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Author
Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"All of the animals judge Rory the Tea-Rex before they get to know her. When they make a mistake, they must fix it. Children will enjoy reading this leveled text with a lesson to learn"--Provided by publisher.
Rory the Tea-Rex is new in town, and the other dinosaurs do not trust her because of her sharp teeth and claws--but when they realize they have misjudged her they have to set things right.
5) Blind fury
Author
Series
Anna Travis mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Helping to investigate a series of killings, Detective Inspector Anna Travis accepts an offer of assistance from Cameron Welsh, a convicted murderer she helped arrest in the past, but Welsh's obsession with Anna brings terrible consequences.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Happily Ever Older reveals how the right living arrangements can create a vibrancy that defies age or ability. Reporter Moira Welsh has spent years investigating retirement homes and long-term care facilities and wants to tell the dangerous stories. Not the accounts of falls or bedsores or overmedication, but of seniors living with purpose and energy and love. Stories that could change the status quo. Welsh takes readers across North America and...
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Calling all corgi lovers! Ever wondered about a corgi's personality? Want to find out the best way to care for a corgi? Kids will learn all about corgis with fun facts, beautiful photos, and a canine activity"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
In the Welsh cottage she inherited from schoolteacher Emma Teasdale, Penny Brannigan discovers a package of letters that reveal Emma's lesbian affair with a Liverpool artist who was killed in a suspicious hit-and-run accident.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"The residents of Llanelen are brimming with excitement. Antiques Cymru, a regional take on the popular national TV show, is coming to the Welsh town and people are flocking from miles around, hoping their attic treasures turn out to be worth a fortune. On the day of filming, quiet local sheep farmer Haydn Williams brings a generations-old long-case clock for evaluation, while the woman he's always admired from afar, Catrin Bellis, turns up with a...
Author
Series
Dorothy Martin mysteries volume 13
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Martin and her husband, retired Chief Constable Alan Nesbitt, are invited to join their close friends Nigel and Inga Evans at a Welsh music festival. When a tragic accident takes the life of one of the choir, and the same fate befalls the star soloist, Dorothy and Alan find themselves in the midst of an investigation as tumultuous, passionate and complicated as any opera.
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane, an imprint of The Quick Brown Fox & Company LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Artist and spa owner Penny Brannigan has been asked to organize a formal dinner to mark the centenary of the armistice that ended World War One. After dinner, the guests adjourn to the library for a private exhibition of the Black Chair, a precious piece of Welsh literary history awarded in 1917 to poet Hedd Wyn. But to the guests' shock, the newly restored bardic chair is missing. And then Penny discovers the rain-soaked body of a waiter."--
15) Korgi: Book 2
Author
Series
Korgi volume 2
Publisher
Top Shelf Productions
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Things are not going too well in Korgi Hollow. While a mysterious hunter has trapped and clipped the wings off of many mollies, Ivy and Sprout search for answers in the surrounding woods... but they may be facing something that is totally out of this world!
Author
Publisher
Tin House
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this debut collection of stories that delight in language and shine with wit, wisdom, and deep humanity, a vainglorious mine owner dreams of harnessing all of nature to the machinery of commerce. Two women hunt rare butterflies in a pre-First World War landscape already experiencing the first bites of biodiversity loss. A young man tracks down the father who abandoned him inside a festival exhibit. A rural Welsh community is fascinated and angered...
17) Good people
Author
Series
Glyn Capaldi mysteries volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Detective Sergeant Glyn Capaldi, fallen from grace and exiled from Cardiff to the Welsh countryside, does his best to serve as the catchall detective in the big bit in the middle that God gave to the sheep. It's a place where nothing of any significance is meant to happen, a place where his superiors believe he can do little harm. But trouble has a way of catching up with Capaldi. Six men and a young woman disappear after a night of rugby and drink....
Author
Publisher
Hallmark Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Kaylee Collins, a shy city-dweller, is writing a Western romance--and getting the details wrong. Her editor insists that Kaylee learn more about country life by spending a week at a working ranch. Kaylee reluctantly agrees as long as she can bring Gladys, her slightly overweight Corgi. To rustle up her courage, Kaylee channels the spirit of the fearless heroine of her story. But she's shocked when she meets Luke Montgomery--the spitting image of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
As New York City teenager Virginia learns to accept her plus-size body and struggles to cope with her brother's suspension from college for date rape, she finds herself losing interest in boyfriend Froggy and growing closer to new boy Sebastian until a terrible secret threatens everything.
Virginia Shreves thought her life was finally back on course. She's come to terms with who she is both inside and out, and has started to rebuild her relationship...
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Sister Agatha and Father Selwyn make sleuthing a work of art. But will they paint themselves into a corner when they investigate the Village Art Society president's death? As Yuletide settles upon Gwenafwy Abbey, the rural Welsh convent's peace is shattered when Tiffany Reese, president of the Village Art Society, is found dead on the floor of the parish hall. Sister Agatha, whose interests lie more with reading and writing mystery stories than with...
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