In 1970, Sara Ehrenreich boards a small plane and returns to New York City with much fanfare; she will be featured in Life magazine. She has not left Ta'un'uu–the South Seas island upon which she and her husband, Philip, were marooned during a storm–in more than thirty years. Sara doesn’t know that man has landed on the moon. She has never seen a ballpoint pen. Her body is covered, head to toe, in tattoos.
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In the aftermath of a monumental explosion, reality shifts for everyone associated with the mystical island.

A young man awakens on an island, alone and seriously injured, with no memory, and as he searches for his identity he finds himself caught between two notorious pirates battling for a legendary treasure reportedly hidden by monks.

In an endless sea of sand drifts the Mud Whale, a floating island city of clay and magic. In its chambers a small community clings to survival, cut off from its own history by the shadows of the past. Chakuro is the archivist for the Mud Whale, diligently chronicling the lives and deaths of his people. But the steady pace of their isolated existence on the Mud Whale is abruptly shattered when a scouting party discovers a mysterious young girl who...

The ultimate battle for survival begins as Robinson Crusoe sets sail for the New World. A dangerous onboard attack finds Crusoe stuck on a remote tropical island with only the assistance of his native friend Friday to help him prepare for his journey back home. Explore the perils and challenges facing the castaways as they struggle to survive on a desert island with little more than their wits, overcoming marauding militias, hungry cannibals, wild...

"January 1719. A man sits at a table, writing. Nearly sixty, Daniel Defoe is troubled with gout and mired in political controversy and legal threats. But for the moment he is preoccupied by a younger man on a barren shore: Robinson Crusoe. Several miles south, another old man, Robert Knox, sits bent over a heavy volume published nearly forty years before. Knox's 'Historical Relation' was a best seller when it was published in 1681, just a year after...

This Casebook Edition "includes not only the full text of Lord of the Flies, but also statements by William Golding about the novel, reminiscences of Golding by his brother, an appreciation of the novel by E. M. Forster, and a number of critical essays from various points of view."--Publisher information.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.