Bolton, S. J.
Summary: "No matter how far you run, some secrets will always catch up with you... The remote Antarctic island of South Georgia is about to send off its last boat of the summer - which signifies safety to resident glaciologist Felicity Lloyd. Felicity lives in fear - fear that her ex-husband Freddie will find her, even out here. She took a job on this isolated island to hide from him, but now that he's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BOLTaylor, Sam
Summary: In a world nearly destroyed by catastrophic floods one family has been spared. Many years ago, as the waters rose, a father and his three children took to their ark and drifted to the safety of a small island. Life there is a succession of quiet days of music and farming --young Alice, Finn, and Daisy are grateful for their salvation --until the day a stranger swims ashore and threatens to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYSchaitkin, Alexis
Summary: "Richly emotive and darkly captivating, with elements of Shirley Jackson's "The Lottery" and the imaginative depth of Margaret Atwood, Elsewhere by Alexis Schaitkin conjures a community in which girls become wives, wives become mothers and some of them, quite simply, disappear. Vera grows up in a small town, removed and isolated, pressed up against the mountains, cloud-covered and damp...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Celadon Books 2022