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1) Storm tide
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Tide trilogy volume 2
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At long last Joanna Bennett is returning to her family's island, the childhood home that her heart has yearned for ever since she was forced to the mainland by catastrophe. At her side stands Nils Sorensen, her oldest friend, stalwart admirer, and new husband. Together they will restore Bennett's Island to its former glory: enticing former residents and other hardworking mainlanders to join their small community, repairing damaged buildings pummeled...
2) Mr. Potter
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Mr. Potter, an illiterate chauffer, struggles to live a good life, despite the difficult events of his life.
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Jack Henry books volume 2
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When his father moves the family to Barbados, thirteen-year-old Jack learns that life is not always idyllic on an island paradise.
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Leave Moominvalley? Is it possible? Yes, even the Moomin family need a change of scenery sometimes, so they're off to live in a lighthouse on a tiny island. Here they find space to grow, and to do things they couldn't in their comfortable, cluttered valley home. As they discover their new home, the family also discover surprising, and wonderfully funny, new things about themselves.
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This reissued illustrated chapter book is based on the classic characters found in Pokemon GO and the classic animated series on Netflix.
The Orange Islands are weird! Ash and the gang discover Pokémon they've never seen before. Onix is made of crystal. Rhyhorn has turned pink. Marill has super sonar. And Snorlax is on a feeding frenzy! There is one thing Ash can count on. Team Rocket is setting their usual traps to swipe rare Pokémon -- and Pikachu,...
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2023.
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"Called in to examine what is left of a person thought to have been struck by lightning, Tempe traces an unusual tattoo to its source and is soon embroiled in a much larger case. Young men—tourists—have been disappearing on the islands of Turks and Caicos. Seven years earlier, the first victim was found in a strange location with his left hand hacked off; subsequently, two other visitors vanished without a trace. But, recently, tantalizing leads...
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"Caribbean-island innkeeper Holly Walker is hunkering down against a monster hurricane. Unfortunately, so is player Lord Anthony Bascombe, a man who excuses his bad behavior by saying he is descended from pirates. Then her grown son, Byron, and his father, Montez--the man she's never stopped wanting--go missing. Will she ever see them again? What about the many others hurt and dying? And will help ever arrive? With each passing day, Holly's tumultuous...
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Nightmare room thrillogy volume 2
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April, one of twelve students selected to participate in a survival competition called Life Games, is desperate to escape the tropical island and return to normal life, but she finds herself in danger when an evil presence follows her home.
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Tide trilogy volume 1
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Young, vivacious Joanna Bennett desperately wishes to be captain of her own lobstering boat, but despite being the favored daughter of Bennett's Island's founding family, she is still just a girl in the eyes of the community, and a girl living off the coast of Maine in the early 20th century is expected to mind the kitchen, not tend to pot buoys.
While quietly struggling to find her place on insular Bennett's Island, one where she could let her bold...
12) The braid
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Two Scottish sisters, living on the western island of Barra in the 1850s, relate, in alternate voices and linked narrative poems, their experiences after their family is forcibly evicted and separated with one sister accompanying their parents and younger siblings to Cape Breton, Canada, and the other staying behind with other family on the small island of Mingulay.
13) Shadowlands
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Shadowlands (Kate Brian) volume 1
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"Rory, a girl in witness protection, thinks the serial killer she turned in has found her and is killing people around her. But as she investigates, she discovers a dark, disturbing truth about her new hometown"--
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The archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world; lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their health and well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to an island where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh. Proctor Bennett...
15) May
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Daughters of the sea volume 2
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In 1899 on an island off the coast of Maine, fifteen-year-old May learns why she has always felt different from the other girls in her small town, but must keep hidden that she is a mermaid or risk attracting the attention of a dangerous hunter, and losing a boy for whom she cares.
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"In New York City, winter never seems to loosen its hold and for South Carolina transplant Maggie (born Magnolia after the fairest summer flower) the balmy beach weather of April back home on Sullivan’s Island feels like a distant memory. Until a phone call from her sister, Violet, changes everything.
Gran, the treasured matriarch, has fallen into a coma after a car accident caused by Maggie’s troubled mother, Lily. But once Maggie returns, she...
18) Neversink
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Barry Wolverton's masterful middle-grade debut, Neversink, is an epic tale of some very un-epic birds, a fast-paced and funny story of survival, friendship, and fish, in the vein of Watership Down and Kathi Appelt's The Underneath. Along the Arctic Circle lies a small island called Neversink, home to a colony of odd-looking seabirds called auks, including one Lockley J. Puffin. With their oceanfront views and plentiful supply of fish, the auks have...
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Tana Fairchild's fate has never been in question. Her life has been planned out since the moment she was born: she is to marry the governor's son, Landon, and secure an unprecedented alliance between the witches of her island home and the mainlanders who see her very existence as a threat. Tana's coven has appeased those who fear their power for years by releasing most of their magic into the ocean during the full moon. But when Tana misses the midnight...
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