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"Bitter winters are nothing new in Hatchet Inlet, hard up against the ridge of the Laurentian Divide, but the advent of spring can't thaw the community's collective grief, lingering since a senseless tragedy the previous fall. What is different this year is what's missing: Rauri Paar, the last private landowner in the Reserve, whose annual emergence from his remote iced-in islands marks the beginning of spring and the promise of a kinder season. The...
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Follows the efforts of Chicky, who, with the help of Rigger (a bad boy turned good who is handy around the place) and her niece Orla (a whiz at business), turns a coastal Ireland mansion into a holiday resort and receives an assortment of first guests who throughout the course of a week share laughter and the heartache of respective challenges. John, the American movie star thinks he has arrived incognito; Winnie and Lillian, forced into taking a...
3) 'Salem's Lot
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English
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The town knew darkness...and the awful, heavy silence of terrifying images grotesquely dancing in and out of the shadows...and stark white faces, huge empty eyes and long gnarled hands that reached out with lustful insistence...and the paralyzing fear of a diabolical corruption and a hideous peril more dreadful than death.
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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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English
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When Charlie Beale wanders into Brownsburg after the war in Europe he's carrying two suitcases: one contains his worldly possessions; the other is full of money. Obtaining a job at the local butcher shop, he becomes acquainted with townspeople like the shopowner's five-year-old son, Sam, and Sylvan, the teen bride of the town's richest man. The interaction between these three people will alter the town forever.
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Olive Kitteridge volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
At the edge of the continent, in the small town of Crosby, Maine, lives Olive Kitteridge, a retired schoolteacher who deplores the changes in her town and in the world at large but doesn't always recognize the changes in those around her.
10) Pizza mouse
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Series
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A city-dwelling mouse carries a slice of pizza on a subway and delivers it to his family in this easy-to-read book.
11) Heat wave
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Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Abigail, Ralphie, and the other citizens of Lumberville struggle to endure a week-long heat wave.
12) Tangle Town
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Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1997
Language
English
Description
Roxy has to find her lost cow Mosey on a "typical" day in Tangle Town.
13) Cakewalk
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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The night a riot breaks out at the Capitol Theater movie house - during a Mary Pickford picture, no less - you can bet that the Hunsenmeir sisters, Louise and Julia, are nearby. Known locally as Wheezie and Juts, the inimitable, irrepressible, distinctly freethinking sisters and their delightful circle of friends are coming of age in a shifting world - and are determined to understand their place in it. Across town, the well-to-do Chalfonte siblings...
14) Black Otter Bay
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Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"A character driven narrative suffused with the stark beauty of Minnesota's Northshore. Rich in story-telling and steeped in the legends and grandeur of Lake Superior, Black Otter Bay is a subtly suspenseful cabin (or anywhere) must-read."--Amazon.com
15) Babbitt
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English
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At once a conformist and a rebel, George F. Babbitt represents an ordinary man whose life turns upside down during one of the most profound sea changes in American cultural history: the mechanization and hucksterism of the Roaring Twenties.
17) Paradise Valley
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Virgin River volume 7
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English
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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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Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
Description
Now that Prohibition has ended, what the townspeople of Twisted Tree, Kentucky, need most is the revival of the Old Sam Bourbon distillery. But William McFee knows it’ll take a miracle to convince his father, Barley, to once more fill his family’s aging house with barrels full of bourbon. When a drifter recently buried near the distillery begins to draw crowds of pilgrims, the McFees are dubious. Yet miracles seem to come to those who once interacted...
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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...
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Grace Valley volume 2
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English
Description
Dr. June Hudson, who has managed to keep her relationship with DEA agent Jim Post a secret, finds her life thrown into turmoil when an old lover returns to town, a murder occurs, and human bones are found in her aunt's backyard.
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