Del Norte Public Library

Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields. Over a three-decade span, more than twenty women-many teenagers-died mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a fifty-mile stretch of highway running from Houston to Galveston. The victims were strangled, shot, or savagely beaten. Six met their demise in pairs.

"They Said Nobody Could Escape "The Rock," but ... in May of 1946, six desperate inmates attempted the impossible-escape from Alcatraz. The result: one of the bloodiest uprisings in the history of American prisons. For months, the "cons" had meticulously planned the breakout, and at first, the plan went like clock work - they broke into the gun gallery, armed themselves, and took nine guards hostage. But when their plan hit a last-minute snag, the...

On a tiny, desolate, windswept island off the coast of Southern California, two families, one in the 1880s and one in the 1930s, come to start new lives and pursue dreams of self-reliance and freedom. Their extraordinary stories, full of struggle and hope, are the subject of T. C. Boyles haunting new novel.Thirty-eight-year-old Marantha Waters arrives on San Miguel on New Years Day 1888 to restore her failing health. Joined by her husband, a stubborn,...

In late 1944, the Allies invaded the Japanese-held Philippines, and soon the end of the Pacific War was within reach. But for the last 150 American prisoners of war still held on the island of Palawan, there would be no salvation. After years of slave labor, starvation, disease, and torture, their worst fears were about to be realized. On December 14, with machine guns trained on them, they were herded underground into shallow air raid shelters-death...

A collection of three books about a group of kids who are shipwrecked on an island with strangers and they just want to survive.

Ethan Feld, the worst baseball player in the history of the game, finds himself recruited by a 100-year-old scout to help a band of fairies triumph over an ancient enemy.

Clint Eastwood stars in this dramatization of the true story of the only three men to escape the maximum-security prison Alcatraz.

This is an autobiographical novel by California writer, Charles Warren Stoddard (1843-1909). It tells the story of Paul Clitheroe's unsuccessful bout of writing, acting and love in turn-of-the-century San Francisco and his eventual escape into the arms of three naked South Sea Islanders. First published in San Francisco in 1903, this book has long been out of print. Gay Sunshine Press is pleased to present this re-issue of what may be termed the first...

Cari Taylor and her three friends look forward to a "party summer" working at The Howling Wolf inn, an old hotel on a tiny island off Cape Cod.But to their dismay, the hotel is deserted, and someone warns them to leave immediately. The mysterious owner, Simon Fear III, allows Cari and her friends to stay, giving them the run of the hotel. The four teenagers are thrilled... until they realize they have been but up in the "haunted wing"...until the...

"After their escape from Norveg, Agatha and Jaime return with their clan to the Isle of Skye to find that their enclave is now in the hands of the treacherous people of Raasay. They find tenuous shelter with another clan, but disaster soon strikes when the terrifying shadow creatures known as sgáailean escape their magical prison and wreak havoc across the island. Now Agatha and Jaime must call on old and new allies to fight this threat. In the meantime,...