Kathleen McInerney
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English
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Some people stay all summer long on the idyllic island of Belle Isle, North Carolina. Some people come only for the weekends-and it's something they look forward to all week long. When Riley Griggs is waiting for her husband to arrive at the ferry one Friday afternoon, she is instead served with papers informing her that her island home is being foreclosed. To make matters worse, her husband is nowhere to be found. She turns to her island friends...
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Series
Kate Burkholder thrillers volume 8
Language
English
Description
"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called upon by the sheriff's department in rural, upstate New York to assist on a developing situation that involves a reclusive Amish settlement and the death of a young girl. Unable to penetrate the wall of silence between the Amish and "English" communities, the sheriff asks Kate to travel to New York, pose as an Amish woman, and infiltrate the community. Kate's long time love interest, State Agent John Tomasetti,...
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Wild robot volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The sequel to the bestselling The Wild Robot, by award-winning author Peter Brown. Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings--but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island?
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Francine Poulet is the greatest Animal Control Officer in Gizzford County. She is from a long line of Animal Control Officers. She's outwitted squirrels, battled snakes and stared down a bear. She is never afraid; until she's faced with a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost. Can she face her fears, round up the raccoon, and return to the ranks of Animal Control?
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English
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A Savannah florist is about to score the wedding of a lifetime—one that will solidify her career as the go-to-girl for society nuptials. Ironically, Cara Kryzik doesn't believe in love, even though she creates beautiful flower arrangements to celebrate them. But when the bride goes missing and the wedding is in jeopardy, Cara must find the bride and figure out what she believes inches Maybe love really does exist outside of fairy tales after all....
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English
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"Everyone in Painters Mill knows the abandoned Hochstetler farm is haunted. But only a handful of the residents remember the terrible secrets lost in the muted/hushed whispers of time and now death is stalking them, seemingly from the grave. On a late-night shift, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder is called to the scene of an apparent suicide -- an old man found hanging from the rafters in his dilapidated barn. But evidence quickly points to murder...
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Ever After High (Shannon Hale) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
It's the aftermath of Legacy Day, the day when the students at Ever After High are supposed to pledge to follow in their fairytale parents' footsteps, and everyone is in a huff and a puff! Raven Queen, daughter of the Evil Queen, has refused to sign the Storybook of Legends, rejecting her story--and putting everyone else's in jeopardy. The Royal Apple White doesn't want to think Raven is being a rebellious pain, but Raven's choice means Apple might...
8) Wilde Lake
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English
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The New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed standalones After I'm Gone, I'd Know You Anywhere, and What the Dead Know challenges our notions of memory, loyalty, responsibility, and justice in this evocative and psychologically complex story about a long-ago death that still haunts a family. Luisa "Lu" Brant is the newly elected--and first female--state's attorney of Howard County, Maryland, a job in which her widower father famously served....
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English
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Do you struggle with getting your child to fall asleep? In "The Rabbit Who Wants To Fall Asleep" you will follow Roger The Rabbit when he gets help from Uncle Yawn and other friends to fall asleep in the evening. Your child is quickly compelled by the story and falls asleep when you read it or after. The story is in a lovely way sleep-inducing.
Roger the Rabbit is tired and seeks advice from Uncle Yawn, Heavy-Eyed Owl, and Sleepy Snail on how to...
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Pain and the Great One volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting
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Pain and the Great One volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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First-grader Jake "The Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "The Great One" have more adventures, including visiting their cousins in New York and celebrating their cat Fluzzy's birthday.
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Series
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
p2008
Language
English
Description
Dulcie's Taste of Magic: Poor Dulcie! After the overworked baking fairy nearly ruins breakfast, Queen Clarion tells her to take a holiday. But Dulcie's vacation is no fun at all.
Silvermist and the Ladybug Curse: She's the calmest fairy around, but then a white ladybug lands on Silvermist's head, and her orderly world goes topsy-turvy. She's never been the type of fairy to lose things, or have accidents, or make mistakes--until now.
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Series
Pain and the Great One volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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More adventures at school and at home with Jake, a first-grader, and his older sister Abigail, known to each other as the Pain and the Great One.
14) An evil heart
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Chief of Police Kate Burkholder investigates the brutal death of a young Amish man in An Evil Heart, the latest installment of the bestselling series by Linda Castillo. On a crisp autumn day in Painters Mill, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder responds to a call only to discover an Amish man who has been violently killed with a crossbow, his body abandoned on a dirt road. Aden Karn was just twenty years old, well liked, and from an upstanding Amish...
16) Pray for silence
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Series
Language
English
Description
Chief of Police Kate Burkholder must confront a dark evil to solve the mysterious murders of an entire Amish family of seven. Formerly Amish herself, Kate is no stranger to the secrets the Amish keep from the English--and each other--but this crime is horribly out of the ordinary.
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Summer begins with Mary Kay Andrews, in this delightful summer read about flipping houses, and finding true love. Hattie Kavanaugh went to work helping clean up restored homes for Kavanaugh & Son Restorations at eighteen; married the boss's son at twenty; and was only twenty-five when her husband, Hank, was killed in a motorcycle accident. Broken hearted, but determined to continue the business of their dreams, she takes the life insurance money,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"The discovery of an Amish bishop's remains leads chief of police Kate Burkholder to unearth a chilling secret in this new thriller from bestselling author Linda Castillo. Over a decade ago, beloved Amish bishop Ananias Stoltzfus disappeared without a trace. The mystery of what happened to the esteemed old man has haunted his small Pennsylvania community for years. When skeletal remains showing evidence of foul play are unearthed and revealed to be...
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Series
Schuler sisters volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Passion, redemption, and a battered old suitcase full of secrets: the New York Times-bestselling author of A Hundred Summers returns with another engrossing tale of lost love and female ambition that crosses generations. Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men...
20) Fish in a tree
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"Ally's greatest fear is that everyone will find out she is as dumb as they think she is because she still doesn't know how to read"--