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Adventure and peril abound in a classic tale of shipwreck and survival Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin find themselves the sole survivors of a shipwreck on a deserted coral island in the South Pacific. Although fate has led them to temporary safety, the three marooned boys are forced to carve out a life for themselves from what nature provides. They rapidly learn which fruit to eat, which animals to hunt, and which lagoons are best for bathing. Resourceful...
5) Sand Castles
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Atlantic Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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William is ten years old and has a lot to learn, besides making sand castles. His father, a successful musician, wants William to grow up like him and everyone else with privilege in the city, but his mother knows William needs more than a good reputation and good genes to be happy.
After William and his family venture to the royal castle for a festival, the entire world changes for young William. His ship crashes, leaving William and Griggs, a grumbly...
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Dover Publications
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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The world's biggest, most opulent ship sets out across the Atlantic on its maiden voyage. Proclaimed to be unsinkable -- and hailed as a testament to modern achievements in manufacturing and transportation -- the ocean liner is pushed to its limits in an effort to make the crossing in record time. But a collision with an iceberg and an inadequate supply of lifeboats doom nearly 2,500 souls to a watery grave. This grimly captivating novella was first...
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Pelican Book Group
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[2014]
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English
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Hattie Steele feels like the world is passing her by. Her entire life revolves around the guest house she runs in Headley Cross with her overbearing twin brother. He even attempts to undermine her friendship with a handsome guest. Not that famous ex-footballer, Callum Trant would ever give her a second glance. Hoping to regain control of her life, Hattie takes a well-earned holiday with her aunt on Penry Island. After retiring from football, Callum...
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"Once a fighter, always a fighter... Former Navy SEAL Mason McCarthy is done being a fighting man. Now he and the Deep Six Salvage crew are working feverishly to find the wreck of the Santa Cristina and its legendary sunken treasure. Unfortunately for Mason's peace of mind, chatty, brilliant historian Alexandra Merriweather has joined the hunt and there's no avoiding her. Alex is exactly the kind of distraction Mason can't afford right now...or maybe...
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From The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Came Home comes a historical novel inspired by true events, and the extraordinary female lighthouse keepers of the past two hundred years.
“They call me a heroine, but I am not deserving of such accolades. I am just an ordinary young woman who did her duty.”
1838: Northumberland, England. Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne
...10) Scritch scratch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Haunted after helping her father on his ghost-themed Chicago bus tour, twelve-year-old Claire must discover what the spectral boy from the bus wants before it is too late.
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Cornwall novels volume 3
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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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In the small Cornish village of Pevlyn, secrets are as treacherous as the rocky English shores. Cornwall, England, 1820 Raised on the sprawling and rugged Wyndcliff Estate near the dangerous coast of South Cornwall, Evelyn Bray lives with her grandfather, a once-wealthy man now reduced to the post of steward. Evelyn is still grieving her father's death and her mother's abandonment when a passing ship is dashed against the rocks. Liam Twethewey is...
12) New Brighton
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Red Dog Press/Bloodhound Books
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A gripping thriller . . . I was on the edge of my seat! . . . my heart was pounding!" -Amazon reviewer, five stars
"The Handmaid's Tale meets Blade Runner. A powerful tale of control, love and family in a brave new world where nothing is as it seems." -M. Sean Coleman, author of The Cuckoo Wood
Her future is about to change. So is her past . . .
In the English seaside town of Brighton, Robyn Lockhart has a boyfriend named Vincent, a frail,...
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Open Road Distribution
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2015.
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English
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An eccentric billionaire, a best-selling author, and a beautiful, self-destructive woman: three lives linked by the tragic sinking of the Titanic April 11, 1912: The gala sailing out of Southampton of White Star Line's peerless luxury liner, the R.M.S. Titanic. Among the dazzling, doomed names on the passenger list for this, the Titanic's maiden voyage, is Clair August Ryker, the lovely and dissolute wife of billionaire industrialist William Ryker,...
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Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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The truth can have deadly consequences...
On a sunny morning, when the Mediterranean is dead calm, Captain Paul Thomas embarks on a dive to the wreck of the Zenobia, off the coast of Larnaca, Cyprus. Within hours, he has taken his final, gasping breath in an accident below the surface. A new Royal Military Police liaison is required to pick up on his work, and Major Helen Scott gets the assignment.
It turns out Paul Thomas had rattled cages during...
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