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Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Irene Steele's idyllic life--house, husband, family--is shattered when she is woken up by a late-night phone call. Her beloved husband has been found dead, but before Irene can process this tragic news, she must confront the perplexing details of her husband's death. He was found on St. John island, a tropical paradise far removed from their suburban life. Leaving the cold winter behind, Irene flies down to the beautiful Caribbean beaches of St. John...
Author
Series
Wild Robot volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Description
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
7) Fatal tide
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Marine researcher Melis Nemid uncovers a shocking secret in the deep sea, and soon finds herself running from a savage killer who wants to keep the past buried, forcing Melis to rely on a dangerous man with a mysterious past.
8) Notorious
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a plane crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious life -and death - of a man they thought they knew. Along...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the love of her life, Evan, goes missing after a hurricane strikes Bridal Veil Island in 1898, Melinda Colson returns to search for him, but as she settles into a new job, and a new life, how long will she be able to hold out hope?
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Gideon Crew--brilliant scientist, master thief--is living on borrowed time. When his mysterious employer, Eli Glinn, gives him an eyebrow-raising mission, he has no reason to refuse. Gideon's task: steal a page from the priceless Book of Kells, now on display in New York City and protected by unbreakable security.
Accomplishing the impossible, Gideon steals the parchment--only to learn that hidden beneath the gorgeously illuminated image is a treasure...
16) La isla de Abel
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
1996.
Lexile measure
910L
Language
Español
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.
17) Orphan Island
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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.
18) The humming room
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012.
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Roo Fanshaw, who has a talent for hiding, is sent to live with his estranged uncle in his on Cough Rock Island, where he discovers the secrets of the largely uninhabited house and its hidden garden.
19) Jane, unlimited
Author
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"--
Author
Series
Deep Black volume 9
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Coonts and William H. Keith's Deep Black: Death Wave continues the bestselling technothriller series.
Deep within the NSA is Desk Three, a top-secret unit of special operatives inserted into the field when the threat is great and the response demands sensitivity and invisibility. Charlie Dean, a former Marine sniper, is a senior officer. With his colleagues Lia DeFrancesca and newcomer Ilya Akulinin, they form the core of a high-tech team...
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