Catalog Search Results
22) The buccaneers
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In the eighteenth century sixteen-year-old John Spencer sails from England in his schooner, the Dragon, to the Caribbean, where he and the crew encounter pirates, fierce storms, fever, and a strange man who some fear may be cursed.
23) The Jolly Mon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of a fisherman who finds a magic guitar floating in the Caribbean Sea. Includes the music for the song "Jolly Mon Sing."
24) The jumbies
Author
Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Corinne La Mer claims she isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They're just tricksters made up by parents to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest, and shining yellow eyes follow her to the edge of the trees. They couldn't belong to a jumbie. Or could they? When Corinne spots a beautiful stranger at the market the very next...
25) The betrayers
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Luz had nightheat, the sensuous quality in a woman that makes men ache with desire. Nick loved and lusted for her the first time he saw her. But, what he didn't know was that Luz had secrets-that beneath the glamour and sex appeal was a woman determined to turn her back on wealth and challenge a corrupt political system. Even if doing so meant her life.
Nick started out dirt poor-as a child, he survived the war-torn frozen hell of the siege of Leningrad...
Author
Series
Ethan Gage adventures volume 5
Language
English
Description
While in the Caribbean, swashbuckling hero Ethan Gage and his new wife, Astiza, embark on a desperate search to find the lost treasure of Montezuma, which plunges them into the center of a bloody slave revolt.
27) Bodily harm
Author
Language
English
Description
A powerfully and brilliantly crafted novel,Bodily Harmis the story of Rennie Wilford, a young journalist whose life has begun to shatter around the edges. Rennie flies to the Caribbean to recuperate, and on the tiny island of St. Antoine she is confronted by a world where her rules for survival no longer apply. By turns comic, satiric, relentless, and terrifying, Margaret Atwood'sBodily Harmis ultimately an exploration of the lust for power, both...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Rare. Moving. Powerful. This beautiful, page-turning and redemptive story of a mother's gripping journey across the Caribbean to find her stolen children in the aftermath of slavery marks the arrival of a remarkable new talent. Her search begins with an ending.... The master of the Providence plantation in Barbados gathers his slaves and announces the king has decreed an end to slavery. As of the following day, the Emancipation Act of 1834 will come...
29) The fall of Eden
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lord of the Flies comes to Club Med in the year?s most exciting and original thriller.
Charles Spencer is a fifty-five year old college professor, going on vacation with his wife and their two almost-grown children to the sunny Caribbean isle of St. Bart?s.
But when they land, Charles and his family find only chaos. Rumors circulate of an attack on the United States. Communications are down. People are panicked beyond comprehension....
Charles Spencer is a fifty-five year old college professor, going on vacation with his wife and their two almost-grown children to the sunny Caribbean isle of St. Bart?s.
But when they land, Charles and his family find only chaos. Rumors circulate of an attack on the United States. Communications are down. People are panicked beyond comprehension....
30) Saving grace
Author
Language
English
Description
Katie Connell is a high-strung attorney whose sloppy drinking habits and stunted love life collide hilariously in a doomed celebrity case in Dallas. When she flees Texas for the Caribbean, Katie escapes professional humiliation, a broken heart, and a wicked Bloody Mary habit, but she trades one set of problems for another when she begins to investigate the suspicious deaths of her parents on the island of St. Marcos. She's bewitched by the voodoo...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Richard Allen, having left England and taken up with a group of Caribbean pirates under the false identity of a Frenchman, returns home and falls in love with the married Georgina Malory, and, while trying to woo her at a masked ball, Richard meets Julia Miller, who eventually finds out his true identity but agrees to enter into a charade with him in order to avoid marrying the Earl of Manford's son.
32) Dead man's walk
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The island couldn't be more charming with its stretches of white beaches, crystalline lagoons, and exotic bikini-clad beauties. But with three dead bodies and a voodoo priest, I had a hard time concentrating on sightseeing. It seemed superstitious to me, since nobody could solve the puzzling cause of their deaths. So with the assistance of my own lovely native doll, I had my work cut out for me-and that was simply managing to evade the long voodoo...
33) Bay of souls
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Becoming involved with new faculty member Lara, who claims to be possessed, professor Michael Ahern journeys to Lara's native island of St. Trinity, where he is enmeshed in a smuggling scheme.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two couples intersect in unexpectedly passionate and volatile ways during a luxurious week-long Caribbean vacation, including Dorothy and George, who are taking a first journey abroad together after fifty years of marriage, and Jan and Annemieke, whose union is coming to an end due to illness and incompatibility.
36) Deceived
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bold, earthy sensuality..."
—Library Journal
DECEIVED
Golden-haired Aurora Kimberly possesses only one passion—to live a simple life on the lush island paradise bequeathed to her family by the English Crown. Now her peace is about to be threatened by the appearance of Valerian Hawkesworth, Duke of Farminster, who has arrived to claim his own prize—an heiress promised to him in a marriage contract....
—Library Journal
DECEIVED
Golden-haired Aurora Kimberly possesses only one passion—to live a simple life on the lush island paradise bequeathed to her family by the English Crown. Now her peace is about to be threatened by the appearance of Valerian Hawkesworth, Duke of Farminster, who has arrived to claim his own prize—an heiress promised to him in a marriage contract....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A shipboard romance and mystery starring Elaine Zimmerman, a bored divorcee. On the boat she discovers someone is planning to murder one of the friends taking the cruise with her and she unmasks the killer. In the process she finds love with fellow passenger Sam Peck, rich, handsome and sophisticated.
38) Still Summer
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after a shared childhood marked by their considerable popularity, Tracy, Olivia, and Holly reunite on a luxury Caribbean cruise during which a chance mistake triggers a series of devastating events that puts their survival in jeopardy.
39) Diver's paradise
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After 25 years on the job, Detective Roscoe Conklin trades his badge for a pair of shorts and sandals and moves to Bonaire, a small island nestled in the southern Caribbean. But the warm water, palm trees, and sunsets are derailed when his long-time police-buddy and friend back home is murdered. Conklin dusts off a few markers and calls his old department, trolling for information. It's slow going, but no surprise there; after all, it's an active...
40) Windward passage
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the parallel near-future, a ship named for a jellyfish sinks into the Caribbean with its captain chained to the mast. Left behind is a logbook missing ten pages, presidential DNA hidden in a brick of smuggled cocaine, and a nearly- completed novel. Tipsy, the dead sailor's sister, and Red Means, his erstwhile employer, travel from San Francisco to the Caribbean and back as they attempt to unravel a mystery that rapidly widens from death at sea...
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request