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  Gerald's Game

  by Stephen King

  Stephen King cranks up the suspense in a different kind of bedtime story. A game of seduction between a husband and wife goes horribly awry when the husband suddenly dies. But the wife's nightmare has just begun.
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  Alive

  The Story of the Andes Survivors

  by Piers Paul Read

  On October 12, 1972, an Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying a team of rugby players crashed in the remote snowy peaks of the Andes. Ten weeks later, only sixteen of the forty-five passengers were found alive. This is the story of those ten weeks spent in the shelter of the plane's fuselage without food and with scarcely any hope of a rescue. The survivors protected and helped one another, and came to the difficult... (more)
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  Book of Tamarind: Book 1

  The Lost Island of Tamarind

  by Nadia Aguiar

  It is not down in any map; true places never are. Welcome to Tamarind, where fish can fly, pirates control the waters, jaguars lurk, the islanders are at war, and an evil, child-stealing enchantress rules the jungle. Thirteen-year-old Maya, her younger brother, Simon, and her baby sister, Penny, have just landed their boat here after a terrible storm washed their parents overboard. After spending their entire... (more)
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  Lord of the Flies

  by William Golding

  The classic tale of a group of English school boys who are left stranded on an unpopulated island, and who must confront not only the defects of their society but the defects of their own natures.
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  Life of Pi

  by Yann Martel

  Life of Pi is a fantasy novel about a boy stranded in a lifeboat with a 450-pound Bengal Tiger after a shipwreck. Pi Patel's father runs a zoo in Pondicherry - a former French colony in India - but decides to migrate to Canada along with his family and assorted zoo animals due to political tensions. However, their voyage is abruptly cut short when Tsimtsum - their Japanese cargo ship - sinks in the Pacific during... (more)
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  Chill Factor

  by Sandra Brown

  Five women are missing from the sleepy mountain town of Cleary, North Carolina, and a blue ribbon has been left near where each woman was last seen. Lilly Martin has returned to Cleary to close the sale of her cabin. But when her car skids and strikes a stranger, Ben Tierney, as he emerges from the woods, they've no choice but to wait out a brutal blizzard in the cabin. And as the hours of their confinement mount,... (more)
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  Up Close and Dangerous

  by Linda Howard

  A mysterious plane crash . . . a dangerous trek through the Idaho wilderness . . . a smoldering attraction . . . and a deadly game of cat and mouse. In her latest tour de force of romantic suspense, New York Times bestselling author Linda Howard blends these elements into a gripping story that will keep readers breathless–and leave them begging for more. For in Linda Howard’s world, trust can be a weapon, a kiss... (more)
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  The Cay

  by Theodore Taylor

  After the Germans torpedoed the freighter on which Phillip and his mother are traveling from wartime Curacao to the U.S., Phillip finds himself dependent on Timothy, an old, black West Indian sailor. Shipwrecked, there is just the two of them. This is the story of their struggle for survival and of Phillip's efforts to adjust to his new disability, blindness, and to understand the dignified, wise, and loving old... (more)
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  Tarzan: Book 1

  Tarzan of the Apes

  by Edgar Rice Burroughs

  In 1888 Lord and Lady Clayton sail from England to fill a military post in British West Africa and perish at the edge of a primeval forest. When their infant son is adopted by fanged “great anthropoid apes,” he becomes one of the most legendary figures in all of literature—Tarzan of the Apes. Within the society of speechless primates, Tarzan wields his natural influence and becomes king. Self-educated by virtue of... (more)
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  Destroyermen: Book 1

  Into the Storm

  by Taylor Anderson

  Pressed into service when World War II breaks out in the Pacific, the US Walker a Great War-era destroyer finds itself retreating from pursuing Japanese battleships. Its captain, Lieutenant Commander Matthew Patrick Reddy, desperately leads the Walker into a squall, hoping it will give them cover—only to emerge into an alternate world. A world where two species have evolved: the cat-like Lemurians and the... (more)
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  Desperate Passage

  The Donner Party's Perilous Journey West

  by Ethan Rarick

  In late October 1846, the last wagon train of that year's westward migration stopped overnight before resuming its arduous climb over the Sierra Nevada Mountains, unaware that a fearsome storm was gathering force. After months of grueling travel, the 81 men, women and children would be trapped for a brutal winter with little food and only primitive shelter. The conclusion is known: by spring of the next year, the... (more)
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  Robinson Crusoe

  by Daniel Defoe

  First published in 1719, it is sometimes considered to be the first novel in English. It is believed his story is based on the real-life Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived four years on the Pacific island called "Más a Tierra."
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  Stan's Leap

  by Tom Duerig

  What would you do if you found yourself stranded in Paradise? Newlyweds Jenny and Stan are eager to travel before they begin building their family. After seeing an intriguing ad in a travel magazine, Jenny arranges a vacation to a remote Pacific island. The advertisement promises a completely authentic Polynesian experience. Despite an arduous journey to reach their paradise, they are excited to immerse themselves... (more)
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  Cork O'Connor: Book 11

  Northwest Angle

  by William Kent Krueger

  William Kent Krueger's next nail-biting suspense in his critically-acclaimed, award-winning series, featuring private detective Cork O'Connor.
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  Island of the Blue Dolphins

  by Scott O'Dell

  Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
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  The Killvein White

  by Ralph Reynolds

  The dreaded fronts have emerged at last, and they are reeling like drunken monsters toward the Wasatch Mountains. A super storm is on the way, just in time for the busiest ski weekend of the year. Samantha, a statistician for the weather bureau, believes the resorts and skiers should be warned. If the predictions hold true, twenty feet of snow could fall and many would die. Now, she just has to find someone who... (more)
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  Some Girls Are

  by Courtney Summers

  Climbing to the top of the social ladder is hard--falling from it is even harder.  Regina Afton used to be a member of the Fearsome Fivesome , an all-girl clique both feared and revered by the students at Hallowell High... until vicious rumors about her and her best friend's boyfriend start going around.  Now Regina's been "frozen out" and her ex-best friends are out for revenge.  If Regina was guilty, it would... (more)
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  The Zombie-Wilson Diaries

  by Timothy W. Long

  It should have been the perfect vacation. A beautiful island without a soul in sight. Blue sea so clear I can see the reef. Palm trees swaying in the wind, and a girl with barely a scrap of clothing on. There is only one problem. She is a zombie and she wants to eat me. That's right. My only companion is a creature with a hunger for human flesh. I should bash in her brains and toss her in the ocean but I don't... (more)
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  In the Dead of Night

  You can't go home again...Lost in the mist in the Lake District, the lives of six strangers become entwined when they seek shelter within a deserted old house. All are running from different things - Amanda from a murder charge; City Boy Mark from financial ruin; Jilly from something she dares not confront; Angus and Dawn from his wife.The house has been recently occupied. The lights are on,... (more)
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  Beauty Queens

  by Libba Bray

  From bestselling, Printz Award-winning author Libba Bray, Beauty Queens is the story of a plane of beauty pageant contestants that crashes on a desert island. With a "Lost"-like island, mysteries, dangers, no access to email, And the spirit of fierce, feral competition that lives underground in girls this story will keep you hooked. Oh, the horror, the horror! Only funnier, with evening gowns and of course a body... (more)