The Vanishing Island

Author : Barry Wolverton
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062221922
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanishing Island written by Barry Wolverton and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An engrossing fantasy, a high-seas adventure, an alternate history epic—this is the richly imagined and gorgeously realized new book from acclaimed author Barry Wolverton, perfect for fans of The Glass Sentence and the Books of Beginning series. It's 1599, the Age of Discovery in Europe. But for Bren Owen, growing up in the small town of Map on the coast of Britannia has meant anything but adventure. Enticed by the tales sailors have brought through Map's port, and inspired by the arcane maps his father creates as a cartographer for the cruel and charismatic map mogul named Rand McNally, Bren is convinced that fame and fortune await him elsewhere. That's when Bren meets a dying sailor, who gives him a strange gift that hides a hidden message. Cracking the code could lead Bren to a fabled lost treasure that could change his life forever, and that of his widowed father. Before long, Bren is in greater danger than he ever imagined and will need the help of an unusual friend named Mouse to survive.

Author : Tom Taylor
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781922023056
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Deep written by Tom Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-10 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning adventures of a multicultural family of underwater explorers continues. When an island is 'completely not hit by a tsunami', a new investigation begins for the daring aquanauts, the Nekton family. Danger, secrets, peril, ancient messages, shocking revelations and the first word to rhyme with 'orange'. The Nektons are back, along with Jeffrey the Fish, in an adventure every bit as mysterious as the deep blue sea.

Author : William B. Cronin
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801874352
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Disappearing Islands of the Chesapeake written by William B. Cronin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-06-17 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An appendix documents the many small islands that have dropped entirely from view since the seventeenth century.

Author : Barry Wolverton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781484493120
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanishing Island written by Barry Wolverton and published by . This book was released on 2016-09-06 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy named Bren sets out on the high seas with a mysterious admiral to search for a legendary map that leads to an object of unspeakable power.

Author : Astrid Scholte
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525513973
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanishing Deep written by Astrid Scholte and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author Astrid Scholte returns with a thrilling adventure in which the dead can be revived . . . for a price. Now in paperback. Ever since her sister, Elysea, drowned, seventeen-year-old Tempe's been looking for answers. And for a price, Tempe will finally get them . . . from her dead sister. On the nearby island of Palindromena, the research facility, once paid, will revive the dearly departed for a period of twenty-four hours before returning them to death. It isn't a heartfelt reunion that Tempe is after, though. Elysea died keeping a terrible secret, one that has ignited an unquenchable fury in Tempe: finally, she'll know the truth about their parents' deaths. Instead of answers, Elysea persuades Tempe to break her out of the facility to embark on a dangerous journey to discover the truth and mend their broken bond before Elysea's time runs out. Complicating matters, they're pursued every step of the way by two Palindromena employees desperate to find them before the secret behind the revival process and the true cost of restored life is revealed.

Author : Theresa Emminizer
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1538385104
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanishing Place written by Theresa Emminizer and published by Enslow Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Brooke, Eva, Nate, and Jay take a nighttime sail off the Florida coast, they never imagine that their lives are about to change forever. Shipwrecked by a storm at sea, the teenagers become castaways on an island that seems designed to test their very natures. Faced with loss, trauma, and the harsh reality of day-to-day survival, will they find the strength to confront their inner demons and escape the Vanishing Place? Or are mysterious forces at work to keep them stranded for all time?

Author : Jayne Ann Krentz
Publisher : Berkley Books
ISBN 13 : 1984806432
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanishing written by Jayne Ann Krentz and published by Berkley Books. This book was released on 2020 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series information from author's website.

Author : Abby Sallenger
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458759318
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Island in a Storm written by Abby Sallenger and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-09-07 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the story of the 1856 hurricane which decimated Isle Derniere, an island one hundred miles off the coast of New Orleans which served as a summer resort for the wealthy, and the tragic loss of life and environmental devastation which resulted from the disaster.

Author : Emma Stonex
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1984882163
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lamplighters written by Emma Stonex and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Transported me effortlessly…Haunting, harrowing and heartbreaking, this is a novel that will stay with you.” --Ashley Audrain, New York Times bestselling author of The Push “A ghost story and fantastically gripping psychological investigation rolled into one. It is also a pitch-perfect piece of writing. . . . As with Shirley Jackson’s work or Sarah Waters’s masterpiece Affinity, in Stonex’s hands the unspoken, unexamined, unseen world we can call the supernatural, a world fed by repression and lies, becomes terrifyingly tangible.” --The Guardian (London) Inspired by a haunting true story, a gorgeous and atmospheric novel about the mysterious disappearance of three lighthouse keepers from a remote tower miles from the Cornish coast--and about the wives who were left behind. What strange fate befell these doomed men? The heavy sea whispers their names. Black rocks roll beneath the surface, drowning ghosts. And out of the swell like a finger of light, the salt-scratched tower stands lonely and magnificent. It's New Year's Eve, 1972, when a boat pulls up to the Maiden Rock lighthouse with relief for the keepers. But no one greets them. When the entrance door, locked from the inside, is battered down, rescuers find an empty tower. A table is laid for a meal not eaten. The Principal Keeper's weather log describes a storm raging round the tower, but the skies have been clear. And the clocks have all stopped at 8:45. Two decades later, the keepers' wives are visited by a writer determined to find the truth about the men's disappearance. Moving between the women's stories and the men's last weeks together in the lighthouse, long-held secrets surface and truths twist into lies as we piece together what happened, why, and who to believe. In her riveting and suspenseful novel, Emma Stonex writes a story of isolation and obsession, of reality and illusion, and of what it takes to keep the light burning when all else is swallowed by dark.

Author : James Lovelock
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141910429
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Vanishing Face of Gaia written by James Lovelock and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2009-02-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Lovelock described his previous book, The Revenge of Gaia, as 'a wake-up call for humanity'. Stark though it was in many respects, in The Vanishing Face of Gaia Lovelock says that even though the weather seems cooler and pollution lessens as the recession bites, the environmental problems we will face in the twenty-first century are even more terrifying than he previously realised. The Arctic and Antarctic ice-caps are melting very quickly, and water shortages and natural disasters are more common occurrences than at any time in recent history. The civilisations of many countries will be jeopardised and life as we know it severely disrupted. Almost all predictions of the likely rate of climate change have been based on estimates which professional observers in the real worldnow show are consistently underestimating the true rate of change. As a global community we continue to be fixated by conventional 'green' ideas which we believe will help save our world. Lovelock argues that only Gaia theory, which he originated over forty years ago, can really help us understand the crisis fully. The root problem is that there are too many people and animals for the Earth to carry. And there is in fact only one possible procedure which might bring a permanent cure for climate change, but we are unlikely to adopt it. 'Our wish to continue business as usual will probably prevent us from saving ourselves' says Lovelock, so we must adapt as best we can and try to ensure that enough of us survive to allow a more capable species to evolve from us. There could hardly be a more important message for humankind. James Lovelock has been an active and accurate observer of the Earth environment since the 1960s and was the first to find CFCs and other gases accumulating in the air. His Gaia theory provides insight into climate change in the coming century.This is his final warning.