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The Island of Lost Maps: A True Story of Cartographic Crime

by Miles Harvey

Published: 2000-09-05

Hardcover: 432 pages

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U.S.A. $24.95Canada $35.95"Every once in a blue moon you read a book that leaves you absolutely breathless, reminding you of the bright, hidden worlds within our world. This is that book, a glimmering, supersonic journey into terra incognita, where Miles Harvey, acting as writer and sleuth...

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Island of Saints: A Story of the One Principle That Frees the Human Spirit

by Andy Andrews

Published: 2005-05-31

Hardcover: 224 pages

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While digging up a withering wax myrtle tree beside his waterfront home on the Gulf coast, author Andy Andrews unearths a rusted metal container filled with Nazi artifacts and begins an intriguing investigation that unlocks an unspoken past that took place in his backyard . . . literally ....

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Island of the Blue Dolphins

by Scott O'Dell

Published: 1987-03-01

Paperback: 0 pages

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In the Pacific, there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea birds abound. Karana is the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Hers is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also...

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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

by Joan Druett

Published: 2007-05-17

Paperback: 272 pages

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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 Mus...

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Island of the Sequined Love Nun

by Christopher Moore

Published: 2004-05-25

Paperback: 336 pages

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Take a wonderfully crazed excursion into the demented heart of a tropical paradise—a world of cargo cults, cannibals, mad scientists, ninjas, and talking fruit bats. Our bumbling hero is Tucker Case, a hopeless geek trapped in a cool guy's body, who makes a living as a pilot for the Mary...

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Island of the Swans

by Ciji Ware

Published: 2010-02-01

Paperback: 592 pages

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Re-issued in its original full length, this acclaimed and bestselling romantic historical novel by award-winning author Ciji Ware tells the true story of passionate and flamboyant Jane Maxwell, the 4th Duchess of Gordon (1749-1812). In love since childhood with Thomas Fraser, when she hear...

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Island of Vice: Theodore Roosevelt's Doomed Quest to Clean Up Sin-Loving New York

by Richard Zacks

Published: 2012-02-07

Hardcover: 448 pages

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When young Theodore Roosevelt was appointed police commissioner of New York City, he had the astounding gall to try to shut down the brothels, gambling joints, and after-hours saloons. This is the story of how TR took on Manhattan vice . . . and vice won. In the 1890s, New York City was A...

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The Island of Whispers

by Brendan Gisby

Published: 2009-06-12

Paperback: 236 pages

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Set on a rocky islet lying in the shadow of the Forth Railway Bridge, this superbly written tale centres on the creatures who inhabit it - a huge colony of rats who have made their home beneath the crumbling ruins of the monastery. 'Home' is hardly the word for the native black creatures however, who...

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An Island Out of Time: A Memoir of Smith Island in the Chesapeake

by Tom Horton

Published: 2008-04-28

Paperback: 336 pages

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"He has captured in full the life of the island."—Washington Post Book World A classic of Chesapeake Bay literature, Tom Horton's An Island Out of Time chronicles the three years Horton and his family spent on Smith Island, a marshy archipelago in the middle of Maryland's famous estuary....

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The Island Walkers

by John Bemrose

Published: 2005-04-11

Paperback: 448 pages

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A powerful first novel about a family that slips from fortune’s favor and a town broken by the forces of modernityAcross a bend of Ontario’s Attawan River lies the Island, a working-class neighborhood of whitewashed houses and vine-freighted fences, black willows and decaying ...