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Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in the small town of Winston, Pennsylvania feels like drowning. Leah goes to church every Sunday, works when she isn't at school, and takes care of her baby brother, Owen. Like every girl in Winston, she tries to be right and good and holy. If she isn't the Lord of the Wood will take her, and she'll disappear like so many other girls before her. But living up to the rigorous standards of the town takes its toll. One night, when Owen won't...
Author
Publisher
Beaver's Pond Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Time often slows and frequently even stops in the small town of Cottage Park, Iowa. In fact, time is best measured not by the hands of a clock but by the innings in a baseball game. Praying and playing baseball are two of the town's primary activites. Actually, they are one in the same in a town where baseball is a religion. Still, time does eventually flow on. Much like the Des Moines River just outside Cottage Park, time also leads to Des Moines,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Hamish the bear and Noreen the goose lead a very good life in the country, but when Hamish journeys to the city to explore new places, make new friends and get a job on a building site, he realizes how much he misses his home and his good friend, Noreen.
804) Hidden in the pines
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Lew Ferris, the newly elected sherriff of McBride County, discovers an eerie parallel in the recent tragic drowning of a teenage girl to a cold case that has remained unsolved for thirty years.
Publisher
Acorn TV
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
This final series sees the Doc making efforts to overcome his phobia and beginning to question whether he made the right decision about resigning. He and Louisa have also welcomed a baby daughter, Mary Elizabeth, a sister to four-year-old James Henry; includes the feature-length finale special.
807) The stonecutter
Author
Series
Patrik Hedstrom mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When a young girl's body is pulled out of the harbor in the small Swedish resort town of Fjallbacka, Det. Patrik HedstroÌm becomes the lead investigator as he struggles with lazy and inept colleagues and an even remoter-than-usual boss. It's his grim task to discover who could be behind the murder of the child both he and his partner Erica knew well.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
In this heart-warming coming-of-age story set in a remote Derbyshire village share the villagers' joys, and crises as Bert Middleton takes a nostalgic look back at his youth, between 1914 and 1929. Season One, 1914-1919: When a bus drives into the village for the first time, the rest of the world seems suddenly closer. Bert feels frustrated at being too young to fight in the Great War. Season Two, The 1920s: The local aristocrats plan to resume their...
Author
Publisher
SOHO
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Ray Welter, who was until recently a high-flying advertising executive in Chicago, has left the world of newspeak behind. He decamps to the isolated Scottish Isle of Jura in order to spend a few months in the cottage where George Orwell wrote most of his seminal novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. Ray is miserable, and quite prepared to make his troubles go away with the help of copious quantities of excellent scotch. But a few of the local islanders take...
810) A good American
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
The Meisenheimer family struggles to find their place among the colorful residents of their new American hometown, including a giant teenage boy, a pretty schoolteacher whose lessons consist of more than music, and a spiteful, bicycle-riding dwarf.
811) Falling down
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After he's downsized from his job, an emotionally unstable man slowly loses his mind, unleashing a spree of violence on those that he sees as detriments to society.
812) August moon
Author
Publisher
Top Shelf
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
The townspeople of Calico believe in the legend of the Soul Fire - orbs of light dancing through the night sky, believed to be the souls of dead ancestors watching over the town. But when eleven-year-old Fiona Gan comes to town with her dad, she learns the amazing truth: these fireballs are actually the light from lanterns carried by mysterious rabbit-like creatures as they leap across rooftops.
Author
Series
Mason novels volume 3
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It all started as a supper club, a group gathering monthly to share homemade dinners, until the night one woman made a startling revelation. After that, the "Confession Club" decided to meet weekly to feast not only on dinner, but on admissions of misdeeds, embarrassments, and insecurities.When Iris Winters and Maddy Harris are invited to the club, they find that it's just what each of them needs. Iris hasn't yet told anyone about the unlikely man...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Cora Matthews returns to Moonberry Lake to settle her mother's affairs and then get on with her life. What she finds is a strangely enticing inheritance, including a dilapidated lodge, a lot of eccentric neighbors, a handsome stranger, and a whole lot of family secrets to unravel"--|cProvided by publisher.
Author
Series
Hildafolk volume 4
Publisher
Flying Eye Books, an imprint of Nobrow Ldt
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In Hilda's new adventure, she meets the Nisse, a mischievous but charismatic bunch of misfits with some intriguing secrets. Meanwhile, on the streets of Trolberg, a dark spectre looms.
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