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Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Language
English
Description
In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents are throwing a barbecue to celebrate her son's engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride's father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker and one of Chicago's celebrated elite, discovers the limits and possibilities of cell phone range. Meanwhile, mother of the bride, Susan Kennedy Cambria, who dabbles in public relations and believes herself...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
342 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Returning home when Gran, the treasured matriarch, falls in a coma after a car accident caused by her mother, Maggie finds Sullivan’s Island is holding even more secrets as she feels herself changing like the Atlantic tides, rediscovering the roots she left behind and finding love.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For readers of All the Missing Girls and You Will Know Me , Impossible Causes is a gripping, claustrophobic thriller about isolation, power, and the lies that fester when witnesses stay silent. For seven months of the year, the remote island of Lark is fogbound, cut off completely from the mainland. Three strangers arrive before the mists fall: Ben Hailey, a charismatic teacher looking to make his mark, teenager Viola Kendrick, and her mother, both...
Author
Series
A Gray Whale Inn mystery volume 1
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Language
English
Description
Trading in Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up buttery muffins and other rich breakfast treats for her guests until Bernard Katz checks in. The overbearing land developer plans to build a resort next door where an endangered colony of black-chinned terns is nesting. Worried about the birds, the inevitable transformation...
26) The night island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a mysterious informant disappears, Talia March, searching for a list of people like her and her friends, is forced to team up with Luke Rand, a hunted and haunted man chasing the same list, when they are both targeted by a killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company
Pub. Date
1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending the summer at Grandmary's summer home on Goose Lake, Samantha and her twin cousins decide to visit the island where Samantha's parents were drowned during a storm.
Author
Language
English
Description
"There are secrets that bring friends together, and others that drive them apart... Mariners Island is barely ten miles long, but when Ivy, Ariana and Cam were teenagers, it was their whole world. Beyond the pristine beaches and iconic lighthouse lies the beautiful old library that belongs to Ivy's family. While that bound Ivy to the island as an adult, Ariana could not leave Mariners behind fast enough. The town holds too many...memories. Not only...
29) Survivors
Author
Series
Stranded volume 3
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn.
30) Her dark lies
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Set in the sparkling turquoise waters off the Italian coast, Isle Isola is an idyllic locale for a wedding. In the majestic cliff-top villa owned by the wealthy Compton family, up-and-coming artist Claire Hunter will marry handsome, charming Jack Compton, surrounded by close family--and a host of dark secrets. From the moment Claire sets foot on the island, something seems amiss. Skeletal remains have just been found, and there are other, newer disturbances,...
31) Island boy
Author
Publisher
Viking Kestrel
Pub. Date
1988
Physical Desc
[32] p. : illus.
Language
English
Description
Matthais grows from a little boy to a grandfather on a small island out in the bay.
Author
Language
English
Description
When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000 acre remote barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled. Everybody in the South has heard about the eccentric millionaire mistress of Talisa, but Brooke has never met her. Josephine's cryptic note says she wants to discuss an important legal matter with Brooke, who is an attorney, but Brooke knows that Mrs. Warrick has long been a client...
Author
Language
English
Description
Adrift in a raft after a deadly ship explosion, nine people struggle for survival at sea. Three days pass. Short on water, food and hope, they spot a man floating in the waves. They pull him in.
“Thank the Lord we found you,” a passenger says.
“I am the Lord,” the man whispers.
So begins Mitch Albom’s most beguiling and inspiring novel yet.
Albom has written of heaven in the celebrated number one bestsellers The Five People You Meet...
35) Trial by fire
Author
Series
Stranded volume 2
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
174 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Being shipwrecked on a jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific was bad enough. But now that Carter, Vanessa, Buzz and Jane have lost their boat--and almost everything on board--to another violent storm, it's like starting over. That means finding food and shelter, making fire for the first time, dealing with the wild boars that roam the island--and of course, figuring out how to get along (and not kill each other in the process)"--Page 4...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 327 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A celebrated travel writer tells the story of the tiny, fascinating island of Pitcairn, home of precisely 49 people, all descendants of the original founders of the island, the famous mutineers who were the basis for the novels and movie, The Mutiny On the Bounty. The public has been fascinated by Pitcairn since tales of it first started spreading in the early 1900s. But beyond the fictional Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy, there's never been a true...
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
277 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's springtime on Cranberry Island and love is in the air. It seems like every woman has the hots for buff trainer Dirk De Leon. He and his equally-gorgeous business partner, Vanessa Black, are leading a weight-loss retreat at the Gray Whale Inn, forcing innkeeper Natalie Barnes to lighten up her butter-laden breakfast menu. The mood on the island darkens when two grisly discoveries are made. The first is a skeleton walled up at the island's lighthouse....
38) Hunted
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster, Incorporated
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Stevie Erickson is looking for a fresh start. The sudden loss of her grandmother has sent her life into a tailspin. So when her boyfriend Jacob is offered a job as a diver for GoEco, he thinks it's just the adventure they need and Stevie reluctantly agrees to go with him. Their trip gets off to a rough start with a nighttime scare at their first hostel. Already fragile, Stevie can't shake the feeling that she's being watched. But on Rafiki Island,...
39) Time of wonder
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1957
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
63 p. : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
Follows the activities of two children spending their summer vacation on an island off the coast of Maine.
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Cranberry Island is flooded with visitors when a two hundred-year-old anchor is pulled up by a local lobsterman, and Natalie is busying running the Gray Whale Inn, but when one of her guests is murdered, it is up to Natalie to find the killer before another guest is killed.