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Author Alpaugh, Cole.

Title The Turtle-girl from East Pukapuka : a novel / Cole Alpaugh.

Publication Info. Seattle, WA : Coffeetown Press, [2012]
©2012

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 Moore Stacks  PS3601.L665 T87 2012    Available  ---
Description 261 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Summary "The island of East Pukapuka lies in the path of a tsunami that will kill everyone but Butter, a little girl more worried about the lives of the injured animals she cares for than her own. Butter is rescued by a Loggerhead sea turtle who carries her away on his back. As she and her exhausted savior begin to sink, the girl is plucked out of the sea by Jesus Dobby, the boozy owner of a salvage boat who is thrilled, at first, to have found a genuine "turtle-girl" hybrid. Downhill racer Dante Wheeler "dies" in a terrible skiing accident and revives in a twilight state, having lost all memories of his former life. When he heals enough to leave the rehab facility, Dante heads to Polynesia, where he has found a home in his dreams. There he encounters Ophelia, a beautiful blond policewoman who reluctantly agrees to transport him to East Pukapuka. Jope and Ratu, a pair of bumbling pirates, steal a vessel laden with cocaine. They are hotly pursued by the drug-runners' hit man Albino Paul, the descendant of cannibals, whose goal is to reclaim his heritage."--Publisher's website.
Subject Tsunamis -- Fiction.
Tsunamis.
Drugs.
Genre/Form Fiction.
Subject Young women -- Fiction.
Young women.
Loggerhead turtle -- Fiction.
Loggerhead turtle.
Pirates -- Fiction.
Pirates.
Drugs -- Fiction.
Cook Islands -- Fiction.
Cook Islands.
Medication.
Genre/Form Fiction.
ISBN 9781603811163
1603811168