Pines and Plains Libraries

Since his girlfriend dumped him, Jayden has been avoiding school-and life in general. When his eccentric uncle Mel invites him to help with his biology research at an Australian university, he figures he has nothing to lose. Once he arrives, he discovers Mel is obsessed with finding a new species of lizard and is determined to be the first to discover it. Unfortunately, this means an expedition into the scorching desert heat of the Australian outback...with...

"Rena Matthews feels called to take the Gospel to the South Seas. She and her team of highly educated and wealthy volunteers plan to show the world how to spread the Gospel in the most scientific manner. When rough-hewn Travis Winslow volunteers, Rena wants to refuse him, but her father insists she take him along. They set out in her father's yacht, but a storm drives them hundreds of miles off course and into a reef on a deserted island. Much to...

Now a mild-mannered water inspector for the United Nations, Robert Harland, once a dangerous spy, finds that his past has caught up with him when everyone around him begins vanishing and he is plunged into a web of murder and intrigue.

Dunc and Amos try hang gliding and crash in the wilderness. Things go from bad to worse when a wild man holds them captive. Can anything save them?

After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learing to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.

After foiling a terrorist hijacking aboard their airplane, fourteen-year-old Jimmy, his younger sister, and two skateboarding friends crash-land the plane and try to survive in a forest wilderness until help arrives.

Carsten Stroud's heart-pounding thrillers have earned him comparisons to Elmore Leonard and Michael Connelly. Now the author of Black Water Transit returns with a scorching cocktail of lies, murder, and espionage. Rick Broca's had more than his share of hard knocks -- which may explain why he's a retired cop at the age of thirty-three, working as a technical consultant for Hollywood producer Jake Siegel. For the last few months, that's meant taking...

Presents the annotated text of the darkly humorous play about Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, who is exiled to a magical island with his daughter, Miranda; and includes an introduction, an essay on the theatrical world of Shakespeare, and a note on the text used.

Clementine Haas wakes up from a coma in an Irish hospital, suffering from complete amnesia. She is told that she is the lone survivor of a plane crash and that she has a father coming from America to get her. Clementine decides to escape from a life she can't remember and start a new life with the help of a man named Kieran O'Connell. But the lies she has to tell to maintain her new life grow, and she is soon forced to reconcile her new life with...

After surviving the earthquake and tsunami, Shy manages to make it back to land but he is far from safe because a secret his cruise ship co-worker, Addie, shared with him is one that people have killed for, and now that Shy knows, he has become a moving target.