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When a Hollywood director starts filming a blockbuster action film on the otherwise sleepy island of Martha's Vineyard, thirteen-year-old Gayle and her friends set out to make their own film and solve an island mystery.

It is 1805 and Mary Lambert has always felt safe among the deaf community of Chilmark on Martha's Vineyard where practically everyone communicates in a shared sign language, but recent events have shattered her life; her brother George has died, land disputes between English settlers and the Wampanoag people are becoming increasingly bitter, and a "scientist" determined to discover the origins of the islands' widespread deafness has decided she makes the perfect "live specimen"--and kidnapped her.

Twelve-year-old Ben must cope with the loss of his father, who died the year before, and his mother's overprotectiveness when he enters the annual Striped Bass Derby on Martha's Vineyard.

The story of five generations of an African-American family and the wedding on Martha's Vineyard that could tear them apart.

"Lauren, Jenna, their mother, Nancy, and Lauren's daughter, Mack, are not so close. But when they are thrown together for a summer on Martha's Vineyard, these very different women must relearn how to be a family. And while unraveling their secrets might be their biggest challenge, the rewards could be infinite"--OCLC.

After more than a decade apart, twin sisters Harper and Tabitha switch islands and lives to save what's left of their family.

Martha Murphy Applebee shows off her beloved island home of Martha's Vineyard to her friend Edgar Towne.

"An island adventure about a girl from the Bronx on a journey of mystery and discovery"--Provided by publisher.

Scott Burroughs, the only survivor of a plane crash on Martha's Vineyard, must cope with the aftermath as authorities scramble to salvage the truth from the wreckage.

Beginning on the night of the Grand Illumination, an unearthly festival of lanterns held on Martha's Vineyard, the novel chronicles a marriage and a bittersweet exploration of an extraordinary passion.