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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and The Lost City of Z, a mesmerizing story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's...
2) The tempest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been, written in 1610—11, and thought by many critics to be the last play that Shakespeare wrote alone. It is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit...
Author
Series
Island volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Audiobooks
Pub. Date
[2006, c2001]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
2 cds (2 hr., 29 min.) : digital ; 8 x 5 cm + 1 AAA battery.
Language
English
Description
Six kids, Nick, J.J., Will, Lyssa, Charla, and Ian, are thrown together against their will on a small boat that will make a one-month journey on the Pacific Ocean. They have all been sent for different reasons. Luke is taking his only choice besides being sent to a juvenile detention facility for a crime he didn't commit. Will and Lyssa are quarreling siblings sent by their parents, who hope the trip will teach them to get along better. J.J. was sent...
4) Finding us
Author
Language
English
Description
"While taking photographs at an exposition in Seattle in 1909, Camera Girl Eleanor Bennett snaps an image of a woman in widow's clothes with deep sorrow etched in her expression and a young infant in her arms. Eleanor longs to study botany at the University of Washington and soon becomes fast friends with botanist Bill Reed, but she can't stop thinking about the widow in the photograph. She is stunned to learn Bill recognizes the woman as the sister-in-law...
Author
Series
Pictures of the heart volume Book 2
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
301 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
While taking photographs at an exposition in Seattle in 1909, Camera Girl Eleanor Bennet snaps an image of a woman in widow's clothes with deep sorrow etched in her expression and a young infant in her arms. Planning to study botany at the University of Washington, Eleanor becomes friends with botanist Bill Reed. When she shows him the photograph of the widow, Bill recognizes the woman as the sister-in-law he believed lost in a shipwreck. As they...
7) The tempest
Author
Series
Publisher
QEB Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
47 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After being shipwrecked on an island as a little girl, Rosella grows up learning to talk and sing with a family of loving animals: the red panda Sagi, the peacock Azul and the baby elephant Tika. But when Prince Antonio discovers their tropical paradise, curiosity about her past leads Rosella to journey with the prince to his castle. As she and her animal friends explore civilization, they uncover an evil plot to take over the kingdom.
Author
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 324 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed author Steve Robinson comes a bold new Jefferson Tayte mystery. On a foggy night in 1914, the ocean liner Empress of Ireland sank en route between Canada and England. The disaster saw a loss of life comparable to the Titanic and the Lusitania, and yet her tragedy has been forgotten. When genealogist Jefferson Tayte is shown a locket belonging to one of the Empress?s victims, a British admiral?s daughter named Alice Stilwell, he must...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Aboard the doomed ship Titanic, Edwina toasts her engagement while surrounded by her family, until she loses them. For a decade she holds together the family newspaper empire while raising her siblings.
11) The tempest
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This modern retelling of William Shakespeare's final masterpiece is an exciting, mystical, and magical fantasy. Exiled to a magical island, the sorceress Prospera conjures up a storm that shipwrecks her enemies, and then unleashes her powers for revenge.
12) Dead calm
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Standard and widescreen versions
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John and Rae Ingram rescue the only surviving crew member of a crippled schooner, only to find themselves the targets of a deranged killer.
Publisher
Lionsgate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 90 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Chinook the Alaskan Malamute must lead a shipwrecked blind man out of the wilderness, while the man's children launch a rescue mission of their own.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (75 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Barbie is a shipwrecked princess who, raised by a red panda, a peacock, and a baby elephant, knows nothing of other humans until an adventurous prince discovers her tropical paradise.
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