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41) The bone hacker
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 22
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Called in to help investigate the murders of young male tourists on the islands of Turks and Caicos, forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan makes a discovery that could have global significance, making herself a target.
42) Giant Island
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Description
"In this wondrous book by award-winning fantasy author Jane Yolen and award-winning fantasy illustrator Doug Keith, two children and a dog explore the coves and caves of a tiny island. Under the watchful eye of Grandpa, the kids are thrilled to discover ahuge surprise: the craggy rocks, tufted grass, and wind-swept trees on Giant Island are much more than they seem"--
43) The island
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Description
A visit to a private amusement park is the trip of a lifetime for a group of teen influencers, until they learn that getting off the island alive is not part of the plan.
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Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
45) La isla de Abel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Physical Desc
123 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
49) The lighthouse
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 13
Description
Combe Island off the Cornish coast has a bloodstained history of piracy and cruelty but now, privately owned, it offers respite to over-stressed men and women in positions of high authority who require privacy and guaranteed security. But the peace of Combe is violated when one of the distinguished visitors is bizarrely murdered. Commander Adam Dalgliesh is called in to solve the mystery quickly and discreetly, but at a difficult time for him and...
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Tana Fairchild's fate has been planned for her since the day she was born: marry the governor's son and secure an unprecedented alliance between the witches and the mainlanders, but when Tana meets dark magician Wolfe and discovers the power of the dark magic within her, she must choose between her duty to her family and her burgeoning love for Wolfe.
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Description
"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to this Classics Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry. As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island has been labeled a...
53) Conjure Island
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
307 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"From the award-winning author of Root Magic comes the story of a girl forced to spend the summer with a great-grandmother she's never met--only to discover she runs a school for Southern conjure magic"--
Author
Series
Paradise (Elin Hilderbrand) volume 3
Description
As drama unfolds around her and her family after the death of her husband, who was leading a double life, Irene Steele gets some help from a mysterious source and a new beginning in the paradise of St. John after the truth is finally revealed.
Author
Series
Island of Mure novels volume 5
Publisher
Avon, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
xi, 388 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"Flora MacKenzie and her fiancae have their plans for their tiny "sweetheart wedding" on the Scottish island of Mure disrupted when an expat with money wants to throw the most extravagant wedding possible on the same day"--
56) The pumpkin war
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
185 pages cm
Description
Twelve-year-old Billie enjoys summer on Wisconsin's Madeline Island, where she harvests honey, mucks llamas stalls, and grows a giant pumpkin, determined to reclaim her title in the annual pumpkin race.
57) Fog Island
Author
Publisher
Phaidon Press Limited
Pub. Date
2013, ©2012.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 31 cm.
Description
Finn and Cara get lost on Fog Island knowing no one has ever returned. Will they return and if they do will people believe what they have seen on Fog Island?
58) May
Author
Series
Daughters of the sea volume 2
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Description
In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares.
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 20 cm
Description
"Awkward, unsocial eleven-year-old Martin knows he's going to have a terrible summer with his weird great-aunt Lenore, who lives on a tiny island called Beyond in the Maine woods. But nothing about Beyond is what Martin expects"--
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 16
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
293 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
When her husband's latest case takes them to a remote private island, Annie's initial delight turns to horror when she realizes that they have been marooned along with numerous suspects from the case her husband is investigating.
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