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Publisher
Fodor's Travel
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Whether you want to sail in Tortola, snorkel at Trunk Bay Beach, or explore the Baths in Virgin Gorda, the local Fodor's travel experts in the Virgin Islands are here to help! Fodor's U.S. & British Virgin Islands guidebook is packed with maps, carefully curated recommendations, and everything else you need to simplify your trip-planning process and make the most of your time. This new edition has been fully-redesigned with an easy-to-read layout,...
Series
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
Escape to the World's Most Spectacular IslandsThis guidebook leads you on an irresistible tour of some of the most magnificent islands around the globe-from tiny isles to island nations, and from the well-trod to the totally uninhabited. Whether it's the history and charm of islands like Mont-Saint-Michel (France) and Ocracoke (United States) or the unspoiled vistas of far-flung places like Antarctica and Polynesia's Tuvalu, you'll discover a host...
Author
Publisher
Fodor's Travel
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"The experts at Fodor's are here to help. We're bringing you the very best of Bermuda, including Hamilton, the famous pink beaches, the Railway Trail, and more. Our local experts vet every recommendation to ensure that you have all the essential information to plan a perfect trip and make the most of your time." -- Back jacket.
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Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, am imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"This book teaches readers about the Galapagos Islands, a chain of volcanic islands located on either side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, and the strange and unique animals that live there. Some animals include the marine iguana, the blue-footed booby, the magnificent frigatebird and the giant Galapagos tortoise, which may live to be over one hundred years old. The islands, which were studies by Charles Darwin, are a popular tourist destination...
Author
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"Take a journey to the Galp̀agos Islands to see Galp̀agos giant tortoises up close and discover how cutting-edge technology is helping scientists study and protect these gentle giants. Page Plus links in the book lead to videos of scientists in the field"
Author
Publisher
Union Square Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
Just one month after his 21st birthday, Peter Rudiak-Gould moved to Ujae, a remote atoll in the Marshall Islands located 70 miles from the nearest telephone, car, store, or tourist, and 2,000 miles from the closest continent. He spent the next year there, living among its 450 inhabitants and teaching English to its schoolchildren.
11) Bad men
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Description
Years after the massacre that wiped out a colony of settlers on the small Maine island of Sanctuary, rookie officer Sharon Macy and policeman Joe Dupree team up to protect the island's residents from a band of vengeful killers.
12) Islands
Author
Publisher
Welbeck Editions
Pub. Date
2022
Description
"Some islands are busy, bustling homes to many people, while others have almost no life at all. Some are covered in thick jungle, others in freezing ice. Some are millions of years old, and others are brand new. Islands come in countless shapes and sizes, and this book lets you explore. Turn the pages to climb their mountains, swim in their seas, discover their histories, wonder at their treasures - and above all, be inspired."--Amazon.
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Description
" A major debut from an award-winning writer-an epic family saga set against the magic and the rhythms of the Virgin Islands. In the early 1900s an important ship sinks into the Caribbean Sea, just as the Virgin Islands are transferred from Danish to American rule. Orphaned by the sunk vessel are two sisters and their half-brother, now faced with an uncertain identity and future. Each of them is unusually beautiful, and each is in possession of...
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Description
"On the little Scottish island of Mure--halfway between Scotland and Norway--Flora MacKenzie and her fiancé Joel are planning the smallest of 'sweetheart weddings,' a high summer celebration surrounded only by those very dearest to them. Not everyone on the island is happy about being excluded, though. The temperature rises even further when beautiful Olivia MacDonald--who left Mure ten years ago for bigger and brighter things--returns with a wedding...
15) Little Eve
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Description
"Winner of the Shirley Jackson Award for best novel and the August Derleth Prize for best horror novel, Catriona Ward's Little Eve is a heart-pounding literary gothic with a devastating twist. Eve and Dinah are everything to one another, together day and night. They are raised among the Children, a clan ruled by a mysterious figure they call Uncle. All they know is the gray Isle of Altnaharra, which sits alone in the black sea off the wildest coast...
17) Galapagos
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Follow marine biologist Dr. Carole Baldwin as she explores 3,000 feet beneath the ocean, near the Galapagos islands, to collect rare and unusual species for study.
18) Lost in Bermooda
Author
Series
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
"Bermooda is a tropical island that is full of walking, talking cows. Here in Bermooda the sun is perfectly bright and the breeze is perfectly warm. It's the kind of perfection that makes it seem like nothing in this mootopian paradise could ever change. But when a hu'man washes ashore, everything changes!"--from publisher's description.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"When Nina's father dies, she is left something in his will: a gleaming dream vacation home in a balmy tropical paradise. She'll find out the hard way that what you inherit from those you love can end up costing your life in this heart-pounding thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water"
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Description
Betraying her family, her best friend, and her whole community by saving a young outsider from drowning in the poisonous lake that protects her island home, Leelo nurses Jaren back to health, understanding that discovery could lead to unthinkable consequences for both of them.
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