outer banks (n.c.)

Daria Cato, having found an abandoned newborn twenty years ago on the beachside that was adopted by her family, finds her life and community unsettled by television producer and childhood friend Rory Taylor's questions about her sister's birth which bring to light secrets from that summer.

The story of a castaway girl and the boy who saves her.

Josh Thurlow returns to his Atlantic Ocean island home of Killakeet Island to command a Coast Guard unit and to continue his search for clues to the whereabouts of his brother who has been missing for seventeen years.

Set along the Outer Banks of North Carolina in the 1800's and the 1970s, the novel follows Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr, who by many accounts was captured by pirates and lived out the rest of her life on a remote island, and the island's descendants hundreds of years later.

In 1896, ten-year-old Sam Deal and Ginger, the wild horse he has tamed, assist an African American lifesaving crew as they attempt to rescue survivors of a shipwreck off the Outer Banks of North Carolina.

The residents of an island on North Carolina's Outer Banks are unconcerned about the war for independence until an incident causes a fourteen-year-old and his father to set out for Valley Forge with supplies for Washington's army.

Ordered to practice his writing skills in the blank book his mother gave him, fourteen-year-old Johnny would rather go fishing near his home on North Carolina's Outer Banks and cannot think of anything important to write until two "dingbatters" from Ohio arrive in 1900 and try to build a flying machine.

Emily Matthias looks forward to a summer vacation with her family so she can take pictures and flirt with boys before going off to college.

While vacationing in a beach house surrounded by wild horses on North Carolina's Outer Banks, two very different stepsisters who like the same boy must band together to prove his innocence when he is accused of committing a crime against the horses.

In 1941, Coast Guard patrolman Josh Thurlow, still struggling with guilt seventeen years after the disappearance of his younger brother, battles U-boats off the North Carolina coast unaware that one of the German captains may know his brother's whereabouts.