When Harriet Wermer arrives on Marble Island she discovers a mystery. One that seems to involve her Dad, back when he was a young boy living on Marble Island. One that Harriet is absolutely going to solve.
Islands
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Author:Arnold, Elana K.Summary: -
Author:McFarlane, SherylSummary:A lyrical celebration of island life. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
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With a long list of activities and events to attend, cousin Thomas paints a picture of city life that makes Jessie's world seem a little dull in comparison. When her mother suggests they invite Thomas to visit their island, Jessie...
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Author:Leach, SaraSummary:Eleven-year-old Jake Reynolds wants to save seal pups from the talons of bald eagles, protect his little sister Sierra and confront the wolf he is sure stalks Hidalgo Island. But his best friend Emily calls him a chicken, comforts...
- Author:Lee, FondaSummary:
In Jade War , the sequel to the World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City , the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a...
- Author:Mankell, HenningSummary:
Mankell crafts the icy, atmospheric tale of Fredrik Welin, a disgraced surgeon living in exile on a small island. When Fredrik receives a surprise visit from a lover he abandoned decades earlier, he begins the difficult road to...
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Author:Mitcham, AllisonSummary:Culled from her collections Offshore Islands and Paradise or Purgatory (1984), New Brunswick Islands is part ecocritical exploration and part historical survey, as Mitcham explores the province’s not-so-far-off islands in search of...
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Author:Diaz, JunotSummary:From New York Times bestseller and Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Diaz comes a debut picture book about the magic of memory and the infinite power of the imagination. Every kid in Lola's school was from somewhere else. Hers was a...
- Author:O'Dell, ScottSummary:
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in...
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Author:McFarlane, Sheryl, Redhead, Leslie, Gould, HeatherSummary:This is an enhanced ebook with a read-along function. This gorgeously illustrated picture book is a celebration of summer vacation and West Coast island life. Every day is different on Gran's island in the Salish Sea as...
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Author:Howell-Mills, WendySummary:Sabrina Dunsweeney desperately needs a job. After moving to isolated Comico Island with her parakeet Calvin to start a new chapter of her life, Sabrina is discovering that life in a beautiful, tropical environment isn't all fun and...
- Author:Kishkan, TheresaSummary:
A wanderer arrives by chance on Inishbream, a rocky dot in the sea just off the west coast of Ireland. A lover of boats and a strong worker, she soon marries the young owner of her stone cottage. For a time, she does her woman’s work,...
- Author:Martin, HollySummary:
Escape to the Cornish coast this spring with a trip to the beautiful Emerald Cove, where the sea sparkles in the sunshine, the sand glitters like gold, and true love is in the air. From the bestselling author of Sunrise over Sapphire...
- Author:Carey, Elizabeth DoyleSummary:
As their summer on Gull Island continues, the four twelve-year-old Callahan girls busy themselves with redecorating the Dorm, dealing with their mean neighbor Sloan, and uncovering a secret about their family's past.
- Author:Laberge, RosetteSummary:
Voici un extrait de la lettre que Caroline, Roxanne et Laurie ont reçue d'un notaire: ...Vous êtes conviée à venir passer six mois au manoir de votre oncle. Conscient qu'une telle demande risque de bouleverser votre vie,...
- Author:Ellison, J. T.Summary:
Claire Hunter's wedding to Max Compton is the talk of the town. People would kill for an invite, literally. Claire has been receiving disturbing text messages with dire warnings that Max is not who she thinks he is.
- Author:Rushdie, SalmanSummary:
Flapping Eagle is a young Axona Indian gifted with immortal life after drinking an elixir from his wayward sister. But after 777 years of sailing the world’s seas, he becomes weary of life, and sets out to find the mystical Calf Island...
- Author:Melamed, JennieSummary:
NEVER LET ME GO meets THE GIVER in this haunting debut about a cult on an isolated island, where nothing is as it seems. Years ago, just before the country was incinerated to wasteland, ten men and their families colonized an island off...
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Author:Montgomery, L. M.Summary:In this volume of fifteen tales of the town known to readers of Anne of Green Gables, a Persian cat plays an amazing role in a marriage proposal, and a foolish lie threatens to make an unattached woman the town's laughingstock.
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
Tragedy and mental illness have been dark companions of Rae Newborn for more than 50 years. Her life seems to start rebuilding itself, though, when she moves to a deserted island to restore the house her mysterious great-uncle built in...
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