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Author
Series
Paradise volume 1
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
Irene Steele's idyllic life - house, husband, family - is shattered when she is woken up by a late-night phone call. Her beloved husband has been found dead, but before Irene can process this tragic news, she must confront the perplexing details of her husband's death. He was found on St. John island, a tropical paradise far removed from their suburban life. Leaving the cold winter behind, Irene flies down to the beautiful Caribbean beaches of St....
Author
Series
Paradise volume 2
Language
English
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Description
Secret lives and new loves emerge in the bright Caribbean sunlight, in the follow-up to national bestseller Winter in Paradise A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a helicopter crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her...
Author
Series
Blackberry Island volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her cat toy empire goes up in flames, Sophie Lane returns to Blackberry Island, determined to rebuild. Until small-town life reveals a big problem: she can't grow unless she learns to let go. If Sophie relaxes her grip even a little, she might lose everything. Or she might finally be free to reach for the happiness and love that have eluded her for so long. Kristine has become defined by her relationship to others. She's a wife, a mom. As much...
Author
Series
New York confidential volume 4
Language
English
Formats
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When his cousin's business partner is found dead on an island he inherited, Special Agent Craig Frasier agrees to investigate with psychologist Kieran Finnegan and they discover that the property comes with strange lore and a blood-soaked past.
Author
Language
English
Description
After uprooting her life in the States, Irene Steele has just settled in at the villa on St. John where her husband Russ had been living a double life. But a visit from the FBI shakes her foundations, and Irene once again learns just how little she knew about the man she loved. With help from their friends, Irene and her sons set up their lives while evidence mounts that the helicopter crash that killed Russ may not have been an accident. Meanwhile,...
Author
Series
Gideon Crew volume 3
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
After being tasked with stealing a page from a priceless, ancient book, brilliant scientist and master thief Gideon Crew discovers a hidden map on the back of the book's parchment.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
264 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sabrina Salter traded a high-pressure job as a Boston meteorologist for life as an innkeeper on sun-soaked St. John. But storm clouds roll in when Sabrina finds Carter Johnson, her most attractive guest, tucked up in a hammock way past check-out time...and he's not just dead to the world, he's just plain dead, with a bullet hole in his chest.
This isn't the first time Sabrina has seen a dead body, and the island police are well aware of that. Thanks...
Author
Series
Blackberry Island volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sisters Nina and Averil Wentworth deal with life and love--and their tenuous relationship with each other--on Blackberry Island.
Author
Language
English
Description
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
12) The humming room
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old orphan Roo Fanshaw is sent to live with an uncle she never knew in a largely uninhabited mansion on Cough Rock Island and discovers a wild river boy, an invalid cousin, and the mysteries of a hidden garden.
Author
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan brings us a delightful summer novel that will sweep you away to the remote Scottish island of Mure, where two very different weddings are about to take place... On the little Scottish island of Mure--halfway between Scotland and Norway--Flora MacKenzie and her fiance Joel are planning the smallest of sweetheart weddings, a high summer celebration surrounded only by those very dearest to them. Not everyone...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 p. : col. ill. ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
The birdlike kweeks are starving because their island does not have enough ploppolop fruit trees to feed them all, until Quentin makes an amazing discovery.
15) Daisy Darker
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"After years of avoiding each other, Daisy Darker's entire family is assembling for Nana's 80th birthday party in Nana's crumbling gothic house on a tiny tidal island. Finally back together one last time, when the tide comes in, they will be cut off from the rest of the world for eight hours. The family arrives, each of them harboring secrets. Then at the stroke of midnight, as a storm rages, Nana is found dead. And an hour later, the next family...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When a new virus surfaces, Lucy and her husband Reed, along with their five closest friends and family, sequester themselves on Reed's family's private island off the coast of Maine where she feels her own grip on reality slipping as tempers flare, strange signs appear and accidents turn deadly.
Author
Series
The wild robot volume 3
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
281 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Roz must take an under-the-ocean journey to save her island from a mysterious poison tide"--
Author
Series
Little Beach Street Bakery volume 4
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Moving to a Cornish seaside village, hoping for peace and solitude, lonely registrar Marisa Rosso, feeling like life is passing her by, unexpectedly finds her joy again with the help of her noisy neighbor, the community spirit and a campaign to save the local bakery.
Author
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A delightful Caribbean-set novel about an ambitious designer of apocalyptic video games with a strategy for (almost) everything who discovers what happens when her best-laid plans go off course"--
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Sent by his privileged family to learn how the less fortunate earn their living, a duke's son takes a job at a new Murian hotel while falling unexpectedly in love with a hardworking young waitress.