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The Belly of Paris - Emile Zola; Mark Kurlansky
Part of Emile Zola's multigenerational Rougon-Macquart saga,The Belly of Parisis the story of Florent Quenu, a wrongly accused man who escapes imprisonment on Devil's Island. Retur... -
The Arctic Event - James Cobb; Robert Ludlum
SUMMARY: On a desolate island deep within the Canadian Arctic, a scientific expedition photograph the wreckage of a bomber on a mountain glacier. To the world at large, the half-ce... -
Sukkwan Island_ A Novella From - David Vann
SUMMARY:In semiautobiographical stories set largely in David Vann's native Alaska, Legend of a Suicide follows Roy Fenn from his birth on an island at the edge of the Bering... -
Snow Falling on Cedars - David Guterson
Winner of the PEN/Faulkner AwardAmerican Booksellers Association Book of the Year AwardSan Piedro Island, north of Puget Sound, is a place so isolated that no one who lives there c... -
Sicilian Slaughter - Don Pendleton
School for Assassins! The hot and arid island of Sicily is infamous as the birthplace of the Mafia. From this Mediterranean spawning ground the deadly forces of evil and corruption... -
Shutter Island - Dennis Lehane
SUMMARY: The year is 1954. U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels and his new partner, Chuck Aule, have come to Shutter Island, home of Ashecliffe Hospital for the Criminally Insane, to inves... -
Scotland (Lonely Planet, 5th Ed - Neil Wilson
Scare yourself silly ghost-hunting in Edinburgh's spooky underworldLaugh at the antics of the puffins on Unst, Britain's most northerly inhabited islandFind your inner Scot and e..... -
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
EDITORIAL REVIEW: ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The acclaimed tale of a shipwrecked Englishman who finds himself stranded on an island off the coast of S... -
Return to Sullivans Island - Dorothea Benton Frank
Dorothea Benton Frank returns to the enchanted landscape of South Carolina's Lowcountry made famous in her beloved "New York Times" bestseller "Sullivans Island" to tell the story ... -
Restoring Harmony - Joelle Anthony
From School Library JournalGr 6 Up–This dystopian tale features a resourceful, spirited, and immensely likable heroine. Molly McClure, 16, has lived her entire life on a small isla...