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Author
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Idris Elba. An atmospheric, suspenseful and gripping story of two people finding love while fighting to survive.
When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home; Ben Payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference, and Ashley Knox, a magazine writer, is en route to her wedding. But when unthinkable...
When a blizzard strands them in Salt Lake City, two strangers agree to charter a plane together, hoping to return home; Ben Payne is a gifted surgeon returning from a conference, and Ashley Knox, a magazine writer, is en route to her wedding. But when unthinkable...
3) Island
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
Perennial classic ed.
Physical Desc
354p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Yukon quest volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
383p. 21cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Norton
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
Best-selling author Patrick O'Brian turns to Commodore Anson's famous 1740 voyage for this rich tale of exploration and adventure. In The Unknown Shore, the inspiration for and immediate precursor to the acclaimed and immensely popular Aubrey/Maturin series, O'Brian's splendid prose and enthralling attention to detail launches listeners-spellbound-into the Age of Discovery.
Author
Series
Publisher
MIRA
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
316 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
After surviving a plane crash with her ex-husband, young daughter, and new love, forensic psychologist Claire Britten must enter the witness protection program to keep her family safe from the criminal mastermind who is out to get her boyfriend.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A spirited young maid on board the Titanic captures the attentions of two men including a kindhearted sailor and an enigmatic Chicago millionaire and barely escapes with her life before witnessing media scorn targeting her famous designer mistress.
10) Amazing grace
Author
Language
English
Description
In the wake of an earthquake that interrupts a celebrity-studded charity dinner dance at the Ritz Carlton in San Francisco, the lives of four strangers are transformed by the tragedy.
11) Before the fall
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stories of ten wealthy victims of a plane crash intertwine with those of a down-on-his-luck painter and a four-year-old boy, the tragedy's only survivors, as odd coincidences surrounding the crash point to a possible conspiracy.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
With everyone believing he died in a plane crash, Chicago celebrity Charles James re-evaluates his life after narrowly escaping death and decides to walk from Chicago to California, where he hopes to rekindle his relationship with his ex-wife.
15) Every storm
Author
Language
English
Description
A man determined to do his part in the war is thwarted from his desire to lead his men when he finds an American woman, the lone survivor of a plane crash and nearly starved to death, whose vulnerability demands he reveals another sort of gift.
Author
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1914, the transatlantic ocean liner carrying Grace Winter, 22 and her new husband Henry suffers a mysterious explosion. Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's. The survivors quickly realize the boat is over capacity. For any to live, some must die.
18) Quicksilver
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Quinn Quicksilver was born a mystery--abandoned at three days old on a desert highway in Arizona. Raised in an orphanage, never knowing his parents, Quinn had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of "strange magnetism." It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on...
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
xii, 319 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Author
Series
Alaskan quest volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jacob Barringer and Jayce Kincaid face the isolation of the frozen north after their ship is lost in the Arctic ice, while back at Last Chance Creek, Helaina and Leah form a special bond as they help each other get through the long wait for the men they love.