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Pi Patel, having spent an idyllic childhood in Pondicherry, India, as the son of a zookeeper, sets off with his family at the age of sixteen to start anew in Canada, but his life takes a marvelous turn when their ship sinks in the Pacific, leaving him adrift on a raft with a 450-pound Bengal tiger for company.
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Series
South Shores volume 3
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English
Description
Claire Britten's forensic psychology training never prepared her for a plane crash. Or how to help frightened fellow survivors cope, huddled in two small rafts awaiting rescue. Especially when three of them are your ex-husband, your daughter, and the man you love-- whose pursuit by a criminal mastermind forced you all to run in the first place.
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English
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When her fiancé's private plane crashes in the Colorado Rockies, Allison Carpenter survives -- but the fight for her life is just beginning. Allison knows secrets that powerful men will kill to keep buried. If they know she's alive, they will come for her. In Owl Creek, Maine, Allison's mother learns that her only child is presumed dead -- but with no body Maggie isn't giving up hope. She doesn't know anything about her daughter's life now -- not...
5) The three
Author
Series
The three novels volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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When the three child survivors of unrelated plane crashes on different continents begin to exhibit increasingly disturbing behavior, a religious cult leader claims that they are harbingers of the apocalypse.
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English
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A "debut novel that cross cuts between a competitive college swimmer's harrowing days in the Rocky Mountains after a major airline disaster and her recovery supported by the two men who love her--only one of whom knows what really happened in the wilderness"--Amazon.com.
Avery Delacorte, a sophomore on her university's nationally ranked swim team, struggles under the weight of new expectations but life is otherwise pretty good. That all changes when...
7) Lost horizon
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English
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Following a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains, a lost group of Englishmen and Americans stumble upon the dream-like, utopian world of Shangri-La, where life is eternal and civilization refined.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Indian-American teenager Samantha Mishra, her best friend Mel Sharpe, and the other members of the Drake Rosemont Academy fencing team are on their way to Tokyo when their plane crashes on a jungle-choked island, so while they hope for rescue, the teens will need to use all their ingenuity to survive the jungle, the old man who is stalking them--and each other.
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House of Winslow volume 32
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English
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A mission to needy South Sea Islanders goes awry, leaving the lives of many in the hands of one man. House of Winslow book 32.
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Series
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English
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The New York Times–bestselling author "is terrific at writing fast-paced adventure romances . . . a tantalizing addition to the compelling Code Name series" (Booklist).
Miki Fortune is living every woman's fantasy—stranded on a desert island with a rugged navy SEAL. But little does Miki know she's a suspect in an international high-tech robbery, and her steely-eyed companion is ready, willing and able to do anything...
Miki Fortune is living every woman's fantasy—stranded on a desert island with a rugged navy SEAL. But little does Miki know she's a suspect in an international high-tech robbery, and her steely-eyed companion is ready, willing and able to do anything...
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Pub. Date
2012.
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English
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Forced into an overcrowded lifeboat after a mysterious explosion on their trans-Atlantic ocean liner, newly widowed Grace Winter battles the elements and her fellow survivors and remembers her husband, Henry, who set his own safety aside to ensure Grace's.
14) Nowhere on Earth
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Emily and her little brother Aidan are onboard a plane bound for Anchorage. When the plane crashes, both kids and the pilot barely escape with their lives and are left to fight for survival in the Alaskan wilderness. But there is worse to come -- Emily and Aidan are being chased, and their shady, unknown pursuers are closing in. As the kids go on the run, Emily finds herself in greater danger than she could have imagined. Because...
16) Cuba strait
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Publisher
Pocket
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
610 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
17) Uncharted
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Publisher
WestBow Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
18) Kingdomtide
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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The sole survivor of a plane crash, seventy-two-year-old Cloris Waldrip finds herself lost and alone in the unforgiving wilderness of Montana's rugged Bitterroot Range, exposed to the elements with no tools beyond her wits and ingenuity. Intertwined with her story is Debra Lewis, a park ranger struggling with addiction, a recent divorce, and a new mission: to find and rescue Cloris. As Cloris wanders mountain forests and valleys, subsisting on whatever...
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Golden Ocean volume 2
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English
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Fierce storms off Cape Horn have scattered Commodore Anson's squadron and sunk the Wager on Chile's rocky coast. The despised captain's callousness soon incites the survivors to drunkenness and mutiny when food stores run low and rum is in surplus. With only their wits and a small band of Indians to guide them, two young men--midshipman Jack Bryon and his friend Tobias Barrow, an alarmingly naive surgeon's mate--survive this harrowing adventure. They...
20) The earthborn
Author
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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