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On the Island

Tracey Garvis-Graves · 360 pages

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Unseen Messages

Pepper Winters · 590 pages

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Stranded

Blayne Cooper · 260 pages

Rachel Michaels is at the top of her profession, but she's grown tired of trading barbs with her co-host/ex-husband on their popular morning radio talk show. Eager to stretch her wings, she takes a second job as the color commentator for Denver's new professional women's soccer team. Along with her new job comes an exciting assignment — travel to Venezuela to profile the team's sizzling star re

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These Broken Stars

Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner · 381 pages

It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more t

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Nerd in Shining Armor

Vicki Lewis Thompson · 324 pages

Beauty and the Geek For Genevieve Terrence it seemed like a dream come true: a weekend alone on Maui with her sexy boss, Nick Brogan. But little did she know that Nick had dreams of his own--a nefarious scheme that nearly got her killed on the flight over the Pacific. Lucky for her, brilliant computer programmer Jack Farley was on board and quick-witted enough to crash-land the plane. Now Jack

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Sixty Five Hours

N.R. Walker · 208 pages

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The Price of Pleasure

Kresley Cole · 353 pages

Sutherland Series (Book 2) A man noted for his courage and integrity, Captain Grant Sutherland journeys to Oceania to find Victoria Dearbourne, an English girl lost at sea a decade before. He's given her ailing grandfather his word -- as a gentleman -- to find and protect her. But one look at a grown Victoria and Grant has never felt less like one. Tori relishes freedom, untamed passion, and spo

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The Black Stallion and Flame

Walter Farley · 170 pages

While flying to a race, Alec Ramsay and the Black’s plane crash-lands in the stormy Caribbean. Chance brings the Black to the hidden island home of the giant red stallion, Flame. Such a small island can only support one alpha male. But before the two can fight–a fight that can only result in the death of one–a new danger appears. Together, can the stallions defeat the deadly foe which threatens th

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Beauty Queens

Libba Bray · 400 pages

The contestants of the Miss Teen Dream pageant are only concerned with practicing their circle turns, dance numbers, and benign answers to interview questions until their plane crashes on a tropical island. Now, with sequins and hair dryers scattered everywhere, the survivors face a huge dilemma: should they search for food and water or continue diligently preparing to appear on national televisio

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Off Base

Annabeth Albert · 304 pages

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Ocean's Echo

Everina Maxwell · 464 pages

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Lord of the Flies

William Golding · 243 pages

Lord of the Flies is a 1954 novel by Nobel Prize–winning British author William Golding. The book focuses on a group of British boys stranded on an uninhabited island and their disastrous attempt to govern themselves. Themes include the tension between groupthink and individuality, between rational and emotional reactions, and between morality and immorality. The novel has been generally well r

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Before the Fall

Noah Hawley · 416 pages

The elite have everything: money, cars, private jets and beautiful families. David Whitehead and Ben Kipling are the top of the elite, both influential men with jobs in the media and finance, both travelling back to New York on a private jet after a vacation with their families, and both with secrets that could ruin their lives. Invited on a whim by David's wife, Scott Burroughs, a middle-aged pai

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And Playing the Role of Herself

K.E. Lane · 327 pages

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In the Cards

Jamie Beck · 278 pages

Fleeing her betraying fiancé, Lindsey rents a home next door to the distant Levi, a man who humiliated her years ago, but when Levi has a motorcycle accident, he needs her help recovering his body--and his heart.

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The House in the Cerulean Sea

Tj Klune · 416 pages

Linus is an uptight caseworker with a heart of gold working for the department in charge of magical youth. When he goes to investigate an orphanage on an island with supposedly dangerous children and an enigmatic leader Arthur, he’s expecting the worst. But it turns out he might be falling in love with Arthur and his charges.

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Thirteen Hours

Meghan O'Brien · 288 pages

"Stuck on a broken down elevator for thirteen hours two women discover how wrong first impressions can be-- and how right two strangers can feel together."--back cover.

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The Bridge Kingdom

Danielle L. Jensen · 448 pages

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Stranded with a Billionaire

Jessica Clare · 294 pages

With a visit to a recent business acquisition--a private island resort in the Bahamas--billionaire Logan Hawkings has a chance to mend his recently broken heart. But a hurricane, a misplaced passport, and a stalled elevator lead to an encounter with an unusual woman. Brontë Dawson is down-to-earth, incredibly sensual, and even quotes Plato. She also thinks Logan is simply the hotel's domineering y

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Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand · 514 pages

On a May afternoon in 1943, an Army Air Forces bomber crashed into the Pacific Ocean and disappeared, leaving only a spray of debris and a slick of oil, gasoline, and blood. Then, on the ocean surface, a face appeared. It was that of a young lieutenant, the plane’s bombardier, who was struggling to a life raft and pulling himself aboard. So began one of the most extraordinary odysseys of the Se

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Black Ice

Becca Fitzpatrick · 400 pages

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A Marvellous Light

Freya Marske · 377 pages

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Curious Wine

Katherine V. Forrest · 160 pages

The intimacy of a cabin at Lake Tahoe provides the combustible circumstances that bring Diana Holland and Lane Christianson together in this passionate novel of first discovery. Candid in its eroticism, intensely romantic, remarkably beautiful, *Curious Wine* is a love story that will remain in your memory.

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Life of Pi

Yann Martel · 336 pages

After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan… and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. The scene is set for one of the most extraordinary works of fiction in recent years.

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