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"Wedding bells are ringing in the latest page-turning Library Lover's Mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Word to the Wise. Love is in the air in Briar Creek as library director Lindsey Norris and boat captain Mike (Sully) Sullivan are finally tying the knot. The entire town is excited for the happy day, and Lindsey and Sully's plan for a small wedding evaporates as more and more people insist upon attending the event of the year....
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Distance makes no difference to love... Eager to cheer up her recently-widowed gran, Cassie Fitzgerald persuades Lissbeg library to set up a Skype book club, linking readers on Ireland's Finfarran Peninsula with the little US town of Resolve, where generations of Finfarran's emigrants have settled. But when the club decides to read a detective novel, old conflicts on both sides of the ocean are exposed, hidden love affairs come to light, and, as secrets...
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English
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"When Maggie and Emily meet as girls on the Nantucket beach, they are instant best friends--even though Emily's mother would much prefer she play with the daughters of senators and statesmen than a seamstress's kid like Maggie. But after many golden summers spent building sandcastles and sharing their dreams for the future, Emily and Maggie grow apart. In her twenties, beautiful and spirited Emily worries she'll never amount to more than the glittering...
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760L
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English
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A Room with a View by E.M. Forster is a novel that weaves together themes of love, social conventions, and self-discovery. Set in the early 20th century, the story follows the journey of the protagonist, Lucy Honeychurch, as she grapples with the expectations of society and her own desires. The narrative begins with Lucy's journey to Italy accompanied by her older cousin and chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett. They stay at the Pension Bertolini in Florence,...
45) Chime
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Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Description
In the early twentieth century in Swampsea, seventeen-year-old Briony, who can see the spirits that haunt the marshes around their town, feels responsible for her twin sister's horrible injury until a young man enters their lives and exposes secrets that even Briony does not know about.
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Still reeling from a personal tragedy that left her estranged from the sister who was once her best friend, Julia Evarts remains at a loss as to how to move on with her life until she receives an anonymous gift of Amish Friendship Bread with instructions on how to make the bread herself, and a request to share it with others.
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"Summer is busy season for Mackenzie 'Mac' Almeida's bicycle shop, nestled in the quaint, seaside hamlet of Westham, Massachusetts. She's expecting an influx of tourists at Mac's Bikes; instead she discovers the body of Jake Lacey. Mac can't imagine anyone stabbing the down-on-his-luck handyman. However, the authorities seem to think Mac is a strong suspect after she was spotted arguing with Jake just hours before his death. Mac knows she didn't do...
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HL 630L
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English
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"The son of a Pentecostal preacher faces his personal demons as he and his two outcast friends try to make it through their senior year of high school in rural Forrestville, Tennessee without letting the small-town culture destroy their creative spirits and sense of self." --
50) Tex
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710L
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English
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The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
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He was Sam Clemens, steamboat pilot, before he was Mark Twain, famous author. His better-known name originated with the lingo of navigation, and much of his writing was informed by his shipboard adventures on one of the world's great rivers. In this book, Twain offered recollections ranging from his salad days as a novice pilot to views from the passenger decks in the twilight of the river culture's heyday. Under the tutelage of the most celebrated...
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When Quaker Pastor Sam Gardner is asked by the ill Unitarian minister to oversee a wedding in his place, Sam naturally agrees. It's not until the couple stands before him that he realizes they're two women. In the tempest of strong opinions and misunderstandings that follows the incident, Sam faces potential unemployment. Deeply discouraged, he wonders if his pastoral usefulness has come to an end. Perhaps it's time for a change. After all, his wife...
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
viii, 279 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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When London street musician James Bowen found an injured cat curled up in the hallway of his apartment building, he had no idea how much his life was about to change.
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"When Anikka Lachlan's husband, Mac, is killed in a railway accident, she is offered--and accepts--a job at the Railway Institute's library and searches there for some solace in her unexpectedly new life. But in Thirroul, in 1948, she's not the only person trying to chase dreams through books. There's Roy McKinnon, who found poetry in the mess of war, but who has now lost his words and his hope. There's Frank Draper, trapped by the guilt of those...
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Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 270 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Kate Hamilton's plans for recreating Asheboro, Maryland as a Victorian village and tourist attraction are progressing nicely, and most of the townspeople have become supporters. There's only one problem: money. Kate had laid out what she thought was a reasonable plan and had built in a financial cushion in her estimates, but the over-runs had exceeded everybody's expectations, and the town coffers are empty, while the opening date looms closer and...
56) Ho-ho-homicide
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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While spending a week at her friend's Christmas tree farm, Liss MacCrimmon Ruskin is drawn into a mystery involving a dead body in a shipment of Scotch pine, a series of "accidents," and a strange maze of trees.
57) Death sentence
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
540L
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English
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There is a book in the Library of Doom which contains only a single sentence, but when it is read, the reader vanishes into nothing--but now that book is creating havoc on a school bus, and it is up to the Blue Librarian to protect the children.
58) We'll fly away
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Lexile measure
HL 670L
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English
Description
"Best friends since childhood, Luke and Toby have dreamed of one thing: getting out of their dead-end town. Soon they finally will, riding the tails of Lukes wrestling scholarship, never looking back. If they dont drift apart first. If Tobys abusive dad, or Lukes unreliable mom, or anything else their complicated lives throw at them doesnt get in the way" --
Author
Series
Lakeside Library mystery volume 1
Publisher
Crooked Lane
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
327 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rain Wilmot has just returned to her family's waterfront log cabin in Lofty Pines, Wisconsin, after the untimely death of her husband. The cabin is peaceful compared to Rain's corporate job and comes with an informal library that Rain's mother, Willow, used to run. But as Rain prepares for the reopening of the library, all hopes for a peaceful life are shattered when she discovers the body of Thornton Hughes, a real estate buyer, on the premises....
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Series
Publisher
Macmillan Audio
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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The cast of Donna Andrews' New York Times bestselling Meg Langslow mystery series is back for an unforgettable holiday story in The Twelve Jays of Christmas.
Meg and Michael's annual holiday celebration is well underway, with a throng of out-of-town relatives staying at their house. Hosting these festivities is a little harder than usual—they have to relocate all the events normally held in their library, currently