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Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Putter and his fine cat, Tabby, and Mrs. Teaberry and her good dog, Zeke, head for the sledding slope for the wildest ride ever. Maybe winter is not so slow after all!"--
Author
Series
Family Fletcher novels volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures of a family with two fathers, four adopted boys, and a variety of pets as they make their way through a school year, Kindergarten through sixth grade, and deal with a grumpy new neighbor.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The coming of Spring usually means renewal, but for Linnea Rutledge, Spring 2020 threatens stagnation. Linnea faces another layoff, this time from the aquarium she adores. For her - and her family - finances, emotions, and health teeter at the brink. To complicate matters, her new love interest, Gordon, struggles to return to the Isle of Palms from England. Meanwhile, her old flame, John, turns up from California and is quarantining next door. She...
244) Taste of blood
Author
Series
Jane Tennison mysteries volume 9
Publisher
Zaffre
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Leaving the relentless pressure of her West End precinct for the quiet, local police station in Bromley, Detective Jane Tennison is pulled into a complicated domestic assault.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
To relieve the boredom of a long, hot summer, Mr. Putter and his cat Tabby join their fun-loving neighbor, Mrs. Teaberry, and her mischievous dog Zeke on an adventurous sightseeing boat cruise.
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a fortieth birthday celebration leads to a ghostly visitor, four friends find themselves navigating surprising mysteries and spiritual hijinks, in this clever debut from Melissa Holtz. Alyssa Mann isn't adventurous, not since her husband died and she found herself the single mom of a teenage daughter. But there's no way to avoid celebrating the big 4-0, so when her best friends drag her out for drinks and a tarot reading, she throws caution...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When two people pass out seeds and gardening supplies, neighbors who claim to have no interest in gardening are transformed into a community of gardeners. Includes information on gardening and related topics.
248) Dirty little secrets
Author
Publisher
Quercus Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Six neighbours, six secrets, six reasons to want Olive Collins dead. In the exclusive gated community of Withered Vale, people's lives appear as perfect as their beautifully manicured lawns. Money, success, privilege - the residents have it all. Life is good. There's just one problem. Olive Collins' dead body has been rotting inside number four for the last three months. Her neighbours say they're shocked at the discovery, but nobody thought to check...
249) The guest cat
Author
Publisher
New Directions Paperbook Original
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The Guest Cat is a subtly moving novel that conveys deeply felt ways of being. Two writers, a young couple, enjoy their quiet cottage in a leafy part of Tokyo: they work at home as freelance editors. One day a cat invites herself into their small kitchen. She is a beautiful creature. She leaves, but comes again, and then again and again. New, small joys, radiated by the fleeting loveliness of life, accompany the cat; the days take on more light and...
250) Brooklyn crime novel
Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In the streets of 1970s Brooklyn, a daily ritual goes by the dance. Money is exchanged, belongings surrendered, power asserted. The promise of violence lies everywhere, a currency itself. For these children, Black, brown, and white, the street is a stage in shadow. And in the wings hide the other parents; cops; renovators; landlords; those who write the headlines, the histories, and laws; those who award this neighborhood its name. The rules appear...
252) Murder at midnight
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Regency widow Lily Adler is looking forward to a quiet Christmastide away from the schemes and secrets she witnessed daily in London. Not only will she be visiting the family of her late husband; she will be reunited with Captain Jack Hartley, her friend and confidante, finally returned after a long voyage at sea. But secrets aren't only found in London. Jack's younger sister, Amelia, is the center of neighborhood scandal and gossip. She refuses...
253) Live and let grind
Author
Series
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Devil's Beach is percolating with a hot murder case, and reporter-turned-barista Lana Lewis could be the next to get beaned in Tara Lush's third Coffee Lover's mystery, perfect for fans of Cleo Coyle and Lucy Burdette. Laid-off journalist Lana Lewis is thriving as the proprietor of Perkatory, a coffee shop on quirky Devil's Beach island, Florida. She's juggling a relationship with police chief Noah Garcia; enjoying the company of her best friend,...
254) Lo opuesto al amor
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023
Language
Español
Description
"Jo March está muy feliz por empezar la universidad. Este año su objetivo es vivir la experiencia a tope. Para ello, tiene claro que irá a todas las fiestas, conocerá a personas interesantes y se liará con quien quiera y cuando quiera. Solo se ha autoimpuesto una norma: no va a enamorarse, de eso ya ha tenido suficiente. Sobre el papel todo está claro, pero cuando empieza a poner en marcha el plan, sus ligues van de mal en peor. Y por si fuera...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and...
Author
Publisher
Vintage Español
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
Español
Description
"Desde pequeña, Leah ha vivido con akinetopsia, o cequera del movimiento. Nada se ha movido a su alrededor en los últimos veinte años. Su mundo suele transformarse en un abrir y cerrar de ojos: al parpadear, lo que se encuentre ante ella desaparece. Leah se orienta con la ayuda de un bastón por su barrio de Morningside Heights, en Manhattan. Para quienes la rodean es ciega, pero en realidad lo único que ella no puede ver es el movimiento. Leah...
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.
258) Tombs
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Countless tombstones stand in rows throughout a small community, forming a bizarre tableau. What fate awaits a brother and sister after a traffic accident in this town of the dead? In another tale, a girl falls silent, her tongue transformed into a slug. Can a friend save her? Then, when a young man moves to a new town, he finds the house next door has only a single window. What does his grotesque neighbor want, calling out to him every evening from...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An elderly London resident befriends the little boy who moves in downstairs, but his parents' fighting brings her back to her harrowing escape from Nazi Germany at age twelve and grim post-war years in France with her mother. Ninety-one-year-old Gretel Fernsby has lived in the same well-to-do mansion block in London for decades. She lives a quiet, comfortable life, despite her deeply disturbing, dark past. She doesn't talk about her escape from Nazi...
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