Pines and Plains Libraries

Madigan Purdy is stuck in her home town library. When tens of thousands of owls descend on the building, rending and tearing at anyone foolish enough to step outside, Mad is tasked with keeping her students safe, and distracted, while they seek a solution to their dilemma. Perhaps they’ll find the inspiration they seek in her favorite childhood book, The Silent Queen…With food and fresh water in low supply, the denizens of the library will have...

In early May 2005, Captain Tom Tighe and first mate, Loch Reidy, of the sailboat Almeisan welcomed three new crew members, two men and a woman, for a five-day voyage from Connecticut to Bermuda. While Tighe and Reidy had made the journey countless times, the rest of the crew were paying-passengers learning about offshore sailing and looking for adventure. Four days into their voyage, they got adventure--but not the kind they had expected or had any...

Chuck, a top international manager for FedEx, and Kelly, a Ph. D. student, are in love and heading towards marriage. Then Chuck's plane to Malaysia ditches at sea during a terrible storm. He's the only survivor, and he washes up on a tiny island with nothing but some flotsam and jetsam from the aircraft's cargo. Can he survive in this tropical wasteland? Will he ever return to woman he loves?

When their boat capsizes in turbulent waters off the Pacific Northwest coast, John McCormick is rescued, but his 14-year-old son Angus, and recently adopted stray Golden Labrador, are washed ashore where they fight to survive in the rugged wilderness.

The classic study of human nature which depicts the degeneration of a group of schoolboys marooned on a desert island.