Ghost Island and the Mystery of Charmander - An Unoffic...
Ages 8 to 12 years When Sarah and Skips mom inherits a...
Island in the East - Two great loves. One shattering be...
Beautifully written and impressively researched, Island in...
Pippa's Island 1 - The Beach Shack Cafe
Pippa has just arrived at a new school, in a new town, and e...
Island Of The Aunts
Island in the East - Two great loves. One shattering betrayal. A war that changes everything.
Beautifully written and impressively researched, Island in the East is a stunner. Emotional, evocative and enthralling. Kate FurnivallIm absolutely loving it. Gill PaulCompletely entrancing the humidity and social tensions of a bygone Singapore rise from every page. Perfect escapism, beautifully written. Emma Rous Its impossible to put this book down. Kate RiordanWith a sizz...
The Storm Weaver and the Sand
When the three runaways Sal, Shilly and Skender finally arrive at the remote island of the Haunted City, home of the Sky Wardens, Sals great-aunt, the Syndic, is determined to keep them under control. And if that means imprisonment, so be it. But the Syndic isnt the least of Sals worries. The ghosts that live behind the ancient glass of the city are restless and no one knows why or wh...
Listen to the Moon
The stunning novel set during World War One from Michael Morpurgo, the nations favourite storyteller and multi-million copy bestseller. May, 1915. Alfie and his fisherman father find a girl on an uninhabited island in the Scillies injured, thirsty, lost
and with absolutely no memory of who she is, or how she came to be there. She can say only one word: Lucy. Where has she come from? Is...
Pippa's Island 1 - The Beach Shack Cafe
Pippa has just arrived at a new school, in a new town, and even living on a gorgeous island isnt cheering her up. Her arrival causes ripples at Kira Island Primary School but Pippa soon starts to make friends with eco-warrior Meg, boho-chick Charlie, and fashionista and cupcake baker Cici. Pippas mum plans to buy a rustic old boatshed and start a bookshop cafe, and Pippa worries theyll ...
Eye of the Needle
His weapon is the stiletto, his codename: The Needle. He is Hitlers prize undercover agent a cold and professional killer. It is 1944 and weeks before D-Day. The Allies are disguising their invasion plans with a phoney armada of ships and planes. Their plan would be ruined if an enemy agent found out
And then The Needle does just that. Hunted by MI5, he leads a murderous trail across Brit...
The Witch of Salt and Storm
Sixteen-year-old Avery Roe wants only to take her rightful place as the sea witch of Prince Island, making the charms that keep the islands whalers safe and prosperous at sea. But before she could learn how to control her power, her mother the first Roe woman in centuries to turn her back on magic steals Avery away from her grandmother. Avery must escape before her grandmother dies, taking...
Angel Island - Gateway to Gold Mountain
Angel Island, off the coast of California, was the port of entry for Asian immigrants to the United States between 1892 and 1940. Following the passage of legislation requiring the screening of immigrants, the other Ellis Island processed around one million people from Japan, China, and Korea. Drawing from memoirs, diaries, letters, and the wall poems discovered at the facility long after ...
Five Go Bump in the Night
] A howl drifted up from nearby woodland and everyone shifted closer together. How about a ghost story, suggested George. From the author of Number One Christmas bestseller, Five on Brexit Island, join the Five in their next hilarious adventure in this bestselling series for grown-ups! Its a dark winters night and the Five are scaring themselves witless recounting tales that would terrif...
Ghost Island and the Mystery of Charmander - An Unofficial Adventure for Pokemon GO Fans
Ages 8 to 12 years When Sarah and Skips mom inherits and house and moves the family to a remote town in Maine for a fresh start, the pair is anything but pleased. What if theres nothing to do? What if they dont make friends? What if they cant play Pokemon GO? Then they see the mysterious island across the water from their new home-Ghost Island. Mom says she used to paddle out there and...
Secret Stories - The Secret Island
In Enid Blytons classic Secret Stories mystery always leads to adventure. In Enid Blytons very first full-length adventure novel, meet siblings Peggy, Mike and Nora. They live with their cruel uncle and aunt and long to escape, so when their friend Jack takes them to a secret, deserted island, they run away to live there. But not all is as it seems on the island and the children soon find...
The Secret of Whale Island - Thea Stilton 1
Geronimo isnt the only world-famous adventuring journalist from New Mouse City; introducing his fabulous sister, Thea!The Thea Sisters are five fun, lively students at Ratford College on Whale Island, who want to be real, live journalists just like their hero, Thea Stilton. Between classes and friendships, love and small fits of jealousy, theyre finding college life is really exciting! In The ...
Five Escape Brexit Island
Escape first, talk about politics later! said George. From the author of Number One Christmas bestseller, Five on Brexit Island, join the Five in their next hilarious adventure in this bestselling series for grown-ups! Its a year after the Brexit vote. The four housemates and Timmy are on a visit to see their evil genius cousin Rupert. Rupert owns a chunk of the Jurassic Coast, part of whi...
Nathaniel's Nutmeg - How One Man's Courage Changed the Course of History
In 1616, an English adventurer, Nathaniel Courthope, stepped ashore on a remote island in the East Indies on a secret mission to persuade the islanders of Run to grant a monopoly to England over their nutmeg, a fabulously valuable spice in Europe. This infuriated the Dutch, who were determined to control the worlds nutmeg supply. For five years Courthope and his band of thirty men were besie...
THE INNOCENT'S SHAMEFUL SECRET
Claimed by his touch
Left carrying his child!Alexis Constantinou haunts Selena Blakes every memory. Before his expert touch awakened her, she was nothing more than a naive schoolteacher. Now she dreams every night of his idyllic Mediterranean island, and the scorching affair that stole her innocence
But their brief time together left Selena with a shameful secret. And when family duty calls h...
Nim'S Island
Nim lives on an island in the middle of the wide blue sea with her father, Jack, a marine iguana called Fred, a sea lion called Selkie, a turtle called Chica and a satellite dish for her email. No one else in the world lives quite like Nim, and she wouldnt swap places with anyone. But when Jack disappears in his sailing boat, and disaster threatens her home, Nim must be braver than shes ever ...
The Sealwoman's Gift - the extraordinary book club novel of 17th century Iceland
A remarkable feat of imagination
I enjoyed and admired it in equal measure Sarah Perry, author of The Essex SerpentIn 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including 250 from a tiny island off the mainland. Among the captives sold into slavery in Algiers were the island pastor, his wife and their three children. Although the raid itself is well...
The Sea Keeper's Daughters
2016 Christy Award Winner! (Contemporary novel category) From modern-day Roanoke Island to the sweeping backdrop of North Carolinas Blue Ridge Mountains and Roosevelts WPA folklore writers, past and present intertwine to create an unexpected destiny. Restaurant owner Whitney Monroe is desperate to save her business from a hostile takeover. The inheritance of a decaying Gilded Age hotel on Nor...
The Rules of Magic
Everyone needs a little magic in their lives
The Rules of Magic is the long-awaited prequel to Practical Magic. The Rules of Magic is a New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoons Book Club pick! In this sparkling prequel we meet the Aunts from Practical Magic, sisters Frances and Jet and Vincent, their brother. From the beginning their mother Susanna knew they were unique: Franny with ...
The Summer Book
The Summer Book is a fresh, vivid and magical novel about seemingly endless summers of discovery. An elderly artist and her six year old granddaughter while away the summer together, on a tiny island in the Gulf of Finland, their solitude disturbed only by migrating birds, sudden storms and an occasional passing boat. Gradually, the two learn to adjust to each others fears, foibles and yearnings...
The House at the Edge of Night
On a tiny island off the coast of Italy, Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, thinks he has found a place where, finally, he can belong. Intrigued by a building the locals believe to be cursed, Amedeo restores the crumbling walls, replaces sagging doors and sweeps floors before proudly opening the bar he names the House at the Edge of Night. Surrounded by the sound of the sea and the sc...
Eve of a Hundred Midnights - The Star-Crossed Love Story of Two WWII Correspondents and Their Epic Escape Across the Pac...
A captivating true-life romance between two young American reporters who fell in love and embarked on a harrowing journey after the fall of Manila, traveling from island to island with the Japanese in close pursuit. New Years Eve, 1941. Inside Manilas Bay View Hotel, journalists Mel and Annalee Jacoby heard the bombs and wondered if this would be their final night alive. Pearl Harbor had been ...