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81) Ghostlight
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Rebecca Strand was just sixteen when she and her father fell to their deaths from the top of the Gibraltar Point Lighthouse in 1839. Just how they fell--or were they pushed?--remains a mystery. And their ghosts haunt the lighthouse to this day. . . Gabe tells this story every day when he gives the ghost tour on Toronto Island. He tries to make it scary enough to satisfy the tourists, but he doesn't actually believe in ghosts--until he finds himself...
82) The scent keeper
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Language
English
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Description
Emmeline lives an enchanted childhood on a remote island with her father, who teaches her about the natural world through her senses. What he won't explain are the mysterious scents stored in the drawers that line the walls of their cabin, or the origin of the machine that creates them. As Emmeline grows, however, so too does her curiosity, until one day the unforeseen happens, and Emmeline is vaulted out into the real world--a place of love, betrayal,...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
"Evidence from a mysterious death takes Benjamin to an island on the Thames. There, Isabelle is trapped by fear and a recurring dream about a man's death. Or is it a memory? When a second death brings everyone under suspicion, she realizes her island sanctuary will never be the same"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Trading in Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up buttery muffins and other rich breakfast treats for her guests until Bernard Katz checks in. The overbearing land developer plans to build a resort next door where an endangered colony of black-chinned terns is nesting. Worried about the birds, the inevitable transformation...
Author
Series
Island sisters volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In Danger at the Cove, the second book in a delightful cozy series by Hannah Dennison in which a surprise visitor makes an appearance on the island-and murder ensues. Renovations on Tregarrick Rock Hotel are coming along, and Evie Mead thinks they just might be done by opening day. Then one of her sister Margot's old Hollywood friends, Louise, arrives unannounced-and expecting VIP treatment. Evie has half a mind to tell Louise to find other accommodations,...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 41
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
While visiting the Florida Keys, the Aldens encounter suspicious characters, strange incidents at night, and a plot to steal valuable coral.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia-where the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera's lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant...
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
It's springtime on Cranberry Island-and love is in the air. It seems like every woman has the hots for buff trainer Dirk De Leon. He and his equally gorgeous business partner, Vanessa Black, are leading a weight-loss retreat at the Gray Whale Inn-forcing innkeeper Natalie Barnes to lighten up her butter-laden breakfast menu. The mood on the island darkens when two grisly discoveries are made. The first is a skeleton walled up at the island's lighthouse....
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
After the battered body of a woman is found on the Greek island of Thiminos, Athenian investigator Hermes Diaktoros inexplicably shows up to prove that the death was not an accident and find the killer. But Hermes brings mysteries of his own to this tiny, remote island.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the Lowcountry of South Carolina, Diane English Stiftel, her brother Floyd, and her parents are throwing a barbecue to celebrate her son's engagement. On this gorgeous, magical night, the bride's father, Alejandro Cambria, a wealthy power broker and one of Chicago's celebrated elite, discovers the limits and possibilities of cell phone range. Meanwhile, mother of the bride, Susan Kennedy Cambria, who dabbles in public relations and believes herself...
Author
Series
Bridal Veil Island romances volume 1
Language
English
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Description
"When Audrey Cunningham's father proposes that they move to Bridal Veil Island, where he grew up, she agrees, thinking this will help keep him sober and close to God. But they arrive to find wealthy investors buying up land to build a grand resort on the secluded island--and they want the Cunninghams' acreage. Contractor Marshall Graham can't imagine why the former drinking buddy of his deceased father would beckon him to Bridal Veil Island. And when...
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
1977.
Language
English
Description
In the bloodiest island combat of World War II, one group of men risked it all to fight from behind Japanese lines The Solomon Islands was where the Allied war machine finally broke the Japanese empire. As pilots, marines, and sailors fought for supremacy in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, and the Slot, a lonely group of radio operators occupied the Solomon Islands' highest points. Sometimes encamped in comfort, sometimes exposed to the elements, these...
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As Stone Cove Island, a quaint New England resort community, struggles to recover from a catastrophic hurricane, seventeen-year-old Eliza cleans out the island's iconic lighthouse and stumbles upon new evidence in an unsolved thirty-year-old murder case.
96) Hatchet Island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"An eerie, windswept island off the coast of Maine becomes the site of a double murder and a disappearance in Hatchet Island, the next thriller in Paul Doiron's bestselling Mike Bowditch series. A call for help from a former colleague leads Maine game warden investigator Mike Bowditch and his girlfriend Stacey Stevens on a sea kayaking trip to a research station far off the coast. Stacey spent summers interning on the island, a sanctuary for endangered...
Author
Series
Hometown Harbor volume 4
Publisher
Lone Mountain Press
Pub. Date
©2016.
Language
English
Description
"Ellie hasn't seen or spoken to her parents in twenty years-since she came to live on the island with her aunt and uncle. She's all grown up now and runs the popular family bakery, Sweet Treats. Things change when she meets Blake. The newcomer frequents the bakery each morning and over fresh cinnamon rolls they develop a friendship. He renews a sense of hope and joy in Ellie. She's hesitant to trust him with her heart. An unforeseen plea for help...
Author
Series
Hometown Harbor volume 2
Publisher
Lone Mountain Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Linda is knee deep in bouquets and boutonnieres, designing a beautiful ceremony for her close friends. The bride launches a matchmaking plot and has the perfect man for Linda. If only the bride can get them together... An unexpected tragedy connects Linda and Max. As the pair spends time together, their feelings deepen. Linda's lonely life is about to get crowded. As Max begins to penetrate the protective walls around Linda's heart, the outlook brightens....
Author
Series
Hometown Harbor volume 3
Publisher
Lone Mountain Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"In between helping plan a wedding and holiday activities, Regi is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her fortieth birthday. Twenty years ago, she and her high school boyfriend made a youthful promise to meet on the island to celebrate their milestone birthdays together. Despite not speaking for the last two decades, she awaits the reunion with her old flame. Nate, the local delivery man makes excuses to see Regi each day. She's oblivious to his existence...until...
100) The retreat
Author
Series
Detective Elin Warner novels volume 2
Language
English
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Description
"An eco-wellness retreat has opened on an island off the English coast, promising rest and relaxation-but the island itself, once the playground of a serial killer, is rumored to be cursed. Detective Elin Warner is called to the retreat when a young woman's body is found on the rocks below the yoga pavilion in what seems to be a tragic fall. But the victim wasn't a guest-she wasn't meant to be on the island at all. When a guest drowns in a diving...
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