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23) The Red Garden
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jonathan and Rosie have been together so long they finish each other's sentences--so when he (finally) proposes and asks her to move across the country with him, everyone is happily surprised. But when things suddenly unravel, Rosie sends Jonathan packing and moves back home with Soapie, the irascible, opinionated grandmother who raised her. Only now she has to figure out how to fire Soapie's very unsuitable caregiver, a gardener named Tony. It's...
25) The book charmer
Author
Series
Dove Pond volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The residents of Dove Pond, North Carolina, know three things: They have the finest barbecue this side of Atlanta, their apple festival is the best that ever was, and the town has phenomenal good luck whenever the Dove family has seven daughters. Fortunately, that time is now, because Dove Pond desperately needs a miracle. The seventh daughter, Sarah Dove, believes in all things magical. Books have whispered their secrets to her since she was a child....
Author
Publisher
Cinco Puntos Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Fate intervenes when a small Texas town's star athletes--"the Johns"--are killed in rollover. Araceli, the girlfriend John Mejia left behind, endures her senior year under Greenton's prying gaze. Chon Gonzales, who has waited his whole life for a shot with Araceli, juggles desire and grief looking for his chance. --Publisher
Author
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
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;...
30) Too much slime!
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
When oozing slime threatens to cover the whole town, residents work together to remove the menace, but is it really gone?
31) Olive Kitteridge
Author
Series
Olive Kitteridge volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
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.
32) Cape Light
Author
Series
Cape Light novel volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
A novel by the American artist journeys to the picturesque village of Cape Light on the coast of New England, a hamlet populated by colorful inhabitants who share a strong sense of community and caring for their neighbors.
34) Doug unplugged
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Doug the robot discovers that cities are much more than downloaded facts when he unplugs from the computer feed and explores one first-hand.
35) Best of my love
Author
Series
Fool's Gold volume 20
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A heartbroken baker and a charming but womanizing tour guide embark on an experiment to prove their respective gender's quality and trustworthiness while regaining self-respect, only to become the subject of gossip in their small hometown.
36) Main Street
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Features the story of a college graduate from St. Paul who leaves to marry a doctor in a small, middle-class town, only to find her efforts to bring culture and beauty to the town thwarted by its residents, testing her idealism.
Author
Language
English
Description
It was only because Leelee Satterfield had adored her husband since the tenth grade that she agreed to leave Memphis to follow his dream of managing an inn in Vermont. But when Leelee is left swindled and snowbound, she's forced to confront the true depth of her Southern grit in this foreign town. Readers will rejoice in the hilarious antics, colorful cast of characters, and heartfelt moments in Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter.
Author
Series
Betsy-Tacy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
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