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481) Italian shoes
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
247 p. ; 22 cm.
482) Tigerman: a novel
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"Sergeant Lester Ferris is a good man in need of a rest. After a long career of being shot at, he's about to be retired. The mildly larcenous, backwater island of Mancreu is the ideal place to serve out his time, a former British colony in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste and facing imminent destruction by an international community concerned for their own safety. The perfect place for Lester is also the perfect location for a multinational...
483) Hell to eternity
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (132 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raised by a Japanese-American family, Marine Guy Gabaldon uses his language and combat skills to cause hundreds of enemy troops to surrender.
484) Dream within a dream
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
119 pages ; 22 cm
Description
Eleven-year-old aspiring writer Louisa considers traveling the world with her globetrotting parents, but friendship with George helps her to see her grandparents' farm on Deer Island in a new light.
485) The sea chest
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Description
A young girl listens as her great-aunt, a lighthouse keeper's daughter, tells of her childhood living on a Maine island, and of the infant that washed ashore after a storm.
486) Abel's island
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1976
Physical Desc
117 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.
Author
Publisher
Sky Pony Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
126 pages : color illustrations, charts ; 24 cm
Description
Want to up your Fortnite skills? This amazing strategy guide will arm you with all the knowledge you need for advanced gameplay strategies to put you ahead of the pack. This guide will not only help you prepare to reach the final circle, but also run the gamut of new strategies needed once you're there. Find out everything you need to know to become the last solider standing.--page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself "death," but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances-the childhood spent with a violent father-no one could find sympathy for "the Beautiful Butcher" who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
After their mother falls mysteriously ill, eleven-year-old twins Gus and Leo and their mute younger sister, Ila, learn that they share their mother's ability to transform into animals, and to defeat the evil King of the Black Lakes, they must harness this newfound power.
490) Jane, unlimited
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
453 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Description
"Recently orphaned Jane accepts an unexpected invitation from an old acquaintance to an island mansion where she will face five choices that could ultimately determine the course of her newly untethered life"--
491) Island at war
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 398 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the little-known stories of WWII is the fate of the Channel Islands, the only part of the British Isles invaded and occupied by the Germans. Tells the story through the eyes of three island families and the German soldiers with whom their lives become interwined.
492) Missing
Author
Formats
Description
Thirty years after the disappearance of singer Roxy Raines from the resort of Sandown, 17-year-old teenage runaway and podcaster Mona Perry is drawn into the strange goings-on of this isolated community where nothing is what it seems.
493) Islands of mercy
Author
Publisher
Chatto & Windus
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"In the city of Bath, in the year 1865, an extraordinary young woman renowned for her nursing skills is convinced that some other destiny will one day show itself to her. But when she finds herself torn between a dangerous affair with a female lover and the promise of a conventional marriage to an apparently respectable doctor, her desires begin to lead her towards a future she had never imagined. Meanwhile, on the wild island of Borneo, an eccentric...
494) Fish wish
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 x 26 cm.
Description
A young boy's dream sends him on an underwater journey through a coral reef. Includes factual information on coral reefs and the animals that live in them.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"When a series of mysterious deaths shakes her island community, thirteen-year-old Isabella, daughter to the island's only mapmaker, volunteers to lead a party of explorers into the forest in search of answers. As the group ventures deeper and deeper intothe island, dark secrets begin to surface, and the legends Isabella has listened to all these years show signs of coming to life"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019
Formats
Description
Magalina acaba de llegar al campamento de criptozoología para aprenderlo todo sobre su pasión: ¡el estudio de animales mágicos! Además de estudiar a gorgonas, vampiros y hadas, Magalina conocerá a nuevos compañeros. Algunos se convertirán en sus amigos; otros, en sus rivales...Y quizás alguno en algo más. Cuando parece que los misterios se multiplican y las vidas de los estudiantes corren peligro... ¿podrá Magalina descubrir qué sucede...
497) The last bear
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Formats
Description
"There are no polar bears left on Bear Island. At least, that's what April's father tells her when his scientific research takes them to a faraway Arctic outpost for six months. But one night, April catches a glimpse of something distinctly bear shaped loping across the horizon. A polar bear who shouldn't be there--who is hungry, lonely, and a long way from home. As their unlikely bond grows, April is determined to save her new friend--and so begins...
498) Sky's end
Author
Series
Above the black volume 1
Publisher
Peachtree Teen
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
403 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"Exiled to live as a Low, sixteen-year-old Conrad refuses to become heir to his murderous uncle. But Meritocracy is a harsh and unforgiving rule on the floating island of Holmstead, and when his ailing mother is killed by monstrous gorgantauns, Conrad cuts a deal to save the only family he has left. To rescue his sister from his uncle's clutches, Conrad must enter the Selection of the Twelve Trades"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
274 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Description
"Based on dozens of hours of interviews with Alvarenga and interviews with his colleagues, search and rescue officials, the medical team that saved his life and the remote islanders who nursed him back to health, this is an epic tale of survival, an all-true version of the fictional Life of Pi. With illustrations, maps, and photographs throughout, 438 Days is a study of the resilience, will, ingenuity, and determination required for one man to survive...
500) Grandad's island
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 29 cm
Description
"At the bottom of Syd's garden, through the gate and past the tree, is Grandad's house. Syd can let himself in any time he likes. But one day when Syd comes to call, Grandad isn't in any of the usual places. He's in the attic, where he ushers Syd through a door, and the two of them journey to a wild, beautiful island awash in color where Grandad decides he will remain. So Syd hugs Grandad one last time and sets sail for home. Visiting Grandad's house...
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