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Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lark Heron-Finch is steeling herself to spend the summer on Swallowtail Island off the shores of Lake Erie. It's the first time she and her sister will have seen the old house since their mom passed away. The island's always been full of happy memories-and with a step father and his boys and no mom, now everything is different... When Nadine, a close family friend, tells Lark about a tragic boat accident that happened off the coast...
82) The lighthouse
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team are called on to solve a sensitive high profile case on Combe Island off the Cornish coast of England at a time when Dalgliesh is dealing with his uncertain future with Emma Lavenham.
83) Dangerous depths
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sometimes life's most precious treasure lies at Dangerous Depths.
Leia ditched a promising medical career to settle on a secluded island of Hawaii. She ditched Bane, too, and he's come to the island to find out why. He's also in search of a fortune rumored to lie offshore. But an act of sabotage that pushes Bane closer to Leia plunges them both into a tangle of emotion—just as a series of threatening events grip the
...84) 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...
85) Hatchet Island
Author
Series
Mike Bowditch Mysteries volume 13
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...
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.
89) The wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
1996 was the year that changed everything for Maggie Dawes. Sent away at sixteen to live with an aunt she barely knew in Ocracoke, a remote village on North Carolina’s Outer Banks, she could think only of the friends and family she left behind . . . until she meets Bryce Trickett, one of the few teenagers on the island. Handsome, genuine, and newly admitted to West Point, Bryce gradually shows her how much there is to love about the wind-swept beach...
90) Blue lightning
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
356 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
91) Island
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Perennial classic ed.
Physical Desc
354p. 21cm.
Language
English
Description
In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events are set in motion when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alice Jones and her family visit Aviles Island, where her mother disappeared long ago, and forms an unlikely friendship with Leo Mercury, who also wants to use the island's special power to contact a lost loved one.
93) Orphan Island
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
On an island where one child is delivered each year while the eldest is taken away, nine children live under the leadership of new elder Jinny, who trains the latest newcomer and wonders what will happen when her own departure occurs.
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?
96) 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.
97) Blue Bay mystery
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The Aldens are excited to visit a deserted South Seas island. But soon they discover clues that they are not alone. Is someone watching them?
98) 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.
99) 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
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eddie is dragonsitting again, but this time he's looking after Uncle Morton's Scottish island too. And there are some strange goings on: the local sheep are disappearing, and Eddie swears he sees a mysterious creature in the loch. Could there be more than just dragons living there? It seems Eddie is in for a beastly surprise!