Catalog Search Results
Author
Language
English
Description
"Laura Callaway daily walks the windswept Cornwall coast, known for many shipwrecks but few survivors. And when a man with curious wounds and an odd accent is washed ashore, she cares for him while the mystery surrounding him grows. Can their budding attraction survive, and can he be returned to his rightful home when danger pursues them from every side?"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Blue Lagoon is the story of two cousins, Dicky and Emmeline Lestrange, stranded on a remote island with a beautiful lagoon. As children, they are cared for by Paddy Button, a portly sailor who drinks himself to death after only two and a half years in paradise. Frightened and confused by the man's gruesome corpse, the children flee to another part of Palm Tree Island. Over a period of five years, they grow up and eventually fall in love. Sex and...
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
With good reason to believe that Captain Grant, skipper of the S.S. Brittania, is still alive, Lord Glenarvan, owner of the Steam Navigation Company, sets out to rescue him. They face a series of hair-raising incidents as they travel the 37th parallel.
7) The tempest
Author
Language
English
Description
Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, uses his skill at controlling natural forces to cause the shipwreck of his old opponents, forcing them to seek refuge on the island where he and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile, and setting the stage for Miranda to fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince of Naples. Includes explanatory notes, plot summaries, critical essay, and illustrations.
Author
Language
English
Description
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
Series
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
Navy pilot Robin Crusoe ditches his plane after engine trouble and becomes stranded on a tropical island with a poker-playing chimp, an abandoned sub, and a beautiful native girl named Wednesday who was exiled there for disobeying her overprotective father.
11) Maud & Addie
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1910, the two sisters, eleven- and twelve-year-old Maud and Addie, are eagerly anticipating their Summer Social in Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia. However, the event does not quite go according to plan, and the two girls are swept out to sea as they are rowing home at the day's end. They find themselves adrift in the unforgiving North Atlantic with only the contents of a picnic hamper to sustain them and a carriage blanket to keep them warm. Finding their...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The contents of a shark's stomach contain a bottle that holds partially deteriorated notes written in three different languages. Together they give clues to the location of Captain Harry Grant, whose ship the Britannia was lost at sea. While the latitude (37th parallel) of Grant is known from the notes, the longitude is a mystery. Lord Glenarvan makes it his quest to find Grant; together with his wife, Harry Grant's two children, and the crew of his...
14) The castaway
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
During a family vacation, Hubie the mouse falls out of a dirigible and is stranded on a tropical island, where a very inventive porcupine helps him overcome his fears.
15) Red Dwarf: III
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
The Red dwarf crew stumble further into deep space facing an emotion-sucking polymorph, a psychotic mechanoid and a version of Earth where time runs backwards.!sdaehgemS.
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
An adventure tale based on the classic novel by William Golding. When an aircraft carrying a group of military school cadets is forced to crash land in an uninhabited Pacific jungle, it is survival of the fittest, man against nature, and boy against boy as sides are drawn when the hunters become the hunted.
19) Red Dwarf: I
Publisher
BBC Video
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Entire first season of the television program about a crew of spacebums and losers having adventures while traveling through space.
20) Pitch black
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
When a group of marooned passengers must face a pack of terrifying creatures whose only weakness is the light, they turn to a vicious convict with an appetite for destruction and eerie eyes that can guide them through the darkness.
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Orem Public Library can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup. NOTE: WILL REQUIRE A POSTAGE FEE
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can put in a request for us to add it to the collection. Submit Request