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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
321 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"Magdalena does not panic when she learns that her younger sister has disappeared. A free-spirit, Jadranka has always been prone to mysterious absences. But when weeks pass with no word, Magdalena leaves the isolated Croatian island where their family has always lived and sets off to New York to find her sister. Her search begins to unspool the dark history of their family, reaching back three generations to a country torn by war." --Amazon.
Series
Cautionary fables and fairytales volume Book 4
Publisher
Iron Circus Comics
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
255 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm.
Description
In this thrilling and witty comics collection, some of storytelling's finest talents reimagine classic folklore from the Pacific with a modern twist.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 38
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
112 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Description
"When the magic tree house returns it whisks Jack and Annie away to the Galapagos Islands where they become World Turtle Experts and must save a tortoise in danger of an erupting volcano"--
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
291 p. : col. ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
A journalist describes how her fascination with great white sharks led her to Southeast Farallon Island, a remote island off the California coast, and to a group of biologists who study these fearsome, frequently misunderstood predators of the sea.
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Series
Description
"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
409 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"17-year-old Gwen Castle is a working-class girl determined to escape her small island town, but when rich-kid Cass Somers, with whom she has a complicated romantic history, shows up, she's forced to reassess her feelings about her loving, complex family, her lifelong best friends, her wealthy employer, the place she lives, and the boy she can't admit she loves"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
278 p. ; 21 cm.
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.
511) Wake up, island
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2016].
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
As day dawns, plants and animals on an island wake up and start their busy day.
512) Miracle at Midway
Author
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
557 pages : illustrations, maps ; cm.
Description
Six months after Pearl Harbor, the seemingly invincible Imperial Japanese Navy proposed a decisive blow against the United States. After sweeping through Asia and the South Pacific, Japan's military targeted the tiny atoll of Midway, an ideal launching pad for the invasion of Hawaii and beyond. But the US Navy would be waiting for them. Thanks to cutting-edge code-breaking technology, tactical daring, and a significant stroke of luck, the Americans...
514) The shore: a novel
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
303 pages : genealogical table ; 22 cm.
Description
"Traces the history and future of a small group of islands off the coast of Virginia through the lives of generations of the women who live there"--
In the Chesapeake Bay, just off the coast of Virginia, The Shore is clumps of evergreens, wild ponies, oyster-shell roads, tumble-down houses. Sanctuary to some but nightmare to others, it's a place that generations of families both wealthy and destitute have inhabited, fled, and returned to for hundreds...
Author
Series
Escuela de piratas volume 1
Publisher
Pirueta
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
85 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 21 cm.
Description
Cinco son los Lobitos de Mar que estudian el primer curso en la Escuela de Piratas y aspiran a convertirse en expertos bucaneros. Allí les espera la primera prueba: el capitán Hamaca los abandona en una playa solitaria con un cofre lleno de extraños objetos. Los niños deberán descubrir el lugar donde se encuentra la escuela antes de que se ponga el sol, en caso contrario, no serán admitidos en ella.
516) Dragon captives
Author
Series
Unwanteds quests volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
419 pages
Description
"Magical twins Fifer and Thisbe Stowe have spent their entire lives wishing for an adventure. When a dragon shows up claiming that his family is being kept as slaves in their homeland, the twins sneak off to the land of the dragons to help them"--
Author
Publisher
Harper Alley, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
280 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Fitting in can be hard, especially when you're as small as Ember, a tiny boy living alone in a city of giants. But Ember's luck changes when he meets Lua, a kindly sea turtle, who escorts him across the ocean to a school for little creatures on a wondrous island...As he struggles to adapt to this new world, Ember finds himself at the heart of an otherworldly mystery, facing a strange monster from the deep that threatens everything he holds dear"--...
518) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling
Pub. Date
©2009
Physical Desc
150 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Description
In this abridged sequel to "Anne of Green Gables," sixteen-year-old Anne works as a school teacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
224 pages ; 22 cm
Description
A story of secrets, loss, and the betrayals of memory: a lyrical novel of an aging woman confronting her romantic past under the mysterious skies of her island home Off the coast of Georgia, near Savannah, generations have been tempted by strange blue lights in the sky near an island called Lyra. At the height of WWII, impressionable young Elle Ranier comes to the island when her new husband, Simon, is dispatched by his industrialist father to find...
520) Tourist season
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
393 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Trapped alone in her fiancae's family 'cottage' as a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island, Ismay Chalmers, as she prepares for the storm, discovers some disturbing items hidden in a closet that have her questioning everything she knows about the seemingly perfect Windsor family-especially her fiancae.
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