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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Clare first met her future husband, Henry, when he was 30 years her senior. However, as a result of Henry's Chrono-Displacement Disorder, when the couple married, they were only separated by eight years. Unable to stop shifting in time, Henry attempts to cope with the emotional trauma of missing and revisiting portions of his life.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Based on a true story, describes how a lonely teenager in 1983 Montana befriends an elderly neighbor and uncovers her past as a librarian at the American Library in Paris who joined the Resistance when the Nazis arrived.
"Paris, 1939. Young, ambitious, and tempestuous, Odile Souchet has it all: Paul, her handsome police officer beau; Margaret, her best friend from England; her adored twin brother Remy; and a dream job at the American Library in Paris,...
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English
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"June Jones emerges from her shell to fight for her beloved local library, and through the efforts and support of an eclectic group of library patrons, she discovers life-changing friendships along the way. Lonely librarian June Jones has never left the sleepy English village where she grew up. Shy and reclusive, the thirty-year-old would rather spend her time buried in books than venture out into the world. But when her library is threatened with...
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Series
Library lover's mysteries volume 6
Publisher
Berkley Prime Crime
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Delivering books to the housebound residents of the Thumb Islands, just a short boat ride from the town of Briar Creek, library director Lindsey Norris has befriended two elderly brothers, Stewart and Peter Rosen. She enjoys visiting them in their treasure-filled, ramshackle Victorian on Star Island until she discovers that Peter has been killed and Stewart is missing. Now she's determined to solve a murder and find Stewart before he suffers his brother's...
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Series
India Hayes mysteries volume 2
Publisher
Five Star
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
On the cusp of Halloween, her bossy sister has roped small-town college librarian India into working a crafts fair on campus. When Tess, a fellow vendor, is bludgeoned to death in her booth after hours, India stumbles over her body. Derek, Tess's clingy undergrad son, begs India to find the killer. Demonstrating her research prowess, India digs into Tess's past and finds unexpected connections to an older, unsolved case. Danger escalates when another...
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Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Harvard librarian Hester Thursby runs a side business tracking down the lost. She's usually hired to find long-ago prom dates or reunite adopted children and birth parents. Her new case is finding Sam Blaine: a teenager who fled a small New Hampshire town with his friend, Gabe. The two have reinvented themselves, moving from one mark to another. In Wendy Richards, beautiful, rich daughter of an influential Boston family, Sam has found the perfect...
9) City of ink
Author
Series
Li Du novels volume 3
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Following the enthralling 18th century Chinese mysteries Jade Dragon Mountain and White Mirror, comes the next Li Du adventure in Whisper of Ink. Li Du was prepared to travel anywhere in the world except for one place: home. But to unravel the mystery that surrounds his mentor's execution, that's exactly where he must go. Plunged into the painful memories and teeming streets of Beijing, Li Du obtains a humble clerkship that offers anonymity and access...
10) The white mirror
Author
Series
Li Du novels volume 2
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In the follow-up to Elsa Hart's critically acclaimed debut, Jade Dragon Mountain, Li Du, an imperial librarian and former exile in 18th century China, is now an independent traveler. He is journeying with a trade caravan bound for Lhasa when a detour brings them to a valley hidden between mountain passes. On the icy planks of a wooden bridge, a monk sits in contemplation. Closer inspection reveals that the monk is dead, apparently of a self-inflicted...
Author
Series
Li Du novels volume 1
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"On the mountainous border of China and Tibet in 1708, a detective must learn what a killer already knows: that empires rise and fall on the strength of the stories they tell. Li Du was an imperial librarian. Now he is an exile. Arriving in Dayan, the last Chinese town before the Tibetan border, he is surprised to find it teeming with travelers, soldiers, and merchants. All have come for a spectacle unprecedented in this remote province: an eclipse...
12) The missing ones
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Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Hester Thursby has given up using her research skills to trace people who dont want to be found. A traumatic case a few months ago unearthed a string of violent crimes, and left Hester riddled with self-doubt and guilt. Caring for a four-year-old is responsibility enough in a world filled with terrors Hester never could have imagined before. Finisterre Island, off the coast of Maine, is ruggedly beautiful and remotethe kind of place tourists love...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Small-town librarian Patton Harcourt must trust in a mysterious assassin named Nemo to aid her in deciphering a seventy-five year old message encoded by Nazis on an Enigma machine, which may unlock the secret of Heinrich Himmler's research into alchemy.
"In this propulsive historical thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Escaping Dreamland, a librarian and a professional assassin team up to solve a seventy-five-year-old Nazi mystery...
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Series
You novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
"The highly anticipated new thriller in Caroline Kepnes's hit You series, now a blockbuster Netflix show . . . Joe Goldberg is back. And he's going to start a family--even if it kills him. Joe Goldberg is done with cities, done with the muck and the posers, done with Love. Now, he's saying hello to nature, to simple pleasures on a cozy island in the Pacific Northwest. For the first time in a long time, he can just breathe. He gets a job at the local...
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