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61) On the island
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Stranded on an uninhabited island after their private plane crashes, thirty-year-old Anna Emerson and sixteen-year-old T.J. Callahan, her student, struggle to survive and, as the months pass, slowly fall in love.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a Gulfstream jet goes down in the Bahamas carrying a fortune in cash and ill-gotten diamonds, expat diving instructor Michael Gannon is the only person on the scene. Assuming himself the beneficiary of a drug deal gone bad, Gannon thinks he's home free with the sudden windfall until he realizes he forgot to ask one simple question. Who were the six dead men on the plane? Gannon soon learns the answer to that fateful question as he is thrust into...
63) Hunter
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
153 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A Maori boy in 1803 and a plane crash survivor marooned on a deserted island in 2003 experience interconnecting visions.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Silver Bells: "A single dad's rambunctious teenage daughter hatches a plot to find her father a wife, and she has just the woman in mind. He may claim he's not interested in remarriage, but perhaps the magic of the holiday season will help him change his mind." -- Page [4] cover.
On a Snowy Christmas: "When their private plane crashes in the Sierra Nevada Mountains shortly before Christmas, two political enemies discover that survival means more...
65) Assassin's edge
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A U.S. spy plane crashes off the northern coast of Russia at the same time that a Mossad operative is abducted from a street in Kazakhstan. The two events seem unrelated, but as suspicions rise, the CIA calls in its premier operative, David Slaton. When wreckage from the aircraft is discovered on a remote Arctic island, Slaton and a team are sent on a clandestine mission to investigate. While they comb a frigid Russian island at the top of the world,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Greyt Companion Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
277 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After breaking up a sex trafficking ring, FBI Agent Victoria Heslin wants nothing more than to visit the rescue shelter she sponsors, a trip that also offers a much-needed European vacation and a chance to figure out her new relationship with Ned. Comfortable in first class, she drifts off--only to be shocked awake when her plane crashes. Lost in an empty, frozen wasteland, Victoria and a few other survivors battle extreme temperatures, as each day...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The Central Intelligence training program Treadstone produced two graduates of equal skill and determination--Jason Bourne and a vicious Russian mercenary, Leonid Arkadin. As Bourne's destiny circles closer to Arkadin's, it becomes clear that the eventual collision of these men is not of their own making. Someone else has been watching and manipulating them. Someone who wants to know, "Who is the more deadly agent?"
68) Visible empire
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's a humid summer day when the phones begin to ring: disaster has struck. Air France Flight 007, which had been chartered to ferry home more than one hundred of Atlanta's cultural leaders following a luxurious arts-oriented tour of Europe, crashed shortly after takeoff in Paris. In one fell swoop, most of the city's wealthiest residents perished. Left behind were children, spouses, lovers, friends, and a city on the cusp of great change: the Civil...
Author
Series
A Brad Jacobs thriller volume 2
Publisher
Scott Conrad
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
4th edition.
Physical Desc
274 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their plane crashes in the Alaskan backcountry it's not the freezing temperatures, treacherous terrain, dangerous wildlife, and lack of supplies that are Pete and Charlie's biggest threats. An accidental discovery becomes the bigger challenge. They had the misfortune of crashing in the middle of nowhere, the perfect place for neo-Nazi terrorists to run an illegal operation--and now they've been seen. Hunted like wolves, Pete and Charlie are running...
70) Backlash
Author
Series
Publisher
Shotgun Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a passenger plane is forced down over Texas airspace, one man on board may have something to say about that. Christopher Wren. He's a CIA black-ops specialist looking to give up 'the life'. He just wants to win back his wife and spend time with his kids. No such luck. Now the Flight Marshal's bleeding out in the aisle, fake Marines are storming his 787, and all hell's about to break loose. They poked the bear on his way into hibernation. The...
Author
Series
Flight 29 down volume 7
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
218 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
While Daley and the others are safe at the campsite, Abby is roughing it in the jungle.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
©2015.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Lillian Linden is a liar. On the surface, she looks like a brave survivor of a plane crash. But she's been lying to her family, her friends, and the whole world since rescue helicopters scooped her and her fellow survivor, Dave Hall, off a deserted island in the South Pacific. Missing for almost two years, the castaways are thrust into the spotlight after their rescue, becoming media darlings overnight. But they can't tell the real story--so they...
73) Scarcity
Author
Series
Jack Randall thriller volume 3
Publisher
Tension Bookworks
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl is kidnapped in Mexico City as a young boy in Afghanistan is wounded by artillery fire. A plane crashes in Florida while a man waits for a new heart in Maryland. A senator's daughter survives a car accident while a captured drug runner makes a deal with the DEA. Soon all of their fates converge into a twisted web of deceit driven by greed, desperation and hope. As Jack Randall of the FBI and his friend Lenny Hill of Interpol work to...
Author
Series
Publisher
Canary Street Press
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Air Force test pilot Blue Donnelly has the greatest job in the world...until his F-22 crashes during a demonstration flight, leaving him with a busted body and a ton of guilt. Then horse whisperer Marin Galloway walks into his hospital room, snapping him out of self-pity with a shock of desire and some surprising news: her six-year-old ward thinks Blue is his daddy. Leo isn't really Blue's son, much as the little boy wishes it. Still, he needs a...
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Sicily, 1943. Three American women, all nurses in the Medical Air Evacuation Transport Squadron, are determined to do all they can for their country. Vita is fun-loving, Dot shy and sweet-natured, and Evelyn practical and determined, but for all their differences, a life of military service pulls the three together as firm friends. When they're selected for a daring mission, the women are proud to play their part. But disaster strikes when their...
76) Proud sorrows
Author
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
344 pages : map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Norfolk, England, November 1944: After a series of dangerous missions in the South of France, US Army Captain Billy Boyle is finally on leave, and is settling into a peaceful rest at the country estate of Sir Richard Seaton, the father of Billy's British lover, Diana. Seaton Manor is a comfortable haven, and Billy is eager to spend a few precious days in Diana's company pretending the war is far away. Unfortunately, Billy's leave is cut short when...
77) Eagle & crane
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Louis Thorn and Haruto "Harry" Yamada--Eagle and Crane--are the star attractions of Earl Shaw's Flying Circus, a daredevil (and not exactly legal) flying act that traverses Depression-era California. The young men have a complicated relationship, thanks to the Thorn family's belief that the Yamadas--Japanese immigrants--stole land that should have stayed in the Thorn family. When Louis and Harry become aerial stuntmen, performing death-defying tricks...
78) The devil's sea
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First G. P. Putnam's Sons premium edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 465 pages : illustrations, maps ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1959 Tibet, a Buddhist artifact of immense importance was seemingly lost to history in the turmoil of the Communist takeover. But when National Underwater and Marine Agency Director Dirk Pitt discovers a forgotten plane crash in the Philippine Sea over 60 years later, new clues emerge to its hidden existence. But Pitt and his compatriot Al Giordino have larger worries when they are ordered to recover a failed hypersonic missile from Luzon Strait....
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1985, Rhode Island. A private jet carrying four partners of a Providence law firm crashes outside New York City, killing all aboard but leaving behind more questions than answers and setting the stage for four widows to find the truth. Justine: a former fashion model adjusting to suburban life. Camille: a beautiful, young second wife whom some suspect is a gold digger. Meredith: a stripper who was in a relationship with the firm's only female partner....
80) Midas
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Abridged.
Physical Desc
5 audio discs : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
East End Harbor cop Justin Westwood is drawn into an investigation of the link between a series of terrorist attacks.