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Author
Series
Heirs of Acadia volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
313 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Historical drama and romance set in Venice and the English countryside of the 1800s. Two lives become intertwined despite the burdens of their past. A place that once seemed only a dreaded detour becomes a sacred venue for the unveiling of God's Providence"--Provided by publisher.
84) Cold river
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her cafe becomes the epicenter for investigators trying to infiltrate a brutal crime ring, soon-to-be prosecutor Hannah Shay suspects that a man from her past is involved in the killings and tries to avoid him at all costs.
85) Tunnels
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 20
Physical Desc
472 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.
86) Rag and bone
Author
Series
Billy boyle world war II mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Soho Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
305 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Billy Boyle is sent to London during the Battle of Britain to investigate the murder of a Soviet official, which may be a revenge killing in response to the massacre of thousands of Polish officers, and finds his probe complicated by the fact that his friend Kaz is the prime suspect.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Language
English
Description
Assembling at their country house one final time before it is sold, four siblings and their children share past memories, hidden passions, and devastating secrets that threaten to overwhelm them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"As the holidays approach, all is merry and bright for Inspector Witherspoon, Mrs. Jeffries, and the staff at Upper Edmonton Gardens...but murder knows no season. MURDER UPON A MIDNIGHT CLEAR Christopher Gilhaney isn't a popular man, and he proves why once again when he insults every guest at Abigail Chase's Guy Fawkes Night dinner party. When Gilhaney is shot dead under the cover of the night's fireworks, his murder is deemed a robbery gone wrong....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An influential twentieth-century novel admired for its philosophical and psychological introspection The Ramsay family is on holiday on the Isle of Sky in Scotland. As the family and their guests decide on whether or not to visit a nearby lighthouse, Virginia Woolf spins a tale that focuses on the intricate web of family life and the conflict that occurs between genders.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"When a woman stumbles across a mysterious children's book, long-held secrets about her missing sister and their childhood spent in the English countryside during World War II are revealed"--
Author
Series
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
323 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maisie Dobbs' first assignment for the British Secret Service takes her undercover to Cambridge as a professor, and leads to the investigation of a murderous web of activities being conducted by the up-and-coming Nazi party.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Despite his overwhelming fear of interacting with people, Christopher, a mathematically-gifted, autistic fifteen-year-old boy, decides to investigate the murder of a neighbor's dog and uncovers secret information about his mother.
95) Second chance
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
374 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
96) Freefall
Author
Series
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st American ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 25
Physical Desc
599 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.
98) Fox evil
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
369p. 25cm.
Language
English
Description
When elderly Ailsa Lockyer-Fox is found dead in her garden, dressed only in nightclothes and with bloodstains on the ground near her body, the finger of suspicion points at her wealthy husband, Colonel James Lockyer-Fox. A coroner's investigation deems it death by natural causes, but the gossip surrounding James refuses to go away. Friendless and alone, James and his reclusive behavior begins to alarm his attorney, whose concern deepens when he discovers...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Juliet Ashton, a thirty-year-old author, writes to her publisher expressing her desire to stop covering the aftermath of WWII, but Guernsey farmer Dawsey Adams invites neighbors to write to Juliet with their stories, which puts her off at first but eventually helps her find inspiration for her next book, and her life.