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English
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"Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell, it's the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he's kept his distance--until the day he appears to warn her that a catastrophic solar storm capable of taking down the power grid is coming. Now, Sela must find the courage to become the leader Wears Valley needs....
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 x 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A raccoon forages for food at night and at dawn returns to its home in a strong, old tree, which safely shelters the raccoon through wild winds and ferocious rain so that it can go out searching for food again.
Author
Series
Frankie Elkin volume 3
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"No man truly fears a woman. Not even one who is her father's daughter. The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. She had called herself 'death,' but people called her the devil. Despite the media's chronicling of her tragic circumstances--the childhood spent with a violent father--no one could find sympathy for 'the Beautiful Butcher' who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously...
64) The last noel
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
When two escaped killers take refuge in their home during a storm on Christmas Eve, Skyler O'Boyle plays a daring psychological game to throw the criminals off guard, while her daughter, Kat, escapes and meets a third felon, who is hiding a secret that could save them all.
65) Shiver
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this propulsive locked-room thriller debut, a reunion weekend in the French Alps turns deadly when five friends discover that someone has deliberately stranded them at their remote mountaintop resort during a snowstorm" --
66) Brainstorm!
Author
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
A child, struggling with what to write about, is swept up in a whirlwind of words, pictures, and ideas, until she finds herself caught in a downpour of her own creativity. Includes writing prompts and glossary.
67) Holiday spice
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Series
Language
English
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Darcy Shaughnessy has gotten used to her overbearing brothers chasing away any man she wants to date. But a chance meeting with a brooding--and deliciously handsome--artist is about to make this holiday season one to remember. There's only one thing Benjamin Tanner loves more than his woodcarving: solitude. Then he gets snowed in with Darcy in his cozy cabin in the woods, and their heated feelings begin to melt the icy barrier between them. With Ben's...
68) Julia's hope
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Like countless others in 1931, Samuel Wortham lost his job. And he lost his wife's inheritance, their home, and much of his self-respect. Samuel, his wife, Julia, and their two young children hitchhike from Pennsylvania to Illinois in hope of work. Caught on the road by a sudden storm, the Worthams take shelter in an abandoned farmhouse out of desperation. Feeling oddly at home, Julia insists on finding the owner of the property, despite Samuel's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
viii, 375 pages ; 18 cm
Language
English
Description
Grateful to her twin for keeping Mustang Ridge in the family, Jenny Skye agrees to return home for a month so that her sister can get away. It's the middle of winter, and only a few year-round staffers, her family, and the animals will be there. But the globe-trotting videographer is soon in way over her head at the dude ranch dealing with reservations, her redecorating-obsessed mother, and the town's hunky new veterinarian. Despite his adventurous...
70) Best in snow
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"In this Christmas mystery, lawyer Andy Carpenter and his golden retriever, Tara, are on the beat after a body turns up in the snow and a journalist is the prime suspect. Christmas has come early to the town of Paterson, New Jersey, in the form of a snowstorm that dumps two feet of snow on the ground. Lawyer Andy Carpenter likes snow--white Christmas and all that--but it can cause problems for the walks he takes his dogs on every day. When Andy's...
71) White corridor
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
339 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
The unthinkable has happened at London's Peculiar Crimes Unit. In the depths of winter, a member of staff has been found murdered, and everyone who works there is suddenly a suspect. But Arthur Bryant and John May, the eccentric elderly detectives who run London's strangest crime division, aren't on hand to solve the crime. They've ventured into the heart of the English countryside, only to become stranded on a desolate snowbound section of road....
72) Stormland
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
338 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"They call it Stormland: a sprawling, largely abandoned region of the southeastern coast of the USA, where climate change's extreme weather conditions have brought about a ''perfect storm'' of perpetual tempests; where hurricane-strength storms return day after day, 365 days a year. The heart of Stormland is Charleston, South Carolina, a flooded ruin where hundreds of people remain for their own peculiar reasons; where thugs prey on the weak, and...
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
In three intertwining short stories, several high school couples experience the trials and tribulations along with the joys of romance during a Christmas Eve snowstorm in a small town... "An ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train, setting off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives....
Author
Series
Publisher
Canelo US
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
298 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Olivia is a career-focused woman with a grown up daughter who doesn't have time for Christmas or community. She returns to Thorndale to help with family and encounters Tom, a writer and former actor who's lost everything...and they must share a house for the holidays. They have met once previously by chance, and the evening ended in disappointment. Thorndale will have to work its magic and teach them to share what they have and consider living life...
76) Cocoa crush
Author
Series
Donut shop mystery volume 35
Publisher
[Jessica Beck]
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
168 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Suzanne and Jake leave town to attend a party with friends, they never dream that they are about to become involved in another murder. The stakes continue to rise as an ice storm knocks out the power in the penthouse where they are staying, locking them in with a dead body and a killer until law and order--as well as the power--can be restored.
77) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
Author
Publisher
Mira Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Ash and Pia move from hipster Brooklyn to rustic Vermont in search of a more authentic life. But just months after settling in, the forecast of a superstorm disrupts their dream. Fear of an impending disaster splits their tight-knit community and exposes the cracks in their marriage. Where Isole was once a place of old farm families, rednecks and transplants, it now divides into paranoid preppers, religious fanatics and government tools, each...
80) Starlight
Author
Lexile measure
420L
Physical Desc
34 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Haley has difficulty training her foal, Starlight, to come when she calls, and finally one night when Starlight escapes, Haley's hard work pays off.