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Nantucket volume 3
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It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer- the sight of a bride racing down Main Street is as common as the sun setting at Madaket Beach. The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event to remember: the groom's wealthy parents have spared no expense to host a lavish ceremony at their oceanfront estate. But it's going to be memorable for all the wrong reasons after tragedy strikes: a body is discovered in Nantucket Harbor just hours before...
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In the Pacific there is an island that look like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim. Once, Indians also lived on the island. When they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.
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It began on April Fool's Day, 1945, which was also Easter Sunday. It lasted eighty-four days. In that time the United States lost its commander in chief, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and at the site of the battle itself, lost its most beloved war correspondent, Ernie Pyle. In that time Germany was finally defeated, but when GIs on the island heard the news, they snorted in contempt - "So what?" For these men were fighting for their own lives against...
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Virago modern classics volume 620
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Jane lives in Toronto with her mother and grandmother. Then one day her father sends for her -- Jane didn't even know she had a father -- to come and visit him on Prince Edward Island. And no-one, not even her mother, has ever talked to her about him.
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"Born on Christmas, Angela Stark has always hated the holiday. Bad things always seem to happen and this year is no exception when she is fired and evicted on the first day of December. She was living and working as a maid in San Francisco. Who will hire her at this time of year, especially if they learn why she was fired? Her only family is Sam, an elderly and quite vocal orange cat. Her only option is to stay temporarily with her best friend Jane,...
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An intriguing history of Alcatraz Island and its infamous prison, located off the coast of San Francisco, from the earliest years of Spanish exploration to the present day. Highlighting the unique geographical features of the island, it shows how Alcatraz went through many changes, being used over the years as a military facility, a notorious federal penitentiary widely believed to be escape-proof, as well as the site of American Indian uprisings....
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Occasional paper volume 9
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This report presents the results of climatological investigations by the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR), focusing particularly on ice conditions in western Davis Strait, Baffin Bay as well as a variety of other climatic studies.
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IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"The rocky shores of Alcatraz Island and the lonely corridors of its namesake prison have captured imaginations for years, even after the prison closed in 1963. But do some of its one-time residents remain? This fascinating book examines the history of the legendary prison, while historical photos give readers a glimpse into Alcatraz's dark cells and creepy tunnels. Sidebars and fact boxes delve into the stories of the prison's most famous inhabitants,...
70) Twice Loved
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New York Times bestselling author LaVyrle Spencer presents one of her most beautiful and captivating novels-a powerful story of the human heart you will never forget . . .
Five long years ago, Laura Dalton stood on the bleak Nantucket shore waiting for her beloved husband Rye to return-until the day she learned his ship was lost at sea. Now, Laura's lonely heart has found solace in Dan, Rye's closest friend.
Dan has been a beacon of light in her...
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The reissue program for The New York Times bestselling author of For My Daughters continues with this beautifully repackaged edition of another of Delinsky's popular novels. Scores of women listeners fantasize to the husky voice of a country radio DJ. But when his romantic patter mirrors the sinister wording of a kidnapper's ransom note, one woman must put her heart on the line to learn the truth.
73) A forever friend
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Marguerite Henry's Misty Inn volume 5
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Misty Inn is up and running, and the Dunlaps have a full house. Willa is thrilled that Kate, her best friend from Chicago, is going to come to Chincoteague for a visit. But it's been a whole year since they've seen each other, and Willa soon realizes their friendship is not as easy as it had once been. Adding to the tension is the fact that a Chincoteague friend, Sarah Starling, is away at camp for the week, not to mention the fact that Ben seems...
74) The off-islander
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Andy Roark mysteries volume 1
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"Boston, 1982. Private investigator Andy Roark has spent the past decade trying to rediscover his place in the world. In Vietnam, there was order and purpose. Everything - no matter how brutal - happened for a reason. Back home, after brief stints in college and with the police force, Roark has settled for a steady, easy routine of divorce and insurance fraud cases. Roark's childhood friend, Danny Sullivan, dragged himself out of blue-collar Southie...
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Undertow trilogy volume 3
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In the epic conclusion of this dystopian trilogy, nail-baiting action and romance abound as a half-human teen faces terrifying monsters from the deep.
After seven months as a captive of Minerva, the insane Alpha queen, Lyric Walker has escaped to the surface. Her only goal is to warn the world about the Great Abyss. When she finally arrives back in Coney Island, she discovers a world she never expected, one where humans
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Lucas Baird never got much of a break when he was a child, but by his early twenties, his good looks and easy manner allow him to skate through life without having to put in much effort. On the cusp of manhood in years yet still a boy--what Anthony Trollope called a hobbledehoy--charming Luke has enjoyed his extended adolescence of drinking and small-time cons. But when a freak accident compels him to leave LA--and leave fast--he finds himself in...
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Miriam Elizabeth Swanson's life is one big pity party. Her husband of 20-plus years has traded her in for a newer model, her grown sons avoid her like the plague, and, likewise, her so-called society friends treat her like she's the poster girl for the Ebola virus. If all that weren't bad enough, her once-deluxe Manhattan town house has been carved up into apartments because she needs the rent to make ends meet, and her mother has morphed into a pot-smoking,...
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In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. Soon after Robert arrives at his grandfather's home in Rhode Island in 1942, just after the U.S. enters World War II, he learns of a German painter living in the woods who raises the community's suspicions, and of the mystery his RAF pilot...