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Author
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
Could ten days at a health resort really change you forever? These nine perfect strangers are about to find out. Nine people gather at a remote health resort. Some are here to lose weight, some are here to get a reboot on life, some are here for reasons they can't even admit to themselves. Amidst all of the luxury and pampering, the mindfulness and meditation, they know these ten days might involve some real work. But none of them could imagine just...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Drawn to a Montana homestead and to a strange childhood companion she'd long forgotten, Joanna Chase and others converge on this remote ranch where a madman lurks with a vision to save the future through murder, forcing them all to come together to save themselves--and humanity.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to one another that isn't true? Talking to Strangers is a classic Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. In it, Malcolm...
5) Stranger danger!: the reluctantly written, but absolutely necessary, book for today's boys and girls
Author
Publisher
Journey Stone Creations
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 cm. + 1 sound disc (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, explains to young readers that they should never go in a car, talk with, or accept gifts from strangers.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (141 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Seven strangers, each with a secret to bury, meet at Lake Tahoe's El Royale, a rundown hotel with a dark past. Over the course of one fateful night, everyone will have a last shot at redemption, before everything goes to hell.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Christmas has never brought out the best in the MacDougal family. Still, year after year, they gather together in the Blue Ridge Mountains to try to make the season merry and bright. But this year is an especially strained one, between Shayne's impending divorce, Morwenna's slavish devotion to work, and Bobbie's reluctance to face what life has to offer. Then, in the midst of a snowy sibling shouting match, a mysterious stranger appears.
Author
Publisher
Pamela Dorman Books, Viking
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
"Nobody ever talks to strangers on the train. It's a rule. But what would happen if they did? From the New York Times bestselling author of The Authenticity Project, a heartwarming novel about unexpected friendships and the joy of connecting. Every day Iona, a larger-than-life magazine advice columnist, travels the ten stops from Hampton Court to Waterloo Station by train, accompanied by her dog, Lulu. Every day she sees the same people, whom she...
10) Summer people
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A summer of healing turns turbulent when Beth, grieving widow, and her teenage twins experience passion and first love, but a dangerous secret from her past threatens to destroy the family.
11) The stranger
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
unpaged : color illustrations ; 24 x 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
The enigmatic origins of the stranger Farmer Bailey hits with his truck and brings home to recuperate seem to have a mysterious relation to the changing season.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A powerful, vibrant novel about the life-changing weekend shared between two strangers, from the award-winning writer Roxane Gay calls "a consummate storyteller." On a rainy October night in Kentucky, recently divorced therapist Tallie Clark is on her way home when she spots a man precariously standing on the edge of a bridge. Without a second thought, Tallie pulls over and jumps out of the car into the pouring rain. She convinces the man to join...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, a division of Penguin Books USA Inc
Pub. Date
[1995]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
One day a bird flies into the barnyard and shouts the news: soon there will be a new arrival!
"When?" said the hen.
"Where?" said the mare.
"In the house?" squeaked the mouse.
The barnyard is quickly bustling with activity as the animals try to discover who the "new one" will be.
15) Sand castle
Author
Publisher
SelfMadeHero
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
111 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Early morning on a perfect summer's day, people begin to descend on an idyllic, secluded beach. Amongst their number, a family, a young couple, a refugee and some American tourists. Its fine white sand is fringed with rock pools filled with crystal clear water. The beach is sheltered from prying eyes by green-fringed cliffs that soar around the cove. But this utopia keeps a dark secret. A woman's body is found floating in the waters, which brings...
16) Radiant heat
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman's hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived...until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.... Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen blanket. The flames crackled around her, the bitter char of eucalyptus settling in the back of her throat. The wildfire devastated...
17) Strawberry Lane
Author
Series
Someday Valley volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Starri Knight is a big believer in fate. How else to explain the compelling connection she feels to the stranger she pulls out of a wrecked car on the very same road where her parents died 20 years earlier? Alongside Auntie Ona-May, the only mother she's ever known, Starri saves Rusty O'Sullivan's life - just as Ona-May once did when Starri was an orphaned babe. But convincing Rusty he has something to live for is going to take all of Starri's faith....
18) The snow Beast
Author
Publisher
Andersen Press USA
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
American edition
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Beast has been robbed! And so has the whole village. Without tools the villagers can't put on their legendary Winter Party, so Beast sets off to solve the mystery. Discovering that a stranded Snow Beast is behind the robbery, Beast has to decide whether to help this odd-looking stranger." --Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
Camila the chicken, Mr. MartÃnez the fox, Felipe the mouse, Rodolfo the cat, Matilda the pig, Mrs. Paquita the owl, Pepe the ogre, and Matilde the inventor, all live in the same on the same street, but nobody talks to anybody else, until one day Mrs. Paquita's internet connection goes out, and Matilde (surprised to find out someone actually lives next door) fixes the problem--and so starts a chain reaction that finally turns this collection of individuals...
Author
Series
Medlar mystery volume 4
Language
English
Description
Bestselling novelist Sara Medlar is skilled at sharing stories about other people, but she hoped the truth about her own family would never surface. Her home in Lachlan, Florida, is her refuge and she loves having her niece Kate and dear friend Jack Wyatt together under her roof. The Medlar Three, as they are known around town, have sworn off getting involved in any more murder investigations. When the sheriff unexpectedly leaves on vacation, Jack...