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1) Finding us
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"While taking photographs at an exposition in Seattle in 1909, Camera Girl Eleanor Bennett snaps an image of a woman in widow's clothes with deep sorrow etched in her expression and a young infant in her arms. Eleanor longs to study botany at the University of Washington and soon becomes fast friends with botanist Bill Reed, but she can't stop thinking about the widow in the photograph. She is stunned to learn Bill recognizes the woman as the sister-in-law...
2) Shipwreck
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Island volume 1
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English
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Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent...
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Windy City saga volume 3
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English
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"A birthday excursion turns deadly when the SS Eastland capsizes with Olive Pierce and her best friend on board. Hundreds perish during the accident, and it's only when Olive herself barely escapes that she discovers her friend is among the victims. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Olive returns to her work at a Chicago insurance agency and is immersed in the countless investigations related to the accident. But with so many missing, there are few...
4) Survival
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Island volume 2
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English
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Six kids. One shipwreck. One deserted island. After their ship sinks, Luke, Ian, JJ, Sharla, Will, and Lyssa must find a way to survive. They have no food and very few supplies. They think they're all alone, but they're not. And that's even worse.
5) Echo winy
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Polish
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Doskonały, mroczny i pełen napięcia thriller światowej sławy pisarki.
W pobliżu skalistej wyspy Skye tonie jacht niemieckiego małżeństwa, Livii i Nathana Moore. Rozbitkowie uchodzą z życiem, ale tracą cały dobytek. Ocalałym z katastrofy oferują gościnę angielski bankier Frederic Quentin i jego żona Virginia, zabierając gości do małego miasteczka w Norfolk, na skraju którego mają posiadłość.
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...7) Love song
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Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Carlson Raven had never seen anyone more beautiful or more courageous than Janna Moran as she struggled against the stormy sea in the Queen Charlotte Islands. When he rescued her from the choppy waters and revived her with the heat of his body, his yearning was as unexpected as it was enduring. Janna felt oddly safe as she awoke in the warmth of a stranger's intimate embrace. Staring into eyes as black as midnight, she knew that Raven was the most...
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HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2007]
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English
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"Shakespeare, a master craftsman, pulls the narrative string and his beguiling story is complete, as intricate and miraculous as a ship in a bottle." - Los Angeles Times Book Review
"His mastery shines through his characters..." - Time Out Chicago
"…quiet and moving…trouble, as ever, is in the offing, and when it arrives, Shakespeare allows it to run its natural course without dipping into melodrama. Expertly crafted, the novel illuminates love's...
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"In April 1943 a young woman washes ashore on a deserted beach in Cornwall, England. With shorn hair and a number stitched on her tattered chemise, Alice is the survivor of a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat. She's found by the mysterious Viscount Jack Trewella, who suspects that she's a prisoner of war or a spy. But the secret Alice asks Jack to keep is one he could never have guessed, and it creates an intimate bond he never expected. With her...
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The Leeward Islands volume Book 3
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Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"Hannah Rose Barrington is the island misfit. Orphaned at a young age, Hannah struggles to provide for her future, while her guardian, a weak-hearted island drunk, bleeds Hannah of her father's inheritance. Caught between the classes of elite planters and white beggars, Hannah yearns to find a place to belong. University life has never been Bradlee Granville's forte. His only hope to graduate is to impress his professors by documenting his travels....
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Pocket Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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Determined to seek revenge on Captain Derek Sutherland, who had seduced and then rejected her, headstrong Nicole Lassiter, the daughter of an American sea captain, decides to help her father beat Sutherland in a high-stakes sailing competition, but her plans are threatened when her father is unjustly imprisoned and she finds herself a virtual prisoner on Sutherland's vessel after a shipwreck.
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Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
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From acclaimed author Steve Robinson comes a bold new Jefferson Tayte mystery. On a foggy night in 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland sank en route between Canada and England. The disaster saw a loss of life comparable to the Titanic and the Lusitania, and yet her tragedy has been forgotten. When genealogist Jefferson Tayte is shown a locket belonging to one of the Empress?s victims, a British admiral?s daughter named Alice Stilwell, he must...
16) Hell in a bottle
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Vertical Publishing, an imprint of Kodansha USA Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"The Maiden's Bookshelf series combines classic short stories of the early 20th century with gorgeous original artwork to create collectible editions for a contemporary audience. Two young siblings left to survive on a deserted island, waiting for the rescue that may never come. They find joy in the wonders of their own personal Eden--until the demon shakes their faith and leads them down the path of temptation... Told through a series of letters...
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