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Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Bicycle shop owner Mac Almeida and her crime-solving book group put their sleuthing skills to good use when the organizer of the Spring equinox festival is found dead in the Book Nook, hoping to bring the killer's story to an end.
Author
Publisher
The Unnamed Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"The Saturnalia carnival marks three years since Nina walked away from Philadelphia's elite Saturn Club -- with its genteel debauchery, arcane pecking order, and winking interest in alchemy and the occult. In doing so, she abandoned her closest friends and her chance to climb the social ladder. Since then, she's eked out a living by telling fortunes with her Saturn Club tarot deck, a solemn initiation gift that Nina always considered a gag but has...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Celeste Cabot has a flair for painting--and a touch of paranormal talent too. She's just arrived to sell her artwork at a big craft fair in North Carolina, complete with rides, games, and deep-fried everything. But the sunny landscape takes on a darker hue when her Chihuahua, Van Gogh, leads her to the riverbank--and to a body that was definitely not part of her design. With help from a handsome fellow artist, Celeste sets out to draw the brazen...
44) The cursed earth
Author
Publisher
Nosetouch Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Small towns always guard their secrets, and the quaint Pennsylvania tourist town of Lynchburg is no exception. When members of a Pittsburgh gang retreat to the outskirts of the town in an ill-fated bid to hide from the authorities, they-along with a trio of industrial spies, a would-be celebrity chef, and a happy-go-lucky band of unwary festivalgoers-find themselves set upon by the dark forces behind the town's 50th annual Fungus Festival. Set deep...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When four best friends with a hunger for human flesh attend a music festival in the desert they discover a murderous plot to expose and vilify the girls and everyone like them. This summer is going to get gory."--Publisher's description
Three years ago, the melting of arctic permafrost released a pathogen of unknown origin into the atmosphere, causing a small percentage of people to undergo a transformation that became known as the Hollowing. Those...
46) Food truck fest
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A family prepares for a day at the food truck festival, while at the same time, the food truck crews get ready for the same event, checking recipes, starting to cook, and driving to the festival site.
48) Gingerdead man
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When a man playing Santa is poisoned by one of her cookies at the Dickens of a Holiday festival, Val Deniston's reputation is on the line and she and her granddad must race against time to catch a cookie-cutter killer.
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo KIids
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Saint Patrick's Day celebrates the Feast Day of Saint Patrick who is the patron saint of Ireland. It also celebrates Irish culture. Readers will learn that people celebrate with big parades and festivals with Irish traditional music and green clothing.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Detective Elise King investigates a man's disappearance in a seaside town where the locals and weekenders are at odds with each other in this rich and captivating new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow. Elise King is a successful and ambitious detective-or she was before a medical leave left her unsure if she'd ever return to work. She now spends most days watching the growing tensions in her small seaside town of Ebbing-the...
Author
Series
Disney princess. Beginnings volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Young Cinderella makes a surprising new friend as they each compete in the Midsummer Festival's puppet contest"--
52) Natsumi!
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The festival of traditional Japanese arts is coming up, and little Natsumi's big personality is too much for her family's quieter traditions, until her grandfather introduces her to taiko drumming.
Author
Series
Publisher
Midnight Ink
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cherry enthusiast Whitney Bloom is furiously baking her way into the heart of Chicago with her fabulous cherry pies when she receives a desperate call from her mother. The annual Cherry Blossom Festival has just kicked off at the Cherry Orchard Inn in Door County, Wisconsin, and the manager of the Bloom family orchard has been found dead beneath the cherry blossoms. Worse yet, all evidence points to Whitney's father as the killer. After she races...
Author
Series
Marya Khan volume 3
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Marya loves fall. Every year, her family goes to the town's fall festival and picks out the best pumpkin. But this year, after she sees her frenemy Alexa winning a big, cool pumpkin-shaped trophy, Marya knows she's got to win a trophy for something. It just so happens that her school is going to hold its own fall festival, with games and food and even a hayride. All the ticket sales will go to an animal shelter, and the person who sells the most...
Author
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As five-year-old Keiko and her eighty-five year old Obi, or grandmother, excitedly prepare to celebrate the Star Festival, Tanabata Matsuri, Obi tells the story of Tanabata. Includes information about the festival and how it is celebrated.
56) Coaching fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Attending the world-renowned Texas Rose Festival to support her bestie Gilley and Gilley's new boyfriend, creative director Stuart Jacobs, life coach Cat Cooper finds things getting thorny when a member of Stuart's staff is accused of murder and she must weed through the cutthroat pageantry to catch a blossoming killer.
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
This illustrated beer atlas includes more beers and more countries than many books of its kind. Includes beer recommendations from Garrett Oliver, the renowned brewmaster of Brooklyn Brewery, and written by "beer geographers" Nancy Hoalst-Pullen and Mark Patterson, this guide features more than 100 maps and 200 color photos. You'll find beer history, trends, and tasting across six continents (and how to order a beer in 14 languages!). Travel tips...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 16
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
At a festival in Spain, the Thea Sisters become involved in a mystery after a valuable fan is stolen.
59) Moon Messenger: a family reunion during the mid-autumn festival: a story told in English and Chinese
Author
Publisher
Shanghai Press and Publishing Development Co. Ltd
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
Multiple
60) Midsommar
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A young woman reluctantly joins her boyfriend on a summer trip to a Swedish festival where things quickly go awry.
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