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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
In a tiny village in the Swiss Alps, an angel meets an American girl named Zola who has come with her father to open a school, and together Zola and the angel rescue a group of homeless orphans, who gradually change everything.
25) Lanny: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Not far from London, there is a village. This village belongs to the people who live in it and to those who lived in it hundreds of years ago. It belongs to England's mysterious past and its confounding present. It belongs to Mad Pete, the grizzled artist. To ancient Peggy, gossiping at her gate. To families dead for generations, and to those who have only recently moved here. But it also belongs to Dead Papa Toothwort who has woken from his slumber...
Author
Series
Peridale Cafe mystery volume 2
Publisher
Agatha Frost
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When the entire village is invited to a garden party for a mysterious 'special announcement', nobody expected that party to end with a man being thrown to his death from a window. The murder is committed at Julia South's estranged father's manor, so all eyes in Peridale turn to her to solve the case. In a race against the clock, Julia must juggle her blossoming romance with Detective Inspector Brown, and her young lodger, Jessie's, sudden strange...
Author
Series
Scarlet Cove seaside cozy mystery volume 2
Publisher
Pink Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"On the night before Halloween, the people of Scarlet Cove annually gather at the castle on the hill in hopes of spotting the headless spirits that are rumoured to stalk the grounds. What starts off as a silly legend for ex-detective, Liz Jones, soon becomes all too real when she discovers a severed head. Her hopes of settling into her new home on the coast are once again hampered when she is dragged into another murder investigation. Liz finds herself...
Author
Series
Reservoir novels volume 2
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A teenage girl has gone missing. The whole community has been called upon to join the search. And now an interviewer arrives, intent on capturing the community's unstable stories about life in the weeks and months before Becky Shaw vanished"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"My Brilliant Life interweaves the past and present of a tight-knit family, finding joy and happiness in even the most difficult times. Areum lives life to its fullest, vicariously through the stories of his parents, conversations with Little Grandpa Jang - his sixty-year-old neighbor and best friend - and through the books he reads to visit the places he would otherwise never see. For several months, Areum has been working on a manuscript, piecing...
30) The village
Series
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
In a quiet, isolated village in old Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays intact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal carcasses begin to appear around the village, causing the elders...
Author
Publisher
Pink Tree Publishing
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"When Liz Jones retired as a detective at the age of forty-two and moved to the beautiful fishing town of Scarlet Cove to pursue her passion of opening an arts and crafts store, she did not expect the murder and lies of the big city to follow her. Only days after starting her new life, Liz finds herself tangled in a web of death and deception when she pulls the body of a fisherman from the sea, but what appears at first to be a drunken accident soon...
Author
Series
Publisher
Modern Library
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
First published in 1919, "Within a Budding Grove" is the second novel in the "In Search of Lost Time" series by famed French author Marcel Proust. Originally intended to be published in 1914, but delayed by the onset of World War I, "Within a Budding Grove" was awarded the Prix Goncourt in 1919 and instantly catapulted Proust to international fame. The novel follows the narrator from the first volume, "Swann's Way", from childhood to adolescence....
Author
Series
Peridale Cafe mystery volume 23
Publisher
Pink Tree Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Though Julia South-Brown knows the imminent sale of Wellington Manor means everything to her father Brian and his wife Katie, the process hasn't been all sunshine and roses for the village of Peridale. James Jacobson, the cutthroat property developer interested in the manor, also wants something else ... to turn Peridale's library into a hot new restaurant. And James isn't the kind of man who takes no for an answer. As clouds both literal and figurative...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Lalani Sarita takes on the impossible task of traveling to the legendary Mount Isa, towering on an island to the north. Generations of men and boys have died on the same quest--how can a timid young girl in a tiny boat survive the epic tests of the archipelago?"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Tales of the Fish Patrol" is a collection of seven short stories written by Jack London. Based on his own experiences, London harks back at his teenager years spent aboard various fishing boats in San Francisco Bay during the early 1900s. At the time, the waters contained rich oyster beds, and people of all ages and creeds descended upon them for profit. Jack was one of these oyster pirates, but later had a change of conscience and become a member...
Author
Series
Peridale Cafe mystery volume 8
Publisher
Agatha Frost
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A storm hits Peridale with disastrous effects. Barker's cottage is destroyed, forcing him to move in with Julia, but she has more to worry about than him leaving his socks around and not putting the toilet seat up. Julia is shocked when the storm also uncovers a secret basement beneath her cafe and even more shocked when she finds the body of a teenage girl who has been missing for more than twenty years.
Author
Series
Peridale Cafe mystery volume 7
Publisher
Pink Tree Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Excitement blossoms through Peridale when a prestigious gardening magazine picks the village as the spotlight for their next issue, but that joy quickly turns to dread when members of the local gardening society, the Peridale Green fingers, start dying one by one after their obituaries are sent to the Peridale Post the day before their murders.
Author
Series
Peridale Cafe mystery volume 11
Publisher
Pink Tree Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The residents of Peridale don't like change, so when the famous actress, Candy Bennett, rolls into the village to demolish a historic cottage, things don't go as smoothly as she would have hoped. With the 'Peridale Preservation Society' protesting her plans to build a modern home on the land, things quickly turn sour. Days into the project, Candy's lead builder, Shane, is murdered and the task to solve the mystery once again falls into Julia's lap....
Author
Series
Peridale Cafe mystery volume 13
Publisher
Pink Tree Publishing Limited
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"A free holiday to a seaside B&B run by drag queens sounds like the perfect way to spend a relaxing week away from Peridale, or so Julia South thought. When she arrives at the quirky B&B with her family, she's determined to have a fun break, but she quickly finds herself in the middle of another puzzling mystery when a lighting rig falls on the star drag performer, Simone Phoenix. Was it an accident, or something more sinister? Julia quickly befriends...
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