with the local police and a nosy new partner. When a fifteen-year-old's death catapults her...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Catapult edition.
Physical Desc
215 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A lonely thirtysomething disrupts the relationship between a mother and her teenage daughter on a beautiful Greek island, distorting the lines between lover and beloved and child and adult, in a queer version of Lolita by an award-winning Swedish writer.
84) Minutes to burn
Author
Publisher
[Brilliance Audio]
Pub. Date
[2019].
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
13 sound discs (16 hours and 18 minutes) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the year 2007, two scientists are accompanied by a team of Navy SEALs to position critical tectonic equipment on a deserted island in the Galapagos and find themselves immersed in a brutal war for survival that could determine the fate of the world.
85) Blue lightning
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
86) Coral reefs
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"This photo-illustrated book for early readers describes the coral reef ecosystem. Includes picture glossary and index."--
87) Elephant Island
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
English-language edition
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (colour) ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Caught in a storm, Elephant washes up on a tiny island. Along comes Mouse in a little dingy and Elephant steps aboard . . . uh-oh! They use the wreckage to make the island bigger. And here's Dog--can this boat take Elephant's weight? Uh-oh! None of the animals can save the shipwrecked Elephant but each broken vessel provides new materials for another intricate construction. Wheels and pulleys create a Ferris wheel, an elevator, a waffle maker. Soon...
88) Island
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Perennial classic ed.
Physical Desc
354p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Blackberry Island volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sisters Nina and Averil Wentworth deal with life and love--and their tenuous relationship with each other--on Blackberry Island.
90) The lighthouse
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
335 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Little Beach Street Bakery volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Moving to a Cornish seaside village, hoping for peace and solitude, lonely registrar Marisa Rosso, feeling like life is passing her by, unexpectedly finds her joy again with the help of her noisy neighbor, the community spirit and a campaign to save the local bakery.
Author
Series
Publisher
Independently Published
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
54 pages ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Emma and her family sailed to their new island home, she realized that there was a lot to learn. God has called their family to work on Bible translation on the Solomon Islands. Struggling with a new language, making new friends, and trying to fit in, Emily learns valuable lessons along the way.
Will this new island ever be home?
94) Into the volcano
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
175 p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
While their parents are away doing research, brothers Duffy and Sumo Pugg go with their cousin, Mister Come-and-Go, to Kokalaha Island, where they meet Aunt Lulu and become trapped in an erupting volcano.
95) Coral reefs
Author
Series
Publisher
AV2
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Aquatic Ecosystems series explores how different bodies of water shape their environments and support the plants and animals that are reliant on them"--
Author
Series
Bridal Veil Island volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Audrey Cunningham's father proposes that they move to Bridal Veil Island, where he grew up, she agrees, thinking this will help keep him sober and close to God. But they arrive to find wealthy investors buying up land to build a grand resort on the secluded island--and they want the Cunninghams' acreage. Contractor Marshall Graham can't imagine why the former drinking buddy of his deceased father would beckon him to Bridal Veil Island. And when...
97) The Lewis man
Author
Series
Lewis Trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fin Macleod returns to the outer Hebridean island of his youth to make amends and restore his parents' cottage before investigating a death involving family secrets and a sinister adversary.
98) A lethal legacy
Author
Series
New York confidential volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his cousin's business partner is found dead on an island he inherited, Special Agent Craig Frasier agrees to investigate with psychologist Kieran Finnegan and they discover that the property comes with strange lore and a blood-soaked past.
99) Treasure
Author
Series
The full circle volume 4
Publisher
WaterBrook Press
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
275 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nautical archaeologist Christina Alvarez searches the Caribbean for her ancestor's sunken treasure ship, but as she battles for the assistance of her only help, Mitch Crawford, she leads them to an even greater treasure.
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve years after the death of a fellow student and the suicide of a quiet loner, college friends, linked to these past events, gather together to celebrate an engagement but are soon targeted by a killer who demands they tell the truth.