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"The date is April 27, 1865. You are crammed onboard the steamboat Sultana with more than 2,000 passengers. Many of them are soldiers heading home after the Civil War. You're cruising on the Mississippi River when a massive explosion rips through the ship. Do you dive into the water to save yourself or stay onboard to help the survivors? Will you try to swim for shore or wait for help to arrive? Will you stay with your sick friend or try to find someone...
22) The finest hours
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In February of 1952, one of the worst storms to ever hit the East Coast struck New England, damaging an oil tanker off the coast of Cape Cod and literally ripping it in half. On a small lifeboat faced with frigid temperatures and 70-foot high waves, four members of the Coast Guard set out to rescue the more than 30 stranded sailors trapped aboard the rapidly-sinking vessel.
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Everything we keep volume 1
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Sous chef Aimee Tierney has the recipe for the perfect life: marry her childhood sweetheart, raise a family, and buy out her parents' restaurant. But when her fiancé, James Donato, vanishes in a boating accident, her well-baked future is swept out to sea. Struggling to reconstruct her life, she delves deeper into James's disappearance. What Aimee uncovers is an ocean of secrets that make her question everything about the life they built together....
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"Dennis Lehane meets Smilla's Sense of Snow: a big discovery in the world of female suspense, about an edgy young woman with the rare ability to withstand extreme conditions Elisabeth Elo's debut novel introduces Pirio Kasparov, a Boston-bred tough-talking girl with an acerbic wit and a moral compass that points due north. When the fishing boat Pirio is on is rammed by a freighter, she finds herself abandoned in the North Atlantic. Somehow, she survives...
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"An illustrated chapter book adaptation of A storm too soon: a remarkable true survival story in 80-foot seas" -- Jacket cover.
"On May 2, 2007, three expert sailors embark on an epic voyage from Florida to France. But the trip of a lifetime soon turns into a nightmare when their sailboat sinks along the Gulf Stream in the throes of a relentless storm. Their fate lies in the hands of four courageous coastguardsmen who must navigate brutal conditions...
27) Tender mercies
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Laura and Dan Courser are less than perfect, but deeply passionate couple with young children and lots of plans. Until Dan, displaying the boyish bravado that made Laura fall in love with him, takes the tiller of a boat he can't handle and causes the accident that shatters their lives. Suddenly there are no more ordinary days or nights and we witness two people wrestling with a marriage in which all the rules are changed, confronting the guilt and...
30) On fire
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"First he's suspected of murder, then he disappears. But no matter what the evidence says--Riley St. John knows her grandfather is not capable of such a vile act. The famed explorer and oceanographer taught her all she knows. Now she'll pay him back by finding the real killer. Recovering from gunshot wounds received in the line of duty, FBI agent John Straker is the last man Riley would go to for help. A lifelong nemesis, bitter arguments are the...
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Her whole world hinged on the moment one man jumped. On a perfect summer's day in Paris, tourists on a river trip watch in horror as drama unfolds. A small boy has fallen overboard and disappeared below the surface of the water. As his mother stands frozen to the spot, another passenger jumps. This is the story of how a single act of courage transforms the lives of all those involved: the hero James and his wife Alexa; Holly, the young mother of the...
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A true story of catastrophe and survival at sea. One November morning in 1980, two small lobster boats set out for Georges Bank, a bountiful but perilous fishing ground 130 miles off the Massachusetts coast. The forecast was for typical fall weather--but a colossal storm was brewing to the southeast, a maelstrom the National Weather Service did not accurately locate until the boats were already in its grip. Battered by sixty-foot waves and hurricane-force...
34) Defending honor
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"Laila Rabbinowitz is all business. Tough and stoic, she was the perfect Mossad agent...until a terrible betrayal led to her worst nightmare. Being a bodyguard with the Elite Guardians allows her to keep her heart safe--she'll never let anyone close enough to betray her again. And she's certainly not going to trust anyone who doesn't earn it. Billionaire and former playboy Preston Whittaker walked away from his famous family after a terrible event,...
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A compilation of seven made-for-tv movies based on the suspense novels of Mary Higgins Clark originally produced between 2002 and 2004.
The cradle will fall: The day after county prosecutor Katie undergoes medical tests with a renowned gynecologist, she is called to investigate the suicide of a pregnant woman. Katie fears a serial killer is on the loose. Her partner thinks that her doctor may be the killer.
In Before I say goodbye, prominent politician...
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Everything volume 1
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"El día de nuestra boda, mi prometido, James, llegó a la iglesia en un féretro... Aimee es una ayudante de cocina con la receta perfecta para una vida ideal: casarse con James, su amor desde la infancia, tener hijos y comprar el restaurante de sus padres para seguir el negocio familiar. Sin embargo, cuando él desaparece repentinamente en un accidente en alta mar, el suflé de aquel futuro bien horneado se desinfla en un instante. Sumida en el...
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Castaways volume 1
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Dani McFeeney's class planned to take a trip to a tropical island, but wind up crashing onto a deserted island.
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When the president of Thornhill Software, Robert Cannon, learns his brother, Kevin, the creative genius behind the company's top-secret programs, was killed in a boating accident, he returns to their childhood home on Nova Scotia's South Shore to retrieve the body. Evie Shaw is a beautiful marina owner who is convinced Kevin's death was no accident. Robert becomes obsessed with the stunning Evie and with finding motive behind his brother's death,...
40) Lost island
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When a freak storm overturns their boat and strands Garrett and his best friend, Henry, on a creepy island, Garrett learns something about Henry that he never suspected--he has been dead for months.
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