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81) Island
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In Island, his last novel, Huxley transports us to a Pacific island where, for 120 years, an ideal society has flourished. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take over Pala, and events begin to move when an agent of the conspirators, a newspaperman named Faranby, is shipwrecked there. What Faranby doesn't expect is how his time with the people of Pala will revolutionize...
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On the remote isle of Rosevear, Mira, like her mother before her, is a wrecker, one of the seven on the rope who swim out to shipwrecks to plunder them. When the Council watch lays a trap to put an end to the wrecking, they arrest Mira's father. Desperate to save him from the noose, Mira strikes a deal with an enigmatic wreck survivor guarding layers of secrets behind his captivating eyes, and sets off to find something her mother has left her, a...
83) Unsinkable
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Harper Muse
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Two unsinkable women--wartime nurse and stewardess Violet Jessop who has survived a shipwreck and two sinkings, one on the infamous Titanic, and Special Operations agent Daphne Chaundanson who faces challenges she never expected during World War II--form a connection that reshapes both their lives forever.
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