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William Golding's classic novel of primitive savagery and survival is one of the most vividly realized and riveting works in modern fiction. The tale begins after a plane wreck deposits a group of English school boys, aged six to twelve on an isolated tropical island. Their struggle to survive and impose order quickly evolves from a battle against nature into a battle against their own primitive instincts. Golding's portrayal of the collapse of social...
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—Newsday
Rushdie's fifth and best-known novel, as relevant as ever—the metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations of two men after their plane explodes in...
“[A] torrent of endlessly inventive prose, by turns comic and enraged, embracing life in all its contradictions. In this spectacular novel, verbal pyrotechnics barely outshine its psychological truths.”—Newsday
Rushdie's fifth and best-known novel, as relevant as ever—the metamorphoses, dreams, and revelations of two men after their plane explodes in...
3) The three
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The three novels volume 1
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When the three child survivors of unrelated plane crashes on different continents begin to exhibit increasingly disturbing behavior, a religious cult leader claims that they are harbingers of the apocalypse.
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South Shores volume 3
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Claire, her ex-husband, her young daughter and the man she loves survive an airplane crash on their way to a witness protection program, and danger continues to follow them to their destination.
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"Dawn Edelstein's life instantly changes when the plane she's on crashes. Before impact, she thinks not of her husband but of a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash. She could return [to] Boston, back to her husband, their beloved daughter, and her work as a death doula. Or she could go to Egypt to find Wyatt, who works as an archaeologist, a career Dawn once studied for but abandoned. She could...
7) Red birds
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When an American pilot crash lands in the desert and finds himself on the outskirts of the very camp he was supposed to bomb, he's rescued by one of the occupants.
8) Deadzone
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Horizon (Scholastic) volume 2
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Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
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It was fate that helped fashion executive Skye Delaney survive the crash of a Lear jet. It was also fate that stranded her on a Pacific island with the plane's pilot, a seductive man who is both domineering and unexpectedly tender--a man to desire, but not to trust. Discovering that he is actually Kyle Jagger--a ruthless business tycoon with a reputation as an international playboy--makes Skye even more wary . . . at first. In a sultry Eden where...
12) Hatchet
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After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
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"Six minutes after takeoff, Flight 1421 crashes into the Pacific Ocean. During the evacuation, an engine explodes and the plane is flooded. Those still alive are forced to close the doors--but it's too late. The plane sinks to the bottom with twelve passengers trapped inside. More than two hundred feet below the surface, engineer Will Kent and his eleven-year-old daughter Shannon are waist-deep in water and fighting for their lives. Their only chance...
15) All is bright
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Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father's firm who takes on her most challenging client in Mason Tucker. The former pro baseball player is still healing from the physical and emotional scars after a plane crash left him a wheelchair-using single dad, and he's determined not to let anyone breach his emotional defenses. Sage knows her work on Mason's new home in Hope's Crossing is her best work yet, and she won't let her...
16) Horizon
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Horizon (Scholastic) volume 1
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When Aero Horizon 16 crashes in the Arctic, eight children emerge from the wreckage to find themselves alone and surrounded, not by ice, but by a mysterious and deadly jungle full of carnivorous plants and predatory birds--the other five hundred people from the plane are gone, not necessarily dead, but taken by something that lives in the jungle.
17) Rohingyas
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Boréal inter volume 72
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Zacharie, Mya et Ko Than sont en route vers le Myanmar lorsque les moteurs de leur avion tombent en panne. Le pilote n'a pas le choix : il doit faire un amerrissage forcé, en plein coeur de la mer d'Andaman. Les chaînes de télévision diffusent en boucle la nouvelle et annoncent qu'aucun rescapé n'a été retrouvé pour l'instant. Les parents des trois adolescents sont rongés par l'inquiétude. Reverront-ils leurs enfants vivants ? Alors que...
18) The hill
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Following a plane crash, two teens spend the night on a forbidden hill and in the morning find the forest around them subtly changed. The plane is missing, and they must work together to outwit a creature from the spirit world that should only exist in legend.
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Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 18
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When Geronimo's sister Thea hears rumors of a haunted pirate treasure buried on a desert island, she drags the reluctant mouse into her treasure hunt and a tornado causes their plane to crash into the ocean.
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"Dr. Jonathan Shipwright, sole survivor of a very unusual and very secret shipwreck, doesn't know where he is. Seemingly trapped on an endless road, in pursuit of a saboteur who holds the key to his salvation--or doom--Dr. Shipwright must contend with a strange land, and its even stranger inhabitants."--Provided by publisher.
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