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21) The island
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Pub. Date
2022.
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"After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they're deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry, taking...
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Miss Peregrine volume 1
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After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.
26) Sixgill sharks
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. Follow the exploits of renowned veterinarian Dr. Neil Burnie and his Ocean Vet team. In this episode, follow Neil and his team as they work onboard a commercial fishing vessel to help save an older sixgill shark tangled in deep set fishing lines.
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Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. In 1864 Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 20 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follow the exploits of renowned veterinarian Dr. Neil Burnie and his Ocean Vet team. In this episode, Neil and his team capture and release wild green sea turtles in a bid to study their health and populations.
32) The fire pit
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Series
Faroes volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
464 pages : map ; 21 cm.
Description
In the wake of a dying man's apparent suicide, the skeleton of a young woman is discovered on a windswept hillside. Detective Hjalti Hentze suspects that it is the body of a Norwegian woman reported missing forty years earlier, while a commune occupied the land, and whose death may be linked to the abduction and rape of a local Faroese girl. Meanwhile British DI Jan Reyna is pursing his investigation into his mother's suicide. But as he learns more...
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"It's 1942. The Japanese have invaded Burma and are closing in on India. After five years in the remote Andaman Islands, aspiring anthropologist Claire Durant and her husband Shep, a civil surgeon, must evacuate with their beloved but mysteriously mute four-year-old, Ty. They cannot, however, take Naila, the local girl whose ability to communicate with Ty has made them dangerously dependent on her. The morning of the evacuation, both children disappear....
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Inara Erickson is exploring her deceased aunt's island estate when she finds an elaborately stitched piece of fabric hidden in the house. As she peels back layer upon layer of the secrets it holds, Inara's life becomes interwoven with that of Mei Lein, a young Chinese girl mysteriously driven from her home a century before. Through the stories Mei Lein tells in silk, Inara uncovers a tragic truth that will shake her family to its core -- and force...
36) Galápagos
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 150 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The inspiration for Darwin's theory of evolution, the Galápagos Islands are a living laboratory, a geological conveyor belt that has given birth to and seen the death of many species of plants and animals.
37) The wild robot
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Series
Wild robot volume 1
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Description
Roz the robot discovers that she is alone on a remote, wild island with no memory of where she is from or why she is there, and her only hope of survival is to try to learn about her new environment from the island's hostile inhabitants.
38) No virgin island
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Sabrina Salter traded a high-pressure job as a Boston meteorologist for life as an innkeeper on 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.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"College journalist Adele Plank has been granted a rare interview with one-time bestselling author, Decklan Stone. He is a man largely withdrawn from the world following the tragic death of his young wife twenty-seven years earlier. Adele ventures to the writer's remote, private-island home in the beautiful San Juan Islands, and there begins a journey of dangerous discovery that will have her scrambling to unravel a mystery far more shocking and deadly...
40) Nature girl
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Pub. Date
2006
Description
When a rude telemarketer calls while Honey Santana and her son are having dinner she decides to teach him a lesson in good behavior. She lures him and his mistress with a pitch for Florida real estate and includes her ex-husband and 12-year-old son in her plot.
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