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"It was only a few months ago that the ladies of Arlo's Friday Night Book Club--Fern, Camille, and Helen--solved the murder of the renowned author Wally Harrison. So when they select Wally's bestseller, Missing Girl, for their next discussion, Arlo is hopeful it will be the end of their mystery hunt. But the women are convinced Missing Girl was inspired by a 50-year-old cold case from their own Sugar Springs, Mississippi--the disappearance of Mary...
Author
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Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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Set in small-town Tennessee, RITA Award winner Beth Pattillo's heartwarming tale features a diverse ensemble of ladies transformed through the healing power of compassion. The Knit Lit Society discusses literature and knitting but avoids real problems. And then a deeply troubled teen joins the group. Her unique perspective and the books they discuss trigger an unexpected outpouring of concern.
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
10 regular print books, 1 large print book, 1 audiobook on CD, folder ; in bookbag
Language
English
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Arriving in Tangier with her new husband only to encounter the estranged best friend she has not seen in more than a year, Alice allows her friend to introduce her to the rhythms and culture of Morocco, only to be quickly stifled by the woman's controlling nature.--
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. She's barefoot and wild; unfit for polite society. So in late 1969, when handsome...
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ALA Editions, an imprint of the American Library Association
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xxii, 135 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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"From hosting authors to planning and coordinating book activities such as book signings and book clubs, libraries are perfect venues for readers to interact directly with authors and their books. And mounting literary programming can be easier than you might think. In this guide Booklist's Brad Hooper inspires, encourages, and advises librarians in providing a wide range of programming that targets their communities of book lovers. Incorporating...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First G.P. Putnam's Sons trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
12 books (426 pages ; 21 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"Life under Apartheid has created a secure future for Robin Conrad, a ten-year-old white girl living with her parents in 1970s Johannesburg. In the same nation but worlds apart, Beauty Mbali, a Xhosa woman in a rural village in the Bantu homeland of the Transkei, struggles to raise her children alone after her husband's death. Both lives have been built upon the division of race, and their meeting should never have occurred. Until the Soweto Uprising,...
66) When sparks fly
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Publisher
HQN
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
413 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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When Sparks Fly: Between her business, her recent divorce and her teenage daughter who needs her right now, Zoey Hartford has her hands full. Thank goodness she has her best friend, Mike McKinnon, to keep her laughing. Zoey and Mike have gone through everything together--from chemistry class to heartbreak. They would never risk their friendship...until one unexpected but sizzling night changes everything. Mike is torn. Funny, down-to-earth Zoey in...
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Series
Mr. Lemoncello volume 2
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
10 books (278 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm.
Language
English
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"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS ... but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
6 books (245 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"A story about a homeless boy and his imaginary friend that proves in unexpected ways that friends matter, whether real or imaginary"--
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Adventurous and fun-loving Becca Daniels loves the rush of new experiences and is constantly pushing the envelope-trying everything from extreme sports, to wild hair colors, to skydiving. So when a broken leg grounds her temporarily, Becca doesn't take the interruption well. Grumpy, restless, and at loose ends, Becca bristles one day when some of her Getaway Girls Book Club friends tease her about being commitment-phobic. To prove them wrong, Becca...
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Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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"Bath, England, 1891. Mr. James Harding was a lot of things--businessman, well-to-do, probable scoundrel--but a drinker he most assuredly was not. So when Harding is believed to have drunkenly fallen to his death into the icy River Avon, Lord William Wethington is immediately suspicious. Finding Lord William's name on a letter in the victim's pocket, the local constabulary summons William to identify the victim. Police detectives learn that William...
71) Read and buried
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English
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Hosting an award-winning novelist is quite a Christmas coup for the Ashton Corners Mystery Readers and Cheese Straw Society. But when he's murdered in Lizzie Turner's house, she's got a holiday homicide on her hands . . . For their very first guest author event, most of the book club members can't wait to pull out all the stops in Southern hospitality. But for Lizzie, Derek Alton is nothing but trouble -- from his massive ego to his smarmy moves....
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 kit (198 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
"The autobiography of a South Korean woman's student days under an authoritarian regime, and how she defied state censorship. When Kim Hyun Sook started college in 1983 she was ready for her world to open up. After acing her exams and sort-of convincing her traditional mother that it was a good idea for a woman to go to college, she looked forward to soaking up the ideas of Western Literature far from the drudgery she was promised at her family's...
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English
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"Massachusetts, 1954. With bags packed alongside her heavy heart, Alice Campbell escaped halfway across the country and found herself in front of a derelict building tucked among the cobblestone streets of Cambridge. She turns it into the enchanting bookshop of her dreams, knowing firsthand the power of books to comfort the brokenhearted. The Cambridge Bookshop soon becomes a haven for Tess, Caroline, Evie, and Merritt, who are all navigating the...
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English
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"For Halloween, the Literary Ladies have chosen to read Washington Irving's spooky classic, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, with its infamous headless horseman. But South Bass Island has its own headless legend--of a Prohibition bootlegger named Charlie 'Sleepy' Harlow. Decapitated by rival rumrunners, Harlow appears once a year in spectral form to search for his noggin. This October, the Elkhart Ghost Getters (EGG) have returned to the island. The group...
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Series
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Harper Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
355, 17 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
On the Finfarran Peninsula on Ireland's west coast, at the Lissbeg Library, a group of women gather together for the first book club of the summer where they'll all face difficult choices and hope to get the happy endings they all deserve.
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Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
307 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"For weeks after the sinking of the Titanic, Yorick spots his own name among the list of those lost at sea. As an apprentice librarian for the White Star Line, his job was to curate the ship's second-class library. But just as he was about to board to tend to his library throughout the passage, a superior takes his place, leaving Yorick stranded at the dock. The Titanic was not Yorick's first brush with death, but as with every near-miss he manages...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
280 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Violet Powell, a twenty-two-year-old from rural Abbott Falls, Maine, is being released from prison after serving twenty-two months for a drunk-driving crash that killed a local kindergarten teacher. Harriet Larson, a retired English teacher who runs the prison book club, is facing the unsettling prospect of an empty nest. Frank Daigle, a retired machinist, hasn't yet come to grips with the complications of his marriage to the woman Violet killed....
78) Batter off dead
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 295 pages ; 18 cm.
Language
English
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"Robbie and her new husband Abe O'Neill are enjoying a summer evening in the park with fellow townsfolk excited for some Friday night fireworks. In attendance are senior residents from Jupiter Springs Assisted Living including Roy Bird, father to South Lick's very own Police Lieutenant Buck Bird. Despite his blindness, Roy is a member of his group home's knitting circle, spending quality time with some lovely ladies. But when the lightshow ends, one...
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Series
Jane Doe book club mystery volume 2
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
329 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
What better time than Halloween to dig into a bracing discussion of a diabolical murder mystery? And what better choice for the Jane Doe Book Club than Agatha Christie's Crooked House? Lyla Moody and her friends are soon embroiled in debate over whether the heroine's actions are particularly believable. But not long after the meeting, sleepy Sweet Mountain, Georgia, is rocked by a murder that uncannily echoes the novel in question. When Lyla and her...