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81) All pets allowed
Author
Series
Blackberry Farm volume 2
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"When Becket and her twin brother, Nicholas, adopt new pets from the local shelter, Becket's dream dog turns out to be a super-shy scaredy-pooch, and Nicholas's cat is more outgoing and attention-seeking than he was expecting"--
Author
Publisher
Dzanc Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A posthumous collection of short stories and fragments from novels unfinished at the time of his death. This collection shows, once again, that Gay was a master of Southern Gothic, with tales that are dark and atmospheric and written with finely crafted prose.
Author
Series
Publisher
FORGE
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
"Once, not too long ago, there was just a single Irish country doctor tending to the lively little village of Ballybucklebo: Doctor Fingal Flahertie O'Reilly. Now his thriving practice is growing by leaps and bounds. Not only has O'Reilly taken a new trainee under his wing, Doctor Connor Nelson, he's also added a spirited Labrador puppy to his ever-expanding household at Number One Main Street. Meanwhile, his trusted partner, young Doctor Barry Laverty,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Martin Walker presents his first collection of Bruno stories featuring all the familiar characters from the novels, the glories of the Périgord, and ample helpings of food and wine"--
After a prisoner breaks parole to see his son on Christmas, Bruno must track him down before he throws away his chance at eventual freedom. When a Senegalese man's coffee sells superbly at the market, some cafe owners become incensed by the new competition and take...
85) Legion Lake
Author
Publisher
Robert Kerr
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Lester and Shirley Pierce planned to spend their post-retirement years near the peace and quiet of Legion Lake until they learned of a plan to build a hog confinement upstream. When tragedy strikes during the struggle to save the lake, the community joins forces to avenge one of their own.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
City mouse William Gray and country mouse Tansy become good friends who enjoy visiting each other in the country and the city, but they miss each other when they are apart--is there a way for them to meet halfway without giving up the city and country lives they love?
87) Shadows & lies
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books, House of Anansi Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Taken to live with her grandmother in the country, a young city girl finds a way to cope with the change brought about by her parents' separation when an owl, a frog, and a mouse take her on a nighttime tour of her extraordinary new world.
Author
Series
Bruno Courreges mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bruno, the beloved chief of police of the idyllic French town of St. Denis in the Dordogne, is back! This time a mysterious death brings ancient secrets to light, and it's up to our hero--and favorite gourmand--to connect the tangled threads of past and present. When a woman's body is found at the foot of a cliff near St. Denis, Bruno suspects a connection to the great ruined Château de Commarque, a long-ago Knights Templar stronghold that stands...
90) Tragedy at two
Author
Series
Lois Meade mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Edward Powell lives with his Aunt Mildred in the Welsh town of Llwll. His aunt thinks Llwll an idyllic place to live, but Edward loathes the countryside - and thinks the company even worse. In fact, Edward has decided to murder his aunt"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless. . . . It will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, it can change who you are." — Boston Globe
A 10th anniversary edition of Barbara Kingsolver's New York Times bestseller that describes her family's adventure as they move to a farm in southern
...94) The survivors
Author
Language
English
Description
"Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets in The Survivors, a thrilling mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between...
Author
Series
Fairy tale girl volume 3
Publisher
Vineyard Stories
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Susan Branch and her husband Joe fulfill a lifetime dream by celebrating their 25th wedding anniversary by sailing across the Atlantic on the Queen Mary 2 and spending two months wandering the English countryside.
98) Sorrow on Sunday
Author
Series
Lois Meade mysteries volume 7
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"When Mordecai Tremaine arrives at the country retreat of one Benedict Grame on Christmas Eve, he discovers that the revelries are in full swing in the sleepy village of Sherbroome--but so too are tensions amongst the assortment of guests. When midnight strikes, the partygoers discover that presents aren't the only things nestled under the tree...there's a dead body too. A dead body that bears a striking resemblance to Father Christmas. With the snow...
100) Bent Road: [a novel]
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"For twenty years, Celia Scott has watched her husband, Arthur, hide from the secrets surrounding his sister Eve{u2019}s death. As a young man, Arthur fled his small Kansas hometown, moved to Detroit, married Celia, and never looked back. But when the 1967 riots frighten him even more than his past, he convinces Celia to pack up their family and return to the road he grew up on, Bent Road, and that same small town where Eve mysteriously died. While...
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