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Author
Language
English
Description
When Lux McAllister and her boyfriend, Nico, are hired to sail two women to a remote island in the South Pacific, it seems like the opportunity of a lifetime. Stuck in a dead-end job in Hawaii, and longing to travel the world after a family tragedy, Lux is eager to climb on board The Susannah and set out on an adventure. She's also quick to bond with their passengers, college best friends Brittany and Amma. The two women say they want to travel off...
3) Every storm
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
359 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
New from Lori Wick, this stand- alone story shows how unexpected changes can set the perfect course for love.
1945, WWII-When Lieutenant Donovan Riggs experiences trouble with his PT boat, the sailors of Every Storm make an unscheduled stop...and a surprising discovery. During WWII Lieutenant Donovan Riggs rescues Lorraine Archer from a deserted South Pacific island. Over time and through precarious circumstances, they both discover how life's unexpected...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
213 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Crankier than ever, Agatha Raisin wants to forget that her husband left her to enter a monastery-a turn of affairs more humiliating than when she caught him with a mistress. She feels abandoned, fat, frumpy, and absolutely furious. What are her options? She takes an island vacation and joins a Pilates class. But what finally lifts her spirits is finding a corpse. The dead girl is a member of Agatha's exercise class, afloat in a rain-swollen river,...
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Architectural engineer Scout Ritland is the kind of American man who spells trouble. Chantal duPont should know, for she has experienced the best and worst of the country and its people. At home on sultry Parrish Island she is putting herself in the way of another bold Yankee, but this time it's for a good cause. Scout is the one man who can help her village, and she's not about to let him get the better of her--no matter how much she may want to....
7) Moana
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A mythic adventure set around 2,000 years ago across a series of islands in the South Pacific. The film follows the journey of a spirited teenager named Moana as she meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui, and together they traverse the open ocean, encountering enormous fiery creatures and impossible odds.
8) Nation
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
NC 790L
Physical Desc
367 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
383 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A sweeping novel set aboard the Morning Light, a Nova Scotian merchant ship sailing through the South Pacific in 1912. Kay and Thea are half-sisters, separated in age by almost twenty years, but deeply attached. When their stern father dies, Thea travels to Nova Scotia for her long-promised marriage to the captain of the Morning Light. But she cannot abandon her orphaned young sister, so Kay too embarks on a life-changing journey to the other side...
11) A son of the sun
Author
Pub. Date
1912
Physical Desc
333 pages, plates : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A Son of the Sun" is a 1912 novel by Jack London. It is set in the South Pacific at the beginning of the 20th century and consists of eight separate stories. David Grief is a forty-year-old English adventurer who came to the South seas years ago and became rich. As a businessman he owns offices in Sydney, but he is rarely there. Since his wealth spreads over a lot of islands, Grief has some adventures while going among these islands. London depicts...
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
432 pages : maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"While trailing a Chinese nuclear attack sub, Jerry Mitchell, the captain of USS North Dakota, is shocked to see the Chinese boat torpedo a Vietnamese merchant ship. This blatant act of aggression is the opening gambit in a war that has blindsided the U.S. and quickly embroiled all nations in the western Pacific. These nations, bound together in the newly formed Littoral Alliance, have begun a covert submarine campaign aimed at crippling China's economy...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Butter O'Bryan has been told there are ghosts on Howlers Beach, but are there?
Howlers Beach, 1932
Butter O'Bryan lives in a Very Small Castle with his father and three aunts - Aunt Elephant, Aunt Cake and Aunt Peculiar. These aren't their real names, of course, just as Butter's father isn't really called 'Pongo'.
And even though Butter is only twelve years old, and the grandson of one of
...Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Fullscreen version.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (1008 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Language
English
Description
Set in 1938, in a backwater corner of the South Pacific, a young American adventurer and his ragtag group of friends become involved in death-defying hijinks, transporting people-on-the-run in a well-worn Grumman Goose seaplane.
15) The pirate
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
248 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lark's friends and fellow writers, Sarah and Margaret, send her to an island resort for R & R, she meets one disaster after another. Enter Jared Hawthorne, just in time to carry her off to his private island resort for her month-long stay.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Wealthy Rena Matthews feels called to take the gospel to the South Sea islanders. She gathers volunteers to go with her--all from the upper strata of society. When rough-looking Travis Winslow volunteers, Rena wants to refuse him, but her father insists she take him along. They set out in her father's yacht, but a storm drives them hundreds of miles off course and into a reef on a deserted island. Will they ever make it to the mission &supl;eld? Or...
Author
Series
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
362 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lintang's dream of adventure on the high seas comes true when Captain Shafira invites her to join her pirate crew, but Lintang's best friend, Bayani, has stowed away and is keeping secrets." -- Provided by publisher.
18) Moana
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
Reinforced library bound edition.
Lexile measure
GN 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
A spirited teenager who loves the ocean, yet is forbidden to travel beyond the reef that surrounds her island home of Motunui, ventures out to save her island.
19) Meet Maui
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
AD 770L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In the ancient South Pacific world of Oceania, Moana, a born navigator, sets sail in search of a fabled island. During her incredible journey, she teams up with the legendary demi-god Maui to traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage."--Amazon.