A Salty Piece of Land is a 2004 novel by Jimmy Buffett. The book follows Tully Mars after his breakup with his girlfriend, Donna Kay. After sailing with Captain Kirk to Punta Margarita, he becomes a guide at The Lost Boys resort. His laid-back lifestyle is rudely interrupted when Donna comes by and tells him she's getting married. Eventually Tully meets a 101-year old Cleopatra Highbourne, the captain of a boat, who takes him to Coyo Loco, a tiny island, to fix up a lighthouse that will be her grave.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is the story of a young English schoolgirl, the titular Alice, who wanders into a nonsense realm of logical puzzles and dialogic contrivances while chasing a white rabbit. The convoluted word games and memorable anthropomorphic characters that form the core of the book's cast have given it a lasting popularity among readers of all ages. It touches on subjects ranging from syntax to rhetoric and dialogic logic.
In Island of the Blue Dolphins, a young native American girl named Karana witnesses her life change forever when a ship of an enemy tribe lands on her island. After a tumultuous time of conflict and change, Karana and her brother are the only ones left on the island. When her brother dies, Karana must make a life for herself. Her many trials and long years of solitude tell a story about the path to morality, forgiveness, and the importance of human connection.
Set during the 17th century in England and the American Colonies, Moll Flanders is the story of the eponymous heroine whose life makes her a prostitute, confidence trickster, and convict over the course of nearly seven decades. Moll's life takes her through nearly the full gamut of English society, from the gutter to the comforts of wealth, and is a prototypical roguish narrative made unusual by its early authorship and by its female protagonist.