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2) Other birds
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"From the acclaimed author of Garden Spells comes an enchanting tale of lost souls, lonely strangers, secrets that shape us, and how the right flock can guide you home. Down a narrow alley in the small coastal town of Mallow Island, South Carolina, lies a stunning cobblestone building comprised of five apartments. It’s called The Dellawisp and it is named after the tiny turquoise birds who, alongside its human tenants, inhabit an air of magical...
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Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"The author of the "rich, dark, and intricately twisted" (Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author) The Family Upstairs returns with another taut and white-knuckled thriller following a group of people whose lives shockingly intersect when a young woman disappears. Owen Pick's life is falling apart. In his thirties, a virgin, and living in his aunt's spare bedroom, he has just been suspended from his job as a geography teacher after accusations...
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Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
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"While she was writing columns for The Irish Times and her best-selling novels, Maeve Binchy also had in mind to write a book that revolved around one street with many characters coming and going. Every once in a while, she would write about one these people. She would then put it in a drawer. "For the future," she would say. The future is now. Just around the corner from St. Jarlath's Crescent (which readers will recognize from Minding Frankie) is...
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Kensington Books
Language
English
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In this masterful new novel, set in 1950s North Carolina, the acclaimed author of The Road to Bittersweet and The Education of Dixie Dupree brings to life an unforgettable young heroine and a moving story of family love tested to its limits. For twelve-year-old Martha “Sonny” Creech, there is no place more beautiful than her familys cotton farm. She, her two brothers, and her parents work hard on their landhoeing, planting, pickingbut only Sonny...
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English
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"Friendly and bubbly, Julia Padden likes nearly everyone, but her standoffish neighbor, Cain Maddox, presents a particular challenge. No matter how hard she's tried to be nice, Cain rudely rebuffs her at every turn, preferring to keep to himself. But when Julia catches Cain stealing her newspaper from the lobby of their apartment building, that's the last straw. She's going to break through Cain's Scrooge-like exterior the only way she knows how:...
7) Moon called
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English
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Mercy Thompson's life is not exactly normal. Her next-door neighbor is a werewolf. Her former boss is a gremlin. And she's fixing a VW bus for a vampire. But then, Mercy isn't exactly normal herself.
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Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
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Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Pub. Date
[2021]
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English
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A novel told through three distinct points of view--a woman desperately hoping for the return of her rebellious teenage sister, who has been missing for weeks, her hospitalized neighbor, and the newly arrived stranger living in her neighbor's house--uncovers the layers of grief, remorse, and love that connect families, both the ones people are born into and the ones they choose.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"“One of my ten best reads of the year. Easy five stars.” — Lisa Jewell, New York Times bestselling author of None of This is True A twisty and consuming thriller, Perfectly Nice Neighbors asks: When your dream home comes with nightmare neighbors, how far will you go to keep your family safe? Salma Khatun is hopeful about Blenheim, the suburban development into which she, her husband, and their son have just moved. The Bangladeshi family needs...
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English
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"A CIA analyst with an empty nest, a broken marriage, and nothing to lose risks her life to crack an unsolvable case in this utterly gripping thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Need to Know. 'Use the children' is a phrase picked up in a Chinese intelligence intercept, the one that convinced CIA analyst Beth Bradford to take on the case that would haunt her ever since. She will not rest until she tracks down The Neighbor, a highly...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For solitary neighbors Bunny and Dog, reticence overcomes curiosity until something extraordinary happens to nudge them into friendship.Bunny and Dog live on opposite sides of the fence. Every morning, first thing, Bunny looks through the fence and the tall grass at Dog. And every morning, first thing, Dog looks through the fence and the tall grass at Bunny. Yet neither one says hello. Or hi. Or nice to see you today. But then, one night, Bunny and...
16) The whispers
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English
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"A propulsive page-turner about four families whose lives are changed when the unthinkable happens-and what is lost when we give in to our own worst impulses On Harlow Street, the well-to-do neighborhood couples and their children gather for a catered barbecue as the summer winds down; drinks continue late into the night. Everything is fabulous until the picture-perfect hostess explodes in fury because her son disobeys her. Everyone at the party hears...
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Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2012]
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IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Katy Duck, who loves to dance, meets her new neighbor Ralph, it turns out that he loves rough and tumble games and the two of them must figure out a way to play together.
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Let’s go walking down our street. Friends and neighbors here to greet. There are oh so many folks to meet. We all are neighbors here. Moving to a new place can be hard, but when your neighbors welcome you with open arms, there are so many things to discover and celebrate. Come along with the kids from the bestsellers of All Are Welcome and Big Feelings as they introduce the new kid to a community where everyone has a place and is loved and appreciated—no...
Author
Series
Critter club volume 19
Publisher
Little Simon, an imprint of Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Liz has been assigned a class project that's perfect for her. She has to create a diorama of an animal habitat! Art plus animals? What could be better? Well, things could be better if Liz's new neighbor and classmate was a little nicer to her ... and a little less nosy!" -- Back cover
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
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"In the tradition of Zoe Heller's What Was She Thinking? Notes on a Scandal, a darkly sophisticated novel about an old woman's curiosity that turns into a dangerous obsession as she becomes involved in her new neighbor's complicated and cloaked life"--
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