Flight Into Danger by Arthur Hailey
          Flight Into Danger is the story of Maple Leaf Air Charter Flight 714. It’s a normal, everyday, routine flight, this time carrying a crowd of happy football fans – drinking, talking and placing extravagant bets on the outcome of the next day’s game. Then suddenly as the airliner drones westward through the Canadian night, a fierce, unheralded terror strikes, and turns the peaceful, happy evening into a hideous nightmare. And on the ground hundred of miles away at Vancouver Airport, relatives, friends and lovers wait helplessly, silently and pray… 

Halic: The Story of a Grey Seal by Ewan Clarkson
          The author of Syla the Mink again allows his observations and enthusiams for a unique species full play in this exuberant, empathic (but never sentimental) story of a male gray seal from birth to beachmaster bull. Born on a pebbly shore off the coast of Wales, Halic, separated from his mother, begins his driftwood journey to the coast of Spain, the Scilly Islands, and back again to his birthplace. While Halic cruises, floats and bobbles, the author discourses efficiently and even poetically on above-and-underwater life — from octopi to shipwrecks, auks to killer whales. But life is not all calms and hunting for the seal — there are storms, attackers, and most dangerous of all, the assaults of man to which the author unhesitatingly refers as ""murder."" Halic is rescued by dedicated and humane conservationists from an oil slick but narrowly escapes death from spears and bullets. He eventually mates (this is the only section in which the author’s prose quivers to excess) and wins his stretch of beach and a harem, More. impressionable conservationists will be glad to know that after a calf-massacre, one seal-hating mariner is bitten and dashed to death on the rocks. Intelligent, informational, involving nature writing.

Green Darkness by Anya Seton
          The year was 1968…. The country was England. Richard Marsdon had brought his new bride, Celia, to the family home, Medfield Place. They were young and very much in love. But Richard and Celia were not only of this time. They had lived and loved before — in another world — in sixteenth-century England. And their love had been tragically doomed. Was their new love destined for the same fate?

The Strange Fate of the Morro Castle by Gordon Thomas
          A spellbinding moment-by-moment account of one of the most spectacular disasters off the coast of New York which killed more than 130 people. Answers the question which until now has remained unanswered: was it a terrible accident – or arson? 
          In the early morning hours of September 8, 1934, the luxury cruise liner Morro Castle, carrying 316 passengers and 230 officers and crew, caught fire a few hours out of the New York harbor on a return voyage from Havana. The fire spread with terrifying swiftness, transforming the ship into a blazing inferno. 
          One hundred thirty four people died that night. Was it an accident?

A Day No Pigs Would Die by Robert Newton Peck
          Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.