Johansen, Iris.
Summary: Determined to protect herself from the horrors of her childhood, a young woman finds her remote island refuge terrorized by ruthless mercenaries and heads to the open seas in a perilous race against time to find the site of a lost city.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2003
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC JOHAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Books/Doubleday 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ATWRoberts, Nora.
Summary: Tate Beaumont, a beautiful student of marine archaeology, finds adventure, danger, and passion when she reluctantly joins forces with diver Matthew Lassiter and his uncle to find a legendary jeweled amulet said to be lost at the bottom of the sea.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1998
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ROBAtwood, Margaret
Summary: "A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel, Bodily Harm is the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood's Bodily...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC ATWBaptiste, Tracey
Summary: Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2017
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC BAPBaptiste, Tracey.
Summary: Eleven-year-old Corinne must call on her courage and an ancient magic to stop an evil spirit and save her island home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers, an imprint of Algonquin Books 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC BAPLambdin, Dewey.
Summary: Royal Navy Captain Alan Lewrie participates in a duel to uphold the honor of his friend, receives unwelcome visitors on behalf of the queen, and prepares for a showdown with his nemesis, Guillaume Choundas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMMickelbury, Penny
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MICSabatini, Rafael
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2002
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pineapple Press 2006
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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 DOADidion, Joan.
Summary: A woman journalist quits her job on a Washington paper to look after her father, living on a Caribbean island where he smuggles guns to rebels in Central America. When he falls sick, she takes over.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DIDDixon, Franklin W.
Summary: "It's finally summer vacation, and the Hardy family is headed on a cruise to the Caribbean. As they board the ship with their parents, Frank and Joe can't believe all the fun that's in store for them. There are three-story slides, playgrounds, ball pits, four pools, and an arcade. There are concerts and magic shows at night, while jugglers and clowns wander the deck during the day. In addition...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin Books 2014
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Summary: Twelve-year-old Kela is still mourning her mother when she finds a mermaid's comb while she and her friend are looking for sea glass on her Caribbean island; such combs have magic in them, and touching it opens a connection to the mermaid Ophidia who cangrant her wish, to bring her mother back to life--but all wishes have consequences, and magic demands a price which may prove to be more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC STRCherry, Lynne.
Summary: A seed from a mangrove tree floats on the sea until it comes to rest on the shore of a faraway lagoon where, over time, it becomes a mangrove island that shelters many birds and animals, even during a hurricane.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE CHEShusterman, Neal.
Summary: Brooklyn-native Antsy Bonano embarks on the largest cruise ship in the world, where mischief, adventure, and deportation await.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC SHUMorrison, Toni.
Summary: "Tar Baby is Toni Morrison's reinvention of the love story. Jadine Childs is a black fashion model with a white patron, a white boyfriend, and a coat made out of ninety perfect sealskins. Son is a black fugitive who embodies everything she loathes and desires. As Morrison follows their affair, which plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan and the deep South, she charts all the nuances of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vintage International 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORShearer, Eleanor
Summary: "Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ShearerCondé, Maryse.
Summary: A tale of revenge set in the Caribbean, in which the hero gets back at a rich man who stole his love by impregnating her after she becomes the man's wife. The result is tragedy, the woman dying in childbirth. By the author of Black Witch of Salem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho 1998
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CONHilderbrand, Elin
Summary: Irene Steele's idyllic life is shattered when her beloved husband is found dead on St. John's island, a tropical paradise far removed from suburban life. Irene immediately flies down to the Caribbean, but once there, she makes another shocking discovery: her husband had a secret second family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Book Group 2018
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HILWilkerson, Charmaine
Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 0000
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Summary: "In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WILGilbert, Sian
Summary: For fans of Lucy Foley and Liane Moriarty, She Started It is a hot, twisty summer debut thriller about a group of young women whose Caribbean bachelorette party takes a sinister turn. Its Lord of the Flies meets And Then There Were None...but with Instagram and too much prosecco. The party of a lifetime is nothing like what they expected... Annabel, Esther, Tanya, and Chloe are best friends--or...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC GILDoerr, Anthony
Summary: Possessing an unsettling ability to predict random future events, Anchorage resident David Winkler foresees his infant daughter's drowning death and travels thousands of miles to Ohio and the Caribbean to prevent the tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2004