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1) Freefall
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English
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When a young woman stumbles out of the Hanalei Mountains on the island of Kauai with no memory of who she is or how she got there, Cameron Pierce reluctantly agrees to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding her arrival. As pieces begin to fall into place, he suspects her injuries were no accident, but he's far from convinced she's an innocent victim. And there's that nagging feeling he's seen her somewhere before.... Now known as Jade,...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
Description
In 1947, photographer and war correspondent Janey Everett arrives at a remote surfing village on the Hawaiian island of Kauai to research a planned biography of forgotten aviation pioneer Sam Mallory, who joined the loyalist forces in the Spanish Civil War and never returned. Obsessed with Sam's fate, Janey has tracked down Irene Lindquist, the owner of a local island-hopping airline, whom she believes might actually be the legendary Irene Foster,...
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"Join Mandy Frey as she and three friends leave their Amish community in Indiana for the trip of a lifetime to Hawaii. But when Mandy and one of her friends miss the cruise ship after a port of call on Kauai, how will they adjust and get back home?"--Goodreads.com.
4) Moloka'i
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Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Pub. Date
2004, 2003.
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English
Description
Seven-year-old Rachel is forcibly removed from her family's 1890s Honolulu home when she contracts leprosy and is placed in a settlement, where she loses a series of new friends before new medical discoveries enable her to reenter the world.
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Series
Maximum Ride volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 28
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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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Junie B. Jones series volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Excitable Junie B. Jones manages to find trouble both before and during a trip to Hawaii and records each incident in a photo journal given to her by her teacher.
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Pub. Date
2009.
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English
Description
Syd, a breathtakingly beautiful supermodel on a photo shoot in Hawaii, disappears and LA Times reporter Ben Hawkins, hoping to help the victim and get an idea for his next bestseller, gets a shocking visit that pushes him into an impossible-to-resist deal with the devil in this heart-pounding story of beauty and murder.
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
Description
The year is 29 C.E., and Jerusalem chafes under the Roman Empire's oppressive rule. A badly scorched body is found behind the Veil of the Holy of Holies-the Temple's inner sanctum, the most sacred space on earth for the Jews. No one except the high priest may enter this place and he only on the Day of Atonement. This is no casual violation, and the authorities are in an uproar.
Gamaliel, the rabban of the Sanhedrin, is the ranking rabbi in all of...
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"[A] suspenseful trip through the rarely seen darker strata of complex, contemporary Greece." -Publishers Weekly
Saint John wrote the apocalyptic Book of Revelation over 1900 years ago in a cave on Greece's eastern Aegean island of Patmos. Today, on the pristine Aegean peninsula of Mount Athos, isolated from the rest of humanity, twenty monasteries sit protecting the secrets of Byzantium amid a way of life virtually unchanged for more than 1500 years.
When...
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Series
Storm Kayama mysteries volume 4
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Fans of quick reads like James Patterson's popular 'BookShots' series will be well served by this thriller's fast pace." -Library Journal
Every law firm has its backroom bench of brilliant workaholic nerds ferocious in their commitment to the law and to their clients. Such a player is Milton Bernstein of Abbott & Windsor. He's highly valued by the partners for his skills, but untested in the courtroom.
Milton's younger brother, Hal, is his polar...
14) Juniors
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Lea Lane must navigate a complex web of friendships and relationships after she and her mother move into the guest cottage of the fabulously wealthy West family in Honolulu.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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In 1995 Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, on a rare family vacation, seven-year-old Nainoa Flores falls overboard a cruise ship into the Pacific Ocean. When a shiver of sharks appears in the water, everyone fears for the worst. But instead, Noa is gingerly delivered to his mother in the jaws of a shark, marking his story as the stuff of legends. Nainoa's family, struggling amidst the collapse of the sugarcane industry, hails his rescue as a sign of favor from...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Cam glances out the window of his Hawaii hotel room just in time to see the nearby 'inactive' volcano explode! Chunks of rock and lava cascade down into the city. Cam knows he needs to find his family and get out fast, but a river of lava runs between him and his loved ones"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Storm Kayama mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Evans always incorporates detailed research that adds depth and authenticity to her mysteries, and she beautifully conjures up the Micco County, FL, setting. This is a series that deserves more attention than it garners." -Library Journal STARRED review
Faye Longchamp is once again at Joyeuse, the family plantation in Florida she labors so lovingly to restore. She's happily doing archaeological work on a site once owned by her family. But her joy...
18) Bet your bones
Author
Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Dinah Pelerin isn't so sure when her best friend Claude Ann Kemper tells her she's getting married on the lip of a volcano in Hawaii, but hot lava isn't the only danger they face leading up to the wedding. A group of Native Hawaiians claim that the sacred bones of an ancestral king are buried on the land Claude Ann's fiancé, Xander, plans to sell, and they will stop at nothing to halt the real estate deal. To make matters worse, Claude Ann's ex-husband...
19) Spider bones
Author
Series
Temperance Brennan mysteries volume 13
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
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John Lowery was declared dead in 1968 - the victim of a Huey crash in Vietnam, his body buried long ago in North Carolina. Four decades later, Temperance Brennan is called to the scene of a drowning in Hemmingford, Quebec. The victim appears to have died while in the midst of a bizarre sexual practice. The corpse is later identified as John Lowery. But how could Lowery have died twice, and how did an American soldier end up in Canada? Tempe sets off...
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Series
Storm Kayama mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Lawyer Storm Kayama attends an O'ahu North Shore surfing competition where her distant cousin Nahoa Pi'ilani is competing and finds herself researching a local legend to stop a killer who's threatened Nahoa with an ancient Hawaiian artifact.
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