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Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
201 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In a collection of eight short stories, children on islands around the world make connections to nature while facing life-changing events. Each child experiences a significant emotional turning point at the same time they encounter a turtle--real or imagined. A prologue tells of a sea turtle that was tracked making an extraordinarily long journey, while an epilogue is written from that turtle's point of view. Back matter shares information about...
Author
Publisher
Appalachian Mountain Club Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
Fourth edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"An expertly curated selection of the best hikes in Connecticut and Rhode Island that can be completed in one day or less, along with essays on the natural and human history of the area. The hikes contained range in difficulty from beginner to experienced, and each entry includes information on whether the hike is universally accessible, kid-friendly, dog-friendly, and more"--
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
303 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this deliciously groundbreaking cookbook, Von Diaz travels across oceans and nations to honor island cooking in over 125 recipes organized by their ancestral cooking techniques. These techniques, among the oldest known to humanity, enable people to make delicious food with limited ingredients, often without modern tools or electricity"--
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2023
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
It's all fun and games until you accidentally marry a stranger in Greece and inherit a hotel.
Amelia Lang's life is kind of a mess. She's stuck living at home with her narcissistic mother. Her tech bro ex-boyfriend deliberately sabotages her at work, and she gets fired after throwing a mug at his head (it's okay! She missed.) Then she has a major falling out with her best friend. So Amelia does what Amelia does best: She runs away.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"A quaint, historic fishing village of Menemsha is a side of Martha's Vineyard that tourists don't always see. Maddie Clarke's late mother was born on the Vineyard, and Maddie hazily recalls childhood visits to her Grandma Nancy's cottage above Menemsha Harbor. Now divorced with a teenage son, Maddie is awaiting news of a tenurship at her Massachusetts college when a letter arrives that could change everything... It turns out Grandma Nancy didn't...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Lucy is the tourist vacationing at a beach house on Prince Edward Island. Felix is the local who shows her a very good time. The only problem: Lucy doesn't know he's her best friend's younger brother. Lucy and Felix's chemistry is unreal, but the list of reasons why they need to stay away from each other is long, and they vow to never repeat that electric night again. It's easier said than done. Each year, Lucy escapes to PEI for a big breath of...
10) Torn asunder
Author
Series
Maine clambake mystery volume 12
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Julia's best friend and business partner, Zoey, is about to marry her policeman boyfriend. Of course, a gorgeous white wedding dress shouldn't be within fifty yards of a plate of buttery lobster--so that treat is reserved for the rehearsal dinner. Julia is a little worried about the timing, though, as she works around a predicted storm. When a guest falls to the floor dead, it turns out that no one seems to know who he is, despite the fact that he's...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin MIRA
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
333, 39 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Supermodel Polly Carter was famed for her looks and party-girl lifestyle. Now she's dead, apparently having thrown herself from the clifftop near her home on the island of Saint-Marie. Those who knew her say Polly would never have killed herself...and when he is called in to investigate, DI Richard Poole is inclined to agree there is more to Polly's death than meets the eye. Already fighting a losing battle against the intense summer heat of the Caribbean,...
12) Water
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
165 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
The first thing Vanessa Carvin does when she arrives on the island is change her name. To the locals, she is Willow Hale, a solitary outsider escaping Dublin to live a hermetic existence in a small cottage, not a notorious woman on the run from her past. But scandals follow like hunting dogs. And she has some questions of her own to answer. If her ex-husband is really the monster everyone says he is, then how complicit was she in his crimes? Escaping...
Author
Publisher
IDW Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"With Dr. Eggman and Surge subdued for now, Sonic and friends have a chance to relax, reset, and plan for the future. Or so they hope. If anything can be counted on around Sonic, it's that new misadventures are just waiting to happen! To start, Amy visits Knuckles on Angel Island to return a relic. The island, as always, has a few surprises in store for them as they catch up. Meanwhile, Mimic is putting together the purrfect disguise to infiltrate...
Author
Publisher
Angry Robot
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Tomorrow, the funk descends on Manhattan, a noxious cloud which separates the island from the rest of the world and mutates the population. Some generations on, the surviving population exists amid the rubble of modernity, wearing our cast-off clothing, worshipping celebrities as dim gods and using emojis in place or written language. The Island exists in a state of uneasy peace, with each neighborhood an independent fiefdom, protecting itself with...
15) Wild life
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
291 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Plan was simple: find a cure for the cancer that nearly took her sister's life. But for Zoey Fong, something about The Plan isn't working anymore. Maybe it's her unsuccessful research, maybe it's burnout. But when a crucial tissue sample accidentally winds up in the hands of a very distracting--and disarmingly handsome--visitor, Zoey jumps at the chance to follow him home to retrieve it. Davy Hsieh's rugged island estate is no manicured suburban...
16) At any cost
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First world edition
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Greece is burning . . . and Chief Inspector Andreas Kaldis is determined to save his country from disaster in the new novel in Jeffrey Siger's critically acclaimed, internationally bestselling mystery series"Thoughtful police procedurals set in picturesque but not untroubled Greek locales" The New York Times "An atmospheric and exciting series" Booklist (Starred Review) "Terrific novels which take place on the Greek islands" Readers DigestChief Inspector...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Christmas day, and DCI Tom Reynolds receives an alarming call. A mass grave has been discovered on Oileán na Caillte, the island which housed the controversial psychiatric institution St. Christina's. The hospital has been closed for decades and onsite graves were tragically common. Reynolds thinks his adversarial boss is handing him a cold case to sideline him. But then it transpires another body has been discovered amongst the dead - one of the...
18) Ghost island
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
368 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling Ghosts of the Past series featuring homicide detective Jessica Niemi! Jessica Niemi is ordered to go on paid leave after a violent altercation, and she decides to travel to a small island in the Åland archipelago to escape attention and find some peace. Meanwhile, a group arrives on the island, and Jessica learns that they are the remaining members of the Doves, people who had to flee from Finland...
Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2024].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Hilma, an American painter of fifty-eight, goes to the beautiful island of Samos to escape a family tragedy by swimming and hiking and trying to forget. But on one of these swims, she finds a small Syrian girl floating unconscious in a life jacket. Hilma saves her but quickly becomes obsessed with the idea of adopting the girl, whose mother and father, she assumes, have drowned, as so many refugees do. The child's mother, Farah, did not drown, however,...
20) American star
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An assassin on final assignment arrives in Fuerteventura to kill a man he has never met. But the target is delayed. Instead of following protocol he stays, drawn to the island, the people, and a ghostly shipwreck. When the target returns, the world has shifted. Before everything was simple, now nothing is.
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