Books with title Tortuga

The exciting story of how a colony of tortoises is established on a remote South Sea islandTortuga, the tortoise, is caught in a storm and finds herself washed up on a remote island where raiding sea birds swoop down and steal her newly laid eggs. Exhausted and alone Tortuga desperately searches for a safe place to live and a new mate. But just as she feels all is lost, she discovers that some of her eggs survived, and have hatched into baby tortoises.

Julian realized very early in life that he was different. With mismatched colored eyes and a tuft of brown hair growing within his blond locks, His inexplicable math and science knowledge, remarkable musical talents, and surprising foreign language skills, initially gifts, soon became a burden. His childhood is further complicated by haunting visions and disturbing memories of other people’s lives. Julian must assemble the puzzle of his visions in a race against time, as he, together with Fatima, his young Lebanese friend, unravel a sinister plot and attempt to stop a disaster from striking the Boston area.Tortugas is the suspenseful tale of a modern-day Frankenstein using CRISPR gene-editing technology, filled with adventure, humor, and emotion, in the adolescent and teen struggle of social acceptance and self-identity.

With mismatched colored eyes and a tuft of brown hair growing within his blond locks, Julian realized very early in life that he was different. His inexplicable math and science knowledge, remarkable musical talents, and surprising foreign language skills, initially “gifts”, soon became a burden. His childhood is further complicated by haunting visions and disturbing memories of other people’s lives. Julian must assemble the puzzle of his visions in a race against time, as he, together with Fatima, his young Lebanese friend, unravel a sinister plot and attempt to stop a disaster from striking the Boston area. Tortugas is a young adult novel with the inspiration of a modern-day Frankenstein, filled with adventure, suspense, and life’s lessons learned.

This American Book Award winner by the author of Bless Me, Ultima is a novel of a New Mexico teenager's journey of physical and spiritual recovery. When the story opens, the eponymous hero of Rudolfo Anaya's novel is in an ambulance en route to a hospital for crippled children in the New Mexican desert. A poor boy from Albuquerque, 16-year-old Tortuga takes his name from the odd, turtle-shaped mountain that is rumored to possess miraculous curative powers. Tortuga is paralyzed, and not even his mother's fervent prayers can heal him. But under the mountain's watchful gaze, with the support of fellow patients, he begins the Herculean task of breaking out of his shell and becoming whole again. Drawn from personal experience and imbued with the magic realism and phantasmagorical vision quests that distinguish Anaya's work, Tortuga is a joyful, life-sustaining book about hope, faith, friendship, and love that celebrates the triumph of the human spirit in the physical world.

In Tortuga, you are a swashbuckling buccaneer trying to safely transport your acquired treasures to the legendary pirate haven of Tortuga before other buccaneers (your fellow players) try to capture them from you.As the dice roll, you can almost hear the crash of the cannons and the smash of the sabers. Tortuga rewards players who exhibit traits of a good pirate (sorry, buccaneer!): adaptability, greed, decisiveness, and luck!Tortuga has very little downtime as buccaneers roll their dice (a unique color for each player) behind player screens and decide simultaneously what resource to place on their player board: treasure, crew, ships, sabers and cannons. All are important, and you need to watch what your opponents are doing lest that treasure you just acquired find its way to another "rightful" owner!