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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"As a once-bustling mall prepares to shut its doors for the final time, the residents of an upstate New York town must reckon with a shocking act that forces them to reevaluate who they are in this "remarkable study of ordinary people's extraordinary inner lives" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) The inhabitants of a small town have long found that their lives intersect at one focal point: the local shopping mall. But business is down, stores are...
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North Bath trilogy volume 3
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English
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire Falls returns to North Bath, in upstate New York, and to the characters that captured the hearts and imaginations of millions of readers in his beloved best sellers Nobody's Fool and Everybody's Fool. "A wise and witty drama of small-town life...delivering the generous humor, keen ear for dialogue, and deep appreciation for humanity's foibles that have endeared the author to his readers for decades." -Publishers...
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English
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"How did her love life become a community affair? Since her divorce, Emily Lucretia—affectionately known as the flower lady to the people of Cemetery, Indiana—has been focused on her flower shop and taking care of her aging aunt and uncle. Her love life is hardly the centerpiece of her busy days. Saul Culver, the town’s favorite bachelor and owner of the local barbecue joint, has been interested in Emily for a while. But as much as Emily...
4) Open throat
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"A novel narrated by a queer and hungry mountain lion living in the drought-devastated land beneath the Hollywood sign"--
A queer and dangerously hungry mountain lion lives in the drought-devastated land under the Hollywood sign. Lonely and fascinated by humanity's foibles, the lion spends their days protecting a nearby homeless encampment, observing hikers complain about their trauma, and, in quiet moments, grappling with the complexities of their...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Returning to her role as an amateur detective is the last thing library director Amy Muir wants. She’s already buried under an avalanche of responsibilities, including sharing the directorship of the local public library, parenting her holiday-obsessed five-year-old twins, and helping her choreographer husband, Richard, present The Nutcracker as part of the town’s festivities. With her frosty mother-in-law, Fiona, visiting for the holidays,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A small town is transformed when seven strange trees begin bearing magical apples in this masterpiece of horror from the bestselling author of Wanderers and The Book of Accidents. “Chuck Wendig is one of my very favorite storytellers. Black River Orchard is a deep, dark, luscious tale that creeps up on you and doesn’t let go.”٬٢٠١٤؛Erin Morgenstern, author of The Night Circus It’s autumn in the town of Harrow, but something besides...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Laird Hunt's masterful story collection capturing one summer's day in the Indiana community where the beloved National Book Award Finalist Zorrie bloomed. Candy Wilson has forgotten to buy the paprika. Turner Davis needs to get his zinnias in. Della Dorner told her mother she was going to the Galaxy Swirl, but that's not where she's really headed on her new Schwinn five-speed. Float Up, Sing Down is the story of a single day. But in that day, how...
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Series
Harmony novels (Jodi Thomas) volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
Second in the trilogy that's captured America's heart. Ever since she claimed Harmony, Texas, as her home, eighteen-year-old Reagan Truman finds herself drawn to others who have made their way here. Shaped by the loneliness she's known most of her life, Reagan has finally found a place she belongs-and doesn't want anything to get in her way. But when her life is put in jeopardy and the whole town comes together to save her, she'll discover that learning...
9) Babycakes
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Series
Tales of the city volume 4
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
"Inspiration for the Netflix Limited Series, Tales of the City The fourth novel in the beloved Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin’s best-selling San Francisco saga. When an ordinary househusband and his ambitious wife decide to start a family, they discover there’s more to making a baby than meets the eye. Help arrives in the form of a grieving gay neighbor, a visiting monarch, and the dashing young lieutenant who defects from her yacht....
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Arthur C. Clarke winner Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of a city under occupation and on the verge of revolution. There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse. What...
11) Our pool
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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On a hot day, people come from all over the city to spend the day at the pool in this joyful picture book that’s a love song to summer, the city, community, and staying cool! Today is a pool day in the city! The sun is shining, so what are you waiting for? Friends and family. Kids and grandparents. Big bodies and small bodies. Everybody is welcome at our pool! Get ready for swimming and splashing, zigzagging and dunking, and racing and laughing....
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Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"Vibrant language and rhythm celebrate the start of a new day in this uplifting poem about a city waking up. On a beautiful, sunny morning, a family runs errands along a city street. They visit a bakery, flower shop and fruit market. Exuberant in sounds and sights―a baker sugaring tarts, flowers greeting passers-by and pigeons cooing―the story ends as a new day of sparkling possibility begins. Written in pantoum form and illustrated...
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Head of Zeus
Pub. Date
2024.
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English
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"City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. As their legions scour the world of superstition with the bright flame of reason, so they deliver a mountain of ragged, holed and scorched flesh to the field hospital tents just behind the frontline. Which is where Yasnic, one-time priest, healer and rebel, finds himself. Reprieved from the gallows and sent to war clutching a box...
14) Kicks in the sky
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Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, and imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Pura Belprè Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor winner C. G. Esperanza delivers color, rhythm, and style in this rollicking tale about everyday treasures turned magical! Red kicks, green kicks, yellow kicks, blue! Colorful, psychedelic sneakers hang from telephones wires all over the city. Up in the sky, they hang for all to marvel at. But when a few special pairs get knocked down, the kids have to try them on. Soon they’re racing, dancing, leaning...
15) Secret sisters
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Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Newbery medalist Avi tells the story of a young girl determined to define her own place amidst old rules and new ways in the Roaring Twenties. Attending high school in Steamboat Springs is Ida Bidson’s dream—it’s her next step toward becoming a teacher and her best shot at escaping a life of milking cows. It’s 1925, and from using telephones to attending movies, Ida is thrilled by her new experiences in Steamboat. She and her school friends...
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Publisher
Kokila
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Teens Yas and Raf grow from friends to something more in the aftermath of a tragedy in their magical town.
In this tender genre-bending young adult novel by New York Times bestselling author Aisha Saeed, two teen protagonists grow from friends to something more in the aftermath of a tragedy in their magical town. Moonlight Bay is a magical place—or it was once. After a tragic death mars the town, the pink and lavender waters in the bay turn gray,...
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Publisher
Clash
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"An insidious darkness threatens to devastate a rural New England village when occult forces are conjured and when bigotry is left unrestrained. After a recent string of disappearances in a small Connecticut town, a grieving widower with a grim secret is drawn into a dangerous ritual of dark magic by a powerful and mysterious older gentleman named Heart Crowley. Meanwhile, a member of local law enforcement tasked with uncovering the culprit responsible...
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Publisher
Familius LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A springtime stroll through the city introduces young children to the sights, sounds, colors and smells of the multitude of different holidays celebrated during the spring season, from St. Patrick's Day and Easter to Nowruz and Cinco de Mayo.
"Spring stroll in the city What do I see? One giant shamrock. Two kites in a tree. Take a stroll through the city in springtime and experience the sights, sounds, colors, and smells of the multitude of different...
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Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Collects three stories about the residents of Spooksville, including "The Secret Path" wherein newcomer Adam accompanies his friends to a secret path at the graveyard that is said to lead to other, more terrifying worlds.
"Adam has just moved to the small town of Springville. The first day there, he meets Sally, who tells him the city's real name is Spooksville, because of all the spooky things that go on in it. Adam doesn't believe her...at first....
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Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl fills the pocketbook she carries with mementos of the places she and her mother visit when they go to town.
On her day in town with her mother, a little girl starts off with an empty big green pocketbook—just like her mother’s—and along the way collects pieces of her day to put inside, inventing stories for each treasure. ‘Studded with inventive imagery.… A playful and most suitable setting for this winsome story with its...
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