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2622) Malamander
Author
Series
Legends of Eerie-on-Sea volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"It's winter in the town of Eerie-on-Sea, where the mist is thick and the salt spray is rattling the windows of the Grand Nautilus Hotel. Inside, young Herbert Lemon, Lost and Founder for the hotel, has an unexpected visitor. It seems that Violet Parma, a fearless girl around his age, lost her parents at the hotel when she was a baby, and she's sure that the nervous Herbert is the only person who can help her find them. The trouble is, Violet is...
2623) Dead, white, and blue
Author
Series
Death on Demand mysteries volume 23
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Summer is a hectic time of the year for Annie Darling. Sun and scorching temperatures never fail to bring swarms of tourists to her mystery bookstore, Death on Demand, for the latest beach reads. But Annie still finds time to enjoy herself. The Broward's Rock Fourth of July dance is just around the corner, and the island is buzzing with excitement--Shell Hurst included... Shell is the kind of woman wives hate--for good reason--and most of them wish...
2625) Hurricane Bay
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Dane Whitelaw, an ex-special forces agent turned private investigator, has found a photo under his door of Sheila Warren's body. She has been strangled with his tie and posed on the beach of his private island in the Florida Keys. The crime appears to be the handiwork of a serial killer terrorizing the Miami area, and Dane is being set up for the murder. Kelsey Cunningham is Sheila's best friend and determined to find her missing friend, even if she...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1965, 2007
Description
'Love and death, ' said Chief Inspector Wexford. 'Those were the only two sensational things that ever happened to Margaret Parsons. The thing is they both happened in my district.' The police knew about Margaret Parsons's life, and by the look of it, it was dull. But it was not Margaret's life that interested Wexford. It was her death. She had been a predictable ordinary woman - but now she had met a death of passion and violence for which there...
2629) Anastasia
Pub. Date
2001, c1997.
Description
Animated musical tale of Anastasia, a princess of Russia's Romanoff family who survives assassination and finally flees to Austria.
2630) Finding Sophie: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"For the last seventeen years, everything Harry and Zara King have done has been for their crown jewel Sophie, their one and only daughter. When she goes missing, Harry and Zara will stop at nothing to find her. Someone knows what happened. The police have no leads, and as the weeks pass there's little news. Harry and Zara's suspicion of a neighbor and his involvement in Sophie's disappearance quickly becomes an obsession-and they'll do anything to...
2631) Hidden: series 1
Description
In this noir thriller from the team behind Hinterland, DI Cadi John investigates a string of disappearances in the mountains of Wales.
2633) Surrounded by mercy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
When an expectant mother arrives at Mercy Hospital in search of her missing husband, Evelyn and her friends agree to help her find him. Their one clue is a postcard depicting the Mercy Angel statue telling the soon-to-be mother that her FBI-agent husband was in Charleston recently. But everything changes when the baby arrives early-and the absent father is accused of embezzlement. Meanwhile, Evelyn is digging into one of the Civil War's most famous...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"It's Christmastime in London, and Sherlock Holmes takes on two cases. The angelic three-year-old child of a wealthy couple is the target of a vicious kidnapper, and a country aristocrat worries that his handsome, favorite son has mysteriously vanished from his London pied à terre. Holmes and Watson, aided by the colorful Heffie O'Malley, slip slide in the ice to ensure a merry Christmas is had by nearly everybody..."--Provided by publisher.
2635) Axiomatic
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Drawing on nine years of research, Axiomatic explores the ways we understand the traumas we inherit and the systems that sustain them. In five sections-each one built around an axiom about how the past affects the present-Tumarkin weaves together true and intimate stories of a community dealing with the extended aftermath of a suicide, a grandmother's quest to kidnap her grandson to keep him safe, one community lawyer's struggle inside and against...
2636) She holds up the stars
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
A young Indigenous girl searching for a sense of home finds strength and courage in her gifts, her deepening connection to the land, and her own cultural awakening in this moving coming-of-age story.
2637) Eden mine
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Jo Faber is packing up the home she and her brother Samuel inherited. For generations, the Fabers have lived near Eden Mine, but Jo and Samuel will be the last. At the moment she hears the news of the bombing on the radio, Jo knows nothing, but she also knows that something isn't right. The arrival of their friend and unofficial guardian, Sheriff Hawkins, confirms her suspicions. Samuel said he was going to find work. But soon it's clear that he's...
Author
Series
Vanished volume 1-3
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"When the crows gather over a remote Navajo Reservation in the deep Southwest, it is a sign that the thin veil that separates our world from the one beyond is about to open. Without a barrier between life and death, things pass betweens both worlds. Some of them are good. Most of them are not. Three strangers find themselves on the front lines of a supernatural battle that spans generations, crosses our world and the world beyond, and forges bonds...
2639) The hocus girl
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Leeds, May 1822. Thief-taker Simon Westow owes Davey and Emily Ashton everything - the siblings gave him sanctuary when he needed it most. So when Davey is arrested for sedition and Emily begs Simon for help, he starts asking questions, determined to clear his friend. Are the answers linked to rumours of a mysterious government spy in town? Davey's not the only one who needs Simon's help. Timber merchant George Ericsson has been 'hocussed' by a young...