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21) Robinson Crusoe
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Description
A fictional autobiography of the title character?a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued.
Author
Publisher
Flying Eye Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
75 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Description
"Join a team of scientists as they set sail for a place that's unlike anywhere else on Earth, the Galápagos Islands"--Back cover.
"Tasked with observing and cataloguing the islands’ amazing wildlife and habitats, the scientists need to track down the animals and plants that are unique to the ecosystem and make a visual record. To get the job done they’ll have to climb volcanoes, get sneezed on by marine iguanas, launch a submersible and explore...
Author
Series
Publisher
Arcadia Pub
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
127 p. : chiefly ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Description
Of cliffs and caves: Anacapa Island -- Rainbow's End: Santa Cruz Island -=- Grasslands in the wind: Santa rosa Island -- Graveyard of ships: San Miguel Island -- Where marien mammals and military meet: San Nicolas Island -- Bucking the challenge: Santa Barbara Island -- 19th Century pleasure-seeks: Santa Catalina Island -- Under command: San Clemente Island.
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Formats
Description
Emery Blackwood's life was forever changed on the eve of her high school graduation, when the love of her life, August Salt, was accused of murdering her best friend, Lily. Now, she is doing what her teenage self swore she never would: living a quiet existence among the community that fractured her world in two. She'd once longed to run away with August, eager to escape the misty, remote shores of Saiorse Island and chase new dreams; now, she maintains...
Author
Publisher
Chicken House, Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
252 pages, 26 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Description
After falling overboard during a huge storm in 1835, Simon washes up onto an unexplored island where he makes a discovery that could change the world, in this exciting book based on the real events of Charles Darwin's legendary voyage.
29) The weekenders
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Description
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 for help and support, but each of them has their own secrets and the clock is ticking as the mystery deepens
Publisher
Koch Lorber Films
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After learning of a former infantry mate's attempted suicide, journalist Esteban returns to the Falkland Islands (or in Argentina, known as the Malvinas) to confront the horrors he experienced as an eighteen-year-old soldier. Presents the harrowing story of a group of young men sent to fight an un-winnable war and left to bear its emotional scars.
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.
33) Wilby wonderful
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 2
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A bittersweet comedy about the difference a day makes. The film centers on the residents of the tiny island town of Wilby over the course of twenty-four hours, on their respective secrets, and one man's plan to kill himself quietly.
34) Typee
Author
Publisher
Quality Paperback Book Club
Pub. Date
c1996
Physical Desc
xiii, 389 p. ; 21 cm.
Description
Based on Melville's real-life experiences after having jumped ship in the Marquesas Islands, his first novel was extremely popular, provoking public skepticism until the events within were corroborated by a fellow castaway. Typee is properly considered a work of fiction, as the three week stay on which the author based his story is here extended to four months, and the book is supplemented with imaginative reconstruction and adaptation of material...
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Junio de 1960. Un temporal mantiene aisladas en la idílica isla de Utakos, frente a Corfú, a nueve personas alojadas en el pequeño hotel local. Nada hace presagiar lo que está a punto de ocurrir: Edith Mander, una discreta turista inglesa, aparece muerta en el pabellón de la playa. Lo que parece un suicidio revela indicios imperceptibles para cualquiera salvo para Hopalong Basil, un actor en decadencia que en otro tiempo encarnó en la pantalla...
37) The retreat
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Description
"An eco-wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation--but the island itself, once the playground of a serial killer, is rumored to be cursed. Detective Elin Warner is called to the retreat when a young woman's body is found on the rocks below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But the victim wasn't a guest--she wasn't meant to be on the island at all. When a guest drowns in a diving...
39) Seeds of doubt
Author
Series
Publisher
Guideposts Books
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
247 p. : map ; 22 cm.
Series
Occasional paper volume no. 4
Publisher
EZ Nature Books]
Pub. Date
c1990
Physical Desc
xi, 205 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 23 cm.
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