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Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals-from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking,...
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Beartown volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes it worse is the obvious satisfaction that all the former Beartown players, who now play for a rival team in the neighboring...
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Language
English
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Birmingham real estate agent and former Miss Alabama Maggie Fortenberry learns valuable lessons about the nature of friendship, the challenges of modern life, and the dangers of impossible dreams as she struggles to keep Red Mountain Realty afloat and bury the heartbreaking secrets of her past.
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Seaside Knitters mystery volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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Late summer blooms in beautiful Sea Harbor, Massachusetts, and while a harvest thrives, Izzy Chambers Perry and the other Seaside Knitters will need to cast on their sleuthing skills to save a local farm. Unfortunately, finding a killer can be like looking for a needle in a haystack...
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English
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From the author of Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick The Rules of Magic comes a transfixing glimpse into a small American town where a mysterious, magical garden holds the truth behind three hundred years of passion, dark secrets, loyalty, and redemption.
“[A] dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories . . . [These] tales, with their tight, soft focus on America, cast their own spell.”—The...
“[A] dreamy, fabulist series of connected stories . . . [These] tales, with their tight, soft focus on America, cast their own spell.”—The...
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English
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Some days Nora Nolan thinks that she and her husband, Charlie, lead a charmed life--except when there's a crisis at work, a leak in the roof at home, or a problem with their twins at college. And why not? New York City was once Nora's dream destination, and her clannish dead-end block has become a safe harbor, a tranquil village amid the urban craziness. Then one morning she returns from her run to discover that a terrible incident has shaken the...
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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On a cold December day in northern upstate New York, the body of high school senior Joy Enright is discovered in the woods at the edge of a pond. She had been presumed drowned, but an autopsy shows that she was, in fact, strangled. As the investigation unfolds, four characters tell the story from widely divergent perspectives: Susanne, Joy's mother and a professor at the local art college; Martin, a black graduate student suspected of the murder;...
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Betsy-Tacy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Betsy, Tacy, and Tib go over the Big Hill to Little Syria and meet some refugees and learn that new Americans are sometimes the best Americans and that they wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
10) Secret place
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy finds a patch of wilderness in the city.
11) Paradise Valley
Author
Series
Virgin River volume 7
Language
English
Description
Marine corporal Rick Sudder is home early from Iraq--his tour ended abruptly on the battlefield. The carefree boy is gone, replaced by a man who believes his future is as bleak as his mirror image. But can the passion and commitment of a young woman who has never given up on him mend his broken body and shattered heart? As the people of Virgin River rally around Rick, another recent arrival tests the tightly knit mountain town's famous welcoming spirit....
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English
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Over the course of two weeks, everything in Beartown will change. Maya Andersson and Benji Ovich, two young people who left in search of a life far from the forest town, come home and joyfully reunite with their closest childhood friends. There is a new sense of optimism and purpose in the town, embodied in the impressive new ice rink that has been built down by the lake. Two years have passed since the events that no one wants to think about. Everyone...
13) Beulah Hill
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Set against the backdrop of the 1930s, the story of a white man who was murdered on land owned by the last remaining black family in a small town captures the prejudice, forbidden eroticism, and difficulties of the time.
14) Florida
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Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
A collection of stories spanning centuries of time in mercurial Florida examines the decisions and connections behind life-changing events in characters ranging from two abandoned sisters to a conflicted family woman.
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Series
Tea shop mystery volume 18
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
While attending the "Rat Tea," a Charleston society event, local tea shop owner Theodosia Browning becomes entangled in a murder case after the hostess's husband is poisoned.
18) Every Friday
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every Friday a father and his child share a special ritual.
19) Eventide
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
20) Juliet in August
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Juliet, Saskatchewan is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of town--the welcome sign promises a population of one thousand and eleven--so it's easy to believe that nothing of consequence takes place there. But the heart of Juliet beats with rich stories of its inhabitants. They all bring the prairie desert and the town of Juliet to vivid life in this funny, tragic and touching novel"--
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