islands

Omakayas, a seven-year-old Native American girl of the Ojibwa tribe, lives through the joys of summer and the perils of winter on an island in Lake Superior in 1847.

"Lyla is in a bit of a rut. Her post-doctoral research has fizzled out, she's pretty sure they won't extend her contract, and things with her boyfriend, Nico, an aspiring actor, aren't going great. When the opportunity arises for Nico to join the cast of a new reality TV show, One Perfect Couple, she decides to try out with him. A whirlwind audition process later, Lyla find herself whisked off to a tropical paradise with Nico, boating through the Indian Ocean towards Ever After Island, where the two of them will compete against four other couples--Bayer and Angel, Dan and Santana, Joel and Romi, and Conor and Zana--in order to win a cash prize. But not long after they arrive on the deserted island, things start to go wrong. After the first challenge leaves everyone rattled and angry, an overnight storm takes matters from bad to worse. Cut off from the mainland by miles of ocean, deprived of their phones, and unable to contact the crew that brought them there, the group must band together for survival. As tensions run high and fresh water runs low, Lyla finds that this game show is all too real--and the stakes are life or death"--.

"Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant Caz--a magically sentient spider plant--have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire's most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city's elite. Then a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames. She and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela never thought she'd see again: her childhood home. Taking refuge there, Kiela discovers, much to her dismay, a nosy--and very handsome--neighbor who can't take a hint and keeps showing up day after day to make sure she's fed and help fix up her new home. In need of income and reluctantly inspired by the beauty and people of the island who have welcomed her into their hearts, Kiela discovers something that even the bakery in town doesn't have: jam. With the help of an old recipe book her parents left her and a bit of illegal magic, her cottage garden is soon covered in ripe berries that become the town's, and her handsome neighbor's, new favorite confection. But magic can do more than make life a little sweeter, so Kiela decides to open the island's first-ever and much-needed secret spellshop. Her plan comes with risks--the empire condemns the use of unsanctioned magic, and the consequence of sharing spells with commoners is death. But Kiela has only just found a place that feels like home and people who feel like family, and she'll risk anything for a chance at happiness."--.

For their Nana's eightieth birthday party, Daisy Darker and her entire estranged family assembles on Nana's tidal island and in her disintegrating, Gothic house. When the tide comes in, the whole family will be trapped together on the island for eight hours, and, when a storm hits at midnight, one of them finds Nana's murdered corpse. Her death is followed one hour later by that of another family member, and Daisy realizes there is a killer among the Darkers.

When she was twenty-five years old, Lexi Kennedy starred in a horror film shot by famous director Rick Plummer at his estate in the Florida Keys. After several cast members died during the filming, Lexi was left permanently traumatized and the film exploded in popularity. Lexi eventually married Cam, Rick's son, whom she met on set, but he went missing a year ago and Lexi blames his presumed death on Rick. When she hears Rick is going to be filming a sequel to the film, she forbids her daughter Quinn, seventeen, to join the cast. However, as a category-four hurricane bears down on the Keys, Quinn runs away anyway to join the movie and Lexi follows, knowing danger awaits her on the set.

After a family tragedy, Jacob feels compelled to explore an abandoned orphanage on an island off the coast of Wales, discovering disturbing facts about the children who were kept there.

Explains the natural forces that create islands both near and far from shore.

Two different tribes live peacefully in a world of black and white until a mysterious comet appears creating colors that transform their lives.

Twelve-year-old Rika Lovelace-Rose has been having trouble expressing her feelings about her parents' divorce and her absent mother. When she gets in trouble for vandalism again, her father sends her from Colorado to Trinidad, where she's to spend the summer with her maternal grandmother. As soon as she arrives, things feel different on the island and she meets a group of kids her age that seem to have magical abilities. When she finds a grimoire that speaks to her, she learns she is a witch and that her mother is being held captive. Embracing her heritage and magical abilities, she joins with her new friends to take on the fearsome jumbie king in a harrowing maze.

Isla Crown has secured the love of two powerful rulers and broken the curses that plagued the six realms for centuries, but few know the true origins of her powers. Now, in the wake of a crushing betrayal, Isla finds herself hungry for distraction, preferring to frequent Lightlark's seductive haunts instead of embracing her duties as the newly crowned leader of two separate realms.