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3) Envy
Author
Language
English
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Description
A best-selling author living on an island off the Georgia coast and hiding behind a pseudonym seeks revenge on a publisher by writing a book detailing a dark secret which has caught the eye of the publisher's wife.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm, and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The basis for the blockbuster motion picture directed by Martin Scorsese and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Shutter Island by New York Times bestselling author Dennis Lehane is a gripping and atmospheric psychological thriller where nothing is quite what it seems. The New York Times calls Shutter Island, "Startlingly original." The Washington Post raves, "Brilliantly conceived and executed." A masterwork of suspense and surprise from the author of Mystic...
9) Terrific
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eugene wins a trip to Bermuda, but when his ship sinks, and he ends up stranded on a tiny island with only a parrot, he wonders how he will ever get back home.
10) Surprise Island
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Henry, Jessie, Violet and Benny share a mysterious island for the summer with their grandfather.
11) Fish wish
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy's dream sends him on an underwater journey through a coral reef. Includes factual information on coral reefs and the animals that live in them.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
13) Wilby wonderful
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
A comedy focusing on the residents of a tiny island town during the course of a strange twenty-four hours.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Language
日本語
Description
Sixty-one years ago, the United States and Japanese armies met on Iwo Jima. Decades later, hundreds of letters are unearthed from that stark island's soil. The letters give faces and voices to the men who fought there, as well as the extraordinary general who led them. Leading the defense is Lt. General Tadamichi Kuribayashi. With little defense other than sheer will and the volcanic rock of the island itself, Gen. Kuribayashi's unprecedented tactics...
16) Island summer
Author
Publisher
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Summer transforms a quiet island as visitors arrive for swimming, playing on the beach, card games, soccer, hide-and-seek, and dancing in the evening.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie Dean and his team at Desk Three work to prevent Islamic terrorists from detonating a series of nuclear warheads in the lava tubes and caves of Cumbre Vieja volcano on La Palma in hopes of prompting a landslip that it has been predicted would send a devastating tsunami rushing for the east coast of the United States.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forty-two-year-old Jessie is summoned home to Egret Island off the coast of South Carolina after her obsessively devout mother inexplicably cuts off her own finger, and finds herself oddly exhilarated to be free of her husband, and wildly attracted to Brother Thomas, a monk who has yet to take his final vows.
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
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