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61) A witch in time
Author
Series
Bewitching mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Author
Series
Divine cities volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A generation ago, the city of Voortyashtan was the stronghold of the god of war and death, the birthplace of fearsome supernatural sentinels who killed and subjugated millions. Now, the city's god is dead. The city itself lies in ruins. And to its new military occupiers, the once-powerful capital is a wasteland of sectarian violence and bloody uprisings. So it makes perfect sense that General Turyin Mulaghesh - foul-mouthed hero of the battle of Bulikov,...
Author
Series
Hope series (Philip Gulley) volume 3
Publisher
Center Street
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Bestselling author Philip Gulley offers humorous, small-town storytelling as he follows the foibles and follies of Pastor Sam Gardner. Thanks to an unexpected windfall, Sam Gardner's congregation (with the exception of a few malcontents) is eager to expand their meetinghouse. But before building can commence, the County Environmental Board and the Department of Natural Resources put the quietus on the plan. A colony of endangered Indiana bats have...
65) Holly: a novel
Author
Language
English
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Description
When Penny Dahl calls the Finders Keepers detective agency hoping for help locating her missing daughter, Holly is reluctant to accept the case. Her partner, Pete, has Covid. Her (very complicated) mother has just died. And Holly is meant to be on leave. But something in Penny Dahl's desperate voice makes it impossible for Holly to turn her down. Mere blocks from where Bonnie Dahl disappeared live Professors Rodney and Emily Harris. They are the picture...
67) Wake up, city!
Author
Publisher
Little Bee Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A little girl and her father make their way to school as the whole city wakes up around them.
68) Dusk
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Boy with dog and grandfather with beard watch holiday lights turn on in the city"--
69) Blue diary
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
70) Tart of darkness
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
After unexpectedly inheriting a huge old house in a small college town, Dani, to fund her new personal chef business, takes in boarders, but when one of them is murdered and she becomes the prime suspect, she must serve up the real killer to clear her name and save her business
71) Before morning
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Let snow fall overnight and change the world before morning, making it "slow and delightful and white.".
73) Nana in the city
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
©2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy is frightened by how busy and noisy the city is when he goes there to visit his Nana, but she makes him a fancy red cape that keeps him from being scared as she shows him how wonderful a place it is.
Author
Series
Mitford years volume 13
Language
English
Description
"Over the course of ten Mitford novels, fans have kept a special place in their hearts for Dooley Kavanagh, first seen in At Home in Mitford as a barefoot, freckle-faced boy in filthy overalls. Now, Father Tim Kavanagh's adopted son has graduated from vet school and opened his own animal clinic. Since money will be tight for a while, maybe he and Lace Harper, his once and future soul mate, should keep their wedding simple. So the plan is to eliminate...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From award-winning novelist Betina González, a dizzying, luminous English-language debut about an American town overrun by a mysterious hallucinogen, forcing its citizens to confront the secrets of their past and rely on unexpected relationships"--
76) Look at us
Author
Publisher
Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Martin, a market analyst, and Lily, a corporate attorney, have a life that many would envy-they share an expensive downtown New York apartment with their twin toddlers, sample the delicacies of Manhattan's finest restaurants, and take Caribbean vacations. Brilliant and hardworking, they find their career ambitions rewarded with promotions and bonuses. But when the couple's nanny announces her immanent departure, they panic: how they will ever find...
77) Snow
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
78) A week in winter
Author
Language
English
Description
"Maeve Binchy, "the grand story teller,"* returns with a cast of characters you will never forget when they all spend a winter week together on holiday at Stone House, a restful inn by the sea... Stoneyville is a small town on the coast of Ireland where all the families know each other. When Chicky decides to take an old decaying mansion, Stone House, and turn it into a restful place for a holiday by the sea, the town thinks she is crazy. She is helped...
Author
Language
English
Description
Carny Sullivan grew up in the zany world of a traveling carnival. Quaint and peaceful Serenity, Texas, has given her a home, a life, and a child. Logan Brisco is the smoothest, slickest, handsomest man Serenity, Texas has ever seen. But Carny Sullivan knows a con artist when she sees one---and she's seen plenty, starting with her father. As far as Carny Sullivan can tell, she's the only one in town who has his number. Because from his Italian shoes...
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