Adam Malfitan still has nightmares about the night his girlfriend, Mitzi, died. He sees the blood. He sees her in the water. He is a lifeguard, and he can’t save her. He wakes up screaming, but the terror is just beginning.
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"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right.
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When ninety-nine-year-old heiress Josephine Bettendorf Warrick summons Brooke Trappnell to Talisa Island, her 20,000 acre remote barrier island home, Brooke is puzzled.
Horseshoe crabs, shorebirds, and humans converge in a frenzy of activity.
A New York Times Notable Book of the Year, winner of the Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Lillian Smith Award.
Jack and Annie travel in their Magic Tree House back to a Hawaiian island of long ago where they make friends, learn how to surf, and encounter a tsunami.
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While waiting with family members for high tide to come in, a youngster who is very knowledgeable about the seashore and what lives there helps to build a raft.
After a friend's niece is found dead on the beach in Bermuda, Jessica Fletcher and Scotland Yard Inspector George Sutherland delve into a series of murders that have an eerie resemblance to the late 19th century Jack the Ripper killings.