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"Five years ago, Cass barely survived a brutal attack that left her family dead. Now a scuba diving instructor in Thailand, she has spent years trying to build a new, anonymous life for herself as one of the Permanents, a group of expats who have claimed the beautiful Thailand destination as their own. The permanents are charming, they're close-knit, and they don't linger on who they were before the island--they're the perfect group for Cass to finally...
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''Ismay Chalmers is ready for a relaxing summer reconnecting with her fiancé at his family's luxurious beachfront cottage. But before Remy can join her, a hurricane bears down on Mariners Island. Alone in the large house, Ismay makes a disturbing discovery in Remy's childhood closet. She's not sure what to make of it, but is relieved when the property's caretaker, Bo, checks in on her. Bo's home is damaged, so they temporarily shelter together,...
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Fourth Estate
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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''A haunting, magical novel about joy, grief, courage and transformation from the international bestselling author of The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart. 'On the afternoon that Esther Wilding drove homeward along the coast, a year after her sister had walked into the sea and disappeared, the light was painfully golden.' The last time Esther Wilding's beloved older sister Aura was seen, she was walking along the shore towards the sea. In the wake of...
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Vintage Books
Pub. Date
[1995-]
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IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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On a desert island in the heart of the Galapagos archipelago, where Darwin received his first inklings of the theory of evolution, two scientists, Peter and Rosemary Grant, have spent twenty years proving that Darwin did not know the strength of his own theory. For among the finches of Daphne Major, natural selection is neither rare nor slow: it is taking place by the hour, and we can watch. In this dramatic story of groundbreaking scientific research,...
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Lionsgate
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[2024]
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English
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Seven years after Morgan and Madison's plans to rescue Mo from PADRE end in failure, the people they brought to the island are forced to toil under PADRE's cynical rule. But the promise of a better world remains, resting with the only person able to reignite everyone's belief in it: a now eight-year-old Mo.
6) Until August
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2024.
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''Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
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Titan Books
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2024.
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English
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Former friends, one an environmental activist and the other a mineral miner, embark on a dangerous journey after unwittingly releasing a horrific contagion that has been undisturbed for centuries.
''From the New York Times bestseller and author of Netflix's The Silence comes a terrifying horror novel set in a melting Arctic landscape. Something deadly has lain dormant for thousands of years, but now the permafrost is giving up its secrets… "At...
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Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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''The creepy middle grade debut from USA Today bestselling author Amalie Howard in which a girl stays with her grandmother in Trinidad for the summer and discovers that she comes from a long line of powerful witches. Darika "Rika" Lovelace is in trouble. The kind of trouble that sends her to her grandmother's estate in Trinidad for the whole summer. But something about the island feels…different. As soon as she steps off the plane, strange things...
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2024.
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"A delightful Caribbean-set novel about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course"--
"Tubati Alexander is a writer to watch!" - Emily Giffin A She Reads and Zibby Mag Most Anticipated Book of 2024 The author of Love Buzz follows her acclaimed first novel with a delightful Caribbean-set romp about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video...
10) The sanctuary
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Blackstone Publising
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2024.
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English
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"In a disintegrating and lawless near-future, a young man journeys north to a mysterious island owned by one of the world's wealthiest men--and finds an entire new civilization waiting for him. Ben is a young painter from the crowded, turbulent city. For six months his fianc©♭e Cara has been living on the remote island of Sanctuary Rock, the property of millionaire philanthropist Sir John Pemberley. Now she has decided to break off their engagement...
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Viz Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Join your favorite characters from Animal Crossing���: New Horizons for all-new adventures in this official manga! What do the residents of Animal Crossing���: New Horizons get up to when you're not around? Find out all about their antics in this hilarious manga filled with goofy gags and silly stories! There are more vacation homes to design for Paradise Planning clients, and you can bet things will turn out pretty silly���as always!"--...
12) American star
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IFC Films
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[2024]
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English
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An assassin on final assignment arrives in Fuerteventura to kill a man he has never met. But the target is delayed. Instead of following protocol he stays, drawn to the island, the people, and a ghostly shipwreck. When the target returns, the world has shifted. Before everything was simple, now nothing is.
13) The sleepwalkers
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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While honeymooning on a tiny Greek island, Evelyn is wary of the hotel's owner, Isabella, who only wants to impress an American producer with the story of "the sleepwalkers," a couple who drowned at the hotel, turning their vacation into a living nightmare that forces them to face some dark truths.
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World Editions Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In this dystopian novel about total collapse by internationally renowned author Amin Maalouf, a complete blackout hits a small island with only two solitary inhabitants, who suddenly have to depend on each other. Alec, a press artist with an impressive track record, settles on a remote island in the Atlantic Ocean. He has little contact with his neighbor, a solitary woman who wrote a cult book years ago, before withdrawing from public life. That...
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Virginia mysteries volume 3
Publisher
MyBoys3 Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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Ghosts from the Civil War seemed like just a legend until they saw the lights over the water. Sam, Derek, and Caitlin solve a mystery centered around the 150th anniversary of the Fall of Richmond.
"Legend says that the haunting lights over the rapids on the James River at night are the ghosts of long-dead soldiers still fighting the Civil War. Just past the water lies historic Belle Isle, the former Union soldier prisoner-of-war camp, now a city...
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