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Author: Paul Draker Publisher: Mayhem Press LLC ISBN: 9781940511030 Category : Detective and mystery stories Languages : en Pages : 736
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Ten strangers are recruited to join a new edgy reality show and are marooned on an abandoned island overrun by wildlife. After one of them dies in an accident, the other nine learn they were past survivors, and each one holds a hidden secret. As each of the strangers are picked off one by one, the remaining survivors must learn why they were chosen to be on the island before there is no one left.
Author: Paul Draker Publisher: Mayhem Press LLC ISBN: 9781940511030 Category : Detective and mystery stories Languages : en Pages : 736
Book Description
Ten strangers are recruited to join a new edgy reality show and are marooned on an abandoned island overrun by wildlife. After one of them dies in an accident, the other nine learn they were past survivors, and each one holds a hidden secret. As each of the strangers are picked off one by one, the remaining survivors must learn why they were chosen to be on the island before there is no one left.
Author: Scott O'Dell Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ISBN: 0395069629 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 195
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Far off the coast of California looms a harsh rock known as the island of San Nicholas. Dolphins flash in the blue waters around it, sea otter play in the vast kep beds, and sea elephants loll on the stony beaches. Here, in the early 1800s, according to history, an Indian girl spent eighteen years alone, and this beautifully written novel is her story. It is a romantic adventure filled with drama and heartache, for not only was mere subsistence on so desolate a spot a near miracle, but Karana had to contend with the ferocious pack of wild dogs that had killed her younger brother, constantly guard against the Aleutian sea otter hunters, and maintain a precarious food supply. More than this, it is an adventure of the spirit that will haunt the reader long after the book has been put down. Karana's quiet courage, her Indian self-reliance and acceptance of fate, transform what to many would have been a devastating ordeal into an uplifting experience. From loneliness and terror come strength and serenity in this Newbery Medal-winning classic.
Author: Russell Shorto Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 1400096332 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 418
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In a riveting, groundbreaking narrative, Russell Shorto tells the story of New Netherland, the Dutch colony which pre-dated the Pilgrims and established ideals of tolerance and individual rights that shaped American history. "Astonishing . . . A book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past." --The New York Times When the British wrested New Amsterdam from the Dutch in 1664, the truth about its thriving, polyglot society began to disappear into myths about an island purchased for 24 dollars and a cartoonish peg-legged governor. But the story of the Dutch colony of New Netherland was merely lost, not destroyed: 12,000 pages of its records–recently declared a national treasure–are now being translated. Russell Shorto draws on this remarkable archive in The Island at the Center of the World, which has been hailed by The New York Times as “a book that will permanently alter the way we regard our collective past.” The Dutch colony pre-dated the “original” thirteen colonies, yet it seems strikingly familiar. Its capital was cosmopolitan and multi-ethnic, and its citizens valued free trade, individual rights, and religious freedom. Their champion was a progressive, young lawyer named Adriaen van der Donck, who emerges in these pages as a forgotten American patriot and whose political vision brought him into conflict with Peter Stuyvesant, the autocratic director of the Dutch colony. The struggle between these two strong-willed men laid the foundation for New York City and helped shape American culture. The Island at the Center of the World uncovers a lost world and offers a surprising new perspective on our own.
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