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1. Adrift
Publisher:
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2018]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"Based on the true story of survival, a young couple's chance encounter leads them first to love, and then on the adventure of a lifetime as they face one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history." --
2. Adrift
Author:
Lexile measure:
HL: High-Low 580L
Language:
English
Description:
"Matt and Mike are best friends, just two working-class guys trying to earn some money in Montauk for the summer. When they meet Driana, JoJo, and Stef, three friends who live a much different life of privilege, Matt and Mike find themselves in a sticky situation where temptation rivals sensibility. Worlds collide when the group ventures out to sea aboard a small boat that Stef sneaks out from her dad's dock. As the waves rise and the fragile vessel...
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Publisher:
Portfolio/Penguin, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date:
2022
Language:
English
Description:
"We are only just beginning to reckon with our post-pandemic future. As political extremism intensifies, the great resignation affects businesses everywhere, and supply chain issues crush bottom lines, we're faced with daunting questions--is our democracy under threat? How will Big Tech change our lives? What does job security look like for me? America is on the brink of massive change--change that will disrupt the workings of our economy and drastically...
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Publisher:
Pajama Press
Pub. Date:
2016
Lexile measure:
540L
Language:
English
Description:
"Tuan and his family survive bullets, a broken motor, and a leaking boat in the long days they spend at sea after fleeing Vietnam. A true story as told to the author by Tuan Ho. Includes family photographs and a historical note about the Vietnamese refugee crisis"--
5. Adrift
Author:
Language:
English
Description:
Capstan Court is home to three distinctly different families whose lives have become entwined through friendships forged over twenty years. They have shared joys and sorrows, survived teething toddlers, lent helping hands, and celebrated one another's successes. Nothing lasts forever, however. Parents age, children grow up, and ambitions and aspirations jockey for position. Suddenly, the stability of the three households is under threat. Can they...
6. Adrift
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Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
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"Crackles with urgency and book made to meet the moment. A must read." -Katie Lattari, author of Dark Things I Adore For fans of The Last Thing He Told Me comes a page-turning thriller about hidden identities and the terrifying realities of climate change. The truth won't always set you Ess wakes up alone on a sailboat in the remote Pacific Northwest with no memory of who she is or how she got there. She finds a note, but it's more warning than comfort:...
7. Adrift
Author:
Pub. Date:
2018
Language:
English
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New York Times Bestseller The heart-stopping memoir, soon to be a major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley and Sam Claflin, and directed by Baltasar Kormákur (Everest). "An inspirational and empowering read."-Shailene Woodley Young and in love, their lives ahead of them, Tami Oldham and her fiancé Richard Sharp set sail from Tahiti under brilliant blue skies, with Tami's hometown of San Diego as their ultimate destination. But the two free...
11. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
AuthorHouse UK
Pub. Date:
2014
Language:
English
Description:
Set in London between 1973 and 1983, Adrift is a compelling true story portraying the way a husband's mental illness tragically destroys a happy marriage. It examines the agonising dilemma faced by his wife struggling to make sense of his baffling condition yet concerned for their young children and her own safety.
12. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Pub. Date:
2002
Language:
English
Description:
Before The Perfect Storm, before In the Heart of the Sea, Steven Callahan's dramatic tale of survival at sea was on the New York Times bestseller list for more than thirty-six weeks. In some ways the model for the new wave of adventure books, Adrift is an undeniable seafaring classic, a riveting firsthand account by the only man known to have survived more than a month alone at sea, fighting for his life in an inflatable raft after his small sloop...
13. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
World Editions
Pub. Date:
2020
Language:
English
Description:
The bestselling author of The Crusades Through Arab Eyes traces how civilizations have drifted apart throughout the 20th century and now lack the solidarity to address global threats to humankind. The United States is on the verge of losing all moral credibility. The European Union is in the process of breaking apart. The Arab world is embroiled in crisis. Thus divided and lacking solidarity, humanity is unable to address global threats to the environment...
14. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
Ukiyoto Publishing
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
Description:
These are poems that are devoid of a specific theme, no particular direction - they are voices of the poet's drifting mind, emotions and echoes. These echoes are random, they don't follow any pattern. They reverberate and then make a place somewhere within - unseen, There is poignance in a few of these poems, sadness in some and a whiff of epiphany in many. The undercurrent is the lasting feeling that a moment of experience leaves one with. Some of...
15. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
Plutoid Press
Pub. Date:
2016
Language:
English
Description:
Hearts will ache and heads will roll in this audacious Science Fiction Romantic Adventure! Stealing damning evidence from a covert ops section of Space Corps makes Jasmine a target. So what does she do? What any good undercover investigative journalist would do, she runs. Hops the first civilian transport ship off the planet, but with the bad guys on her heels who knows how long she'll live. A vacationing half-alien colonel who is a deft hand with...
16. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
Enigma House Press
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
There were numerous better ways for retiree Chris Landrum to begin his day than to listen to a traumatized friend Virgil DeBonnet telling him how he found a body with a knife sticking out his back and floating in a small boat less than a half mile from Chris's cottage. Landrum's day on Folly Beach, the small barrier island in the shadows of Charleston, South Carolina, turns even darker when Virgil convinces him and his best friend and self-anointed...
17. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
Kaylea Cross Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
A RISING STAR WITH EVERYTHING TO LOSE. As Hollywood's newest darling, Becca Sandoza is vigilant about guarding the image and reputation she's so carefully created. Her career has allowed her to escape her past, but her newfound fame turns out to be a sharp double-edged sword. The nightmare she's been trying to escape for twenty years has resurfaced. The man responsible knows all her secrets, and his silence comes at a heavy price. She'll do whatever...
18. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
BookBaby
Pub. Date:
2013
Language:
English
Description:
In these chaotic times when people of all nations are losing jobs, homes, and for some lives as well due to starvation, political unrest, floods, earthquakes, and other natural disasters, it feels like the Earth has lost her moorings and is adrift at sea, tossed around by waves caused not only by prevailing winds, but changing winds. But what does one do when the world seems to be lost? Our world is definitely on a wild ride across storm tossed waves...
19. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
Purple Puppy Publishing
Pub. Date:
2021
Language:
English
Description:
In your wildest the only woman on Terra who could Lift, Alora was accustomed to hiding her differences. On Earth, she had learned not to trust anyone but her older brother, Jesse. But when Alora's two worlds collide and all her worst dreams come true, she refuses to accept defeat. In spite of reason, logic, and self-doubt, she gambles her future to save the one thing that matters most in her life, and it works. Or does it? Her dreams of Terra may...
20. Adrift
Author:
Publisher:
GallagherWitt
Pub. Date:
2023
Language:
English
Description:
After Andrew Wentz loses his job, his parents take pity and invite him to join them on a Mediterranean cruise. He jumps at the chance, but once he's aboard, he feels guilty. Shouldn't he be figuring out what to do with his pathetic life instead of lazing around on a ship?The cruise was supposed to be Eric Schofield's honeymoon, but one cheating fiancé later, he's traveling solo. Fine. He's been working too much anyway, so a vacation is exactly what...