Island Memories

Christopher Wheeler would rather spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair than let Becca Powell reach inside his heart. The terror of losing another person in his life prevents him from a love that could change his world forever.

When Jenna returns to Sandover Island after her mother's death, her past and future intersect in ways she couldn’t imagine. Specifically with her high school nemesis, Jackson. As much as she'd like to, Jenna can’t seem to avoid Jackson's smirking and frustratingly attractive face. She doesn’t know why he’s pulling this new, nice-guy act, but she isn’t buying. And if it isn’t an act, Jenna might really be in trouble.

Teacher Charlotte Kingston is sent to close a school on an isolated Scilly Isle where she used to spend holidays with her grandparents. But when two visiting children find themselves in need of a place to stay, Charlotte agrees to care for the boys, and decides to keep the school open a little longer. Hearing about her family from the islanders, Charlotte starts decoding her grandmother's old letters from WWII, and a story emerges of forbidden love and a brave man who would risk everything for his country, even giving up the woman he loved.

In ancient, pre-literate cultures across the globe, tribal elders had encyclopedic memories. They could name all the animals and plants across a landscape, identify the stars in the sky, and recite the history of their people. Yet today, most of us struggle to memorize more than a short poem. Using traditional Aboriginal Australian song lines as a starting point, Dr. Lynne Kelly has since identified the powerful memory technique used by our ancestors and indigenous people around the world.

A murdered police chief. A missing truth. A witness who can’t remember. Twenty-five years after his father’s unsolved murder, Asa Dutton returns to Hope Island determined to uncover the truth. His only lead is Maya Callahan—the little girl found hiding in the barn the night his father died. Maya has no memory of that stormy night. But as fragments of her past resurface, so does danger. Someone is watching. Someone who will kill to keep the truth buried. As Asa and Maya grow closer, the stakes turn deadly. Because remembering the past may be the only way to survive it.

After 'The Fox Fay', Jobe and Paracleus were apart, but now they're back together again and in love. The curse placed upon Paracleus has been broken and he remembers that he's a Fay, an elfin shapeshifter with plant magic. He recalls everything about his past, including his mother Pelua, who was banished by the Fay when she fell in love with a human warrior. After an epic battle between the new Knights of Arria and Doomba, Paracleus and Jobe fled through a portal. Now they're on a tropical island with their old friends Velmella and Liana, miles away from where they once were. On the other ...

When Daphne returns to her grandfather’s home on the Greek island of Lefkada, she expects memories — not a hidden mechanism buried in the basement. But when the device unlocks a note from her late grandfather, it sends her on a journey into the abandoned village he never spoke about. What she finds there shatters everything she thought she knew: a long‑buried feud, a sacrifice made in silence, and a truth powerful enough to rewrite her family’s story. As Daphne uncovers the past her grandfather protected at all costs, she must decide what to do with the truth — and how to carry ...

A remote island. A suppressed memory. A conspiracy that was never meant to be disturbed. Private investigator Maya Chen is running from her past, but her latest case is about to drag her back into the dark. Hired under mysterious circumstances to investigate the supposed suicide of a troubled young woman, Sarah Blackwood, Maya travels to the isolated Blackwood Island off the coast of Maine. From the moment she arrives, the island feels unnervingly familiar, and the imposing Blackwood mansion seems to watch her with a chilling sense of recognition. The family is a knot of secrets: a ...

'A surprising page-turner, full of humour and startling details' THE TIMES 'If I read a better history this year, I will be lucky' TOM HOLLAND 'An astonishing tour de force’ SPECTATOR Shortlisted for the HWA Nonfiction Crown Award Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize From Peter Marshall...

In 1947 Tilly’s grandmother bought an island. Its name is Småhølmene and it sits just off the coast of Norway. At first sight, the island seems bare, hardly more than a collection of rocks rising determinedly out of the water. Glittering and bittersweet, Island Summers lovingly portrays three generations of women and the island that became so irrevocably part of their lives. Now Mor-mor’s great-grandchildren are taking their turn, enjoying endless summers on Småhølmene, continuing the story that was begun over 50 years ago.

She’s 42, with a broken past, and currently on a sabbatical from dating. He’s a year older, an established author, and he’s secretly intrigued by her. But so far, their encounters are met with friction, proving themselves to be more like enemies than lovers. Will his wit and charm win her over? Or will her strong will and determination draw a permanent line of division between them? Agnes Covington is a waitress by day and has high aspirations of starting her own food truck business. Who has time for men? At least that’s what she thinks.

Few arrive here. Not everyone who arrives makes it. But those who do are never the same. A young man washes ashore on a mysterious island-continent with no memory of arrival. What he finds is a training ground. What awaits beyond it is something far greater than he imagined. The journey begins. Welcome to Writer's World. A lifetime of doubt, small victories, despair, and profound accomplishment awaits. If you've ever wondered if the writer's life is worth it—this is your story.

The Jersey Boys and Liberation! Some compelling wartime memories from three remarkable men. By Don Hale. This is the true story of two remarkable Jersey Boys, and an eventual Liberator, who were all teenagers at the start of World War Two, but soon became embroiled in a variety of dramatic events following the Occupation of Jersey in the Channel Islands by German Forces during 1940-45. Joe Miére was a constant thorn in the side of the Nazi invaders and became a political prisoner and resistance leader who was often arrested, jailed, and beaten, for demonstrations, and for anti-German acts ...

With his white beard and red suspenders, his salty good humor, harmonica, and bucket of tall tales, Zeke Layne is one of those memorable characters you can still occasionally find - whether it be a Chincoteague Island waterman or retired Cape Cod fisherman or charter boat skipper in the Florida Keys, or in the case of Memory Layne, Bob Adamov’s poignant word portrait, a former Miller ferry boat captain on Lake Erie. Zeke lives with his daughter, teenage granddaughter and golden lab in an old mobile home, built on steel pilings at the Miller Ferry Catawba dock, with a view from his deck of...

In their own words, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project...

Lafcadio Hearn (1850-1904) was a writer, critic and journalist. His novel, Chita: A Memory of Last Island, is about a young girl, Chita, who survives a devastating tropical storm. Last Island, a holiday resort in the Gulf of Mexico, is destroyed by the hurricane that kills Chita’s mother and leaves her adrift at sea. Chita is saved and adopted by a Spanish fisherman, Feliu, and his wife, Carmen, a religious woman who perceives the baby as a gift from God.

When Mallory Barrows finds an old diary in a box of books, the story she finds within sends her on the hunt for the owner—and maybe more. Theirs is a story ripped from a country song. A wedding, a former love presumed dead, her new love stepping aside. And over 40 years later, their story is one few remember. With Mallory determined to find the people in the pages of that diary, one couple is offered the second chance of a lifetime.

A queer, feminist spin on Stephen King’s The Mist, this ode to female-rage is a perfect pick for fans of She Is a Haunting, and a reminder that if "boys will be boys", girls will fight back. For high school senior Nell and her friends, a vacation house on a private Florida island sounds like...

She washes ashore on a deserted island—no name, no memories, no past. Only an extraordinary mind that defies explanation. Who is she? Why is she here? And where did she come from? The answers will come—eventually… if she can survive long enough to find them. Stranded alone, her fight for survival will push her to the limits—and lead to discoveries that could change everything. This is the first book in an epic adventure that will span an entire series. Are you ready to dive into the First Record of The Arcania Chronicles?

Set beside a quiet river in rural Trinidad, Under the Mango Tree is a contemplative work of literary fiction that follows a single place as different lives pass through it. Across a series of short, interconnected scenes, the book observes moments of stillness, labor, memory, play, and quiet connection—people arriving alone or together, pausing beneath the same shade, and moving on again. There is no central plot to resolve and no single voice to follow; instead, meaning gathers slowly through repetition, atmosphere, and attention. Rooted in Caribbean landscapes and everyday life, Under ...