Doan, Lisa.
Summary: Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Darby Creek 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DOADiaz, Junot
Summary: "Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dial Books for Young Readers 2018
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JE DIAColfer, Eoin.
Summary: In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands. He spends his days studying the science of flight and exploring the castle with the king's daughter. But his life changes when he discovers a deadly conspiracy against the king. When Conor tries to intervene, he is branded a traitor and thrown into jail. There, he has to fight for his life, as he and the other prisoners are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House/Listening Library 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC COLWyss, Johann David
Summary: Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they adapt to life on an island with abundant animal and plant life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1994
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Summary: Bookstore owner Bruce Cable is reunited once again with Mercer Mann for another thrilling mystery packed with sun, sand, and mayhem.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: On Camino Island, popular bookseller Bruce Cable tells Mercer Mann an irresistible tale that might be her next novel. A giant resort developer is using its political muscle and deep pockets to claim ownership of a deserted island between Florida and Georgia. Only the last living inhabitant of the island, Lovely Jackson, stands in its way. What the developer doesn't know is that the island has a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2024
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Summary: Bookstore owner Bruce Cable is reunited once again with Mercer Mann for another thrilling mystery packed with sun, sand, and mayhem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2024
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Summary: "In this wordless picture book, a student is accidentally left behind on a field trip to a volcano island"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2022
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Summary: "The best-selling author of The Debt to Pleasure and Capital returns with a chilling fable for our time. Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall--an enormous concrete barrier around its entire border. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate souls who are trapped amid the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANFowles, John
Summary: Filled with shocks and chilling surprises, The Magus is a masterwork of contemporary literature. In it, a young Englishman, Nicholas Urfe, accepts a teaching position on a Greek island where his friendship with the owner of the islands most magnificent estate leads him into a nightmare. As reality and fantasy are deliberately confused by staged deaths, erotic encounters, and terrifying...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1977
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FowlesKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone, or something, they refuse to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KOOKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: "Katie lives alone in a stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone or something they refuse to identify. Although an air of menace hangs over these men, an infinitely greater threat has arrived, one so strange even the island animals are in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company 2023
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC KOOKoontz, Dean R. (Dean Ray)
Summary: In retreat from a devastating loss and crushing injustice, Katie lives alone in a fortresslike stone house on Jacob's Ladder island. Once a rising star in the art world, she finds refuge in her painting. The neighboring island of Ringrock houses a secret: a government research facility. And now two agents have arrived on Jacob's Ladder in search of someone-or something-they refuse to identify....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas & Mercer 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KoontzNance, John J.
Summary: A seismologist's warnings that a Pacific island targeted for resort development will be destroyed in an earthquake are disregarded in the wake of an ambitious builder's plans to make millions through a new casino and hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC NANNance, John J.
Summary: A seismologist's warnings that a Pacific island targeted for resort development will be destroyed in an earthquake are disregarded in the wake of an ambitious builder's plans to make millions through a new casino and hotel.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2005
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC NANFoster, Alan Dean
Summary: Will and Sylvia search for the mysterious Hand of Dinotopia, which will supposedly lead to a safe sea route to and from the hidden island where people and dinosaurs live together peacefully.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon Books 2003